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  • Developmental cognitive neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging
  • Mental health research

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  • Growing interest in individual differences in brain development for mental health prediction.
  • Most longitudinal neuroimaging studies focus on group-level data, overlooking individual variability.
  • Need to explore heterogeneity in brain development patterns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Review longitudinal neuroimaging studies that examine individual differences in brain development.
  • Provide methodological recommendations for using longitudinal neuroimaging data to understand developmental heterogeneity.
  • Discuss how an individual-differences approach can advance understanding of mental health disorders.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of longitudinal neuroimaging studies.
  • Focus on studies moving beyond group-level analyses.
  • Synthesis of methodological approaches for individual-differences research.

Main Results:

  • Identified studies illustrating heterogeneity in brain development trajectories.
  • Highlighted the value of individual-differences approaches over group-level estimates.
  • Demonstrated the potential for predicting mental health outcomes through personalized brain development insights.

Conclusions:

  • Individual differences in brain development are crucial for understanding mental health.
  • Longitudinal neuroimaging, focusing on heterogeneity, offers valuable insights.
  • Adopting an individual-differences approach can significantly advance developmental neuroscience and mental disorder etiology research.