Respiratory-related brain pulsations are increased in epilepsy : a two-centre functional MRI study |
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Author: | Kananen, Janne1,2,3; Helakari, Heta1,2,3; Korhonen, Vesa1,2,3; |
Organizations: |
1Oulu Functional NeuroImaging (OFNI), Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu 90029, Finland 2Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology (MIPT), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu 90220, Finland 3Medical Research Center (MRC), Oulu 90220, Finland
4Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis (CMVS), University of Oulu, Oulu 90014, Finland
5Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA 6Center for Translational Neuromedicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2200, Denmark 7Department of Pediatric Neurology and Muscular Disease, University Medical Center Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79110, Germany 8Department of Paediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada 9Department of Neuroscience, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada 10Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada 11Department of Radiology, Medical Physics, University Medical Center Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg 79110, Germany 12Department of Radiology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada 13Research Unit of Neuroscience, Neurology, University of Oulu, Oulu 90220, Finland 14Department of Neurology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu 90029, Finland |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2020120399198 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Oxford University Press,
2020
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Publish Date: | 2020-12-03 |
Description: |
AbstractResting-state functional MRI has shown potential for detecting changes in cerebral blood oxygen level-dependent signal in patients with epilepsy, even in the absence of epileptiform activity. Furthermore, it has been suggested that coefficient of variation mapping of fast functional MRI signal may provide a powerful tool for the identification of intrinsic brain pulsations in neurological diseases such as dementia, stroke and epilepsy. In this study, we used fast functional MRI sequence (magnetic resonance encephalography) to acquire ten whole-brain images per second. We used the functional MRI data to compare physiological brain pulsations between healthy controls (n = 102) and patients with epilepsy (n = 33) and furthermore to drug-naive seizure patients (n = 9). Analyses were performed by calculating coefficient of variation and spectral power in full band and filtered sub-bands. Brain pulsations in the respiratory-related frequency sub-band (0.11–0.51 Hz) were significantly (P < 0.05) increased in patients with epilepsy, with an increase in both signal variance and power. At the individual level, over 80% of medicated and drug-naive seizure patients exhibited areas of abnormal brain signal power that correlated well with the known clinical diagnosis, while none of the controls showed signs of abnormality with the same threshold. The differences were most apparent in the basal brain structures, respiratory centres of brain stem, midbrain and temporal lobes. Notably, full-band, very low frequency (0.01–0.1 Hz) and cardiovascular (0.8–1.76 Hz) brain pulses showed no differences between groups. This study extends and confirms our previous results of abnormal fast functional MRI signal variance in epilepsy patients. Only respiratory-related brain pulsations were clearly increased with no changes in either physiological cardiorespiratory rates or head motion between the subjects. The regional alterations in brain pulsations suggest that mechanisms driving the cerebrospinal fluid homeostasis may be altered in epilepsy. Magnetic resonance encephalography has both increased sensitivity and high specificity for detecting the increased brain pulsations, particularly in times when other tools for locating epileptogenic areas remain inconclusive. see all
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Series: |
Brain communications |
ISSN: | 2632-1297 |
ISSN-E: | 2632-1297 |
ISSN-L: | 2632-1297 |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 2 |
Article number: | fcaa076 |
DOI: | 10.1093/braincomms/fcaa076 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa076 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
3112 Neurosciences 3124 Neurology and psychiatry |
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Funding: |
This work was supported by grants from Finnish Academy (275352, 314497 to V.K.), Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation (V.K.), KEVO grants from Oulu University Hospital (V.K.), The University of Oulu Scholarship Foundation (J.K.), Medical Research Center (MRC) -Oulu (J.K., H.H.), Maire Taponen Foundation (J.K.), Finnish Brain Foundation (J.K.), Instrumentarium Science Foundation (J.K.), Orion Research Foundation (T.T.), The Finnish Medical Foundation (T.T.) and DFG cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools EXC-1086 (P.L.). |
Academy of Finland Grant Number: |
275352 314497 |
Detailed Information: |
275352 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) 314497 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) |
Copyright information: |
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