Monthly Archives: August 2012

Lies and dishonesty can be identified by analyzing activity in the brain. The following studies describe how covert intentions and deception can be identified with fMRI, PET, or EEG analysis.

A cognitive neurobiological account of deception: evidence from functional neuroimaging. (Link)

A mock terrorism application of the P300-based concealed information test. (Link)

A pilot study of functional magnetic resonance imaging brain correlates of deception in healthy young men. (Link)

A replication study of the neural correlates of deception. (Link)

A truth that’s told with bad intent: an ERP study of deception. (Link)

An event-related potential study of deception to self preferences. (Link)

Are errors differentiable from deceptive responses when feigning memory impairment? An fMRI study. (Link)

Behavioural and functional anatomical correlates of deception in humans. (Link)

Brain activity during simulated deception: an event-related functional magnetic resonance study. (Link)

Cooperation and deception recruit different subsets of the theory-of-mind network. (Link)

Deceiving others: distinct neural responses of the prefrontal cortex and amygdala in simple fabrication and deception with social interactions. (Link)

Detecting concealed information using brain-imaging technology. (Link)

Detecting deception using functional magnetic resonance imaging. (Link)

Dissociable roles of prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in deception. (Link)

Do parkinsonian patients have trouble telling lies? The neurobiological basis of deceptive behaviour. (Link)

fMRI study of deliberate deception. (Link)

fNIRS-based online deception decoding. (Link)

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy to investigate hemodynamic responses to deception in the prefrontal cortex. (Link)

Lying about facial recognition: an fMRI study. (Link)

Lying about the valence of affective pictures: an fMRI study. (Link)

Mock crime application of the Complex Trial Protocol (CTP) P300-based concealed information test. (Link)

Neural correlates of feigned memory impairment are distinguishable from answering randomly and answering incorrectly: an fMRI and behavioral study. (Link)

Neural correlates of feigned memory impairment. (Link)

Neural correlates of telling lies: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study at 4 Tesla. (Link)

Neural correlates of true memory, false memory, and deception. (Link)

Neural processes underlying self- and other-related lies: an individual difference approach using fMRI. (Link)

Neural signatures of strategic types in a two-person bargaining game. (Link)

Patterns of neural activity associated with honest and dishonest moral decisions. (Link)

Prefrontal white matter in pathological liars. (Link)

Psychopathic traits and deception: functional magnetic resonance imaging study. (Link)

Reading hidden intentions in the human brain. (Link)

Telling truth from lie in individual subjects with fast event-related fMRI. (Link)

The contributions of prefrontal cortex and executive control to deception: evidence from activation likelihood estimate meta-analyses. (Link)

The neural circuitry of a broken promise. (Link)

The neurobiology of deception: evidence from neuroimaging and loss-of-function studies. (Link)

The processes leading to deception: ERP spatiotemporal principal component analysis and source analysis. (Link)

Use of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to assess eyewitness accuracy and deception. (Link)

Advances in neuroimaging research have opened up the possibility of identifying what people in a brain scanner are thinking. This is scientific mind reading. Brain scans can identify when people are thinking of certain scenes and objects. Brain scans can also identify when people are preparing to act on their thoughts.

Generating text from functional brain images. (Link)

Identifying natural images from human brain activity. (Link)

Predicting persuasion-induced behavior change from the brain. (Link)

Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies. (Link)

Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain. (Link)

Using FMRI brain activation to identify cognitive states associated with perception of tools and dwellings. (Link)

Social groups played an important role in human evolution and social networks continue to be a major part of human life. These studies describe how the brain has specific areas for understanding social situations and processing social hierarchies.

