Sex differences in brain activation pattern during a visuospatial cognitive task: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study in healthy volunteers

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 344, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 169-172

  Weiss, E ^a,b   Siedentopf, C M ^a   Hofer, A ^a   Deisenhammer, E A ^a   Hoptman, M J ^b   Kremser, C ^a   Golaszewski, S ^a   Felber, S ^a   Fleischhacker, W W ^a   Delazer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Mental rotation; Performance; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037865234     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00406-3     Document Type: Article

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