Adolescent Brain Structural Correlates

In the United Kingdom, 16-y-old adolescents can choose to stop studying math as part of their advanced, i.e., A-level, subjects. Towards a single dependent variable in the study, a math group consisted of 72 students who engaged in A-level maths. A non-math group consisted of 51 students who were not engaged in A-level maths. The used 123 MRI data were acquired at the Oxford Centre for Function MRI of the Brain (FMRIB) on 3T Siemens MAGNETOM Prisma MRI System equipped with a 32-channel receive-only head coil. And anatomical high-resolution T1-weighted scans were acquired using an MPRAGE sequence consisting of 192 slices, where repetition time $TR=1900$ ms, echo time $TE=3.97$ ms, and voxel $size=1\times 1\times 1$ mm. The voxels of interest (VOI) of size $20\times 20\times 20$ mm were manually centered in the MFG based on the individual’s T1-weighted images while the participant was lying down in the MR scanner [3 (link)]. Slices of the T1-weighted MRI and the left MFG region in three different directions were shown in Figure 1.