Topologic Reorganization of White Matter Connectivity Networks in Early-Blind Adolescents

Figure 3

Distribution of brain regions with significantly intercohort differences in nodal shortest path length (NLp) (a) and the correlation with blind duration in EBA cohort (b). (a) Regions with longer NLp are represented in different colors: purple for the default-mode system, green for the visual system, and blue for the limbic system. The node sizes indicate the significance of intercohort difference in NLp. (b) Scatterplots show a significantly positive correlation between NLp and blind duration in EBA cohort ( = 21). The fitted values indicate the residuals of original values of NLp adjusted age and sex and corrected with mean value. The abbreviations of nodes can be referred in Table 4.

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