Structural-informed functional MRI analysis of patients with empathy impairment following stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The underlying functional alterations of brain structural changes among patients with empathy impairment following stroke remain unclear. We sought to investigate functional connectivity changes informed by brain structural abnormalities in multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) among patients with empathy impairment following stroke.

Methods

We enrolled people who had experienced their first ischemic stroke, along with healthy controls. We assessed empathy 3 months after stroke using the Chinese version of the Empathy Quotient (EQ). During the acute phase, all patients underwent basic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), followed by multimodal MRI during follow-up. Our MRI analyses encompassed acute infarction segmentation, volumetric brain measurements, region

SUBMITTER: Qu JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11530265 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature