Myelin Water Imaging Demonstrates Lower Brain Myelination in Children and Adolescents With Poor Reading Ability.

MRI adolescent children dyslexia myelin water reading ability

Journal

Frontiers in human neuroscience
ISSN: 1662-5161
Titre abrégé: Front Hum Neurosci
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101477954

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 01 06 2020
accepted: 31 08 2020
entrez: 16 11 2020
pubmed: 17 11 2020
medline: 17 11 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a means to non-invasively investigate the neurological links with dyslexia, a learning disability that affects one's ability to read. Most previous brain MRI studies of dyslexia and reading skill have used structural or diffusion imaging to reveal regional brain abnormalities. However, volumetric and diffusion MRI lack specificity in their interpretation at the microstructural level. Myelin is a critical neural component for brain function and plasticity, and as such, deficits in myelin may impact reading ability. MRI can estimate myelin using myelin water fraction (MWF) imaging, which is based on evaluation of the proportion of short T2 myelin-associated water from multi-exponential T2 relaxation analysis, but has not yet been applied to the study of reading or dyslexia. In this study, MWF MRI, intelligence, and reading assessments were acquired in 20 participants aged 10-18 years with a wide range of reading ability to investigate the relationship between reading ability and myelination. Group comparisons showed markedly lower MWF by 16-69% in poor readers relative to good readers in the left and right thalamus, as well as the left posterior limb of the internal capsule, left/right anterior limb of the internal capsule, left/right centrum semiovale, and splenium of the corpus callosum. MWF over the entire group also correlated positively with three different reading scores in the bilateral thalamus as well as white matter, including the splenium of the corpus callosum, left posterior limb of the internal capsule, left anterior limb of the internal capsule, and left centrum semiovale. MWF imaging from T2 relaxation suggests that myelination, particularly in the bilateral thalamus, splenium, and left hemisphere white matter, plays a role in reading abilities. Myelin water imaging thus provides a potentially valuable

Identifiants

pubmed: 33192398
doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.568395
pmc: PMC7596275
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

568395

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Beaulieu, Yip, Low, Mädler, Lebel, Siegel, Mackay and Laule.

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Auteurs

Christian Beaulieu (C)

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Eugene Yip (E)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Pauline B Low (PB)

Department of Education and Counseling Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Burkhard Mädler (B)

Philips Health Care, Hamburg, Germany.

Catherine A Lebel (CA)

Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Linda Siegel (L)

Department of Education and Counseling Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Alex L Mackay (AL)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Cornelia Laule (C)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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