Sustained attention is associated with right superior longitudinal fasciculus and superior parietal white matter microstructure in children

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3216-3232

  Klarborg, Brith ^a   Skak Madsen, Kathrine ^a,b   Vestergaard, Martin ^a   Skimminge, Arnold ^a   Jernigan, Terry L ^a,b,c   Baaré, William F C ^a,b  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging   (Denmark)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain maturation; Cognitive development; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; VISUAL INFORMATION; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN MATURATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; SUSTAINED ATTENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANISOTROPY; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84886294315     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22139     Document Type: Article

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