Altered Brain Functional Activity in Infants with Congenital Bilateral Severe Sensorineural Hearing Loss : A Resting-State Functional MRI Study under Sedation

Early hearing deprivation could affect the development of auditory, language, and vision ability. Insufficient or no stimulation of the auditory cortex during the sensitive periods of plasticity could affect the function of hearing, language, and vision development. Twenty-three infants with congeni...

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Veröffentlicht in:Neural plasticity. - 1998. - 2017(2017) vom: 15., Seite 8986362
1. Verfasser: Xia, Shuang (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Song, TianBin, Che, Jing, Li, Qiang, Chai, Chao, Zheng, Meizhu, Shen, Wen
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2017
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Neural plasticity
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Early hearing deprivation could affect the development of auditory, language, and vision ability. Insufficient or no stimulation of the auditory cortex during the sensitive periods of plasticity could affect the function of hearing, language, and vision development. Twenty-three infants with congenital severe sensorineural hearing loss (CSSHL) and 17 age and sex matched normal hearing subjects were recruited. The amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFF) and regional homogeneity (ReHo) of the auditory, language, and vision related brain areas were compared between deaf infants and normal subjects. Compared with normal hearing subjects, decreased ALFF and ReHo were observed in auditory and language-related cortex. Increased ALFF and ReHo were observed in vision related cortex, which suggest that hearing and language function were impaired and vision function was enhanced due to the loss of hearing. ALFF of left Brodmann area 45 (BA45) was negatively correlated with deaf duration in infants with CSSHL. ALFF of right BA39 was positively correlated with deaf duration in infants with CSSHL. In conclusion, ALFF and ReHo can reflect the abnormal brain function in language, auditory, and visual information processing in infants with CSSHL. This demonstrates that the development of auditory, language, and vision processing function has been affected by congenital severe sensorineural hearing loss before 4 years of age
Beschreibung:Date Completed 29.08.2017
Date Revised 10.04.2022
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1687-5443
DOI:10.1155/2017/8986362