Background Modern neuroimaging methods have revealed that autistic symptoms are
associated with abnormalities in brain morphology, connectivity, and activity patterns …

Childhood is a period of extensive cortical and neural development. Among other things,
axons in the brain gradually become more myelinated, promoting the propagation of …

Weighted MRI images are widely used in clinical as well as open-source neuroimaging
databases. Weighted images such as T1-weighted, T2-weighted, and proton density …

Growing evidence indicates that brain development varies as a function of family
socioeconomic status (SES). Numerous studies have demonstrated that children from low …

Every child learns their first words at a different pace. Research on first language acquisition
has studied the individual variation of children's linguistic development for decades, trying to …

We investigated the relationship between neighborhood disadvantage (area deprivation
index [ADI]) and intracortical myelination (T1-weighted/T2-weighted ratio at deep to …

The current categorical psychiatric diagnosis system, which relies on superficial signs and
symptoms, has been criticized for high comorbidity and heterogeneity within diagnoses …

Brain development starts in utero, and the fetal brain can already be affected by the
environment, including chemical exposures and maternal health characteristics. These …