An Opportunity to Increase Collaborative Science in Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging.
An Opportunity to Increase Collaborative Science in Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging.
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增加胎儿、婴儿和幼儿神经影像学协作科学的机会。
DOI:
10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.07.005
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
10.6
通讯作者:
Vaughn,KellyA
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作者:
Fetal,Infant,andToddlerNeuroimagingGroup;Korom,Marta;CatalinaCamacho,M;Ford,Aiden;Taha,Hana;Scheinost,Dustin;Spann,Marisa;Vaughn,KellyA
The field of fetal, infant, and toddler (FIT) neuroimaging research—including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography, and functional near-infrared spectroscopy, among others—offers pioneering insights into early brain development and has grown in popularity over the past 2 decades. In broader neuroimaging research, multisite collaborative projects, data sharing, and open-source code have increasingly become the norm, fostering big data, consensus standards, and rapid knowledge transfer and development. Given the aforementioned benefits, along with recent initiatives from funding agencies to support multisite and multimodal FIT neuroimaging studies, the FIT field now has the opportunity to establish sustainable, collaborative, and open science practices. By combining data and resources, we can tackle the most pressing issues of the FIT field, including small effect sizes, replicability problems, generalizability issues, and the lack of field standards for data collection, processing, and analysis—together. Thus, the goals of this commentary are to highlight some of the potential barriers that have waylaid these efforts and to discuss the emerging solutions that have the potential to revolutionize how we work together to study the developing brain early in life.Although FIT development encompasses only about 3 years’ time, from gestation to late toddlerhood, it represents the most rapid and dynamic period of brain and behavior maturation within the lifespan (1). Infant mental health work suggests that this incredibly plastic period is when antecedents of psychiatric risk are instantiated in neural systems, before a formal diagnosis can be made. Therefore, charting healthy brain development in support of basic and translational science goals will require densely sampled and flexible measures across this period.