Early nutrition influences developmental myelination and cognition in infants and young children

NeuroImage

Volumn 178, Issue , 2018, Pages 649-659

  Deoni, Sean ^a   Dean, Douglas ^b   Joelson, Sarah ^a   O'Regan, Jonathan ^c   Schneider, Nora ^d  

^a MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Askeaton Co   (Ireland)

^d NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain MRI; Cognitive development; Infant brain development; Myelination

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; FOLIC ACID; IRON; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; SPHINGOMYELIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN REGION; BREAST MILK; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; COGNITION ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; INFANT NUTRITION; MALE; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; BREAST FEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MYELINATED NERVE; NEUROIMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE;

BRAIN; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 85048293155     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.12.056     Document Type: Article

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