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Network Analysis of the Default Mode Network Using Functional Connectivity MRI in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Published on: August 5, 2014
Structural brain network analysis in occipital lobe epilepsy
Dong Ah Lee1, Ho-Joon Lee2, Kang Min Park3
1Department of Neurology, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
Background:
This study aimed to analyze the structural brain network in patients with occipital lobe epilepsy (OLE) and investigate the differences in structural brain networks between patients with OLE and healthy controls.
Methods:
Patients with OLE and healthy controls with normal brain MRI findings were enrolled. They underwent diffusion tensor imaging using a 3.0T MRI scanner, and we computed the network measures of global and local structural networks in patients with OLE and healthy controls using the DSI studio program. We compared network measures between the groups.
Results:
We enrolled 23 patients with OLE and 42 healthy controls. There were significant differences in the global structural network between patients with OLE and healthy controls. The assortativity coefficient (-0.0864 vs. -0.0814, p = 0.0214), mean clustering coefficient (0.0061 vs. 0.0064, p = 0.0203), global efficiency (0.0315 vs. 0.0353, p = 0.0086), and small-worldness index (0.0001 vs. 0.0001, p = 0.0175) were lower, whereas the characteristic path length (59.2724 vs. 53.4684, p = 0.0120) was higher in patients with OLE than those in the healthy controls. There were several nodes beyond the occipital lobe that showed significant differences in the local structural network between the groups. In addition, the assortativity coefficient was negatively correlated with the duration of epilepsy (r=-0.676, p = 0.001).
