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Enhanced brain connectivity in long-term meditation practitionersEileen Luders
Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
Neuroimage 57:1308-16. 2011....- The link between callosal thickness and intelligence in healthy children and adolescentsEileen Luders
Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
Neuroimage 54:1823-30. 2011..Sex effects on links between callosal thickness and intelligence during childhood and adolescence are present but appear rather weak in general... - Asymmetries of cortical shape: Effects of handedness, sex and schizophreniaKatherine L Narr
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, Division of Brain Mapping, UCLA School of Medicine, 710 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1769, USA
Neuroimage 34:939-48. 2007.... - Reduced white matter integrity in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorderLiberty S Hamilton
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital in Los Angeles, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Neuroreport 19:1705-8. 2008..Results support that disruptions in motor and attentional networks may contribute toward ADHD pathophysiology. Future research may clarify how ADHD subtype and psychiatric comorbidities affect diffusion measures... - Mapping the relationship between cortical convolution and intelligence: effects of genderEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
Cereb Cortex 18:2019-26. 2008..This might lead to the development of sexually dimorphic information processing strategies and affect the relationship between intelligence and cortical convolution... - Asymmetries of cortical thickness: effects of handedness, sex, and schizophreniaLiberty S Hamilton
Laboratory of Neuroimaging, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095 7334, USA
Neuroreport 18:1427-31. 2007..Thus, dextrality relates to cortical thickness asymmetries, although schizophrenia may differentially affect asymmetry patterns across handedness... - Sex differences in brain structure in auditory and cingulate regionsCaroline C Brun
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, 635 Charles Young Drive South Suite 225, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
Neuroreport 20:930-5. 2009..We relate these three-dimensional patterns to prior functional and structural studies, and to theoretical predictions based on nonlinear scaling of brain morphometry... - Bridging the hemispheres in meditation: thicker callosal regions and enhanced fractional anisotropy (FA) in long-term practitionersEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
Neuroimage 61:181-7. 2012..Moreover, longitudinal studies are required to address whether the observed callosal effects are induced by meditation or constitute an innate prerequisite for the start or successful continuation of meditation... - Three-dimensional surface maps link local atrophy and fast ripples in human epileptic hippocampusJennifer A Ogren
Department of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7169, USA
Ann Neurol 66:783-91. 2009..It is hypothesized that morphological changes associated with hippocampal atrophy (HA) contribute to the generation of FR, yet there is limited evidence that hippocampal FR-generating sites correspond with local areas of atrophy... - Positive correlations between corpus callosum thickness and intelligenceEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, and Department of Psychiatry Research, The Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY, USA
Neuroimage 37:1457-64. 2007..Our findings emphasize the importance of incorporating posterior (callosal) regions into the theories and models proposed to explain the anatomical substrates of intelligence... - When more is less: associations between corpus callosum size and handedness lateralizationEileen Luders
Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
Neuroimage 52:43-9. 2010.... - The development of the corpus callosum in the healthy human brainEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 7334, USA
J Neurosci 30:10985-90. 2010.... 
A meta-algorithm for brain extraction in MRIDavid E Rex
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 710 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769, USA
Neuroimage 23:625-37. 2004..BEMA outperformed the individual algorithms, as well as interrater results from a subset of the scans, when compared for the mean Dice coefficient, a rating of the similarity of output masks to the manually defined gold standards...- Gender differences in cortical complexityEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuroimaging, Department of Neurology, Brain Mapping Division, UCLA School of Medicine, 710 Westwood Plaza, 4238 Reed, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Nat Neurosci 7:799-800. 2004..Increased complexity implies more cortical surface area, which may offset gender differences in brain volume and account for behavioral gender differences... - Decreased callosal thickness in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 7334, USA
Biol Psychiatry 65:84-8. 2009..One of the most replicated alterations is a significantly smaller corpus callosum (CC), for which conflicting reports exist with respect to the affected callosal segments... - Why sex matters: brain size independent differences in gray matter distributions between men and womenEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 7334, USA
J Neurosci 29:14265-70. 2009..Altogether, our findings suggest that the observed increased regional GM volumes in female brains constitute sex-dependent redistributions of tissue volume, rather than individual adjustments attributable to brain size... - Regional gray matter variation in male-to-female transsexualismEileen Luders
Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
Neuroimage 46:904-7. 2009..These findings provide new evidence that transsexualism is associated with distinct cerebral pattern, which supports the assumption that brain anatomy plays a role in gender identity... - The underlying anatomical correlates of long-term meditation: larger hippocampal and frontal volumes of gray matterEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7334, USA
Neuroimage 45:672-8. 2009..Future longitudinal analyses are necessary to establish the presence and direction of a causal link between meditation practice and brain anatomy... - Callosal morphology in Williams syndrome: a new evaluation of shape and thicknessEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095 7334, USA, and IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu, Roma, Italy
Neuroreport 18:203-7. 2007..Circumscribed structural alterations in callosal morphology might be candidate anatomic substrates for the unique cognitive and behavioral profile associated with Williams syndrome... - Reduced neocortical thickness and complexity mapped in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosisJack J Lin
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Cereb Cortex 17:2007-18. 2007..The pervasive extrahippocampal structural deficits may result from chronic seizure propagation or may reflect other causes such as initial precipitating factors leading to MTLE... - Gender effects on callosal thickness in scaled and unscaled spaceEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095-7334, USA
Neuroreport 17:1103-6. 2006..Alternatively, given their regional specificity, the observed differences in unscaled callosal thickness may contribute to gender-specific cognition and behavior... 
Sex differences in brain anatomyEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Prog Brain Res 186:3-12. 2010..the degree of regional specificity (global gray matter volume, voxel-wise gray matter volume, etc.), and whether measurements are adjusted for individual brain size or not...- Mapping corpus callosum morphology in twin pairs discordant for bipolar disorderCarrie E Bearden
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Cereb Cortex 21:2415-24. 2011..However, findings of callosal thinning appear to be disease related, rather than reflecting genetic vulnerability to bipolar illness... - The unique brain anatomy of meditation practitioners: alterations in cortical gyrificationEileen Luders
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles, CA, USA
Front Hum Neurosci 6:34. 2012..Due to the cross-sectional nature of this study, further research is necessary to determine the relative contribution of nature and nurture to links between cortical gyrification and meditation... - Abnormal gyral complexity in first-episode schizophreniaKatherine L Narr
Laboratory of Neuro-Imaging, Geffen School of Medicine at University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1769, USA
Biol Psychiatry 55:859-67. 2004.... - Quantitative comparison of four brain extraction algorithmsKristi Boesen
Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55417, USA
Neuroimage 22:1255-61. 2004..McStrip, a hybrid method incorporating warping to a template, intensity thresholding, and edge detection, consistently outperformed SPM2, BET, and BSE, all of which rely on a single algorithmic strategy...