Tracking regional brain growth up to age 13 in children born term and very preterm

DK Thompson, LG Matthews, B Alexander… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Serial regional brain growth from the newborn period to adolescence has not been
described. Here, we measured regional brain growth in 216 very preterm (VP) and 45 full …

[HTML][HTML] Neonatal morphometric similarity mapping for predicting brain age and characterizing neuroanatomic variation associated with preterm birth

P Galdi, M Blesa, DQ Stoye, G Sullivan, GJ Lamb… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-contrast MRI captures information about brain macro-and micro-structure which can be
combined in an integrated model to obtain a detailed “fingerprint” of the anatomical …

Breakdown of whole-brain dynamics in preterm-born children

N Padilla, VM Saenger, TJ Van Hartevelt… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The brain operates at a critical point that is balanced between order and disorder. Even
during rest, unstable periods of random behavior are interspersed with stable periods of …

A computational role for top–down modulation from frontal cortex in infancy

S Jaffe-Dax, AM Boldin, ND Daw… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Recent findings have shown that full-term infants engage in top–down sensory prediction,
and these predictions are impaired as a result of premature birth. Here, we use an …

Multimodal assessment shows misalignment of structural and functional thalamocortical connectivity in children and adolescents born very preterm

FM Wehrle, C Lustenberger, A Buchmann, B Latal… - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
Thalamocortical connections are altered following very preterm birth but it is unknown
whether structural and functional alterations are linked and how they contribute to …

Altered structural brain networks at term-equivalent age in preterm infants with grade 1 intraventricular hemorrhage

JH Cha, YH Choi, JM Lee, JY Lee, HK Park… - Italian Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Preterm infants are at risk for structural disruption of brain connectivity due to
perinatal complications encountered during the fetal and neonatal periods. This study aimed …

The Preterm Social Brain

SI Mossad - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Nearly 15 million babies are born prematurely (< 37/40 weeks' gestational age, GA) each
year. The number of preterm born babies surviving at lower GA has been on the rise in the …