Sex differences in prefrontal cortical brain activity during fMRI of auditory verbal working memory

Neuropsychology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 509-519

  Goldstein, Jill M ^a,b,c,e,f,g   Poldrack, Russell ^b,c   Breiter, Hans C ^c,d,g   Makris, Nikos ^c   Goodman, Julie M ^c   Jerram, Matthew ^c,d   Anagnoson, Robert ^c,d   Tsuang, Ming T ^c,e,h   Seidman, Larry J ^c,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; fMRI; Sex differences; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COMMUNITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC MAPPING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 23044459942     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.19.4.509     Document Type: Article

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