Most children with developmental disabilities (DD) live in resource-limited countries (LMIC)
or high-income country medical deserts (HICMD). A social contract between healthcare …

Exposure to acute and chronic stress has a broad range of structural effects on the brain.
The brain areas commonly targeted in the stress response models include the …

In-utero fetal MRI is emerging as an important tool in the diagnosis and analysis of the
developing human brain. Automatic segmentation of the developing fetal brain is a vital step …

Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) or autism are more prone to gastrointestinal
(GI) disorders than the general population. These disorders can significantly affect their …

Brain development follows a protracted developmental timeline with foundational processes
of neurodevelopment occurring from the third trimester of gestation into the first decade of …

Gene-environment (G x E) interactions significantly influence neurologic outcomes. The
maternal-placental-fetal (MPF) triad, neonate, or child less than 2 years may first exhibit …

Adverse intrauterine events may profoundly impact fetal risk for future adult diseases. The
mechanisms underlying this increased vulnerability are complex and remain poorly …

An interdisciplinary fetal-neonatal neurology (FNN) program over the first 1,000 days
teaches perspectives of the neural exposome that are applicable across the life span. This …

Automatic tissue segmentation of fetal brain images is essential for the quantitative analysis
of prenatal neurodevelopment. However, producing voxel-level annotations of fetal brain …

Recent advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have helped elucidate
previously inaccessible trajectories of early-life prenatal and neonatal brain development …