Non-right-handedness in children born extremely preterm: Relation to early neuroimaging and long-term neurodevelopment.

Alise A van Heerwaarde Laura T van der KampNiek E van der AaLinda S de VriesFloris GroenendaalMarian J JongmansRian J C EijsermansCorine Koopman-EsseboomInge-Lot C van HaastertManon J N L BendersJeroen Dudink

Published in: PloS one (2020)

Our data show that non-right-handedness in children born extremely preterm occurs almost twice as frequently as in the general population. In the studied population, non-right-handedness is associated with weaker fine motor skills and paternal non-right-handedness, but not with overt brain injury or microstructural brain development on early magnetic resonance imaging.

Keyphrases

brain injury
low birth weight
gestational age
magnetic resonance imaging
subarachnoid hemorrhage
preterm birth
young adults
preterm infants
cerebral ischemia
white matter
air pollution
computed tomography
resting state
multiple sclerosis
machine learning
functional connectivity
medical students
data analysis