Alzheimer's disease: an update and insights into pathophysiology

MB Abubakar, KO Sanusi, A Ugusman… - Frontiers in aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible brain disorder associated with slow, progressive
loss of brain functions mostly in older people. The disease processes start years before the …

[HTML][HTML] Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

L Eliot, A Ahmed, H Khan, J Patel - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been
exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three decades of human MRI and postmortem …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative mapping of the brain's structural connectivity using diffusion MRI tractography: A review

F Zhang, A Daducci, Y He, S Schiavi, C Seguin… - Neuroimage, 2022 - Elsevier
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography is an advanced imaging
technique that enables in vivo reconstruction of the brain's white matter connections at …

Effects of aging on functional and structural brain connectivity

JS Damoiseaux - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
Over the past decade there has been an enormous rise in the application of functional and
structural connectivity approaches to explore the brain's intrinsic organization in healthy and …

Small-world human brain networks: perspectives and challenges

X Liao, AV Vasilakos, Y He - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Modelling the human brain as a complex network has provided a powerful mathematical
framework to characterize the structural and functional architectures of the brain. In the past …

[HTML][HTML] Video games for well-being: A systematic review on the application of computer games for cognitive and emotional training in the adult population

F Pallavicini, A Ferrari, F Mantovani - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Background: Although several excellent reviews and meta-analyses have investigated the
effect of video game trainings as tools to enhance well-being, most of them specifically …

Reduced functional segregation between the default mode network and the executive control network in healthy older adults: a longitudinal study

KK Ng, JC Lo, JKW Lim, MWL Chee, J Zhou - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
The effects of age on functional connectivity (FC) of intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs)
have largely been derived from cross-sectional studies. Far less is known about longitudinal …

The multifactorial nature of healthy brain ageing: Brain changes, functional decline and protective factors

S Turrini, B Wong, M Eldaief, DZ Press… - Ageing Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
As the global population faces a progressive shift towards a higher median age,
understanding the mechanisms underlying healthy brain ageing has become of paramount …

The times they are a-changin': a proposal on how brain flexibility goes beyond the obvious to include the concepts of “upward” and “downward” to neuroplasticity

CRAF Diniz, AP Crestani - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Since the brain was found to be somehow flexible, plastic, researchers worldwide have
been trying to comprehend its fundamentals to better understand the brain itself, make …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of network thresholding and weighting on structural brain networks in the UK Biobank

CR Buchanan, ME Bastin, SJ Ritchie, DC Liewald… - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Whole-brain structural networks can be constructed using diffusion MRI and probabilistic
tractography. However, measurement noise and the probabilistic nature of the tracking …