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Mapping the neuroanatomical impact of very preterm birth across childhood.
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- Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and preliminary application of the premature infant oral motor intervention in Chinese neonatal nursing practice: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Brain structures and their association with executive and attentional abilities in very preterm 8-year-old children.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Cortical Morphology and Morphometric Similarity Network Topology Alterations in Preterm Neonates: Insights From an East Asian Cohort.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Social orienting in prematurely born preschoolers: a case control study showing altered neural tuning towards voices, not faces.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Interactive roles of preterm-birth and socioeconomic status in cortical thickness of language-related brain structures: Findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2024Article
- Long-term brain structural and cognitive outcomes in a low-risk preterm-born sample.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Cortical growth from infancy to adolescence in preterm and term-born children.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Association between cortical thickness and cognitive ability in very preterm school-age children.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Children with Sickle Cell Disease.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2022Article
- Very preterm brain at rest: longitudinal social-cognitive network connectivity during childhood.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Decreased cortical thickness mediates the relationship between premature birth and cognitive performance in adulthood.Human brain mapping · 2020Article
- Mapping the neuroanatomical impact of very preterm birth across childhood.Human brain mapping · 2020Article
- Resilience and Vulnerability: Neurodevelopment of Very Preterm Children at Four Years of Age.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Those born very preterm (VPT; <32 weeks gestational age) have an increased risk in developing a wide range of cognitive deficits. In early-to-late childhood, brain structure has been shown to be altered in VPT compared to full-term (FT) children; however, the results are inconsistent. The current study examined subcortical volumes, cortical thickness, and surface area in a large cohort of VPT and FT children aged 4-12 years. Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was obtained on 120 VPT and 146 FT children who returned up to three times, resulting in 176 VPT and 173 FT unique data points. For each participant, Corticometric Iterative Vertex-based Estimation of Thickness was used to obtain global measurements of total brain, cortical grey and cortical white matter volumes, along with surface-based measurements of cortical thickness and surface area, and Multiple Automatically Generated Templates (MAGeT) brain segmentation tool was used to segment the subcortical structures. To examine group differences and group-age interactions, mixed-effects models were used (controlling for whole-brain volume). We found few differences between the two groups in subcortical volumes. The VPT children showed increased cortical thickness in frontal, occipital and fusiform gyri and inferior pre-post-central areas, while thinning occurred in the midcingulate. Cortical thickness in occipital regions showed more rapid decreases with age in the VPT compared to the FT children. VPT children also showed both regional increases, particularly in the temporal lobe, and decreases in surface area. Our results indicate a delayed maturational trajectory in those born VPT.
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