Neuroanatomical correlates of intelligence in healthy young adults: The role of basal ganglia volume

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Rhein, Cosima ^a   Mühle, Christiane ^a   Richter Schmidinger, Tanja ^a   Alexopoulos, Panagiotis ^a,b   Doerfler, Arnd ^a   Kornhuber, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899466364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093623     Document Type: Article

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