期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 26, 期 1, 页码 322-333出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu251
关键词
developmental neuroimaging; functional MRI; infant; prematurity; resting-state networks
资金
- National Institutes of Health [K12 NS001690, UL1 TR000448, R01 HD05709801, P30 HD062171, P30 NS048056, R01 HD061619]
- Child Neurology Foundation
- Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation
- Dana Foundation
- Doris Duke Foundation
Premature birth is associated with high rates of motor and cognitive disability. Investigations have described resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) correlates of prematurity in older children, but comparable data in the neonatal period remain scarce. We studied 25 term-born control infants within the first week of life and 25 very preterm infants (born at gestational ages ranging from 23 to 29 weeks) without evident structural injury at term equivalent postmenstrual age. Conventional resting-state network (RSN) mapping revealed only modest differences between the term and prematurely born infants, in accordance with previous work. However, clear group differences were observed in quantitative analyses based on correlation and covariance matrices representing the functional MRI time series extracted from 31 regions of interest in 7 RSNs. In addition, the maximum likelihood dimensionality estimates of the group-averaged covariance matrices in the term and preterm infants were 5 and 3, respectively, indicating that prematurity leads to a reduction in the complexity of rs-fMRI covariance structure. These findings highlight the importance of quantitative analyses of rs-fMRI data and suggest a more sensitive method for delineating the effects of preterm birth in infants without evident structural injury.
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