Research progress on neural mechanisms of primary insomnia by MRI

Man WANG, Lu-ping SONG

Abstract


In recent years, more and more researches focused on the neural mechanism of primary insomnia (PI), especially with the development and application of MRI, and researches of brain structure and function related with primary insomnia were more and more in-depth. According to the hyperarousal hypothesis, there are abnormal structure, function and metabolism under certain brain regions of the cortex and subcortex of primary insomnia patients, including amygdala, hippocampus, cingulate gyrus, insular lobe, frontal lobe and parietal lobe. This paper reviewed the research progress of neural mechanisms of primary insomnia by using MRI.

 

DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-6731.2018.03.003


Keywords


Sleep initiation and maintenance disorders; Magnetic resonance imaging; Review

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