2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Influence of awake bruxism for brain activity and brain structure
| Project/Area Number |
25463027
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
|
| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
|---|
| Section | 一般 |
|---|
| Research Field |
Prosthodontics/ Dental materials science and
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Nihon University |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
KAWARA Misao 日本大学, 松戸歯学部, 教授 (20147713)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
|
| Keywords | 日中クレンチング / 中枢 / 脳構造 |
|---|
| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The long term aim of our project is to elucidate mechanisms potentially underlying awake bruxism which is characterized by frequent tooth-clenching. In this term we investigated the influence of habituation about bruxism for brain structure using magnetic resonance imaging by voxel-based morphometry (VBM). Our findings suggest that habituation of bruxism leads to change brain structure of white matter and gray matter at the sensorimotor cortex, prefrontal cortex.
|
| Free Research Field |
歯科補綴学
|
