Comparison images taken and two and four weeks postpartum revealed a small but significant increase in
gray matter volume in specific areas of the brain.
These structural differences, including
lower gray matter volume, may have implications for developmental outcomes which emerge in the preschool and early childhood period.
She notes that a similar decline in
gray matter volume occurs during adolescence, when neural networks are fine - tuned for more efficiency and more specialized functions.
Brain regions showing independent positive associations of cardiorespiratory fitness and speed - agility
with gray matter volume in overweight and obese children.
In particular, aerobic capacity has been associated with
greater gray matter volume in frontal regions (premotor cortex and supplementary motor cortex), subcortical regions (hippocampus and caudate nucleus), temporal regions (inferior temporal gyrus and parahippocampal gyrus) and the calcarine cortex.
Regional
brain gray matter volume differences in patients with bipolar disorder as assessed by optimized voxel - based morphometry
Previous studies have shown that this forebrain - midbrain circuit is abnormal in panic and chronic anxiety patients who show decreased vmPFC but
increased gray matter volume and activity in the midbrain encompassing the PAG (24, 25).
«We found large regions of
gray matter volume decreases, which could be related to redistribution of cerebrospinal fluid in space,» Seidler said.
In a 2007 study, scientists sized up brain scans on 55 healthy adults and found that those with high omega - 3 intake had
more gray matter volume in parts of the brain that are associated with mood and emotional arousal.
Effects of cognitive training
on gray matter volumes in memory clinic patients with subjective memory impairment.
«We found that higher serum levels of NT - proBNP were associated with smaller brain volumes, in particular with
smaller gray matter volume, and with poorer organization of the brain's white matter,» lead author Dr. Meike Vernooij said in a journal news release.
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.
The findings showed highly consistent
gray matter volume losses in the mothers and not in the other groups, the team reports today in Nature Neuroscience.
A method called voxel - based morphometry and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) was used to model the relationships
between gray matter volume and energy output.
The study
compared gray matter volumes as seen in participants» MRIs with readings from the accelerometers and other data, which all were obtained during the same year.
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.
Relatively few neuroimaging studies have explored the role of puberty in human brain development (Blakemore et al., 2010; Crone and Dahl, 2012; Galvan et al., 2012), though it was noted long ago that measurements of
peak gray matter volume coincide with the onset of puberty (Giedd et al., 1999; Blakemore, 2012).
Individuals with intermittent explosive disorder (IED) have significantly
lower gray matter volume in certain frontolimbic brain structures.
The connections between
greater gray matter volume and intelligence have been documented only in children with an average age of 15.4 years.
Higher expenditure of energy was associated with
larger gray matter volumes in the parietal, temporal and frontal lobes, which included the basal ganglia, posterior cingulate and hippocampus.
They found that the musicians had
more gray matter volume in the left and right primary sensorimotor regions, the left basal ganglia region and the left posterior perisylvian region and the cerebellum.
Specifically, meditation has been shown to increase
brain gray matter volume in the right angular and posterior parahippocampal gyri.
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).