Regional Cortical Thickness and
Subcortical Volume Changes Are Associated with Cognitive Impairments in the Drug - Naive Patients with Late - Onset Depression
«We did not find evidence of genetic overlap between schizophrenia risk and
subcortical volume measures, either at the level of common variant genetic architecture or for single genetic markers.
Not exact matches
They compared and analyzed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain images of 1,680 healthy individuals and 884 patients with schizophrenia from 11 research institutes participating in Cognitive Genetics Collaborative Research Organization (COCORO), and examined the differences between schizophrenia and healthy controls in the
subcortical regional
volumes and their asymmetries.
A new study led by Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, a researcher and professor at both the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, evaluated the relationship between common genetic variants implicated in schizophrenia and those associated with
subcortical brain
volumes.
«No link found between
subcortical brain
volumes, genetic risk for schizophrenia: Proof - of - concept study provides roadmap for future research into possible associations between brain
volume measures, known genetic risk factors.»
According to Irene Esteban - Cornejo, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Granada and main author of this paper, gray matter
volume in the cortical and
subcortical regions influenced by physical fitness improves in turn the children's academic performance.
More specifically, the researchers have confirmed that physical fitness in children (especially aerobic capacity and motor ability) is associated with a greater
volume of gray matter in several cortical and
subcortical brain regions.
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.
During the working memory task significant increases in activation
volume were observed in frontal and parietal association cortices as well as
subcortical structures, including the caudate, globus pallidus, putamen, and thalamus.
White matter
volume was calculated by subtracting the
subcortical and ventricular
volumes from the
volume bounded by the white matter surface.