The impact of sex, puberty, and hormones on white matter microstructure in adolescents

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1979-1992

  Herting, Megan M ^a   Maxwell, Emily C ^a   Irvine, Christy ^a   Nagel, Bonnie J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; diffusion tensor imaging; estradiol; puberty; testosterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CHILD; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PUBERTY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84864910371     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr246     Document Type: Article

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