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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2021

Aberrant Structural and Functional Developmental Trajectories in Children With Intellectual Disability.

Xuejin Ma, Jianxia Tan, Lin Jiang, Xuqin Wang, Bochao Cheng, Peng Xie, Yuanyuan Li, Jiaojian Wang, Shiguang Li

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Xuejin MaDepartment of Radiology, The First People's Hospital of Zunyi, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China.
Jianxia TanDepartment of Radiology, The First People's Hospital of Zunyi, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China.
Lin JiangDepartment of Radiology, The First People's Hospital of Zunyi, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China.
Xuqin WangDepartment of Child Health, The First People's Hospital of Zunyi, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China.
Bochao ChengDepartment of Radiology, West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Peng XieDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, The First People's Hospital of Zunyi, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China.
Yuanyuan LiSchool of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Jiaojian WangSchool of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Shiguang LiDepartment of Radiology, The First People's Hospital of Zunyi, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China.
Zunyi Medical University · CNFirst People’s Hospital of Zunyi · CNShenzhen Institute of Neuroscience · CNSichuan University · CNUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intellectual disability (ID) is associated with aberrant structural and functional development of the brain, yet how the dynamical developmental changes of the structure and function of ID from childhood to around puberty remains unknown. To explore the abnormal developmental trajectories of structure and function, 40 children with ID aged 6-13 years and 30 sex-, age-, and educational level-matched healthy controls (HC) with age range from 6 to 13 were recruited. The automatic voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and resting-state functional connectivity (FC) analyses were adopted to delineate the structural and functional differences. Significantly decreased total gray matter volume (GMV) and white matter volume (WMV) in children with ID were found, and the developmental trajectories of GMV and WMV in children with ID showed an opposite direction as compared with HC. The voxel-wise VMB analysis further revealed significantly increased GMV in the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), bilateral orbital part of the inferior frontal gyrus (orb_IFG.L, orb_IFG.R), right cuneus (cuneus.R), and bilateral middle frontal gyrus (MFG.L, MFG.R) in children with ID. The following seed-based whole-brain functional connectivity analyses of the brain areas with changed GMV found decreased FCs between the cuneus.R and left intraparietal sulcus (IPS.L) and between the MFG.R and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in children with ID. Moreover, negative correlations between GMV values in the dmPFC, orb_IFG.L, cuneus.R, and intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and positive correlations between the FCs of the cuneus.R with IPS.L and MFG.R with ACC and IQ scores were found in children with ID and HC. Our findings provide evidence for the abnormal structural and functional development in children with ID and highlight the important role of frontoparietal network in the typical development. The abnormal development of GMV and functional couplings found in this study may be the neuropathological bases of children with ID.

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developmentfronto-parietal networkfunctional connectivitygray matter volumeintellectual disability

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