Personality, health, and brain integrity: The lothian birth cohort study 1936

Health Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1477-1486

  Booth, Tom ^a   Mõttus, Rene ^a,b   Corley, Janie ^a   Gow, Alan J ^a   Henderson, Ross D ^a   Maniega, Susana Muñoz ^a   Murray, Catherine ^a   Royle, Natalie A ^a   Sprooten, Emma ^c   Valdés Hernández, Maria C ^a   Bastin, Mark E ^a   Penke, Lars ^a   Starr, John M ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain volume; Five factor model; Fractional anisotropy; Health behaviors; White matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BIRTH; BODY MASS; BRAIN; BRAIN INTEGRITY; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN TISSUE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSCIENCE; DIET; EXTRAVERSION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTELLECT; INTERNATIONAL PERSONALITY ITEM POOL MEASURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SMOKING; WHITE MATTER; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; HEALTH; INTELLIGENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY;

EID: 84925848099     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/hea0000012     Document Type: Article

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