About Us

Who are we?

CDCN steering committee, chaired by Professor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, is responsible for the direction of the initiative.

Publications

Although an independent Centre, the CDCN is closely allied with the Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry (CNN) section in the Developmental Neurosciences Programme. The following publications are select research papers from the group between 2020-21.

Vargha-Khadem, F., & Cacucci, F. (2021). A Brief History of Developmental Amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 107689. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107689

Elward, R. L., Rugg, M. D., & Vargha-Khadem, F. (2021). When the brain, but not the person, remembers: Cortical reinstatement is modulated by retrieval goal in developmental amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 107788. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107788

Buck, S., Bastos, F., Baldeweg, T., & Vargha-Khadem, F. (2020). A Functional MRI Paradigm Suitable for Language and Memory Mapping in Pediatric Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY, 10, ARTN 1384. doi:10.3389/fneur.2019.01384

Tsirka, A., Liasis, A., Kuczynski, A., Vargha-Khadem, F., Kukadia, R., Dutton, G., & Bowman, R. (2020). Clinical use of the Insight Inventory in cerebral visual impairment and the effectiveness of tailored habilitational strategies. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology. doi:10.1111/dmcn.14650

Krieger, T. G., Moran, C. M., Frangini, A., Visser, W. E., Schoenmakers, E., Muntoni, F., . . . Livesey, F. J. (2020). Mutations in thyroid hormone receptor alpha 1 cause premature neurogenesis and progenitor cell depletion in human cortical development (vol 116, pg 22754, 2019). PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 117 (13), 7537-7538. doi:10.1073/pnas.2003767117

Buck, S., Bastos, F., Baldeweg, T., & Vargha-Khadem, F. (2020). The Pair Test: A computerised measure of learning and memory. Behav Res Methods. doi:10.3758/s13428-020-01470-9

Geva, S., Jentschke, S., Argyropoulos, G. P. D., Chong, W. K., Gadian, D. G., & Vargha-Khadem, F. (2020). Volume reduction of caudate nucleus is associated with movement coordination deficits in patients with hippocampal atrophy due to perinatal hypoxia-ischaemia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 28, 102429. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102429

Goksan, S., Argyri, F., Clayden, J. D., Liegeois, F., & Wei, L. (2020). Early childhood bilingualism: effects on brain structure and function [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. F1000Research, 9, 370. doi:10.12688/f1000research.23216.1

Liégeois, F., & Elward, R. (2020). Functional magnetic resonance imaging. Handbook of Clinical Neurology (pp. 265-275). doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-64148-9.00019-3

Nahum, A. S., & Liégeois, F. J. (2020). Language after childhood hemispherectomy: A systematic review. Neurology. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000011073

Hildebrand, M. S., Jackson, V. E., Scerri, T. S., Van Reyk, O., Coleman, M., Braden, R. O., . . . Morgan, A. T. (2020). Severe childhood speech disorder: Gene discovery highlights transcriptional dysregulation. Neurology. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000009441

Pigdon, L., Willmott, C., Reilly, S., Conti-Ramsden, G., Liegeois, F., Connelly, A., & Morgan, A. T. (2020). The neural basis of nonword repetition in children with developmental speech or language disorder: An fMRI study. Neuropsychologia, 138, 107312. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107312

Pellegrin, S., Baldeweg, T., Pujar, S., D'Arco, F., Cantalupo, G., Varadkar, S., & Cross, J. H. (2020). Immunomodulation with Azathioprine therapy in Rasmussen syndrome: A multimodal evaluation. Neurology. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000011004

Groeschel, S., Holmstrom, L., Northam, G., Tournier, J. -. D., Baldeweg, T., Latal, B., . . . Vollmer, B. (2020). Motor Abilities in Adolescents Born Preterm Are Associated With Microstructure of the Corpus Callosum (vol 10, 367, 2019). FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY, 11, ARTN 162. doi:10.3389/fneur.2020.00162

Lorio, S., Adler, S., Gunny, R., D'Arco, F., Kaden, E., Wagstyl, K., . . . Carmichael, D. W. (2020). MRI profiling of focal cortical dysplasia using multi-compartment diffusion models. Epilepsia. doi:10.1111/epi.16451

Wagstyl, K., Adler, S., Pimpel, B., Chari, A., Seunarine, K., Lorio, S., . . . Tisdall, M. (2020). Planning stereoelectroencephalography using automated lesion detection: Retrospective feasibility study. Epilepsia. doi:10.1111/epi.16574

Traub, R. D., Moeller, F., Rosch, R., Baldeweg, T., Whittington, M. A., & Hall, S. P. (2020). Seizure initiation in infantile spasms vs. focal seizures: proposed common cellular mechanisms. Reviews in the Neurosciences. doi:10.1515/revneuro-2019-0030

Buck, S., Bastos, F., Baldeweg, T., & Vargha-Khadem, F. (2020). The Pair Test: A computerised measure of learning and memory. Behav Res Methods. doi:10.3758/s13428-020-01470-9

Twomey, D. M., Ahearne, C., Hennessy, E., Wrigley, C., De Haan, M., Marlow, N., & Murray, D. M. (2020). Concurrent validity of a touchscreen application to detect early cognitive delay. rchives of Disease in Childhood. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2019-318262

Durrant, C., Wong, H. S., Cole, T. J., Hutchon, B., Collier, L., Wright, A., . . . Huertas Ceballos, A. (2020). Developmental trajectories of infants born at less than 30 weeks' gestation on the Bayley-III Scales. ADC Fetal & Neonatal. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2019-317810

Katus, L., Mason, L., Milosavljevic, B., McCann, S., Rozhko, M., Moore, S. E., . . . Prentice, A. (2020). ERP markers are associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes in 1–5 month old infants in rural Africa and the UK. NeuroImage, 210. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116591

Scheller, M., Proulx, M. J., de Haan, M., Dahlmann-Noor, A., & Petrini, K. (2020). Late- but not early-onset blindness impairs the development of audio-haptic multisensory integration. Developmental Science, e13001. doi:10.1111/desc.13001

Sakkalou, E., O’Reilly, M. A., Sakki, H., Springall, C., de Haan, M., Salt, A. T., & Dale, N. J. (2020). Mother–infant interactions with infants with congenital visual impairment and associations with longitudinal outcomes in cognition and language. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines. doi:10.1111/jcpp.13308