Sex-linked white matter microstructure of the social and analytic brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 725-733

  Chou, Kun Hsien ^a   Cheng, Yawei ^a   Chen, I Yun ^a   Lin, Ching Po ^a   Chu, Woei Chyn ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Analytic brain; Diffusion tensor imaging; Sex differences; Social brain; White matter microstructure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THINKING;

EID: 77957958898     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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