Sex-related neuroanatomical basis of emotion regulation ability

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Kong, Feng ^a   Zhen, Zonglei ^a   Li, Jingguang ^a   Huang, Lijie ^a   Wang, Xu ^a   Song, Yiying ^a   Liu, Jia ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; YOUNG ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRAIN; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901339843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097071     Document Type: Article

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