You’d prefer an astronaut, PhD

11/11 We plan to publicly release this child precision functional mapping dataset to aid others in future discoveries of functional brain networks in children. Stay tuned!

10/11 We are so very grateful for the team of collaborators who made this work possible, as the modern era of research is best with collaborations and open data.

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9/11 As we age, gain more unique experiences, develop individualized cognitive strategies, and experience our particular environment, our functional network organization becomes more individualized. In other words, you become more uniquely you.

8/11 This results in functional networks whose cores are extremely stable, likely reflecting a genetic component expressed in utero that establishes a common baseline network organization.

7/11 This result was counter to our (and others') prediction that brain organization moves from high variability in childhood to a stable "adult-like" state. Rather, we propose a "starburst" model where brain networks become more individualized over development.

6/11 One of our most striking (and unexpected) findings was that an individual child’s brain functional connectivity is more similar to their childhood peers than adults are to other adults. That is, children showed less inter-individual variability than adults.

5/11 Precision functional mapping allowed us to create highly precise and individualized functional network maps for each individual child. Not surprisingly, we found both broad similarities and unique features in network organization across children.

4/11 Here, we showcase precision mapping in a sample of twelve children 8-12 years old, each with 60-330 minutes of low-motion resting-state fMRI data, demonstrating feasibility, reliability, and some cool results.

3/11 This paper has been some time in the making and we’re excited to share the results! Precision functional mapping has revealed much about adult brain networks, but many question if it’s feasible to collect that much fMRI data from individual kids. We show it is!

2/11 Thanks to all the authors who made this work possible! @deannajgreene.bsky.social @caterinagratton.bsky.social @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social (and all the others not on this website!)

Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain Human brain organization shares a common underlying structure, though recent studies have shown that features of this organization also differ significantly across individual adults. Understanding the...

1/11 Very excited to say that our preprint, Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain, is up on biorxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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@evandorkin.bsky.social do you ever check your Twitter? I sent you a picture of something you signed for me forever ago on there, not realizing you might not use it anymore.

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