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Duering M, Righart R, Wollenweber FA, Zietemann V, Gesierich B, Dichgans M. Acute infarcts cause focal thinning in remote cortex via degeneration of connecting fiber tracts. Neurology 2015; 84:1685-92. [PMID: 25809303 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000001502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 01/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To study remote effects distant from acute ischemic infarcts by measuring longitudinal changes of cortical thickness in connected brain regions as well as changes in microstructural integrity in connecting fiber tracts. METHODS Thirty-two patients (mean age 71 years) underwent a standardized protocol including multimodal MRI and clinical assessment both at stroke onset and 6 months after the event. Cortex connected to acute infarcts was identified by probabilistic diffusion tensor tractography starting from the acute lesion. Changes of cortical thickness were measured using the longitudinal stream of FreeSurfer. Microstructural damage in white matter tracts was assessed by changes of mean diffusivity. RESULTS We found focal cortical thinning specifically in areas connected to acute infarcts (p < 0.001). Thinning was more pronounced in regions showing a high probability of connectivity to infarcts. Microstructural damage in white matter tracts connecting acute infarcts with distant cortex significantly correlated with thickness changes in that region (ρ = -0.39, p = 0.028). There was no indication of an influence of cavitation status or infarct etiology on the observed changes in cortex and white matter. CONCLUSIONS These findings identify secondary degeneration of connected white matter tracts and remote cortex as key features of acute ischemic infarcts. Our observations may have implications for the understanding of structural and functional reorganization after stroke.
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- Marco Duering
- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M.D., R.R., F.A.W., V.Z., B.G., M.D.), Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (R.R., M.D.), Munich; and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M.D.), Munich, Germany. R.R. is currently with the Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M.D., R.R., F.A.W., V.Z., B.G., M.D.), Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (R.R., M.D.), Munich; and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M.D.), Munich, Germany. R.R. is currently with the Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M.D., R.R., F.A.W., V.Z., B.G., M.D.), Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (R.R., M.D.), Munich; and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M.D.), Munich, Germany. R.R. is currently with the Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M.D., R.R., F.A.W., V.Z., B.G., M.D.), Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (R.R., M.D.), Munich; and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M.D.), Munich, Germany. R.R. is currently with the Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M.D., R.R., F.A.W., V.Z., B.G., M.D.), Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (R.R., M.D.), Munich; and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M.D.), Munich, Germany. R.R. is currently with the Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M.D., R.R., F.A.W., V.Z., B.G., M.D.), Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (R.R., M.D.), Munich; and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M.D.), Munich, Germany. R.R. is currently with the Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany.
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Taylor AN, Gesierich B, Simon‐Vermot L, Kambeitz‐Ilankovic L, Duering M, Ewers M. P4‐313: THE IMPACT OF FIBER‐TRACT‐SPECIFIC WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITIES ON RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. Alzheimers Dement 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2014.07.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD)MunichGermany
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- Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD)MunichGermany
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- Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD)MunichGermany
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Duering M, Gesierich B, Seiler S, Pirpamer L, Gonik M, Hofer E, Jouvent E, Duchesnay E, Chabriat H, Ropele S, Schmidt R, Dichgans M. Strategic white matter tracts for processing speed deficits in age-related small vessel disease. Neurology 2014; 82:1946-50. [PMID: 24793184 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000000475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Cerebral small vessel disease is the most common cause of vascular cognitive impairment and typically manifests with slowed processing speed. We investigated the impact of lesion location on processing speed in age-related small vessel disease. METHODS A total of 584 community-dwelling elderly underwent brain MRI followed by segmentation of white matter hyperintensities. Processing speed was determined by the timed measure of the Trail Making Test part B. The impact of the location of white matter hyperintensities was assessed by voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping and graph-based statistical models on regional lesion volumes in major white matter tracts. RESULTS Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping identified multiple voxel clusters where the presence of white matter hyperintensities was associated with slower performance on the Trail Making Test part B. Clusters were located bilaterally in the forceps minor and anterior thalamic radiation. Region of interest-based Bayesian network analyses on lesion volumes within major white matter tracts depicted the same tracts as direct predictors for an impaired Trail Making Test part B performance. CONCLUSIONS Our findings highlight damage to frontal interhemispheric and thalamic projection fiber tracts harboring frontal-subcortical neuronal circuits as a predictor for processing speed performance in age-related small vessel disease.
