Here the authors try combining probing
white matter integrity with a MRI measure of whether the brain has shrunk as a result of disease.
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.
In a new study published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, neuroscientists from the University of Chicago show that
white matter in a region of the brain called the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) has less
integrity and density in people
with IED than in healthy individuals and those
with other psychiatric disorders.
When the investigators analysed MRI studies of the brain, they found that participants
with MCI, particularly those
with non-amnestic MCI, had larger
white matter lesion volumes and worse microstructural
integrity of normal - appearing
white matter compared to controls.
«If someone has a higher FA to begin
with and they lose
white matter integrity from trauma, they still might average out to have a normal mean FA.»
Their responses on these facial affect recognition tasks were correlated
with neuroimaging changes on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which shows the
integrity of
white matter tracts in the brain.
Patients
with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and their unaffected relatives show
white matter density and
integrity reductions in the anterior limb of the internal capsule (ALIC).
BACKGROUND Bipolar disorder is a familial psychiatric disorder associated
with reduced
white matter integrity, but it is not clear whether such abnormalities are present in young unaffected relatives
It examines diffusion tensor imaging as a way to probe the
integrity of the brainâ $ ™ s
white matter, and compares it
with tests of memory and behavior traditionally used to diagnose MCI and Alzheimerâ $ ™ s.
Altered
white matter integrity in first - episode, treatment - naive young adults
with major depressive disorder: a tract - based spatial statistics study.
Goldstein and her colleagues found that patients diagnosed
with â $ œamnesticâ $ MCI showed greater loss of
white matter integrity in a certain part of the brain — the medial temporal lobe â $ «than cognitively normal controls of similar age.
Birth parameters are associated
with late - life
white matter integrity in community - dwelling older people
In this study, we used DTI to investigate the
white matter integrity in adolescents
with IAD.
The aims of the study are 1) to investigate differences in the topographic distribution of
white matter integrity between adolescents
with IAD and healthy controls without IAD, making no a priori assumptions about the location of possible abnormalities, and 2) to determine whether there was any relationship between
white matter integrity and neurophysiological measures in IAD subjects.
Callous - unemotional traits drive reduced
white -
matter integrity in youths
with conduct problems.
White matter integrity and its association
with affective and interpersonal symptoms in borderline personality disorder.