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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 99-125Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-017-0319-y
Keywords
Neurodevelopment; Neuroimaging; Brain development; Developmental neuroscience; Behaviour; Autism spectrum disorders; Cognitive development
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- Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) TOP [91211021]
- Sophia Children's Hospital Research Foundation (SSWO) [639]
- Department of Psychiatry at the Erasmus University Medical Centre
- Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative [SFARI-307280]
- European Union ERAWEB scholarship program [2013-2548/001-EMA-2]
- Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- ZonMw, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport through NWO [024.001.003]
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Paediatric population neuroimaging is an emerging field that falls at the intersection between developmental neuroscience and epidemiology. A key feature of population neuroimaging studies involves large-scale recruitment that is representative of the general population. One successful approach for population neuroimaging is to embed neuroimaging studies within large epidemiological cohorts. The Generation R Study is a large, prospective population-based birth-cohort in which nearly 10,000 pregnant mothers were recruited between 2002 and 2006 with repeated measurements in the children and their parents over time. Magnetic resonance imaging was included in 2009 with the scanning of 1070 6-to-9-year-old children. The second neuroimaging wave was initiated in April 2013 with a total of 4245 visiting the MRI suite and 4087 9-to-11-year-old children being scanned. The sequences included high-resolution structural MRI, 35-direction diffusion weighted imaging, and a 6 min and 2 s resting-state functional MRI scan. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the imaging protocol and the overlap between the neuroimaging data and metadata. We conclude by providing a brief overview of results from our first wave of neuroimaging, which highlights a diverse array of questions that can be addressed by merging the fields of developmental neuroscience and epidemiology.
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