Open Access<p>Widely Impaired White Matter Integrity and Altered Structural Brain Networks in Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures</p>
Author(s) -
Daichi Sone,
Noriko Sato,
Miho Ota,
Yukio Kimura,
Hiroshi Matsuda
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s235159
Subject(s) - fractional anisotropy , diffusion mri , white matter , psychogenic disease , medicine , epilepsy , neuroscience , magnetic resonance imaging , psychiatry , radiology , psychology
The underlying neural correlates of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are still unknown and their identification would be helpful for clinicians and patients. This study aimed to reveal details of white matter microstructure and alterations in brain structural networks in patients with PNES by using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and graph theoretical connectivity analysis.