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Elizabeth Sowell

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Southern California
Verified email at chla.usc.edu
Cited by 33570

Mapping cortical change across the human life span

ER Sowell, BS Peterson, PM Thompson… - Nature …, 2003 - nature.com
We used magnetic resonance imaging and cortical matching algorithms to map gray matter
density (GMD) in 176 normal individuals ranging in age from 7 to 87 years. We found a …

Longitudinal mapping of cortical thickness and brain growth in normal children

ER Sowell, PM Thompson, CM Leonard… - Journal of …, 2004 - Soc Neuroscience
Recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology now allow the tracing of
developmental changes in the brains of children. We applied computer-matching algorithms …

In vivo evidence for post-adolescent brain maturation in frontal and striatal regions

ER Sowell, PM Thompson, CJ Holmes… - Nature …, 1999 - nature.com
We spatially and temporally mapped brain maturation between adolescence and young
adulthood using a whole-brain, voxel-by-voxel statistical analysis of high-resolution structural …

Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents

…, T Kenet, AM Dale, TL Jernigan, ER Sowell - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Socioeconomic disparities are associated with differences in cognitive development. The
extent to which this translates to disparities in brain structure is unclear. We investigated …

Mapping continued brain growth and gray matter density reduction in dorsal frontal cortex: Inverse relationships during postadolescent brain maturation

ER Sowell, PM Thompson, KD Tessner… - Journal of …, 2001 - Soc Neuroscience
Recent in vivo structural imaging studies have shown spatial and temporal patterns of brain
maturation between childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood that are generally …

Mapping brain maturation

AW Toga, PM Thompson, ER Sowell - Trends in neurosciences, 2006 - cell.com
Human brain maturation is a complex, lifelong process that can now be examined in detail
using neuroimaging techniques. Ongoing projects scan subjects longitudinally with structural …

Development of cortical and subcortical brain structures in childhood and adolescence: a structural MRI study

ER Sowell, DA Trauner, A Gamst… - … Medicine & Child …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of the present study was to describe in greater anatomical detail the changes
in brain structure that occur during maturation between childhood and adolescence. High‐…

Sex differences in cortical thickness mapped in 176 healthy individuals between 7 and 87 years of age

ER Sowell, BS Peterson, E Kan, RP Woods… - Cerebral …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Findings from previous magnetic resonance imaging studies of sex differences in gray matter
have been inconsistent, with some showing proportionally increased gray matter in women …

Cortical abnormalities in children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

ER Sowell, PM Thompson, SE Welcome… - The Lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
Background Results of structural brain imaging studies of patients with attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder have shown subtle reductions in total brain volume and in volumes of the …

Localizing age-related changes in brain structure between childhood and adolescence using statistical parametric mapping

ER Sowell, PM Thompson, CJ Holmes, R Batth… - Neuroimage, 1999 - Elsevier
Volumetric studies have consistently shown reductions in cerebral gray matter volume
between childhood and adolescence, with the most dramatic changes occurring in the more …