BIG thanks to our collaborators on this project! @ChadMSylvester @gordonneuro @DrDamienFair @hashtagAshleyN @gothemind @rogers_ce

Our neonatal parcels and the code used to generate them are now publicly available!

We also assigned functional network identities to each parcel using the Infomap algorithm, providing key insights into functional organization of the brain at birth.

Our cortical surface parcels showed high reproducibility in the held-out half of our neonatal sample and high validity in 3 external neonatal datasets, while publicly available adult parcels in these same neonatal datasets showed poor fit.

Publicly available adult parcellations don’t work with neonatal FC data, thus we generated an age-specific surface parcellation of the neonatal brain based on abrupt changes in FC.

We’ve parcellated the neonatal cortical surface based on abrupt changes in functional connectivity, resulting in a set of 283 highly homogenous cortical surface parcels in a sample of n=261 neonates. Preprint now available! https://t.co/2kTbB4tslY

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