Understanding typical, healthy brain development provides a baseline from which to detect
and characterize brain anomalies associated with various neurological or psychiatric …

Studying how the healthy human brain develops is important to understand early
pathological mechanisms and to assess the influence of fetal or perinatal events on later life …

To be successful in school or in one's career takes creativity, flexibility, self-control, and
discipline. Central to all those are executive functions (EFs), including mentally playing with …

The heavy metals lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), and cadmium (Cd) are ubiquitous environmental
pollutants and are known to exert severe adverse impacts on the nervous system even at …

Recent advances in neuroimaging methods have made accessible new ways of
disentangling the complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors that …

The study of age at onset of mental health disorders is technically and conceptually difficult.
It is important to consider these age distributions in order to understand causes and …

Healthy human brain development is a complex process that continues during childhood
and adolescence, as demonstrated by many cross-sectional and several longitudinal …

Spatial normalization, registration, and segmentation techniques for Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI) often use a target or template volume to facilitate processing, take advantage …

Adolescence is defined as a transitional period between childhood and adulthood
characterized by changes in social interaction and acquisition of mature cognitive abilities …

There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals.
Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the …