Right anterior cingulate cortical thickness and bilateral striatal volume correlate with child behavior checklist aggressive behavior scores in healthy children

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 283-290

  Ducharme, Simon ^a   Hudziak, James J ^c   Botteron, Kelly N ^d   Ganjavi, Hooman ^a   Lepage, Claude ^a   Collins, D Louis ^a   Albaugh, Matthew D ^c   Evans, Alan C ^a   Karama, Sherif ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; anterior cingulate cortex; cortical thickness; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); orbitofrontal cortex; striatum

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTICAL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BILATERAL STRIATAL VOLUME; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 79960276195     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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