Hierarchical Alteration of Brain Structural and Functional Networks in Female Migraine Sufferers
| Autor: | Jing Li, Wei Qin, Jiaofen Nan, Jixin Liu, Jie Tian, Kai Yuan, Karen M. von Deneen, Guoying Li, Fanrong Liang, Ling Zhao, Shiwei Xiong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Anatomy and Physiology Nerve net Migraine Disorders Cognitive Neuroscience Thalamus Central nervous system lcsh:Medicine Pain Neuroimaging Biology Neurological System medicine Cluster Analysis Humans lcsh:Science Psychiatry Default mode network Demography Multidisciplinary medicine.diagnostic_test Headaches lcsh:R fMRI Brain Voxel-based morphometry medicine.disease Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neuroanatomy medicine.anatomical_structure Neurology Migraine Cerebral cortex Medicine lcsh:Q Female Nerve Net Functional magnetic resonance imaging Neuroscience Research Article |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 12, p e51250 (2012) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0051250 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Little is known about the changes of brain structural and functional connectivity networks underlying the pathophysiology in migraine. We aimed to investigate how the cortical network reorganization is altered by frequent cortical overstimulation associated with migraine. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Gray matter volumes and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging signal correlations were employed to construct structural and functional networks between brain regions in 43 female patients with migraine (PM) and 43 gender-matched healthy controls (HC) by using graph theory-based approaches. Compared with the HC group, the patients showed abnormal global topology in both structural and functional networks, characterized by higher mean clustering coefficients without significant change in the shortest absolute path length, which indicated that the PM lost optimal topological organization in their cortical networks. Brain hubs related to pain-processing revealed abnormal nodal centrality in both structural and functional networks, including the precentral gyrus, orbital part of the inferior frontal gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, anterior cingulate gyrus, thalamus, temporal pole of the middle temporal gyrus and the inferior parietal gyrus. Negative correlations were found between migraine duration and regions with abnormal centrality. Furthermore, the dysfunctional connections in patients' cortical networks formed into a connected component and three dysregulated modules were identified involving pain-related information processing and motion-processing visual networks. CONCLUSIONS: Our results may reflect brain alteration dynamics resulting from migraine and suggest that long-term and high-frequency headache attacks may cause both structural and functional connectivity network reorganization. The disrupted information exchange between brain areas in migraine may be reshaped into a hierarchical modular structure progressively. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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