Do brains of females and males belong to two distinct populations?

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

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2016, Pages E1969-E1970

  Joel, Daphna ^a   Persico, Ariel ^a   Hänggi, Jürgen ^b   Pool, Jared ^c   Berman, Zohar ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERSEX; LETTER; MALE; MOSAICISM; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84962449784     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600792113     Document Type: Letter

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