Makris N, Papadimitriou GM, Sorg S, Kennedy DN, Caviness VS, Pandya DN Neuroimage 2007 Oct;37(4):1100-11 PMID: 17681797 Abstract Since the existence of the occipitofrontal fascicle (OFF) in humans has remained controversial, we utilized diffusion tensor imaging (DT-MRI)-based segmentation and tractography to investigate its trajectory in vivo in the human. We… read more →
Ahn MS, Breeze JL, Makris N, Kennedy DN, Hodge SM, Herbert MR, Seidman LJ, Biederman J, Caviness VS, Frazier JA J Affect Disord 2007 Dec;104(1-3):147-54 PMID: 17532475 Abstract BACKGROUND: Basal ganglia (BG) enlargement has been found in studies of adults with bipolar disorder (BPD), while the few studies of BPD… read more →
Nestor PG, Kubicki M, Kuroki N, Gurrera RJ, Niznikiewicz M, Shenton ME, McCarley RW Psychiatry Res 2007 May;155(1):21-8 PMID: 17395435 Abstract A group of 44 patients with schizophrenia and 43 age-matched controls completed psychometrically-matched tasks of recall and recognition. The patients showed similarly depressed scores across both recall and recognition… read more →
Kan IP, Giovanello KS, Schnyer DM, Makris N, Verfaellie M Neuropsychologia 2007 Jun;45(11):2589-97 PMID: 17433382 Abstract In this study, we examined the role of the hippocampus in relational memory by comparing item recognition performance in amnesic patients with medial temporal lobe (MTL) damage and their matched controls. Specifically, we investigated… read more →
Yi X, Bouley R, Lin HY, Bechoua S, Sun TX, Del Re E, Shioda T, Raychowdhury MK, Lu HA, Abou-Samra AB, Brown D, Ausiello DA Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol. 2007 May;292(5):F1303-13 PMID: 17287200 Abstract The vasopressin type 2 receptor (V2R) is a G protein-coupled receptor that plays a central… read more →
Bhattacharya P, Chekmenev EY, Perman WH, Harris KC, Lin AP, Norton VA, Tan CT, Ross BD, Weitekamp DP J. Magn. Reson. 2007 May;186(1):150-5 PMID: 17303454 Abstract We describe a novel (13)C enriched precursor molecule, sodium 1-(13)C acetylenedicarboxylate, which after hydrogenation by PASADENA (Parahydrogen and Synthesis Allows Dramatically Enhanced Nuclear Alignment)… read more →
Napadow V, Kettner N, Liu J, Li M, Kwong KK, Vangel M, Makris N, Audette J, Hui KK Pain 2007 Aug;130(3):254-66 PMID: 17240066 Abstract Brain processing of acupuncture stimuli in chronic neuropathic pain patients may underlie its beneficial effects. We used fMRI to evaluate verum and sham acupuncture stimulation at… read more →
Walder DJ, Seidman LJ, Makris N, Tsuang MT, Kennedy DN, Goldstein JM Schizophr. Res. 2007 Feb;90(1-3):295-301 PMID: 17150336 Abstract OBJECTIVE: This pilot study investigated whether our previous findings of disrupted normal sexual brain dimorphisms in language-associated regions in schizophrenia were linked with our previously reported sex differences in language dysfunction… read more →
Levitt JJ, Chen QC, May FS, Gilbertson MW, Shenton ME, Pitman RK Psychiatry Res 2006 Dec;148(2-3):143-9 PMID: 17097862 Abstract Several functional neuroimaging studies have implicated the cerebellar vermis in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but there have been no structural neuroimaging studies of this brain structure in PTSD. We utilized magnetic… read more →
Caplan D, Waters G, Kennedy D, Alpert N, Makris N, Dede G, Michaud J, Reddy A Brain Lang 2007 May;101(2):151-77 PMID: 16997366 Abstract This paper presents the results of a study of the effects of left hemisphere strokes on syntactically-based comprehension in aphasic patients. We studied 42 patients with aphasia… read more →