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Functional Connectivity of the Human Brain in Utero

Marion I van den Heuvel1, Moriah E Thomason2

  • 1Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child and Family Development, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA; Perinatology Research Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)/National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Detroit, MI, USA.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|November 10, 2016
PubMed
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Keywords:
brain developmentfetusfunctional connectivitypregnancyresting-state

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