Placing neuroanatomical models of executive function in a developmental context: Imaging and imaging-genetic strategies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1129, Issue , 2008, Pages 246-255

  Brocki, Karin ^a   Fan, Jin ^a   Fossella, John ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Executive function; Imaging genetic strategies

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; POPULATION; WORKING MEMORY; BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BEHAVIOR; CATECHOLAMINES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

EID: 47249085626     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1417.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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