Gender differences in cerebral regional homogeneity of adult healthy volunteers: A resting-state fMRI study

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Xu, Chunsheng ^a,b   Li, Chuanfu ^a,b   Wu, Hongli ^a,b   Wu, Yuanyuan ^a   Hu, Sheng ^c   Zhu, Yifang ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Wang, Linying ^a   Zhu, Senhua ^d   Liu, Junping ^a   Zhang, Qingping ^a   Yang, Jun ^a   Zhang, Xiaochu ^c,e  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b Anhui Academy of Chinese Medicine   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^e HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DORSAL ATTENTION NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LEFT ATTENTION NETWORK; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY VISUAL NETWORK; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; VENTRAL ATTENTION NETWORK; VOLUNTEER; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; YOUNG ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REST; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE NET; REST; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921038601     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/183074     Document Type: Article

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