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| Application of brain functional imaging technology for developmental and behavioral pediatrics |
| MA Jun, ZHANG Anyi, JIN Xingming |
| Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China |
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Abstract Developmental and behavioral pediatrics is promoted to a new era by the development of modern brain functional imaging technologies. Brain functional imaging technologies are not only capable of discovering the exact mechanisms of brain deficits in developmental and behavioral disorders from brain activations, brain connections, and the whole brain system, but also helping constructing an integrated model of cognitive neural disorders. This may point towards the aberrant neural pathways which caused a variety of developmental and behavioral disorders. It may be useful to explore the targets for drug or other treatments. Take the brain development of typically developing children, children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, enuresis, and tics for examples, in this article we formulate the application progress of modern brain functional imaging technologies on developmental and behavioral pediatrics.
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