Extraversion is linked to volume of the orbitofrontal cortex and Amygdala

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Cremers, Henk ^a   van Tol, Marie José ^a,b,c   Roelofs, Karin ^a   Aleman, Andre ^c   Zitman, Frans G ^b   van Buchem, Mark A ^a,b   Veltman, Dick J ^d   van der Wee, Nic J A ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055163878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028421     Document Type: Article

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