Prefrontal fNIRS-based clinical data analysis of brain functions in individuals abusing different types of drugs

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Wen Wang¹  Lin Feng Yan¹  Xuelin Gu²  Shouwei Gao²  Banghua Yang²  Ding Xu³ 

[1] Department of Radiology & Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Lab of Shaanxi Province, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, 710038, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China;School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, 200444, Shanghai, China;Shanghai Drug Rehabilitation Administration Bureau, 200080, Shanghai, China;

关键词: Drug addiction;    fNIRS;    Clinical data analysis;    Classification of different drug users;    OFC activation;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13326-021-00256-y

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe activation degree of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) functional area in drug abusers is directly related to the craving for drugs and the tolerance to punishment. Currently, among the clinical research on drug rehabilitation, there has been little analysis of the OFC activation in individuals abusing different types of drugs, including heroin, methamphetamine, and mixed drugs. Therefore, it becomes urgently necessary to clinically investigate the abuse of different drugs, so as to explore the effects of different types of drugs on the human brain.MethodsBased on prefrontal high-density functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), this research designs an experiment that includes resting and drug addiction induction. Hemoglobin concentrations of 30 drug users (10 on methamphetamine, 10 on heroin, and 10 on mixed drugs) were collected using fNIRS and analyzed by combining algorithm and statistics.ResultsLinear discriminant analysis (LDA), Support vector machine (SVM) and Machine-learning algorithm was implemented to classify different drug abusers. Oxygenated hemoglobin (HbO2) activations in the OFC of different drug abusers were statistically analyzed, and the differences were confirmed. Innovative findings: in both the Right-OFC and Left-OFC areas, methamphetamine abusers had the highest degree of OFC activation, followed by those abusing mixed drugs, and heroin abusers had the lowest. The same result was obtained when OFC activation was investigated without distinguishing the left and right hemispheres.ConclusionsThe findings confirmed the significant differences among different drug abusers and the patterns of OFC activations, providing a theoretical basis for personalized clinical treatment of drug rehabilitation in the future.

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