relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3342/
title: Sex differences in patterns of hemispheric cerebral metabolism: A multiple regression/discriminant analysis of positron emission tomographic data
creator: Azari, Nina P.
creator: Pettigrew, Karen D.
creator: Pietrini, Pietro
creator: Murphy, Declan G.
creator: Horwitz, Barry
subject: RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
description: Sex differences in brain hemispheric structure and function have been reported, and sex-related differences in hemispheric interregional correlations were reported in a prior analysis of resting PET glucose metabolic (rCMRglc) data. To explore further the effect of sex on patterns of hemispheric brain functional interactions, we applied a multiple regression/discriminant analysis to resting rCMRglc PET data from young normal men and women to test two hypotheses: (1) women have stronger between-hemisphere functional interactions; (2) men have stronger within-hemisphere functional interactions. Two separate discriminant functions based on these hypotheses distinguished men and women: the first reflected rCMRglc interdependencies between hemispheres and correctly classified all women and 94% of the men; the second reflected rCMRglc interdependencies within the left hemisphere and correctly classified 82% of the women and 88% of the men. Because the discriminant functions successfully distinguished men and women, these results provide support for both hypotheses.
publisher: Taylor and Francis
date: 1995
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Azari, Nina P. and Pettigrew, Karen D. and Pietrini, Pietro and Murphy, Declan G. and Horwitz, Barry  Sex differences in patterns of hemispheric cerebral metabolism: A multiple regression/discriminant analysis of positron emission tomographic data.  International Journal of Neuroscience, 81 (3-4).  pp. 1-20.  ISSN 0020-7454      (1995)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00207459509015294
relation: 10.3109/00207459509015294