論文

査読有り 国際誌
2019年4月

Local-to-distant development of the cerebrocerebellar sensorimotor network in the typically developing human brain: a functional and diffusion MRI study.

Brain structure & function
  • Kaoru Amemiya
  • ,
  • Tomoyo Morita
  • ,
  • Daisuke N Saito
  • ,
  • Midori Ban
  • ,
  • Koji Shimada
  • ,
  • Yuko Okamoto
  • ,
  • Hirotaka Kosaka
  • ,
  • Hidehiko Okazawa
  • ,
  • Minoru Asada
  • ,
  • Eiichi Naito

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開始ページ
1359
終了ページ
1375
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1007/s00429-018-01821-5

Sensorimotor function is a fundamental brain function in humans, and the cerebrocerebellar circuit is essential to this function. In this study, we demonstrate how the cerebrocerebellar circuit develops both functionally and anatomically from childhood to adulthood in the typically developing human brain. We measured brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging while a total of 57 right-handed, blindfolded, healthy children (aged 8-11 years), adolescents (aged 12-15 years), and young adults (aged 18-23 years) (n = 19 per group) performed alternating extension-flexion movements of their right wrists in precise synchronization with 1-Hz audio tones. We also collected their diffusion MR images to examine the extent of fiber maturity in cerebrocerebellar afferent and efferent tracts by evaluating the anisotropy-sensitive index of hindrance modulated orientational anisotropy (HMOA). During the motor task, although the ipsilateral cerebellum and the contralateral primary sensorimotor cortices were consistently activated across all age groups, the functional connectivity between these two distant regions was stronger in adults than in children and adolescents, whereas connectivity within the local cerebellum was stronger in children and adolescents than in adults. The HMOA values in cerebrocerebellar afferent and efferent tracts were higher in adults than in children (some were also higher than in adolescents). The results indicate that adult-like cerebrocerebellar functional coupling is not completely achieved during childhood and adolescence, even for fundamental sensorimotor brain function, probably due to anatomical immaturity of cerebrocerebellar tracts. This study clearly demonstrated the principle of "local-to-distant" development of functional brain networks in the human cerebrocerebellar sensorimotor network.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-018-01821-5
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30729998
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6499876
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1007/s00429-018-01821-5
  • ISSN : 1863-2653
  • PubMed ID : 30729998
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC6499876

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