Imaging structural and functional brain development in early childhood

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 123-137

  Gilmore, John H ^a   Knickmeyer, Rebecca C ^a   Gao, Wei ^b,c  

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

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GENETICS; GRAY MATTER; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; SUBCORTEX; SURFACE AREA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INFANT; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

BIOMARKERS; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROIMAGING; RISK FACTORS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85042231783     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2018.1     Document Type: Review

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