Asymmetries of cortical shape: Effects of handedness, sex and schizophrenia

NeuroImage

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 939-948

  Narr, Katherine L ^a   Bilder, Robert M ^b,c   Luders, Eileen ^a   Thompson, Paul M ^a   Woods, Roger P ^b   Robinson, Delbert ^d   Szeszko, Philip R ^d   Dimtcheva, Teodora ^a   Gurbani, Mala ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a,b  

^a Division of Brain Mapping   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ZUCKER HILLSIDE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYMMETRY INDEX; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TORQUE;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33947130305     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.08.052     Document Type: Article

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