This suggests a link between cortical folding, M-scaling and the functional development of cerebral sulci.
Nikolaou, N. & Meyer, M. P. Lamination speeds the functional development of visual circuits.
Although myelination is believed to mirror behavioral development (Pujol et al. 2006), with the myelination of sub-serving brain networks occurring alongside the onset and refinement of behavioral and cognitive functions, the relationships between myelination and functional development remain poorly understood.
This developmental assessment battery provided five scales of cognitive and behavioral ability (gross motor, fine motor, expressive language, receptive language, and visual reception) from which we could interrogate the inherent relationship between structural and functional development.
Finally, modeled trajectories, coupled with longitudinal scores of cognition and behavior, were examined to identify relationships between VFM and functional development.
The coupling between this structural and functional development provides insight into the evolving relationship between myelin content and behavior as well as indicating evidence of sensitive periods of neurodevelopment between 1 and 2 years of age.
Our integrative approach will support a holistic understanding of systems biology and will help establish new links between environmental assessment and functional development of marine bivalves.
Mack-Bucher, J.A., Li, J. & Friedrich, R.W. Early functional development of interneurons in the zebrafish olfactory bulb.
A better understanding of the relationship between structural and functional brain development during early infancy, and of the relationship between individual differences in brain and cognitive development, is also essential.
Future larger-scale multimodal and longitudinal neuroimaging studies will be necessary to further shed light on the association between structural and functional brain development, avoiding the confounds of cohort effects inherent to cross-sectional studies.
