Fiber pathways of attention subnetworks revealed with tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) and probabilistic tractography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Ge, Haitao ^a   Yin, Xuntao ^a   Xu, Junhai ^a   Tang, Yuchun ^a   Han, Yan ^b   Xu, Wenjian ^b   Pang, Zengchang ^c   Meng, Haiwei ^a   Liu, Shuwei ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Qingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ALERTNESS; ANISOTROPY; ANTERIOR CORONA RADIATA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892429882     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078831     Document Type: Article

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