• openAccess   Increased regional gray matter atrophy and enhanced functional connectivy in male multiple sclerosis patients 

      Sanchis-Segura, Carla; Cruz Gómez, Álvaro Javier; Belenguer Benavides, Antonio; Fittipaldi Márquez, María Sol; Avila, Cesar; Forn, Cristina Elsevier (2016-09)
      Evidence suggests that sex/gender is an important factor for understanding multiple sclerosis (MS) and that some of its neuropathological consequences might manifest earlier in males. In the present study, we assessed gray ...
    • openAccess   Individual Differences in Hippocampal Volume as a Function of BMI and Reward Sensitivity 

      Parcet, Maria Antonia; Adrián-Ventura, Jesús; Costumero, Víctor; Avila, Cesar Frontiers Media (2020-04-09)
      Sensitivity to reward is a personality trait that predisposes a person to several addictive behaviors, including the presence of different risky behaviors that facilitates uncontrolled eating. However, the multifactorial ...
    • openAccess   Individual differences in the behavioral inhibition system are associated with orbitofrontal cortex and precuneus gray matter volume 

      Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Costumero, Víctor; Fuentes-Claramonte, Paola; Avila, Cesar; Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Rosell Negre, Patricia Springer-Verlag (2012-09)
      The Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) is described in Gray’s Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory as a hypothetical construct that mediates anxiety in animals and humans. The neuroanatomical correlates of this system are not ...
    • closedAccess   Reduced striatal volume in cocaine-dependent patients 

      Barrós-Loscertales, Alfonso; Garavan, Hugh; Bustamante, Juan Carlos; Ventura Campos, Mercedes; Llopis Llácer, Juan José; Belloch, Vicente; Parcet, Maria Antonia; Avila, Cesar Elsevier (2011)
      Long-term cocaine consumption is associated with brain structural and functional changes. While the animal literature on cocaine use and dependence has traditionally focused on the striatum, previous human studies using ...