Self-Regulation therapy increases frontal gray matter in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: Evaluation by Voxel-Based morphometry

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Soh, Debra W ^a   Skocic, Jovanka ^b   Nash, Kelly ^b,c   Stevens, Sara ^b,c   Turner, Gary R ^a   Rovet, Joanne ^b,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alert therapy; Executive functioning; FASD; Neuroplasticity; Self regulation of emotions; VBM

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; SELF REGULATION THERAPY; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; THERAPY DELAY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84933672242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00108     Document Type: Article

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