Kun-Hsien Chou1, I-Yun Chen2,
Chun-Wei Lan3, Ya-Wei Cheng2, Ching-Po Lin2,3,
Woei-Chyn Chu1
1Institute of Biomedical Engineering,
National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Institute of
Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Institute
of Biomedical imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming
University, Taipei, Taiwan
Empathizing,
driven by the social brain, means the capacity to predict and to respond to
the behavior of agents by inferring their mental status with an appropriate
emotion. Systemizing, based on the analytic brain, is the capacity to predict
and to respond to the behavior of non-agentive deterministic systems by
analyzing input-operation-output relations and inferring the rules of
systems. However WM associated with the social and analytic brain as
indicated by sex differences remains to be investigated. In this study, we
demonstrated WM microstructures with sexual dimorphism, which may reflected the
neural underpinning of the social and analytic brain.