The human perirhinal cortex (PRC) plays critical roles in episodic and semantic memory and visual perception. The PRC consists of Brodmann areas 35 and 36 (BA35, BA36). In Alzheimer’s disease (AD), BA35 is the first cortical site affected by neurofibrillary … Continue reading
Linking structural neuroimaging data from multiple modalities to cognitive performance is an important challenge for cognitive neuroscience. In this study we examined the relationship between verbal fluency performance and neuroanatomy in 54 patients with frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and 15 age-matched … Continue reading
Extra-hippocampal medial temporal lobe (ehMTL) structures, which consists of entorhinal (ERC) and perirhinal (PRC) cortices, receives increasing attention because they are amongst the earliest sites affected by Alzheimer`s Disease (AD) pathology and due to their important and complex role in episodic … Continue reading
The complex and high-dimensional nature of medical images makes them difficult to incorporate into traditional linear model-based statistical analysis. One way of simplifying analysis of medical images is to use a dimensionality reduction technique. We designed a dimensionality reduction technique … Continue reading
Our paper on sparse regression for predicting cognitive performance from cortical thickness was published at Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) 2013. We developed a method for performing regression on brain images in a way that respects the natural structure … Continue reading
Our paper looking at dissociable functional networks of anterior and posterior MTL regions in older healthy controls and MCI patients just got accepted for publication in Neurobiology of Aging. We labeled MTL subregions in high-resolution T2-MRI using our automated MTL subregion … Continue reading
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) predicts executive function performance and measures of prefrontal cortical function, but little is known about its anatomical correlates. Structural MRI and demographic data from a sample of 283 healthy children from the NIH MRI Study of … Continue reading