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Abstract #3948

Aberrant Brain Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Bumhee Park 1 , Jose A Palomares 1 , Mary A Woo 2 , Daniel W Kang 3 , Paul M Macey 2 , Frisca L Yan-Go 4 , Ronald M Harper 5 , and Rajesh Kumar 1,6

1 Anesthesiology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2 School of Nursing, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3 Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 4 Neurology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 5 Neurobiology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 6 Radiological Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

OSA subjects show impaired autonomic, affective, executive, sensori-motor, and cognitive functions. Brain injury, assessed by various MRI procedures, appears in multiple sites regulating these functions; however, the integrity of functional networks remains unclear. We examined resting functional interactions and complex network organization across the whole-brain in OSA over controls and found aberrant functional connections and altered brain network organization in those regions. The findings suggest that impaired functions in OSA may stem from altered functional connectivity and brain network organization. The outcomes likely result from prominent structural brain changes in both axons and nuclear structures reported-earlier.

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