The influence of preterm birth on the developing thalamocortical connectome

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1711-1721

  Ball, Gareth ^a   Boardman, James P ^c   Aljabar, Paul ^a,b   Pandit, Anand ^a   Arichi, Tomoki ^a   Merchant, Nazakat ^a   Rueckert, Daniel ^b   Edwards, A David ^a   Counsell, Serena J ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectome; Developing brain; Diffusion tractography; Preterm birth; Thalamocortical connectivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREMATURE LABOR; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONNECTOME; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREMATURE BIRTH; THALAMUS;

EID: 84878940983     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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