Comprehensive investigations of cerebral hemodynamic responses in CSVD patients with mental disorders: a pilot study

• Published in: Frontiers in psychiatry Vol. 14; p. 1229436
• Main Authors: Wen, Dan, Xu, Yong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A 19.09.2023
• Subjects: blood oxygenation; cerebral blood flow; cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD); diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS); functional near-infrared diffuse optical spectroscopy (fNIRS); mental disorders; Psychiatry

Although a portion of patients with cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) present mental disorders, there is currently a lack of appropriate technologies to evaluate brain functions that are relevant to neurovascular coupling. Furthermore, there are no established objective criteria for diagnosing an...