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5 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Development of the default-mode network during childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal resting-state fMRI study

   Fan, Liao, Lei et al. · NeuroImage · 2020

   A longitudinal resting-state fMRI study of 305 children tracked how the default-mode network's functional organisation changes from childhood to adolescence, using graph theory.

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   1. UncheckedIn this longitudinal study, default-mode network connectivity strengthened from childhood to adolescence and came to resemble that of young adults spatially.“We showed that the overall connectivity increased in strength from childhood to adolescence and became spatially similar to that in the young adult group (N = 61, 18-28 years of age).”
   2. UncheckedIn this longitudinal study, efficiency of information transfer across the default-mode network, globally and locally, rose with age from childhood to adolescence.“Global and local network efficiency in the DMN also increased with age, indicating an enhanced capability in parallel information communication within the brain system.”
   3. Unchecked“Based on the divergent developmental rates of nodal centrality, we identified three subclusters within the DMN, with the fastest rates in the cluster mainly comprising the anterior medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex.”

2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Development of areal-level individualized homologous functional parcellations in youth

   Li, Zhang, Xin et al. · Communications Biology · 2025

   The authors built a method to map individual brain regions across youth and used it on scans from 591 people aged 8-21 to chart how functional brain networks develop and relate to cognition.

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   1. UncheckedIn youth aged 8-21, functional features of the brain follow distinct developmental paths, with global mean functional connectivity decreasing widely across the cortex.“We found functional features during adolescence exhibit unique developmental trajectories, such as global mean functional connectivity with a widespread decrease across cerebral cortex.”
   2. UncheckedHigher-order transmodal brain networks showed more variable developmental trajectories across their small areal-level parcels than other networks did, in youth aged 8-21.“Then, we matched areal-level parcellations into large-scale networks and demonstrated that higher-order transmodal networks exhibited higher variability between developmental trajectories in areal-level parcels.”