Cortical thickness correlates with impulsiveness in healthy adults

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 824-830

  Schilling, Christina ^a,b   Kühn, Simone ^a,c   Romanowski, Alexander ^a   Schubert, Florian ^d   Kathmann, Norbert ^b   Gallinat, Jürgen ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortical thickness; Healthy adult; Impulsiveness; Middle frontal cortex; Structural correlate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BARRATT IMPULSIVENESS SCALE 11; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL THICKNESS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MOTOR SYSTEM; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 80054110901     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.058     Document Type: Article

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