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Brain Functional Network Changes in Patients with Poststroke Cognitive Impairment Following Acupuncture Therapy
Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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Department of Radiology, Sichuan Province Orthopedic Hospital, Chengdu, China
1 Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
2 Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
3 Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
4 Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
5 Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
6 Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
7 Science and Technology Innovation Center, Interventional Medical Center, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
8 Department of Radiology, Sichuan Province Orthopedic Hospital, Chengdu, China
Background: The mechanisms by which acupuncture affects poststroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) remain unclear. Objective: To investigate brain functional network (BFN) changes in patients with PSCI after acupuncture therapy. Methods: Twenty-two PSCI patients who underwent acupuncture therapy in our hospital were enrolled as research subjects. Another 14 people matched for age, sex, and education level were included in the normal control (HC) group. All the subjects underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) scans; the PSCI patients underwent one scan before acupuncture therapy and another after. The network metric difference between PSCI patients and HCs was analyzed via the independent-sample t test, whereas the paired-sample t test was employed to analyze the network metric changes in PSCI patients before vs. after treatment. Results: Small-world network attributes were observed in both groups for sparsities between 0.1 and 0.28. Compared with the HC group, the PSCI group presented significantly lower values for the global topological properties ( γ , Cp, and Eloc) of the brain; significantly greater values for the nodal attributes of betweenness centrality in the CUN. L and the HES. R, degree centrality in the SFGdor. L, PCG. L, IPL. L, and HES. R, and nodal local efficiency in the ORBsup. R, ORBsupmed. R, DCG. L, SMG. R, and TPOsup. L; and decreased degree centrality in the MFG. R, IFGoperc. R, and SOG. R. After treatment, PSCI patients presented increased degree centrality in the LING.L, LING.R, and IOG. L and nodal local efficiency in PHG. L, IOG. R, FFG. L, and the HES. L, and decreased betweenness centrality in the PCG. L and CUN. L, degree centrality in the ORBsupmed. R, and nodal local efficiency in ANG. R. Conclusion: Cognitive decline in PSCI patients may be related to BFN disorders; acupuncture therapy may modulate the topological properties of the BFNs of PSCI patients.
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