Development of thalamocortical connectivity during infancy and its cognitive correlations

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 27, 2014, Pages 9067-9075

  Alcauter, Sarael ^a   Lin, Weili ^a   Keith Smith, J ^b   Short, Sarah J ^b   Goldman, Barbara D ^c   Steven Reznick, J ^c   Gilmore, John H ^b   Gao, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Functional connectivity; Mullen scores; Resting state; Thalamus; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COGNITION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THALAMOCORTICAL CONNECTIVITY; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS;

DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; MULLEN SCORES; RESTING STATE; THALAMUS; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; THALAMUS;

EID: 84903641495     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0796-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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