Journal article
Neural correlates of childhood language disorder: A systematic review
AK Mayes, S Reilly, AT Morgan
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology | Published : 2015
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.12714
Abstract
Aim: The neurobiological contributions of childhood language disorder are not well understood. Yet there is increasing evidence that language disorder is associated with differences in brain structure and/or function in core language regions. A key hypothesis has been that children with language disorder do not show the same degree of leftward asymmetry of these regions as observed in typically developing children. We aimed to systematically review structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies to examine brain commonalities and differences between children with language disorder and typically developing controls; and differences in leftward asymmetry between these group..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Angela Mayes received funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) CRE in Childhood Language (#1023493). Angela Morgan is funded by an NHMRC Career Development Award (#607315). Sheena Reilly is funded by an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (#1041892). This work is also supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Programme and the NHMRC CRE in Childhood Language (#1023493). Thank you to J Bruce Tomblin for helpful discussion in the early preparation of this manuscript. The authors have stated that they had no interests that might be perceived as posing a conflict or bias.