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CHANGES IN FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY FOLLOWING INTENSIVE ATTENTION TRAINING IN PATIENTS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY. A
Hanna Persson1, Tie-Qiang Li2,3, Gabriela Markovic1,4
1Division of Rehabilitation Medicine, Danderyd University Hospital.
Objective:
To explore functional connectivity after intensive attention training in the chronic phase after traumatic brain injury as clinical evidence indicates that intensive attention training improves attention dysfunction in persons with traumatic brain injury.
Design And Subjects:
A case series study. Two young adults, 13- and 18-months post traumatic brain injury, with traumatic brain injury induced attention deficits were assigned to 20 h of intensive attention training and neuroimaging.
Methods:
Functional magnetic resonance imaging during a psychomotor vigilance test was conducted pre- and post-intervention.
Results:
The neuroimaging indicated both increased and decreased connectivity density in frontal, posterior and subcortical brain regions, for some regions with separate change patterns for left and right hemisphere respectively, and an overall reduction in variability in functional connectivity.
Conclusion:
The changed and decreased variability of functional connectivity in various brain regions, captured by fMRI during a psychomotor vigilance test after direct attention training in a small sample of persons with traumatic brain injury, suggests further studies of functional connectivity changes in neural networks.
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