Prefrontal and amygdala volumes are related to adolescents' affective behaviors during parent-adolescent interactions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3652-3657

  Whittle, Sarah ^a   Yap, Marie B H ^a   Yücel, Murat ^a   Fornito, Alex ^a   Simmons, Julian G ^a   Barrett, Anna ^a   Sheeber, Lisa ^b   Allen, Nicholas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b OREGON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Family interactions; Gender differences; Neuroimaging; Structural MRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPHORIA; EMOTION; FAMILY INTERACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; ADULT; CHILD BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 42149114470     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709815105     Document Type: Article

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