Prenatal exposure to testosterone and functional cerebral lateralization: A study in same-sex and opposite-sex twin girls

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 911-916

  Cohen Bendahan, Celina C C ^a,b   Buitelaar, Jan K ^c   Van Goozen, Stephanie H M ^d   Cohen Kettenis, Peggy T ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lateralization; Sex differences; Testosterone; Twins

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MASCULINITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWINS; VERBALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CHILD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SALIVA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 2642539076     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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