Assessing neurocognitive maturation in early adolescence based on baby and adult functional brain landscapes.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a period of growth in cognitive performance and functioning. Recently, data-driven measures of brain-age gap, which can index cognitive decline in older populations, have been utilized in adolescent data with mixed findings. Instead of using a data-driven approach, here we assess the maturation status of the brain functional landscape in early adolescence by directly comparing an individual's resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) to the canonical early-life and adulthood communities. Specifically, we hypothesized that the degree to which a youth's connectome is better captured by adult networks compared to infant/toddler networks is predictive of their cognitive development. To test this hypothesis across individuals and longitudinally, we utilized the Adolescent Brai

SUBMITTER: Kardan O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11463351 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature