Interactive effects of dehydroepiandrosterone and testosterone on cortical thickness during early brain development

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 10840-10848

  Nguyen, Tuong Vi ^a   McCracken, James T ^b   Ducharme, Simon ^a   Cropp, Brett F ^c   Botteron, Kelly N ^b,d   Evans, Alan C ^a,b   Karama, Sherif ^a,e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PUBERTY; SALIVA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84879311341     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5747-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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