Recent years have seen an increased understanding of the importance of myelination in
healthy brain function and neuropsychiatric diseases. Non-invasive microstructural magnetic …

Myelin is the protective sheath wrapped around axons, consisting of a phospholipid bilayer
with water between the wraps. The measurement of damage to the myelin sheaths, the …

Several MRI measures have been proposed as in vivo biomarkers of myelin, each with
applications ranging from plasticity to pathology. Despite the availability of these myelin …

The combination of repeated behavioral training with transcranial direct current stimulation
(tDCS) holds promise to exert beneficial effects on brain function beyond the trained task …

Objectives Currently, multiple sclerosis is treated with anti-inflammatory therapies, but these
treatments lack efficacy in progressive disease. New treatment strategies aim to repair …

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is a childhood-onset syndrome characterized by the
presence and persistence of motor and vocal tics. A dysfunction of cortico-striato-pallido …

Fundamental to increasing our understanding of the role of white matter microstructure in
normal/abnormal function in the living human is the development of MR-based metrics that …

Magnetization transfer contrast has yielded insight into brain tissue microstructure changes
across the lifespan and in a range of disorders. This progress has been aided by the …

Although MRI is the gold standard for the diagnosis and monitoring of multiple sclerosis
(MS), current conventional MRI techniques often fail to detect cortical alterations and provide …

Since this journal's inception, the field of adolescent brain development has flourished, as
researchers have investigated the underpinnings of adolescent risk-taking behaviors …