Imaging structural and functional brain development in early childhood

JH Gilmore, RC Knickmeyer, W Gao - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
In humans, the period from term birth to∼ 2 years of age is characterized by rapid and
dynamic brain development and plays an important role in cognitive development and risk of …

The UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project (BCP): An overview of the study design and protocol development

BR Howell, MA Styner, W Gao, PT Yap, L Wang… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
The human brain undergoes extensive and dynamic growth during the first years of life. The
UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project (BCP), one of the Lifespan Connectome Projects …

[HTML][HTML] Hand classification of fMRI ICA noise components

L Griffanti, G Douaud, J Bijsterbosch, S Evangelisti… - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a practical “how-to” guide to help determine whether single-subject fMRI
independent components (ICs) characterise structured noise or not. Manual identification of …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of pain, agitation, and their management on the immature brain

C McPherson, SP Miller, M El-Dib, AN Massaro… - Pediatric …, 2020 - nature.com
Preterm infants are exposed to frequent painful procedures and agitating stimuli over the
many weeks of their hospitalization in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The adverse …

Measuring macroscopic brain connections in vivo

S Jbabdi, SN Sotiropoulos, SN Haber… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Decades of detailed anatomical tracer studies in non-human animals point to a rich and
complex organization of long-range white matter connections in the brain. State-of-the art in …

Functional connectivity of the infant human brain: plastic and modifiable

W Gao, W Lin, K Grewen, JH Gilmore - The Neuroscientist, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Infancy is a critical and immensely important period in human brain development. Subtle
changes during this stage may be greatly amplified with the unfolding of different …

Neural histology and neurogenesis of the human fetal and infant brain

I Kostović, G Sedmak, M Judaš - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
The human brain develops slowly and over a long period of time which lasts for almost three
decades. This enables good spatio-temporal resolution of histogenetic and neurogenetic …

Developmental connectomics from infancy through early childhood

M Cao, H Huang, Y He - Trends in neurosciences, 2017 - cell.com
The human brain undergoes rapid growth in both structure and function from infancy through
early childhood, and this significantly influences cognitive and behavioral development in …

On the role of the corpus callosum in interhemispheric functional connectivity in humans

JL Roland, AZ Snyder, CD Hacker… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Resting state functional connectivity is defined in terms of temporal correlations between
physiologic signals, most commonly studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging …

MRI of the neonatal brain: a review of methodological challenges and neuroscientific advances

J Dubois, M Alison, SJ Counsell… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, exploration of the developing brain has become a major focus for
researchers and clinicians in an attempt to understand what allows children to acquire …