Associations of distinct sedentary behaviors with cortical, subcortical, and white matter hyperintensity volumes:

Natan Feter1,2, Anamika Nanda1, Sarah Hourihan1

  • 1Human and Evolutionary Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, California, USA.

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