Whole brain functional connectivity in the early blind

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	Whole brain functional connectivity in the early blind
	Liu, Yong; Yu, Chunshui ; Liang, Meng ; Li, Jun ; Tian, Lixia ; Zhou, Yuan ; Qin, Wen ; Li, Kuncheng ; Jiang, Tianzi; Jiang T
发表期刊	BRAIN
	2007-08-01
卷号	130 期号:1 页码:2085-2096
文章类型	Article
摘要	Early visual deprivation can lead to changes in the brain, which may be explained by either of two hypotheses. The general loss hypothesis has been proposed to explain maladjustments, while the compensatory plasticity hypothesis may explain a superior ability in the use of the remaining senses. Most previous task-based functional MRI (fMRI) studies have supported the compensatory plasticity hypothesis, but it has been difficult to provide evidence to support the general loss hypothesis, since the blind cannot execute visual tasks. The study of resting state fMRl data may provide an opportunity to simultaneously detect the two aspects of changes in the blind. In this study, using a whole brain perspective, we investigated the decreased and increased functional connectivities in the early blind using resting state fMRl data. The altered functional connectivities were identified by comparing the correlation coefficients of each pair of brain regions of 16 early blind subjects (9 males; age range: 15.6-29.3 years, mean age: 22.1 years) with the corresponding coefficients of gender- and age-matched sighted volunteers. Compared with the sighted subjects, the blind demonstrated the decreased functional connectivities within the occipital visual cortices as well as between the occipital visual cortices and the parietal somatosensory, frontal motor and temporal multisensory cortices. Such differences may support the general loss hypothesis. However, we also found that the introduction of Braille earlier in life and for longer daily practice times produced stronger functional connectivities between these brain areas. These findings may support the compensatory plasticity hypothesis. Additionally, we found several increased functional connectivities between the occipital cortices and frontal language cortices in those with early onset of blindness, which indicate the predominance of compensatory plasticity. Our findings indicate that changes in the functional connectivities in the resting state may be an integrated reflection of general loss and compensatory plasticity when a single sensory modality is deprived.
关键词	Blind Resting State Fmri Functional Connectivity General Loss Plasticity
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
关键词[WOS]	CROSS-MODAL PLASTICITY ; VISUAL-CORTEX ACTIVITY ; CONGENITALLY BLIND ; RESTING-STATE ; BEHAVIORAL-DEVELOPMENT ; SIGHTED INDIVIDUALS ; ACTIVATION PATTERNS ; OCCIPITAL CORTEX ; ADAPTIVE-CHANGES ; CEREBRAL-CORTEX
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Neurosciences & Neurology
WOS类目	Clinical Neurology ; Neurosciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000249097700013
引用统计	被引频次：199[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/9435
专题	09年以前成果
通讯作者	Jiang T
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Automat, Natl Lab Pattern Recognit, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China 2.Capital Univ Med Sci, Xuanwu Hosp, Dept Radiol, Beijing 100053, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Yong,Yu, Chunshui,Liang, Meng,et al. Whole brain functional connectivity in the early blind[J]. BRAIN,2007,130(1):2085-2096.
APA	Liu, Yong.,Yu, Chunshui.,Liang, Meng.,Li, Jun.,Tian, Lixia.,...&Jiang T.(2007).Whole brain functional connectivity in the early blind.BRAIN,130(1),2085-2096.
MLA	Liu, Yong,et al."Whole brain functional connectivity in the early blind".BRAIN 130.1(2007):2085-2096.

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