Relationships between sulcal asymmetries and corpus callosum size: Gender and handedness effects

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1084-1093

  Luders, E ^a   Rex, D E ^a   Narr, K L ^a   Woods, R P ^a   Jancke, L ^b   Thompson, P M ^a   Mazziotta, J C ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0141736855     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/13.10.1084     Document Type: Article

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