Cognitive Performance in Subjects With Multiple Sclerosis Is Robustly Influenced by Gender in Canonical-Correlation

Sue-Jin Lin1, Janet Lam1, Samantha Beveridge1

  • 1From the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia (S-JL, MM); the Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia (JL); the Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology, University of British Columbia (SB); the Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia (IV, AM); the Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia (AT, DL, MM); the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia (AM); and the Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia Hospital (BK).

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