Brain network study of attentional cognitive impairment in children with bronchial asthma

Bronchial asthma often causes cognitive impairment, especially attentional deficit, which has a serious impact on children's learning. This study aims to provide objective indicators for the evaluation of attention in asthma children. Thirty‐one asthmatic and typically developing children (TDC) were tested by resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs‐fMRI). Brain network‐based methods of degree centricity and voxel‐mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) methods were used in the study. Compared with the TDC group, asthmatic children had lower DC values in the right superior frontal gyrus (after FDR correction, P