These signs were accompanied by brain atrophy, mainly in the caudate and putamen. A longitudinal increase in the somatic cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) repeat expansion ratio in blood was a ...

They performed quantitative analysis on the SPECT images to compute the binding potential in two structures in the brain’s striatum – the caudate and the putamen – and the putamen-to-caudate ratio for ...

The study found that overall brain volume and five of the regional volumes were smaller in people with ADHD -- the caudate nucleus, putamen, nucleus accumbens, amygdala and hippocampus.

Neuroimaging reveals that the ADHD brain is different from the neurotypical brain. Here's how. ... Surman stated, "the caudate and the putamen work together and act as the gateway for motor activity.

The caudate and putamen also showed distinct changes the longer someone had the disease. In the caudate, they found changes in the growth of the cells that form protective sheaths around brain ...

Comparing microglia isolated from the cerebellum, caudate putamen, hippocampus, and cortex, the authors confirmed that those from the white-matter-rich regions, i.e., cerebellum and caudate putamen, ...

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington's ...

Lower IQs in children who were born preterm are related to poorer development of the caudate relative to the rest of the brain, ... The in-plane boundaries were then traced sequentially on each slice.

Typical antipsychotics have been reported to enlarge the caudate nucleus in schizophrenic patients. The atypical antipsychotic, clozapine, is associated with a decrease in caudate size in patients ...

Basal Ganglia (Caudate) Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Axial CT scans. Note the large intracerebral hemorrhage originating in the area of the caudate nucleus on the right. Also, note that the hemorrhage is ...