Associations between IQ, total and regional brain volumes, and demography in a large normative sample of healthy children and adolescents

Developmental Neuropsychology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 296-317

  Lange, Nicholas ^a,b,c   Froimowitz, Michael P ^c   Bigler, Erin D ^d   Lainhart, Janet E ^e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e The Brain Institute at the University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAD; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 77952007819     PISSN: 87565641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/87565641003696833     Document Type: Article

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