Negative associations between corpus callosum midsagittal area and IQ in a representative sample of healthy children and adolescents

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Ganjavi, Hooman ^a   Lewis, John D ^b   Bellec, Pierre ^b   MacDonald, Penny A ^a   Waber, Deborah P ^c   Evans, Alan C ^a,b   Karama, Sherif ^a,b,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 79956267697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019698     Document Type: Article

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