People who have a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme outbursts of anger, such as road rage, have significantly
lower gray matter volume in the brain region that plays an important role in regulating emotion, report scientists from the University of Chicago.
January 12, 2016 Individuals with rage disorder have smaller volumes in brain structures linked with emotion People who have a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme outbursts of anger, such as road rage, have significantly
lower gray matter volume in the brain region that plays an important role in regulating emotion, report scientists from the University of Chicago.
Individuals with intermittent explosive disorder (IED) have significantly
lower gray matter volume in certain frontolimbic brain structures.
A new article published in the inaugural issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging reports that individuals with intermittent explosive disorder (IED) have significantly
lower gray matter volume in these frontolimbic brain structures.
These structural differences, including
lower gray matter volume, may have implications for developmental outcomes which emerge in the preschool and early childhood period.
Not exact matches
Comparing MRI brain images of eight Dobermans with CCD to the control group, Ogata found that the CCD group had higher total brain and
gray matter volumes,
lower gray matter densities in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and right anterior insula, and higher fractional anisotropy in the splenium of the corpus callosum (the degree of which correlated with the severity of the behavioral traits).
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.
Those images showed that
gray matter volume of adolescents tended to be
lower than that of kids.
«Clinically and cognitively normal individuals with and without AD risk factors, following dietary patterns characterized by high intakes of whole grains, fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, fish, and
low - fat dairy products (which provide higher intakes of vitamin B12, vitamin D, and n - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids) and by
low intakes of refined sugars, French fries, high - fat dairy products, butter, and processed meat, show
lower accumulation of Aβ in the brain and higher cerebral glucose metabolism, as evidenced by neuroimaging analysis of
gray matter volumes (a marker of brain atrophy), C - Pittsburgh compound B (to measure the accumulation of fibrillar Aβ), and F - fluorodeoxyglucose (to assess brain glucose metabolism.»
In a large community sample, Hanson et al9 reported smaller hippocampal
gray matter volumes among children from
lower - income backgrounds.
Lower socioeconomic status was associated with smaller hippocampal
gray matter volumes bilaterally in a small sample of healthy 10 - year - old children.10