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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2007 Apr 6;36(4):1065–1073. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.03.053

Table 4.

Sex differences of developmental trajectories

Structure Male-female comparisons Comparisons adjusted for total
brain volume

Height Differences Shape
Differences
Height
Differences
Shape
Differences
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.