ArticleNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2018
Characteristics of brain functional and structural connectivity in alexithymic students.
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- Alexithymia characteristics are associated with salience network activity in healthy participants: an arterial spin labeling study.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2023Article
- Common neural substrates of diverse neurodevelopmental disorders.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2023Article
- The relationship between alexithymia, interoception, and neural functional connectivity during facial expression processing in autism spectrum disorder.Neuropsychologia · 2023Article
- Convergent and Divergent Structural Connectivity of Brain White Matter Network Between Patients With Erectile Dysfunction and Premature Ejaculation: A Graph Theory Analysis Study.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Structural and Functional Abnormities of Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex in Major Depressive Disorder With Suicide Attempts.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlexithymia is a multifaceted personality trait and a risk factor for several mental and physical diseases.
methodsIn this study, 21 alexithymic students and 21 nonalexithymic students were recruited from the local university and assigned to the alexithymic group and the control group, respectively. Then, the functional connectivity and the structural connectivity among the brain regions of the students were investigated using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI), function connection (FC) analysis, and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
resultsThe rsfMRI results revealed 14 brain regions showing significant differences in the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations between the two groups. Comparative analysis of the FC and DTI data in these brain regions between the two groups identified altered levels of functional and structural connectivity between the following four pairs of regions in the alexithymic subjects: the right inferior temporal gyrus and the central posterior gyrus, the left temporal gyrus and the insula, and the bilateral superior frontal gyrus and the anterior cingulate gyrus.
conclusionCompared with single MRI analysis, the multiple MRI analysis identified more precisely the brain regions that could play a key role in the development of alexithymia.
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