AnalyzeDirect The Furlow Palatoplasty in Cleft Palate Repair
Cleft palate and cleft lip occur when a baby’s palate or lips don’t form properly during early pregnancy. These common birth defects take place if the tissue that makes up the roof of the mouth or the lip does not join completely before birth, leaving an opening. Nowadays, a series of reconstructive surgeries can correct…
Hippocampal Volume Measurement and Memory Loss
Memory is a highly constructive cognitive process that takes place in our everyday lives and consists of encoding, storing and retrieving information. Our memory is not located in one particular place in the brain, but is instead a brain-wide process during which several different areas of the brain act in conjunction with one another. One of the areas that plays…
Neural Networks in Utero: a Milestone in Fetal Development Timeline
The brain’s neural connectivity pattern is formed by structural links such as synapses or fiber pathways. Understanding brain connectivity is crucial to elucidating how neurons and neural networks process information and the establishment of these functional neural networks is one of the major stages of development of the human fetal brain. However, the developmental timetable…
Fetal Corpus Callosum Measurement as an Imaging Biomarker for Abnormal Neurodevelopment
Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) refers to abnormal fetal growth, and often results from poor maternal nutrition or lack of adequate oxygen to the fetus. IUGR is found in up to 10% of all pregnancies, in 20% of stillborn births and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Volume and neural network changes in cerebral white and…