Effects of Gestational Age and Birth Weight on Brain Volumes in Healthy 9 Year-Old Children

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 156, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 896-901

  van Soelen, Inge L C ^a,b   Brouwer, Rachel M ^b   Peper, Jiska S ^b,c   van Beijsterveldt, Toos C E M ^a   van Leeuwen, Marieke ^d   de Vries, Linda S ^e   Kahn, René S ^b   Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E ^b   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TWINS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WHITE MATTER;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 77952286975     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.12.052     Document Type: Article

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