Small-world anatomical networks in the human brain revealed by cortical thickness from MRI

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2407-2419

  He, Yong ^a   Chen, Zhang J ^a   Evans, Alan C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Connectivity; Cortical thickness; Magnetic resonance imaging; Morphometry; Scale free; Small world

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE DATABASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET;

EID: 34548837501     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl149     Document Type: Article

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