Can Taichi Reshape the Brain? A Brain Morphometry Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Wei, Gao Xia ^a   Xu, Ting ^a   Fan, Feng Mei ^a,b   Dong, Hao Ming ^a,d   Jiang, Li Li ^a   Li, Hui Jie ^a   Yang, Zhi ^a   Luo, Jing ^a,c   Zuo, Xi Nian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING HUILONGGUAN HOSPITAL   (China)

^c CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MORPHOMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; INSULA SULCUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUAL SULCUS; MALE; MEDIAL OCCIPITO TEMPORAL SULCUS; MEDITATION; MIDDLE FRONTAL SULCUS; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TAI CHI;

BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TAI JI;

EID: 84876016195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061038     Document Type: Article

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