A voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis of regional grey and white matter volume abnormalities within the speech production network of children who stutter

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2151-2161

  Beal, Deryk S ^a,b,c   Gracco, Vincent L ^d,e   Brettschneider, Jane ^f   Kroll, Robert M ^g,h   De Nil, Luc F ^g,i,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h Speech and Stuttering Institute   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^j HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Persistent developmental stuttering; Speech motor control; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUTAMEN; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; STUTTERING; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI); PERSISTENT DEVELOPMENTAL STUTTERING; SPEECH MOTOR CONTROL; VOXEL-BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; ORGAN SIZE; PARIETAL LOBE; PUTAMEN; SPEECH; STUTTERING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84882599892     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.08.013     Document Type: Article

References (91)

1. Alm P.A. Stuttering and the basal ganglia circuits: A critical review of possible relations. Journal of Communication Disorders 2004, 37(4):325-369.
2. Ashburner J., Friston K.J. Unified segmentation. NeuroImage 2005, 26(3):839-851.
3. Ashburner J., Friston K.J. Voxel-based morphometry - The methods. NeuroImage 2000, 11(6 I):805-821.
4. Bailly G. Learning to speak. Sensori-motor control of speech movements. Speech Communication 1997, 22(2-3):251-267.
5. Bauerly K.R., De Nil L.F. Speech sequence skill learning in adults who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders 2011, 36(4):349-360.
6. Beal D.S., Gracco V.L., Lafaille S.J., DeNil L.F. Voxel-based morphometry of auditory and speech-related cortex in stutterers. NeuroReport 2007, 18(12):1257-1260.
7. Bermudez P., Lerch J.P., Evans A.C., Zatorre R.J. Neuroanatomical correlates of musicianship as revealed by cortical thickness and voxel-based morphometry. Cerebral Cortex 2009, 19(7):1583-1596.
8. Bermudez P., Zatorre R.J. Differences in gray matter between musicians and nonmusicians. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2005, 1060:395-399.
9. Bohland J.W., Guenther F.H. An fMRI investigation of syllable sequence production. NeuroImage 2006, 32(2):821-841.
10. Brown S., Ingham R.J., Ingham J.C., Laird A.R., Fox P.T. Stuttered and fluent speech production: An ALE meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies. Human Brain Mapping 2005, 25(1):105-117.
11. Bloodstein O. Some empirical observations about early stuttering: A possible link to language development. Journal of Communication Disorders 2006, 39(3):185-191.
12. Bloodstein O., Ratner N Bernstein A Handbook on Stuttering 2008, Thomson Delmar Learning.
13. Catani M., Jones D.K., Ffytche D.H. Perisylvian language networks of the human brain. Annals of Neurology 2005, 57(1):8-16.
14. Chang S.E., Erickson K.I., Ambrose N.G., Hasegawa-Johnson M.A., Ludlow C.L. Brain anatomy differences in childhood stuttering. NeuroImage 2008, 39(3):1333-1344.
15. Chang S., Horwitz B., Ostuni J., Reynolds R., Ludlow C.L. Evidence of left inferior frontal-premotor structural and functional connectivity deficits in adults who stutter. Cerebral Cortex 2011, 21(11):2507-2518.
16. Chang S., Kenney M.K., Loucks T.M.J., Poletto C.J., Ludlow C.L. Common neural substrates support speech and non-speech vocal tract gestures. NeuroImage 2009, 47(1):314-325.
17. Choo A.L., Kraft S.J., Olivero W., Ambrose N.G., Sharma H., Chang S.E., et al. Corpus callosum differences associated with persistent stuttering in adults. Journal of Communication Disorders 2011, 44(4):470-477.
18. Ciabarra A.M., Elkind M.S., Roberts J.K., Marshall R.S. Subcortical infarction resulting in acquired stuttering. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2000, 69(4):546-549.
19. Cykowski M.D., Fox P.T., Ingham R.J., Ingham J.C., Robin D.A. A study of the reproducibility and etiology of diffusion anisotropy differences in developmental stuttering: A potential role for impaired myelination. NeuroImage 2010, 52(4):1495-1504.
20. Cykowski M.D., Kochunov P.V., Ingham R.J., Ingham J.C., Mangin J., Rivière D., et al. Perisylvian sulcal morphology and cerebral asymmetry patterns in adults who stutter. Cerebral Cortex 2008, 18(3):571-583.
21. Davatzikos C. Why voxel-based morphometric analysis should be used with great caution when characterizing group differences. NeuroImage 2004, 23(1):17-20.
22. De Nil L.F. Recent developments in brain imaging research in stuttering. Speech Motor Control in Normal and Disordered Speech 2004, 150-155. Proceedings of the Fourth International Speech Motor Conference, Oxford. B. Maassen, H.F.M. Peters, R. Kent (Eds.).
23. De Nil L.F. Stuttering: A neurophysiological perspective. Stuttering Research and Practice: Bridging the Gap 1999, 85-102. Erlbaum. N. Bernstein-Ratner, C. Healey (Eds.).
24. De Nil L.F., Beal D.S., Lafaille S.J., Kroll R.M., Crawley A.P., Gracco V.L. The effects of simulated stuttering and prolonged speech on the neural activation patterns of stuttering and nonstuttering adults. Brain and Language 2008, 107(2):114-123.
25. Devlin J.T., Watkins K.E. Stimulating language: Insights from TMS. Brain 2007, 130(3):610-622.
26. Doyon J., Penhune V., Ungerleider L.G. Distinct contribution of the cortico-striatal and cortico-cerebellar systems to motor skill learning. Neuropsychologia 2003, 41(3):252-262.
27. Dunn L.M., Dunn L.M. Examiner's Manual for the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test 1997, American Guidance Services.
28. Fecteau S., Armony J.L., Joanette Y., Belin P. Sensitivity to voice in human prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 2005, 94(3):2251-2254.
29. Foundas A.L., Bollich A.M., Corey D.M., Hurley M., Heilman K.M. Anomalous anatomy of speech-language areas in adults with persistent developmental stuttering. Neurology 2001, 57(2):207-215.
30. Foundas A.L., Bollich A.M., Feldman J., Corey D.M., Hurley M., Lemen L.C., et al. Aberrant auditory processing and atypical planum temporale in developmental stuttering. Neurology 2004, 63(9):1640-1646.
31. Foundas A.L., Corey D.M., Angeles V., Bollich A.M., Crabtree-Hartman E., Heilman K.M. Atypical cerebral laterality in adults with persistent developmental stuttering. Neurology 2003, 61(10):1378-1385.
32. Gharabaghi A., Kunath F., Erb M., Saur R., Heckl S., Tatagiba M., et al. Perisylvian white matter connectivity in the human right hemisphere. BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10:15.
33. Ghosh S.S., Tourville J.A., Guenther F.H. A neuroimaging studyof premotor lateralization and cerebellar involvementinthe production of phonemes and syllables. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2008, 51(5):1183-1202.
34. Goldman R., Fristoe M. Examiner's Manual for the Goldman Fristoe Test of Articulation 2000, NCS Pearson, Inc.
35. Golfinopoulos E., Tourville J.A., Guenther F.H. The integration of large-scale neural network modeling and functional brain imaging in speech motor control. NeuroImage 2010, 52(3):862-874.
36. Grabski K., Lamalle L., Vilain C., Schwartz J.L., Vallée N., Tropres I., et al. Functional MRI assessment of orofacial articulators: Neural correlates of lip, jaw, larynx, and tongue movements. Human Brain Mapping 2011, 33(10):2306-2321.
37. Greenlee J.D.W., Oya H., Kawasaki H., Volkov I.O., Kaufman O.P., Kovach C., et al. A functional connection between inferior frontal gyrus and orofacial motor cortex in human. Journal of Neurophysiology 2004, 92(2):1153-1164.
38. Greenlee J.D.W., Oya H., Kawasaki H., Volkov I.O., Severson M.A., Howard M.A., et al. Functional connections within the human inferior frontal gyrus. Journal of Comparative Neurology 2007, 503(4):550-559.
39. Guenther F., Vladusich T. A neural theory of speech acquisition and production. Journal of Neurolinguistics 2012, 25(5):408-422.
40. Guenther F.H. Cortical interactions underlying the production of speech sounds. Journal of Communication Disorders 2006, 39(5):350-365.
41. Guenther F.H. Speech sound acquisition, coarticulation, and rate effects in a neural network model of speech production. Psychological Review 1995, 102(3):594-621.
42. Guenther F.H. A neural network model of speech acquisition and motor equivalent speech production. Biological Cybernetics 1994, 72(1):43-53.
43. Han Y., Yang H., Lv Y.T., Zhu C.Z., He Y., Tang H.H., et al. Gray matter density and white matter integrity in pianists' brain: A combined structural and diffusion tensor MRI study. Neuroscience Letters 2009, 459(1):3-6.
44. Hickok G. Computational neuroanatomy of speech production. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2012, 13(2):135-145.
