Characteristics of striatal changes in diabetic retinopathy and type 2 diabetes: a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study
Guanghui Liu
The presence of reward-related neural deficits in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its microvascular complications has been linked to abnormal striatal function. However, differences in striatal whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) between patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR) and those with T2DM without retinopathy remain unclear. In this study, 30 patients with DR, 30 with T2DM, and 29 healthy controls (HCs) were recruited. A seed-based FC approach was employed to analyze alterations