Topological Organization of Functional Brain Networks in Healthy Children: Differences in Relation to Age, Sex, and Intelligence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Kai ^a,b   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Sato, Kazunori ^a   Hashizume, Hiroshi ^a   Sassa, Yuko ^a   Takeuchi, Hikaru ^a   Thyreau, Benjamin ^a   He, Yong ^c   Evans, Alan C ^d   Li, Xiaobo ^e   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGIONAL NODAL PROPERTY; RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOPOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION OF FUNCTIONAL BRAIN NETWORK; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84873507641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055347     Document Type: Article

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