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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Network Science

Background:

  • Understanding the human brain requires examining complex, nonlinear interactions, not just pairwise functional connectivity.
  • Infancy is a critical period for brain development, influencing future learning and health.
  • Existing research lacks investigation into multiway, multiscale brain network interactions in infants.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To comprehensively investigate pairwise (pair-FNC) and triple (tri-FNC) relationships among brain intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs) in infants.
  • To explore higher-order functional relationships in the infant brain during early development.
  • To determine if tri-FNC provide insights beyond pair-FNC in early brain maturation.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of functional brain network interactions in 71 typically developing infants (4-179 days old).
  • Comprehensive investigation of both pairwise (pair-FNC) and triple (tri-FNC) relationships among intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs).
  • Focus on data from infants scanned during the first six months of life.

Main Results:

  • Significant hierarchical, multiway, and multiscale brain functional network interactions were identified in the infant brain.
  • Triple functional network connectivity (tri-FNC) revealed insights not captured by pairwise interactions (pair-FNC) during early development.
  • Identified tri-FNC predominantly involve default mode, sensorimotor, visual, limbic, language, salience, and central executive networks, aligning with the triple network model.

Conclusions:

  • The brain's network system, including the triple network model components, may be established within the first six months of infancy.
  • Triple functional network connectivity (tri-FNC) offers additional insights into higher-order nonlinear interactions compared to pair-FNC.
  • Exploring tri-FNC can yield more reliable biomarkers for characterizing infant brain developmental trajectories.