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Mother-Child Similarity In Brain Morphology: A Comparison Of Structural Characteristics Of The Brain's Reading Network, Lynn V. Fehlbaum, Lien Peters, Plamina Dimanova, Margot Roell, Réka Borbás, Daniel Ansari, Nora M. Raschle

Paediatrics Publications

Background: Substantial evidence acknowledges the complex gene-environment interplay impacting brain development and learning. Intergenerational neuroimaging allows the assessment of familial transfer effects on brain structure, function and behavior by investigating neural similarity in caregiver-child dyads. Methods: Neural similarity in the human reading network was assessed through well-used measures of brain structure (i.e., surface area (SA), gyrification (lG), sulcal morphology, gray matter volume (GMV) and cortical thickness (CT)) in 69 mother-child dyads (children's age~11 y). Regions of interest for the reading network included left-hemispheric inferior frontal gyrus, inferior parietal lobe and fusiform gyrus. Mother-child similarity was quantified by correlation coefficients and …