Brain microstructural properties related to subjective well-being: diffusion tensor imaging analysis

Diffusion Tensor Imaging to Study Brain Connectivity

Introduction MRI has been a powerful tool to map anatomy and function of human brains. To assign functions of the cortex, fMRI has been playing important roles. Classically, anatomy – function correlation studies had relied on postmortem examination of patients with localized lesions. Now we have a tool to non-invasively investigate functional centers of the brain. Compared to the cortical mapp...

International migration desires related to subjective well-being

Previous research on the determinants of international migration has largely focused on objective factors, such as income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to migrate. We find that individuals with higher SWB have lower international migration desires. At the individual level, the SWB-migration relationship appears t...

Subjective well-being

This paper examines the notion of “subjective well-being” as it is used in literature on subjective measures of well-being. I argue that those who employ the notion differ at least superficially on at least two points: first, about the relationship between subjective well-being and well-being simpliciter, and second, about the constituents of subjective well-being. In an effort to reconcile the...

Subjective well-being.

The Benefits and implementations of Diffusion tensor imaging and Neural Fiber Tractography in Brain Surgery

Background and Aim: The methods for detecting brain activation with fMRI, MRI provides a way to measure the anatomical connections which enable lightning-fast communication among neurons that specialize in different kinds of brain functions. Diffusion tensor imaging is able to measure the direction of bundles of the axonal fibers which are all aligned. Besides mapping white matter fiber tracts,...