Brain size and cortical structure in the adult human brain

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2181-2191

  Im, Kiho ^a   Lee, Jong Min ^a   Lyttelton, Oliver ^b   Kim, Sun Hyung ^a   Evans, Alan C ^b   Kim, Sun I ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical thickness; MRI; Scaling exponent; Sex effect; Sulcal convolution; Sulcal depth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNEURON; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MAMMALS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 54149103288     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm244     Document Type: Article

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