Cerebral white matter myelination and relations to age, gender, and cognition: a selective review

IS Buyanova, M Arsalidou - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
White matter makes up about fifty percent of the human brain. Maturation of white matter
accompanies biological development and undergoes the most dramatic changes during …

The structural basis of inter-individual differences in human behaviour and cognition

R Kanai, G Rees - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Inter-individual variability in perception, thought and action is frequently treated as a source
of'noise'in scientific investigations of the neural mechanisms that underlie these processes …

Investigating the prevalence of complex fiber configurations in white matter tissue with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging

B Jeurissen, A Leemans, JD Tournier… - Human brain …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
It has long been recognized that the diffusion tensor model is inappropriate to characterize
complex fiber architecture, causing tensor‐derived measures such as the primary …

Structural brain changes in aging: courses, causes and cognitive consequences

AM Fjell, KB Walhovd - Reviews in the Neurosciences, 2010 - degruyter.com
The structure of the brain is constantly changing from birth throughout the lifetime, meaning
that normal aging, free from dementia, is associated with structural brain changes. This …

Training induces changes in white-matter architecture

J Scholz, MC Klein, TEJ Behrens… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Although experience-dependent structural changes have been found in adult gray matter,
there is little evidence for such changes in white matter. Using diffusion imaging, we …

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 …

Relating introspective accuracy to individual differences in brain structure

SM Fleming, RS Weil, Z Nagy, RJ Dolan, G Rees - Science, 2010 - science.org
The ability to introspect about self-performance is key to human subjective experience, but
the neuroanatomical basis of this ability is unknown. Such accurate introspection requires …

Apparent fibre density: a novel measure for the analysis of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images

D Raffelt, JD Tournier, S Rose, GR Ridgway… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
This article proposes a new measure called Apparent Fibre Density (AFD) for the analysis of
high angular resolution diffusion-weighted images using higher-order information provided …

White matter damage and cognitive impairment after traumatic brain injury

KM Kinnunen, R Greenwood, JH Powell, R Leech… - Brain, 2011 - academic.oup.com
White matter disruption is an important determinant of cognitive impairment after brain injury,
but conventional neuroimaging underestimates its extent. In contrast, diffusion tensor …

Life-span changes of the human brain white matter: diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and volumetry

LT Westlye, KB Walhovd, AM Dale, A Bjørnerud… - Cerebral …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Magnetic resonance imaging volumetry studies report inverted U-patterns with increasing
white-matter (WM) volume into middle age suggesting protracted WM maturation compared …