Xuehua Li1,2, Yilu Zhang2, Aline Andres1, R.T. Pivik1, Charles Glasier2, Raghu Ramakrishnaiah2, Thomas Badger1, and Xiawei Ou1,2,3
1Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center, Little Rock, AR, United States, 2Radiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States, 3Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, Little Rock, AR, United States
Recent studies have reported negative
associations between maternal obesity during pregnancy and
cognitive/neurodevelopmental outcome of children. It is speculated that neuro-programming
differs in offspring of obese and normal weight women. In this study, we
evaluated and compared the resting-state functional connectivity in 2-week-old
infants born to normal weight or obese mothers, and we observed significant
differences in brain connectivity associated with maternal obesity.