A neural mechanism of first impressions. (Link)

Attitudes towards the outgroup are predicted by activity in the precuneus in Arabs and Israelis. (Link)

Dopamine type 2/3 receptor availability in the striatum and social status in human volunteers. (Link)

Following the crowd: brain substrates of long-term memory conformity. (Link)

How the opinion of others affects our valuation of objects. (Link)

Implicit signals in small group settings and their impact on the expression of cognitive capacity and associated brain responses. (Link)

Know your place: neural processing of social hierarchy in humans. (Link)

Medial prefrontal cortex and striatum mediate the influence of social comparison on the decision process. (Link)

Neural basis of preference for human social hierarchy versus egalitarianism. (Link)

Neural evidence for inequality-averse social preferences. (Link)

Neural sensitivity to social rejection is associated with inflammatory responses to social stress. (Link)

Neural systems of social comparison and the “above-average” effect. (Link)

Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure. (Link)

Orbital prefrontal cortex volume predicts social network size: an imaging study of individual differences in humans. (Link)

Processing of the incentive for social approval in the ventral striatum during charitable donation. (Link)

Structure of orbitofrontal cortex predicts social influence. (Link)

Subjective socioeconomic status predicts human ventral striatal responses to social status information. (Link)

When giving is good: ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation for others’ intentions. (Link)

As with other environmental influences, video games change the brain. These studies describe the role of video games in the important field of neuroplasticity, as well as parts of the brain linked to skill at video games.

Extensive video-game experience alters cortical networks for complex visuomotor transformations. (Link)

Playing a first-person shooter video game induces neuroplastic change. (Link)

Striatal volume predicts level of video game skill acquisition. (Link)

The state of the brain determines whether someone is a saver or a spender, a buyer or seller of financial instruments, and what type of actions a person will take to make money. These studies describe the role of neuroanatomy and neurobiology in financial decisions.

Adolescents, adults and rewards: comparing motivational neurocircuitry recruitment using fMRI. (Link)

Amygdala damage eliminates monetary loss aversion. (Link)

Dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex orchestrate normative choice. (Link)

Is avoiding an aversive outcome rewarding? Neural substrates of avoidance learning in the human brain. (Link)

Neural basis of the undermining effect of monetary reward on intrinsic motivation. (Link)

Neural predictors of purchases. (Link)

Neural responses to unattended products predict later consumer choices. (Link)

Processing of social and monetary rewards in the human striatum. (Link)

The neural basis of financial risk taking. (Link)

Ventromedial frontal lobe damage disrupts value maximization in humans. (Link)

After reading the book Principles of Cloning, I was interested in finding out more about the progress of cloning over the last decade. This post features studies and papers that describe cloning advances in certain mammals.

Antelope and Deer:

Cloned endangered species takin (Budorcas taxicolor) by inter-species nuclear transfer and comparison of the blastocyst development with yak (Bos grunniens) and bovine. (Link)

First birth of an animal from an extinct subspecies (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) by cloning. (Link)

Interspecies nuclear transfer of Tibetan antelope using caprine oocyte as recipient. (Link)

Red deer cloned from antler stem cells and their differentiated progeny. (Link)

Buffalo:

An inter-subspecies cloned buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) obtained by transferring of cryopreserved embryos via somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Anomalous mRNA levels of chromatin remodeling genes in swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) cloned embryos. (Link)

Buffalos (Bubalus bubalis) cloned by nuclear transfer of somatic cells. (Link)

Effect of cytoplasmic volume on developmental competence of buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) embryos produced through hand-made cloning. (Link)

Effect of donor cell types on developmental potential of cattle (Bos taurus) and swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) cloned embryos. (Link)

Effects of recipient oocyte age and interval from fusion to activation on development of buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) nuclear transfer embryos derived from fetal fibroblasts. (Link)

Efficiency of SCNT buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) embryos in different culture medium and analysis of mRNA expression of insulin-like growth factors during embryogenesis. (Link)

Epigenetic characteristics of cloned and in vitro-fertilized swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) embryos. (Link)

Hand-made cloned buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) embryos: comparison of different media and culture systems. (Link)

Isolation and characterization of embryonic stem cell-like cells from in vitro-produced buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) embryos. (Link)

Optimization of embryo culture conditions for increasing efficiency of cloning in buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) and generation of transgenic embryos via cloning. (Link)

Pregnancies established from handmade cloned blastocysts reconstructed using skin fibroblasts in buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). (Link)

Production of cloned and transgenic embryos using buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) embryonic stem cell-like cells isolated from in vitro fertilized and cloned blastocysts. (Link)

Somatic cell nuclear transfer in buffalos: effect of the fusion and activation protocols and embryo culture system on preimplantation embryo development. (Link)

Study on the inter-subspecies nuclear transfer of river buffalo somatic cell nuclei into swamp buffalo oocyte cytoplasm. (Link)

