Relationships between gray matter, body mass index, and waist circumference in healthy adults

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1737-1746

  Kurth, Florian ^a   Levitt, Jennifer G ^a   Phillips, Owen R ^a   Luders, Eileen ^a   Woods, Roger P ^a   Mazziotta, John C ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Narr, Katherine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Brain; Hypothalamus; Morphometry; Obesity; Sex differences; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879221649     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22021     Document Type: Article

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