Examining brain structures associated with perceived stress in a large sample of young adults via voxel-based morphometry

NeuroImage

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-7

  Li, Haijiang ^a,b   Li, Wenfu ^a,b   Wei, Dongtao ^a,b   Chen, Qunlin ^a,b   Jackson, Todd ^a,b   Zhang, Qinglin ^a,b   Qiu, Jiang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Gray matter; Perceived stress; Voxel based morphometry; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPRESSION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERCEIVED STRESS; PERCEIVED STRESS SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ATTITUDE; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; BRAIN; DEPRESSION; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895941394     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.01.044     Document Type: Article

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