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Table 1.

Selection of studies showing increases and peaks in cortical thickness during school age

	N /scans	Age range (years)	Cross versus long	Processing	Measure unit	Central finding	Google acholar citations
Shaw et al. (2008) , J Neurosci.	375/764	3–33	Long	CIVET	Vertex	Age at thickness peak is important; table of mean peak given for 56 ROIs	658
Raznahan, Lerch, et al. (2011 ), Neuron.	108/376	9–22	Long	CIVET	Vertex	Rates of cortical thickness change differ by region	68
Raznahan, Shaw, et al. (2011 ), J Neurosci.	647/1274	3–30	Long	CIVET	Vertex and total	Sex differences in cortical thickness	128
Shaw, Greenstein et al. (2006) , Nature.	307/307	7–19	Long	CIVET	Vertex	Increasing relation between thickness and IQ	878
Sowell et al. (2004) , J Neurosci.	45/45	5–11	Long	LONI	Vertex	Thickening in bilateral peri-Sylvian, related to vocabulary change	833
Sowell et al. (2003) ^a , Nat Neurosci.	176/176	7–87	Cross	LONI	Vertex	Posterior temporal cortex most protracted maturation	1316
Shaw et al. (2007) , Proc Natl Acad Sci USA	223 ADHD, 223 CTRL/824 scans	5–20+	Both	CIVET	Vertex	Peak of cortical thickness differs by group	716
Sowell et al. (2007 ), Cereb Cortex	176/176	7–87	Cross	Thompson et al. (2004) , LONI	Vertex	Thickness differs by sex	322

Note: Samples across publications are in some cases overlapping. Google scholar citations retrieved April 2015.

LONI, Laboratory for Neuroimaging, UCLA; ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; ROI, regions of interest.

^a GM density is measured, and said to “represent cortical thickness.”