Cognitive ability changes and dynamics of cortical thickness development in healthy children and adolescents

NeuroImage

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 810-819

  Burgaleta, Miguel ^a,b   Johnson, Wendy ^c   Waber, Deborah P ^d   Colom, Roberto ^a,e   Karama, Sherif ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain development; Brain plasticity; Cortical thickness; Intelligence; IQ; Performance IQ; Verbal IQ

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOMETRY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; WECHSLER ABBREVIATED SCALE OF INTELLIGENCE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN PLASTICITY; CORTICAL THICKNESS; INTELLIGENCE; IQ; PERFORMANCE IQ; VERBAL IQ;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84885831490     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.038     Document Type: Article

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