Typical and disrupted brain circuitry for conscious awareness in full-term and preterm infants.

ABSTRACT: One of the great frontiers of consciousness science is understanding how early consciousness arises in the development of the human infant. The reciprocal relationship between the default mode network and fronto-parietal networks-the dorsal attention and executive control network-is thought to facilitate integration of information across the brain and its availability for a wide set of conscious mental operations. It remains unknown whether the brain mechanism of conscious awareness is instantiated in infants from birth. To address this gap, we investigated the development of the default mode and fronto-parietal networks and of their reciprocal relationship in neonates. To understand the effect of early neonate age on these networks, we also assessed neonates born prematurely or before ter

SUBMITTER: Hu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006044 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature