Are there any gender differences in the hippocampus volume after head-size correction? A volumetric and voxel-based morphometric study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 570, Issue , 2014, Pages 119-123

  Perlaki, Gabor ^a,b   Orsi, Gergely ^a,b   Plozer, Eniko ^a   Altbacker, Anna ^a   Darnai, Gergely ^a   Nagy, Szilvia Anett ^b   Horvath, Reka ^a   Toth, Arnold ^a   Doczi, Tamas ^a   Kovacs, Norbert ^a   Bogner, Peter ^b   Schwarcz, Attila ^a   Janszky, Jozsef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b Pecs Diagnostic Centre   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Gender difference; Head size correction; Hippocampus; MRI; VBM; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CAUCASIAN; CEPHALOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL LINEAR MODEL; HEAD SIZE CORRECTION; HIPPOCAMPAL VOLUME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTION HEAD SIZE CORRECTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899886395     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.04.013     Document Type: Article

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