Emi Takahashi1,
Glenn D. Rosen2, Allison C.R. Scott3, Veronica J.
Peschansky2, Natsuko Fujisaki2, Guangping Dai4,
Patricia Ellen Grant5, Albert M. Galaburda2
1Boston
Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; 2Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States; 3Columbia
University, New York, NY, United States; 4Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; 5Boston Children's Hospital,
Boston, MA, United States
The goal of this study is to use non-invasive diffusion weighted imaging and tractography to develop a quantifiable and verifiable biomarker of neuronal migration disorder. Our results suggest that the number and volume of identified tractography pathways were significant predictors of neuronal migration disorders in callosum and intra-hemispheric pathways. The length of tractogrpahy pathways was also a significant predictor of the disorders in the total and intra-hemispheric pathways. These experiments clearly support the notion that there are profound changes in the nature of connectivity associated with disruption of neuronal migration.