Sex, gender diversity, and brain structure in early adolescence

C Torgerson, H Ahmadi, J Choupan… - Human Brain …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
There remains little consensus about the relationship between sex and brain structure,
particularly in early adolescence. Moreover, few pediatric neuroimaging studies have …

Associations between socioeconomic status, obesity, cognition, and white matter microstructure in children

ZA Li, Y Cai, RL Taylor, SA Eisenstein… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Lower neighborhood and household socioeconomic status (SES) are
associated with negative health outcomes and altered brain structure in children. It is …

Childhood obesity is linked to putative neuroinflammation in brain white matter, hypothalamus, and striatum

ZA Li, A Samara, MK Ray, J Rutlin… - Cerebral Cortex …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Neuroinflammation is both a consequence and driver of overfeeding and weight gain in
rodent obesity models. Advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enable …

Sex and mental health are related to subcortical brain microstructure

D Pecheva, DM Smith, BJ Casey, LJ Woodward… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Some mental health problems such as depression and anxiety are more common in
females, while others such as autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity (AD/H) are more …

Quantitative diffusion imaging and genotype‐by‐sex interactions in a rat model of Alexander disease

NA Stowe, AP Singh, BR Barnett, SY Yi… - Magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The clinical diagnosis and classification of Alexander disease (AxD) relies in part
on qualitative neuroimaging biomarkers; however, these biomarkers fail to distinguish and …

Exposure to multiple ambient air pollutants changes white matter microstructure during early adolescence with sex-specific differences

DL Cotter, H Ahmadi, C Cardenas-Iniguez… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Background Air pollution is ubiquitous, yet questions remain regarding its impact on the
developing brain. Large changes occur in white matter microstructure across adolescence …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between socioeconomic status and white matter microstructure in children: indirect effects via obesity and cognition

ZA Li, Y Cai, RL Taylor, SA Eisenstein, DM Barch… - MedRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To test independent associations between neighborhood and household SES
indicators and white matter microstructure in children, and examine whether body mass …

[HTML][HTML] Lifespan reference curves for harmonizing multi-site regional brain white matter metrics from diffusion MRI

AH Zhu, TM Nir, S Javid, JE Villalon-Reina… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Age-related white matter (WM) microstructure maturation and decline occur throughout the
human lifespan, complementing the process of gray matter development and degeneration …

[HTML][HTML] Subiculum–BNST structural connectivity in humans and macaques

SC Berry, AD Lawrence, TM Lancaster, C Casella… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Invasive tract-tracing studies in rodents implicate a direct connection between the subiculum
and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) as a key component of neural pathways …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in the brain's white matter microstructure during development assessed using advanced diffusion MRI models

SM Benavidez, Z Abaryan, GS Kim, E Laltoo… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Typical sex differences in white matter (WM) microstructure during development are
incompletely understood. Here we evaluated sex differences in WM microstructure during …