Publications by authors named "Ziyan Lai"
Purpose: This article aims to explore the relationship between the symptoms of PMS and changes of thalamic subregions.
Methods And Materials: 71 patients diagnosed with PMS and 81 healthy controls (HCs) were included in the study. Participant status was determined using the Daily Record of Severity of Problems (DRSP) scale.
Article Synopsis
- Women with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) are more likely to experience depression, potentially due to changes in white matter (WM) microstructure and inflammatory cytokine levels.
- The study aimed to assess WM alterations using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and measure inflammatory cytokine levels in PMS patients compared to healthy controls, while examining the relationship between these factors and the severity of PMS symptoms.
- Results showed PMS patients had lower fractional anisotropy (FA) and higher mean diffusivity (MD), along with elevated levels of inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and TNF-α, with significant correlations found between these metrics and symptom severity.
Moxibustion has a definite clinical effect in improving the cognitive condition in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), but its underlying neural mechanism remains elusive. This study aimed to investigate the alterations in spontaneous brain activity and cognitive function following moxibustion therapy in MCI patients. This study enrolled a cohort of 33 MCI subjects and 30 matched healthy controls (HCs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), as a high risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), represents a state of cognitive function between normal aging and dementia. Moxibustion may effectively delay the progression of AD, while there is a lack of studies on the treatments in MCI. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of moxibustion treatment revealed by the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) in MCI.
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