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TITLE
Development of brain structural connectivity between ages 12 and 30: a 4-Tesla diffusion imaging study in 439 adolescents and adults.
ABSTRACT
Understanding how the brain matures in healthy individuals is critical for evaluating deviations from normal development in psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. The brain's anatomical networks are profoundly re-modeled between childhood and adulthood, and diffusion tractography offers unprecedented power to reconstruct these networks and neural pathways in vivo. Here we tracked changes in structural connectivity and network efficiency in 439 right-handed individuals aged 12 to 30 (211 female/126 male adults, mean age=23.6, SD=2.19; 31 female/24 male 12 year olds, mean age=12.3, SD=0.18; and 25 female/22 male 16 year olds, mean age=16.2, SD=0.37). All participants were scanned with high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) at 4 T. After we performed whole brain tractography, 70 cortical gyral-based regions of interest were extracted from each participant's co-registered anatomical scans. The proportion of fiber connections between all pairs of cortical regions, or nodes, was found to create symmetric fiber density matrices, reflecting the structural brain network. From those 70 × 70 matrices we computed graph theory metrics characterizing structural connectivity. Several key global and nodal metrics changed across development, showing increased network integration, with some connections pruned and others strengthened. The increases and decreases in fiber density, however, were not distributed proportionally across the brain. The frontal cortex had a disproportionate number of decreases in fiber density while the temporal cortex had a disproportionate number of increases in fiber density. This large-scale analysis of the developing structural connectome offers a foundation to develop statistical criteria for aberrant brain connectivity as the human brain matures.
Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DATE PUBLISHED
2013 Jan 1
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
received 2012/05/22
revised 2012/08/13
accepted 2012/09/03
aheadofprint 2012/09/14
entrez 2012/09/18 06:00
pubmed 2012/09/18 06:00
medline 2013/06/05 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Dennis EL Dennis Emily L EL Imaging Genetics Center, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7334, USA.
Jahanshad N Jahanshad Neda N
McMahon KL McMahon Katie L KL
de Zubicaray GI de Zubicaray Greig I GI
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Hickie IB Hickie Ian B IB
Toga AW Toga Arthur W AW
Wright MJ Wright Margaret J MJ
Thompson PM Thompson Paul M PM
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 64
ISSUE:
TITLE: NeuroImage
ISOABBREVIATION: Neuroimage
YEAR: 2013
MONTH: Jan
DAY: 1
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1095-9572
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Neuroimage
COUNTRY: United States
ISSNLINKING: 1053-8119
NLMUNIQUEID: 9215515
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
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GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Aging pathology
Algorithms pathology
Cerebral Cortex cytology
Child cytology
Connectome methods
Diffusion Tensor Imaging methods
Female methods
Humans methods
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted methods
Male methods
Nerve Fibers, Myelinated ultrastructure
Reproducibility of Results ultrastructure
Sensitivity and Specificity ultrastructure
Young Adult ultrastructure
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's
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PMC3603574 NLM
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