Cerebral asymmetry and the effects of sex and handedness on brain structure: A voxel-based morphometric analysis of 465 normal adult human brains

NeuroImage

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 685-700

  Good, Catriona D ^a   Johnsrude, Ingrid ^b   Ashburner, John ^a   Henson, Richard N A ^a,c   Friston, Karl J ^a   Frackowiak, Richard S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Brain morphology; Handedness; Laterality; MRI; Sex characteristics; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX;

EID: 0034870929     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2001.0857     Document Type: Article

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