Sex differences in brain maturation during childhood and adolescence

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 552-557

  De Bellis, Michael D ^a   Keshavan, Matched S ^a   Beers, Sue R ^a   Hall, Julie ^a   Frustaci, Karin ^a   Masalehdan, Azadeh ^a   Noll, Jessica ^a   Boring, Amy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0034997964     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/11.6.552     Document Type: Article

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