Publications

 

Peer-reviewed publications and research investigations

 

2024

Mattie D, Fang Z, Takahashi E, Pena-Castillo L, Levman J. Baseline structural connectomics data of healthy brain development assessed with multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging. Information 2024. 15:66.
 

Ortug A, Guo Y, Feldman HA, Ou Y, Warren JLA, Dieuveuil H, Baumer NT, Faja SK, Takahashi E. Autism-associated brain differences can be observed in utero using MRI. Cereb Cortex. 2024 Apr 1;34(4):bhae117. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhae117.
 

2023

Levman J, Kabaria P, Nangaku M, Takahashi E. Morphological abnormalities in early-onset schizophrenia revealed by structural magnetic resonance imaging. Biology 2023. 12:353. 

PMID: 36979045 | PDF


Ortug A, Valli B, Alatorre Warren JL, Shiohama T, van der Kouwe A, Takahashi E. Brain Pathways in LIS1-Associated Lissencephaly Revealed by Diffusion MRI Tractography. Brain Sci. 2023 Nov 29;13(12):1655. doi: 10.3390/brainsci13121655. 
 

Shiohama T, Maikusa N, Kawaguchi M, Natsume J, Hirano Y, Saito K, Takanashi J, Levman J, Takahashi E, Matsumoto K, Yokota H, Hattori S, Tsujimura K, Sawada D, Uchida T, Takatani T, Fujii K, Naganawa S, Sato N, Hamada H. A brain morphometry study with across-site harmonization using a ComBat-generalized additive model in children and adolescents. Diagnostics 2023. 13:2774.
 

 

2022

Akaba Y, Shiohama T, Komaki Y, Seki F, Ortug A, Sawada D, Uchida W, Kamagata K, Shimoji K, Aoki S, Takahashi S, Suzuki T, Natsume J, Takahashi E, Tsujimura K. Comprehensive volumetric analysis of Mecp2-null mouse model for Rett syndrome by T2-weighted 3D magnetic resonance imaging. Front Neurosci. 2022. 16:885335.
 

Levman J, Forgeron C, Shiohama T, MacDonald P, Stewart N, Lim A, Takahashi E. Cortical thickness abnormalities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder revealed by structural magnetic resonance imaging: newborns to young adults. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2022. In press.

PMID: 35797727 | PDF


Levman J, Jennings M, Rouse E, Berger D, Kabaria P, Nangaku M, Gondra I and Takahashi E. A morphological study of schizophrenia with magnetic resonance imaging, advanced analytics, and machine learning. Front. Neurosci. 2022. 16:926426.

PMID: 36046472 | PDF


McCann B, Lam M, Shiohama T, Ijner P, Takahashi E, Levman J. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates gyral abnormalities in Tourette syndrome.  Int J Dev Neurosci. 2022. In press.

PMID: 35775746 | PDF


Ortug A, Yuzbasioglu N, Akalan N, Levman J, Takahashi E. Preoperative and postoperative high angular resolution diffusion imaging tractography of cerebellar pathways in posterior fossa tumors. Clinical Anat. 2022. In press. doi.org/10.1002/ca.23914 

PMID: 35560729 | PDF


Shiohama T, Ortug A, Alatorre Warren JL, Valli B, Levman J, Faja SK, Tsujimura K, Maunakea AK, Takahashi E. Small nucleus accumbens and large cerebral ventricles in infants and toddlers prior to receiving diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder. Cereb Cortex 2022. 32:1200-1211. 

PMID: 34455432PDF


Shiohama T, Stewart N, Nangaku M, van der Kouwe AJW, Takahashi E. Identification of association fibers using ex vivo diffusion tractography in Alexander disease brains. J Neuroim. 2022. In press 

PMID: 35983725 | PDF


Takahashi E, Allan N, Peres R, Ortug A, van der Kouwe AJW, Valli B, Ethier E, Levman J, Baumer N, Tsujimura K, Vargas-Maya NI, McCracken TA, Lee R, Maunakea AK. Integration of structural MRI and epigenetic analyses hint at linked cellular defects of the subventricular zone and insular cortex in autism: Findings from a case study. Front Neurosci. 2023 Feb 3;16:1023665. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1023665. 
 

