ArticleThe Journal of pediatrics2012
Speech and oromotor outcome in adolescents born preterm: relationship to motor tract integrity.
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- Use of non-invasive transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation: neurodevelopmental and sensory follow-up.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Structural and functional brain connectivity in moderate-late preterm infants with low-grade intraventricular hemorrhage.Neuroradiology · 2022Article
- Corticobulbar Tract Injury, Oromotor Impairment and Language Plasticity in Adolescents Born Preterm.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- White matter microstructure is associated with language in children born very preterm.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2018Article
- Localization of orofacial representation in the corona radiata, internal capsule and cerebral peduncle in Macaca mulatta.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2017Article
- Neural correlates of language variability in preschool-aged boys with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2017Article
- Early development of structural networks and the impact of prematurity on brain connectivity.NeuroImage · 2017Article
- Improvement in White Matter Tract Reconstruction with Constrained Spherical Deconvolution and Track Density Mapping in Low Angular Resolution Data: A Pediatric Study and Literature Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2017Article
- White matter abnormalities and impaired attention abilities in children born very preterm.NeuroImage · 2016Article
- Role of perinatal long-chain omega-3 fatty acids in cortical circuit maturation: Mechanisms and implications for psychopathology.World journal of psychiatry · 2015Review
- Long-term neurobiological consequences of early postnatal hCMV-infection in former preterms: a functional MRI study.Human brain mapping · 2014Article
- Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging in preterm brain injury.Neuroradiology · 2013Review
- Interhemispheric temporal lobe connectivity predicts language impairment in adolescents born preterm.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess speech abilities in adolescents born preterm and investigate whether there is an association between specific speech deficits and brain abnormalities. STUDY
designFifty adolescents born prematurely (<33 weeks' gestation) with a spectrum of brain injuries were recruited (mean age, 16 years). Speech examination included tests of speech-sound processing and production and speech and oromotor control. Conventional magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion-weighted imaging was acquired in all adolescents born preterm and 30 term-born control subjects. Radiological ratings of brain injury were recorded and the integrity of the primary motor projections was measured (corticospinal tract and speech-motor corticobulbar tract [CST/CBT]).
resultsThere were no clinical diagnoses of developmental dysarthria, dyspraxia, or a speech-sound disorder, but difficulties in speech and oromotor control were common. A regression analysis revealed that presence of a neurologic impairment, and diffusion-weighted imaging abnormalities in the left CST/CBT were significant independent predictors of poor speech and oromotor outcome. These left-lateralized abnormalities were most evident at the level of the posterior limb of the internal capsule.
conclusionDifficulties in speech and oromotor control are common in adolescents born preterm, and adolescents with injury to the CST/CBT pathways in the left-hemisphere may be most at risk.
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