Sex matters during adolescence: Testosterone-related cortical thickness maturation differs between boys and girls

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bramen, Jennifer E ^a,e   Hranilovich, Jennifer A ^a   Dahl, Ronald E ^b   Chen, Jessie ^a   Rosso, Carly ^a   Forbes, Erika E ^c   Dinov, Ivo D ^f   Worthman, Carol M ^d   Sowell, Elizabeth R ^a,g  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CALCARINE SULCUS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPATHY; PUBERTY; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PUBERTY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL MATURATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84859033235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033850     Document Type: Article

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