Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) based tractography enables selective reconstruction of specific white matter (WM) pathways. The cingulum tracts, connecting hippocampal, thalamic and association cortices, are suspected to be involved in the episodic memory impairment in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We investigate the local micro structural WM changes along the cingulum paths that could not be...

Biological tissues such as those involved in the eye, heart, veins or arteries are heterogeneous on one or another spatial scale and can undergo very large elastic strains. Frequently, these tissues are characterized by shell-like structures at the macroscopic scale and the physical material directions follow curvilinear paths. We consider a homogenized macro-continuum formulated in curvilinear...

On average, we urban dwellers spend about 90% of our time indoors, and share the intuition that the physical features of the places we live and work in influence how we feel and act. However, there is surprisingly little research on how architecture impacts behavior, much less on how it influences brain function. To begin closing this gap, we conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging st...

Recent research suggests that the association between age and gratitude might be curvilinear—despite ostensibly being higher in middle-age, it lower older adulthood. It is unclear if this curvilinear pattern of differences found other samples whether its manifestation depends on contextual (i.e., national/cultural) characteristics. The current study examined cultural variation effect a sample o...