A critical re-examination of sexual dimorphism in the corpus callosum microstructure

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 874-880

  Westerhausen, René ^a   Kompus, Kristiina ^a   Dramsdahl, Margaretha ^a,b   Falkenberg, Liv E ^a   Grüner, Renate ^a,b   Hjelmervik, Helene ^a   Specht, Karsten ^a   Plessen, Kerstin ^a,c,d   Hugdahl, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Corpus callosum; Diffusion tensor imaging; DTI; Sex; TBSS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955475697     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.013     Document Type: Article

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