Environmental influences on the pace of brain development

UA Tooley, DS Bassett, AP Mackey - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Childhood socio-economic status (SES), a measure of the availability of material and social
resources, is one of the strongest predictors of lifelong well-being. Here we review evidence …

Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function

AS Keller, VJ Sydnor, A Pines, DA Fair… - Trends in cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
In this perspective, we describe how developmental improvements in youth executive
function (EF) are supported by hierarchically organized maturational changes in functional …

Intrinsic activity development unfolds along a sensorimotor–association cortical axis in youth

VJ Sydnor, B Larsen, J Seidlitz, A Adebimpe… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Animal studies of neurodevelopment have shown that recordings of intrinsic cortical activity
evolve from synchronized and high amplitude to sparse and low amplitude as plasticity …

Development of structure–function coupling in human brain networks during youth

GL Baum, Z Cui, DR Roalf, R Ciric… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The protracted development of structural and functional brain connectivity within distributed
association networks coincides with improvements in higher-order cognitive processes such …

Individual variation in functional topography of association networks in youth

Z Cui, H Li, CH **a, B Larsen, A Adebimpe, GL Baum… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
The spatial distribution of large-scale functional networks on the cerebral cortex differs
between individuals and is particularly variable in association networks that are responsible …

Bring the noise: reconceptualizing spontaneous neural activity

LQ Uddin - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Definitions of what constitutes the 'signal of interest'in neuroscience can be controversial,
due in part to continuously evolving notions regarding the significance of spontaneous …

Childhood trauma history is linked to abnormal brain connectivity in major depression

M Yu, KA Linn, RT Shinohara… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) present with heterogeneous symptom
profiles, while neurobiological mechanisms are still largely unknown. Brain network studies …

A network control theory pipeline for studying the dynamics of the structural connectome

L Parkes, JZ Kim, J Stiso, JK Brynildsen, M Cieslak… - Nature protocols, 2024 - nature.com
Network control theory (NCT) is a simple and powerful tool for studying how network
topology informs and constrains the dynamics of a system. Compared to other structure …

Cortical-subcortical structural connections support transcranial magnetic stimulation engagement of the amygdala

VJ Sydnor, M Cieslak, R Duprat, J Deluisi… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The amygdala processes valenced stimuli, influences emotion, and exhibits aberrant activity
across anxiety disorders, depression, and PTSD. Interventions modulating amygdala activity …

Toward a unified framework for interpreting machine-learning models in neuroimaging

L Kohoutová, J Heo, S Cha, S Lee, T Moon… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning is a powerful tool for creating computational models relating brain
function to behavior, and its use is becoming widespread in neuroscience. However, these …