 

2021

Guo Y‡, Ortug A‡, Sadberry R, Rezayev A, Levman J, Shiohama T, Takahashi E. Symptom-related differential neuroimaging biomarkers in children with corpus callosum abnormalities. Cereb Cortex 2021. 31: 4916- 4932. (‡ co-first authors)

PMID: 34289021 | PDF


Ijner P, Tompkins G, Shiohama T, Takahashi E, Levman J. Structural abnormalities in pediatric moyamoya disease revealed by clinical magnetic resonance imaging, regionally distributed relative signal intensities and volumes. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2021. Dec 30. https://doi.org/10.1002/jdn.10167

PMID: 34969179 | PDF


Levman J, Das A, MacDonald A, MacDonald P, Stewart N, Lim A, Berrigan L, Takahashi E. Clinically detectable structural abnormalities in pediatric onset multiple sclerosis: A large-scale magnetic resonance imaging analysis. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2021. 81:200-208. 

PMID: 33434299 | PDF


Levman J, Jennings M, Kabaria P, Rouse E, Nangaku M, Berger D, Gondra I, Takahashi E, Tyrrell P. Hold-out validation for the assessment of stability and reliability of multivariable regression demonstrated with magnetic resonance imaging of patients with schizophrenia. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2021 Jul 26. doi:10.1002/jdn.10144. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 34308560 | PDF


McCann B, Levman J, Baumer N, Lam MY, Shiohama T, Cogger L, MacDonald A, Ijner P, Takahashi E. Structural magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates volumetric brain abnormalities in Down syndrome: Newborns to young adults. Neuroimage:Clin. 2021. Sep 3; 32:102815. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102815 [Epub ahead of print] 

PMID: 34520978 | PDF


Tompkins G, Levman J, Ijner P, Shiohama T, Takahashi E. Cortical thickness in clinical Moyamoya disease: a magnetic resonance imaging study. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2021. Aug 9. doi: 10.1002/jdn.10146 [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 34370351 | PDF


 

2020

Charvet CJ, Das A, Song JW, Tindal-Burgess DJ, Kabaria P, Dai G, Kane T, Takahashi E. High angular resolution diffusion MRI reveals conserved and deviant programs in the paths that guide human cortical circuitry. Cereb Cortex 2020. 30:1447-1464.

PMID: 31667494 | PDF


Hendy JP, Takahashi E, Van der Kouwe A, Charvet CJ. Brain wiring and supragranuar-enriched genes linked to protracted human frontal cortex development. Cereb Cortex 2020. 30:5654-5666. 

PMID: 32537628 | PDF


Shiohama T, Chew B, Levman J, Takahashi E. Quantitative analyses of high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI)-derived long association fibers in children with sensorineural hearing loss. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2020. 80:717-729.

PMID: 33067827 | PDF


Shiohama T, Levman J, Vasung L, Takahashi E. Brain morphological analysis in PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2020 May;182(5):1117-1129. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61532. Epub 2020 Mar 12. 
 

 

2019

Charvet CJ, Palani A, Kabaria P, Takahashi E. Evolution of brain connections: integrating diffusion MR tractography with gene expression highlights increased cortico-cortical projections in primates. Cereb Cortex 2019. 29:5150-5165.

PMID: 30927350 | PDF


Levman J, Fang Z, Zumwalt K, Cogger L, Vasung L, MacDonald P, Lim A, Takahashi E. Asymmetric insular connectomics revealed by diffusion magnetic resonance imaging analysis of healthy brain development. Brain Connect. 2019. 9:2-12. 

PMID: 30501515 | PDF


Levman J, MacDonald P, Rowley S, Stewart N, Lim A, Ewenson B, Galaburda A, Takahashi E. Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Demonstrates Abnormal Regionally-Differential Cortical Thickness Variability in Autism: From Newborns to Adults. Front Hum Neurosci. 2019 Mar 14;13:75. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00075. 

PMID: 30930758 | PDF


Levman J, MacDonald A, Baumer N, MacDonald P, Stewart N, Lim A, Cogger L, Shiohama T, Takahashi E. Structural magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates abnormal cortical thickness in Down syndrome: Newborns to young adults. Neuroimage:Clin. 2019. 23:101874. 

