John D. Lewis

Neonatal White Matter Microstructure Predicts Infant Attention Disengagement from Fearful Faces

The paper links neonatal white matter microstructure to attention disengagement from fearful faces in infants using diffusion MRI and eye tracking.

Associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and infant striatal mean diffusivity

This study finds a positive association between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and infant left caudate nucleus mean diffusivity, suggesting in utero exposure to maternal adiposity may impact brain development.

Neonatal Amygdala Mean Diffusivity: A Potential Predictor of Emotional Face Perception

This study examines the relationship between neonatal amygdala microstructure and attention to emotional faces, finding a negative association between amygdala mean diffusivity and disengagement from fearful faces.

The FinnBrain Multimodal Neonatal Template and Atlas Collection: T1, T2, and DTI brain templates, and accompanying cortical and subcortical atlases

The paper introduces a multi-contrast neonatal brain template and atlases to improve image processing and spatial normalization in neonatal neuroimaging.

Effect of number of diffusion encoding directions in Neonatal Diffusion Tensor Imaging using Tract-Based Spatial Statistical analysis

The paper evaluates the effect of diffusion encoding directions on DTI scalar estimates in neonates using TBSS analysis and finds negligible differences with 24 or more directions.

Infant Left Amygdala Volume Is Negatively Associated with Fecal Microbiota Diversity

The paper finds a negative association between infant left amygdala volume and fecal microbiota alpha diversity in early life.

Sex differences, asymmetry and age-related white matter development in infants and 5-year-olds as assessed with Tract-Based Spatial Statistics

The paper uses tract-based spatial statistics to examine sex differences, lateralization, and age-related white matter development in infants and 5-year-olds using diffusion tensor imaging.

Parental childhood maltreatment associates with offspring left amygdala volume at early infancy

The paper examines the association between parental childhood maltreatment and offspring left amygdala volume in early infancy using a birth cohort study.

A sub+ cortical fMRI-based surface parcellation

The paper develops a functional parcellation method for both cortical and subcortical brain surfaces, showing improved homogeneity and alignment with known subnuclei compared to arbitrary parcellations.

In-phase and in-antiphase connectivity in EEG

The paper confirms the presence of genuine zero-lag synchrony in EEG data, suggesting it is not solely due to volume conduction or artifacts.

Cortical and subcortical T1 white/gray contrast, chronological age, and cognitive performance

The paper shows that combining cortical and subcortical white/gray contrast improves age prediction and reveals cognitive performance differences through residual analysis.

T1 white/gray contrast as a predictor of chronological age, and an index of cognitive performance

The paper predicts chronological age and cognitive performance using white/gray contrast metrics in brain imaging, showing better correlation with IQ than cortical thickness.