Publications by authors named "Fan Pei Gloria Yang"

Introduction: Dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) present both health and economic challenges on a global scale, thus affecting millions of people, and is projected to increase significantly by the year 2050. Early language processing deficits are evident in those diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and MCI. Recent advances in pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, including cognitive rehabilitation and training, show promising effects on cognitive functions.

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Objective: To assess quantitatively the effect of metallic materials on MR image uniformity using a standardized method.

Methods: Six types of 1 cm cubic metallic materials (i.e.

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Objectives: To evaluate magnetic susceptibility artefacts produced by orthodontic wires on MRI and the influence of wire properties and MRI image sequences on the magnitude of the artefact.

Methods: Arch form orthodontic wires [four stainless steels (SS), one cobalt chromium (CC) alloy, 13 titanium (Ti) alloys] were embedded in a polyester phantom, and scanned using a 1.5-T superconducting magnet scanner with an eight-channel phased-array coil.

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Introduction: Chronic kidney disease is related to neurodegeneration and structural changes in the brain which might lead to cognitive decline. The Fazekas scale used for assessing white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) was associated with poor cognitive performance. Therefore, this study investigated the associations between the mini-mental status examination (MMSE), Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA), cognitive abilities screening instrument (CASI), and Fazekas scale in patients under hemodialysis (HD).

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Objectives: To investigate whether utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based arterial input function (AIF) improves the volumetric estimation of core and penumbra in association with clinical measures in stroke patients.

Methods: The study included 160 acute ischemic stroke patients (male = 87, female = 73, median age = 73 years) with approval from the institutional review board. The patients had undergone CTP imaging, NIHSS and ASPECTS grading.

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Characterizing a labor pain-related neural signature is a key prerequisite for devising optimized pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic labor pain relief methods. The aim of this study was to describe the neural basis of labor pain and to provide a brief summary of how epidural anesthesia may affect pain-related neuronal activity during labor. Possible future directions are also highlighted.

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Introduction: The treatment effect of bright light therapy (BLT) on major depressive disorder (MDD) has been proven, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Neuroimaging biomarkers regarding disease alterations in MDD and treatment response are rarely focused on BLT. This study aimed to identify the modulatory mechanism of BLT in MDD using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rfMRI).

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This double-blind, randomized controlled trial assessed bright light therapy (BLT) augmentation efficacy compared with placebo light in treating non-seasonal major depressive disorder. The study participants belonged to a subtropical area (24.5°-25.

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An ameloblastic fibroma with formation of dental hard tissues, which the classical name is ameloblastic fibro-odontoma (AFO), is a rare type of mixed odontogenic tumor. An 8-year-old boy was diagnosed with AFO, with an inhomogeneous high signal within the lesion shown by T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Computed tomography (CT) imaging revealed a unilocular low CT value area of 24 × 19 × 26 mm with buccolingual bony expansion and cortical bone thinning on the left side of the mandible including the crown of the mandibular left second molar.

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This study investigated the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in metaphoric and metonymic processing in Mandarin-English bilinguals' minds. It also explored the neural correlations between metaphor and metonymy computations. We adopted an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) design, which consisted of 21 English dialogic sets of stimuli and 5 conditions: systematic literal, circumstantial literal, metaphor, systematic metonymy, and circumstantial metonymy, all contextualized in daily conversations.

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This study employs fMRI to examine the neural substrates of response to cognitive training in healthy old adults. Twenty Japanese healthy elders participated in a 4-week program and practiced a verbal articulation task on a daily basis. Functional connectivity analysis revealed that in comparison to age- and education-matched controls, elders who received the cognitive training demonstrated increased connectivity in the frontotemporal regions related with language and memory functions and showed significant correlations between the behavioral change in a linguistic task and connectivity in regions for goal-oriented persistence and lexical processing.

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Purpose: Perfusion parameters such as cerebral blood flow (CBF) and T have been proven to be useful in the diagnosis and prognosis for ischemic stroke. Arterial input function (AIF) is required as an input to estimate perfusion parameters. This makes the AIF selection paradigm of clinical importance.

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Background: Diagnosis and timely treatment of ischemic stroke depends on the fast and accurate quantification of perfusion parameters. Arterial input function (AIF) describes contrast agent concentration over time as it enters the brain through the brain feeding artery. AIF is the central quantity required to estimate perfusion parameters.

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with impairment of large-scale brain networks, disruption in structural connections, and functional disconnection between distant brain regions. Although decreased functional connectivity has been thoroughly investigated and reported by existing functional neuroimaging literature, this study investigated network-based differences due to the structural changes in white matter pathways in AD patients. We hypothesize that diffusion metrics of disrupted tracts that go through cognitive networks related with intrinsic awareness, motor movement, and executive control can be utilized as biomarkers to distinguish prodromal stage from AD stage.

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The confounding factors of unexpectedness and semantic integration difficulty naturally residing in anomalous sentences in language studies make it difficult to determine the underlying processing mechanism of ERP components. Unlike the traditional static approach of manipulating expectancy through corpus frequency or cloze probability, this protocol proposes a dynamic method to enhance participants' expectancy for rarely-met anomalous sentences by multiple repetitions while maintaining their semantic integration difficulties. To address the time cost increase resulting from multiple repetitions, this protocol proposes to repeat only the strictly simplified core structure extracted from the anomalous sentence before presenting the semantically enriched, much more informative complete anomalous sentence containing the anomalous core structure to reinitiate the semantic integration processing.

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Executive dysfunctions are common in individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). However, change in functional neural coupling of default and executive networks in the post-acute phase (≥ 1 month after injury) patients over time has yet to be understood. During a 5-week observation period, we examined changes in the goal-oriented executive function networks in 20 TBI participants, using a face/scene matching 1-back fMRI task (Chen et al.

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Neurofibrillary tangles are associated with cognitive dysfunction, and hippocampal atrophy with increased CSF tau markers. However, the plasma tau levels of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have not been well studied. We investigated plasma tau by using an immunomagnetic reduction assay in 20 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to AD, 10 early AD dementia, and 30 healthy elders (HE).

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Research to-date has not successfully demonstrated consistent neural distinctions for different types of ambiguity or explored the effect of grammatical class on semantic selection. We conducted a relatedness judgment task using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to further explore these topics. Participants judged relatedness within word pairs.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the speech-associated labiomandibular movement during articulation production in Mandarin-speaking children with spastic quadriplegic (SQ) cerebral palsy (CP). Twelve children with SQ CP (aged 7-11 years) and 12 age-matched healthy children as controls were enrolled for the study. All children underwent analysis of percentage of consonants correct (PCC) and kinematic analysis of speech tasks using the Vicon Motion 370 system.

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Background: Treating motor speech dysfunction in children with CP requires an understanding of the mechanism underlying speech motor control. However, there is a lack of literature in quantitative measures of motor control, which may potentially characterize the nature of the speech impairments in these children. This study investigated speech motor control in children with cerebral palsy (CP) using kinematic analysis.

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