Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 50, 2015, Pages 15468-15473

  Joel, Daphna ^a   Berman, Zohar ^a   Tavor, Ido ^a   Wexler, Nadav ^a   Gaber, Olga ^a   Stein, Yaniv ^a   Shefi, Nisan ^a   Pool, Jared ^b   Urchs, Sebastian ^b   Margulies, Daniel S ^b   Liem, Franziskus ^b,c   Hänggi, Jürgen ^c   Jäncke, Lutz ^c   Assaf, Yaniv ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behavior; Brain connectivity; Brain structure; Gender differences; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENITAL SYSTEM; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRACTOGRAPHY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BEHAVIOR; ORGAN SIZE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENITALIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84950336702     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509654112     Document Type: Article

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