NDLI: The Relationship between Processing Speed and Regional White Matter Volume in Healthy Young People

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Author	Magistro, Daniele Takeuchi, Hikaru Nejad, Keyvan Kashkouli Taki, Yasuyuki Sekiguchi, Atsushi Rui, Nouchi Kotozaki, Yuka Nakagawa, Seishu Miyauchi, Carlos Makoto Iizuka, Kunio Yokoyama, Ryoichi Shinada, Takamitsu Yamamoto, Yuki Hanawa, Sugiko Araki, Tsuyoshi Hashizume, Hiroshi Sassa, Yuko Kawashima, Ryuta
Editor	Chen, Kewei
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Processing speed is considered a key cognitive resource and it has a crucial role in all types of cognitive performance. Some researchers have hypothesised the importance of white matter integrity in the brain for processing speed; however, the relationship at the whole-brain level between white matter volume (WMV) and processing speed relevant to the modality or problem used in the task has never been clearly evaluated in healthy people. In this study, we used various tests of processing speed and Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) analyses, it is involves a voxel-wise comparison of the local volume of gray and white, to assess the relationship between processing speed and regional WMV (rWMV). We examined the association between processing speed and WMV in 887 healthy young adults (504 men and 383 women; mean age, 20.7 years, SD, 1.85). We performed three different multiple regression analyses: we evaluated rWMV associated with individual differences in the simple processing speed task, word–colour and colour–word tasks (processing speed tasks with words) and the simple arithmetic task, after adjusting for age and sex. The results showed a positive relationship at the whole-brain level between rWMV and processing speed performance. In contrast, the processing speed performance did not correlate with rWMV in any of the regions examined. Our results support the idea that WMV is associated globally with processing speed performance regardless of the type of processing speed task.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136386
Starting Page	136386
File Format	PDF
ISSN	19326203
e-ISSN	19326203
Journal	PLoS ONE
Issue Number	9
Volume Number	10
Language	English
Publisher	Public Library of Science
Publisher Date	2015-09-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Public Library of Science
Subject Keyword	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all) Medicine(all) Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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