Exploring the relationship between personality and regional brain volume in healthy aging.

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Published in Neurobiol Aging on December 24, 2009

Authors

Jonathan Jackson1, David A Balota, Denise Head

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.

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