White matter microstructure in superior longitudinal fasciculus associated with spatial working memory performance in children

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2135-2146

  Vestergaard, Martin ^a   Skakmadsen, Kathrine ^a,b,c   Baaré, William F C ^a,b   Skimminge, Arnold ^a   Ejersbo, Lisser Rye ^d   Ramsøy, Thomas Z ^a,c,e   Gerlach, Christian ^d   Åkeson, Per ^a   Paulson, Olaf B ^a,b,c,f   Jernigan, Terry L ^a,b,c,g  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^f Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE GROWTH; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 79960136784     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21592     Document Type: Article

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