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Article Dans Une Revue Cerebral Cortex Année : 2004

Brain anatomy in Turner syndrome: evidence for impaired social and spatial-numerical networks.

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Analysis of brain structure in Turner syndrome (TS) provides the opportunity to identify the consequences of the loss of one X chromosome on brain anatomy and to characterize the neural bases underlying the specific cognitive profile of TS subjects which includes deficits in spatial-numerical processing and social cognition. Fourteen subjects with TS and fourteen controls were investigated using voxel-based analysis of high resolution anatomical and diffusion tensor images and using sulcal morphometry. The analysis of anatomical images provided evidence for macroscopical changes in cortical regions involved in social cognition such as the left superior temporal sulcus and orbito-frontal cortex and in a region involved in spatial and numerical cognition such as the right intraparietal sulcus. Diffusion tensor images showed a displacement of the grey-white matter interface of the left and right superior temporal sulcus and revealed bilateral microstructural anomalies in the temporal white matter. The analysis of fiber orientation suggests specific alterations of fiber tracts connecting posterior to anterior temporal regions. Last, sulcal morphometry confirmed the anomalies of the left and right superior temporal sulci and of the right intraparietal sulcus. Our results thus provide converging evidence of regionally specific structural changes in TS that are highly consistent with the hallmark symptoms associated with TS.

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hal-00349688 , version 1 (03-01-2009)

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N. Molko, A. Cachia, D. Riviere, J. F. Mangin, M. Bruandet, et al.. Brain anatomy in Turner syndrome: evidence for impaired social and spatial-numerical networks.. Cerebral Cortex, 2004, 14 (8), pp.840-50. ⟨10.1093/cercor/bhh042⟩. ⟨hal-00349688⟩
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