C Soriano-Mas, B J Harrison, J Pujol, M López-Solà, R Hernández-Ribas, P Alonso, O Contreras-Rodríguez, M Giménez, L Blanco-Hinojo, H Ortiz, J Deus, J M Menchón, N Cardoner
The caudate and putamen nuclei have been traditionally divided into dorsal and ventral territories based on their segregated patterns of functional and anatomical connectivity with distributed cortical regions. Activity-dependent structural plasticity may potentially lead to the development of regional volume correlations, or structural covariance, between the different components of each cortico-striatal circuit. Here, we studied the whole-brain structural covariance patterns of four neostriatal regions belonging to distinct cortico-striatal circuits...
May 2013: Brain Structure & Function