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Abstract #3142

Atypical functional connectome hierarchy in early-blind adolescents

Zhifeng Zhou1
1Shenzhen Kangning Hospital/Shenzhen Mental Health Center, Shenzhen, China

Synopsis

Keywords: Functional Connectivity, Brain Connectivity, gradient

Motivation: Blind people are a good biological model for studying brain plasticity.

Goal(s): e examined the brain reorganization of the macroscale hierarchy in early-blind adolescents (EBA) compared with normal-sighted controls (NSC).

Approach: Twenty EBA and 20 age-and sex-matched NSC were included. We calculated the vertex-wise functional connectomes of each individual and compared the top 2 gradient scores between the EBA and NSC groups.

Results: The comparison between groups revealed increases in the first two gradients in the visual, sensorimotor, control, and default-mode networks in EBA.

Impact: The macroscale integration and segregation in unimodal and transmodal network is converged and strengthened in EBA relative to NSC.

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