Why sex matters: Brain size independent differences in gray matter distributions between men and women

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 45, 2009, Pages 14265-14270

  Luders, Eileen ^a   Gaser, Christian ^b   Narr, Katherine L ^a   Toga, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TISSUE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449640546     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2261-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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