Center for Brain Imaging, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710126, Shaanxi, China.
State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, 710032, Shaanxi, China.
Brain Imaging Behav. 2021 Apr;15(2):630-642. doi: 10.1007/s11682-020-00273-y.
Functional constipation (FCon) is a common functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID); neuroimaging studies have shown brain functional abnormalities in thalamo-cortical regions in patients with FGID. However, association between FCon and topological characteristics of brain networks remains largely unknown. We employed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI) and graph theory approach to investigate functional brain topological organization in 42 patients with FCon and 41 healthy controls (HC) from perspectives of global, regional and modular levels. Results showed patients with FCon had a significantly lower normalized clustering coefficient and small-worldness, implying decreased brain functional connectivity. Regions showed altered nodal degree and efficiency mainly located in the thalamus, rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC), and supplementary motor area (SMA), which are involved in somatic/sensory, emotional processing and motor-control. For the modular analysis, thalamus, rACC and SMA had an aberrant within-module nodal degree and nodal efficiency, and thalamus-related network exhibited abnormal interaction with the limbic network (amygdala and hippocampal gyrus). Nodal degree in the thalamus was negatively correlated with difficulty of defecation, and nodal degree in the rACC was negatively correlated with sensation of incomplete evacuation. These findings indicated that FCon was associated with abnormalities in the thalamo-cortical network.
功能性便秘(FCon)是一种常见的功能性胃肠疾病(FGID);神经影像学研究表明,FGID 患者的丘脑-皮质区域存在大脑功能异常。然而,FCon 与大脑网络拓扑特征之间的关联在很大程度上仍不清楚。我们采用静息态功能磁共振成像(RS-fMRI)和图论方法,从全局、区域和模块水平探讨了 42 例 FCon 患者和 41 例健康对照者(HC)的大脑功能拓扑组织。结果表明,FCon 患者的正常化聚类系数和小世界性显著降低,表明大脑功能连接性降低。改变的节点度和效率主要位于丘脑、前扣带皮质(rACC)和辅助运动区(SMA),这些区域涉及躯体/感觉、情绪处理和运动控制。对于模块分析,丘脑、rACC 和 SMA 具有异常的模块内节点度和节点效率,并且丘脑相关网络与边缘网络(杏仁核和海马回)表现出异常的相互作用。丘脑的节点度与排便困难呈负相关,rACC 的节点度与排空不完全的感觉呈负相关。这些发现表明,FCon 与丘脑-皮质网络的异常有关。
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