Reduction of Interhemispheric Functional Brain Connectivity in Early Blindness: A Resting-State fMRI Study

<table class="table-group" id="tab5"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="7"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left" rowspan="2">Brain regions</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Brodmann area</td><td class="align_center" colspan="3">Peak (MNI)</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Cluster size</td><td class="align_center" rowspan="2">Peak <svg height="8.8423pt" id="M27" style="vertical-align:-0.2064009pt" version="1.1" viewbox="-0.0498162 -8.6359 8.28119 8.8423" width="8.28119pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,0,0)"><path d="M610 18C585 26 567 34 540 68C517 97 499 128 476 171C452 215 425 276 413 304C496 332 570 394 570 494C570 555 545 595 509 619S419 650 364 650H139L133 622C216 615 219 612 203 527L129 132C112 40 105 36 23 28L17 0H279L285 28C199 34 194 40 211 132L239 284H284C320 284 334 275 351 236C374 182 394 140 420 93C459 23 495 -1 592 -8H600L610 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horiz-adv-x="498" vert-adv-y="498"></glyph.data></g></svg></span></td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="7"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Middle temporal gyri</td><td class="align_center">21</td><td class="align_center">±62</td><td class="align_center">−35</td><td class="align_center">−10</td><td class="align_center">82</td><td class="align_center">−0.791</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Middle frontal gyri</td><td class="align_center">9</td><td class="align_center">±50</td><td class="align_center">−14</td><td class="align_center">43</td><td class="align_center">62</td><td class="align_center">−0.883</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Inferior temporal gyri</td><td class="align_center">20</td><td class="align_center">±57</td><td class="align_center">−37</td><td class="align_center">−12</td><td class="align_center">90</td><td class="align_center">−0.844</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="7"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td>MNI: Montreal Neurological Institute.<br/></td></tr></table>

Regions showing significant correlations between the voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity and duration of blindness.

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Table 5: Reduction of Interhemispheric Functional Brain Connectivity in Early Blindness: A Resting-State fMRI Study 