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SUBMITTER: Carter JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2720547 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carter John C JC Lanham Diane C DC Cutting Laurie E LE Clements-Stephens Amy M AM Chen Xuejing X Hadzipasic Muhamed M Kim Joon J Denckla Martha B MB Kaufmann Walter E WE
Psychiatry research 20090405 3
Using voxel-based (VBA) and region-of-interest (ROI) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) analyses, we examined white matter (WM) organization in seven children with dyslexia and six age-matched controls. Both methods demonstrated reduced fractional anisotropy (FA) in the left superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) and abnormal orientation in the right SLF in dyslexics. Application of this complementary dual DTI approach to dyslexia, which included novel analyses of fiber orientation, demonstrates its ...[more]