Functional connectivity within sensorimotor cortical and striatal regions is regulated by sepsis in a sex-dependent manner by Quan Vo, Zachary D. Simon, Gwoncheol Park, Dina C Nacionales, Carmelina Gorski, Evan L Barrios, Gemma Casadesus, Philip A Efron, Lyle L Moldawer, Ravinder Nagpal, Paramita Chakrabarty, Marcelo Febo

“…Analysis of resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data collected from the post-septic mice revealed that while connectivity to the somatosensory cortex were affected equally in both sexes, intra-network connectivity strength in the striatum preferentially increased in post-septic males but remained near baseline in post-septic female mice. …”
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High-resolution awake mouse fMRI at 14 tesla by David Hike, Xiaochen Liu, Zeping Xie, Bei Zhang, Sangcheon Choi, Xiaoqing Alice Zhou, Andy Liu, Alyssa Murstein, Yuanyuan Jiang, Anna Devor, Xin Yu

“…High-resolution awake mouse functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) remains challenging despite extensive efforts to address motion-induced artifacts and stress. …”
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Altered regional brain activity and functional connectivity in relation to blood lead levels by Yi Shi, Linfeng Yan, Yang Yang, Fenfen He, Wenhao Li, Jianbin Zhang, Fang Zhao, Diya Wang, Wen Wang, Zaihua Zhao, Xuefeng Shen

“…Our objective was to delineate lead-induced changes in brain functional activity through the assessment of regional homogeneity (ReHo), degree centrality (DC) and seed-based functional connectivity (FC) using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). Methods In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 76 participants from a smelting company. …”
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A semantic strength and neural correlates in developmental dyslexia by Sladjana Lukic, Sladjana Lukic, Sladjana Lukic, Fei Jiang, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Ting Qi, Sarah M. Inkelis, Sarah M. Inkelis, Emily Rosenthal, Emily Rosenthal, Zachary Miller, Zachary Miller, Emma Wellman, Emma Wellman, Silvia A. Bunge, Silvia A. Bunge, Silvia A. Bunge, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Christa Watson Pereira, Christa Watson Pereira

“…In the present study, we investigated semantic fluency as a cognitive strength in English-speaking children with dyslexia aged 8–13.MethodsNinety-seven children with dyslexia completed tests of letter and semantic verbal fluency, standardized measures of reading and cognitive functions, and task-free resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). First, we adjusted performance on semantic fluency by letter fluency and created a residual score that was used to separate participants into high (residual >0) or average (residual <0) semantic performance groups. …”
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Exploring the impact of APOE ɛ4 on functional connectivity in Alzheimer’s disease across cognitive impairment levels by Kangli Dong, Wei Liang, Ting Hou, Zhijie Lu, Yixuan Hao, Chenrui Li, Yue Qiu, Nan Kong, Yan Cheng, Yaqi Wen, Wanyin Ma, Wenbin Zheng, Jitian Guan, Yan Lin, Kai Huang, Lu Zhang, Siya Chen, Xiangyuan Ma, Renhua Wu, Naili Wei

“…In this study, we systematically analyzed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from two distinct cohorts: an In-house dataset includes 59 AD patients (73.37 ± 6.42 years), and the ADNI dataset includes 117 AD patients (74.91 ± 7.91 years). …”
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Increased spindle-related brain activation in right middle temporal gyrus during N2 than N3 among healthy sleepers: Initial discovery and independent sample replication by Yan Shao, Yupeng Guo, Yun Chen, Guangyuan Zou, Jie Chen, Xuejiao Gao, Panpan Lu, Yujie Tong, Yuezhen Li, Ping Yao, Jiayi Liu, Shuqin Zhou, Jing Xu, Jia-Hong Gao, Qihong Zou, Hongqiang Sun

“…Here, we tested the discrepancy in spindle-related brain activation between N2 and N3 within healthy college students (dataset 1: n = 27, 59 % females, median age 23 years), using simultaneous electroencephalography-functional magnetic resonance imaging (EEG-fMRI). To assess the replicability of the finding, we repeated the analysis among normal adults (independent dataset 2: n = 30, 50 % females, median age 32 years). …”
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Contrastive Study of Brain Activation Regions during Verb Production in Uyghur and Chinese Broca Aphasia Patients after Stroke by ZUHERE Rouzi, MENG Shikai, MA Xiaoting, XI Yanling

“…ObjectiveBlood oxygenation level dependent-functional magnetic resonance image (Bold-fMRI) was used to compare the brain activation of Uyghur and Chinese broca aphasia patients during verb production task, exploring the neural mechanism of verb production, in order to provide basis for the evaluation and treatment of Uyghur and Chinese broca aphasia patients.MethodsA total of thirty-one patients with broca aphasia who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected, including 15 patients in the Uyghur patient group and 16 patients among the Chinese patient group. …”
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Effect of Extracorporeal Shock Wave combined with Rehabilitation Training on Patients with Chondromalacia Patellae by Yanna ZHU, Yupeng LIU, Xiaoyi FAN, Chunling LIU, Hui YU, Xin QI, Shunji SHEN

“…Visual analogue score (VAS) was used to evaluate the pain improvement, Lysholm scale was used to evaluate knee joint function; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to evaluate the staging of patellar osteomalacia according to Recht criteria; The curative effect was evaluated according to the curative effect evaluation standard of chondromalacia patellae.Results:Compared with before treatment, the VAS score decreased significantly and the Lysholm knee joint function score increased significantly in the three groups after treatment for eight weeks, and the difference was statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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