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Structural Neuroplastic Responses Preserve Functional Connectivity and Neurobehavioural Outcomes in Children Born Without Corpus Callosum

Siffredi, Vanessa
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Preti, Maria G.  
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Kebets, Valeria
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February 1, 2021
Cerebral Cortex

The corpus callosum is the largest white matter pathway in the brain connecting the two hemispheres. In the context of developmental absence (agenesis) of the corpus callosum (AgCC), a proposed candidate for neuroplastic response is strengthening of intrahemispheric pathways. To test this hypothesis, we assessed structural and functional connectivity in a uniquely large cohort of children with AgCC (n = 20) compared with typically developing controls (TDC, n = 29), and then examined associations with neurobehavioral outcomes using a multivariate data-driven approach (partial least squares correlation, PLSC). For structural connectivity, children with AgCC showed a significant increase in intrahemispheric connectivity in addition to a significant decrease in interhemispheric connectivity compared with TDC, in line with the aforementioned hypothesis. In contrast, for functional connectivity, children with AgCC and TDC showed a similar pattern of intrahemispheric and interhemispheric connectivity. In conclusion, we observed structural strengthening of intrahemispheric pathways in children born without corpus callosum, which seems to allow for functional connectivity comparable to a typically developing brain, and were relevant to explain neurobehavioral outcomes in this population. This neuroplasticity might be relevant to other disorders of axonal guidance, and developmental disorders in which corpus callosum alteration is observed.

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research article
DOI
10.1093/cercor/bhaa289
Web of Science ID

WOS:000646868100034

Author(s)
Siffredi, Vanessa
Preti, Maria G.  
Kebets, Valeria
Obertino, Silvia  
Leventer, Richard J.
McIlroy, Alissandra
Wood, Amanda G.
Anderson, Vicki
Spencer-Smith, Megan M.
Van de Ville, Dimitri  
Date Issued

2021-02-01

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC

Published in
Cerebral Cortex
Volume

31

Issue

2

Start page

1227

End page

1239

Subjects

Neurosciences

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Neurosciences & Neurology

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brain plasticity

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callosal agenesis

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functional connectivity

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structural connectivity

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structural reorganization

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REVIEWED

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