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SUBMITTER: Vuoksimaa E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6425087 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vuoksimaa Eero E Panizzon Matthew S MS Franz Carol E CE Fennema-Notestine Christine C Hagler Donald J DJ Lyons Michael J MJ Dale Anders M AM Kremen William S WS
Brain structure & function 20180511 7
Height and general cognitive ability are positively associated, but the underlying mechanisms of this relationship are not well understood. Both height and general cognitive ability are positively associated with brain size. Still, the neural substrate of the height-cognitive ability association is unclear. We used a sample of 515 middle-aged male twins with structural magnetic resonance imaging data to investigate whether the association between height and cognitive ability is mediated by corti ...[more]