Sex-differences in grey-white matter structure in normal-reading and dyslexic adolescents

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 438, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-84

  Sandu, Anca Larisa ^a   Specht, Karsten ^a,b   Beneventi, Harald ^a   Lundervold, Arvid ^a   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Fractal dimension; Gray matter white matter ratio; Morphometry; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; READING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 43549083445     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.022     Document Type: Article

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