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  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Biology
  • Radiology

Background:

  • The human brain undergoes significant structural changes from infancy through young adulthood.
  • Early research relied on gross anatomical measures, but advanced MRI offers microstructural insights.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review literature on microstructural white matter development from birth to early adulthood using advanced MRI techniques.
  • To emphasize longitudinal studies and newer imaging methods for understanding normative brain maturation.

Main Methods:

  • Review of studies utilizing MRI techniques like diffusion, magnetization transfer, relaxometry, and myelin water imaging.
  • Focus on normative development from birth to approximately 25 years, prioritizing longitudinal data.

Main Results:

  • Consistent, rapid microstructural white matter development observed in the first three years, indicating increased myelination and axonal packing.
  • Diffusion imaging shows continued white matter maturation into adolescence, likely due to axonal packing.
  • Emerging evidence suggests sex-specific developmental trajectories linked to cognition and behavior.

Conclusions:

  • Advanced MRI techniques provide crucial insights into white matter maturation.
  • Further longitudinal research using novel imaging methods is needed to detail microstructural development, especially during childhood.