Regional Brain Volume and Cognitive Outcome in Preterm Infants

Abstract

Regional cortical volumes, measured by structural magnetic resonance imaging scans, were compared in 25 eight-year-old preterm children and 39 term control children, in a study performed at Yale and Brown University Medical Schools, and reported from the Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, CT.

Keywords

• cortical volumes
• sensorimotor areas
• basal ganglia