Publications

Published papers from the project are available, as listed below:

1) Evans, A.C. & the Brain Development Cooperative Group (2006). The NIH MRI study of normal brain development. NeuroImage, 30 (1), 184-202.
Link to Pubmed with PMID: 1637657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.09.068 - (Erratum - submitted)

2) Fu, L., Fonov, V., Pike, B., Evans, A.C. & Collins, D. L. (2006). Automated analysis of multi site MRI phantom data for the NIHPD project. Med Image Comput Assit Interve Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv, 9 (Pt 2), 144-151.

3) Almli C.R., Rivkin M.J., McKinstry R.C. & Brain Development Cooperative Group (2007). The NIH MRI study of normal brain development (Objective-2): Newborns, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. NeuroImage, 35 (1), 308-325.
Link to Pubmed with PMID: 17239623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.08.058

4) Waber, C.P., deMoor, C., Forbes, P.W., Almli, C.R., Botteron, K.N, Leonard, G., Milovan, D., Paus, T., Rumsey, J., & the Brain Development Cooperative Group (2007). The NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development: performance of a population based sample of healthy children aged 6 to 18 years on a neuropsychological battery. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13, 1-18.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1024408

5) Liu, A.K., Marcus, K. J., Fischl, B., Grant, P.E., Poussaint, T.Y., Rivkin, M.J., Davis, P., Tarbell, N.J., and Yock, T. I. (2007) Changes in cerebral cortex of children treated for medulloblastoma. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics. Jul 15;68(4):992-8. Epub 2007 Mar 26.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.01.034

6) Wilke, M., Holland, S.K., Altaye, M. & Gaser, C. (2008). Template-O-Matic: A toolbox for creating customized pediatric templates. Neuroimage, 43(4), 721-730.

7) Leppert, I.R., Eng, M., Almli, C.R., McKinstry, R.C., Mulkern, R.V., Pierpaoli, C., Rivkin, M.J., Pike, G.B. & the Brain Development Cooperative Group (in press). T1 relaxometry of normal pediatric brain development. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

8) Karama, S., Ad-Dab'bagh Y., Haier R. J., Deary I. J., Lyttelton O. C., Lepage C.,  Evans A. C., and the Brain Development Cooperative Group (in press). Positive association between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in a representative US sample of healthy 6 to 18 year-olds. Intelligence.

News Articles

Cyranoski, D., NATURE: NIH presents the mind of a child, Vol 447, 24 May 2007

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