Effects of handedness and gender on macro- and microstructure of the corpus callosum and its subregions: A combined high-resolution and diffusion-tensor MRI study

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 418-426

  Westerhausen, René ^a   Kreuder, Frank ^a   Sequeira, Sarah Dos Santos ^a   Walter, Christof ^a,b   Woerner, Wolfgang ^a   Wittling, Ralf Arne ^a   Schweiger, Elisabeth ^a   Wittling, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b KRANKENHAUS DER BARMHERZIGEN BRÜDER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Diffusion tensor imaging; Gender; Handedness; Macrostructure; Microstructure; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 7044272792     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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