Mother-child similarity in brain morphology: A comparison of structural characteristics of the brain's reading network.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Substantial evidence acknowledges the complex gene-environment interplay impacting brain development and learning. Intergenerational neuroimaging allows the assessment of familial transfer effects on brain structure, function and behavior by investigating neural similarity in caregiver-child dyads.

Methods

Neural similarity in the human reading network was assessed through well-used measures of brain structure (i.e., surface area (SA), gyrification (lG), sulcal morphology, gray matter volume (GMV) and cortical thickness (CT)) in 69 mother-child dyads (children's age~11 y). Regions of interest for the reading network included left-hemispheric inferior frontal gyrus, inferior parietal lobe and fusiform gyrus. Mother-child similarity was quantified by correlation coe

SUBMITTER: Fehlbaum LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8749220 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature