How reliable are gray matter disruptions in specific reading disability across multiple countries and languages? Insights from a large-scale voxel-based morphometry study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1741-1754

  Jednoróg, Katarzyna ^a   Marchewka, Artur ^a   Altarelli, Irene ^b,c   Monzalvo Lopez, Ana Karla ^d,e,f   van Ermingen Marbach, Muna ^g,h   Grande, Marion ⁱ   Grabowska, Anna ^a,j   Heim, Stefan ^g,k   Ramus, Franck ^b  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^e NeuroSpin   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^g RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h SRH University of Applied Sciences for Health Gera GmbH   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^j SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^k FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Gray matter volume; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multisite study; Reading impairment; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; POLAND; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIFIC READING DISABILITY; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BRAIN; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLAND; READING;

EID: 84927699224     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22734     Document Type: Article

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