Cognition and the Default Mode Network in Children with Sickle Cell Disease: A Resting State Functional MRI Study

• Raffaella Colombatti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raffaella Colombatti, Marta Lucchetta

  * E-mail: rcolombatti@gmail.com; raffaella.colombatti@sanita.padova.it

  Affiliation Clinic of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Department of Child and Maternal Health, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Marta Lucchetta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raffaella Colombatti, Marta Lucchetta

  Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Maria Montanaro,

  Affiliation Clinic of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Department of Child and Maternal Health, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Patrizia Rampazzo,

  Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Mario Ermani,

  Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Giacomo Talenti,

  Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Claudio Baracchini,

  Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Angela Favero,

  Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Giuseppe Basso,

  Affiliation Clinic of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Department of Child and Maternal Health, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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• Renzo Manara ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Neurosciences, Neuroradiology Unit, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

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• Laura Sainati

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Clinic of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Department of Child and Maternal Health, Azienda Ospedaliera-University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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