Age-related effects and sex differences in gray matter density, volume, mass, and cortical thickness from childhood to young adulthood

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 20, 2017, Pages 5065-5073

  Gennatas, Efstathios D ^a   Avants, Brian B ^a   Wolf, Daniel H ^a   Satterthwaite, Theodore D ^a   Ruparel, Kosha ^a   Ciric, Rastko ^a   Hakonarson, Hakon ^b   Gur, Raquel E ^a   Gur, Ruben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain structure; Cortical thickness; Gray matter density; Gray matter volume; MRI; T1 weighted imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; GRAY MATTER DENSITY; GRAY MATTER MASS; GRAY MATTER VOLUME; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85019836851     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3550-16.2017     Document Type: Article

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