Differential motor and prefrontal cerebello-cortical network development: Evidence from multimodal neuroimaging.

ABSTRACT: While our understanding of cerebellar structural development through adolescence and young adulthood has expanded, we still lack knowledge of the developmental patterns of cerebellar networks during this critical portion of the lifespan. Volume in lateral posterior cerebellar regions associated with cognition and the prefrontal cortex develops more slowly, reaching their peak volume in adulthood, particularly as compared to motor Lobule V. We predicted that resting state functional connectivity of the lateral posterior regions would show a similar pattern of development during adolescence and young adulthood. That is, we expected to see changes over time in Crus I and Crus II connectivity with the cortex, but no changes in Lobule V connectivity. Additionally, we were interested in how stru

SUBMITTER: Bernard JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4651741 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature