White matter maturation in the neonatal brain is predictive of school age cognitive capacities in children born very preterm

Funding

This work was supported by a grant from the Wilhelmina Children's Hospital Research Fund (Vrienden WKZ) to MPvdH, a Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) VIDI Grant (grant number 452-16-015) to MPvdH, a grant from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMW) (grant number 945-27-022) to FG, and a Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) VIDI Grant (grant number 639-072-411) to AL. The authors declare no competing financial interests. There was no involvement of any of the funding agencies in the study design, data collection, data analysis, manuscript preparation, and/or publication decisions. We thank B van Kooij, K Kersbergen, E van Vliet, and M van Helvoort for their contribution to the data collection. We also thank R Nievelstein for the radiological assessment of brain lesions on neonatal MRI, M Uniken-Venema and I van Haastert for carefully evaluating the children included in this study, and R Schmidt for his contribution to the data analysis.