White matter and cognition in adults who were born preterm.

White matter and cognition in adults who were born preterm.

Individuals born very preterm (before 33 weeks of gestation, VPT) are at risk of damage to developing white matter, which may affect later cognition and behaviour.We used diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) to assess white matter microstructure (fractional anisotropy; FA) in 80 VPT and 41 term-born indivi...

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Main Authors: Matthew P G Allin, Dimitris Kontis, Muriel Walshe, John Wyatt, Gareth J Barker, Richard A A Kanaan, Philip McGuire, Larry Rifkin, Robin M Murray, Chiara Nosarti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3192037?pdf=render

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