Gender influence on white matter microstructure: A tract-based spatial statistics analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Kanaan, Richard A ^a   Chaddock, Christopher ^b   Allin, Matthew ^b   Picchioni, Marco M ^b   Daly, Eileen ^b   Shergill, Sukhi S ^b   McGuire, Philip K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; DEMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897460051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091109     Document Type: Article

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