Birth weight, an indicator of fetal growth, is associated with cognitive outcomes in early life
(which are predictive of cognitive ability in later life) and risk of metabolic and cardiovascular …

Preterm birth is associated with dysconnectivity of structural brain networks and is a leading
cause of neurocognitive impairment in childhood. Variation in DNA methylation is …

The diverse cerebral consequences of preterm birth create significant challenges for
understanding pathogenesis or predicting later outcome. Instead of focusing on describing …

Formation of the functional connectome in early life underpins future learning and behavior.
However, our understanding of how the functional organization of brain regions into …

In infancy, stress responses and emotion regulation are often coupled. Both are impacted by
prematurity, though their relationship to one another in the case of infants born preterm is not …

Brain dynamic functional connectivity characterises transient connections between brain
regions. Features of brain dynamics have been linked to emotion and cognition in adult …

The early life environment programmes cortical architecture and cognition across the life
course. A measure of cortical organisation that integrates information from multimodal MRI …

Preterm birth is closely associated with cognitive impairment and generalized
dysconnectivity of neural networks inferred from water diffusion MRI (dMRI) metrics. Peak …

Illicit use of opioids is a global health crisis with major implications for women and children.
Strategies for managing opioid use disorder (OUD) in pregnancy have been tested over the …

Brain functional dynamics have been linked to emotion and cognition in mature individuals,
where alterations are associated with mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental conditions …