Adolescent engagement in dangerous behaviors is associated with increased white matter maturity of frontal cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Berns, Gregory S ^a,b   Moore, Sara ^a   Capra, C Monica ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT RISK QUESTIONNAIRE; ADULT; AGE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CORONA RADIATA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; MYELINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; WHITE MATTER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 69849090118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006773     Document Type: Article

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