Sentences with phrase «with intracranial volume»

Building on this work, the team has now determined that there are seven areas in our DNA where differences in the genetic code are associated with intracranial volume, which is the size of the skull cavity in which the brain resides.

Scientists collaborating across 250 institutions in 35 countries have identified variations of the genetic code that are associated with intracranial volume, which is a reflection of the maximum brain volume an individual achieves over a lifetime.

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The study also showed that the genetic influences on intelligence are highly correlated with genetic influences on educational attainment, and also, albeit less strongly, with smoking cessation, intracranial volume, head circumference in infancy, autism spectrum disorder and height.

Compared to controls, patients with schizophrenia demonstrated smaller bilateral hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus and accumbens volumes as well as intracranial volume, but larger bilateral caudate, putamen, pallidum and lateral ventricle volumes.

On average, males had larger absolute volumes than females in the intracranial space (12 %; > 14,000 brains), total brain (11 %; 2,523 brains), cerebrum (10 %; 1,851 brains), grey matter (9 %; 7,934 brains), white matter (13 %; 7,515 brains), regions filled with cerebrospinal fluid (11.5 %; 4,484 brains), and cerebellum (9 %; 1,842 brains).

They examined the intracranial volume of people with and without the HD mutation enrolled in the PREDICT - HD study.

Intracranial volume robustly correlated positively with age of onset of PTSD trauma (i.e., smaller brains were associated with earlier onset of trauma) and negatively with duration of abuse.

Maltreated subjects with PTSD had 7.0 % smaller intracranial and 8.0 % smaller cerebral volumes than matched controls.