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On striatal myelin in children with developmental language disorder, with Saloni Krishnan

PsychologiCALL

English - November 14, 2022 07:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MB
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Saloni Krishnan is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist at Royal Holloway who specialises in the neural basis of developmental language disorder. During this podcast she talks to Lou about her new finding of reduced myelin in children with developmental language disorder (DLD).

You can follow Saloni on Twitter @salonikrishnan, check out her lab website, or read about the project to find out more about her research.

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The paper discussed in this podcast is:

Krishnan, K., Cler, G. J., Smith, H. J., Willis, H. E., Asaridou, S. S., Healy, M. P., Papp, D., & Watkins, K. E. (2022). Quantitative MRI reveals differences in striatal myelin in children with DLD. eLife 11:e74242

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