Cross-hemispheric functional connectivity in the human fetal brain

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 173, 2013, Pages

  Thomason, Moriah E ^a,b,c   Dassanayake, Maya T ^b   Shen, Stephen ^b   Katkuri, Yashwanth ^b   Alexis, Mitchell ^b   Anderson, Amy L ^a,c   Yeo, Lami ^b,c   Mody, Swati ^b   Hernandez Andrade, Edgar ^b,c   Hassan, Sonia S ^b,c   Studholme, Colin ^d,e   Jeong, Jeong Won ^b   Romero, Roberto ^c,f  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e University of Washington   (United States)

^f EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84874734244     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3004978     Document Type: Article

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