Through Thick and Thin: A Need to Reconcile Contradictory Results on Trajectories in Human Cortical Development

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1-10

  Walhovd, Kristine B ^a   Fjell, Anders M ^a   Giedd, Jay ^b   Dale, Anders M ^b   Brown, Timothy T ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Department of Psychiatry ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

childhood; cortical thickness; maturation; MRI; neurodevelopment

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 85006599387     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv301     Document Type: Article

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