Abstract
We used volumetric magnetic resonance imaging to examine sex differences in prefrontal tissue volumes of healthy aged and patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Healthy subjects had greater total prefrontal volume than AD, and men had greater total prefrontal volume than women (ps ≤ 0.02). This was true for both gray and white matter volumes. There were no interactions between group and sex for total prefrontal volume. An exploratory analysis of each group suggested that sex differences in both gray and white matter in healthy aging are not sustained in AD. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 591-596 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Neurobiology of Aging |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1999 |
Keywords
- Aged
- Aging
- Alzheimer's disease
- Frontal lobe
- Gray matter
- Human
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Prefrontal
- Sex characteristics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuroscience(all)
- Aging
- Clinical Neurology
- Developmental Biology
- Geriatrics and Gerontology