The article discusses how the distribution of body fat in different regions relates to brain aging and cognitive performance, independent of overall obesity. It highlights that visceral fat, arm and trunk fat, and leg fat each show distinct associations with brain structure, connectivity, and thinking abilities.

This topic is of interest to psychology readers because it connects physical health factors with neural changes and cognitive outcomes, illustrating how bodily processes influence brain function over time.

Article Title: The location of your body fat is linked to how fast your brain ages

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/the-location-of-your-body-fat-is-linked-to-how-fast-your-brain-ages/

#brainaging #adiposity #visceralfat #cognition #neuroscience #brainstructure #functionalMRI #diffusionMRI #sensorimotor #limbicsystem

🚨 Flipped b-vectors in your diffusion MRI data?
The Fiber Coherence Index (FCI) by Schilling et al. is here to help!

🔎 Detect and correct B-table orientation errors with ease.
📄 Read the paper(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2019.01.018)
🔗 Already integrated into DIPY, CLI feature coming soon!

Get involved and explore the implementation:
👉 GitHub PR(https://github.com/dipy/dipy/pull/3447)

#DiffusionMRI #Neuroimaging #DIPY #opensource

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who made #DIPYWorkshop2025 so meaningful. To the speakers and attendees—your insights, curiosity, and energy made it truly inspiring. Grateful to be part of such a passionate, collaborative community. Until next time! 🧠📊✨

#DIPY #DiffusionMRI #AI #MachineLearning #medicalimaging #MRI #Medicine #LLM #DeepLearning #Science #Neuroscience

🚨 Exciting news! Maxime Descoteaux (@maxdescoteaux) will overview the Handbook of Diffusion MR Tractography at DIPY Workshop 2025! 📚🔬

With 33 chapters, it’s a great companion to DIPY, covering:
🧠 Brain & pathways
🌀 Diffusion MRI: Fundamentals & techniques
🛤 Fiber tractography: Deterministic, probabilistic & geodesic
🔍 Tractography validation & applications in neurodevelopment, aging & plasticity

Don’t miss it! #DIPY2025 #DiffusionMRI #BrainConnectomics #DIPYWorkshop25 #python

🚀 DIPY 1.11 brings 3 powerful new volume extraction methods:

dipy_extract_b0: Quickly get b0 images & averages.
dipy_extract_shell: Effortlessly select b-value ranges.
dipy_extract_volume: Easily pull specific 3D volumes from your 4D data.

Explore these and more at the DIPY Workshop 2025! 🧠✨

#DIPY #Neuroimaging #DiffusionMRI #DIPYWorkshop25 #opensource #python #MedicalImaging #dMRI

🎉 Exciting news! The Dipy team is heading to #ISMRM2025! Join us for oral presentations by Jongsung Park and Bramsh Chandio, as they share cutting-edge research.

Don't miss it!

#MRI #Neuroimaging #DiffusionMRI #DIPY #opensource #medical

Is it just me, or are #MRI people really bad at keeping the difference between afferent and efferent connections straight? There's a whole lot of papers that seem to just assume that if they do #DiffusionTensorImaging, and pick a seed region, that all of the streamlines they get correspond to efferents from that site. And if they cite another paper as evidence, it's often another #DiffusionMRI paper that just asserts the same thing without obvious reference to anatomical ground truth.

If you don't reference an actual #Neuroanatomy paper that worked out which direction(s) your fibers are projecting, you can't claim anything about whether your seed projects to, from, or merely passes through any other ROI along your streamlines! I think a lot of times the answer is indeed known, but cite some real anatomy papers so your readers can tell. This problem isn't universal, but it does seem weirdly common.

Scientists have found a new way to map the insular cortex, a part of the human brain that is involved in mind-body interactions. They used a technique called diffusion MRI to trace the connections between different regions of the insular cortex and other brain areas. This could help us understand how the brain integrates sensory, emotional, and cognitive information.

#insularcortex #diffusionMRI #mindbody

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/scientists-identify-mind-body-nexus-human-brain-2023-04-19/