Pediatr Res. 2009 Sep;66(3):306-11 doi: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e3181b1bd6a.

Subjects with intellectual disability and familial need for full-time special education show regional brain alterations: a voxel-based morphometry study

Mannerkoski MK, Heiskala HJ, Van Leemput K, Aberg LE, Raininko R, Hämäläinen J, Autti TH.

Abstract

Subjects attending full-time special education (SE) often have multifactorial background for their cognitive impairment, and brain MRI may show nonspecific changes. As voxel-based morphometry reveals regional volume differences, we applied this method to 119 subjects with cognitive impairments and familial need for full-time SE--graded into three levels from specific disorders of cognitive processes (level 1) to intellectual disability (IQ

PMID: 19531975