Allyson P. Mackey

This study examines how early sensory loss affects thalamocortical networks, finding structural and functional changes in visual and auditory systems.

The paper shows that white matter tracts are positioned within the cortical hierarchy to support specific cognitive functions and connect regions with greater cognitive diversity.

The paper uses neuroimaging data to study how plasticity in language-related brain regions changes across early childhood, finding distinct patterns of development in different brain areas.

This study links childhood environmental exposures to white matter structure in children, showing that advantaged environments correlate with larger white matter tracts and reduced orientation dispersion.

This study examines how acute alcohol consumption affects neural inhibition in both rats and humans using the Hurst exponent as an fMRI marker, finding reduced inhibition in both species.

This paper investigates how play behavior in children is linked to brain network integration, finding stronger connections among the default mode, executive control, and salience networks with more frequent play.

This study identifies two axes of white matter development in human cortico-cortical tracts using diffusion MRI across three datasets, revealing non-uniform maturation patterns.

This study compares myelination patterns across cortical depths and hierarchies in humans and macaques, finding a conserved inside-out pattern with extended myelination in humans.

This study validates the Hurst exponent as a marker of inhibition in developing brains across species and shows its developmental plateau aligns with parvalbumin expression.

The paper shows thalamocortical connections develop along a sensorimotor-association gradient in youth, linking structural connectivity to cortical plasticity and environmental sensitivity.

The paper investigates how an individual's exposome influences functional brain network organization and cognitive functioning in youth, finding that exposome factors predict cognitive performance better than neuroimaging data.

The paper uses multilayer network analysis to explore associations between environmental exposures and brain development in children, finding dense connections within environmental and brain layers but sparse connections between them.

This study investigates functional brain network development in children aged 4-10, finding age-related segregation and integration patterns that challenge classical theories of cortical maturation.

The paper shows that intrinsic brain activity decreases along a sensorimotor-association cortical axis during human development, with reduced activity in disadvantaged youth.

The paper investigates whether proxy measures of neural plasticity in the human frontoparietal system predict learning outcomes after short-term training.

This study identifies functional brain network communities in children using fMRI data, finding similar structures to adults in early-developing regions but differences in transmodal areas and higher uncertainty in limbic and cingulo-opercular regions.

This study examines how neighborhood socioeconomic status affects executive system activation during a working memory task in youth and identifies mediating brain activity patterns.

This study evaluates how different functional connectivity measures in resting-state fMRI data are affected by motion artifacts and finds that partial correlation is most robust.

The paper shows that early life stress, measured by family income and adverse childhood experiences, is linked to earlier eruption of permanent molars in children.

This study examines how a family-based intervention affecting conversational turn-taking influences neuroplasticity and language development in young children.

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