Brain structures associated with executive functions during everyday events in a non-clinical sample

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 218, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1017-1032

  Takeuchi, Hikaru ^a   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Sassa, Yuko ^a   Hashizume, Hiroshi ^a   Sekiguchi, Atsushi ^a   Fukushima, Ai ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Executive functions during everyday events; Orbitofrontal cortex; Regional gray matter volume; Regional white matter volume; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRODMANN AREA 11; BRODMANN AREA 12; BRODMANN AREA 25; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DYSEXECUTIVE QUESTIONNAIRE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTOOCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879796003     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-012-0444-z     Document Type: Article

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