Niloofar Hashempour

This study uses functional connectome harmonics to analyze neonatal brain gradients and finds that power and energy metrics differ between term and preterm neonates, predicting postmenstrual age.

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

The paper examines the association between maternal depressive symptoms and left amygdala connectivity in 5-year-olds, finding a positive link with local ReHo values.

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.

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

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

This study compares FSL-FIRST and FreeSurfer automated subcortical segmentation tools against manual segmentation in 5-year-olds, finding FSL-FIRST more accurate for most structures but with overestimation issues for small ones.