"Matter volume" refers to the amount of space that matter takes up. It describes the physical size or quantity of matter present in a given object or substance.
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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.
Reduced visual cortex gray
matter volume in children and adolescents with reactive attachment disorder.
He discovered differences in
grey matter volume, which contains the cell bodies of nerve cells, in two specific locations.
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.
Even in healthy volunteers, lower
grey matter volumes were associated with a shift towards more habitual choices.
Those images showed that
gray matter volume of adolescents tended to be lower than that of kids.
Distinct Patterns of Reduced Prefrontal and Limbic
Gray Matter Volume in Childhood General and Internalizing Psychopathology.
«We found large regions of gray
matter volume decreases, which could be related to redistribution of cerebrospinal fluid in space,» Seidler said.
Though much of the concern in the media regarding the toxic effects of Zika virus has focused on brain findings of microcephaly, the researchers noted that there are a variety of brain abnormalities that can be found in fetuses exposed to the virus, including gray and white
matter volume loss, brainstem abnormalities, calcifications, and a condition called ventriculomegaly, where the ventricles, or fluid filled spaces in the brain, are enlarged.
Regional brain gray
matter volume differences in patients with bipolar disorder as assessed by optimized voxel - based morphometry
In individuals with anorexia nervosa, orbitofrontal gray
matter volume related negatively with sweet tastes.
Occasional users in both studies, who increased stimulant use during the subsequent 24 months displayed smaller regional grey
matter volumes compared to those who with stable or decreased use.
The researchers found that the developmental course of the children's white
matter volume predicted the kindergarteners» abilities to read.
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).
Second, a multivariate data - driven approach tested associations between correlated psychosocial variables and whole brain, with subsequent extraction of univariate associations; for example, with grey matter volume [28].
What's more, the team found that the mothers» scores on a standard test that gauges the degree of a mom's attachment to her infant could be predicted to a significant degree based on the changes in their gray
matter volume during pregnancy.
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Gray matter volume loss can also represent a beneficial process of maturation or specialization.»
Like learning a new language, learning how to play an instrument has a proven impact on brain development, showing that «learning to play a musical instrument not only increases
grey matter volume in various brain regions, but can also strengthen the long - range connections between them» and that» musical training also enhances verbal memory, spatial reasoning, and literacy skills».
Vertex - and atlas - based comparisons in measures of cortical thickness, gyrification and
white matter volume between humans and chimpanzees.
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.
Chronic stress during pregnancy has been linked to an increase in the risk of premature delivery and low birth weight, and of the baby having reduced grey
matter volume in areas of the brain involved in learning, memory, attention, and emotional regulation.
Orange shows regions of
gray matter volume increase, in the regions that control movement of the legs.
New mothers who bond the strongest with their baby see the greatest reduction in grey -
matter volume.
These structural differences, including lower gray
matter volume, may have implications for developmental outcomes which emerge in the preschool and early childhood period.
Neuroscientists have also looked at how political ideologies are represented in the brain; preliminary research indicates that an increased gray
matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex can be correlated with inclinations towards liberalism, while increased gray matter volume in the amygdala (which is part of the limbic system and thus concerned with emotions) appears to be associated with conservative values.
Of those people, 562 had an MRI brain scan around age 73 to measure overall brain volume, gray
matter volume and thickness of the cortex, which is the outer layer of the brain.
There was no relationship between grey
matter volume or cortical thickness and the Mediterranean diet.
The researchers also found increases in gray
matter volume in regions that control leg movement and process sensory information from legs, which may reflect changes related to the brain learning how to move in microgravity.
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.
Spatially oriented brains have an above - average grey
matter volume in the right precuneus, a small area of the brain associated with processing visual - spatial information.
Relative changes in gray
matter volume, related to spatial and nonspatial representations of numerical size.
In addition, brain imaging studies in rats and humans have shown alterations in gray
matter volume and white matter integrity in the brain caused by the effects of chronic pain.
Through analysis of high - resolution anatomical magnetic resonance imaging of brain volumes, taken three times over the two - year study period, the researchers were able to determine that individuals with MCI or Alzheimer's showed greater losses in gray
matter volume in both the basal forebrain and temporal lobe, compared with cognitively normal controls.
«Gray
matter volume is like body weight,» Takeuchi says — the scales can be tipped by both muscle and fat.
Dr. Coccaro and his colleagues also report a significant inverse correlation between measures of aggression and frontolimbic gray
matter volume.
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.
The team found a direct correlation between history of actual aggressive behavior and the magnitude of reduction in gray
matter volume, linking both in a dimensional relationship.
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