PMID: 31176294 | PDF


Shiohama T, Levman J, Takahashi E. Surface- and voxel-based brain morphologic study in Rett and Rett-like syndrome with MECP2 mutation. 2019. Int J Dev Neurosci. 73:83-88 

PMID: 30690146 | PDF


Shiohama T, Levman J, Baumer N, Takahashi E. Structural MRI-based brain morphology study in infants and toddlers with Down syndrome; the effect of comorbidities. Pediatr Neurol. 2019. 100:67-73. 

PMID: 31036426  | PDF


Shiohama T, McDavid J, Levman J, Takahashi E. Quantitative brain morphological analysis in CHARGE syndrome. Neuroimage:Clin. 2019. 23: 101866.

PMID: 31154243 | PDF


Shiohama T, McDavid J, Levman J, Takahashi E. The left lateral occipital cortex exhibits decreased thickness in children with sensorineural hearing loss. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2019. 76:34-40. 

PMID: 31173823 | PDF


Vasung L, Rezayev A, Yun H, Song JW, Van der Kouwe A, Stewart N, Palani A, Shiohama T, Chouinard-Decorte F, Levman J, Takahashi E. Structural and diffusion MRI analyses with histological observations in patients with lissencephaly. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2019. 7:124. 

PMID: 31355197 | PDF


 

2018

Das A, Takahashi E. Characterization of white matter tracts by diffusion MR tractography in cat and ferret that have similar gyral patterns. Cereb Cortex. 2018. 28:1338-1347. 

PMID: 28334159 | PDF


Das A, Takahashi E. Neuronal migration and axonal pathways linked to human fetal insular development revealed by diffusion MR tractography. 2018. Cereb Cortex. 28:3555-3563. 

PMID: 28968767 | PDF


Levman J, Takahashi E, Forgeron C, MacDonald P, Stewart N, Lim A, Martel A. A sorting statistic with application in neurological magnetic resonance imaging of autism. J. Healthcare Eng. 2018. 71:34-45. 

PMID: 29796236 | PDF


Levman J, Vasung L, MacDonald P, Rowley S, Stewart N, Lim A, Ewenson B, Galaburda AM, Takahashi E. Regional volumetric abnormalities in pediatric autism revealed by structural magnetic resonance imaging. 2018. Int J Dev Neurosci. 71:34-45. 

PMID: 30110650 | PDF


Kang D-W, Kim D, Chang L-H, KimY-H, Takahashi E, Cain MS, Watanabe T, Sasaki Y. Structural and functional connectivity changes beyond visual cortex in a later phase of visual perceptual learning. 2018. Sci Rep. 8:5186 

PMID: 29581455 | PDF


Rezayev A, Feldman HA, Levman J, Takahashi E. Bilateral thalamocortical abnormalities in focal cortical dysplasia. Brain Res. 2018 Sep 1;1694:38-45. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.05.005. Epub 2018 May 5.

PMID: 29738718 | PDF


 

2017

Wilkinson M, Kane T, Wang R, Takahashi E. Migration pathways of thalamic neurons and development of thalamocortical connections in humans revealed by diffusion MR tractography. 2017. Cereb Cortex. 27:5683-5695. 

PMID: 27913428 | PDF


Wilkinson M, Lim AR, Cohen AH, Galaburda AM, Takahashi E. Detection and growth pattern of arcuate fasciculus from newborn to adult. 2017. Front Neurosci. 11:389. 

PMID: 28769741 | PDF


Charvet C, Hof P, Raghanti MA, van der Kouwe A, Sherwood C, Takahashi E. Combining diffusion MR tractography with stereology highlights increased cross-cortical integration in primates. J Comp Neurol. 2017. 525:1075-1093. 

PMID: 27615357 | PDF


Charvet CJ, Šimić G, Kostović I, Kovačević V, Vukšić M, Leko MB, Takahashi E, Sherwood CC, Wolfe MD, Finlay BL. Co-evolution in the timing of GABAergic and pyramidal maturation in primates. Proc Royal Soc B: Biol Sci. 2017. 284:1861. 

