Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex Volume Correlates with Depressed Mood in Normal Healthy Children

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 391-397

  Boes, Aaron D ^a   McCormick, Laurie M ^a   Coryell, William H ^a   Nopoulos, Peg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; children; depression; FreeSurfer; subgenual

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 38349180753     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.07.018     Document Type: Article

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