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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG

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Devoted to the study of brain development during the fetal (F), infant (I), and toddler (T) periods. http://mastodon.social/@FIT_NGIn X @FIT_NGIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/fitng/

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 7

#FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 6d

📣 Join the FIT'NG Scholarly Works Committee and help advance our mission and vision!
👀 We are looking for new members from all career stages!
Interested in shaping society papers or journal issues?
📸 Use the QR code below to apply and contribute to meaningful scholarly initiatives.

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 17d

The FIT'NG Trainee Committee is excited to be recruiting new members!

It’s a great way to:
✨ Build your network
✨ Gain leadership experience
✨ Shape programming for trainees across the society

Interested? Fill out our form by September 23rd: tinyurl.com/TraineeCommi...

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 29d

#FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 29d

Join us next July in Panama!! #FITNG2025 --> 2026 🌴🤓

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations to our poster winners!! #FITNG2025 closing ceremony 💫

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 29d

Dr. Jessica Gemignani asks how speech is special by presenting newborns speech and monkey vocalizations during simultaneous fNIRS-EEG! 💬🚨⚡️ #FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 29d

Dr. Tineke Snijders examines how individual differences in EEG relate to language processing at both slow and fast timescales! 🕐⚡️🧠 #FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 29d

Using the baby connectome project (an amazing resource!) and correlational tractography, Dr. Alex Dufford @ajdneuro.bsky.social links white matter to measures of anxiety in both infants and older children! #FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 29d

Dr. Victoria Leong kicks off our last session of the day on Social, Emotional, and Language Development by discussing her exciting work on the Parent-Child Interactome! 👩‍👧🧠👶 #FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 29d

Poster session ending soon! We are getting ready for our last session of the day #FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Closing out the session is @janelleliu.bsky.social sharing her work on trimester-specific and dose-related effects of prenatal opioid exposure on infant neurodevelopmental trajectories measured with MRI 🧠👶🧲 #FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Siân Wilson presented on the developing brain AND heart! She investigated how congenital heart disease relates to cortical folding in the prenatal period using MRI 🧠❤️🧲 #FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yanbin Niu leveraged diffusion MRI from large infant cohorts to understand microstructural properties of the developing brain and associations with early psychopathology risk 👶🧲🧠 #FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you @jamespboardman.bsky.social ! We learned a lot!

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dr. Boardman presented exciting multi-modal work in neonates showing the link between microbiota diversity + composition with MRI markers of encephalopathy of prematurity, particularly in deep grey matter microstructure

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are looking forward to a great talk from Dr. James Boardman on the gut-brain-axis during our Clinical Questions session! #FITNG2025 🧠🦠👶

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hot topics were discussed in our Think Tank groups this morning! From what innovative methods need developing to are we only scanning chill babies, conversations were flowing!! We hope everyone got something out of it #FITNG2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Claire Njoo @cnjoodeplante.bsky.social finds beautiful multivariate decoding of different phonetic features in 3 month olds using EEG during sleep!

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dr. Isabella Mariani Wigley shows how the brains of neonates, infants, and toddlers respond to affective touch in the FinnBrain cohort!

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dr. M. Catalina Camacho @catcamacho.bsky.social presents new data on how different measures of prenatal anxiety and depression influence neonatal sensory processing in the brain!

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Starting off the morning session: Dimitrios Metaxas shows how it will be possible to study social cognition in fetuses!

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you to everyone who attended the Trainee Social, we had a blast and hope you did too! ☘️ See you bright and early for day 2 of #fitng2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Join the FIT'NG Trainee Committee at the Porterhouse Temple Bar for the annual Trainee Social - all are welcome #fitng2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Final Talk of the Day: Dr. Parvaneh Adibpour combines the advantages of EEG and MRI (simultaneously!) to uncover how the infant brain represents sound sequences! #fitng2025

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Day 1 of #FITNG2025! 👏

😇 If you want to keep building community, fill out these google forms so we can highlight the work that you do!

#FITNGmember (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...)

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