Prenatal origins of temperament: fetal growth, brain structure, and inhibitory control in adolescence.

OBJECTIVE:Individual differences in the temperamental dimension of effortful control are constitutionally based and have been associated with an adverse prenatal developmental environment, with structural brain alterations presenting a potential mechanism. We investigated this hypothesis for anatomi...

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Main Authors: Wolff Schlotz, Keith M Godfrey, David I Phillips
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4011887?pdf=render