Imaging structural and functional brain development in early childhood

JH Gilmore, RC Knickmeyer, W Gao - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
In humans, the period from term birth to∼ 2 years of age is characterized by rapid and
dynamic brain development and plays an important role in cognitive development and risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

L Eliot, A Ahmed, H Khan, J Patel - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been
exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three decades of human MRI and postmortem …

[HTML][HTML] Childhood socioeconomic status and the pace of structural neurodevelopment: accelerated, delayed, or simply different?

D Rakesh, S Whittle, MA Sheridan… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with children's brain and behavioral
development. Several theories propose that early experiences of adversity or low SES can …

A global multicohort study to map subcortical brain development and cognition in infancy and early childhood

AM Alex, F Aguate, K Botteron, C Buss, YS Chong… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The human brain grows quickly during infancy and early childhood, but factors influencing
brain maturation in this period remain poorly understood. To address this gap, we …

Considering sex as a biological variable in basic and clinical studies: an endocrine society scientific statement

A Bhargava, AP Arnold, DA Bangasser… - Endocrine …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In May 2014, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) stated its intent to “require
applicants to consider sex as a biological variable (SABV) in the design and analysis of NIH …

Association of prenatal exposure to early-life adversity with neonatal brain volumes at birth

RL Triplett, RE Lean, A Parikh, JP Miller… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Exposure to early-life adversity alters the structural development of key brain
regions underlying neurodevelopmental impairments. The association between prenatal …

Gut microbiome and brain functional connectivity in infants-a preliminary study focusing on the amygdala

W Gao, AP Salzwedel, AL Carlson, K **a… - …, 2019 - Springer
Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the possibility that microbial communities
inhabiting the human gut could affect cognitive development and increase risk for mental …

Neuroscience and sex/gender: Looking back and forward

M Hines - Journal of Neuroscience, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
) reported that treating pregnant guinea pigs with testosterone had enduring effects on the
sex-related behavior of their female offspring. Since then, similar enduring effects of early …

[HTML][HTML] X-chromosome regulation and sex differences in brain anatomy

A Raznahan, CM Disteche - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans show reproducible sex-differences in cognition and psychopathology that may be
contributed to by influences of gonadal sex-steroids and/or sex-chromosomes on regional …

Neural correlates of socioeconomic status in early childhood: a systematic review of the literature

L Olson, B Chen, I Fishman - Child Neuropsychology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
It is now established that socioeconomic variables are associated with cognitive, academic
achievement, and psychiatric outcomes. Recent years have shown the advance in our …