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Identifying Modulated Functional Connectivity in Corresponding Cerebral Networks in Facial Nerve Lesions Patients With Facial Asymmetry
Facial asymmetry is the major complaint of patients with unilateral facial nerve lesions. Frustratingly, although patients experience the same etiology, the extent of oral commissure asymmetry is highly heterogeneous. Emerging evidence indicates that cerebral plasticity has a large impact on clinica...
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author | Ma, Hao Zhou, Yu-lu Wang, Wen-jin Chen, Gang Li, Qing Lu, Ye-chen Wang, Wei |
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description | Facial asymmetry is the major complaint of patients with unilateral facial nerve lesions. Frustratingly, although patients experience the same etiology, the extent of oral commissure asymmetry is highly heterogeneous. Emerging evidence indicates that cerebral plasticity has a large impact on clinical severity by promoting or impeding the progressive adaption of brain function. However, the precise link between cerebral plasticity and oral asymmetry has not yet been identified. In the present study, we performed functional magnetic resonance imaging on patients with unilateral facial nerve transections to acquire in vivo neural activity. We then identified the regions of interest corresponding to oral movement control using a smiling motor paradigm. Next, we established three local networks: the ipsilesional (left) intrahemispheric, contralesional (right) intrahemispheric, and interhemispheric networks. The functional connectivity of each pair of nodes within each network was then calculated. After thresholding for sparsity, we analyzed the mean intensity of each network connection between patients and controls by averaging the functional connectivity. For the objective assessment of facial deflection, oral asymmetry was calculated using FACEgram software. There was decreased connectivity in the contralesional network but increased connectivity in the ipsilesional and interhemispheric networks in patients with facial nerve lesions. In addition, connectivity in the ipsilesional network was significantly correlated with the extent of oral asymmetry. Our results suggest that motor deafferentation of unilateral facial nerve leads to the upregulated ipsilesional hemispheric connections, and results in positive interhemispheric inhibition effects to the contralesional hemisphere. Our findings provide preliminary information about the possible cortical etiology of facial asymmetry, and deliver valuable clues regarding spatial information, which will likely be useful for the development of therapeutic interventions. |
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spelling | pubmed-92716672022-07-12 Identifying Modulated Functional Connectivity in Corresponding Cerebral Networks in Facial Nerve Lesions Patients With Facial Asymmetry Ma, Hao Zhou, Yu-lu Wang, Wen-jin Chen, Gang Li, Qing Lu, Ye-chen Wang, Wei Front Neurosci Neuroscience Facial asymmetry is the major complaint of patients with unilateral facial nerve lesions. Frustratingly, although patients experience the same etiology, the extent of oral commissure asymmetry is highly heterogeneous. Emerging evidence indicates that cerebral plasticity has a large impact on clinical severity by promoting or impeding the progressive adaption of brain function. However, the precise link between cerebral plasticity and oral asymmetry has not yet been identified. In the present study, we performed functional magnetic resonance imaging on patients with unilateral facial nerve transections to acquire in vivo neural activity. We then identified the regions of interest corresponding to oral movement control using a smiling motor paradigm. Next, we established three local networks: the ipsilesional (left) intrahemispheric, contralesional (right) intrahemispheric, and interhemispheric networks. The functional connectivity of each pair of nodes within each network was then calculated. After thresholding for sparsity, we analyzed the mean intensity of each network connection between patients and controls by averaging the functional connectivity. For the objective assessment of facial deflection, oral asymmetry was calculated using FACEgram software. There was decreased connectivity in the contralesional network but increased connectivity in the ipsilesional and interhemispheric networks in patients with facial nerve lesions. In addition, connectivity in the ipsilesional network was significantly correlated with the extent of oral asymmetry. Our results suggest that motor deafferentation of unilateral facial nerve leads to the upregulated ipsilesional hemispheric connections, and results in positive interhemispheric inhibition effects to the contralesional hemisphere. Our findings provide preliminary information about the possible cortical etiology of facial asymmetry, and deliver valuable clues regarding spatial information, which will likely be useful for the development of therapeutic interventions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9271667/ /pubmed/35833088 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.943919 Text en Copyright © 2022 Ma, Zhou, Wang, Chen, Li, Lu and Wang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Ma, Hao Zhou, Yu-lu Wang, Wen-jin Chen, Gang Li, Qing Lu, Ye-chen Wang, Wei Identifying Modulated Functional Connectivity in Corresponding Cerebral Networks in Facial Nerve Lesions Patients With Facial Asymmetry |
title | Identifying Modulated Functional Connectivity in Corresponding Cerebral Networks in Facial Nerve Lesions Patients With Facial Asymmetry |
title_full | Identifying Modulated Functional Connectivity in Corresponding Cerebral Networks in Facial Nerve Lesions Patients With Facial Asymmetry |
title_fullStr | Identifying Modulated Functional Connectivity in Corresponding Cerebral Networks in Facial Nerve Lesions Patients With Facial Asymmetry |
title_full_unstemmed | Identifying Modulated Functional Connectivity in Corresponding Cerebral Networks in Facial Nerve Lesions Patients With Facial Asymmetry |
title_short | Identifying Modulated Functional Connectivity in Corresponding Cerebral Networks in Facial Nerve Lesions Patients With Facial Asymmetry |
title_sort | identifying modulated functional connectivity in corresponding cerebral networks in facial nerve lesions patients with facial asymmetry |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9271667/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35833088 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.943919 |
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