POSTER PRESENTATION Open Access Brain ventricle volume correlates with effortful control in healthy young males Rongxiang Tang1,2, Yi-Yuan Tang2,3* From Twenty First Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2012

The neuroanatomical correlates of temperament in human have been examined extensively but not compre-hensively. Most studies have focused on certain brain regions of gray and white matter, such as prefrontal cor-tex, amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, etc, however, less is known about the contribution of other areas to human temperament [1-4]. Previous studies have shown that brain ventricle is related to psychiatric diseases, which exemplify problems in self-control, here we sought to explore whether the size of brain ventricle is associated with individual differences in temperament in healthy college students. Thirty-eight subjects (21 males, 17 females, age 18-23 years) were selected randomly, and scanned using a three-dimensional T1-weighted magnetization-prepare