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Open Access 01-12-2017 | Review

Social brain circuitry and social cognition in infants born preterm

Authors: Angela Fenoglio, Michael K. Georgieff, Jed T. Elison

Published in: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders | Issue 1/2017

Abstract

Preterm birth is associated with an increased risk of adverse neurologic, psychiatric, and cognitive outcomes. The brain circuits involved in processing social information are critical to all of these domains, but little work has been done to examine whether and how these circuits may be especially sensitive to prematurity. This paper contains a brief summary of some of the cognitive, psychiatric, and social outcomes associated with prematurity, followed by a description of findings from the modest body of research into social-cognitive development in infants and children born preterm. Next, findings from studies of structural and functional brain development in infants born preterm are reviewed, with an eye toward the distinctive role of the brain circuits implicated in social functioning. The goal of this review is to investigate the extent to which the putative “social brain” may have particular developmental susceptibilities to the insults associated with preterm birth, and the role of early social-cognitive development in later neurodevelopmental outcomes. Much work has been done to characterize neurobehavioral outcomes in the preterm population, but future research must incorporate both brain and behavioral measures to identify early biomarkers linked to later emerging social-cognitive clinical impairment in order to guide effective, targeted intervention.

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Title: Social brain circuitry and social cognition in infants born preterm
Authors: Angela Fenoglio
Michael K. Georgieff
Jed T. Elison
Publication date: 01-12-2017
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 1866-1947
Electronic ISSN: 1866-1955
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-017-9206-9

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