Network evolution of regional brain volumes in young children reflects neurocognitive scores and mother's education.

ABSTRACT: The maturation of regional brain volumes from birth to preadolescence is a critical developmental process that underlies emerging brain structural connectivity and function. Regulated by genes and environment, the coordinated growth of different brain regions plays an important role in cognitive development. Current knowledge about structural network evolution is limited, partly due to the sparse and irregular nature of most longitudinal neuroimaging data. In particular, it is unknown how factors such as mother's education or sex of the child impact the structural network evolution. To address this issue, we propose a method to construct evolving structural networks and study how the evolving connections among brain regions as reflected at the network level are related to maternal educatio

SUBMITTER: Zhou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9941570 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature