Impact of early vs. late childhood early life stress on brain morphometrics

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 196-203

  Baker, Laurie M ^a   Williams, Leanne M ^b,c   Korgaonkar, Mayuresh S ^b   Cohen, Ronald A ^d   Heaps, Jodi M ^a   Paul, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Brain Resource Company   (Australia)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anterior cingulate cortex; Brain morphometry; Caudate nucleus; Early life stress; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MORPHOMETRICS; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CHILDHOOD; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INSULA; LATE CHILDHOOD; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84876905616     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-012-9215-y     Document Type: Article

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