Enhancement of functional connectivity, working memory and inhibitory control on multi-modal brain MR imaging with Rifaximin in Cirrhosis: Implications for the gut-liver-brain axis

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1017-1025

  Ahluwalia, Vishwadeep ^a   Wade, James B ^a   Heuman, Douglas M ^a   Hammeke, Thomas A ^b   Sanyal, Arun J ^a   Sterling, Richard K ^a   Stravitz, R Todd ^a   Luketic, Velimir ^a   Siddiqui, Mohammad S ^a   Puri, Puneet ^a   Fuchs, Michael ^a   Lennon, Micheal J ^a   Kraft, Kenneth A ^a   Gilles, HoChong ^a   White, Melanie B ^a   Noble, Nicole A ^a   Bajaj, Jasmohan S ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Covert hepatic encephalopathy; Diffusion tensor imaging; Endotoxin; Functional MRI; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Microbiome; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMYCIN; RIFAXIMIN;

BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTESTINE; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONNECTOME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTESTINES; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICROBIOTA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RIFAMYCINS;

EID: 84911807200     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-014-9507-6     Document Type: Article

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