perinatal brain injury

The effect of perinatal brain injury on dopaminergic function and hippocampal volume in adult life

We discovered that people who had brain injury associated with very preterm birth has reduced dopamine function and smaller hippocampus than controls. The dopamine dysfunction was associated with negative and cognitive psychiatric symptoms. This work …

Very Early Brain Damage Leads to Remodeling of the Working Memory System in Adulthood: A Combined fMRI/Tractography Study

Children who have brain injury following preterm birth often have working memory problems. When we assessed adults with the same injury, we found they no longer had severe working memory difficulties. By combining techniques to investigate the …