Neuroanatomical variability of religiosity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Kapogiannis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Barbey, Aron K ^b,c   Su, Michael ^b   Krueger, Frank ^b   Grafman, Jordan ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERSONALITY; RELIGION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RELIGION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 70349705610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007180     Document Type: Article

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