The prenatal origin of hemispheric asymmetry: An in utero neuroimaging study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1076-1083

  Kasprian, Gregor ^a   Langs, Georg ^a   Brugger, Peter C ^b   Bittner, Mario ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Arantes, Mavilde ^c   Prayer, Daniela ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^c HOSPITAL PEDRO HISPANO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

cortex; development; fetus; gyrification; lateralization; MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRUM; COHORT STUDIES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; UTERUS;

EID: 79954626806     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq179     Document Type: Article

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