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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2025

Improved whole-brain reconfiguration efficiency reveals mechanisms of speech rehabilitation in cleft lip and palate patients: an fMRI study.

Wenjing Zhang, Qian Si, Zhongtian Guan, Lei Cao, Mengyue Wang, Cui Zhao, Liwei Sun, Xu Zhang, Zhixi Zhang, Chunlin Li and 1 more

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Wenjing Zhang *Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Qian Si *School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, China.
Zhongtian GuanSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Lei CaoDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Mengyue WangSchool of Life Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
Cui ZhaoSchool of Communication Sciences, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
Liwei SunSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Xu ZhangSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Zhixi ZhangAerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Chunlin LiSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Weiqun SongDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

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Introduction: Cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) patients still have severe speech disorder requiring speech rehabilitation after surgical repair. The clarity of language rehabilitation is evaluated clinically by the Language Rehabilitation Scale. However, the pattern and underlying mechanisms of functional changes in the brain are not yet clear. Recent studies suggest that the brain's reconfiguration efficiency appears to be a key feature of its network dynamics and general cognitive abilities. In this study, we compared the association between rehabilitation effects and reconfiguration efficiency. Methods: We evaluated CLP patients with speech rehabilitation ( Results: Behaviorally, CLP patients with rehabilitation scored significantly higher than those without rehabilitation on the Chinese Speech Intelligibility Test Word Lists. Rehabilitation caused local brain activation levels of CLP patients to converge toward those of controls, indicating rehabilitative effects on brain function. Analysis of reconfiguration efficiency across tasks at the local and whole-brain levels identified underlying recovery mechanisms. Whole-brain reconfiguration efficiency was significantly and positively correlated with task performance. Conclusion: Our results suggest that speech rehabilitation can improve the level of language-related brain activity in CLP patients, and that reconfiguration efficiency can be used as an assessment index of language clarity to evaluate the effectiveness of brain rehabilitation in CLP patients, a finding that can provide a better understanding of the degree of brain function recovery in patients.

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biomarkerCLPfMRIfunctional connectivityreconfiguration efficiencyspeech rehabilitation

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