%0 Journal Article
%T Sex Differences in Reconstructed Resting-State Functional Brain Networks for Children
%A Xianglai Yang
%A Han Zhang
%J Journal of Biosciences and Medicines
%P 166-177
%@ 2327-509X
%D 2020
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jbm.2020.812016
%X Neuroscience studies have demonstrated that functional differences in human brains between males and females might result in their cognitive and psychological distinctions. To investigate sex differences in resting-state functional networks for children, the functional brain networks of two groups including boys and girls were reconstructed by functional connectivity with significant between-group differences respectively based on two brain atlases, and then the reconstructed functional networks were compared from the viewpoint of small-world properties. The functional brain networks of the two groups both displayed topological properties of the small-world network based on different brain atlases but exhibited some sex differences in certain measures. Specifically, for the automated anatomical labeling atlas, compared with girls, boys showed stronger small-world properties and higher ability of local information processing in brain networks; for the Harvard Oxford Atlas, the shortest path length of boys increased, indicating poorer performance in both global information transmission and resistance to the random attack.
%K Sex Difference
%K Functional Connectivity
%K Brain Network
%K fMRI
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=106141