Resting frontal EEG asymmetry in children: Meta-analyses of the effects of psychosocial risk factors and associations with internalizing and externalizing behavior

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1377-1389

  Peltola, Mikko J ^a,b   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^b   Alink, Lenneke R A ^b   Huffmeijer, Renske ^b   Biro, Szilvia ^b   van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Depression; Electroencephalogram; Externalizing; Frontal asymmetry; Internalizing; Maltreatment; Psychosocial risk

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84905197502     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21223     Document Type: Article

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