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 …

Questions and controversies in the study of time-varying functional connectivity in resting fMRI

DJ Lurie, D Kessler, DS Bassett, RF Betzel… - Network …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
The brain is a complex, multiscale dynamical system composed of many interacting regions.
Knowledge of the spatiotemporal organization of these interactions is critical for establishing …

Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals

S Marek, B Tervo-Clemmens, FJ Calabro, DF Montez… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has transformed our understanding of the human brain
through well-replicated map** of abilities to specific structures (for example, lesion …

Standardizing workflows in imaging transcriptomics with the abagen toolbox

RD Markello, A Arnatkeviciute, JB Poline, BD Fulcher… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Gene expression fundamentally shapes the structural and functional architecture of the
human brain. Open-access transcriptomic datasets like the Allen Human Brain Atlas provide …

Brain-behavior correlations: Two paths toward reliability

C Gratton, SM Nelson, EM Gordon - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
In a recent issue of Nature, Marek et al.(2022) demonstrate that cross-sectional brain-
behavior correlations are often small and unreliable without large samples. This observation …

Global waves synchronize the brain's functional systems with fluctuating arousal

RV Raut, AZ Snyder, A Mitra, D Yellin, N Fujii… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
We propose and empirically support a parsimonious account of intrinsic, brain-wide
spatiotemporal organization arising from traveling waves linked to arousal. We hypothesize …

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 …

Precision functional map** of individual human brains

EM Gordon, TO Laumann, AW Gilmore, DJ Newbold… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Human functional MRI (fMRI) research primarily focuses on analyzing data averaged across
groups, which limits the detail, specificity, and clinical utility of fMRI resting-state functional …

A practical guide to linking brain-wide gene expression and neuroimaging data

A Arnatkevic̆iūtė, BD Fulcher, A Fornito - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
The recent availability of comprehensive, brain-wide gene expression atlases such as the
Allen Human Brain Atlas (AHBA) has opened new opportunities for understanding how …

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 …