Behavioral Medicine
Cortical thickness differences in men and women may influence gender-specific abilities
Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 8th, 2006
Researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles report, "Using magnetic resonance imaging and well-validated computational cortical pattern matching methods in a large and well-matched sample of healthy subjects (n=60), we analyzed the regional specificity of gender-related cortical thickness differences across the lateral and medial cortices at submillimeter resolution."
E. Luders and colleagues explained, "To establish the influences of brain size correction on gender effects, comparisons were performed with and without applying affine...
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