Reversal of functional changes in the brain associated with obstructive sleep apnoea following 6 months of CPAP

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 7, Issue , 2015, Pages 799-806

  Fatouleh, Rania H ^a   Lundblad, Linda C ^a,b   Macey, Paul M ^c   McKenzie, David K ^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

Hypertension; Muscle sympathetic nerve activity; Obstructive sleep apnoea

Indexed keywords

TUNGSTEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERONEUS NERVE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PERONEAL NERVE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925632568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.02.010     Document Type: Article

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