Brenden Tervo‐Clemmens

Salience network expansion as a transdiagnostic neural marker for psychopathology risk in adolescence

The paper examines whether increased salience network surface area in adolescents is specific to depression or a general marker of psychopathology, finding stronger associations with overall psychopathology than depression alone.

Movie Watching for Individual Functional Brain Network Estimation in Adolescents

This study compares functional brain network estimation using resting state crosshair fixation and movie watching in adolescents, finding similar network topography with minor border shifts.

Precision Confidence Mapping: An approach to determining individualized network topography with limited data

This paper introduces PCM, a method to assess network assignment confidence in rs-fMRI data, improving precision with limited scan durations.

Disentangling Brain-Psychopathology Associations: A Systematic Evaluation of Transdiagnostic Latent Factor Models

This study evaluates transdiagnostic latent factor models for brain-psychopathology associations using neuroimaging data, finding no consistent improvement in predictive utility over summary scores.

Developmental variation in dopamine neurobiology, neurocognitive functioning, and impulsivity shape substance use trajectories in youth

This study identifies four substance use trajectories in youth and links them to dopamine-related neurobiology, impulsivity, and inhibitory control during adolescence.

Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics

The paper links socioeconomic status (SES) to brain-wide associations, showing SES has stronger associations with brain structure and function than IQ or psychopathology.

Trajectories of hippocampal subregion development in the first years of life and their association with school-aged episodic memory outcomes

This study examines hippocampal subregion development in early life and links growth patterns to school-aged episodic memory performance.

Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development

The paper identifies menarche as an inflection point for mental health and brain development in adolescent females using longitudinal data.

A Scalable fMRI Estimate of Basal Ganglia Brain Tissue Iron for Use in Developmental and Translational Neuroscience

The paper introduces a scalable method to estimate basal ganglia brain tissue iron using fMRI data, validated across developmental datasets and applicable to large-scale repositories.

Cortical Thickness and Curvature in Autism and ADHD: A Mega-Analysis

This study identifies distinct cortical thickness and curvature patterns in autism and ADHD using harmonized, large-scale brain imaging data.

Heritability estimation of subcortical volumes in a multi-ethnic multi-site cohort study

The paper estimates heritability of subcortical brain volumes in adolescents using a multi-site cohort, finding high heritability in cerebellum cortex and hippocampus.

Stimulant medications affect arousal and reward, not attention

This study shows stimulant medications affect brain connectivity in action/motor and reward-related regions, not attention networks, and mimic the effects of sleep.

Motion Impact Score for Detecting Spurious Brain-Behavior Associations

The paper introduces SHAMAN, a method to assess motion impact on brain-behavior associations in fMRI studies, finding significant motion overestimation and underestimation in various traits.

Examining the heritability of functional brain networks in adolescence

This study estimates the heritability of functional brain networks in adolescents using SNP and twin data from the ABCD study, finding low genetic contributions.

Maturation of striatal dopamine supports the development of habitual behavior through adolescence

The paper examines how striatal dopamine maturation supports habitual behavior development from adolescence to adulthood using longitudinal data.

Multi-echo Acquisition and Thermal Denoising Advances Precision Functional Imaging

This paper introduces multi-echo acquisition and thermal denoising methods to improve precision functional MRI in adults, children, and newborns, showing increased signal-to-noise ratio and reliability.

Study design features increase replicability in cross-sectional and longitudinal brain-wide association studies

This study shows that optimizing study design, such as increasing age variability and adding longitudinal measurements, improves replicability and effect sizes in brain-wide association studies.

Uncovering and mitigating bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development

This paper identifies and addresses quality-related biases in structural MRI analyses of children by improving automated quality control methods.

Changes in prefrontal GABA and glutamate through adolescence supports excitation/inhibition balance

This study uses MRI to track changes in GABA and glutamate levels in the prefrontal cortex across adolescence, finding increased balance between these neurotransmitters.

Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Community MRI Collection and Utilities

A curated collection of processed ABCD neuroimaging derivatives plus utilities for access, sharing and analysis, letting researchers exchange derivatives they cannot share through the central archive.

Developmental Influences on Symptom Expression in Antipsychotic-Naive First-Episode Psychosis

The paper investigates how age affects symptom expression in first-episode psychosis using longitudinal data, finding age-related changes in perceptual and non-perceptual positive symptoms.

Towards Reproducible Brain-Wide Association Studies

Brain-behaviour correlations in ABCD are tiny (median |r|=0.01), so samples of typical size (N=25) give inflated, irreproducible results; estimates only stabilise around N⪆2,000.

Dopamine-related striatal neurophysiology is associated with specialization of frontostriatal reward circuitry through adolescence

This study examines how dopamine-related striatal properties change with age and their impact on frontostriatal circuitry connectivity during adolescence.

Neurocognitive development of inhibitory control and substance use vulnerability

The paper examines how externalizing psychopathology affects inhibitory control development and brain activation in adolescents at risk for substance use, finding differences that normalize by late adolescence.