Periventricular nodular heterotopia and cardiovascular defects.

A structural basis for reading fluency: white matter defects in a genetic brain malformation.

BACKGROUND Multiple lines of evidence have suggested that developmental dyslexia may be associated with abnormalities of neuronal migration or axonal connectivity. In patients with periventricular nodular heterotopia--a rare genetic brain malformation characterized by misplaced nodules of gray matter along the lateral ventricles--a specific and unexpected reading disability is present, despite ...

STEREOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE THALAMUS IN A RAT MODEL OF PERIVENTRICULAR NODULAR HETEROTOPIA By

Reading impairment in the neuronal migration disorder of periventricular nodular heterotopia.

OBJECTIVE To define the behavioral profile of periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH), a malformation of cortical development that is associated with seizures but reportedly normal intelligence, and to correlate the results with anatomic and clinical features of this disorder. METHODS Ten consecutive subjects with PNH, all with epilepsy and at least two periventricular nodules, were studied...

Germline mosaicism in X-linked periventricular nodular heterotopia

BACKGROUND X-linked periventricular nodular heterotopia is a disorder of neuronal migration resulting from mutations in the filamin A gene. This is an X-linked dominant condition where most affected patients are female and present with seizures. Extra-cerebral features such as cardiac abnormalities and thrombocytopenia have also been documented. Loss of function mutations in filamin A are predi...

Infantile spasms with periventricular nodular heterotopia, unbalanced chromosomal translocation 3p26.2 ‐10p15.1 and 6q22.31 duplication

Patients presenting with infantile spasms, dysmorphic features, and periventricular nodular heterotopia may benefit from genetic copy number variation microarray, or whole-exome sequencing to identify candidate genes. This will allow personalized diagnosis and prognostication and the eventual understanding of single and combined gene functions in brain health and disease.