Telomerase activity in swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) oocytes and embryos derived from in vitro fertilization, somatic cell nuclear transfer and parthenogenetic activation. (Link)

Camel:

Heterogeneous nuclear-transferred-embryos reconstructed with camel (Camelus bactrianus) skin fibroblasts and enucleated ovine oocytes and their development H-M. (Link)

Preliminary assessment of somatic cell nuclear transfer in the dromedary (Camelus dromedarius). (Link)

Production of the first cloned camel by somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Cat:

A unique method to produce transgenic embryos in ovine, porcine, feline, bovine and equine species. (Link)

Abnormalities in the transcription of reprogramming genes related to global epigenetic events of cloned endangered felid embryos. (Link)

Birth of African Wildcat cloned kittens born from domestic cats. (Link)

Cats cloned from fetal and adult somatic cells by nuclear transfer. (Link)

Cell cycle analysis and interspecies nuclear transfer of in vitro cultured skin fibroblasts of the Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris Altaica). (Link)

Chromosomal aneuploidy in African Wildcat somatic cells and cloned embryos. (Link)

Cloning endangered felids using heterospecific donor oocytes and interspecies embryo transfer. (Link)

Confirmation of germ-line transmission in the red fluorescence protein (RFP) transgenic cloned male cat. (Link)

Culture, characteristics and chromosome complement of Siberian tiger fibroblasts for nuclear transfer. (Link)

DNA methylation status in somatic and placenta cells of cloned cats. (Link)

Enhanced histone acetylation in somatic cells induced by a histone deacetylase inhibitor improved inter-generic cloned leopard cat blastocysts. (Link)

Generation of a recloned transgenic cat expressing red fluorescence protein. (Link)

Generation of cloned transgenic cats expressing red fluorescence protein. (Link)

Generation of domestic transgenic cloned kittens using lentivirus vectors. (Link)

In vitro development and postvitrification survival of cloned feline embryos derived from preadipocytes. (Link)

In vitro development of marbled cat embryos derived from interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

In vitro production and initiation of pregnancies in inter-genus nuclear transfer embryos derived from leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) nuclei fused with domestic cat (Felis silverstris catus) enucleated oocytes. (Link)

Intergeneric somatic cell nucleus transfer in marbled cat and flat-headed cat. (Link)

Nuclear and microtubule remodeling and in vitro development of nuclear transferred cat oocytes with skin fibroblasts of the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) and leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). (Link)

Nuclear transfer of synchronized african wild cat somatic cells into enucleated domestic cat oocytes. (Link)

Proteomic analysis of placentas from cloned cat embryos identifies a set of differentially expressed proteins related to oxidative damage, senescence and apoptosis. (Link)

Reproductive fertility of cloned male cats derived from adult somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Semen characteristics of genetically identical male cats cloned via somatic cell nucleus transfer. (Link)

Serum starvation and full confluency for cell cycle synchronization of domestic cat (felis catus) foetal fibroblasts. (Link)

Trichostatin A modified histone covalent pattern and enhanced expression of pluripotent genes in interspecies black-footed cat cloned embryos but did not improve in vitro and in vivo viability. (Link)

Dog:

A cloned toy poodle produced from somatic cells derived from an aged female dog. (Link)

Birth of Beagle dogs by somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Birth of viable puppies derived from breeding cloned female dogs with a cloned male. (Link)

Changes in the somatotrophic axis in genetically identical dogs. (Link)

Cloning endangered gray wolves (Canis lupus) from somatic cells collected postmortem. (Link)

Cloning missy: obtaining multiple offspring of a specific canine genotype by somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Conservation of the Sapsaree (Canis familiaris), a Korean Natural Monument, using somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Current status and applications of somatic cell nuclear transfer in dogs. (Link)

Development of interspecies cloned embryos in yak and dog. (Link)

Dogs cloned from fetal fibroblasts by nuclear transfer. (Link)

Effective donor cell fusion conditions for production of cloned dogs by somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Endangered wolves cloned from adult somatic cells. (Link)

Growth and hematologic characteristics of cloned dogs derived from adult somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Improved efficiency of canine nucleus transfer using roscovitine-treated canine fibroblasts. (Link)

