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ArticleClinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology2024

Sensory event-related potential morphology predicts age in premature infants.

Coen S Zandvoort, Marianne van der Vaart, Shellie Robinson, Fatima Usman, Gabriela Schmidt Mellado, Ria Evans Fry, Alan Worley, Eleri Adams, Rebeccah Slater, Luke Baxter and 2 more

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Article in Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. [Research progress in electroencephalogram-based brain age prediction].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2025
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  7. Resting state electroencephalographic brain activity in neonates can predict age and is indicative of neurodevelopmental outcome.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Coen S ZandvoortDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Marianne van der VaartDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Shellie RobinsonDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Fatima UsmanDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Gabriela Schmidt MelladoDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Ria Evans FryDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Alan WorleyNewborn Care Unit, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Eleri AdamsNewborn Care Unit, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Rebeccah SlaterDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Luke BaxterDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Maarten de VosDepartment of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), STADIUS Center for Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Department of Development and Regeneration, University Hospitals Leuven, Child Neurology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Caroline HartleyDepartment of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Electronic address: caroline.hartley@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk.
University of Oxford · GBOxford University Hospitals NHS Trust · GBKU Leuven · BE

Funding

Wellcome Trust 207457Wellcome Trust 213486
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveWe investigated whether sensory-evoked cortical potentials could be used to estimate the age of an infant. Such a model could be used to identify infants who deviate from normal neurodevelopment.

methodsInfants aged between 28- and 40-weeks post-menstrual age (PMA) (166 recording sessions in 96 infants) received trains of visual and tactile stimuli. Neurodynamic response functions for each stimulus were derived using principal component analysis and a machine learning model trained and validated to predict infant age.

resultsPMA could be predicted accurately from the magnitude of the evoked responses (training set mean absolute error and 95% confidence intervals: 1.41 [1.14; 1.74] weeks,p = 0.0001; test set mean absolute error: 1.55 [1.21; 1.95] weeks,p = 0.0002). Moreover, we show that their predicted age (their brain age) is correlated with a measure known to relate to maturity of the nervous system and is linked to long-term neurodevelopment.

conclusionsSensory-evoked potentials are predictive of age in premature infants and brain age deviations are related to biologically and clinically meaningful individual differences in nervous system maturation. SIGNIFICANCE: This model could be used to detect abnormal development of infants' response to sensory stimuli in their environment and may be predictive of neurodevelopmental outcome.

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Evoked PotentialsInfant, PrematureBrainHumansInfantInfant, NewbornElectroencephalographyMachine learningPretermReflex withdrawalTactileVisual

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PMID38064929
PMCPMC7618130
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