Altered Effective Connectivity Network of the Basal Ganglia in Low-Grade Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Resting-State fMRI Study with Granger Causality Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Qi, Rongfeng ^a   Zhang, Long Jiang ^a   Zhong, Jianhui ^b   Zhang, Zhiqiang ^a   Ni, Ling ^a   Jiao, Qing ^a   Liao, Wei ^c   Zheng, Gang ^a   Lu, Guangming ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUNEUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL GYRUS; REST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VENOUS BLOOD;

AMMONIA; BASAL GANGLIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REST; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84872260852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053677     Document Type: Article

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