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- Marco Duering
- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany
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- From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (M. Duering, B.G., M.G., M. Dichgans), Klinikum der Universität München, Munich, Germany; the Department of Neurology (S.S., L.P., E.H., S.R., R.S.), Medical University of Graz; the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation (E.H.), Graz, Austria; the Department of Neurology (E.J., H.C.), CHU Lariboisière, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris; Neurospin (E.D.), CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE, Munich) (M. Dichgans); and Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (M. Dichgans), Munich, Germany.
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Neuner I, Shah NJ, Braboszcz C, Cahn RB, Levy J, Fernandez M, Delorme A, Rosas-Martinez L, Milne E, Zheng Y, Urakami Y, Kawamura K, Washizawa Y, Hiyoshi K, Cichocki A, Giroud N, Dellwo V, Meyer M, Rufener KS, Liem F, Dellwo V, Meyer M, Jones-Rounds JD, Raizada R, Staljanssens W, Strobbe G, van Mierlo P, Van Holen R, Vandenberghe S, Pefkou M, Becker R, Michel C, Hervais-Adelman A, He W, Brock J, Johnson B, Ohla K, Hitz K, Heekeren K, Obermann C, Huber T, Juckel G, Kawohl W, Gabriel D, Comte A, Henriques J, Magnin E, Grigoryeva L, Ortega JP, Haffen E, Moulin T, Pazart L, Aubry R, Kukleta M, Baris Turak B, Louvel J, Crespo-Garcia M, Cantero JL, Atienza M, Connell S, Kilborn K, Damborská A, Brázdil M, Rektor I, Kukleta M, Koberda JL, Bienkiewicz A, Koberda I, Koberda P, Moses A, Tomescu M, Rihs T, Britz J, Custo A, Grouiller F, Schneider M, Debbané M, Eliez S, Michel C, Wang GY, Kydd R, Wouldes TA, Jensen M, Russell BR, Dissanayaka N, Au T, Angwin A, O'Sullivan J, Byrne G, Silburn P, Marsh R, Mellic G, Copland D, Bänninger A, Kottlow M, Díaz Hernàndez L, Koenig T, Díaz Hernàndez L, Bänninger A, Koenig T, Hauser TU, Iannaccone R, Mathys C, Ball J, Drechsler R, Brandeis D, Walitza S, Brem S, Boeijinga PH, Pang EW, Valica T, Macdonald MJ, Oh A, Lerch JP, Anagnostou E, Di Lorenzo G, Pagani M, Monaco L, Daverio A, Verardo AR, Giannoudas I, La Porta P, Niolu C, Fernandez I, Siracusano A, Shimada T, Matsuda Y, Monkawa A, Monkawa T, Hashimoto R, Watanabe K, Kawasaki Y, Matsuda Y, Shimada T, Monkawa T, Monkawa A, Watanabe K, Kawasaki Y, Stegmayer K, Horn H, Federspiel A, Razavi N, Bracht T, Laimböck K, Strik W, Dierks T, Wiest R, Müller TJ, Walther S, Koorenhof LJ, Swithenby SJ, Martins-Mourao A, Rihs TA, Tomescu M, Song KW, Custo A, Knebel JF, Murray M, Eliez S, Michel CM, Volpe U, Merlotti E, Vignapiano A, Montefusco V, Plescia GM, Gallo O, Romano P, Mucci A, Galderisi S, Laimboeck K, Jann K, Walther S, Federspiel A, Wiest R, Strik W, Horn H. Abstracts of Presentations at the International Conference on Basic and Clinical Multimodal Imaging (BaCI), a Joint Conference of the International Society for Neuroimaging in Psychiatry (ISNIP), the International Society for Functional Source Imaging (ISFSI), the International Society for Bioelectromagnetism (ISBEM), the International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography (ISBET), and the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS), in Geneva, Switzerland, September 5-8, 2013. Clin EEG Neurosci 2013; 44:1550059413507209. [PMID: 24368763 DOI: 10.1177/1550059413507209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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- B J He
- National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Sánchez-Juan P, Ghosh PM, Hagen J, Gesierich B, Henry M, Grinberg LT, O'Neil JP, Janabi M, Huang EJ, Trojanowski JQ, Vinters HV, Gorno-Tempini M, Seeley WW, Boxer AL, Rosen HJ, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Jagust WJ, Rabinovici GD. Practical utility of amyloid and FDG-PET in an academic dementia center. Neurology 2013; 82:230-8. [PMID: 24353340 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000000032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of amyloid imaging on clinical decision making. