“…Notably, the frontal, sensorimotor, and occipital cortices, thalami, and cerebellum are key regions with GMV decrease in DCM patients ( 13 , 17 , 18 , 20 – 23 ). Further, results from fMRI studies indicated that functional alterations, which are characterized by reduced functional activity in subcortical regions such as the basal ganglia and some regions of the limbic system, and concurrent hyper-functional activity in cortical regions were observed in patients with DCM ( 15 , 17 – 19 , 25 , 26 ). They have also been shown to exhibit functional alterations within frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes, sensorimotor cortex, cingulate gyrus, occipital gyrus, hippocampus, and thalami regions ( 26 – 32 ).…”