Author(s): Fibla L; Forbes SH; McCarthy J; Mee K; Magnotta V; Deoni S; Cameron D; Spencer JP;

The language environment to which children are exposed has an impact on later language abilities as well as on brain development; however, it is unclear how early such impacts emerge. This study investigates the effects of children's early language envi ...

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Author(s): Sun Y; Wang C;

The work presented in this paper is in the area of brain tumor detection. We propose a fast detection system with 3D MRI scans of Flair modality. It performs 2 functions, predicting the gray level distribution and location distribution of the pixels in the ...

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Author(s): Ornowski J; Dziesinski L; Hess M; Krug R; Fortin M; Torres-Espin A; Majumdar S; Pedoia V; Bonnheim NB; Bailey JF; ...

Background: Paraspinal muscle fat infiltration is associated with spinal degeneration and low back pain, however, quantifying muscle fat using clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques c ...

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Author(s): Rosenstein B; Montpetit C; Vaillancourt N; Dover G; Khalini-Mahani N; Weiss C; Papula LA; Melek A; Fortin M; ...

Background: Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most disabling diseases and a major health issue. Despite the evidence of a link between paraspinal and gluteal muscle dysfunction and LBP, it is unkno ...

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Author(s): Belasso CJ; Cai Z; Bezgin G; Pascoal T; Stevenson J; Rahmouni N; Tissot C; Lussier F; Rosa-Neto P; Soucy JP; Rivaz H; Benali H; ...

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis in its early stages remains difficult with current diagnostic approaches. Though tau neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) generally follow the stereotyp ...

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Author(s): Valevicius D; Beck N; Kasper L; Boroday S; Bayer J; Rioux P; Caron B; Adalat R; Evans AC; Khalili-Mahani N; ...

Neuroimaging research requires sophisticated tools for analyzing complex data, but efficiently leveraging these tools can be a major challenge, especially on large datasets. CBRAIN is a web-based p ...

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Author(s): Xiao Y; Gilmore G; Kai J; Lau JC; Peters T; Khan AR;

Population-averaged brain atlases, that are represented in a standard space with anatomical labels, are instrumental tools in neurosurgical planning and the study of neurodegenerative conditions. Traditional brain atlases are primarily derived from anatomic ...

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Author(s): Huck J; Jäger AT; Schneider U; Grahl S; Fan AP; Tardif C; Villringer A; Bazin PL; Steele CJ; Gauthier CJ; ...

Resting-state (rs) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used to detect low-frequency fluctuations in the blood oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) signal across brain regions. Correlations bet ...

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Author(s): Madge V; Fonov VS; Xiao Y; Zou L; Jackson C; Postuma RB; Dagher A; Fon EA; Collins DL;

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder affecting regions such as the substantia nigra (SN), red nucleus (RN) and locus coeruleus (LC). Processing MRI data from patients with PD requires anatomical structural references for spat ...

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Author(s): Papadatos Z; Phillips NA;

We examined cognitive domains and brain regions associated with olfactory performance in cognitively unimpaired older adults (CU-OAs) and individuals with or at risk for Alzheimer's Disease (AD). We compared CU-OAs (N = 55), individuals with subjective ...

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Author(s): Rousseau PN; Chakravarty MM; Steele CJ;

The cerebellum's involvement in cognitive, affective and motor functions is mediated by connections to different regions of the cerebral cortex. A distinctive feature of cortico-cerebellar loops that has been demonstrated in the animal work is a topogra ...

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