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of 140 cognitively impaired patients (mean age 65.0 years, 46% primary β-amyloid (Aβ) diagnosis, mean Mini-Mental State Examination 22.3) who underwent amyloid (Pittsburgh compound B [PiB]) PET as part of observational research studies and were evaluated clinically before and after the scan. One hundred thirty-four concurrently underwent fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET. We assessed for changes between the pre- and post-PET clinical diagnosis (from Aβ to non-Aβ diagnosis or vice versa) and Alzheimer disease treatment plan. The association between PiB/FDG results and changes in management was evaluated using χ(2) and multivariate logistic regression. Postmortem diagnosis was available for 24 patients (17%). RESULTS Concordance between scan results and baseline diagnosis was high (PiB 84%, FDG 82%). The primary diagnosis changed after PET in 13/140 patients (9%) overall but in 5/13 (38%) patients considered pre-PET diagnostic dilemmas. When examined independently, discordant PiB and discordant FDG were both associated with diagnostic change (unadjusted p < 0.0001). However, when examined together in a multivariate logistic regression, only discordant PiB remained significant (adjusted p = 0.00013). Changes in treatment were associated with discordant PiB in patients with non-Aβ diagnoses (adjusted p = 0.028), while FDG had no effect on therapy. Both PiB (96%) and FDG (91%) showed high agreement with autopsy diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS PET had a moderate effect on clinical outcomes. Discordant PiB had a greater effect than discordant FDG, and influence on diagnosis was greater than on treatment. Prospective studies are needed to better characterize the clinical role of amyloid PET.
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- Pascual Sánchez-Juan
- From the Memory and Aging Center and Department of Neurology (P.S.-J., P.M.G., J.H., B.G., M.H., L.T.G., M.G.-T., W.W.S., A.L.B., H.J.R., J.H.K., B.L.M.,W.J.J., G.D.R.) and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (E.J.H.), University of California, San Francisco; University Hospital "Marqués de Valdecilla," IFIMAV and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (P.S.-J.), Santander, Spain; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (P.M.G., W.J.J., G.D.R.), University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (P.M.G., J.P.O., M.J., W.J.J., G.D.R.), Berkeley, CA; Center for Neurodegenerative Research (J.Q.T.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (H.V.V.), University of California, Los Angeles
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Caso F, Mandelli ML, Henry M, Gesierich B, Bettcher BM, Ogar J, Filippi M, Comi G, Magnani G, Sidhu M, Trojanowski JQ, Huang EJ, Grinberg LT, Miller BL, Dronkers N, Seeley WW, Gorno-Tempini ML. In vivo signatures of nonfluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia caused by FTLD pathology. Neurology 2013; 82:239-47. [PMID: 24353332 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000000031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To identify early cognitive and neuroimaging features of sporadic nonfluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA) caused by frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) subtypes. METHODS We prospectively collected clinical, neuroimaging, and neuropathologic data in 11 patients with sporadic nfvPPA with FTLD-tau (nfvPPA-tau, n = 9) or FTLD-transactive response DNA binding protein pathology of 43 kD type A (nfvPPA-TDP, n = 2). We analyzed patterns of cognitive and gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) atrophy at presentation in the whole group and in each pathologic subtype separately. We also considered longitudinal clinical data. RESULTS At first evaluation, regardless of pathologic FTLD subtype, apraxia of speech (AOS) was the most common cognitive feature and atrophy involved the left posterior frontal lobe. Each pathologic subtype showed few distinctive features. At presentation, patients with nfvPPA-tau presented with mild to moderate AOS, mixed dysarthria with prominent hypokinetic features, clear agrammatism, and atrophy in the GM of the left posterior frontal regions and in left frontal WM. While speech and language deficits were prominent early, within 3 years of symptom onset, all patients with nfvPPA-tau developed significant extrapyramidal motor signs. At presentation, patients with nfvPPA-TDP had severe AOS, dysarthria with spastic features, mild agrammatism, and atrophy in left posterior frontal GM only. Selective mutism occurred early, when general neurologic examination only showed mild decrease in finger dexterity in the right hand. CONCLUSIONS Clinical features in sporadic nfvPPA caused by FTLD subtypes relate to neurodegeneration of GM and WM in frontal motor speech and language networks. We propose that early WM atrophy in nfvPPA is suggestive of FTLD-tau pathology while early selective GM loss might be indicative of FTLD-TDP.
