Variations in Human Corpus Callosum Do Not Predict Gender: A Study Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 222-227

  Byne, William ^a   Bleier, Ruth ^a   Houston, Lanning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023801180     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.102.2.222     Document Type: Article

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