Patty Coker-Bolt, Emma Humphries, Andrew Barbour, Dorothea Jenkins, Jordan Tillman, Emily Ward; Correlating Early Motor Skills to White Matter Abnormalities in Preterm Infants. Am J Occup Ther 2016;70(4_Supplement_1):7011500061p1. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2016.70S1-PO5117.
Neuroimaging of specific white matter (WM) tracts can predict early motor skills in a cohort of preterm infants. Several WM tracts indicate that connectivity of the frontal cortex, the occipital visual cortex, the temporal lobe, and thalamus are important to early motor skill development.