False positive rates in Voxel-based Morphometry studies of the human brain: Should we be worried?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 49-55

  Scarpazza, Cristina ^a,b   Tognin, Stefania ^a   Frisciata, Silvia ^a,c   Sartori, Giuseppe ^c   Mechelli, Andrea ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balanced design; False positive rate; Neuroimaging; Unbalanced design; Voxel based Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84924940709     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.02.008     Document Type: Review

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