Sex- and brain size-related small-world structural cortical networks in young adults: A DTI tractography study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 449-458

  Yan, Chaogan ^a   Gong, Gaolang ^b   Wang, Jinhui ^a   Wang, Deyi ^a   Liu, Dongqiang ^a   Zhu, Chaozhe ^a   Chen, Zhang J ^b   Evans, Alan ^b   Zang, Yufeng ^a   He, Yong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

brain size; connectivity; DTI; gender; graph theory; small world

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651481174     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq111     Document Type: Article

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