Background Most children learn language effortlessly, but a minority struggle to master their
native tongue for no obvious reason. This is known as specific language impairment …

The human infant brain is the only known machine able to master a natural language and
develop explicit, symbolic, and communicable systems of knowledge that deliver rich …

Longitudinal characterization of early brain growth in-utero has been limited by a number of
challenges in fetal imaging, the rapid change in size, shape and volume of the developing …

We propose a method for the reconstruction of volumetric fetal MRI from 2D slices,
comprising super-resolution reconstruction of the volume interleaved with slice-to-volume …

The third trimester of pregnancy represents a sensitive phase for infant brain plasticity when
a series of fast-developing cellular events (synaptogenesis, neuronal migration, and …

Neurologic impairment is a major complication of complex congenital heart disease (CHD).
A growing body of evidence suggests that neurologic dysfunction may be present in a …

Convolutions are a classical hallmark of most mammalian brains. Brain surface morphology
is often associated with intelligence and closely correlated with neurological dysfunction …

Hemispheric specialization (HS) is a hemisphere-dependent relationship between a
cognitive, sensory, or motor function and a set of brain structures. It includes both the hosting …

METHODS: Preterm infants born before 32 weeks of gestational age (GA) and weighing<
1500 g with no evidence of structural brain injury on conventional MRI and healthy pregnant …

This study characterizes global and hemispheric brain growth in healthy human fetuses
during the second half of pregnancy using three-dimensional MRI techniques. We studied …