Sex differences in the structural connectome of the human brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 823-828

  Ingalhalikar, Madhura ^a   Smith, Alex ^a   Parker, Drew ^a   Satterthwaite, Theodore D ^a   Elliott, Mark A ^a   Ruparel, Kosha ^a   Hakonarson, Hakon ^b   Gur, Raquel E ^a   Gur, Ruben C ^a   Verma, Ragini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion imaging; Gender differences

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CONNECTOME; COORDINATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DIFFUSION IMAGING; GENDER DIFFERENCES;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; CHILD; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892566519     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316909110     Document Type: Article

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