Behavioural relevance of variation in white matter microstructure

H Johansen-Berg - Current opinion in neurology, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Individual differences in white matter anatomy, visible using DWI, have consequences for
behaviour. The discovery of such relationships highlights the potential for identification of …

Effects of COMT polymorphisms on brain function and behavior in health and disease

AV Witte, A Flöel - Brain research bulletin, 2012 - Elsevier
The catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene has attracted strong neuroscientific interest
due to its implication in dopaminergic neurotransmission. One of its most widely studied …

Morphometric similarity networks detect microscale cortical organization and predict inter-individual cognitive variation

J Seidlitz, F Váša, M Shinn, R Romero-Garcia… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Macroscopic cortical networks are important for cognitive function, but it remains challenging
to construct anatomically plausible individual structural connectomes from human …

Brain anatomical network and intelligence

Y Li, Y Liu, J Li, W Qin, K Li, C Yu… - PLoS computational …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Intuitively, higher intelligence might be assumed to correspond to more efficient information
transfer in the brain, but no direct evidence has been reported from the perspective of brain …

White matter integrity of the descending pain modulatory system is associated with interindividual differences in placebo analgesia

N Stein, C Sprenger, J Scholz, K Wiech, U Bingel - PAIN®, 2012 - Elsevier
The ability for endogenous pain control varies considerably among individuals. The
mechanisms underlying this interindividual difference are incompletely understood. We …

Intellectual abilities and white matter microstructure in development: a diffusion tensor imaging study

CK Tamnes, Y Østby, KB Walhovd… - Human brain …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Higher‐order cognitive functions are supported by distributed networks of multiple
interconnected cortical and subcortical regions. Efficient cognitive processing depends on …

Brainnetome: a new-ome to understand the brain and its disorders

T Jiang - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
The human brain can be studied as a hierarchy of complex networks on different temporal
and spatial scales. On each scale, from gene, protein, synapse, neuron and microcircuit, to …

BDNF gene effects on brain circuitry replicated in 455 twins

MC Chiang, M Barysheva, AW Toga, SE Medland… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plays a key role in learning and memory, but its
effects on the fiber architecture of the living brain are unknown. We genotyped 455 healthy …

Differential brain development with low and high IQ in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

P De Zeeuw, HG Schnack, J Van Belle, J Weusten… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and intelligence (IQ) are both heritable
phenotypes. Overlap** genetic effects have been suggested to influence both, with …

COMT rs4680 Met is not always the 'smart allele': Val allele is associated with better working memory and larger hippocampal volume in healthy Chinese

Y Wang, J Li, C Chen, C Chen, B Zhu… - Genes, Brain and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Catechol‐O‐methyltransferase (COMT) Val158Met (rs4680) polymorphism plays a crucial
role in regulating brain dopamine level. Converging evidence from Caucasian samples …