The similarity of brain morphology in healthy monozygotic twins

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 106-110

  Mohr, Alexander ^a   Weisbrod, Matthias ^b   Schellinger, Peter ^b   Knauth, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortex; Development and regeneration; MRI; Pattern formation, compartments, and boundaries; Similarity; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 2342599074     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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