The link between callosal thickness and intelligence in healthy children and adolescents

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1823-1830

  Luders, Eileen ^a   Thompson, Paul M ^a   Narr, Katherine L ^a   Zamanyan, Alen ^a   Chou, Yi Yu ^a   Gutman, Boris ^a   Dinov, Ivo D ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Corpus callosum; Development; Gender; IQ; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THICKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; CHILD; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 78650195730     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.083     Document Type: Article

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