The thalamus and basal ganglia are smaller in children with epilepsy after perinatal stroke

U Vaher, N Ilves, N Ilves, R Laugesaar… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Epilepsy is one of the most serious consequences of perinatal stroke. Epilepsy
itself has been proposed as a risk factor for impaired cognitive, language, and behavioral …

Are there any differences at gray matter sites between severe obstructive sleep apnea patients and healthy controls?

OT Selcuk, D Aydenizoz, F Genc, MB Ozkan, NT Selcuk… - Sleep Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a disease that may cause many medical
conditions. Neurocognitive disorders may be triggered by OSA. In recent studies, selectively …

Multi-scale deep learning of clinically acquired multi-modal MRI improves the localization of seizure onset zone in children with drug-resistant epilepsy

JW Jeong, MH Lee, N Kuroda… - IEEE journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The present study investigates the effectiveness of a deep learning neural network for non-
invasively localizing the seizure onset zone (SOZ) using multi-modal MRI data that are …

Correlation between the functional connectivity of basal forebrain subregions and vigilance dysfunction in temporal lobe epilepsy with and without focal to bilateral …

B Fan, L Pang, S Li, X Zhou, Z Lv, Z Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Previous research has shown that subcortical brain regions are related to vigilance
in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). However, it is unknown whether alterations in the function …

Altered functional connectivity in the hippocampal and striatal systems after motor sequence learning consolidation in medial temporal lobe epilepsy individuals

X Zhang, Y Feng, Z Chen… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Both the hippocampal and striatal systems participate in motor sequence learning (MSL) in
healthy subjects, and the prominent role of the hippocampal system in sleep-related …

A resting-state functional MRI study on the effect of vagal nerve stimulation on spontaneous regional brain activity in drug-resistant epilepsy patients

J Zhu, C Xu, X Zhang, L Qiao, X Wang, X Zhang… - Behavioural Brain …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose To explore the effect of vagal nerve stimulation (VNS) on spontaneous brain activity
in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). Methods 15 patients and eight healthy …

Volumetric analysis of age-and sex-related changes in the corpus striatum and thalamus in the 1–18 age group: a retrospective magnetic resonance imaging study

S Işıklar, D Sağlam - Cerebral Cortex, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Studies of the development and asymmetry of the corpus striatum and thalamus in early
childhood are rare. Studies investigating these structures across the lifespan have not …

Automated Surface-Based Segmentation of Deep Gray Matter Regions Based on Diffusion Tensor Images Reveals Unique Age Trajectories Over the Healthy Lifespan

G Little, JA Acosta-Franco, C Beaulieu - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Many studies have demonstrated unique trajectories of deep gray matter (GM) volumes over
development and aging, suggesting but not measuring microstructural alterations over the …

Children with Congenital Heart Diseases Exhibit Altered Deep Gray Matter Structures

ND Forkert, SJ MacEachern, AK Duh, P Moon… - Clinical …, 2024 - Springer
Methods We retrospectively reviewed children with coarctation of the aorta (COA) and
hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) admitted to our hospital. We identified 24 pediatric …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of neostriatum changes in Crohn's disease: a multimodal brain magnetic resonance imaging study

P Li, F Chen, D Chen, Z Wei, D Nie… - Quantitative Imaging in …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Abnormalities of neostriatum have been reported to be implicated in Crohn's
disease (CD). However, there are few systematic explorations. We aim to explore the …