Progress in the evaluation of cognitive function in with obstructive sleep apnea by resting functional magnetic resonance / 中南大学学报(医学版)

ABSTRACT

Obstructive sleep apnea is often accompanied by functional changes in attention, alertness, long-term vision and language memory, visual space/structural competence, and executive function due to long-term intermittent hypoxia, high blood carbonate, and sleep structure disorders. In recent years, some scholars have found that the changes of brain structure, metabolism and function revealed by static functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are closely related to the changes of cognitive function reflected in the cognitive function evaluation scale. In recent years, static functional magnetic resonance, especially voxel-based morphometry, diffusion tensor imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy and functional magnetic resonance imaging have confirmed significant changes in brain structure, metabolism and function in OSA patients, and the changes are closely related to the changes of cognitive function reflected in the cognitive function evaluation scale. It is great significance to study the mechanism of cognitive function change in OSA patients, and helpful to the early diagnosis and treatment as well as the evaluation of clinical efficacy.