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Editorial
. 2022 Sep 27:11:e82258.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.82258.

What happens in the brain?

Faye Smith  1 , Timothy D Griffiths  2
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Editorial

What happens in the brain?

Faye Smith et al. Elife. .

Abstract

A new imaging method reveals previously undetected structural differences that may contribute to developmental language disorder.

Keywords: developmental language disorder; human; microstructure; myelin; neuroscience; qMRI; striatum.

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Conflict of interest statement

FS, TG No competing interests declared

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. How levels of myelin differ in the brains of children with developmental language disorder.
Krishnan et al. used a MRI technique called MTsat to image the brains of children with and without developmental language disorder. This image shows a section through the brain at the level of the basal ganglia with a coloured map (orange and yellow) overlaid representing the areas of the brain where myelin levels are reduced. This revealed that myelin levels are particularly low in a part of the striatum called the left caudate (black arrow) in children with developmental language disorder.
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