Imaging structural co-variance between human brain regions

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 322-336

  Alexander Bloch, Aaron ^a,b,c   Giedd, Jay N ^a   Bullmore, Ed ^c,d,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; AUTISM; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL MATURATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENSITY; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GRAY MATTER; HEARING; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOOD DISORDER; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PLEIOTROPY; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STRIATE CORTEX; SUBCORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84876682042     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3465     Document Type: Review

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