Publications by authors named "Eva Raspor"
Studying the visual system with fMRI often requires using localizer paradigms to define regions of interest (ROIs). However, the considerable interindividual variability of the cerebral cortex represents a crucial confound for group-level analyses. Cortex-based alignment (CBA) techniques reliably reduce interindividual macroanatomical variability.
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- The study explores how common genetic variants associated with resilience to schizophrenia affect brain structure, focusing on neuroplastic changes in the visual system.
- Significant positive correlations were found between a schizophrenia polygenic resilience score and cortical volume/thickness in brain areas related to visual processing, particularly the fusiform gyrus.
- These findings suggest that strengthened neural pathways enhance visual cognition and may help at-risk individuals cope with cognitive challenges, linking visual cognition to schizophrenia resilience.
Introduction: Amyloid plaque deposition in the brain is an early pathological change in Alzheimer's disease (AD), causing disrupted synaptic connections. Brain network disruptions in AD have been demonstrated with eigenvector centrality (EC), a measure that identifies central regions within networks. Carrying an apolipoprotein (APOE)-ε4 allele is a genetic risk for AD, associated with increased amyloid deposition.
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