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Kathryn L. West

Center for BrainHealth
Verified email at utdallas.edu
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Parental communication deviance and affective style: Predictors of subsequent schizophrenia spectrum disorders in vulnerable adolescents

JA Doane, KL West, MJ Goldstein… - Archives of General …, 1981 - jamanetwork.com
• In an attempt to assess the contributory role of family factors to the development of
schizophrenia-like disorders, measures of parental communication deviance and affective styles of …

BOLD hemodynamic response function changes significantly with healthy aging

KL West, MD Zuppichini, MP Turner, DK Sivakolundu… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to infer age-differences in
neural activity from the hemodynamic response function (HRF) that characterizes the blood-…

Myelin volume fraction imaging with MRI

KL West, ND Kelm, RP Carson, DF Gochberg, KC Ess… - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
MRI is a valuable tool to assess myelin during development and demyelinating disease
processes. While multiexponential T 2 and quantitative magnetization transfer measures …

Evaluating g-ratio weighted changes in the corpus callosum as a function of age and sex

S Berman, KL West, MD Does, JD Yeatman, AA Mezer - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen a growing interest in relating MRI measurements to the structural-biophysical
properties of white matter fibers. The fiber g-ratio, defined as the ratio between the …

Evaluation of diffusion kurtosis imaging in ex vivo hypomyelinated mouse brains

ND Kelm, KL West, RP Carson, DF Gochberg, KC Ess… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI), and DKI-derived white matter
tract integrity metrics (WMTI) were experimentally evaluated ex vivo through comparisons …

Hypomyelination following deletion of Tsc2 in oligodendrocyte precursors

RP Carson, ND Kelm, KL West… - Annals of clinical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective While abnormalities in myelin in tuberous sclerosis complex ( TSC ) have been
known for some time, recent imaging‐based data suggest myelin abnormalities may be …

A revised model for estimating g-ratio from MRI

KL West, ND Kelm, RP Carson, MD Does - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
A key measure of white matter health is the g-ratio, which is defined as the ratio between the
inner axon radius and the outer, myelinated, axon radius. Recent methods have been …

The impact of education about schizophrenia on relatives varying in expressed emotion

…, MJ Goldstein, KH Nuechterlein, KL West… - Schizophrenia …, 1988 - academic.oup.com
The demand for information by relatives and the success of family intervention programs with
an initial didactic component has resulted in a proliferation of educational interventions in …

Multi-element isotopic evidence for monochlorobenzene and benzene degradation under anaerobic conditions in contaminated sediments

…, AS Ojeda, S Kümmel, M Gehre, E Seger, K West… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Industrial chemicals are frequently detected in sediments due to a legacy of chemical spills.
Globally, site remedies for groundwater and sediment decontamination include natural …

[HTML][HTML] Loss of mTORC2 signaling in oligodendrocyte precursor cells delays myelination

MD Grier, KL West, ND Kelm, C Fu, MD Does… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Myelin abnormalities are increasingly being recognized as an important component of a
number of neurologic developmental disorders. The integration of many signaling pathways …