Age and sex effects on brain morphology

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1231-1237

  Passe, Theodore J ^a   Rajagopalan, Pradeep ^a   Tupler, Larry A ^a   Byrum, Christopher E ^a   Macfall, James R ^a   Krishnan, K Ranga Rama ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Gray matter; Magnetic resonance imaging; Sex differences; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0031444612     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-5846(97)00160-7     Document Type: Article

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