BRAIN MORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ONE-YEAR-OLD INFANTS (ACCORDING TO MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY DATA)

Abstract

The present study was designed to give the integrated intravital morphometric characteristic of the brain of one-year-old infants taking into account their individual variation (sex-related, interhemispheric) using magnetic resonance tomography. The research has revealed a sexual dimorphism of the brain dimensions: telencephalic dimensions were found to prevail in boys, while the dimensions of the brainstem structures were prevalent in girls. The interhemispheric asymmetry was detected in the brain of one-year-old infants; in most cases there was a prevalence of the dimensions of the right hemisphere lobes over those ones of the left hemisphere.

Keywords

brain / morphometry / magnetic resonance tomography / infancy / anatomical variation

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