Progressive gender differences of structural brain networks in healthy adults: A longitudinal, diffusion tensor imaging study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Sun, Yu ^a   Lee, Renick ^a   Chen, Yu ^a   Collinson, Simon ^a   Thakor, Nitish ^a   Bezerianos, Anastasios ^a   Sim, Kang ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INSULA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PUTAMEN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; THEORETICAL STUDY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; AGED; BRAIN; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84929324178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118857     Document Type: Article

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