Regional specificity of sex effects on subcortical volumes across the lifespan in healthy aging

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 238-247

  Li, Wenjing ^a   van Tol, Marie José ^b,c   Li, Meng ^a   Miao, Wen ^a   Jiao, Yonghong ^d   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^b   Bogerts, Bernhard ^b   He, Huiguang ^a   Walter, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age effects; Magnetic resonance imaging; Sex differences; Subcortical structure; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN SIZE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; THALAMUS;

AGE EFFECTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX DIFFERENCES; SUBCORTICAL STRUCTURE; VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889635117     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22168     Document Type: Article

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