Causal Structural Covariance Network Suggesting Structural Alterations Progression in Type 2 Diabetes Patients [PDF]
Background and PurposeAccording to reports, type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a progressive disease. However, no known research has examined the progressive brain structural changes associated with T2D.
Jiang Zhang +15 more
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Cortical Thinning and Abnormal Structural Covariance Network After Three Hours Sleep Restriction [PDF]
Sleep loss leads to serious health problems, impaired attention, and emotional processing. It has been suggested that the abnormal neurobehavioral performance after sleep deprivation was involved in dysfunction of specific functional connectivity between
Chaoyan Wang +4 more
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Brain Structural Covariance Network Topology in Remitted Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PDF]
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent, chronic disorder with high psychiatric morbidity; however, a substantial portion of affected individuals experience remission after onset.
Delin Sun +44 more
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Revealing heterogeneity in mild cognitive impairment based on individualized structural covariance network [PDF]
Background Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a heterogeneous disorder with significant individual variabilities in clinical and biological features. Abnormal inter-regional structural covariance suggests disruption of the brain structural network in MCI.
Xiaotong Wei +6 more
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Connectome-based predictive modeling of smoking severity using individualized structural covariance network in smokers [PDF]
IntroductionAbnormal interactions among distributed brain systems are implicated in the mechanisms of nicotine addiction. However, the relationship between the structural covariance network, a measure of brain connectivity, and smoking severity remains ...
Weijian Wang +8 more
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Structural Covariance Network Disruption and Functional Compensation in Parkinson’s Disease [PDF]
Purpose: To investigate the structural covariance network disruption in Parkinson’s disease (PD), and explore the functional alterations of disrupted structural covariance network.Methods: A cohort of 100 PD patients and 70 healthy participants underwent
Cheng Zhou +13 more
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Exploring the core network of the structural covariance network in childhood absence epilepsy [PDF]
Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is a generalized pediatric epilepsy, which is generally considered to be a benign condition since most children become seizure-free before reaching adulthood. However, cognitive deficits and changes of brain morphological
Merel J.A. Eussen +8 more
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Topological abnormality of structural covariance network in MRI-negative frontal lobe epilepsy [PDF]
BackgroundFrontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) is the second most common type of focal epilepsy, however, imaging studies of FLE have been far less than Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and the structural findings were not consistent in previous literature ...
Yin Liu +11 more
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Analysis of brain structural covariance network in Cushing disease [PDF]
Background: Cushing disease (CD) is a rare clinical neuroendocrine disease. CD is characterized by abnormal hypercortisolism induced by a pituitary adenoma with the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone.
Can-Xin Xu +7 more
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Impaired Topological Properties of Gray Matter Structural Covariance Network in Epilepsy Children With Generalized Tonic–Clonic Seizures: A Graph Theoretical Analysis [PDF]
Modern network science has provided exciting new opportunities for understanding the human brain as a complex network of interacting regions. The improved knowledge of human brain network architecture has made it possible for clinicians to detect the ...
Yongxin Li +6 more
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