MRI Reveals Brain Damage in Obese Teens (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

MRI Reveals Brain Damage in Obese Teens

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Reduction in fractional anisotropy (FA) in obese patients compared to the control group: At the intersection of the alignment vectors, a large cluster of FA decrease located in the corpus callosum on the left. In red: Reduction of FA in obese patients compared to controls, and FA skeleton (green), superimposed on the mean of FA images in sample.

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