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SUBMITTER: Thomason ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5221666 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170109
It has been suggested that neurological problems more frequent in those born preterm are expressed prior to birth, but owing to technical limitations, this has been difficult to test in humans. We applied novel fetal resting-state functional MRI to measure brain function in 32 human fetuses in utero and found that systems-level neural functional connectivity was diminished in fetuses that would subsequently be born preterm. Neural connectivity was reduced in a left-hemisphere pre-language region ...[more]