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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2021

Using Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations and Functional Connectivity in Patients With Post-stroke Cognitive Impairment for a Simulated Stimulation Program.

Sirui Wang, Bo Rao, Linglong Chen, Zhuo Chen, Pinyan Fang, Guofu Miao, Haibo Xu, Weijing Liao

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sirui WangDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Bo RaoDepartment of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Linglong ChenDepartment of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Zhuo ChenDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Pinyan FangDepartment of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Guofu MiaoDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Haibo XuDepartment of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Weijing LiaoDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Wuhan University · CNZhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University · CN

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Abstract

Stroke causes alterations in local spontaneous neuronal activity and related networks functional connectivity. We hypothesized that these changes occur in patients with post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI). Fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF) was calculated in 36 patients with cognitive impairment, including 16 patients with hemorrhagic stroke (hPSCI group), 20 patients with ischemic stroke (iPSCI group). Twenty healthy volunteers closely matched to the patient groups with respect to age and gender were selected as the healthy control group (HC group). Regions with significant alteration were regarded as regions of interest (ROIs) using the one-way analysis of variance, and then the seed-based functional connectivity (FC) with other regions in the brain was analyzed. Pearson correlation analyses were performed to investigate the correlation between functional indexes and cognitive performance in patients with PSCI. Our results showed that fALFF values of bilateral posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)/precuneus and bilateral anterior cingulate cortex in the hPSCI group were lower than those in the HC group. Compared with the HC group, fALFF values were lower in the superior frontal gyrus and basal ganglia in the iPSCI group. Correlation analysis showed that the fALFF value of left PCC was positively correlated with MMSE scores and MoCA scores in hPSCI. Besides, the reduction of seed-based FC values was reported, especially in regions of the default-mode network (DMN) and the salience network (SN). Abnormalities of spontaneous brain activity and functional connectivity are observed in PSCI patients. The decreased fALFF and FC values in DMN of patients with hemorrhagic and SN of patients with ischemic stroke may be the pathological mechanism of cognitive impairment. Besides, we showed how to use fALFF values and functional connectivity maps to specify a target map on the cortical surface for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).

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default-mode networkfractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuationspost-stroke cognitive impairmentsalience networkseed-based functional connectivity

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