Advances in fetal brain imaging

C Calixto, A Taymourtash, D Karimi… - Magnetic …, 2024 - mri.theclinics.com
Sonography has been widely used to assess fetal growth and identify fetal anomalies, 1 and
although fetal neurosonography can analyze brain surface anatomy and maturation, 2 it has …

Trajectories of brain and behaviour development in the womb, at birth and through infancy

S Meredith Weiss, E Aydin, S Lloyd-Fox… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Birth is often seen as the starting point for studying effects of the environment on human
development, with much research focused on the capacities of young infants. However …

Trajectories of human brain functional connectome maturation across the birth transition

L Ji, I Menu, A Majbri, T Bhatia, CJ Trentacosta… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Understanding the sequence and timing of brain functional network development at the
beginning of human life is critically important from both normative and clinical perspectives …

Development of the basic architecture of neocortical circuitry in the human fetus as revealed by the coupling spatiotemporal pattern of synaptogenesis along with …

I Kostović - Brain Structure and Function, 2024 - Springer
In humans, a quantifiable number of cortical synapses appears early in fetal life. In this
paper, we present a bridge across different scales of resolution and the distribution of …

Characterizing Large-Scale Human Circuit Development with In Vivo Neuroimaging

T Arichi - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Large-scale coordinated patterns of neural activity are crucial for the integration of
information in the human brain and to enable complex and flexible human behavior across …

[HTML][HTML] Functional structure of local connections and differentiation of cerebral cortex areas in the neonate

J Pujol, L Blanco-Hinojo, C Persavento… - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
Neuroimaging research on functional connectivity can provide valuable information on the
developmental differentiation of the infant cerebral cortex into its functional areas. We …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of EEG electrode density on the mapping of cortical activity networks in infants

A Asayesh, S Vanhatalo, A Tokariev - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective Electroencephalography (EEG) is widely used for assessing infant's brain activity,
and multi-channel recordings support studies on functional cortical networks. Here, we …

Gradient organisation of functional connectivity within resting state networks is present from 25 weeks gestation in the human fetal brain

JW Moore, S Wilson, M Oldehinkel, L Cordero-Grande… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
During the third trimester of human gestation, the structure and function of the fetal brain is
developing rapidly, laying the foundation for its connectivity framework across the lifespan …

Developmental trajectories of the default mode, fronto-parietal, and salience networks from the third trimester through the newborn period

D Scheinost, J Chang, E Brennan-Wydra… - Imaging …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
The default mode (DMN), fronto-parietal (FPN), and salience (SN) networks interact to
support a range of behaviors, are vulnerable to environmental insults, and are disrupted in …

Emergence of a synergistic scaffold in the brains of human infants

TF Varley, O Sporns, NJ Stevenson, MG Welch… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The human brain is a complex organ comprising billions of wired neurons which enables
interaction with both physical and social environments. Neural dynamics of the whole brain …