Altered DMN functional connectivity and regional homogeneity in partial epilepsy patients: a seventy cases study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Clinically diagnosed partial epilepsy is hard to be functionally diagnosed by regular electroencephalograph (EEG) and conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). By collecting transient brain regional signals, blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) function MRI (BOLD-fMRI) can provide brain function change information with high accuracy. By using resting state BOLD-fMRI technique, we aim to investigate the changes of brain function in partial epilepsy patients.

Methods

BOLD-fMRI scanning was performed in 70 partial epilepsy and 70 healthy people. BOLD-fMRI data was analyzed by using the Regional Homogeneity (ReHo) method and functional connectivity of Default Mode Network (DMN) methods. The abnormal brain functional connectivity in partial epilepsy patients was

SUBMITTER: Hu CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5655301 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature