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Bayesian stroke modeling details sex biases in the white matter substrates of aphasia

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Hartwigsen,  Gesa       
Lise Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Kernbach, J. M., Hartwigsen, G., Lim, J.-S., Bae, H.-J., Yu, K.-H., Schlaug, G., et al. (2023). Bayesian stroke modeling details sex biases in the white matter substrates of aphasia. Communications Biology, 6(1): 354. doi:10.1038/s42003-023-04733-1.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-CE84-7
Abstract
Ischemic cerebrovascular events often lead to aphasia. Previous work provided hints that such strokes may affect women and men in distinct ways. Women tend to suffer strokes with more disabling language impairment, even if the lesion size is comparable to men. In 1401 patients, we isolate data-led representations of anatomical lesion patterns and hand-tailor a Bayesian analytical solution to carefully model the degree of sex divergence in predicting language outcomes ~3 months after stroke. We locate lesion-outcome effects in the left-dominant language network that highlight the ventral pathway as a core lesion focus across different tests of language performance. We provide detailed evidence for sex-specific brain-behavior associations in the domain-general networks associated with cortico-subcortical pathways, with unique contributions of the fornix in women and cingular fiber bundles in men. Our collective findings suggest diverging white matter substrates in how stroke causes language deficits in women and men. Clinically acknowledging such sex disparities has the potential to improve personalized treatment for stroke patients worldwide.