在患有白质超强度的患者中,改变了动态功能网络连接和拓组织变异
Chaojuan Huang1, Xia Zhou1, Mengmeng Ren1
1Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
Journal of neuroscience research
|July 20, 2023
概括
这项研究揭示了白质超强度 (WMH) 破坏动态大脑网络连接和组织,影响认知功能. 这些变化随着WMH严重程度的增加而变得更加明显.
科学领域:
- 神经成像是一种神经成像.
- 大脑小血管疾病 (CSVD) 的研究.
- 认知神经科学 认知神经科学
背景情况:
- 白质高强度 (WMHs) 是大脑小血管疾病 (CSVD) 的关键标志物.
- 以前的研究表明,CSVD中的功能性大脑网络异常,通常使用静态连接.
- 有限的研究探讨了与WMH严重程度相关的动态网络变化.
研究的目的:
- 研究WMHs患者中被破坏的动态功能网络连接 (dFNC) 的情况.
- 分析与WMH严重程度相关的拓组织方差.
- 了解网络变化与CSVD认知缺陷之间的联系.
主要方法:
- 使用休息状态功能磁共振成像 (fMRI) 来自38个中度WMH,47个严重WMH和68个健康对照 (HC).
- 应用了独立组件分析 (ICA) 和移动窗口k-means集群来估计dFNC.
- 评估拓组织变异,包括本地和全球效率.
主要成果:
- 与HC相比,WMH患者表现出较高的稀疏连接dFNC状态1和较低的状态3的发生/持续时间.
- 患有WMH的患者表现出局部效率的变异增加,而不是全球效率.
- 严重的WMH病例显示出比中度WMH病例更明显的网络改变.
结论:
- 异常的dFNC状态和拓组织变异在中度至严重的WMH中得到证实.
- 改变的大脑网络特征表明功能分离和整合的不平衡.
- 这些发现与认知障碍相关,并可能为CSVD病原体提供见解.
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