Structural brain differences in pre-adolescents who persist in and recover from stuttering.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stuttering is a complex speech fluency disorder occurring in childhood. In young children, stuttering has been associated with speech-related auditory and motor areas of the brain. During transition into adolescence, the majority of children who stutter (75-80%) will experience remission of their symptoms. The current study evaluated brain (micro-)structural differences between pre-adolescents who persisted in stuttering, those who recovered, and fluently speaking controls.

Methods

This study was embedded in the Generation R Study, a population-based cohort in the Netherlands of children followed from pregnancy onwards. Neuroimaging was performed in 2211 children (mean age: 10 years, range 8-12), of whom 20 persisted in and 77 recovered from stuttering. Brain stru

SUBMITTER: Koenraads SPC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7341447 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature