Topic: diffusion magnetic resonance imaging

The utilization of language distinguishes humans uniquely within the animal kingdom. Nevertheless, due to dogs evolving in parallel with humans, their brains have undergone positive selection, enabling them to comprehend human language to a certain extent. This divergence sets them apart in the animal kingdom, marking a distinction from non-human primates. Our hypothesis posits that dogs have independently developed a white matter pathway connecting cortical areas associated with vocal perception to higher brain regions responsible for generating suitable responses to human vocal communication

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a neuromotor disorder resulting from brain lesions occurring in fetuses or around birth, affecting white matter and leading to sensorimotor deficits. While motor functions have been extensively studied, motor planning deficits in children with CP remains largely unexplored. This study aims to compare anticipatory force control between children with CP and typically developing children (TD) and to investigate the relationship between motor planning tracts (i.e., corticocerebellar tracts) and motor planning deficits. Ten children with CP (7 girls, 3 boys) aged 8-14 years w