Evan Balaban

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging is used to measure brain activity patterns in 20 right-handed nonmusicians as they listened to natural and temporally reordered musical and speech stimuli matched for familiarity, emotion, and valence.

TL;DR: It is found that the cortical surface flattens during adolescence, and was strongest in the frontal and occipital cortices, in which significant sulcal widening and decreased sulcal depth co-occurred.

TL;DR: Results suggest that abnormal growth (or more pronounced shrinkage during adolescence) of the frontal cortex represents a shared endophenotype for psychosis in adolescents with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychotic symptoms.

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging with a novel whole-brain multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) is used to more fully characterize neural responses and connectivity to intelligible speech and suggests that speech intelligibility relies on differential multivariate response and connectivity patterns in Wernicke's, Broca's, and Geschwind's areas.

TL;DR: Except for the right superior frontal region, the degree of cortical folding was normal in regions showing decreased cortical thickness, suggesting that the process of cortical thinning in adolescent patients with EOP primarily takes place after the formation of cortical folds.