Cleft lip and/or palate(CLP)are the most common craniofacial malformations in humans.Speech problems often persist even after cleft repair,such that follow-up articulation training is usually required.However,the neur...Cleft lip and/or palate(CLP)are the most common craniofacial malformations in humans.Speech problems often persist even after cleft repair,such that follow-up articulation training is usually required.However,the neural mechanism behind effective articulation training remains largely unknown.We used fMRI to investigate the differences in brain activation,functional connectivity,and effective connectivity across CLP patients with and without articulation training and matched normal participants.We found that training promoted task-related brain activation among the articulation-related brain networks,as well as the global attributes and nodal efficiency in the functional-connectivity-based graph of the network.Our results reveal the neural correlates of effective articulation training in CLP patients,and this could contribute to the future improvement of the post-repair articulation training program.展开更多
基金We are grateful to all the patients and healthy controls for their generous participation in this study.This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81771909,61701323,and 62171300)the Discipline Construction Foundation of Beijing Stomatological Hospital(19-09-24)+1 种基金the Capital Medical University Research and Development Fund(PYZ19081)Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals Clinical Medicine Development of Special Funding Support(XML201714).
文摘Cleft lip and/or palate(CLP)are the most common craniofacial malformations in humans.Speech problems often persist even after cleft repair,such that follow-up articulation training is usually required.However,the neural mechanism behind effective articulation training remains largely unknown.We used fMRI to investigate the differences in brain activation,functional connectivity,and effective connectivity across CLP patients with and without articulation training and matched normal participants.We found that training promoted task-related brain activation among the articulation-related brain networks,as well as the global attributes and nodal efficiency in the functional-connectivity-based graph of the network.Our results reveal the neural correlates of effective articulation training in CLP patients,and this could contribute to the future improvement of the post-repair articulation training program.