PMID: 28855363 | PDF


Kanamaru Y, Li J, Stewart N, Sidman RL, Takahashi E. Cerebellar pathways in mouse model of Purkinje cell degeneration detected by high-angular resolution diffusion imaging tractography. 2017. Cerebellum. 16:648-655.

PMID: 28102462 | PDF


Vasung L, Raguz M, Kostovic I, Takahashi E. Spatiotemporal relationship of brain pathways during human fetal development using high-angular resolution diffusion MR imaging and histology. 2017. Front Neurosci. 11:348. 

PMID: 28744187 | PDF


Wang R, Wilkinson M, Kane T, Takahashi E. Convergence of cortical, thalamocortical, and callosal pathways during human fetal development revealed by diffusion MRI tractography. Front Neurosci. 2017. 11:576.

PMID: 29163000 | PDF


Levman J, MacDonald P, Lim AR, Takahashi E. A pediatric structural MRI analysis of healthy brain development from newborns to adults. Hum Brain Mapp. 2017. 38:5931-5942. 

PMID: 28898497 | PDF


Charvet CJ, Šimić G, Kostović I, Knezović V, Vukšić M, Babić Leko M, Takahashi E, Sherwood CC, Wolfe MD, Finlay BL. Coevolution in the timing of GABAergic and pyramidal neuron maturation in primates. Proc Biol Sci. 2017 Aug 30;284(1861):20171169. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1169. 
 

 

2016

Miyazaki Y, Song JW, Takahashi E. Asymmetry of radial and symmetry of tangential neuronal migration pathways in developing human fetal brains. Front. Neuroanat. 2016. 10:2.

PMID: 26834572 | PDF


Cohen AH, Wang R, Wilkinson M, MacDonald P, Lim AR, Takahashi E. Development of human white matter fiber pathways: From newborn to adult ages. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2016. 50:26-38. 

PMID: 26948153 | PDF


Wilkinson M, Wang R, van der Kouwe A, Takahashi E. White and gray matter fiber pathways in autism spectrum Disorder Revealed by ex vivo Diffusion MR Tractography. Brain Behav. 2016. e00483.

PMID: 27247853 | PDF


Dai G, Das A, Hayashi E, Chen Q, Takahashi E. Regional variation of white matter development in the cat brain revealed by ex vivo diffusion MR tractography. Int J Dev Neurosci. 2016. 54:32-38. 

PMID: 27568056 | PDF


Re TJ, Levman J, Lim AR, Righini A, Grant PE, Takahashi E. High-angular resolution diffusion imaging tractography of cerebellar pathways from newborns to young adults. Brain Behav. 2016. 7(1):e00589. 

PMID: 28127511 | PDF


Amamoto R, Huerta VGL, Takahashi E, Dai G, Grant AK, Fu Z, Arlotta P. Adult axolotls can regenerate original neuronal diversity in response to brain injury. eLife 2016. 5. pii: e13998. 

PMID: 27156560 | PDF


Fame R, MacDonald J, Dunwoodie S, Takahashi E, Macklis J. Cited2 regulates neocortical layer II/III generation and somatosensory callosal projection neuron development and connectivity. J Neurosci. 2016. 36:6403- 6419.

PMID: 27307230 | PDF


Charvet CJ, Hof PR, Raghanti MA, Van Der Kouwe AJ, Sherwood CC, Takahashi E. Combining diffusion magnetic resonance tractography with stereology highlights increased cross-cortical integration in primates. J Comp Neurol. 2017 Apr 1;525(5):1075-1093. doi: 10.1002/cne.24115. Epub 2016 Nov 22. 

 

2015

Wang R, Dai G, Takahashi E. High resolution MRI reveals detailed layer structures in early human fetal stages: In vitro study with histologic correlation. Front. Neuroanat. 2015. 9:150. 

PMID: 26834575 | PDF


Song JW, Mitchell PD, Kolasinski J, Ellen Grant P, Galaburda AM, Takahashi E. Asymmetry of white matter pathways in developing human brains. Cereb Cortex. 2015. 25:2883-2893.

