When more is less: Associations between corpus callosum size and handedness lateralization

NeuroImage

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-49

  Luders, Eileen ^a   Cherbuin, Nicolas ^b   Thompson, Paul M ^a   Gutman, Boris ^a   Anstey, Kaarin J ^b   Sachdev, Perminder ^c   Toga, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Handedness; Lateralization; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; DATA BASE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 77953290894     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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