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Posts Tagged ‘Functional magnetic resonance imaging’

New method blazes trail for whole genome whole brain functional association

Posted in acetylcholine, CHAT, CHRM3, CHRNA7, Parietal cortex, tagged on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Image via Wikipedia Among complex biological datasets, human genomic and functional imaging of the brain are right up there with the most fearsome wild & hairy beasts. Initial attempts to begin to tame the pair of these beasts by cross-relating the two forms of data have employed highly focused, hypothesis-testing strategies – for good reason [...]

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Sweets now, sweets later: rs165688 makes my holidays hell

Posted in COMT, DLPFC, Dopamine, Frontal cortex, Orbitofrontal cortex, Parahippocampal gyrus, Posterior parietal cortex, tagged , , , on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Holiday time is full of all things delicious and fattening. Should I have a little chocolate now, or wait till later and have a bigger dessert ? Of course, this is not a real forced choice (in my case, the answer too often seems – alas – “I’ll have both!”), but there are many times [...]

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Localizing anatomical sources of genetic risk in schizophrenia

Posted in Cingulate cortex, DLPFC, Frontal cortex, Hippocampus, tagged , , , , on July 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Daniel Weinberger and company have a new installment in-press at Biological Psychiatry in their epic program to untangle the genetic basis of schizophrenia – “Heritability of Brain Morphology Related to Schizophrenia: A Large-Scale Automated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Segmentation Study.” Like all complex illness, schizophrenia is regulated by a variety of environmental sources (perinatal complications, stress [...]

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