期刊
NEUROIMAGE
卷 245, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118642
关键词
fMRI; Stroke; Remapping; Graph matching; Motor recovery; Connectome
资金
- [R01 NS102646]
- [RF1 MH123232]
- [R21 NS104634]
- [R21 NS120227-01]
Motor recovery after ischemic stroke is dependent on the brain's ability to compensate for damaged tissue through functional reorganization. Research has shown that regions in the cerebellar/subcortical networks undergo the most frequent functional reorganization, and that areas with more disruption due to stroke experience more remapping over time. Additionally, greater motor impairment at baseline correlates with more extensive early subacute functional reorganization, leading to better motor recovery at 6 months.
Motor recovery following ischemic stroke is contingent on the ability of surviving brain networks to compensate for damaged tissue. In rodent models, sensory and motor cortical representations have been shown to remap onto intact tissue around the lesion site, but remapping to more distal sites (e.g. in the contralesional hemi-sphere) has also been observed. Resting state functional connectivity (FC) analysis has been employed to study compensatory network adaptations in humans, but mechanisms and time course of motor recovery are not well understood. Here, we examine longitudinal FC in 23 first-episode ischemic pontine stroke patients and utilize a graph matching approach to identify patterns of functional connectivity reorganization during recovery. We quan-tified functional reorganization between several intervals ranging from 1 week to 6 months following stroke, and demonstrated that the areas that undergo functional reorganization most frequently are in cerebellar/subcortical networks. Brain regions with more structural and functional connectome disruption due to the stroke also had more remapping over time. Finally, we show that functional reorganization is correlated with the extent of motor recovery in the early to late subacute phases, and furthermore, individuals with greater baseline motor impair-ment demonstrate more extensive early subacute functional reorganization (from one to two weeks post-stroke) and this reorganization correlates with better motor recovery at 6 months. Taken together, these results suggest that our graph matching approach can quantify recovery-relevant, whole-brain functional connectivity network reorganization after stroke.
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