Skip Navigation

About the Cover

Cover Figure


Cover Picture: We are all aware that our faces change as we age, becoming more wrinkled and shrunken, as vividly illustrated in two paintings by Rembrandt: beautiful Bathsheba (left, from Bathsheba, 1654) and withered Anna (right, from Tobit and Anna, 1626). Now the techniques of in vivo neuroimaging permit us also to look inside our heads, create MR-derived three-dimensional images of the cerebral cortex, and see the changes that occur in the brain as a consequence of aging. This is illustrated by the young and old cerebi above the faces of Bathsheba and Anna. See Magnotta et al., pp. 151-160.



[Table of Contents]