Analyzing pediatric bicycle injuries using geo-demographic data.

Purpose: Bicycle accidents are potentially preventable, and helmets can mitigate the severity of injuries. The purpose of the study it to investigate geo-demographic areas to establish prevention policies and targeted programs.

Methods: From October 2013 to March 2020 all bicycle injuries at a Level 1 trauma center were collected for ages ≤18 years.

Nationwide Outcomes and Readmission After Pediatric Laparoscopic and Open Fundoplication.

Fundoplications are a common operation in the pediatric population. This study aims to explore outcomes comparing laparoscopic versus open operative techniques. From 2010 to 2014 the Nationwide Readmissions Database was used to identify patients aged 0-18 years who underwent a fundoplication.

Parsing Heterogeneity of Executive Function in Typically and Atypically Developing Children: A Conceptual Replication and Exploration of Social Function.

Executive function (EF), the set of cognitive processes that govern goal-directed behavior, varies within developmental samples and clinical populations. Here, we perform a conceptual replication of prior work (Dajani et al. in Sci Rep 6:36566, 2016) in an independent sample of typically developing children (n = 183) and children with autism spectrum disorder (n = 104).

Atypical frontoamygdala functional connectivity in youth with autism.

Functional connectivity (FC) between the amygdala and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex underlies socioemotional functioning, a core domain of impairment in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Although frontoamygdala circuitry undergoes dynamic changes throughout development, little is known about age-related changes in frontoamygdala networks in ASD. Here we characterize frontoamygdala resting-state FC in a cross-sectional sample (ages 7-25) of 58 typically developing (TD) individuals and 53 individuals with ASD.