Structural and functional abnormalities of default mode network in minimal hepatic encephalopathy: A study combining DTI and fMRI

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Qi, Rongfeng ^a   Xu, Qiang ^b   Zhang, Long Jiang ^a   Zhong, Jianhui ^c   Zheng, Gang ^a   Wu, Shengyong ^d   Zhang, Zhiqiang ^a   Liao, Wei ^e   Zhong, Yuan ^a   Ni, Ling ^a   Jiao, Qing ^a   Zhang, Zongjun ^a   Liu, Yijun ^f   Lu, Guangming ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Medical Imaging Institute of Tianjin   (China)

^e HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MINIMAL HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEADY STATE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET;

EID: 84864090193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041376     Document Type: Article

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