Premature birth is a significant cause of infant and child morbidity and mortality. In the United
States, the premature birth rate, which had steadily increased during the 1990s and early …

Brain injury in premature infants is of enormous public health importance because of the
large number of such infants who survive with serious neurodevelopmental disability …

Characterizing the performance of image segmentation approaches has been a persistent
challenge. Performance analysis is important since segmentation algorithms often have …

Spanning functions from the simplest reflex arc to complex cognitive processes, neural
circuits have diverse functional roles. In the cerebral cortex, functional domains such as …

Studying how the healthy human brain develops is important to understand early
pathological mechanisms and to assess the influence of fetal or perinatal events on later life …

Brain development in the first 2 years after birth is extremely dynamic and likely plays an
important role in neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and schizophrenia …

PURPOSE: To quantitate neuroanatomic parameters in healthy volunteers and to compare
the values with normative values from postmortem studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS …

Objective. To investigate the effects of early experience on brain function and structure.
Methods. A randomized clinical trial tested the neurodevelopmental effectiveness of the …

Application of resting state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI) to
the study of prematurely born infants enables assessment of the earliest forms of cerebral …

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 …