Human prefrontal cortex. Evolution, development, and pathology.

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 195, Issue , 2012, Pages 191-218

  Teffer, Kate ^a   Semendeferi, Katerina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Frontal lobe; Primate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIENCEPHALON; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMOTION; EVOLUTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; NEOCORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84855485624     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53860-4.00009-X     Document Type: Chapter

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