Differences in regional brain volume related to the extraversion-introversion dimension-A voxel based morphometry study

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-67

  Forsman, Lea J ^a   de Manzano, Örjan ^a   Karabanov, Anke ^a   Madison, Guy ^b   Ullén, Fredrik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Behavioral activation; Behavioral inhibition; Extraversion; Personality; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROVERSION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTROVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 83155180320     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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