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ArticleImaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2025

Characterising the association between posterior parietal metabolite levels and cortical macrostructure in a cohort spanning childhood to adulthood.

Alice R Thomson, Duanghathai Pasanta, Richard A E Edden, Tomoki Arichi, Xiaoqian Chai, Nicolaas A Puts

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Article in Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Alice R ThomsonDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7502-3973
Duanghathai PasantaDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Richard A E EddenRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Tomoki ArichiMRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3550-1644
Xiaoqian ChaiDepartment of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Nicolaas A PutsDepartment of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

Postnatal brain development is characterised by dynamic macrostructural changes, including cortical thinning and cortical flattening during childhood and adolescence. These macrostructural changes are parallel with developmental changes in brain neurochemistry, probed in the human brain using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). This includes neurotransmitters such as glutamate and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), as well as building blocks of neuronal and associated tissue such as N-acetyl aspartate (NAA), and those involved in metabolism such as creatine (Cr). While previous research has linked MRS-measured neuro-metabolite levels to bulk tissue composition (e.g., grey matter, white matter, and cerebrospinal fluid), the relationship between neurochemistry and more granular macrostructural metrics, such as cortical thickness, area, volume, and local gyrification, remains unexplored. This study investigates the association between MRS-measured neuro-metabolite levels in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and PPC-voxel cortical macrostructural metrics in a developmental cohort of 86 individuals aged 5-35 years. Our findings reveal significant and positive age-dependent associations between PPC cortical thickness, volume, local gyrification index (LGI), and Glx (glutamate + glutamine) levels, likely because differences in cortical

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childhooddevelopmentGABAglutamateGlxmacrostructureparietal cortex

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