Sex specificity of ventral anterior cingulate cortex suppression during a cognitive task

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1206-1212

  Butler, Tracy ^a   Imperato McGinley, Julianne ^a   Pan, Hong ^a   Voyer, Daniel ^b   Cunningham Bussel, Amy Christine ^a   Chang, Luke ^a   Zhu, Yuan Shan ^a   Cordero, Juan J ^a   Stern, Emily ^a   Silbersweig, David ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brodmann area 25; fMRI; Functional connectivity; Functional neuroimaging; Gender; Mental rotation; Sex differences; Subgenual; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex; Visuospatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 35948969333     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20340     Document Type: Article

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