This indicates differential hemispheric predilection of
brain connectivity abnormalities between SD and bvFTD.
Not exact matches
The discovery of
connectivity deficits in a specific region of the
brain like the SLF provides an important starting point for more research on people with IED, as well as those with borderline personality disorder, who share similar social and emotional problems and appear to have the same
abnormality in the SLF.
«Once we unravel the different working patterns and circuits in the
brain during memory formation and decision - making, we can begin to look for differences in
connectivity patterns that underlie
abnormalities,» Harvey said.
In a study of structural
brain connectivity led by the University of Illinois at Chicago and UCLA, those participants with anorexia nervosa who scored lowest on a test measuring their ability to form insight had more connective
abnormalities than other patients in
brain regions linked to error detection and conflict monitoring as well as self - reflection.
The researchers found a link between
abnormalities in white matter and a decrease in functional
connectivity in the
brain's default - mode network, a set of regions that typically shows abnormal behavior in people at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease.
An important area for future work will be to understand functional
connectivity abnormalities in ASD at the global level, across the whole
brain, as well as in specific functional networks or sets of nodes.
Supporting evidence for our findings comes from studies reporting on decreased default mode functional
connectivity in combination with studies reporting on degenerative
brain abnormalities in the cingulum bundle.