New preprint! Are early environments associated with the pace of cortical network development?. In my first postdoc preprint with the @wunder_lab, @BarchDbarch, @rogers_ce, and Chris Smyser, we addressed this question. 🧵.\1.

RT @FIT_NGIn: Session 4: Early Network Development is starting now! @MinghuiOuyang presents the developmental connectome, @UTooley links pr….

RT @StephForkel: @UTooley showed that the prenatal environment affects brain network development speed in the first 3 years. Early developm….

RT @hashtagAshleyN: Super excited to be in Seoul 🇰🇷 at #ohbm2024 and share our recent work examining the development of intrinsic 🧠 activit….

This work was done with the @wunder_lab at @WUSTLmed, with @BarchDbarch, @rogers_ce , and Chris Smyser, along with many wonderful collaborators who aren't on this platform (and @tara_smyser , @shimonyjs, @hashtagAshleyN, and @lisa_gorham who are).

Check out the full poster below, and the preprint for even more details.

I’ll be talking about my work on prenatal environment & the pace of brain development at @OHBM @OHBM_Trainees during the Tuesday symposium at 12 PM with chairs @StephForkel and @philkuhnke. Since I'm not able to make it in-person, please connect with me here for Qs! #OHBM2024

RT @VirusesImmunity: Sharing our new study by @keylas3, @SilvaJ_C, Rafael Bayarri Olmos et al (with T. Horvath & @PutrinoLab) showing that….

RT @zalaly: 📣 New in @ScienceMagazine. I teamed up with @EricTopol to write this #SciencePerspective on Long Covid. Solving the puzzle of #….

RT @zalaly: Where things stand with Long Covid. By Jason Gale @jwgale in @washingtonpost . A great review of where we stand. A lot of pro….

Thanks for the wonderful write up, @kara_mcgaughey!.

RT @pineurosci: First preprint out of @Stanford_PMHW! Mood disorders are a leading cause of disability, potentially due to co-occurring cog….

Also be sure to check out all our precision mapping of neonates, with posters from @_JuliaMoser at 2–F-56, @KoiralaSanju1 at 1-F-59, and Alyssa at 1-C-23!.

Excited to present work from precision functional mapping of neonates @FIT_NGIn tomorrow, at poster 2-F-60. Really cool data collected by @ChadMSylvester and Alyssa Labonte — come check it out! #FITNG2023

RT @_JuliaMoser: Ever wondered, how much data you need to construct a reliable individual specific functional brain networks in a newborn i….

So excited to read this! I always love to chew on what Bart and co. are thinking about 🤩.

A big thank you to all the wonderful collaborators on this project: A Latham, J Kenley, D Alexopoulos, @tara_smyser, B Warner, @shimonyjs, J Neil, & J Luby, and support of @WUSTLmed @MIRimaging, and thank you for reading! . Reach out with q's, comments, feedback, etc😊. /16.

Our work highlights the importance of understanding timing and directionality of environmental associations with trajectories of cortical brain development, and emphasizes the first years of life as a target for policies supporting optimal child development. /16.

Or are these simply long-lasting instantiations of effects of the birth environment? Or might lower interindividual variability in sensorimotor regions make it easier to detect environmental effects, above and beyond individual variability?. Lots of imp work remaining!/15.

I’m also intrigued by findings across studies that effects of SES on intrinsic cortical networks occur in sensorimotor areas. Are environmental effects on brain activity transduced through sensory systems, regardless of developmental stage?/14.

Interesting — perhaps lower cortical network segregation early in development reflects more widespread connectivity and prolonged sensitivity to the environment that is advantageous for language abilities and the development of language networks early on. /13.