Sensorimotor network alterations in children and youth with prenatal alcohol exposure

• Published in: Human brain mapping Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 2258 - 2268
• Main Authors: Long, Xiangyu, Little, Graham, Beaulieu, Christian, Lebel, Catherine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.05.2018; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age Factors; Alcohol use; Alcohols; Brain; Brain Mapping; Child; Children; Children & youth; Correlation of Data; Exposure; Female; fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - diagnostic imaging; Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders - pathology; Functional anatomy; Functional Laterality; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Network analysis; Neural networks; Neural Pathways - diagnostic imaging; Neural Pathways - pathology; neurodevelopment; Neuroimaging; prenatal alcohol exposure; Prenatal experience; Prenatal exposure; resting‐state functional MRI; Sensorimotor Cortex - diagnostic imaging; Sensorimotor Cortex - pathology; sensorimotor network; Somatosensory cortex; fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; magnetic resonance imaging; sensorimotor network; neurodevelopment; resting-state functional MRI; prenatal alcohol exposure

Children with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) often have impaired sensorimotor function. While altered brain structure has been noted in sensorimotor areas, the functional brain alterations remain unclear. This study aims to investigate sensorimotor brain networks in children and youth with PAE usin...