L. Tugan Muftuler1, Kevin Michael Head2,
Claudia Buss2, Orhan Nalcioglu1, Curt A. Sandman2,
Elysia Poggi Davis2
1Center for Functional Onco-Imaging,
University of California, Irvine, CA, United States; 2Psychiatry
& Human Behavior, University of California, Orange, CA, United States
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is evidence that various cognitive and psychiatric disorders might stem from
abnormal cerebral development during childhood. Therefore, understanding
normal cortical development is important to study these abnormalities. For
that purpose, we analyzed high resolution MRI images from 129 normally
developing children between ages 6 and 11 years. Cortical development between
6 an 11 years as well as within 2 year windows was investigated. The results
demonstrated that the cortical development was expressed in different
anatomical locations within each time frame. The findings reveal the cortical
development in a much finer spatial and temporal detail than has been
previously reported.
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