Altered static and dynamic functional brain network in knee osteoarthritis: A resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study
•Patients with KOA have altered static and dynamic functional network connectivity.•KOA have abnormal pain-related information processing of the default mode network, sensorimotor network, cognitive control network.•Although abnormalities in dFNCs of KOA patients have been found using the common win...
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Published in | NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 292; p. 120599 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Elsevier Inc
01.04.2024
Elsevier |
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Summary: | •Patients with KOA have altered static and dynamic functional network connectivity.•KOA have abnormal pain-related information processing of the default mode network, sensorimotor network, cognitive control network.•Although abnormalities in dFNCs of KOA patients have been found using the common window size, but the results were not robust.
This study aimed to investigate altered static and dynamic functional network connectivity (FNC) and its correlation with clinical symptoms in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). One hundred and fifty-nine patients with KOA and 73 age- and gender-matched healthy subjects (HS) underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) and clinical evaluations. Group independent component analysis (GICA) was applied, and seven resting-state networks were identified. Patients with KOA had decreased static FNC within the default mode network (DM), visual network (VS), and cerebellar network (CB) and increased static FNC between the subcortical network (SC) and VS (p < 0.05, FDR corrected). Four reoccurring FNC states were identified using k-means clustering analysis. Although abnormalities in dynamic FNCs of KOA patients have been found using the common window size (22 TR, 44 s), but the results of the clustering analysis were inconsistent when using different window sizes, suggesting dynamic FNCs might be an unstable method to compare brain function between KOA patients and HS. These recent findings illustrate that patients with KOA have a wide range of abnormalities in the static and dynamic FNCs, which provided a reference for the identification of potential central nervous therapeutic targets for KOA treatment and might shed light on the other musculoskeletal pain neuroimaging studies. |
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ISSN: | 1053-8119 1095-9572 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120599 |