Katy Vecchiato

This study identifies depth-dependent cortical microstructure alterations in children with focal epilepsy using quantitative MRI, suggesting potential pre-symptomatic changes detectable regardless of radiological abnormalities.

The paper examines how functional brain centrality develops in neonates and how preterm birth affects it, finding age-related changes and regional differences but no direct link to 18-month neurodevelopmental outcomes.

The paper analyzes neonatal functional MRI data to study functional connectivity in term and preterm infants, finding age-related maturation and preterm birth-related disruptions in brain networks.

The paper develops normative brain volumetric development curves for term-born infants and compares preterm infants to these curves, identifying individual deviations linked to clinical factors and neurocognitive outcomes.

The paper introduces a fully automated pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction from MRI, achieving high accuracy in 85% of cases.