PURPOSE: This study was undertaken to evaluate whole-brain functional connectivity changes related to auditory cortex in patients with left-sided sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) using resting-state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging. METHOD: Imaging was performed in 19 patients with left-sided SNHL and 35 individuals in the control group without SNHL. Data were collected and analyzed to map functional connectivity using the left/right primary auditory cortex as the region of interest to identify global differences between patients with SNHL and the control group. RESULTS: In comparison to the control group, the SNHL group was found to have significant functional connectivity changes in the auditory system, recognition network, visual cortex, and language network. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that functional brain alterations in unilateral SNHL patients may indicate reorganizations that occur in response to auditory deficits.
PURPOSE: This study was undertaken to evaluate whole-brain functional connectivity changes related to auditory cortex in patients with left-sided sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) using resting-state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging. METHOD: Imaging was performed in 19 patients with left-sided SNHL and 35 individuals in the control group without SNHL. Data were collected and analyzed to map functional connectivity using the left/right primary auditory cortex as the region of interest to identify global differences between patients with SNHL and the control group. RESULTS: In comparison to the control group, the SNHL group was found to have significant functional connectivity changes in the auditory system, recognition network, visual cortex, and language network. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that functional brain alterations in unilateral SNHLpatients may indicate reorganizations that occur in response to auditory deficits.
Authors: Gavin M Bidelman; Md Sultan Mahmud; Mohammed Yeasin; Dawei Shen; Stephen R Arnott; Claude Alain Journal: Brain Struct Funct Date: 2019-07-25 Impact factor: 3.270
Authors: Tomasz Wolak; Katarzyna Cieśla; Agnieszka Pluta; Elżbieta Włodarczyk; Bharat Biswal; Henryk Skarżyński Journal: Front Hum Neurosci Date: 2019-08-22 Impact factor: 3.169