Altered coupling of resting-state cerebral blood flow and functional connectivity in Meige syndrome. 2023

Aocai Yang, and Bing Liu, and Kuan Lv, and Jixin Luan, and Pianpian Hu, and Hongwei Yu, and Amir Shmuel, and Shijun Li, and Hong Tian, and Guolin Ma, and Bing Zhang
Department of Radiology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China.

Meige syndrome (MS) is an adult-onset segmental dystonia disease, mainly manifested as blepharospasm and involuntary movement caused by dystonic dysfunction of the oromandibular muscles. The changes of brain activity, perfusion and neurovascular coupling in patients with Meige syndrome are hitherto unknown. Twenty-five MS patients and thirty age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HC) were prospectively recruited in this study. All the participants underwent resting-state arterial spin labeling and blood oxygen level-dependent examinations on a 3.0 T MR scanner. The measurement of neurovascular coupling was calculated using cerebral blood flow (CBF)-functional connectivity strength (FCS) correlations across the voxels of whole gray matter. Also, voxel-wised analyses of CBF, FCS, and CBF/FCS ratio images between MS and HC were conducted. Additionally, CBF and FCS values were compared between these two groups in selected motion-related brain regions. MS patients showed increased whole gray matter CBF-FCS coupling relative to HC (t = 2.262, p = 0.028). In addition, MS patients showed significantly increased CBF value in middle frontal gyrus and bilateral precentral gyrus. The abnormal elevated neurovascular coupling of MS may indicate a compensated blood perfusion in motor-related brain regions and reorganized the balance between neuronal activity and brain blood supply. Our results provide a new insight into the neural mechanism underlying MS from the perspective of neurovascular coupling and cerebral perfusion.

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