Influence of oocyte donor and embryo recipient conditions on cloning efficiency in dogs. (Link)

Morphological abnormalities, impaired fetal development and decrease in myostatin expression following somatic cell nuclear transfer in dogs. (Link)

Production of offspring from cloned transgenic RFP female dogs and stable generational transmission of the RFP gene. (Link)

Production of transgenic canine embryos using interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Recloned dogs derived from adipose stem cells of a transgenic cloned beagle. (Link)

Ferret:

Adeno-associated virus-targeted disruption of the CFTR gene in cloned ferrets. (Link)

Cloned ferrets produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Factors affecting the efficiency of embryo transfer in the domestic ferret (Mustela putorius furo). (Link)

Horse:

A unique method to produce transgenic embryos in ovine, porcine, feline, bovine and equine species. (Link)

Cloned horse pregnancies produced using adult cumulus cells. (Link)

Equine cloning: applications and outcomes. (Link)

Equine cloning. (Link)

Production of cloned horse foals using roscovitine-treated donor cells and activation with sperm extract and/or ionomycin. (Link)

Production of horse foals via direct injection of roscovitine-treated donor cells and activation by injection of sperm extract. (Link)

Somatic cell nuclear transfer in horses. (Link)

Primate:

Cloned blastocysts produced by nuclear transfer from somatic cells in cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). (Link)

Cloning of non-human primates: the road “less traveled by”. (Link)

Development of interspecies cloned monkey embryos reconstructed with bovine enucleated oocytes. (Link)

Dynamic changes in microtubules and early development of reconstructed embryos after somatic cell nuclear transfer in a non-human primate. (Link)

Epigenetic marks in cloned rhesus monkey embryos: comparison with counterparts produced in vitro. (Link)

Nuclear transfer in nonhuman primates. (Link)

Preimplantation development of somatic cell cloned embryos in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). (Link)

Somatic cell nuclear transfer using transported in vitro-matured oocytes in cynomolgus monkey. (Link)

Whale:

Production of cloned sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) embryos by interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer using enucleated pig oocytes. (Link)

Production of Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) cloned embryos by inter- and intra-species somatic cell nuclear transfer. (Link)

Yak:

Development of interspecies cloned embryos in yak and dog. (Link)

In vitro development of yak (Bos grunniens) embryos generated by interspecies nuclear transfer. (Link)

Nuclear reprogramming in embryos generated by the transfer of yak (Bos grunniens) nuclei into bovine oocytes and comparison with bovine-bovine SCNT and bovine IVF embryos. (Link)

Here are some databases for finding information on specific genes and SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms):

Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology: site with information on cancer genes

COSMIC: catalogue of mutations in cancer

ENSEMBL: collection of genome databases for several species

Genecards: database of human genes and genomic information

Genetics Home Reference: reference guide for specific genes

KEGG: database of molecular information

OMIM: database of human genes and genetic phenotypes

PharmGKB: database featuring pharmacogenomic data

SNPedia: wiki with information on variations in DNA

Intelligence is heavily influenced by genetics. Heritability plays an important role in how smart a person becomes. Genes contribute to the neuroanatomy of intelligence. The following studies and papers describe the role of genetics in human intelligence.

A genetic investigation of the covariation among inspection time, choice reaction time, and IQ subtest scores. (Link)

A linkage study of academic skills defined by the Queensland core skills test. (Link)

A longitudinal twin study on IQ, executive functioning, and attention problems during childhood and early adolescence. (Link)

A population-based study of shared genetic variation between premorbid IQ and psychosis among male twin pairs and sibling pairs from Sweden. (Link)

A study on the correlation between IL1RAPL1 and human cognitive ability. (Link)

A three-stage genome-wide association study of general cognitive ability: hunting the small effects. (Link)

A twin study of differentiation of cognitive abilities in childhood. (Link)

A twin study of the genetics of high cognitive ability selected from 11,000 twin pairs in six studies from four countries. (Link)

Added value measures in education show genetic as well as environmental influence. (Link)

Are smarter brains running faster? Heritability of alpha peak frequency, IQ, and their interrelation. (Link)

Association between the CHRM2 gene and intelligence in a sample of 304 Dutch families. (Link)

