Brain anatomical networks in world class gymnasts: A DTI tractography study

NeuroImage

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 476-487

  Wang, Bin ^a   Fan, Yuanyuan ^a   Lu, Min ^b,c   Li, Shumei ^a   Song, Zheng ^b   Peng, Xiaoling ^a   Zhang, Ruibin ^a   Lin, Qixiang ^b   He, Yong ^b   Wang, Jun ^b   Huang, Ruiwang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Connectome; Diffusion tensor imaging; Graph theory; Small worldness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAPH THEORY; GYMNAST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPORT; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAINING; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GYMNASTICS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868488513     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.007     Document Type: Article

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