Hand and sex differences in the isthmus and genu of the human corpus callosum: A postmortem morphological study

Brain

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1989, Pages 799-835

  Witelson, Sandra F ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATERALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; ORGAN WEIGHT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024315887     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/112.3.799     Document Type: Article

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