{"title":"Aberrant Interhemispheric Resting State Functional Connectivity and Corpus Callosum Microstructure in Acute Carbon Monoxide Poisoning.","authors":"Mingyue Ma, Yu Shang, Xiaoying Lin, Wenxuan Han, Yihao Peng, Shenghai Wang, Chen Niu, Haining Li, Ming Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.brainresbull.2025.111376","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Acute carbon monoxide poisoning (ACOP) is a significant contributor to acute poisoning incidents worldwide, with numerous patients suffering from cognitive impairment. Growing evidence indicates that patients with ACOP exhibit both disrupted functional connectivity and corpus callosum (CC) degeneration. Nevertheless, how interhemispheric connectivity is altered in ACOP and how such alterations relate to cognitive deficits remain largely unexplored. In this study, multimodal magnetic resonance imaging was performed on 30 patients with ACOP and 28 healthy controls (HC), and their cognitive functions were evaluated. Group differences in the voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) index and CC white matter microstructure were analyzed. Furthermore, mediation analysis was conducted to elucidate the interrelationships among CC integrity, interhemispheric connectivity, and cognitive impairment. Compared to HC, patients with ACOP exhibited reduced VMHC values in the middle frontal gyrus, inferior parietal lobule, precentral gyrus, and temporal regions, along with decreased fractional anisotropy values in the subregions of the CC, including the genu, body, and splenium. Partial correlation analyses showed that VMHC in the inferior parietal lobule positively correlated with Glasgow Coma Scale scores. In addition, VMHC in both the inferior parietal lobule and the middle temporal gyrus positively correlated with Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Basic scores. Mediation analysis indicated that changes in interhemispheric connectivity played a crucial role in mediating the effect of CC integrity on cognitive impairment. Together, these findings may offer novel insights into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying ACOP.</p>","PeriodicalId":9302,"journal":{"name":"Brain Research Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":"111376"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Brain Research Bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2025.111376","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"NEUROSCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Acute carbon monoxide poisoning (ACOP) is a significant contributor to acute poisoning incidents worldwide, with numerous patients suffering from cognitive impairment. Growing evidence indicates that patients with ACOP exhibit both disrupted functional connectivity and corpus callosum (CC) degeneration. Nevertheless, how interhemispheric connectivity is altered in ACOP and how such alterations relate to cognitive deficits remain largely unexplored. In this study, multimodal magnetic resonance imaging was performed on 30 patients with ACOP and 28 healthy controls (HC), and their cognitive functions were evaluated. Group differences in the voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) index and CC white matter microstructure were analyzed. Furthermore, mediation analysis was conducted to elucidate the interrelationships among CC integrity, interhemispheric connectivity, and cognitive impairment. Compared to HC, patients with ACOP exhibited reduced VMHC values in the middle frontal gyrus, inferior parietal lobule, precentral gyrus, and temporal regions, along with decreased fractional anisotropy values in the subregions of the CC, including the genu, body, and splenium. Partial correlation analyses showed that VMHC in the inferior parietal lobule positively correlated with Glasgow Coma Scale scores. In addition, VMHC in both the inferior parietal lobule and the middle temporal gyrus positively correlated with Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Basic scores. Mediation analysis indicated that changes in interhemispheric connectivity played a crucial role in mediating the effect of CC integrity on cognitive impairment. Together, these findings may offer novel insights into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying ACOP.
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The Brain Research Bulletin (BRB) aims to publish novel work that advances our knowledge of molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie neural network properties associated with behavior, cognition and other brain functions during neurodevelopment and in the adult. Although clinical research is out of the Journal''s scope, the BRB also aims to publish translation research that provides insight into biological mechanisms and processes associated with neurodegeneration mechanisms, neurological diseases and neuropsychiatric disorders. The Journal is especially interested in research using novel methodologies, such as optogenetics, multielectrode array recordings and life imaging in wild-type and genetically-modified animal models, with the goal to advance our understanding of how neurons, glia and networks function in vivo.