Prenatal Mild Ventriculomegaly Predicts Abnormal Development of the Neonatal Brain

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1069-1076

  Gilmore, John H ^a   Smith, Lauren C ^a   Wolfe, Honor M ^a   Hertzberg, Barbara S ^c   Smith, J Keith ^a   Chescheir, Nancy C ^d   Evans, Dianne D ^a   Kang, Chaeryon ^b   Hamer, Robert M ^a,b   Lin, Weili ^a   Gerig, Guido ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; cortex; diffusion tensor imaging; lateral ventricle; magnetic resonance imaging; schizophrenia; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; ULTRASOUND; VENTRICULOMEGALY; WHITE MATTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 56349160980     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.07.031     Document Type: Article

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