Publications by authors named "Fukun Jiang"
Associations Among Birth Weight, Adrenarche, Brain Morphometry, and Cognitive Function in Preterm Children Ages 9 to 11 Years.
Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging
September 2024
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- - The study explores how low birth weight in preterm infants is linked to ongoing neurological and cognitive issues, emphasizing changes in endocrine and metabolic processes that could affect brain health as children develop.
- - Analyzing data from 3,571 preterm and full-term children, the research found that lower birth weight is connected to poorer cognitive performance and smaller brain volumes, especially in key brain regions.
- - Results indicate that factors like early onset of adrenarche and specific brain volume measurements can help explain the cognitive deficits seen in preterm kids, suggesting that these insights could inform future prevention and treatment strategies.
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- Children with ADHD exhibit abnormal brain structures, indicated by neuroimaging studies, which suggest potential improvements with stimulant medications.
- This study analyzed a large sample of children aged 9-11, comparing those with low ADHD symptoms on medication, those with high ADHD symptoms off medications, and typically developing controls.
- Results indicated that children with high ADHD symptoms had lower cortical thickness and subcortical volume, while those on stimulants showed improvements in both symptoms and brain structure compared to typically developing peers.
Pediatric overweight/obesity can lead to sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), abnormal neurological and cognitive development, and psychiatric problems, but the associations and interactions between these factors have not been fully explored. Therefore, we investigated the associations between body mass index (BMI), SDB, psychiatric and cognitive measures, and brain morphometry in 8484 children 9-11 years old using the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development dataset. BMI was positively associated with SDB, and both were negatively correlated with cortical thickness in lingual gyrus and lateral orbitofrontal cortex, and cortical volumes in postcentral gyrus, precentral gyrus, precuneus, superior parietal lobule, and insula.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Preterm birth is a global health problem and associated with increased risk of long-term developmental impairments, but findings on the adverse outcomes of prematurity have been inconsistent.
Methods: Data were obtained from the baseline session of the ongoing longitudinal Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. We identified 1706 preterm children and 1865 matched individuals as Control group and compared brain structure (MRI data), cognitive function and mental health symptoms.
Transgenic soybean is one of the most planted crops for human food and animal feed. The channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) is an important aquatic organism cultured worldwide. In this study, the effect of six different soybean diets containing: two transgenic soybeans expressing different types of cp4-epsps, Vip3Aa and pat genes (DBN9004 and DBN8002), their non-transgenic parent JACK, and three conventional soybean varieties (Dongsheng3, Dongsheng7, and Dongsheng9) was investigated in juvenile channel catfish for eight weeks, and a safety assessment was performed.
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- The study explores how higher body mass index (BMI) in children is linked to poorer working memory performance, using MRI techniques on a large group of participants.
- Children with overweight or obesity (OW/OB) demonstrated lower working memory accuracy and exhibited smaller gray matter volumes in key brain areas related to memory.
- The research found that OW/OB children had reduced activation in specific brain regions during memory tasks, and abnormalities in the caudate region could explain the connection between high BMI and lower working memory performance.
Childhood obesity has become a global health problem. Previous studies showed that childhood obesity is associated with brain structural differences relative to controls. However, few studies have been performed with longitudinal evaluations of brain structural developmental trajectories in childhood obesity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: BACKGROUND : Patients with functional constipation (FCon) have been reported with brain functional and structural abnormalities. However, no studies have been performed to investigate the differences in resting-state networks (RSNs) and changes in functional connectivity (FC) between RSNs in patients with FCon. Thus, the current study aimed to identify abnormal FC within and interaction between RSNs in patients with FCon to reveal the underlying neural mechanism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHabenular (Hb) processes negative emotions that may drive compulsive food-intake. Its functional changes were reported following laparoscopic-sleeve-gastrectomy (LSG). However, structural connectivity (SC) of Hb-homeostatic/hedonic circuits after LSG remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Plant height is an important agronomic trait that affects yield and tolerance to certain abiotic stresses. Understanding the genetic control of plant height is important for elucidating the regulation of maize development and has practical implications for trait improvement in plant breeding.
Methodology/principal Findings: In this study, two independent, semi-dwarf maize EMS mutants, referred to as dwarf & irregular leaf (dil1), were isolated and confirmed to be allelic.