BRAINS IN BRIEFS
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Changes in how brain regions “talk” to each other from childhood to adulthood follow and support a fundamental organizational pattern of the brain
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Functional connectivity development along the sensorimotor-association axis enhances the cortical hierarchy
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A NEW APPROACH TO IMAGING THE BRAIN DURING EARLY-STAGE NEURODEGENERATION
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Positron Emission Tomography with [18F]ROStrace Reveals Progressive Elevations in Oxidative Stress in a Mouse Model of Alpha-Synucleinopathy
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Finding the patterns of white matter growth that support children’s cognitive development
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Development of white matter fiber covariance networks supports executive function in youth
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Understanding the brain during mindfulness
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Mindful attention promotes control of brain network dynamics for self-regulation and discontinues the past from the present
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Does the size of your social network predict how big certain parts of your brain are?
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Social connections predict brain structure in a multidimensional free-ranging primate society
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How different levels of brain development help adolescent cognition - or don’t
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Dissociable multi-scale patterns of development in personalized brain networks
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Human brain imaging highlights a relationship between excitatory and antioxidant neurochemicals and psychosis
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A meta-analysis of ultra-high field glutamate, glutamine, GABA and glutathione 1HMRS in psychosis: Implications for studies of psychosis risk
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How do the brain’s structure and function develop together through adolescence?
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Development of structure-function coupling in human brain networks during youth
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Improving how we visualize brain changes from youth to adulthood
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Leveraging multi-shell diffusion for studies of brain development in youth and young adulthood
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Brains get denser during adolescence--and that might not be a bad thing!
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Age-Related Effects and Sex Differences in Gray Matter Density, Volume, Mass, and Cortical Thickness from Childhood to Young Adulthood [See Original Abstract on Pubmed]