Can you see what I see? Assessing brain maturation and injury in preterm and term neonates. New scientific commentary by Duerden and Thompson bit.ly/37kx6Bp

Our M-CRIB-WM neonatal parcellated white matter atlas has just been published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…, and the ten individual parcellated datasets are publicly available here: osf.io/mnwv9/

This atlas contains 54 manually parcellated white matter regions, & is also downloadable combined with the M-CRIB 2.0 whole-brain atlas. Huge thanks to Sarah Yao and everyone involved @claireekelly_ Gareth Ball Dr Lillian G Matthews 🧠 @parkvillegeek Prof Lex Doyle AO Alicia Spittle Deanne Thompson

New neonatal parcellation suite. Extracts cortical surfaces using dHCP tools, then parcellates the cortex into Desikan-Killiany-(Tourville) compatible regions. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Latest pre-print led by @claireekelly_ - "Long-term development of white matter fiber density and morphology up to 13 years after preterm birth". A truly impressive effort characterising white matter development 13 years following pre-term birth. Link: tinyurl.com/t2tbxad

Babies born before 28 weeks of gestation are surviving into adulthood at higher rates than ever, and scientists are checking in on their health. ift.tt/2Br9v7T

How to revise: As an editor and author I have seen many revised papers return to journals. Given effort, most go well (ie step toward acceptance). Some go pear-shaped. I’ve slowly improved and have an approach known by my group as the ‘Breakspear method”. Here is its essence

Associate Professor Deanne Thompson, leads our neuroimaging team. In our latest Professor Profile, Dee talks about how she started in neuroimaging, what she is working on now and her latest publication on tracking brain growth in preterm babies All here: bit.ly/306ePHv

NEWS: More babies are being given a fighting chance says Professor Jeanie Cheong The lead researcher released a study today in BMJ_Open showing survival rates of extremely premature babies has gone up nearly 20% since the 90s. Read more: thewomens.org.au/news/more-babi…

Here is a sneak peak of our NEW Short Cut Video for families on BPD featuring Brett J. Manley 🤷🏼‍♂️ This is the first in a series of videos CRE in Newborn Medicine is producing, addressing topics of interest as identified by our Consumer Advisory Group. Full length video here: bit.ly/2FKvFoh

🧠 New review in preprint: "Fixel-based Analysis of Diffusion MRI: Methods, Applications, Challenges and Opportunities". Here: 🔗 doi.org/10.31219/osf.i… A collaborative Melbourne lock-down effort to serve the #dMRI community! Please RT, we welcome constructive feedback. [1/11]

I'm really excited to be joining the ISMRM_ANZ Committee as the Division Representative for Victoria and to have the opportunity to work with this fantastic team. Looking forward to future events!

New pre-print alert! In this paper, we benchmark different geometric deep learning frameworks as potential tools for registration-independent cortical analysis. A mammoth effort led by Abdulah with Logan Williams Amir Alansary Herve Lombaert and others biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n

Our paper "Investigating brain structural maturation in children and adolescents born very preterm using the brain age framework" is now out in NeuroImage doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… With Gareth Ball Dr Lillian G Matthews 🧠 Jeanie Prof Lex Doyle AO Dr Terrie Inder Deanne Thompson Peter Anderson

Our recent work investigates the microstructural and free-water composition of the white matter and cortical grey matter in children born very preterm and at term. It is now available in NeuroImage: doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

PhD submitted! Such a privilege to work under an incredible team in Deanne Thompson Mary Tolcos 🤓🧠👩🏻‍🔬 Angie Cumberland Peter Anderson 🙏🏻 Many thanks to the VIBeS team at Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), CRE in Newborn Medicine, and Healthy Foundations Research Group for their support throughout.

I'm excited to present our work using the brain age approach to study brain maturation at Australasian Brain & Psychological Sciences today (11.30 am, stream 4)!

Another amazing paper from Courtney Gilchrist Watch this space for more to come about the #preterm brain Angie Cumberland Deanne Thompson Fiber-Specific Measures of White Matter Microstructure and Macrostruct... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"Motor functioning at age 7 may be a useful marker of later #attentionskills, particularly for children born very #preterm". Alice Burnett Deanne Thompson Alicia Spittle Prof Lex Doyle AO Leona Pascoe buff.ly/40esRo8

Kelly et al. compare cortical developmental trajectories in children born at term versus very preterm, and show that the impact of very preterm birth on cortical growth is amplified from infancy to adolescence. tinyurl.com/262mxyxx