Abnormal Functional Connectivity Density in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2018 Purpose: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a motor neuro-degenerative disorder that also damages extra-motor neural pathways. A significant proportion of existing evidence describe alterations in the strengths of functional connectivity, whereas the
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Functional connectivity density alterations in schizophrenia [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014 Background: Schizophrenia is characterized by altered resting-state functional connectivity. Most previous studies have focused on changes in connectivity strengths; however, the alterations in connectivity density in schizophrenia remain largely unknown.
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The altered functional connectivity density related to cognitive impairment in alcoholics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is one of the most common substance use disorders contributing to both behavioral and cognitive impairments in patients with AUD.
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Functional Connectivity Density for Radiation Encephalopathy Prediction in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma [PDF]
Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 The diagnostic efficiency of radiation encephalopathy (RE) remains heterogeneous, and prediction of RE is difficult at the pre-symptomatic stage. We aimed to analyze the whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity density (FCD) of individuals with ...
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Altered Functional Connectivity Density in Subtypes of Parkinson’s Disease [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 Parkinson’s disease (PD) can be classified into tremor-dominant and akinetic-rigid subtypes, each of which exhibits a unique clinical course and prognosis. The neural basis for these disparate manifestations is not well-understood, however.
Xiaofei Hu +9 more
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Alternations in Dynamic and Static Functional Connectivity Density in Chronic Smokers [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 Previous studies have implicated abnormal functional coordination in brain regions of smokers. Neuroimaging studies demonstrated alternations in brain connectivity by using the resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) method which arbitrarily chooses
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Acupuncture modulates the frequency-specific functional connectivity density in primary dysmenorrhea [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 BackgroundThe study aimed to investigate how acupuncture modulates brain activities across multiple frequency bands to achieve therapeutic effects in PDM.MethodsA total of 47 patients with PDM were randomly assigned to the verum acupuncture group and ...
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Pre-diabetes is associated with altered functional connectivity density in cortical regions of the default-mode network [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022 Insulin resistance and glucose dysregulation are associated with patterns of regional brain hypometabolism characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
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Functional Connectivity Density in the Sensorimotor Area is Associated with Sleep Latency in Patients with Primary Insomnia [PDF]
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2022 Bin Ji,1 Min Dai,2 Zhongwei Guo,3 Jiapeng Li,4 Yulin Cao,4 Zhenzhong Zhang,3 Yan Zhang,3 Xiaozheng Liu2 1Department of Anesthesiologyand Perioperative Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University ...
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Functional connectivity density alterations in middle‐age retinal detachment patients [PDF]
Brain and Behavior, 2021 Objective Middle‐age patients with retinal detachment (RD) exhibit a loss of visual information, and previous studies of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have demonstrated abnormal spontaneous activity in the RD brain.
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