SynthesisNeuroImage2019
Magnetoencephalography and the infant brain.
Synthesis in NeuroImage, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Presymptomatic Biological, Structural, and Functional Diagnostic Biomarkers of Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of neurochemistry · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review over the Effect of Early Infant Diet on Neurodevelopment: Insights from Neuroimaging.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Tackling Acquisition of Language in Kids born Preterm (TALK-Preterm): protocol of a prospective cohort study.Research square · 2026Article
- Critical Review on the Development and Evolution of Beat Perception.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Revolutionizing Pediatric Neurophysiology With Magnetoencephalography.Psychophysiology · 2026Review
- Confirmation of a Useful Dark-Room Resting-State Procedure: Periodic and Aperiodic MEG Activity in Children.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
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- Functional brain network organization during the 40-Hz auditory steady-state response in children with and without autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Modality-level obstacles and initiatives to improve representation in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging research samples.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Auditory evoked neuromagnetic response latency is associated with language ability in preschoolers with an elevated likelihood of intellectual or developmental disability.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2025Article
- Pushing the boundaries of MEG based on optically pumped magnetometers towards early human life.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Functional and structural maturation of auditory cortex from 2 months to 2 years old.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Infant neuroscience: how to measure brain activity in the youngest minds.Trends in neurosciences · 2024Review
- From behavioral synchrony to language and beyond.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2024Review
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- Differential Maturation of Auditory Cortex Activity in Young Children with Autism and Typical Development.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
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- A comparison of resting-state eyes-closed and dark-room alpha-band activity in children.Psychophysiology · 2023Article
- Infant brain imaging using magnetoencephalography: Challenges, solutions, and best practices.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- Magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG): the next generation of functional neuroimaging.Trends in neurosciences · 2022Review
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a non-invasive neuroimaging technique that provides whole-head measures of neural activity with millisecond temporal resolution. Over the last three decades, MEG has been used for assessing brain activity, most commonly in adults. MEG has been used less often to examine neural function during early development, in large part due to the fact that infant whole-head MEG systems have only recently been developed. In this review, an overview of infant MEG studies is provided, focusing on the period from birth to three years. The advantages of MEG for measuring neural activity in infants are highlighted (See Box 1), including the ability to assess activity in brain (source) space rather than sensor space, thus allowing direct assessment of neural generator activity. Recent advances in MEG hardware and source analysis are also discussed. As the review indicates, efforts in this area demonstrate that MEG is a promising technology for studying the infant brain. As a noninvasive technology, with emerging hardware providing the necessary sensitivity, an expected deliverable is the capability for longitudinal infant MEG studies evaluating the developmental trajectory (maturation) of neural activity. It is expected that departures from neuro-typical trajectories will offer early detection and prognosis insights in infants and toddlers at-risk for neurodevelopmental disorders, thus paving the way for early targeted interventions.
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