Poorly-connected brain hubs and childhood developmental disorders often go hand in hand, according to a new state-of-the-art brain mapping study from the University of Cambridge. The findings (Siugzdaite et al., 2020) were published on February 27 in the journal Current Biology.
“The purpose of this study was to take a transdiagnostic approach to establish how brain differences relate to cognitive difficulties in childhood,” the authors said.