ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2018
Structural brain development: A review of methodological approaches and best practices.
Review in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 74 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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74 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Application of a diathesis-stress model to the interplay of cortical structural development and emerging depression in youth.Clinical psychology review · 2020Pooled it
- A systematic review of cross-sectional differences and longitudinal changes to the morphometry of the brain following paediatric traumatic brain injury.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Pooled it
- Analysis of EEG microstate transition patterns and multi-instance learning-based recognition model for depression.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2026Article
- Trajectories of hippocampal subregion development in the first years of life and their association with school-aged episodic memory outcomes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Bullying victimization and brain development: a longitudinal structural magnetic resonance imaging study from adolescence to early adulthood.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- A Longitudinal Study of Children's Hippocampal Development: Investigating Maternal Physical Activity, Depression, and Education.Developmental neurobiology · 2026Article
- Brain network features predating early alcohol initiation in adolescence.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Bullying Victimization and Brain Development: A Longitudinal Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study from Adolescence to Early Adulthood.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Childhood to Adult Neurodevelopment in Gene-Expanded Huntington's Disease (ChANGE-HD) study protocol: A Prospective Longitudinal Neurodevelopmental Study of Huntington's Disease.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Individual Differences in Developmental Trajectories of Global and Subcortical Brain Volumes Between Late Childhood and Late Adolescence: Findings From a 12-Wave Neuroimaging Study.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship with literacy development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Structural Covariance Network Properties Predictive of Early Adolescent Alcohol Initiation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship to literacy development.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Associations of serotonin-related brain morphology in early adolescence with behavioral and emotional problems.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2025Article
- Encoding models for developmental cognitive computational neuroscience: Promise, challenges, and potential.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Review
- Mutant Huntingtin Drives Development of an Advantageous Brain Early in Life: Evidence in Support of Antagonistic Pleiotropy.Annals of neurology · 2024Article
- Cortical growth from infancy to adolescence in preterm and term-born children.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Gray and White Matter Metrics Demonstrate Distinct and Complementary Prediction of Differences in Cognitive Performance in Children: Findings from ABCD (The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Association of emotional and behavioral problems with the development of the substantia nigra, subthalamic nucleus, and red nucleus volumes and asymmetries from childhood to adolescence: A longitudinal cohort study.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
14 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
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Abstract
Continued advances in neuroimaging technologies and statistical modelling capabilities have improved our knowledge of structural brain development in children and adolescents. While this has provided an increasingly nuanced understanding of brain development, the field is still plagued by inconsistent findings. This review highlights the methodological diversity in existing longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies on structural brain development during childhood and adolescence, and addresses how such variation might contribute to inconsistencies in the literature. We discuss the impact of method choices at multiple decision points across the research process, from study design and sample selection, to image processing and statistical analysis. We also highlight the extent to which different methodological considerations have been empirically examined, drawing attention to specific areas that would benefit from future investigation. Where appropriate, we recommend certain best practices that would be beneficial for the field to adopt, including greater completeness and transparency in reporting methods, in order to ultimately develop an accurate and detailed understanding of normative child and adolescent brain development.
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