Infant Development and Preterm Care

Feasibility of a parent-delivered attention and working memory intervention for early school-aged children born preterm

This study evaluates the feasibility of a parent-delivered attention and working memory intervention for preterm children, finding high fidelity delivery but no specific cognitive benefits.

Heterogeneous, temporally consistent, and plastic brain development after preterm birth

The paper shows that brain abnormalities after preterm birth are spatially heterogeneous but temporally consistent and plastic in response to social environments.

Longstanding auditory sensory and semantic differences in preterm born children

This study examines how preterm birth affects auditory sensory and semantic processing in school-age children using auditory evoked potentials to environmental sounds.

Sensory event-related potential morphology predicts age in premature infants

This paper shows that sensory-evoked potentials can accurately predict age in premature infants, with potential for early detection of abnormal neurodevelopment.

Preterm infants show an atypical processing of the mother's voice

The paper shows preterm infants have atypical neural responses to maternal voice compared to full-term infants, with reduced selectivity for naturalistic maternal speech and increased response to stranger speech.

Deficits in neural encoding of speech in preterm infants

This study examines neural encoding of speech in preterm infants using EEG, finding that prematurity affects synchronization measures of the frequency following response (FFR) but not stimulus nativeness.

Parsing brain-behavior heterogeneity in very preterm born children using integrated similarity networks

This study identifies behavioral subgroups in very preterm children using integrated similarity networks and links them to neonatal brain structure and function differences.

Effects of gestational age at birth on perinatal structural brain development in healthy term-born babies

This study examines how gestational age at birth affects structural brain development in healthy term-born infants and links these changes to neurodevelopmental outcomes at 18 months.

Hippocampal Asymmetry of Regional Development and Structural Covariance in Preterm Neonates

This study compares hippocampal development in preterm and term-born neonates using MRI, finding asymmetrical structural impairments in preterm infants.

Preterm birth alters the development of cortical microstructure and morphology at term-equivalent age

This study examines how preterm birth affects cortical development in infants at term-equivalent age using MRI, finding altered microstructure and morphology with individual variability.

Phenotyping the preterm brain: characterising individual deviations from normative volumetric development in two large infant cohorts

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.

Automated cot-side tracking of functional brain age in preterm infants

This paper develops a method to track functional brain age in preterm infants using EEG, showing it correlates strongly with postmenstrual age and predicts neurodevelopmental outcomes.

Altered cortical gyrification in adults who were born very preterm and its associations with cognition and mental health

This study examines altered cortical gyrification in very preterm adults and its links to cognitive and mental health outcomes.

Atypical neuromagnetic resting activity associated with thalamic volume and cognitive outcome in very preterm children

Variations in Brain Morphometry Among Healthy Preschoolers Born Very Preterm

This study examines brain morphometry differences in healthy preschoolers born very preterm compared to full-term controls using MRI at 5 years of age.

Association between development of early cortical activity on amplitude-integrated EEG and 5-years neurodevelopmental outcome in the preterm infant

This study examines the link between early amplitude-integrated EEG (aEEG) and neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm infants, finding that aEEG measures are not predictive after adjusting for confounders.

A Dimensional Approach To Assessing Psychiatric Risk In Adults Born Very Preterm

This study assesses psychiatric symptomatology in adults born very preterm using a dimensional approach and finds elevated symptoms and a non-specific psychopathology profile.

Volumetric grey matter alterations in adolescents and adults born very preterm suggest accelerated brain maturation

This study identifies volumetric grey matter changes in very preterm individuals from adolescence to adulthood, showing accelerated brain maturation and regional vulnerability.