Julia Rannefeld, Julie Lorraine O'Sullivan, Adelheid Kuhlmey, Jan Cornelius Zoellick
Deaf and hard-of-hearing patients are unsatisfied with and avoid German health care: Results from an online survey in German Sign Language
BMC public health
literacy numeracy important skills typically learned childhood time coincides considerable shifts largescale brain organization however studies emphasize focal brain contributions literacy numeracy development employing casecontrol designs voxelbyvoxel statistical comparisons approach valuable may underestimate contribution overall brain network organization current study includes children n 133 children 86 male mean age 942 sd 1715 age range 5921375y broad range abilities uses wholebrain structural connectomics based diffusionweighted mri data results indicate academic attainment associated differences structural brain organization something seen focusing integrity specific regions furthermore simulated disruption highlyconnected brain regions known hubs suggests role regions maintaining architecture network may important specific aspects processing findings indicate distributed brain systems contribute etiology difficulties academic learning cannot captured using traditional voxelwise statistical approach