Investigating brain structural maturation in children and adolescents born very preterm using the brain age framework

Autor: Claire Kelly, Gareth Ball, Lillian G Matthews, Jeanie LY Cheong, Lex W Doyle, Terrie E Inder, Deanne K Thompson, Peter J Anderson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: NeuroImage, Vol 247, Iss , Pp 118828- (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1095-9572
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118828
Popis: Very preterm (VP) birth is associated with an increased risk for later neurodevelopmental and behavioural challenges. Although the neurobiological underpinnings of such challenges continue to be explored, previous studies have reported brain volume and morphology alterations in children and adolescents born VP compared with full-term (FT)-born controls. How these alterations relate to the trajectory of brain maturation, with potential implications for later brain ageing, remains unclear. In this longitudinal study, we investigate the relationship between VP birth and brain development during childhood and adolescence. We construct a normative ‘brain age’ model to predict age over childhood and adolescence based on measures of brain cortical and subcortical volumes and cortical morphology from structural MRI of a dataset of typically developing children aged 3–21 years (n = 768). Using this model, we examined deviations from normative brain development in a separate dataset of children and adolescents born VP (
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