TY  - JOUR
ID  - eprints3342
TI  - Sex differences in patterns of hemispheric cerebral metabolism: A multiple regression/discriminant analysis of positron emission tomographic data
AV  - none
KW  - Human; Sex; Positron emission tomography; Discriminant analysis; Cerebral metabolism; Brain.
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00207459509015294
IS  - 3-4
VL  - 81
PB  - Taylor and Francis
EP  - 20
A1  - Azari, Nina P.
A1  - Pettigrew, Karen D.
A1  - Pietrini, Pietro
A1  - Murphy, Declan G.
A1  - Horwitz, Barry
SP  - 1
JF  - International Journal of Neuroscience
N2  - 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.
SN  - 0020-7454
Y1  - 1995///
ER  -