Early brain activity relates to subsequent brain growth in premature infants

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3014-3024

  Benders, Manon J ^a,b   Palmu, Kirsi ^c,d   Menache, Caroline ^a   Borradori Tolsa, Cristina ^a   Lazeyras, Francois ^e   Sizonenko, Stephane ^a   Dubois, Jessica ^a,f   Vanhatalo, Sampsa ^d   Hüppi, Petra S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^f INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Cortical folding; EEG; MRI; Preterm infants; Volumetric measurements

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BABY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED RESPONSE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, PREMATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84962905095     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu097     Document Type: Article

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