Table 4.
Sex differences of developmental trajectories
| Structure | Male-female comparisons | Comparisons adjusted for total
brain volume |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Height Differences | Shape
Differences |
Height
Differences |
Shape
Differences |
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| p values | F | p values | F | p values | F | p values | F | |
| Total cerebral volume | 0.00 | 138.85 | 0.00 | 30.44 | n.a. | n.a. | ||
| Total gray matter | 0.00 | 115.79 | 0.00 | 14.38 | 0.17 | 1.91 | 0.23 | 1.44 |
| Total white matter | 0.00 | 114.51 | 0.00 | 23.55 | 0.16 | 1.95 | 0.01 | 2.11 |
| Frontal gray matter | 0.00 | 62.47 | 0.00 | 4.48 | 0.00 | 20.65 | 0.00 | 6.84 |
| Frontal white matter | 0.00 | 64.07 | 0.00 | 27.97 | 0.37 | 0.82 | 0.00 | 4.55 |
| Parietal gray matter | 0.00 | 93.47 | 0.00 | 11.85 | 0.14 | 2.14 | 0.28 | 1.3 |
| Parietal white matter | 0.00 | 76.67 | 0.00 | 10.74 | 0.22 | 1.59 | 0.04 | 2.81 |
| Temporal gray matter | 0.00 | 98.07 | 0.00 | 9.02 | 0.91 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 3.62 |
| Temporal white matter | 0.00 | 83.08 | 0.00 | 17.33 | 0.23 | 1.42 | 0.32 | 1.16 |
| Occipital gray matter | 0.00 | 96.66 | 0.00 | 13.38 | 0.02 | 5.31 | 0.01 | 4.34 |
| Occipital white matter | 0.00 | 85.70 | 0.00 | 15.26 | 0.00 | 12.4 | 0.05 | 2.67 |
| Caudate nucleus | 0.00 | 14.79 | 0.00 | 8.41 | 0.06 | 4.04 | 0.71 | 1.04 |
| Corpus callosum area | 0.47 | 0.51 | 0.76 | 0.27 | 0.02 | 9.82 | 0.09 | 2.89 |
| Lateral ventricles | 0.03 | 4.82 | 0.48 | 0.73 | 0.01 | 6.92 | 0.64 | 0.44 |
Numbers in bold type are statistically significant following Bonferonni correction for multiple comparisons.