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- Francesca Caso
- From the Memory and Aging Center (F.C., M.L.M., M.H., B.G., B.M.B., J.O., M.S., L.T.G., B.L.M., W.W.S., M.L.G.-T.) and Department of Pathology (E.J.H.), University of California, San Francisco; Department of Neurology (F.C., M.F., G.C., G.M.) and Neuroimaging Research Unit (F.C., M.F.), Institute of Experimental Neurology, Division of Neuroscience, Vita-Salute University and San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (J.Q.T.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders (N.D.), VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA; and Department of Neurology (N.D.), University of California, Davis
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Wilson SM, DeMarco AT, Henry ML, Gesierich B, Babiak M, Mandelli ML, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML. What role does the anterior temporal lobe play in sentence-level processing? Neural correlates of syntactic processing in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. J Cogn Neurosci 2013; 26:970-85. [PMID: 24345172 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies have implicated the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) in sentence-level processing, with syntactic structure-building and/or combinatorial semantic processing suggested as possible roles. A potential challenge to the view that the ATL is involved in syntactic aspects of sentence processing comes from the clinical syndrome of semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (semantic PPA; also known as semantic dementia). In semantic PPA, bilateral neurodegeneration of the ATLs is associated with profound lexical semantic deficits, yet syntax is strikingly spared. The goal of this study was to investigate the neural correlates of syntactic processing in semantic PPA to determine which regions normally involved in syntactic processing are damaged in semantic PPA and whether spared syntactic processing depends on preserved functionality of intact regions, preserved functionality of atrophic regions, or compensatory functional reorganization. We scanned 20 individuals with semantic PPA and 24 age-matched controls using structural MRI and fMRI. Participants performed a sentence comprehension task that emphasized syntactic processing and minimized lexical semantic demands. We found that, in controls, left inferior frontal and left posterior temporal regions were modulated by syntactic processing, whereas anterior temporal regions were not significantly modulated. In the semantic PPA group, atrophy was most severe in the ATLs but extended to the posterior temporal regions involved in syntactic processing. Functional activity for syntactic processing was broadly similar in patients and controls; in particular, whole-brain analyses revealed no significant differences between patients and controls in the regions modulated by syntactic processing. The atrophic left ATL did show abnormal functionality in semantic PPA patients; however, this took the unexpected form of a failure to deactivate. Taken together, our findings indicate that spared syntactic processing in semantic PPA depends on preserved functionality of structurally intact left frontal regions and moderately atrophic left posterior temporal regions, but no functional reorganization was apparent as a consequence of anterior temporal atrophy and dysfunction. These results suggest that the role of the ATL in sentence processing is less likely to relate to syntactic structure-building and more likely to relate to higher-level processes such as combinatorial semantic processing.
