Communications Biology (Jan 2023)
Fetal temporal sulcus depth asymmetry has prognostic value for language development
- Lisa Bartha-Doering,
- Kathrin Kollndorfer,
- Ernst Schwartz,
- Florian Ph.S. Fischmeister,
- Georg Langs,
- Michael Weber,
- Sonja Lackner-Schmelz,
- Patric Kienast,
- Marlene Stümpflen,
- Athena Taymourtash,
- Sophie Mandl,
- Johanna Alexopoulos,
- Daniela Prayer,
- Rainer Seidl,
- Gregor Kasprian
Affiliations
- Lisa Bartha-Doering
- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna
- Kathrin Kollndorfer
- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna
- Ernst Schwartz
- Computational Imaging Research Lab, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna
- Florian Ph.S. Fischmeister
- Division of Neuroradiology and Muscoskeletal Radiology, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna
- Georg Langs
- Computational Imaging Research Lab, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna
- Michael Weber
- Division of Neuroradiology and Muscoskeletal Radiology, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna
- Sonja Lackner-Schmelz
- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna
- Patric Kienast
- Division of Neuroradiology and Muscoskeletal Radiology, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna
- Marlene Stümpflen
- Division of Neuroradiology and Muscoskeletal Radiology, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna
- Athena Taymourtash
- Computational Imaging Research Lab, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna
- Sophie Mandl
- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna
- Johanna Alexopoulos
- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna
- Daniela Prayer
- Division of Neuroradiology and Muscoskeletal Radiology, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna
- Rainer Seidl
- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Comprehensive Center for Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna
- Gregor Kasprian
- Division of Neuroradiology and Muscoskeletal Radiology, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04503-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 6,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
The analysis of fetal MRI data and follow-up language assessments reveal that temporal sulcus depth asymmetry is a potential biomarker for maturity and integrity of neural correlates of language.
