Applications to infant development

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The human brain develops most rapidly during the first year of life, making early infancy a particularly exciting period for investigating structural properties of the white matter. Yet, those features that make infants unique, also bring distinct challenges for tractometry. For example, the almost complete lack of myelination in the infant brain results in reduced fractional anisotropy, and gray/white matter contrast compared to the adult brain. In this course, I will go over these challenges and propose specific adjustments that can be made to classical tractometry pipelines to improve the precision of white matter structural assessments in infants.