Abnormal cortical complexity and thickness profiles mapped in Williams syndrome

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 4146-4158

  Thompson, Paul M ^a   Lee, Agatha D ^a   Dutton, Rebecca A ^a   Geaga, Jennifer A ^a   Hayashi, Kiralee M ^a   Eckert, Mark A ^b   Bellugi, Ursula ^c   Galaburda, Albert M ^d   Korenberg, Julie R ^e   Mills, Debra L ^f   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Reiss, Allan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Brain mapping; Cortex; Fractal complexity; Genetics; MRI; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHROMOSOME 7; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WILLIAMS SYNDROME;

EID: 20244374988     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0165-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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