[HTML][HTML] Functional brain connectivity predictors of prospective substance use initiation and their environmental correlates

O Kardan, AS Weigard, LM Cope, MM Martz… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Early substance use initiation (SUI) places youth at substantially higher risk for
later substance use disorders. Furthermore, adolescence is a critical period for the …

Developmental timing of associations among parenting, brain architecture, and mental health

C Michael, AM Gard, S Tillem, FA Hardi… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Parenting is associated with brain development and long-term health outcomes,
although whether these associations depend on the developmental timing of exposure …

A sensorimotor-association axis of thalamocortical connection development

VJ Sydnor, J Bagautdinova, B Larsen, MJ Arcaro… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Human cortical development follows a sensorimotor-to-association sequence during
childhood and adolescence1–6. The brain's capacity to enact this sequence over decades …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing neurocognitive maturation in early adolescence based on baby and adult functional brain landscapes

O Kardan, N Jones, MD Wheelock, C Michael… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Adolescence is a period of growth in cognitive performance and functioning. Recently, data-
driven measures of brain-age gap, which can index cognitive decline in older populations …

Somatomotor disconnection links sleep duration with socioeconomic context, screen time, cognition, and psychopathology

C Michael, A Taxali, M Angstadt, KL McCurry… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Background: Sleep is critical for healthy brain development and emotional wellbeing,
especially during adolescence when sleep, behavior, and neurobiology are rapidly …