Maternal IL-6 during pregnancy can be estimated from newborn brain connectivity and predicts future working memory in offspring

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 765-772

  Rudolph, Marc D ^a   Graham, Alice M ^a   Feczko, Eric ^a,b   Miranda Dominguez, Oscar ^a   Rasmussen, Jerod M ^c   Nardos, Rahel ^a   Entringer, Sonja ^c,d   Wadhwa, Pathik D ^c   Buss, Claudia ^c,d   Fair, Damien A ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BERLIN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DISEASE; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EMOTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-6; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 85045090285     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-018-0128-y     Document Type: Article

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