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Acupuncture Treatment Decreased Temporal Variability of Dynamic Functional Connectivity in Chronic Tinnitus

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العنوان: Acupuncture Treatment Decreased Temporal Variability of Dynamic Functional Connectivity in Chronic Tinnitus
المؤلفون: Yarui Wei, Wanlin Zhang, Yu Li, Xiangwei Liu, Bixiang Zha, Sheng Hu, Yanming Wang, Xiaoxiao Wang, Xiaochun Yu, Jun Yang, Bensheng Qiu
المصدر: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol 15 (2022)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
مصطلحات موضوعية: acupuncture, chronic tinnitus, functional magnetic resonance imaging, dynamic functional connectivity, clustering analysis, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
الوصف: Acupuncture is recommended for the relief of chronic tinnitus in traditional Chinese medicine, but the underlying neural mechanism remains unclear. The human brain is a dynamic system, and it’s unclear about acupuncture’s effects on the dynamic functional connectivity (DFC) of chronic tinnitus. Therefore, this study based on resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigates abnormal DFC in chronic tinnitus patients and the neural activity change evoked by acupuncture treatment for tinnitus. In this study, 17 chronic tinnitus patients and 22 age- and sex-matched normal subjects were recruited, and their tinnitus-related scales and hearing levels were collected. The fMRI data were measured before and after acupuncture, and then sliding-window and k-means clustering methods were used to calculate DFC and perform clustering analysis, respectively. We found that, compared with the normal subjects, chronic tinnitus patients had higher temporal variability of DFC between the supplementary motor area and medial part of the superior frontal gyrus, and it positively correlated with hearing loss. Clustering analysis showed higher transition probability (TP) between connection states in chronic tinnitus patients, and it was positively correlated with tinnitus severity. Furthermore, the findings showed that acupuncture treatment might improve tinnitus. DFC between the posterior cingulate gyrus and angular gyrus in chronic tinnitus patients after acupuncture showed significantly decreased, and it positively correlated with the improvement of tinnitus. Clustering analysis showed that acupuncture treatment might promote chronic tinnitus patients under lower DFC state, and it also positively correlated with the improvement of tinnitus. This study suggests that acupuncture as an alternative therapy method might decrease the tinnitus severity by decreasing the time variability of DFC in chronic tinnitus patients.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1662-453X
82169594
العلاقة: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.737993/fullTest; https://doaj.org/toc/1662-453XTest
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.737993
الوصول الحر: https://doaj.org/article/581b47bf463e46bd9ddc3d2c82169594Test
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.581b47bf463e46bd9ddc3d2c82169594
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:1662453X
82169594
DOI:10.3389/fnins.2021.737993