PMID- 36928480 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230616 LR - 20230621 IS - 1460-2199 (Electronic) IS - 1047-3211 (Print) IS - 1047-3211 (Linking) VI - 33 IP - 12 DP - 2023 Jun 8 TI - Altered structural connectome of children with auditory processing disorder: a diffusion MRI study. PG - 7727-7740 LID - 10.1093/cercor/bhad075 [doi] AB - Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a listening impairment that some school-aged children may experience despite having normal peripheral hearing. Recent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revealed an alteration in regional functional brain topology in children with APD. However, little is known about the structural organization in APD. We used diffusion MRI data to investigate the structural connectome of 58 children from 8 to 14 years old diagnosed with APD (n = 29) and children without hearing complaints (healthy controls, HC; n = 29). We investigated the rich-club organization and structural connection differences between groups. The APD group showed similar rich-club organization and edge-wise connection compared with the HC group. However, at the regional level, we observed increased average path length (APL) and betweenness centrality in the right inferior parietal lobule and inferior precentral gyrus, respectively, in the APD group. Only HCs demonstrated a positive association between APL and the listening-in-spatialized-noise-sentences task in the left orbital gyrus. In line with previous findings, the current results provide evidence for altered structural networks at the regional level in the APD group, suggesting the involvement of multimodal deficits and a role for structure-function alteration in the listening difficulties of children with APD. CI - (c) The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. FAU - Alvand, Ashkan AU - Alvand A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2809-0613 AD - School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand. AD - Eisdell Moore Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1023, New Zealand. FAU - Kuruvilla-Mathew, Abin AU - Kuruvilla-Mathew A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9025-2900 AD - School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand. AD - Eisdell Moore Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1023, New Zealand. FAU - Roberts, Reece P AU - Roberts RP AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6760-0981 AD - School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand. AD - Centre for Brain Research, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1023, New Zealand. FAU - Pedersen, Mangor AU - Pedersen M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9199-1916 AD - School of Psychology and Neuroscience, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland central, Auckland 0627, New Zealand. FAU - Kirk, Ian J AU - Kirk IJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0444-6718 AD - School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand. AD - Eisdell Moore Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1023, New Zealand. AD - Centre for Brain Research, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1023, New Zealand. FAU - Purdy, Suzanne C AU - Purdy SC AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9978-8173 AD - School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1010, New Zealand. AD - Eisdell Moore Centre, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1023, New Zealand. AD - Centre for Brain Research, The University of Auckland, Auckland central, Auckland 1023, New Zealand. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Cereb Cortex JT - Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) JID - 9110718 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Child MH - Adolescent MH - *Auditory Perceptual Disorders/diagnostic imaging/pathology MH - *Connectome MH - Brain MH - Auditory Perception MH - Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging PMC - PMC10267651 OTO - NOTNLM OT - auditory processing disorder OT - diffusion MRI OT - graph theory OT - rich-club OT - structural connectivity EDAT- 2023/03/18 06:00 MHDA- 2023/06/16 06:42 PMCR- 2023/03/16 CRDT- 2023/03/17 09:12 PHST- 2022/11/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/02/20 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/02/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/06/16 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/03/18 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/03/17 09:12 [entrez] PHST- 2023/03/16 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 7078817 [pii] AID - bhad075 [pii] AID - 10.1093/cercor/bhad075 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cereb Cortex. 2023 Jun 8;33(12):7727-7740. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhad075.