Role of Sex in Shaping Brain Network Organization During Reading in Developmental Dyslexia

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Publié dans:Children vol. 12, no. 2 (2025), p. 207
Auteur principal: Taskov, Tihomir
Autres auteurs: Dushanova, Juliana
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245 1 |a Role of Sex in Shaping Brain Network Organization During Reading in Developmental Dyslexia 
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520 3 |a Background/Methods: The influence of sex on brain organization was investigated in functional reading networks in 8-year-old children, in those typically developing and those with developmental dyslexia (DD), utilizing the minimum spanning tree model. Results: The word reading task revealed subtle sex differences in brain connectivity and highlighted even small individual variations in functional connectivity characteristics, particularly among boys with DD. In girls, significantly stronger connections and core hubs were identified within and between motor, parietal, and visual networks in posterior brain regions in both hemispheres, particularly in the θ (dyslexics) and δ (normolexics) frequency bands. In contrast, boys showed a more diffuse connectivity pattern, predominantly in the left hemisphere, encompassing anterior heteromodal and sensorimotor networks. Girls exhibited greater network complexity (bigger leaf fraction, kappa, and tree hierarchy), particularly in the θ and δ frequency bands, while boys with DD showed increased network efficiency, except for in the γ2 band (smaller diameter and bigger leaf fraction). Therefore, gender-specific differences in brain network organization may affect reading development and dyslexia. While sex may influence brain network development, its impact on the sensorimotor and frontoparietal networks of 8-year-old children is relatively limited. Significant sex differences were observed in only a small subset of children, primarily in higher (β2-γ2) frequency bands. Conclusions: Interindividual variations were evident only in boys with DD, impacting both sensorimotor and association networks. Different rates of cortical network maturation between sexes with DD during childhood may contribute to variations associated with disruptions in brain network development, even within fundamental networks like the sensorimotor network. 
653 |a Dyslexia 
653 |a Gender differences 
653 |a Individual differences 
653 |a Children 
653 |a Brain 
653 |a Brain research 
653 |a Males 
653 |a Reading comprehension 
653 |a Developmental disabilities 
653 |a Electroencephalography 
653 |a Cognitive ability 
653 |a Phonology 
653 |a Semantics 
653 |a Skills 
653 |a Sex differences 
653 |a Childhood 
653 |a Maturation 
653 |a Girls 
653 |a Networks 
653 |a Boys 
653 |a Functional connectivity 
700 1 |a Dushanova, Juliana 
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