The biological basis of intelligence: Benchmark findings

K Hilger, FM Spinath, S Troche, AL Schubert - Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
The scientific study of the biological basis of intelligence has been contributing to our
understanding of individual differences in cognitive abilities for decades. In particular, the …

Processing speed impairment in schizophrenia is mediated by white matter integrity

H Karbasforoushan, B Duffy, JU Blackford… - Psychological …, 2015 - cambridge.org
BackgroundProcessing speed predicts functional outcome and is a potential
endophenotype for schizophrenia. Establishing the neural basis of processing speed …

Mapping individual differences across brain network structure to function and behavior with connectome embedding

G Levakov, J Faskowitz, G Avidan, O Sporns - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
The connectome, a comprehensive map of the brain's anatomical connections, is often
summarized as a matrix comprising all dyadic connections among pairs of brain regions …

Development of the brain's structural network efficiency in early adolescence: a longitudinal DTI twin study

MMG Koenis, RM Brouwer… - Human Brain …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The brain is a network and our intelligence depends in part on the efficiency of this network.
The network of adolescents differs from that of adults suggesting developmental changes …

Healthy cognitive ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort studies: marginal gains not magic bullet

J Corley, SR Cox, IJ Deary - Psychological medicine, 2018 - cambridge.org
In the face of shifting demographics and an increase in human longevity, it is important to
examine carefully what is known about cognitive ageing, and to identify and promote …

Fluid and flexible minds: Intelligence reflects synchrony in the brain's intrinsic network architecture

MA Ferguson, JS Anderson, RN Spreng - Network Neuroscience, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
Human intelligence has been conceptualized as a complex system of dissociable cognitive
processes, yet studies investigating the neural basis of intelligence have typically …

How can we study the evolution of animal minds?

M Cauchoix, AS Chaine - Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
During the last 50 years, comparative cognition and neurosciences have improved our
understanding of animal minds while evolutionary ecology has revealed how selection acts …

Interactive and additive influences of Gender, BMI and Apolipoprotein 4 on cognition in children chronically exposed to high concentrations of PM2. 5 and ozone …

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, V Jewells… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Children's air pollution exposures are associated with systemic and brain inflammation and
the early hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The Apolipoprotein E (APOE) 4 allele is the …

Brain peak width of skeletonized mean diffusivity (PSMD) and cognitive function in later life

IJ Deary, SJ Ritchie, S Muñoz Maniega, SR Cox… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
It is suggested that the brain's peak width of skeletonized water mean diffusivity (PSMD) is a
neuro-biomarker of processing speed, an important aspect of cognitive aging. We tested …

[HTML][HTML] Myelin breakdown in human Huntington's disease: Multi-modal evidence from diffusion MRI and quantitative magnetization transfer

J Bourbon-Teles, S Bells, DK Jones, E Coulthard… - Neuroscience, 2019 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) leads to white matter (WM) degeneration that may be due to an
early breakdown in axon myelination but in vivo imaging correlates of demyelination remain …