The production and comprehension of human language is thought to involve a network of frontal, parietal, and temporal cortical loci interconnected by two dominant white matter pathways. These two white matter bundles, often referred to as the dorsal and ventral processing tracts, are hypothesized to have markedly different language functions. The dorsal tract is thought to process phonological ...

Fractional anisotropy (FA) was examined in a priori selected fiber tracts in individuals with schizophrenia (n=25) and their non-psychotic siblings (n=29) versus controls (n=35). FA was reduced in a portion of the fornix in individuals with schizophrenia (although this did not survive correction for the number of tracts investigated). FA in the siblings did not differ from that in controls in a...

BACKGROUND The diffusion tensor imaging technique (DTI) combined with tractography methods, has achieved the tridimensional reconstruction of white matter tracts in the brain. It allows their characterization in vivo in a non-invasive way. However, one of the largest sources of variability originates from the location of regions of interest, is therefore necessary schemes which make it possible...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive decline in memory and other aspects of cognitive function. Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) offers a non-invasive approach to delineate the effects of AD on white matter (WM) integrity. Previous studies calculated either some summary statistics over regions of interest (ROI analysis) or some statistics ...

Kasai K, Salamon-Murayama N, Levrier O, et al. Theoraetical situation of brain white matter tracts evaluated by three-dimensional MRI. Surg Radiol Anat 1996;18: 295–302 The location and course of the white matter tracts in the cerebrum are described and shown by means of diagrams in Tailarach space. If you want to understand the location and course of the major and the obscure white matter trac...

During a 2-year period, 1,892 patients underwent biliary tract surgery at the Mayo Clinic. Both aerobic and anaerobic cultures of bile were performed in 371 of these patients. Sixty-nine percent of the cultures were positive, and 41% (117) of these grew anaerobes, although they were present in pure culture only twice. Mixed cultures most commonly contained four different organisms (three aerobe...

As the complexity of MDE artefacts grows, there is an increasing need to rely on precise and abstract mechanisms that allow system architects to reason about the systems they design, and to test their individual components. In particular, assigning types to models and model transformations is needed for realizing many key MDE activities. This paper presents a light-weight approach to type model...

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BACKGROUND Life expectancy at birth (LE) has been calculated for states and counties. LE estimates at these levels mask health disparities in local communities. There are no nationwide estimates at the sub-county level. We present a stepwise approach for calculating LE using census tracts in New York state to identify health disparities. METHODS Our study included 2751 census tracts in New Yo...

Abstract Decades of research demonstrates that minoritized groups are disproportionately affected by swathes harmful pollutants, including air pollution, even controlling for low income. Would significantly reducing individual car traffic help reduce the EJ gap? The systemic shock COVID‐19 economic shutdown, with accompanied reduction in use, can be exploited to analyze this question. Kerr and ...