Development of human brain structural networks through infancy and childhood

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1389-1404

  Huang, Hao ^a,b   Shu, Ni ^c   Mishra, Virendra ^a   Jeon, Tina ^a   Chalak, Lina ^b   Wang, Zhiyue J ^b,d   Rollins, Nancy ^b,d   Gong, Gaolang ^c   Cheng, Hua ^e   Peng, Yun ^e   Dong, Qi ^c   He, Yong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain development; Connectome; Fractional anisotropy; Module; Pruning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TODDLER; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84906225073     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht335     Document Type: Article

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