Gender differences in white matter microstructure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Kanaan, Richard A ^a   Allin, Matthew ^a   Picchioni, Marco ^a   Barker, Gareth J ^a   Daly, Eileen ^a   Shergill, Sukhwinder S ^a   Woolley, James ^a   McGuire, Philip K ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84862023529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038272     Document Type: Article

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