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Abstract #1709

Disruption of Functional Connectivity in Neonates with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy at Term

Li Jiang1, Jiachen Zhuo1, Dina Metwally2, Rao Gullapalli1, and Prashant Raghavan1

1Center for Metabolic Imaging & Therapeutics, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States, 2Pediatrics, University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States

Perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is one of the most common causes of severe, long-term neurologic deficits in children. Up to 40% of infants with HIE who present minimal to no abnormality on structure MRI may still have manifest neurological deficits in later life. In this study, we hypothesize that functional connectivity (FC) of the brain in infants with HIE at term may be altered and that resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) may provide deeper insights into the altered nature of the brain networks, especially the motor network and the thalamocortical network in infants with HIE.

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