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ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2021

The instability of functional connectomes across the first year of life.

Alexander J Dufford, Stephanie Noble, Siyuan Gao, Dustin Scheinost

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Alexander J DuffordDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, USA. Electronic address: alexander.dufford@yale.edu.
Stephanie NobleDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, USA.
Siyuan GaoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Dustin ScheinostDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine, USA; Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN CHILDHOOD NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERST32MH018268 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Michael H Bloch, MICHAEL J CROWLEY · 1985 to 2026
$11.0M
Constrained Network-Based Multiple Comparison CorrectionK00MH122372 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI NOBLE, STEPHANIE MARIE · 2019 to 2021
$242k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NIMH NIH HHS K00 MH122372NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH018268
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The uniqueness and stability of the adolescent and adult functional connectome has been demonstrated to be high (80-95 % identification) using connectome-based identification (ID) or "fingerprinting". However, it is unclear to what extent individuals exhibit similar distinctiveness and stability in infancy, a developmental period of rapid and unparalleled brain development. In this study, we examined connectome-based ID rates within and across the first year of life using a longitudinal infant dataset at 1.5 month and 9 months of age. We also calculated the test-retest reliability of individual connections across the first year of life using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Overall, we found substantially lower infant ID rates than have been reported in adult and adolescent populations. Within-session ID rates were moderate and significant (ID = 48.94-70.83 %). Between-session ID rates were very low and not significant, with task-to-task connectomes resulting in the highest between-session ID rate (ID = 26.6 %). Similarly, average edge-level test-retest reliability was higher within-session than between-session (mean within-session ICC = 0.17, mean between-session ICC = 0.10). These findings suggest a lack of uniqueness and stability in functional connectomes across the first year of life consistent with the unparalleled changes in brain functional organization during this critical period.

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ConnectomeAdolescentAdultBrainHumansInfantMagnetic Resonance ImagingReproducibility of ResultsBrain developmentConnectomicsFingerprintingResting-stateTest–retest reliability

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