Regional infant brain development: An MRI-based morphometric analysis in 3 to 13 month olds

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2100-2117

  Choe, Myong Sun ^a,b   Ortiz Mantilla, Silvia ^c   Makris, Nikos ^b   Gregas, Matt ^a   Bacic, Janine ^a   Haehn, Daniel ^a   Kennedy, David ^b,d   Pienaar, Rudolph ^a,b   Caviness, Verne S ^b   Benasich, April A ^c   Ellen Grant, P ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

brain development; infant; MRI; volumetric analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFANT; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; INFANT; MRI; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84881180678     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs197     Document Type: Article

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