Sex differences in parietal lobe structure and development

Gender Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-55

  Salinas, Joel ^a   Mills, Elizabeth D ^a   Conrad, Amy L ^b   Koscik, Timothy ^a   Andreasen, Nancy C ^a,b   Nopoulos, Peg ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

development; parietal lobe; sex differences; surface area

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856905829     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: 18787398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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