45. Hickok G. The functional neuroanatomy of language. Physics of Life Reviews 2009, 6(3):121-143.
46. Horwitz B., Amunts K., Bhattacharyya R., Patkin D., Jeffries K., Zilles K., et al. Activation of Broca's area during the production of spoken and signed language: A combined cytoarchitectonic mapping and PET analysis. Neuropsychologia 2003, 41(14):1868-1876.
47. Houde J.F., Nagarajan S.S., Sekihara K., Merzenich M.M. Modulation of the auditory cortex during speech: An MEG study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2002, 14(8):1125-1138.
48. Jäncke L., Hänggi J., Steinmetz H. Morphological brain differences between adult stutterers and non-stutterers. BMC Neurology 2004, 4(1):23.
49. Kell C.A., Neumann K., Von Kriegstein K., Posenenske C., Von Gudenberg A.W., Euler H., et al. How the brain repairs stuttering. Brain 2009, 132(10):2747-2760.
50. Kleinow J., Smith A. Influences of length and syntactic complexity on the speech motor stability of the fluent speech of adults who stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2000, 43(2):548-559.
51. LaSalle L.R., Wolk L. Stuttering, cluttering, and phonological complexity: Case studies. Journal of Fluency Disorders 2011, 36(4):285-289.
52. Leff A.P., Schofield T.M., Stephan K.E., Crinion J.T., Friston K.J., Price C.J. The cortical dynamics of intelligible speech. Journal of Neuroscience 2008, 28(49):13209-13215.
53. Lehéricy S., Benali H., Van de Moortele P., Pélégrini-Issac M., Waechter T., Ugurbil K., et al. Distinct basal ganglia territories are engaged in early and advanced motor sequence learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005, 102(35):12566-12571.
54. Levelt W.J.M. Speech, gesture and the origins of language. European Review 2004, 12(4):543-549.
55. Lotto A.J., Hickok G.S., Holt L.L. Reflections on mirror neurons and speech perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2009, 13(3):110-114.
56. Lu C., Peng D., Chen C., Ning N., Ding G., Li K., et al. Altered effective connectivity and anomalous anatomy in the basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit of stuttering speakers. Cortex 2010, 46(1):49-67.
57. Maguire E.A., Spiers H.J., Good C.D., Hartley T., Frackowiak R.S.J., Burgess N. Navigation expertise and the human hippocampus: A structural brain imaging analysis. Hippocampus 2003, 13(2):250-259.
58. Manjon J.V., Coupe P., Marti-Bonmati L., Collins D.L., Robles M. Adaptive non-local means denoising of MR images with spatially varying noise levels. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2010, 31(1):192-203.
59. Max L., Guenther F.H., Gracco V.L., Ghosh S.S., Wallace M.E. Unstable or insufficiently activated internal models and feedback-biased motor control as sources of dysfluency: A theoretical model of stuttering. Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders 2004, 31(Spring):105-122.
60. Namasivayam A.K., van Lieshout P. Investigating speech motor practice and learning in people who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders 2008, 33(1):32-51.
61. O'Kusky J., Strauss E., Kosaka B., Wada J., Li D., Druhan M., et al. The corpus callosum is larger with right-hemisphere cerebral speech dominance. Annals of Neurology 1988, 24(3):379-383.
62. Oldfield R.C. The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh Inventory. Neuropsychologia 1971, 9:97-113.
63. Orban P., Peigneux P., Lungu O., Debas K., Barakat M., Bellec P., et al. Functional neuroanatomy associated with the expression of distinct movement kinematics in motor sequence learning. Neuroscience 2011, 179:94-103.
64. Papoutsi M., De Zwart J.A., Jansma J.M., Pickering M.J., Bednar J.A., Horwitz B. From phonemes to articulatory codes: An fMRI study of the role of Broca's area in speech production. Cerebral Cortex 2009, 19(9):2156-2165.
65. Paul L.K. Developmental malformation of the corpus callosum: A review of typical callosal development and examples of developmental disorders with callosal involvement. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 2011, 3(1):3-27.
66. Perkell J., Matthies M., Lane H., Guenther F., Wilhelms-Tricarico R., Wozniak J., et al. Speech motor control: Acoustic goals, saturation effects, auditory feedback and internal models. Speech Communication 1997, 22(2-3):227-250.
67. Pickett E.R., Kuniholm E., Protopapas A., Friedman J., Lieberman P. Selective speech motor, syntax and cognitive deficits associated with bilateral damage to the putamen and the head of the caudate nucleus: A case study. Neuropsychologia 1998, 36(2):173-188.
