ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2016
Functional Connectivity of the Human Brain in Utero.
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67 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Panic disorder during pregnancy and the first three years after delivery: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Fetal brain MRI atlases and datasets: A review.NeuroImage · 2024Pooled it
- Associations between chronic placental inflammation, fetal brain development and later autism traits.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Prenatal neural network organization and later executive function development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Quantifying Cortical Maturational Aspects During Different Vigilance States in Preterm Infants by Advanced EEG Analysis.Journal of sleep research · 2026Article
- Neonatal Epilepsy: Beyond Seizures in a Developing Brain-A Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Bridging the gap: Translating fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging insights into clinical practice.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Evaluating reliability of automated quantitative brain morphometry from fetal T2-weighted MRI.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Stress during the first 1,000 days of life in humans, when everything begins.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Early functional organization of the anterior and posterior hippocampus in the fetal brain.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Evaluating the effects of volume censoring on fetal functional connectivity.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Measuring the effects of motion corruption in fetal fMRI.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Brain age prediction and deviations from normative trajectories in the neonatal connectome.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Maternal prenatal social disadvantage and neonatal functional connectivity: Associations with psychopathology symptoms at age 12 months.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Neuronal Coupling Modes Show Differential Development in the Early Cortical Activity Networks of Human Newborns.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Functional connectome through the human life span.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Characterizing Large-Scale Human Circuit Development with In Vivo Neuroimaging.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- Developmental trajectories of the default mode, frontoparietal, and salience networks from the third trimester through the newborn period.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Experience of early-life pain in premature infants is associated with atypical cerebellar development and later neurodevelopmental deficits.BMC medicine · 2023Article
- Intergenerational Transmission of Maternal Childhood Maltreatment Prior to Birth: Effects on Human Fetal Amygdala Functional Connectivity.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
The brain is subject to dramatic developmental processes during the prenatal period. Nevertheless, information about the development of functional brain networks during gestation is scarce. Until recently it has not been possible to probe function in the living human fetal brain. Advances in functional MRI have changed the paradigm, making it possible to measure spontaneous activity in the fetal brain and to cross-correlate functional signals to attain information about neural connectional architecture across human gestation. We summarize the earliest MRI studies of fetal neural functional connectivity and highlight unique challenges and limitations inherent in the technique. In addition, we discuss future directions to unlock the potential of fetal brain functional MRI research.
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