White matter development in early puberty: A longitudinal volumetric and diffusion tensor imaging twin study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Brouwer, Rachel M ^a   Mandl, René C W ^a   Schnack, Hugo G ^a   Soelen, Inge L C van ^a,b   Baal, G Caroline van ^a   Peper, Jiska S ^a,c   Kahn, René S ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b   Pol, H E Hulshoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TWINS; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84859723327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032316     Document Type: Article

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