Brain structures that show high levels of glucose metabolism also tend to have a high density of GLUT-1 transporters.
Outside these regions of interest (ROIs) reflecting our prior hypotheses, we also conducted a whole-brain analysis to reveal any additional brain structures that showed correlation with political orientation.
Regional volumes, surface area, cortical thickness and curvature are plastic measures of brain structure that commonly show alterations in the presence of aging, learning, and neurodegeneration related to disease.
Due to the fact that a known visual pathway connects the only brain structures that have been shown to be active during magnetic orientation, our findings strongly support the hypothesis that migratory birds perceive the magnetic field as a visual pattern and that they are thus likely to "see" the magnetic field.
We performed an immunoelectron microscopy study to determine the subcellular localization of CB2-R in the selected rodent brain structures that we have shown contain CB2-R immunoreactivity [23].
Furthermore, the increase in contrast of white matter substructures and deep brain structures show that FLAIR imaging at 7 T may be a valuable addition to MR neuroimaging protocols at this ultra-high field strength.
One solution to that problem might be to combine BigBrain with data gleaned from vast numbers of lower-resolution brain scans that show where different brain structures are likely to be, he says.
As hypothesized, recreational users without a family history of dependence showed none of the previously observed endophenotypic markers of addiction, i.e., their levels of impulsivity and obsessive-compulsive tendencies were not increased and their brain structure did not show any changes that have been associated with familial risk (20).
In this study, we used voxel-based morphometry to investigate differences in regional gray matter volume (rGMV /regional white matter volume (rWMV) between science and humanities students to test our hypotheses that brain structures previously robustly shown to be altered in autistic subjects are related to differences in faculty membership.
Apart from the anterior cingulate cortex, other brain structures may also show patterns of neural activity that reflect political attitudes.
