The white matter pathways comprise a set of active wires and the responses and properties of these wires predict human cognitive and emotional abilities in health and disease.
The impact of bilingualism on the microstructure of
the white matter pathways related to language processing is assessed in elementary school children by magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging
Imaging can reveal the flow of information in the brain: MRI - based imaging of six of the major
white matter pathways in the human brain (© Dr Jamie Kawadler)
Not exact matches
The DTI images — taken at an average of 20 days after birth — were used to associate maternal iron intake during pregnancy to differences in cortical gray
matter and, to a lesser extent, in major axonal
pathways within the underlying
white matter of the brain.
At the same time, the neuronal
pathway (
white matter) connecting these two regions via the extreme capsule got stronger.
White matter is located beneath the gray
matter of the cerebral cortex and comprises long neural
pathways which are responsible for transferring information between gray
matter regions where the processing of information occurs.
These rich data will also allow us to quantify genetic (Chiang et al., 2009) and behavioral variation of
white matter fiber
pathways and functional correlations for analysis by the entire community, and help define an optimized methodology for collection of a definitive connectome dataset using DSI (V. J. Wedeen, 2005).