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Brain asymmetries in autism and developmental language disorder: a nested whole-brain analysis Herbert MR; Ziegler DA; Deutsch CK; O'Brien LM; Kennedy DN; Filipek PA; Bakardjiev AI; Hodgson J; Takeoka M; Makris N; Caviness VS JrBrain 2005[Jan]; 128 (Pt 1): 213-26We report a whole-brain MRI morphometric survey of asymmetry in children with high-functioning autism and with developmental language disorder (DLD). Subjects included 46 boys of normal intelligence aged 5.7-11.3 years (16 autistic, 15 DLD, 15 controls). Imaging analysis included grey-white segmentation and cortical parcellation. Asymmetry was assessed at a series of nested levels. We found that asymmetries were masked with larger units of analysis but progressively more apparent with smaller units, and that within the cerebral cortex the differences were greatest in higher-order association cortex. The larger units of analysis, including the cerebral hemispheres, the major grey and white matter structures and the cortical lobes, showed no asymmetries in autism or DLD and few asymmetries in controls. However, at the level of cortical parcellation units, autism and DLD showed more asymmetry than controls. They had a greater aggregate volume of significantly asymmetrical cortical parcellation units (leftward plus rightward), as well as a substantially larger aggregate volume of right-asymmetrical cortex in DLD and autism than in controls; this rightward bias was more pronounced in autism than in DLD. DLD, but not autism, showed a small but significant loss of leftward asymmetry compared with controls. Right : left ratios were reversed, autism and DLD having twice as much right- as left-asymmetrical cortex, while the reverse was found in the control sample. Asymmetry differences between groups were most significant in the higher-order association areas. Autism and DLD were much more similar to each other in patterns of asymmetry throughout the cerebral cortex than either was to controls; this similarity suggests systematic and related alterations rather than random neural systems alterations. We review these findings in relation to previously reported volumetric features in these two samples of brains, including increased total brain and white matter volumes and lack of increase in the size of the corpus callosum. Larger brain volume has previously been associated with increased lateralization. The sizeable right-asymmetry increase reported here may be a consequence of early abnormal brain growth trajectories in these disorders, while higher-order association areas may be most vulnerable to connectivity abnormalities associated with white matter increases.|Autistic Disorder/*pathology[MESH]|Brain/*pathology[MESH]|Cerebral Cortex/pathology[MESH]|Child[MESH]|Child, Preschool[MESH]|Dominance, Cerebral[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Language Development Disorders/*pathology[MESH]|Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods[MESH]|Male[MESH]|Motor Cortex/pathology[MESH] |
