title: The use of functional and effective connectivity techniques to understand the developing brain.
abstract: Developmental neuroscience, the study of the processes that shape and reshape the maturing brain, is a growing field still in its nascent stages. The developmental application of functional and effective connectivity techniques, which are tools that measure the interactions between elements of the brain, has revealed insight to the developing brain as a complex system. However, this insight is granted in discrete windows of consecutive time. The current review uses dynamic systems theory as a conceptual framework to understand how functional and effective connectivity tools may be used in conjunction to capture the dynamic process of change that occurs with development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Goldenberg
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Brain Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, 695 Charles Young Dr. S., Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. Electronic address: agalvan@ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Adriana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Galván
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development*; D015986:Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009488:Neurosciences; D013598:Systems Theory
keywords: Brain development; Dynamic causal modeling; Effective connectivity; Functional connectivity; Graph theory; Resting state