Age-related volumetric change of limbic structures and subclinical anxious/depressed symptomatology in typically developing children and adolescents

Biological Psychology

Volumn 124, Issue , 2017, Pages 133-140

  Albaugh, Matthew D ^a   Nguyen, Tuong Vi ^b,c   Ducharme, Simon ^b,c   Collins, D Louis ^c   Botteron, Kelly N ^d   D'Alberto, Nicholas ^a   Evans, Alan C ^c   Karama, Sherif ^c,e   Hudziak, James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Development; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; AGE; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOLUMETRY; AGING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 85011954046     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.02.002     Document Type: Article

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