Splenium microstructure is related to two dimensions of reading skill

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1627-1631

  Frye, Richard E ^a,c   Hasan, Khader ^a   Xue, Lian ^a   Strickland, David ^a   Malmberg, Benjamin ^a   Liederman, Jacqueline ^b   Papanicolaou, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Diffusion tensor imaging; Dyslexia; Phonological awareness; White matter microstructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 55349118162     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328314b8ee     Document Type: Article

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