ReviewNature human behaviour2024
Trajectories of brain and behaviour development in the womb, at birth and through infancy.
Review in Nature human behaviour, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- High-resolution in utero SV2A PET imaging of the nonhuman primate brain using the NeuroEXPLORER.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2026Article
- Cross-paradigm fNIRS brain activity in 1-month-old infants across The Gambia and the United Kingdom.Neurophotonics · 2026Article
- Human brain R2* transitions across birth from the womb to early infancy.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Innate network mechanisms of temporal pole for semantic cognition in neonatal and adult twin studies.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Assessing neonatal brain glymphatic system development using diffusion tensor imaging along the perivascular space and choroid plexus volume.BMC medical imaging · 2025Article
- Perinatal Imaging in Partnership with Families (PIPKIN): Longitudinal cohort study protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
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Abstract
Birth is often seen as the starting point for studying effects of the environment on human development, with much research focused on the capacities of young infants. However, recent imaging advances have revealed that the complex behaviours of the fetus and the uterine environment exert influence. Birth is now viewed as a punctuate event along a developmental pathway of increasing autonomy of the child from their mother. Here we highlight (1) increasing physiological autonomy and perceptual sensitivity in the fetus, (2) physiological and neurochemical processes associated with birth that influence future behaviour, (3) the recalibration of motor and sensory systems in the newborn to adapt to the world outside the womb and (4) the effect of the prenatal environment on later infant behaviours and brain function. Taken together, these lines of evidence move us beyond nature-nurture issues to a developmental human lifespan view beginning within the womb.
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