Functional and structural changes in the brain associated with the increase in muscle sympathetic nerve activity in obstructive sleep apnoea

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 275-283

  Fatouleh, Rania H ^a   Hammam, Elie ^a   Lundblad, Linda C ^a   Macey, Paul M ^c   McKenzie, David K ^b,d   Henderson, Luke A ^e   Macefield, Vaughan G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Keywords fMRI Microneurography Muscle sympathetic nerve activity Obstructive sleep apnoea

Indexed keywords

TUNGSTEN; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULA; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NEUROMODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERONEAL NERVE; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84907781026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.08.021     Document Type: Article

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