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Development of cortical and subcortical brain structures in childhood and adolescence: a structural MRI study
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The purpose of the present study was to describe in greater anatomical detail the changes in brain structure that occur during maturation between childhood and adolescence. High-resolution MRI, tissue classification, and anatomical segmentation of cortical and subcortical regions were used in a sample of 35 normally developing children and adolescents between 7 and 16 years of age (mean age 11 years; 20 males, 15 females). Each cortical and subcortical measure was examined for age and sex effects on raw volumes and on the measures as proportions of total supratentorial cranial volume. Results indicate age-related increases in total supratentorial cranial volume and raw and proportional increases in total cerebral white matter. Gray-matter volume reductions were only observed once variance in total brain size was proportionally controlled. The change in total cerebral white-matter proportion was significantly greater than the change in total cerebral gray-matter proportion over this age range, suggesting that the relative gray-matter reduction is probably due to significant increases in white matter. Total raw cerebral CSF volume increases were also observed. Within the cerebrum, regional patterns varied depending on the tissue (or CSF) assessed. Only frontal and parietal cortices showed changes in gray matter, white matter, and CSF measures. Once the approximately 7% larger brain volume in males was controlled, only mesial temporal cortex, caudate, thalamus, and basomesial diencephalic structures showed sex effects with the females having greater relative volumes in these regions than the males. Overall, these results are consistent with earlier reports and describe in greater detail the regional pattern of age-related differences in gray and white matter in normally developing children and adolescents.
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“The unique circuitry recruited by adolescents may be associated with the known structural immaturities including continued gray matter thinning of the basal ganglia (Sowell et al., 2002) and OFC (Gogtay et al., 2004), and increases in dopamine transmission (Kalsbeek et al., 1988; Meng et al., 1999; Rosenberg & Lewis, 1994; Rosenberg & Lewis, 1995; Seeman et al., 1987).”
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“Among the latest developing regions are portions of parietal and pFC (Sowell et al., 2004;Sowell, Trauner, Gamst, & Jernigan, 2002;Paus et al., 2001;Giedd et al., 1999;Jernigan, Trauner, Hesselink, & Tallal, 1991)”
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“Structural MRI studies have revealed gradual increases of white matter volume and apparent thinning of cortex during childhood and adolescence.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sowell, E. R., Trauner, D. A., Gamst, A., & Jernigan, T. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Venue
- Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-01-24
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 01
- Pages
- 4
- ISSN
- 0012-1622 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8749
- OpenAlex
- W2164760908
- Cited by
- 701
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 29 · 2016: 30 · 2015: 40 · 2014: 44 · 2013: 63 · 2012: 46
- FWCI
- 15.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- National Institutes of Health (5r01hd023854-07, 1p01dc001289-01, NS22343, P50 NS22343)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (P01 DC01289)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (P50 NS 22343, P50NS022343)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD 23854)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Keywords
- brain maturation, childhood, adolescence, cortical development, subcortical structures, gray matter volume, white matter volume, cerebrospinal fluid volume, sex differences, frontal cortex, parietal cortex, caudate nucleus, thalamus, diencephalon, brain tissue classification
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Age Factors, Brain, Cerebral Cortex, Child, Child Development, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male
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