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Guo CC, Gorno-Tempini ML, Gesierich B, Henry M, Trujillo A, Shany-Ur T, Jovicich J, Robinson SD, Kramer JH, Rankin KP, Miller BL, Seeley WW. Anterior temporal lobe degeneration produces widespread network-driven dysfunction. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 136:2979-91. [PMID: 24072486 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The neural organization of semantic memory remains much debated. A 'distributed-only' view contends that semantic knowledge is represented within spatially distant, modality-selective primary and association cortices. Observations in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia have inspired an alternative model featuring the anterior temporal lobe as an amodal hub that supports semantic knowledge by linking distributed modality-selective regions. Direct evidence has been lacking, however, to support intrinsic functional interactions between an anterior temporal lobe hub and upstream sensory regions in humans. Here, we examined the neural networks supporting semantic knowledge by performing a multimodal brain imaging study in healthy subjects and patients with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. In healthy subjects, the anterior temporal lobe showed intrinsic connectivity to an array of modality-selective primary and association cortices. Patients showed focal anterior temporal lobe degeneration but also reduced physiological integrity throughout distributed modality-selective regions connected with the anterior temporal lobe in healthy controls. Physiological deficits outside the anterior temporal lobe correlated with scores on semantic tasks and with anterior temporal subregion atrophy, following domain-specific and connectivity-based predictions. The findings provide a neurophysiological basis for the theory that semantic processing is orchestrated through interactions between a critical anterior temporal lobe hub and modality-selective processing nodes.
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- Christine C Guo
- 1. Memory and Ageing Centre, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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Duering M, Csanadi E, Gesierich B, Jouvent E, Hervé D, Seiler S, Belaroussi B, Ropele S, Schmidt R, Chabriat H, Dichgans M. Incident lacunes preferentially localize to the edge of white matter hyperintensities: insights into the pathophysiology of cerebral small vessel disease. Brain 2013; 136:2717-26. [PMID: 23864274 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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White matter hyperintensities and lacunes are among the most frequent abnormalities on brain magnetic resonance imaging. They are commonly related to cerebral small vessel disease and associated with both stroke and dementia. We examined the spatial relationships between incident lacunes and white matter hyperintensities and related these findings to information on vascular anatomy to study possible mechanistic links between the two lesion types. Two hundred and seventy-six patients with cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), a genetically defined small vessel disease with mutations in the NOTCH3 gene were followed with magnetic resonance imaging over a total of 633 patient years. Using difference images and Jacobian maps from registered images we identified 104 incident lacunes. The majority (n = 95; 91.3%) of lacunes developed at the edge of a white matter hyperintensity whereas few lacunes were found to develop fully within (n = 6; 5.8%) or outside (n = 3; 2.9%) white matter hyperintensities. Adding information on vascular anatomy revealed that the majority of incident lacunes developed proximal to a white matter hyperintensity along the course of perforating vessels supplying the respective brain region. We further studied the spatial relationship between prevalent lacunes and white matter hyperintensities both in 365 patients with CADASIL and in 588 elderly subjects from the Austrian Stroke Prevention Study. The results were consistent with the results for incident lacunes. Lesion prevalence maps in different disease stages showed a spread of lesions towards subcortical regions in both cohorts. Our findings suggest that the mechanisms of lacunes and white matter hyperintensities are intimately connected and identify the edge of white matter hyperintensities as a predilection site for lacunes. Our observations further support and refine the concept of the white matter hyperintensity penumbra.
