Hi, There are only a handful of publications so far as it is quite a new tool, but here are some ones that I know about: de Jong, LW and van der Hiele, K. and Veer, IM and Houwing, JJ and Westendorp, RGJ and Bollen, E. and de Bruin, PW and Middelkoop, HAM and van Buchem, MA and van der Grond, J. Strongly reduced volumes of putamen and thalamus in Alzheimer's disease: an MRI study Brain, 131(12), 3277-85, 2008 Peran, P. and Cherubini, A. and Luccichenti, G. and Hagberg, G. and Demonet, J.F. and Rascol, O. and Celsis, P. and Caltagirone, C. and Spalletta, G. and Sabatini, U. Volume and iron content in basal ganglia and thalamus Human Brain Mapping, 2009 Erickson, K.I. and Prakash, R.S. and Voss, M.W. and Chaddock, L. and Hu, L. and Morris, K.S. and White, S.M. and Wojcicki, T.R. and McAuley, E. and Kramer, A.F. Aerobic fitness is associated with hippocampal volume in elderly humans Hippocampus, 2009 Chan, S.W.Y. and Norbury, R. and Goodwin, G.M. and Harmer, C.J. Risk for depression and neural responses to fearful facial expressions of emotion The British Journal of Psychiatry, 194(2), 139--145, 2009 Morey RA, Petty CM, Xu Y, Hayes JP, Wagner HR, Lewis DV, LaBar KS, Styner M, McCarthy G. A comparison of automated segmentation and manual tracing for quantifying hippocampal and amygdala volumes. Neuroimage, 45(3):855-66, 2009 Hope this helps. All the best, Mark On 17 Aug 2009, at 15:38, Jiansong Xu wrote: > Dear Friends: > > I'm playing with FIRST for analyzing subcotical structures. I'm > wondering if any one can point any publications using FIRST. > > > Best Regards > > Jiansong > > =============== > Jiansong Xu, M.D., Ph.D. > Dept. of Psychistry > Yale Medical School > 2 Church St., Suite 215 > New Haven, CT 06519 > [log in to unmask] >