Takeuchi, H, Taki, Y, Nouchi, R, Yokoyama, R, Kotozaki, Y, Nakagawa, S, Sekiguchi, A, Iizuka, K, Yamamoto, Y, Hanawa, S, Araki, T, Miyauchi, CM, Sakaki, K, Nozawa, T, Ikeda, S, Yokota, S, Magistro, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2554-3701, Sassa, Y and Kawashima, R, 2018. Allergic tendencies are associated with larger gray matter volumes. Scientific Reports, 8: 3694. ISSN 2045-2322
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Abstract
Allergic tendencies are associated with important cognitive and physiological factors, such as intelligence and mathematical abilities. Allergies are widely prevalent, especially in modern life, and the reason for its association with important cognitive variables is an intriguing scientific question. However, despite the unique characteristics of cognitive correlates of allergy, the anatomical correlates of allergy remain unknown. The aim of this study was to identify the associations between regional gray matter volume (rGMV) and allergic tendencies in young adults. In a study cohort of 1,219 healthy, educated young adults, we identified a positive correlation between total allergic tendency and rGMV in large anatomical clusters that mainly encompassed the dorsal part of the cerebral neocortex, right anterior insula, and cerebellum. Furthermore,both mean rGMV of the entire part of these clusters and total allergenic tendency showed a significant positive correlation with spatial ability. These results suggest the link among allergic tendencies, larger rGMV, and the better spatial ability in healthy, educated young adults.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Publication Title: | Scientific Reports |
Creators: | Takeuchi, H., Taki, Y., Nouchi, R., Yokoyama, R., Kotozaki, Y., Nakagawa, S., Sekiguchi, A., Iizuka, K., Yamamoto, Y., Hanawa, S., Araki, T., Miyauchi, C.M., Sakaki, K., Nozawa, T., Ikeda, S., Yokota, S., Magistro, D., Sassa, Y. and Kawashima, R. |
Date: | 2018 |
Volume: | 8 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1038/s41598-018-21985-8 DOI 21985 Publisher Item Identifier |
Rights: | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology |
Record created by: | Linda Sullivan |
Date Added: | 08 May 2018 15:22 |
Last Modified: | 08 May 2018 15:22 |
URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33465 |
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