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Longitudinally mapping the influence of sex and androgen signaling on the dynamics of human cortical maturation in adolescence.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Sept 2010
Raznahan Armin, Lee Yohan, Stidd Reva, Long Robert, Greenstein Dede, Clasen Liv, Addington Anjene, Gogtay Nitin, Rapoport Judith L, Giedd Jay N
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Humans have systematic sex differences in brain-related behavior, cognition, and pattern of mental illness risk. Many of these differences emerge during adolescence, a developmental period of intense neurostructural and endocrine change. Here, by creating "movies" of sexually dimorphic brain development using longitudinal in vivo structural neuroimaging, we show regionally specific sex differences in development...
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