White matter integrity and five-factor personality measures in healthy adults

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 800-807

  Xu, Jiansong ^a   Potenza, Marc N ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; DTI; NEO; Neuroimaging; Neuroticism; Openness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGREEABLENESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NEO PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCORTEX; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054090016     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.040     Document Type: Article

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