Not exact matches
Halloway's analysis found the association
between participants» actual physical activity and
gray matter volumes remained after further controlling for age, gender, education levels, body mass index and symptoms of depression, all of which are associated with lower levels of
gray matter in the brain.
The connections
between greater
gray matter volume and intelligence have been documented only in children with an average age of 15.4 years.
The team discovered a direct correlation
between history of impulsive aggressive behavior and
gray matter volume in the frontolimbic region of the brain — an area known to play a central role in the regulation of emotions.
There was no relationship
between gray -
matter volume or cortical thickness and the Mediterranean diet.
This audio summary reviews a cohort study exploring the association
between prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and
gray matter volume and white
matter structural connectivity in newborn infants.
To investigate the effects of poverty on childhood brain development and to begin to inform the mediating mechanisms of these negative effects, we investigated associations
between poverty and total white and total cortical
gray matter volume, as well as hippocampus and amygdala
volumes, in a sample of children ages 6 to 12 years followed up longitudinally since the preschool period.
Cortical
gray matter volume was defined as the
volume between the pial and white
matter surfaces.
Thus, neither caregiving behaviors, education, nor life stress mediated the relationship
between the income - to - needs ratio and cortical
gray or white
matter volume.
Negative correlations have been reported
between bilateral amygdala
volume and life history of aggression (Matthies et al., 2012) and
between trait anger and local
gray matter volume in the left amygdala (Reuter et al., 2009) in healthy subjects.
A negative correlation
between aggressiveness and local
gray matter volume in the left amygdala has been reported for adolescents with conduct disorder (Sterzer et al., 2007).