ArticleAJNR. American journal of neuroradiology2017
Gestational Age at Birth and Brain White Matter Development in Term-Born Infants and Children.
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- In utero MRI identifies consequences of early-gestation alcohol drinking on fetal brain development in rhesus macaques.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Associations of gestational age and birth anthropometric indicators with brain white matter maturation in full-term neonates.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- Diffusion Tensor MRI of White Matter of Healthy Full-term Newborns: Relationship to Neurodevelopmental Outcomes.Radiology · 2019Article
- Cesarean Delivery Impacts Infant Brain Development.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
background and purposeStudies on infants and children born preterm have shown that adequate gestational length is critical for brain white matter development. Less is known regarding how variations in gestational age at birth in term infants and children affect white matter development, which was evaluated in this study. MATERIALS AND
methodsUsing DTI tract-based spatial statistics methods, we evaluated white matter microstructures in 2 groups of term-born (≥37 weeks of gestation) healthy subjects: 2-week-old infants (
resultsFractional anisotropy values, which are markers for white matter microstructural integrity, positively correlated (
conclusionsOur results indicate that longer gestation during the normal term period is associated with significantly greater infant white matter development (as reflected by higher fractional anisotropy and lower mean diffusivity, axial diffusivity, and radial diffusivity values); however, similar associations were not observable in later childhood.
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