Gray matter alterations in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder identified by voxel based morphometry

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 857-866

  Seidman, Larry J ^a,b   Biederman, Joseph ^a   Liang, Lichen ^a   Valera, Eve M ^a   Monuteaux, Michael C ^a   Brown, Ariel ^a,c   Kaiser, Jonathan ^a   Spencer, Thomas ^a   Faraone, Stephen V ^a,d   Makris, Nikos ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; caudate; cerebellum; prefrontal cortex; structural MRI; voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERVIEW; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED;

EID: 79954780469     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.09.053     Document Type: Article

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