Gender effects on age-related changes in brain structure

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 112-118

  Xu, Jiang ^a   Kobayashi, Shotai ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Shuhei ^a   Iijima, Ken Ichi ^a   Okada, Kazunori ^a   Yamashita, Kazuya ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shimane Institute of Health Science   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATROPHY; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0034002365     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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