TY - GEN
T1 - Characterization of the central sulcus in the brain in early childhood
AU - Gajawelli, Niharika
AU - Deoni, Sean
AU - Dirks, Holly
AU - Dean, Douglas
AU - O'Muircheartaigh, Jonathan
AU - Sawardekar, Siddhant
AU - Ezis, Andrea
AU - Wang, Yalin
AU - Nelson, Marvin D.
AU - Coulon, Olivier
AU - Lepore, Natasha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/11/4
Y1 - 2015/11/4
N2 - Characterization of the developing brain during early childhood is of interest for both neuroscience and medicine, and in particular, is key to understanding what goes wrong in neurodevelopmental disorders. In particular, the cortex grows rapidly in the first 3 years of life, and creating a normative atlas can provide a comparison tool to diagnose disorders at an early stage, thereby empowering early interventional therapies. Zooming in on specific sulci may provide additional targeted information, and notably, an understanding of central sulcus growth can provide important insight on the development of laterality. However, there currently do not exist any atlases of specific changes in sulci as the brain grows. In this pilot study, we explore regional differences in the depth of the central sulcus between two and three year old infants using brain magnetic resonance images.
AB - Characterization of the developing brain during early childhood is of interest for both neuroscience and medicine, and in particular, is key to understanding what goes wrong in neurodevelopmental disorders. In particular, the cortex grows rapidly in the first 3 years of life, and creating a normative atlas can provide a comparison tool to diagnose disorders at an early stage, thereby empowering early interventional therapies. Zooming in on specific sulci may provide additional targeted information, and notably, an understanding of central sulcus growth can provide important insight on the development of laterality. However, there currently do not exist any atlases of specific changes in sulci as the brain grows. In this pilot study, we explore regional differences in the depth of the central sulcus between two and three year old infants using brain magnetic resonance images.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318322
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318322
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 26736222
AN - SCOPUS:84953252453
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 149
EP - 152
BT - 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015
Y2 - 25 August 2015 through 29 August 2015
ER -