Anatomical correlates of quality of life: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1834-1846

  Takeuchi, Hikaru ^a   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Nouchi, Rui ^a   Hashizume, Hiroshi ^a   Sassa, Yuko ^a   Sekiguchi, Atsushi ^a   Kotozaki, Yuka ^a   Nakagawa, Seishu ^a   Nagase, Tomomi ^a   Miyauchi, Carlos Makoto ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate gyrus; Quality of life (QOL); Regional gray matter volume (rGMV); Rostrolateral prefrontal cortex; Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; LEFT ROSTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGIONAL GRAY MATTER VOLUME; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; YOUNG ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARENTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898039118     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22294     Document Type: Article

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