Evidence for a cerebral cortical thickness network anti-correlated with amygdalar volume in healthy youths: Implications for the neural substrates of emotion regulation

NeuroImage

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 42-49

  Albaugh, Matthew D ^a   Ducharme, Simon ^b   Collins, D Louis ^b   Botteron, Kelly N ^c   Althoff, Robert R ^a   Evans, Alan C ^b   Karama, Sherif ^b,d   Hudziak, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cortical thickness; MRI; Normal development

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VOLUNTEER;

AMYGDALA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84873847687     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.12.071     Document Type: Article

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