Competing physiological pathways link individual differences in weight and abdominal adiposity to white matter microstructure

Pathways from Adiposity to White Matter Microstructure Competing Physiological Pathways Link Individual Differences in Weight and Abdominal Adiposity to White Matter Microstructure

Individual Differences in Expert Motor Coordination Associated with White Matter Microstructure in the Cerebellum

Recent investigations into the neural basis of elite sporting performance have focused on whether cortical activity might characterize individual differences in ability. However, very little is understood about how changes in brain structure might contribute to individual differences in expert motor control. We compared the behavior and brain structure of healthy controls with a group of karate...

White Matter Microstructure Alterations: A Study of Alcoholics with and without Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Many brain imaging studies have demonstrated reductions in gray and white matter volumes in alcoholism, with fewer investigators using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine the integrity of white matter pathways. Among various medical conditions, alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are two comorbid diseases that have similar degenerative effects on the white matter integrit...

Correlation between white matter microstructure and executive functions suggests early developmental influence on long fibre tracts in preterm born adolescents

MAIN OBJECTIVES Executive functions are frequently a weakness in children born preterm. We examined associations of executive functions and general cognitive abilities with brain structure in preterm born adolescents who were born with appropriate weight for gestational age and who have no radiological signs of preterm brain injury on neuroimaging. METHODS The Stockholm Neonatal Project (SNP)...

Lipid Metabolism, Abdominal Adiposity and Cerebral Health in the Amish

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between peripheral lipid/fat profiles and cerebral gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) in healthy Old Order Amish (OOA). METHODS Blood lipids, abdominal adiposity, liver lipid contents, and cerebral microstructure were assessed in OOA (N = 64, 31 males/33 females, ages 18-77). Orthogonal factors were extracted from lipid and imaging adiposity measures. G...