Impact of Demographic and Obstetric Factors on Infant Brain Volumes: A Population Neuroscience Study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 5616-5625

  Knickmeyer, Rebecca C ^a   Xia, Kai ^a   Lu, Zhaohua ^b   Ahn, Mihye ^c   Jha, Shaili C ^d   Zou, Fei ^e   Zhu, Hongtu ^e   Styner, Martin ^a   Gilmore, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

birthweight; neonate; neuroimaging; premature birth; socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL VARIATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN; CESAREAN SECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TWINS;

BIOLOGICAL VARIATION, INDIVIDUAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TWINS;

EID: 85042214971     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw331     Document Type: Article

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