Association between the dysbindin gene (DTNBP1) and cognitive functions in Japanese subjects. (Link)

Association of CHRM2 with IQ: converging evidence for a gene influencing intelligence. (Link)

Association of cognitive performance with interleukin-6 receptor Asp358Ala polymorphism in healthy adults. (Link)

Association of interleukin-1β genetic polymorphisms with cognitive performance in elderly females without dementia. (Link)

Associations between the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) and affect, loneliness and intelligence in normal subjects. (Link)

BDNF gene effects on brain circuitry replicated in 455 twins. (Link)

Brain fiber architecture, genetics, and intelligence: a high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) study. (Link)

Brain plasticity and intellectual ability are influenced by shared genes. (Link)

Cathepsin D exon 2 polymorphism associated with general intelligence in a healthy older population. (Link)

Cholecystokinin A receptor gene promoter polymorphism and intelligence. (Link)

Cognitive ability and academic achievement in the Colorado Adoption Project: a multivariate genetic analysis of parent-offspring and sibling data. (Link)

Common variants underlying cognitive ability: further evidence for association between the SNAP-25 gene and cognition using a family-based study in two independent Dutch cohorts. (Link)

COMT val158met genotype affects recruitment of neural mechanisms supporting fluid intelligence. (Link)

COMT val158met modulates association between brain white matter architecture and IQ. (Link)

Confirmatory factor analysis of reading and mathematics performance: a twin study. (Link)

Differences in genetic and environmental influences on the human cerebral cortex associated with development during childhood and adolescence. (Link)

Gender differences in cognitive ability associated with genetic variants of NLGN4. (Link)

Gene-gene interaction between COMT and MAOA potentially predicts the intelligence of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder boys in China. (Link)

Generalist genes and high cognitive abilities. (Link)

Generalist genes and the Internet generation: etiology of learning abilities by web testing at age 10. (Link)

Genetic analysis of IQ, processing speed and stimulus-response incongruency effects. (Link)

Genetic analysis of peripheral nerve conduction velocity in twins. (Link)

Genetic and environmental influences on adult intelligence and special mental abilities. (Link)

Genetic and environmental influences on the development of intelligence. (Link)

Genetic contributions to human brain morphology and intelligence. (Link)

Genetic contributions to stability and change in intelligence from childhood to old age. (Link)

Genetic contributions to the association between height and intelligence: Evidence from Dutch twin data from childhood to middle age. (Link)

Genetic correlations between brain volumes and the WAIS-III dimensions of verbal comprehension, working memory, perceptual organization, and processing speed. (Link)

Genetic covariance structure of reading, intelligence and memory in children. (Link)

Genetic covariation between theAuthor Recognition Test and reading and verbal abilities: what can we learn from the analysis of high performance? (Link)

Genetic foundations of human intelligence. (Link)

Genetic influence on human intelligence (Spearman’s g): how much? (Link)

Genetic influences on brain structure. (Link)

Genetic mediation of the correlation between peripheral nerve conduction velocity and IQ. (Link)

Genetic overlap among intelligence and other candidate endophenotypes for schizophrenia. (Link)

Genetic structure of spatial and verbal working memory. (Link)

Genetic variation in DTNBP1 influences general cognitive ability. (Link)

Genetic variations of human neuropsin gene and psychiatric disorders: polymorphism screening and possible association with bipolar disorder and cognitive functions. (Link)

Genetics of brain fiber architecture and intellectual performance. (Link)

Genetics of cognition: outline of a collaborative twin study. (Link)

Genetics of educational attainment in Australian twins: sex differences and secular changes. (Link)

Genetics of the association between intelligence and nicotine dependence: a study of male Swedish twins. (Link)

Genetics, environment and cognitive abilities: review and work in progress towards a genome scan for quantitative trait locus associations using DNA pooling. (Link)

Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic. (Link)

Genome-wide scan of IQ finds significant linkage to a quantitative trait locus on 2q. (Link)

Haplotypes of catechol-O-methyltransferase modulate intelligence-related brain white matter integrity. (Link)

Heritability in cognitive performance: evidence using computer-based testing. (Link)

Heritability of cognitive abilities in adult twins: comparison of Minnesota and Swedish data. (Link)

Heritability of educational achievement in 12-year-olds and the overlap with cognitive ability. (Link)

