Relationship between personality and gray matter volume in healthy young adults: A voxel-based morphometric study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Lu, Fengmei ^a   Huo, Yajun ^a   Li, Meiling ^a   Chen, Heng ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Wang, Yifeng ^a   Long, Zhiliang ^a   Duan, Xujun ^a   Zhang, Jiang ^a   Zeng, Ling ^a   Chen, Huafu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EXTRAVERSION; EYSENCK PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE REVISED SHORT SCALE FOR CHINESE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELF REPORT; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895811145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088763     Document Type: Article

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