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To the best of my knowledge, there is not way to tell recon-all about demographics/subject meta data, and you do not need to worry about this during recon-all. Instead, you would add age and gender as covariates in your model later.

Tim

> On August 13, 2019 at 1:12 AM Carissa Liana Grijalva <cari10g@email.arizona.edu> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I am a graduate student at the University of Arizona and we have been using
> the FreeSurfer Program to reconstruct MRI data from healthy patients and
> patients with a mild cognitive impairment. We are comparing the statistics
> for different brain regions, however, we would like to take age and gender
> into consideration. Does the main atlas used to map/segment regions in the
> brain have a default (male) brain or certain age? If so, is there a way to
> specify the data is from a female during the recon all code? Such as a tag
> at the end? Is it possible to include something like this for age as well?
> Thank you for your time.
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> Best,
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> Carissa Grijalva
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Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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