Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 164, Issue 3 , Pages 245-253 , 30 December 2008

Absence of gender effect on children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as assessed by optimized voxel-based morphometry

  • Pinchen Yang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University and Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Pei-Ning Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Kai-Hsiang Chuang

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Singapore
    • ,
  • Yuh-Jyh Jong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Tzu-Cheng Chao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ming-Ting Wu

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung and School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 9 68971566; fax: +886 7 3468301.

Received 6 December 2006 ,Revised 19 October 2007 ,Accepted 22 December 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.12.013

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 164, Issue 3 , Pages 245-253 , 30 December 2008

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