Extraversion mediates the relationship between structural variations in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and social well-being

NeuroImage

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages 269-275

  Kong, Feng ^a,b   Hu, Siyuan ^a   Xue, Song ^a,b   Song, Yiying ^a,b   Liu, Jia ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Center for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Extraversion; Prefrontal cortex; Social well being; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF ACTUALIZATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WELL BEING SCALE; SOCIAL WELLBEING; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WELLBEING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONSCIENCE; INDIVIDUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLOGY; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONSCIENCE; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911059236     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.10.062     Document Type: Article

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