Prenatal stress and limbic-prefrontal white matter microstructure in children aged 6-9 years: A preliminary diffusion tensor imaging study

World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 346-352

  Sarkar, Sagari ^a   Craig, Michael C ^a,d   Dell'Acqua, Flavio ^a   O'Connor, Thomas G ^b   Catani, Marco ^a   Deeley, Quinton ^a   Glover, Vivette ^c   Murphy, Declan G M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BETHLEM ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DT MRI; Neuroimaging; Prenatal stress; Uncinate fasciculus; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERPENDICULAR DIFFUSIVITY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL STRESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER; ADULT; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; DEVICES; FRONTAL LOBE; LIFE EVENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE NET; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84900834291     PISSN: 15622975     EISSN: 18141412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2014.903336     Document Type: Article

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