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Co-analysis of Brain Structure and Function using fMRI and Diffusion-weighted Imaging
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2012
We describe a novel approach for simultaneous analysis of brain function and structure using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We assess brain structure with high-resolution diffusion-weighted imaging and white-matter fiber tractography. Unlike standard structural MRI, these techniques allow us to directly relate anatomical connectivity to functional properties of brain networks.
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Three-Dimensional Shape Modeling and Analysis of Brain Structures
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2019
We introduce a semi-automatic protocol for shape analysis on brain structures, including image segmentation using open software, and further group-wise shape analysis using an automated modeling package. Here, we demonstrate each step of the 3D shape analysis protocol with hippocampal segmentation from brain MR images.
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Targeting of Deep Brain Structures with Microinjections for Delivery of Drugs, Viral Vectors, or Cell Transplants
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2010
In this article, we show a method to make glass capillary needles with a 50-μm lumen. This technique significantly reduces the brain damage, minimizes passive diffusion of drugs and allows a precise targeting into the rodent brain.
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Quantitation of Rabies Virus in Various Bovine Brain Structures
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2021
This protocol presents a qRT-PCR-based approach for determining the rabies virus nucleoprotein (N) gene copy number within various bovine brain anatomical structures using in vitro transcription.
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Exploring Deep Space - Uncovering the Anatomy of Periventricular Structures to Reveal the Lateral Ventricles of the Human Brain
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2017
This paper demonstrates the effective use of a fiber dissection method to reveal the superficial white matter tracts and periventricular structures of the human brain, in three-dimensional space, to aid student comprehension of ventricular morphology.
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Coordination depends on communication within specialized neural circuits rather than on isolated regions acting alone. Neurons transmit electrical signals and release neurotransmitters at synapses, allowing information to pass between connected areas. This coordination lets brain systems integrate sensation, movement, cognition, emotion, and behavior while regulating responses across changing psychological demands.
The cerebral cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, brainstem, and cerebellum provide useful entry points for linking anatomy with psychology. Researchers consider these regions in relation to learning, memory, emotion, motivation, and motor control. This comparison supports a more organized account of how brain anatomy relates to psychological functions without reducing every function to one area.
Networks matter because psychological functions depend on coordinated activity across connected regions. A single anatomical location may be important, but the relevant outcome also reflects how neurons communicate through circuits, electrical signals, and synapses. This network perspective helps explain why sensation, cognition, emotion, and behavior can interact rather than operate as isolated processes.
Psychologists use brain-structure knowledge to connect anatomical organization with observable psychological functions. They can investigate how brain development relates to changing abilities, how mental health conditions involve altered neural function, and how brain injury affects behavior. The same framework also supports evaluating treatments designed to target altered neural function.
Researchers can examine learning, memory, emotion, motivation, and motor control as related but distinguishable outcomes of brain organization. Studying these functions together helps psychology ask how different neural regions and circuits contribute to mental processes and behavior, rather than treating cognition, emotion, and action as unrelated phenomena.
It gives researchers a framework for relating psychological symptoms and behaviors to altered neural function without separating biology from psychology. Brain-structure research supports investigation of mental health conditions, brain injury, and treatments that target disrupted neural activity. These connections help organize questions about how changes in brain function may affect cognition, emotion, motivation, or behavior.