They found that older adults who had greater variability in neural activity in specific brain regions performed better on fluid ability and memory tasks, and also had better quality of
structural white matter connections in the brain.
Not exact matches
Compared to controls, patients with depression had decreased fractional anisotropy (FA), a measure of the
structural integrity of
white matter connections, around an area near the deep gray
matter of the brain that is strongly associated with the brain's reward circuit.
We discuss eight articles that directly compare resting - state functional connectivity with
structural connectivity and three clinical case studies of patients with limited
white matter connections between the cerebral hemispheres.