The human brain grows quickly during infancy and early childhood, but factors influencing
brain maturation in this period remain poorly understood. To address this gap, we�…

Maternal infection has emerged as an important environmental risk factor for
neurodevelopmental disorders, including schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders�…

Objective: Maternal psychological stress during pregnancy is a common risk factor for
psychiatric disorders in offspring, but little is known about how heterogeneity of stress�…

Amygdala function is implicated in the pathogenesis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and
anxiety. We investigated associations between early trajectories of amygdala growth and�…

Segmenting deep brain structures from magnetic resonance images is important for patient
diagnosis, surgical planning, and research. Most current state‐of‐the‐art solutions follow a�…

This study examined the role of male pubertal maturation on physical growth and
development of neurocircuits that regulate stress, emotional and cognitive control using a�…

Adverse social experience during childhood and adolescence leads to developmental
alterations in emotional and stress regulation and underlying neurocircuits. We examined�…

The amygdala undergoes a period of overgrowth in the first year of life, resulting in enlarged
volume by 12 months in infants later diagnosed with ASD. The overgrowth of the amygdala�…

Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during infancy in a rhesus macaque (RM) model negatively
impacts brain development resulting in long-term behavioral alterations. The current study�…

Background The white matter (WM) connectome is important for cognitive development and
intelligence and is altered in neuropsychiatric illnesses. Little is known about how the WM�…