Postnatal development of interhemispheric asymmetry in the cytoarchitecture of human area 4

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 196, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 393-402

  Amunts, Katrin ^a   Schmidt Passos, Friederike ^a   Schleicher, Axel ^a   Zilles, Karl ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoarchitecture; Human motor cortex; Interhemispheric asymmetry; Morphometry; Postnatal ontogeny

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPIL; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYNAPSE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CELL SIZE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS;

EID: 0030711511     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050107     Document Type: Article

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