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Alterations of structural connectivity and structural co-variance network in focal cortical dysplasia

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BMC NEUROLOGY
卷 21, 期 1, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12883-021-02358-7

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Focal cortical dysplasia; Magnetic resonance imaging; Epilepsy

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  1. Ministry of Science and ICT of the Republic of Korea [NRF-2021R1F1A1049605]

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The study revealed significant differences in structural connectivity and structural co-variance network between patients with focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) and healthy controls. Specifically, patients with FCD showed lower local efficiency in structural connectivity analysis, as well as decreased mean clustering coefficient, global efficiency, local efficiency, and transitivity in structural co-variance network analysis. These findings suggest that FCD could impact the whole-brain network, indicating that it is a network disease.
Background The aim of this study was to investigate alterations in structural connectivity and structural co-variance network in patients with focal cortical dysplasia (FCD). Methods We enrolled 37 patients with FCD and 35 healthy controls. All subjects underwent brain MRI with the same scanner and with the same protocol, which included diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and T1-weighted imaging. We analyzed the structural connectivity based on DTI, and structural co-variance network based on the structural volume with T1-weighted imaging. We created a connectivity matrix and obtained network measures from the matrix using the graph theory. We tested the difference in network measure between patients with FCD and healthy controls. Results In the structural connectivity analysis, we found that the local efficiency in patients with FCD was significantly lower than in healthy controls (2.390 vs. 2.578, p = 0.031). Structural co-variance network analysis revealed that the mean clustering coefficient, global efficiency, local efficiency, and transitivity were significantly decreased in patients with FCD compared to those in healthy controls (0.527 vs. 0.635, p = 0.036; 0.545 vs. 0.648, p = 0.026; 2.699 vs. 3.801, p = 0.019; 0.791 vs. 0.954, p = 0.026, respectively). Conclusions We demonstrate that there are significant alterations in structural connectivity, based on DTI, and structural co-variance network, based on the structural volume, in patients with FCD compared to healthy controls. These findings suggest that focal lesions with FCD could affect the whole-brain network and that FCD is a network disease.

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