Brain structural changes in women and men during midlife

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 615, Issue , 2016, Pages 107-112

  Guo, J Y ^a   Isohanni, M ^b,c   Miettunen, J ^b,c   Jaaskelainen E ^b,c   Kiviniemi, V ^c   Nikkinen, J ^c   Remes, J ^c   Huhtaniska, S ^b   Veijola, J ^b,c   Jones, P B ^a,d   Murray, G K ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Gender difference; Longitudinal MRI; Sex differences; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ANALYSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORK SCHEDULE; AGE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; ORGAN SIZE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84956689291     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2016.01.007     Document Type: Article

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