Anxious/depressed symptoms are linked to right ventromedial prefrontal cortical thickness maturation in healthy children and young adults

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2941-2950

  Ducharme, Simon ^a   Albaugh, Matthew D ^b   Hudziak, James J ^b   Botteron, Kelly N ^c   Nguyen, Tuong Vi ^a   Truong, Catherine ^a   Evans, Alan C ^a   Karama, Sherif ^a,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

anxiety; brain development; Child Behavior Checklist; depression; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DEPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT; YOUNG ADULT SELF REPORT ANXIOUS DEPRESSED SCORE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANXIETY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910654211     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht151     Document Type: Article

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