68. Poldrack R.A., Wagner A.D., Prull M.W., Desmond J.E., Glover G.H., Gabrieli J.D.E. Functional specialization for semantic and phonological processing in the left inferior prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage 1999, 10(1):15-35.
69. Rajapakse J.C., Giedd J.N., Rapoport J.L. Statistical approach to segmentation of single-channel cerebral MR images. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 1997, 16(2):176-186.
70. Rauschecker A.M., Pringle A., Watkins K.E. Changes in neural activity associated with learning to articulate novel auditory pseudowords by covert repetition. Human Brain Mapping 2008, 29(11):1231-1242.
71. Riecker A., Mathiak K., Wildgruber D., Erb M., Hertrich I., Grodd W., et al. fMRI reveals two distinct cerebral networks subserving speech motor control. Neurology 2005, 64(4):700-706.
72. Riley G.D. Stuttering Severity Instrument for Children and Adults 1994, Pro-Ed.
73. Schulz G.M., Varga M., Jeffires K., Ludlow C.L., Braun A.R. Functional neuroanatomy of human vocalization: An H215O PET study. Cerebral Cortex 2005, 15(12):1835-1847.
74. Smith A., Kleinow J. Kinematic correlates of speaking rate changes in stuttering and normally fluent adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2000, 43(2):521-536.
75. Smith A., Sadagopan N., Walsh B., Weber-Fox C. Increasing phonological complexity reveals heightened instability in inter-articulatory coordination in adults who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders 2010, 35(1):1-18.
76. Smits-Bandstra S., De Nil L.F. Sequence skill learning in persons who stutter: Implications for cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical dysfunction. Journal of Fluency Disorders 2007, 32(4):251-278.
77. Smits-Bandstra S., DeNil L.F., Saint-Cyr J.A. Speech and nonspeech sequence skill learning in adults who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders 2006, 31(2):116-136.
78. Sommer M., Koch M.A., Paulus W., Weiller C., Büchel C. Disconnection of speech-relevant brain areas in persistent developmental stuttering. Lancet 2002, 360(9330):380-383.
79. Song L.P., Peng D.L., Jin Z., Yao L., Ning N., Guo X.J., et al. Gray matter abnormalities in developmental stuttering determined with voxel-based morphometry. National Medical Journal of China 2007, 87(41):2884-2888.
80. Sörös P., Sokoloff L.G., Bose A., McIntosh A.R., Graham S.J., Stuss D.T. Clustered functional MRI of overt speech production. NeuroImage 2006, 32(1):376-387.
81. Theys C, De Nil L, Thijs V, van Wieringen A, and Sunaert S. A crucial role for the cortico-striato-cortical loop in the pathogenesis of stroke-related neurogenic stuttering. Human Brain Mapping, in press.
82. Tohka J., Zijdenbos A., Evans A. Fast and robust parameter estimation for statistical partial volume models in brain MRI. NeuroImage 2004, 23(1):84-97.
83. Toni I., Krams M., Turner R., Passingham R.E. The time course of changes during motor sequence learning: A whole-brain fMRI study. NeuroImage 1998, 8(1):50-61.
84. Tourville J.A., Guenther F.H. The DIVA model: A neural theory of speech acquisition and production. Language and Cognitive Processes 2011, 26(7):952-981.
85. Toyomura A., Fujii T., Kuriki S. Effect of external auditory pacing on the neural activity of stuttering speakers. NeuroImage 2011, 57(4):1507-1516.
86. Ventura M.I., Nagarajan S.S., Houde J.F. Speech target modulates speaking induced suppression in auditory cortex. BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10:58.
87. Wan C.Y., Schlaug G. Neural pathways for language in autism: The potential for music-based treatments. Future Neurology 2010, 5(6):797-805.
88. Watkins K.E., Smith S.M., Davis S., Howell P. Structural and functional abnormalities of the motor system in developmental stuttering. Brain 2008, 131(1):50-59.
89. Wilke M., Holland S.K., Altaye M., Gaser C. Template-O-Matic: A toolbox for creating customized pediatric templates. NeuroImage 2008, 41(3):903-913.
90. Yairi E., Ambrose N.G. Early childhood stuttering I: Persistency and recovery rates. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 1999, 42(5):1097-1112.
91. Yoon U., Fonov V.S., Perusse D., Evans A.C. The effect of template choice on morphometric analysis of pediatric brain data. NeuroImage 2009, 45(3):769-777.