Beyond age and gender: Relationships between cortical and subcortical brain volume and cognitive-motor abilities in school-age children

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3093-3100

  Pangelinan, Melissa M ^a   Zhang, Guangyu ^b   VanMeter, John W ^c   Clark, Jane E ^a   Hatfield, Bradley D ^a   Haufler, Amy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive function; IQ; Purdue pegboard; Structural MRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBCORTEX; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 78650947248     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.021     Document Type: Article

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