Associations between children's socioeconomic status and prefrontal cortical thickness

Developmental Science

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 641-652

  Lawson, Gwendolyn M ^a   Duda, Jeffrey T ^a   Avants, Brian B ^a   Wu, Jue ^a   Farah, Martha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INCOME; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PARENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INCOME; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PARENTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883154532     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12096     Document Type: Article

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