Heritability of neurocognitive functioning in the elderly: evidence from an Italian twin study. (Link)

Heritability of verbal and performance intelligence in a pediatric longitudinal sample. (Link)

How to consistently link extraversion and intelligence to the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene: on defining and measuring psychological phenotypes in neurogenetic research. (Link)

Human intelligence and polymorphisms in the DNA methyltransferase genes involved in epigenetic marking. (Link)

Individual differences in executive functions are almost entirely genetic in origin. (Link)

Large, consistent estimates of the heritability of cognitive ability in two entire populations of 11-year-old twins from Scottish mental surveys of 1932 and 1947. (Link)

Linkage analyses of IQ in the collaborative study on the genetics of alcoholism (COGA) sample. (Link)

Multivariate path analysis of specific cognitive abilities data at 12 years of age in the Colorado Adoption Project. (Link)

Nature, nurture and academic achievement: a twin study of teacher assessments of 7-year-olds. (Link)

NTM and NR3C2 polymorphisms influencing intelligence: family-based association studies. (Link)

Perceptual speed and IQ are associated through common genetic factors. (Link)

Rare copy number deletions predict individual variation in intelligence. (Link)

Reconsidering the heritability of intelligence in adulthood: taking assortative mating and cultural transmission into account. (Link)

Substantial genetic influence on cognitive abilities in twins 80 or more years old. (Link)

The ATXN1 and TRIM31 genes are related to intelligence in an ADHD background: evidence from a large collaborative study totaling 4,963 subjects. (Link)

The developmental etiology of high IQ. (Link)

The genetic and environmental etiology of high math performance in 10-year-old twins. (Link)

The genetic basis of academic achievement on the Queensland Core Skills Test and its shared genetic variance with IQ. (Link)

Variability and stability in cognitive abilities are largely genetic later in life. (Link)

Variants in SNAP25 are targets of natural selection and influence verbal performances in women. (Link)

Brain imaging studies show that intelligence correlates with the size and structure of certain regions of the brain. Whether an individual becomes intelligent is largely determined by genetic and environmental influences dating back to childhood and even infancy. The following studies describe the role of neuroanatomy in human intelligence.

An integrative architecture for general intelligence and executive function revealed by lesion mapping. (Link)

Associations between IQ, total and regional brain volumes, and demography in a large normative sample of healthy children and adolescents. (Link)

Brain anatomical network and intelligence. (Link)

Brain fiber architecture, genetics, and intelligence: a high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) study. (Link)

Callosal morphology and performance on intelligence tests. (Link)

Cerebellar brain volume accounts for variance in cognitive performance in older adults. (Link)

Cognitive functions correlate with white matter architecture in a normal pediatric population: a diffusion tensor MRI study. (Link)

Correlates of intellectual ability with morphology of the hippocampus and amygdala in healthy adults. (Link)

Distributed neural system for general intelligence revealed by lesion mapping. (Link)

Efficiency of functional brain networks and intellectual performance. (Link)

Functional MRI evidence for disparate developmental processes underlying intelligence in boys and girls. (Link)

Genetic covariation between brain volumes and IQ, reading performance, and processing speed. (Link)

Genetics of brain fiber architecture and intellectual performance. (Link)

Mapping IQ and gray matter density in healthy young people. (Link)

Neuroanatomical Correlates of Intelligence. (Link)

Positive correlations between corpus callosum thickness and intelligence. (Link)

Relationships between IQ and regional cortical gray matter thickness in healthy adults. (Link)

Structural brain variation and general intelligence. (Link)

The human brain is not a blank slate. The brain and personality traits associated with its structure already reach an impressive level of sophistication even before birth. With this development comes a pre-programmed set of instructions. These studies provide some examples of how the infant brain predicts personality years later.

Childhood socioeconomic status and adult brain size: childhood socioeconomic status influences adult hippocampal size. (Link)

Larger amygdala but no change in hippocampal volume in 10-year-old children exposed to maternal depressive symptomatology since birth. (Link)

Neonatal head ultrasound abnormalities in preterm infants and adolescent psychiatric disorders. (Link)

Structural differences in adult orbital and ventromedial prefrontal cortex predicted by infant temperament at 4 months of age. (Link)