Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners

KCR Fox, S Nijeboer, ML Dixon, JL Floman… - Neuroscience & …, 2014 - Elsevier
Numerous studies have begun to address how the brain's gray and white matter may be
shaped by meditation. This research is yet to be integrated, however, and two fundamental …

ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing

L Schmaal, E Pozzi, T C. Ho, LS Van Velzen… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
A key objective in the field of translational psychiatry over the past few decades has been to
identify the brain correlates of major depressive disorder (MDD). Identifying measurable …

CAT: a computational anatomy toolbox for the analysis of structural MRI data

C Gaser, R Dahnke, PM Thompson, F Kurth… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A large range of sophisticated brain image analysis tools have been developed by the
neuroscience community, greatly advancing the field of human brain mapping. Here we …

Unique developmental trajectories of cortical thickness and surface area

LM Wierenga, M Langen, B Oranje, S Durston - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
There is evidence that the timing of developmental changes in cortical volume and thickness
varies across the brain, although the processes behind these differences are not well …

Cortical thickness and central surface estimation

R Dahnke, RA Yotter, C Gaser - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
Several properties of the human brain cortex, eg, cortical thickness and gyrification, have
been found to correlate with the progress of neuropsychiatric disorders. The relationship …

Cortical abnormalities associated with pediatric and adult obsessive-compulsive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Working Group

PSW Boedhoe, L Schmaal, Y Abe… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Brain imaging studies of structural abnormalities in OCD have yielded
inconsistent results, partly because of limited statistical power, clinical heterogeneity, and …

[HTML][HTML] Unified segmentation based correction of R1 brain maps for RF transmit field inhomogeneities (UNICORT)

N Weiskopf, A Lutti, G Helms, M Novak, J Ashburner… - NeuroImage, 2011 - Elsevier
Quantitative mapping of the longitudinal relaxation rate (R1= 1/T1) in the human brain
enables the investigation of tissue microstructure and macroscopic morphology which are …

The structure of the cerebral cortex across adult life: age-related patterns of surface area, thickness, and gyrification

LJ Hogstrom, LT Westlye, KB Walhovd… - Cerebral cortex, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Older adults exhibit global reductions in cortical surface area, but little is known about the
regional patterns of reductions or how these relate to other measures of brain structure. This …

Normal age-related brain morphometric changes: nonuniformity across cortical thickness, surface area and gray matter volume?

H Lemaitre, AL Goldman, F Sambataro… - Neurobiology of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Normal aging is accompanied by global as well as regional structural changes. While these
age-related changes in gray matter volume have been extensively studied, less has been …

[HTML][HTML] Larger gray matter volumes in neuropsychiatric long-COVID syndrome

B Besteher, M Machnik, M Troll, A Toepffer… - Psychiatry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Neuropsychiatric symptoms are the most common sequelae of long-COVID. As
accumulating evidence suggests an impact of survived SARS-CoV-2-infection on brain …