Developmental stages and sex differences of white matter and behavioral development through adolescence: A longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) study

NeuroImage

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 356-368

  Simmonds, Daniel J ^a,b   Hallquist, Michael N ^a,b   Asato, Miya ^a,c   Luna, Beatriz ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulum; Inhibition; Maturation; Prefrontal; Uncinate fasciculus; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LIMBIC CORTEX; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CORTICOLIMBIC ASSOCIATION TRACT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER; AGING; BRAIN; COGNITION; CYTOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MYELINATED NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERRUPTED TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897042419     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.044     Document Type: Article

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