Gender-specific functional cerebral asymmetries and unilateral cerebral lesion sequelae

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 421-425

  Drača, Sanja ^a  

^a Clinic Dr M Zotovi   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Functional cerebral lateralization; Gender; Unilateral lesion

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 79951791107     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVNEURO.2010.21.6.421     Document Type: Review

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