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Associations of reading skills and properties of cerebral white matter pathways in 8-year-old children born preterm

2020-12-14 pediatrics Title + abstract only
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AIMChildren born preterm (PT) experience perinatal white matter injury and later reading deficits at school age. We used two complementary neuroimaging modalities to determine if reading skills would be associated with contemporaneous white matter properties in school-aged PT children. METHODIn 8-year-old PT children (N=29), we measured diffusivity (fractional anisotropy, FA), from diffusion MRI, and myelin content (relaxation rate, R1) from quantitative relaxometry. We assessed reading (Grays ...

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