1. Local functional connectivity of patients with acute and remitting multiple sclerosis
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Muhua Huang, Xianjun Zeng, Yao Wang, Yanyan Zhu, Ting He, Fuqing Zhou, Yixiu Pei, Yanlin Zhao, and Lei Wang
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Regional Homogeneity ,Concordance ,Observational Study ,Audiology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting ,0302 clinical medicine ,remitting relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis ,acute relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis ,Post-hoc analysis ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Analysis of Variance ,Brain Mapping ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Multiple sclerosis ,Functional connectivity ,Homogeneity (statistics) ,Brain ,Kendall's coefficient of concordance- and Coherence- regional homogeneity ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Case-Control Studies ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Female ,Analysis of variance ,Functional magnetic resonance imaging ,business ,Research Article - Abstract
Using Kendall's coefficient of concordance (KCC-) and Coherence (Cohe-) regional homogeneity (ReHo) to explore the alterations of brain local functional connectivity in acute and remitting relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), and its clinical relevance. 18 acute RRMS, 26 remitting RRMS and 20 healthy controls received resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning. After data preprocessing and ReHo (KCC-ReHo and Cohe-ReHo) calculation, analysis of variance and followed post hoc analysis was used to compare the KCC-ReHo or Cohe ReHo maps across groups. After analysis of variance analysis, regions with significant among-group differences detected by the 2 ReHo analysis were overlapped, these overlapped regions located in the left superior frontal gyrus (SFG), right SFG, left cuneus and right middle occipital gyrus (P
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- 2020
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