PMID: 24812082 | PDF


Baumer FM, Song JW, Michell PD, Pienaar R, Sahin M, Grant PE, Takahashi E. Longitudinal changes in diffusion properties in the white matter pathways of pediatric patients with tuberous sclerosis complex. Pediatric Neurology 2015. 52:615-623.

PMID: 25817702 | PDF


Re TJ, Scarciolla L, Takahashi E, Specchio N, Bernardi B, Longo D. Magnetic resonance fiber tracking in a neonate with hemimegalencephaly. J Neuroimaging. 2015. 25:844-847. 

PMID: 25655045 | PDF


 

2014

Lodato S, Molyneaux BJ, Zuccaro E, Goff LA, Chen H-H, Yuan W, Meleski A, Takahashi E, Mahony S, Rinn JL, Gifford DK, Arlotta P. Gene co-regulation by Fezf2 selects neurotransmitter identity and connectivity of corticospinal neurons. Nat Neurosci. 2014. 17:1046-1054 

PMID: 24997765 | PDF


 

Other peer-reviewed scholarship

Tsujimura K, Shiohama T, Takahashi E. MicroRNA biology on brain development and neuroimaging approach. Brain Sci. 2022. 12:1366

PMID: 36291300 | PDF


Vasung L, Charvet CJ, Shiohama T, Gagoski B, Levman J, Takahashi E. Ex vivo fetal brain MRI: Recent advances, challenges, and future directions. Neuroimage 2019. 195:23-37.

PMID: 30905833 | PDF


Levman J, Takahashi E. Pre-adult MRI of brain cancer and neurological injury: multivariate analyses has. Front Pediatr. 2016. 23:4:65. 

PMID: 27446888 | PDF


Levman J, Takahashi E. Multivariate analyses applied to healthy neurodevelopment in fetal, neonatal, and pediatric MRI. Front Neuroanat. 2015. 9:163. 

PMID: 26834576 | PDF


Levman J, Takahashi E. Multivariate analyses applied to fetal, neonatal and pediatric MRI of neurodevelopmental disorders. Neuroimage:Clin. 2015. 9:532-44.-Clinical-review 

PMID: 26640765 | PDF


 

Non-peer reviewed scientific or medical publications/materials in print or other media Proceedings of meetings or other non-peer reviewed research publications

Ortug A, Yuzbasioglu N, Akalan N, Takahashi E. Pre- and Post-operative HARDI Tractography of cerebellar pathways in posterior fossa tumors. American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA) 37th Annual Meeting. October 2020. doi: 10.1002/ca.23694

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Charvet CJ, Das A, Song JW, Tindal-Burgess DJ, Kabaria P, Dai G, Kane T, Takahashi E. High angular resolution diffusion MRI reveals conserved and deviant programs in the paths that guide human cortical circuitry. bioRxiv 2019. doi: 10.1101/576967 

PMID: 31667494 | PDF


Charvet CJ, Palani A, Kabaria P, Takahashi E. Evolution of connections and cell types: integrating diffusion MR tractography with gene expression data highlights increased cortico-cortical projections in primates. bioRxive 2018. doi: 10.1101/493593

PMID: 30927350 | PDF


Levman J, Takahashi E. Identifying poor outcomes in autism as early as possible. Science. 2015. doi:10.1126/science.348.6233.409-f Comment.

 

Reviews, chapters, monographs and editorials

Levman J, Takahashi E. Editorial: Advanced Analytic Techniques in Developmental Neuroscience. Frontiers in Neuroscience, section Neurodevelopment. 2022. 

PMID: 36685248 | PDF


Levman J, MacDonald P, Rowley S, Stewart N, Lim A, Ewenson B, Galaburda AM, Takahashi E. Structural magnetic resonance imaging demonstrates abnormal regionally-differential cortical thickness variability in pediatric autism. Front Hum Neurosci. 13:75. 2019. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Research Topic e-Book. 2021.

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Charvet CJ, Sherwood CC, Takahashi E. Developmental sequences predict increased connectivity in brain evolution: a comparative analysis of developmental timing, gene expression, neuron numbers, and diffusion MR tractography. In Evolution of Brain, Cognition and Emotion in Vertebrates (S. Watanabe, M. Hofman, T. Shimizu eds.). Elsevier. 2017. pp. 81-98. 

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