Gender consistency and difference in healthy adults revealed by cortical thickness

NeuroImage

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 373-382

  Lv, Bin ^a   Li, Jing ^b   He, Huiguang ^a,b   Li, Meng ^a   Zhao, Mingchang ^a   Ai, Likun ^b   Yan, Fei ^b   Xian, Junfang ^b   Wang, Zhenchang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anatomical correlation; Cortical thickness; Gender consistency; Gender difference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THICKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956063771     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.020     Document Type: Article

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