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The relationships between altered ALFF, ReHo, and FC and the Griffiths Developmental Scales (GDS) of the PWS group were analyzed using partial correlation analysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Both ALFF and ReHo exhibited decreases in occipital lobe, temporal lobe, and cingulate gyrus, and altered ReHo was present in parietal lobe, frontal lobe, and basal ganglia areas. Moreover, ALFF and ReHo also exhibited increases in occipital and temporal lobes. Decreased FC was detected in the visual network (VN), sensorimotor network (SMN), salience network (SAN), and default mode network (DMN). The SMN-, cingulate-, and occipital lobe-related neural activation patterns were significantly positively correlated with the GDS score.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The PWS group was characterized mainly by decreased neuronal physiological function and the ReHo was similar to ALFF but more extensive. The decreased local and global brain neural activation patterns may serve as early physiological indicators of cognitive abnormalities.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnins.2026.1696114","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,15]],"date-time":"2026-04-15T04:44:16Z","timestamp":1776228256000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Aberrant local and global neural activation patterns in pediatric Prader\u2013Willi syndrome"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Jie","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhongxin","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Endocrinology, Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]},{"name":"Department of Radiology, Women and Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jinhua","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Min","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Chongqing Health Center for Women and Children","place":["Chongqing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Song","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Endocrinology, Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]},{"name":"Department of Radiology, Women and Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shuang","family":"Ding","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Longlun","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Endocrinology, Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]},{"name":"Department of Radiology, Women and Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chunlan","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiaxin","family":"Su","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Children\u2019s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University","place":["Chongqing, China"]}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"106847","DOI":"10.1016\/j.nlm.2018.05.011","article-title":"Cognitive deficits in the Snord116 deletion mouse model for Prader\u2013Willi syndrome","volume":"165","author":"Adhikari","year":"2019","journal-title":"Neurobiol. 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