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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2017

Migration Pathways of Thalamic Neurons and Development of Thalamocortical Connections in Humans Revealed by Diffusion MR Tractography.

Molly Wilkinson, Tara Kane, Rongpin Wang, Emi Takahashi

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Molly WilkinsonDepartment of Behavioral Neuroscience, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Tara KaneDepartment of Behavioral Neuroscience, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Rongpin WangDivision of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Emi TakahashiDivision of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Boston Children's Hospital · USGuizhou Provincial People's Hospital · CNNortheastern University · US

Funding

ULTRAHIGH FIELD TECHNOLOGY FOR FUNCTIONAL IMAGINGP41RR014075 · NCRR · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ROSEN, BRUCE R · 1999 to 2011
$16.4M
Development and Organization of the Human Frontal CortexU01MH081896 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SESTAN, NENAD · 2009 to 2013
$5.7M
A Storage Area Network for Structural and Functional Image AnalysisS10RR023401 · NCRR · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI FISCHL, BRUCE · 2009 to 2009
$2.0M
Development of Brain Connectivity in Human Fetus, Newborn, and Toddler AgesR01HD078561 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI TAKAHASHI (OKI), EMI · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
SILICON GRAPHICS PRISM EXTREME 128P/1TBS10RR023043 · NCRR · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SORENSEN, ALMA GREGORY · 2006 to 2006
$1.5M
Computeserver Structural &Functional Image AnalysisS10RR019307 · NCRR · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI FISCHL, BRUCE · 2004 to 2004
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Development of Brain Connectivity in the Human FetusR21HD069001 · NICHD · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI TAKAHASHI (OKI), EMI · 2012 to 2013
$467k
Olympus FV500 Confocal Microscope SystemS10RR016851 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI CLOHISY, DENIS R · 2002 to 2002
$246k
Assessment of white matter connectivity in Alexander diseaseR03NS101372 · NINDS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI TAKAHASHI (OKI), EMI · 2018 to 2019
$177k
Aberrant Patterns of Human Brain Connectivity and Gyral StructuresR03NS091587 · NINDS · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI TAKAHASHI (OKI), EMI · 2015 to 2016
$177k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The thalamus plays an important role in signal relays in the brain, with thalamocortical (TC) neuronal pathways linked to various sensory/cognitive functions. In this study, we aimed to see fetal and postnatal development of the thalamus including neuronal migration to the thalamus and the emergence/maturation of the TC pathways. Pathways from/to the thalami of human postmortem fetuses and in vivo subjects ranging from newborns to adults with no neurological histories were studied using high angular resolution diffusion MR imaging (HARDI) tractography. Pathways likely linked to neuronal migration from the ventricular zone and ganglionic eminence (GE) to the thalami were both successfully detected. Between the ventricular zone and thalami, more tractography pathways were found in anterior compared with posterior regions, which was well in agreement with postnatal observations that the anterior TC segment had more tract count and volume than the posterior segment. Three different pathways likely linked to neuronal migration from the GE to the thalami were detected. No hemispheric asymmetry of the TC pathways was quantitatively observed during development. These results suggest that HARDI tractography is useful to identify multiple differential neuronal migration pathways in human brains, and regional differences in brain development in fetal ages persisted in postnatal development.

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Cell MovementAdolescentAdultChildChild, PreschoolDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingDiffusion Tensor ImagingHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalInfantInfant, NewbornNeural PathwaysNeuronsThalamusYoung Adultbraindevelopmentdiffusion imaginghumanneuronal migrationthalamocorticaltractographywhite matter

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PMID27913428
PMCPMC6075593
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