Trail making test performance in youth varies as a function of anatomical coupling between the prefrontal cortex and distributed cortical regions

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Nancy Raitano ^a   Wallace, Gregory L ^b   Raznahan, Armin ^a   Clasen, Liv S ^a   Giedd, Jay N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Anatomical covariance; Brain; Child; Cortical thickness; Executive function; Magnetic resonance imaging; Trail making test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904859009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00496     Document Type: Article

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