Sex, age, and cognitive correlates of asymmetries in thickness of the cortical mantle across the life span

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6294-6302

  Plessen, Kerstin J ^a,b,c   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^c,d   Bansal, Ravi ^e,f   Hao, Xuejun ^e,f   Peterson, Bradley S ^e,f  

^a Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Capital Region Psychiatry   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^e Division of Psychiatry The BMH Centre Haukeland University Hospital ^*  (United States)

^f NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Cognitive performance; Cortical thickness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; COGNITION; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENDER; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIFESPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ASYMMETRY; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; CORTICAL THICKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; COGNITION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899645928     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3692-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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