The human brain undergoes a prolonged period of cortical development that spans multiple
decades. During childhood and adolescence, cortical development progresses from lower …

Background Childhood maltreatment is the most important preventable cause of
psychopathology accounting for about 45% of the population attributable risk for childhood …

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is involved in working memory and self-regulatory and goal-
directed behaviors and displays remarkable structural and functional plasticity over the life …

There is evidence that the timing of developmental changes in cortical volume and thickness
varies across the brain, although the processes behind these differences are not well …

Rationale The investigation of putative effects of early life stress (ELS) in humans on later
behavior and neurobiology is a fast developing field. While epidemiological and …

Choosing the appropriate neuroimaging phenotype is critical to successfully identify genes
that influence brain structure or function. While neuroimaging methods provide numerous …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows unprecedented access to the anatomy and
physiology of the developing brain without the use of ionizing radiation. Over the past two …

Neuroscience is contributing to an understanding of the biological bases of human
intelligence differences. This work is principally being conducted along two empirical fronts …

Neuroimaging studies examining the effects of aging and neuropsychiatric disorders on the
cerebral cortex have largely been based on measures of cortical volume. Given that cortical …

The advent of magnetic resonance imaging, which safely allows in vivo quantification of
anatomical and physiological features of the brain, has revolutionized pediatric …