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ArticleScientific reports2021

Regional abnormality of functional connectivity is associated with clinical manifestations in individuals with intractable focal epilepsy.

Yasuo Nakai, Hiroki Nishibayashi, Tomohiro Donishi, Masaki Terada, Naoyuki Nakao, Yoshiki Kaneoke

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Yasuo NakaiDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, 811-1 Kimiidera, Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan. ynakai@wakayama-med.ac.jp.
Hiroki NishibayashiDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, 811-1 Kimiidera, Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan.
Tomohiro DonishiDepartment of System Neurophysiology, Wakayama Medical University, 811-1 Kimiidera, Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan.
Masaki TeradaWakayama-Minami Radiology Clinic, 870-2 Kimiidera, Wakayama, 641-0012, Japan.
Naoyuki NakaoDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, 811-1 Kimiidera, Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan.
Yoshiki KaneokeDepartment of System Neurophysiology, Wakayama Medical University, 811-1 Kimiidera, Wakayama, 641-8509, Japan.
Wakayama Medical University · JPMinami Wakayama Medical Center · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We explored regional functional connectivity alterations in intractable focal epilepsy brains using resting-state functional MRI. Distributions of the network parameters (corresponding to degree and eigenvector centrality) measured at each brain region for all 25 patients were significantly different from age- and sex-matched control data that were estimated by a healthy control dataset (n = 582, 18-84 years old). The number of abnormal regions whose parameters exceeded the mean + 2 SD of age- and sex-matched data for each patient were associated with various clinical parameters such as the duration of illness and seizure severity. Furthermore, abnormal regions for each patient tended to have functional connections with each other (mean ± SD = 58.6 ± 20.2%), the magnitude of which was negatively related to the quality of life. The abnormal regions distributed within the default mode network with significantly higher probability (p < 0.05) in 7 of 25 patients. We consider that the detection of abnormal regions by functional connectivity analysis using a large number of control datasets is useful for the numerical assessment of each patient's clinical conditions, although further study is necessary to elucidate etiology-specific abnormalities.

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AdolescentAdultAgedBrainBrain MappingConnectomeDrug Resistant EpilepsyEpilepsies, PartialFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedNerve NetNeural PathwaysRest

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