ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020
Structural Brain Changes in Blepharospasm: A Cortical Thickness and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study.
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- Structural magnetic resonance imaging in dystonia: A systematic review of methodological approaches and findings.European journal of neurology · 2022Pooled it
- White matter microstructural alterations correlate with clinical characteristics in craniocervical dystonia.Neuroradiology · 2026Article
- Multidimensional structural analyses revealed a correlation between thalamic atrophy and white matter degeneration in idiopathic dystonia.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Cortico-Subcortical White Matter Bundle Changes in Cervical Dystonia and Blepharospasm.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Cortico-basal ganglia networks dysfunction associated with disease severity in patients with idiopathic blepharospasm.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Functional connectivity alterations in the frontoparietal network and sensorimotor network are associated with behavioral heterogeneity in blepharospasm.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Machine Learning for Predicting Individual Severity of Blepharospasm Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
White matter abnormalities in blepharospasm (BSP) have been evaluated using conventional intra-voxel metrics, and changes in patterns of cortical thickness in BSP remain controversial. We aimed to determine whether local diffusion homogeneity, an inter-voxel diffusivity metric, could be valuable in detecting white matter abnormalities for BSP; whether these changes are related to disease features; and whether cortical thickness changes occur in BSP patients. Diffusion tensor and structural magnetic resonance imaging were collected for 29 patients with BSP and 30 healthy controls. Intergroup diffusion differences were compared using tract-based spatial statistics analysis and measures of cortical thickness were obtained. The relationship among cortical thickness, diffusion metric in significantly different regions, and behavioral measures were further assessed. There were no significant differences in cortical thickness and fractional anisotropy between the groups. Local diffusion homogeneity was higher in BSP patients than controls, primarily in the left superior longitudinal fasciculus, corpus callosum, left posterior corona radiata, and left posterior thalamic radiata (
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