Journal
CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 29, Issue 6, Pages 2575-2587Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy126
Keywords
autism; autism spectrum disorder; autistic; brain development; cortical folding; gyrification; longitudinal; MRI
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- National Institute of Mental Health [1R01MH089626, 1R01MH103371, R01MH104438, U24MH081810]
- MIND Institute Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center [U54HD079125]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [158831, 163859]
- University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship
- University of California Davis Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (MIND) Institute
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Local gyrification index (LGI), a metric quantifying cortical folding, was evaluated in 105 boys with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 49 typically developing (TD) boys at 3 and 5 years-of-age. At 3 years-of-age, boys with ASD had reduced gyrification in the fusiform gyrus compared with TD boys. A longitudinal evaluation from 3 to 5 years revealed that while TD boys had stable/decreasing LGI, boys with ASD had increasing LGI in right inferior temporal gyrus, right inferior frontal gyrus, right inferior parietal lobule, and stable LGI in left lingual gyrus. LGI was also examined in a previously defined neurophenotype of boys with ASD and disproportionate megalencephaly. At 3 years-of-age, this subgroup exhibited increased LGI in right dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, cingulate cortex, and paracentral cortex, and left cingulate cortex and superior frontal gyrus relative to TD boys and increased LGI in right paracentral lobule and parahippocampal gyrus, and left precentral gyrus compared with boys with ASD and normal brain size. In summary, this study identified alterations in the pattern and development of LGI during early childhood in ASD. Distinct patterns of alterations in subgroups of boys with ASD suggests that multiple neurophenotypes exist and boys with ASD and disproportionate megalencephaly should be evaluated separately.
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