[HTML][HTML] Alcohol's effects on the brain: neuroimaging results in humans and animal models

NM Zahr, A Pfefferbaum - Alcohol research: current reviews, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Brain imaging technology has allowed researchers to conduct rigorous studies of the
dynamic course of alcoholism through periods of drinking, sobriety, and relapse and to gain …

Longitudinal study of callosal microstructure in the normal adult aging brain using quantitative DTI fiber tracking

EV Sullivan, T Rohlfing… - Developmental …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
We present a review of neuroimaging studies of normal adult aging conducted with diffusion
tensor imaging (DTI) and data from one of the first longitudinal studies using DTI to study …

Tract-based spatial statistics: voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion data

SM Smith, M Jenkinson, H Johansen-Berg, D Rueckert… - Neuroimage, 2006 - Elsevier
There has been much recent interest in using magnetic resonance diffusion imaging to
provide information about anatomical connectivity in the brain, by measuring the anisotropic …

Quantitative fiber tracking of lateral and interhemispheric white matter systems in normal aging: relations to timed performance

EV Sullivan, T Rohlfing, A Pfefferbaum - Neurobiology of aging, 2010 - Elsevier
The integrity of white matter, as measured in vivo with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), is
disrupted in normal aging. A current consensus is that in adults advancing age affects …

Problem solving, working memory, and motor correlates of association and commissural fiber bundles in normal aging: a quantitative fiber tracking study

NM Zahr, T Rohlfing, A Pfefferbaum, EV Sullivan - Neuroimage, 2009 - Elsevier
Normal aging is accompanied by decline in selective cognitive and motor functions. A
concurrent decline in regional white matter integrity, detectable with diffusion tensor imaging …

Degradation of association and projection white matter systems in alcoholism detected with quantitative fiber tracking

A Pfefferbaum, M Rosenbloom, T Rohlfing… - Biological …, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Excessive alcohol use can cause macrostructural tissue shrinkage with
regional preference for frontal systems. The extent and locus of alcoholism's effect on white …

Selective Age-related Degradation of Anterior Callosal Fiber Bundles Quantified In Vivo with Fiber Tracking

EV Sullivan, E Adalsteinsson, A Pfefferbaum - Cerebral cortex, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The corpus callosum, the principal white matter structure enabling interhemispheric
information transfer, is heterogeneous in its microstructural composition, heterotopic in its …

Diffusion tensor imaging with quantitative fibre tracking in HIV infection and alcoholism comorbidity: synergistic white matter damage

A Pfefferbaum, MJ Rosenbloom, E Adalsteinsson… - Brain, 2007 - academic.oup.com
A substantial proportion of individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
also abuse alcohol. Given that each condition can disrupt brain structural integrity, with a …

Early postnatal development of corpus callosum and corticospinal white matter assessed with quantitative tractography

JH Gilmore, W Lin, I Corouge… - American Journal …, 2007 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The early postnatal period is perhaps the most dynamic
phase of white matter development. We hypothesized that the early postnatal development …

Neuroradiological characterization of normal adult ageing

EV Sullivan, A Pfefferbaum - The British Journal of Radiology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
This paper provides a review of MRI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) findings in normal
ageing as an essential context for evaluating imaging in dementia, and adding to the ever …