Correlations among brain gray matter volumes, age, gender, and hemisphere in healthy individuals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Thyreau, Benjamin ^a   Kinomura, Shigeo ^a   Sato, Kazunori ^a   Goto, Ryoi ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; HEALTH; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBRUM; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960790106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022734     Document Type: Article

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