Cytoarchitectonies prefrontal cortex of women in old age

On continuous series of frontal total sections painted by krezily violet the cytoarchitectonics of the field 10 of prefrontal cortex of female brain of elderly age (62-71 years) was studied. In total 10 hemispheres of brain are studied. Morphometric researches of cytoarchitectonics characteristics of this structure of a brain have been conducted. It is established that at women of elderly age by comparison to women of adulthood statistically significant reduction of thickness of cortex of the field 10, thickness of an associative layer III, the size of the profile field of pyramidal neurons in layer III of cortex of the field 10, a share of satellite glia and neurons surrounded with them is observed. At elderly women in the field 10 increase of total number of glia and size of a glial index is noted. Larger level of changes of the morphometric characteristics is revealed in the right hemisphere.