Preliminary evidence for abnormal cortical development in physically and sexually abused children using EEG coherence and MRI

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 821, Issue , 1997, Pages 160-175

  Teicher, Martin H ^b   Ito, Yutaka ^a   Glod, Carol A ^b   Andersen, Susan L ^b   Dumont, Natalie ^b   Ackerman, Erika ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECALL; SEXUAL ABUSE;

EID: 0030860043     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48277.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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