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Decreased and Increased Anisotropy along Major Cerebral White Matter Tracts in Preterm Children and Adolescents.
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- Neonatal inflammation and near-term white matter microstructure in infants born very preterm.Neuroimage. Reports · 2024Article
- Associations of behavioral problems with white matter circuits connecting to the frontal lobes in school-aged children born at term and preterm.Neuroimage. Reports · 2024Article
- Subtle microstructural alterations in white matter tracts involved in socio-emotional processing after very preterm birth.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2024Article
- Associations of behavioral problems with white matter circuits connecting to the frontal lobes in school-aged children born at term and preterm.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- Automated three-dimensional major white matter bundle segmentation using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging.Anatomical science international · 2023Review
- Neuroimaging of brain connectivity related to reading outcomes in children born preterm: A critical narrative review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Review
- White matter properties underlying reading abilities differ in 8-year-old children born full term and preterm: A multi-modal approach.NeuroImage · 2022Article
- White matter myelination during early infancy is linked to spatial gradients and myelin content at birth.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Advances in functional and diffusion neuroimaging research into the long-term consequences of very preterm birth.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Review
- Diffusion tensor imaging in frontostriatal tracts is associated with executive functioning in very preterm children at 9 years of age.Pediatric radiology · 2021Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Correlates of White Matter Gliosis and Injury in Preterm Fetal Sheep Exposed to Progressive Systemic Inflammation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Neonatal white matter tract microstructure and 2-year language outcomes after preterm birth.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2020Article
- Risk of hypertension following perinatal adversity: IUGR and prematurity.The Journal of endocrinology · 2019Review
- Comparison of manual and automated fiber quantification tractography in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- White Matter Plasticity in Reading-Related Pathways Differs in Children Born Preterm and at Term: A Longitudinal Analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- White matter microstructure and cognitive outcomes in relation to neonatal inflammation in 6-year-old children born preterm.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- More than myelin: Probing white matter differences in prematurity with quantitative T1 and diffusion MRI.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- Corticobulbar Tract Injury, Oromotor Impairment and Language Plasticity in Adolescents Born Preterm.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- White matter properties associated with pre-reading skills in 6-year-old children born preterm and at term.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Premature birth is highly prevalent and associated with neurodevelopmental delays and disorders. Adverse outcomes, particularly in children born before 32 weeks of gestation, have been attributed in large part to white matter injuries, often found in periventricular regions using conventional imaging. To date, tractography studies of white matter pathways in children and adolescents born preterm have evaluated only a limited number of tracts simultaneously. The current study compares diffusion properties along 18 major cerebral white matter pathways in children and adolescents born preterm (n = 27) and full term (n = 19), using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and tractography. We found that compared to the full term group, the preterm group had significantly decreased FA in segments of the bilateral uncinate fasciculus and anterior segments of the right inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus. Additionally, the preterm group had significantly increased FA in segments of the right and left anterior thalamic radiations, posterior segments of the right inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, and the right and left inferior longitudinal fasciculus. Increased FA in the preterm group was generally associated with decreased radial diffusivity. These findings indicate that prematurity-related white matter differences in later childhood and adolescence do not affect all tracts in the periventricular zone and can involve both decreased and increased FA. Differences in the patterns of radial diffusivity and axial diffusivity suggest that the tissue properties underlying group FA differences may vary within and across white matter tracts. Distinctive diffusion properties may relate to variations in the timing of injury in the neonatal period, extent of white matter dysmaturity and/or compensatory processes in childhood.
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