scholarly journals Breastfeeding and Childhood IQ: The Mediating Role of Gray Matter Volume

Author(s):  
Joan L. Luby ◽  
Andy C. Belden ◽  
Diana Whalen ◽  
Michael P. Harms ◽  
Deanna M. Barch
2017 ◽  
Vol 223 (2) ◽  
pp. 669-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aimée Goldstone ◽  
Adrian R. Willoughby ◽  
Massimiliano de Zambotti ◽  
Peter L. Franzen ◽  
Dongjin Kwon ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 263 (6) ◽  
pp. 1137-1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Grothe ◽  
Martin Lotze ◽  
Sönke Langner ◽  
Alexander Dressel

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1059 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez ◽  
Irene Esteban-Cornejo ◽  
Jairo H. Migueles ◽  
Idoia Labayen ◽  
Juan Verdejo-Román ◽  
...  

The aim of this study was to examine whether metabolically healthy overweight/obese children have greater global and regional gray matter volumes than their metabolically unhealthy peers. We further examined the association between gray matter volume and academic achievement, along with the role of cardiorespiratory fitness in these associations. A total of 97 overweight/obese children (10.0 ± 1.2 years) participated. We classified children as metabolically healthy/unhealthy based on metabolic syndrome cut-offs. Global and regional brain volumes were assessed by magnetic resonance imaging. Academic achievement was assessed using the Woodcock-Muñoz standardized test. Cardiorespiratory fitness was assessed by the 20 m shuttle run test. Metabolically healthy overweight/obese (MHO) children had greater regional gray matter volume compared to those who were metabolically unhealthy (MUO) (all p ≤ 0.001). A similar trend was observed for global gray matter volume (p = 0.06). Global gray matter volume was positively related to academic achievement (β = 0.237, p = 0.036). However, all the associations were attenuated or disappeared after adjusting for cardiorespiratory fitness (p > 0.05). The findings of the present study support that metabolically healthy overweight/obese children have greater gray matter volume compared to those that are metabolically unhealthy, which is in turn related to better academic achievement. However, cardiorespiratory fitness seems to explain, at least partially, these findings.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Hamidreza Jamalabadi ◽  
Agnieszka Zuberer ◽  
Vinod Jangir Kumar ◽  
Meng Li ◽  
Sarah Alizadeh ◽  
...  

Brain controllability properties are normally derived from the white matter fiber tracts in which the neural substrate of the actual energy consumption, namely the gray matter, has been widely ignored. Here, we study the relationship between gray matter volume of regions across the whole cortex and their respective control property derived from the structural architecture of the white matter fiber tracts. The data suggests that the ability of white fiber tracts to exhibit control at specific nodes not only depends on the connection strength of the structural connectome but additionally strongly depends on gray matter volume at the host nodes. Our data indicates that connectivity strength and gray matter volume interact with respect to the brain’s control properties. Disentangling effects of the regional gray matter volume and connectivity strength, we found that frontal and sensory areas play crucial roles in controllability. Together these results suggest that structural and regional properties of the white matter and gray matter provide complementary information in studying the control properties of the intrinsic structural and functional architecture of the brain.


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanda Dolcos ◽  
Yifan Hu ◽  
Alexandru D. Iordan ◽  
Matthew Moore ◽  
Florin Dolcos

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Obermann ◽  
R Rodriguez-Raecke ◽  
S Nägel ◽  
D Holle ◽  
N Theysohn ◽  
...  

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