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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,098 Views
20 Pages

Alteration of the Intra- and Inter-Lobe Connectivity of the Brain Structural Network in Normal Aging

  • Chi-Wen Jao,
  • Jiann-Horng Yeh,
  • Yu-Te Wu,
  • Li-Ming Lien,
  • Yuh-Feng Tsai,
  • Kuang-En Chu,
  • Chen-Yu Hsiao,
  • Po-Shan Wang and
  • Chi Ieong Lau

28 July 2020

The morphological changes in cortical parcellated regions during aging and whether these atrophies may cause brain structural network intra- and inter-lobe connectivity alterations are subjects that have been minimally explored. In this study, a nove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,867 Views
16 Pages

19 March 2020

Inhibitory control is a cognitive process that inhibits a response. It is used in everyday activities, such as driving a motorcycle, driving a car and playing a game. The effect of this process can be compared to the red traffic light in the real wor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
21,298 Views
19 Pages

24 January 2022

Music is considered a powerful brain stimulus, as listening to it can activate several brain networks. Music of different kinds and genres may have a different effect on the human brain. The goal of this study is to investigate the change in the brai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,244 Views
19 Pages

Decreased Brain Structural Network Connectivity in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Novel Fractal Dimension Analysis

  • Chi Ieong Lau,
  • Jiann-Horng Yeh,
  • Yuh-Feng Tsai,
  • Chen-Yu Hsiao,
  • Yu-Te Wu and
  • Chi-Wen Jao

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is widely regarded to be the intermediate stage to Alzheimer’s disease. Cerebral morphological alteration in cortical subregions can provide an accurate predictor for early recognition of MCI. Thirty patients wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,491 Views
12 Pages

Intra- and Inter-Modular Connectivity Alterations in the Brain Structural Network of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3

  • Chi-Wen Jao,
  • Bing-Wen Soong,
  • Tzu-Yun Wang,
  • Hsiu-Mei Wu,
  • Chia-Feng Lu,
  • Po-Shan Wang and
  • Yu-Te Wu

23 March 2019

In addition to cerebellar degeneration symptoms, patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) exhibit extensive involvements with damage in the prefrontal cortex. A network model has been proposed for investigating the structural organization a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,415 Views
19 Pages

Accelerated Brain Atrophy, Microstructural Decline and Connectopathy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

  • Jacques A. Stout,
  • Ali Mahzarnia,
  • Rui Dai,
  • Robert J. Anderson,
  • Scott Cousins,
  • Jie Zhuang,
  • Eleonora M. Lad,
  • Diane B. Whitaker,
  • David J. Madden and
  • Alexandra Badea
  • + 2 authors

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has recently been linked to cognitive impairment. We hypothesized that AMD modifies the brain aging trajectory, and we conducted a longitudinal diffusion MRI study on 40 participants (20 with AMD and 20 controls...

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  • Open Access
629 Views
26 Pages

Theta Cordance Decline in Frontal and Temporal Cortices: Longitudinal Evidence of Regional Cortical Aging

  • Selami Varol Ülker,
  • Metin Çınaroğlu,
  • Eda Yılmazer and
  • Sultan Tarlacı

24 November 2025

Background: Theta-band cordance is a quantitative EEG (qEEG) metric that integrates absolute and relative spectral power and correlates with regional cerebral perfusion. Although widely applied in psychiatric and neurophysiological research, its long...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,816 Views
15 Pages

8 March 2019

Previous studies have indicated that a high-level wave train from the tropical Indo–Western Pacific to East Asia (IWP-EA, expressed as geopotential height at 200 hPa) is triggered by dipolar convective activity anomalies over the IWP during the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,923 Views
17 Pages

13 October 2022

Apathy is the commonest neuropsychiatric symptom in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Previous findings suggest that apathy is caused by a communication breakdown between functional neural networks involved in motivational–affective processing. T...