Brain plasticity and intellectual ability are influenced by shared genes

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 5519-5524

  Brans, Rachel G H ^a   Kahn, René ^a   Schnack, Hugo G ^a   Van Baal, G Caroline M ^a   Posthuma, Danielle ^b   Van Haren, Neeltje E M ^a   Lepage, Claude ^c   Lerch, Jason P ^c   Collins, D Louis ^c   Evans, Alan C ^c   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REGISTRIES; TWINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951552944     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5841-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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