Mapping Continued Brain Growth and Gray Matter Density Reduction in Dorsal Frontal Cortex: Inverse Relationships during Postadolescent Brain Maturation

This study was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant 5T32 MH16381, by National Science Foundation Grant DBI 9601356, by National Center for Research Resources Grant P41 RR13642, by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grant NS38753, and by the pediatric supplement of the Human Brain Project, funded jointly by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant P20 MH/DA52176 to A.W.T. and NIMH Grant K01 MH01733 to E.R.S. We acknowledge Terry Jernigan for efforts in collecting the image data used here and for editorial comments on a previous version of this report.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Elizabeth R. Sowell, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, University of California Los Angeles, 710 Westwood Plaza, Room 4–238, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769. E-mail:esowell{at}loni.ucla.edu.