Abstract #3902

Differences in resting state fMRI alterations between left and right early Bell’s palsy

Xiaowei Han^1,2, Lei Du¹, Wenwen Gao¹, Guolin Ma¹, and Lizhi Xie³

¹Department of Radiology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China, ²Graduate School of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, ³GE Healthcare, China, Beijing, China

Bell’s palsy is defined as an idiopathic unilateral facial nerve palsy. Sixty-seven patients and 37 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were recruited in this study. Brain fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) and and following functional connectivity (FC) were analyzed between left and right palsy groups. The results revealed brain reintegrating mechanisms differed between patients with left and right Bell’s palsy.

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