PET and MRI show differences in cerebral asymmetry and functional connectivity between homo- and heterosexual subjects

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 9403-9408

  Savic, Ivanka ^a,b   Lindström, Per ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cerebral connectivity; Cerebral lateralization; Homosexuality; Magnetic resonance volumetry

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 15; WATER;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CEREBRUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 48249131256     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801566105     Document Type: Article

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