Developmental Resting State Functional Connectivity for Clinicians

Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 161-169

  Hulvershorn, Leslie A ^a   Cullen, Kathryn R ^b   M Francis, Michael ^a   Westlund, Melinda K ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Functional connectivity; Functional MRI; Resting state

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959889340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21962979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40473-014-0020-3     Document Type: Article

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