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- Marco Duering
- Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Marchioninistraße 15, 81377 Munich, Germany
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Fadiga L, Caselli L, Craighero L, Gesierich B, Oliynyk A, Tia B, Viaro R. Activity in ventral premotor cortex is modulated by vision of own hand in action. PeerJ 2013; 1:e88. [PMID: 23862105 PMCID: PMC3709109 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.88] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2013] [Accepted: 05/27/2013] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Parietal and premotor cortices of the macaque monkey contain distinct populations of neurons which, in addition to their motor discharge, are also activated by visual stimulation. Among these visuomotor neurons, a population of grasping neurons located in the anterior intraparietal area (AIP) shows discharge modulation when the own hand is visible during object grasping. Given the dense connections between AIP and inferior frontal regions, we aimed at investigating whether two hand-related frontal areas, ventral premotor area F5 and primary motor cortex (area F1), contain neurons with similar properties. Two macaques were involved in a grasping task executed in various light/dark conditions in which the to-be-grasped object was kept visible by a dim retro-illumination. Approximately 62% of F5 and 55% of F1 motor neurons showed light/dark modulations. To better isolate the effect of hand-related visual input, we introduced two further conditions characterized by kinematic features similar to the dark condition. The scene was briefly illuminated (i) during hand preshaping (pre-touch flash, PT-flash) and (ii) at hand-object contact (touch flash, T-flash). Approximately 48% of F5 and 44% of F1 motor neurons showed a flash-related modulation. Considering flash-modulated neurons in the two flash conditions, ∼40% from F5 and ∼52% from F1 showed stronger activity in PT- than T-flash (PT-flash-dominant), whereas ∼60% from F5 and ∼48% from F1 showed stronger activity in T- than PT-flash (T-flash-dominant). Furthermore, F5, but not F1, flash-dominant neurons were characterized by a higher peak and mean discharge in the preferred flash condition as compared to light and dark conditions. Still considering F5, the distribution of the time of peak discharge was similar in light and preferred flash conditions. This study shows that the frontal cortex contains neurons, previously classified as motor neurons, which are sensitive to the observation of meaningful phases of the own grasping action. We conclude by discussing the possible functional role of these populations.
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- Luciano Fadiga
- Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences, Section of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara , Ferrara , Italy ; Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Italian Institute of Technology , Genova , Italy
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Juan PS, Hagen J, Ghosh P, Gesierich B, Henry M, Gorno‐Tempini M, Miller B, Jagust W, Rabinovici G. P1–305: The practical utility of amyloid and FDG‐PET in an academic dementia center. Alzheimers Dement 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2013.05.531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- UCSF Memory & Aging Center San Francisco California United States
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- UCSF Memory and Aging Center San Francisco California United States
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- UCSF Memory & Aging Center San Francisco California United States
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- UCSF Memory & Aging Center San Francisco California United States
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- UCSF Memory & Aging Center San Francisco California United States
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- University of California, Berkeley Berkeley California United States
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- UCSF Memory & Aging Center San Francisco California United States
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Garrard P, Rentoumi V, Gesierich B, Miller B, Gorno-Tempini ML. Machine learning approaches to diagnosis and laterality effects in semantic dementia discourse. Cortex 2013; 55:122-9. [PMID: 23876449 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2013] [Revised: 03/12/2013] [Accepted: 05/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Advances in automatic text classification have been necessitated by the rapid increase in the availability of digital documents. Machine learning (ML) algorithms can 'learn' from data: for instance a ML system can be trained on a set of features derived from written texts belonging to known categories, and learn to distinguish between them. Such a trained system can then be used to classify unseen texts. In this paper, we explore the potential of the technique to classify transcribed speech samples along clinical dimensions, using vocabulary data alone. We report the accuracy with which two related ML algorithms [naive Bayes Gaussian (NBG) and naive Bayes multinomial (NBM)] categorized picture descriptions produced by: 32 semantic dementia (SD) patients versus 10 healthy, age-matched controls; and SD patients with left- (n = 21) versus right-predominant (n = 11) patterns of temporal lobe atrophy. We used information gain (IG) to identify the vocabulary features that were most informative to each of these two distinctions. In the SD versus control classification task, both algorithms achieved accuracies of greater than 90%. In the right- versus left-temporal lobe predominant classification, NBM achieved a high level of accuracy (88%), but this was achieved by both NBM and NBG when the features used in the training set were restricted to those with high values of IG. The most informative features for the patient versus control task were low frequency content words, generic terms and components of metanarrative statements. For the right versus left task the number of informative lexical features was too small to support any specific inferences. An enriched feature set, including values derived from Quantitative Production Analysis (QPA) may shed further light on this little understood distinction.
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- Peter Garrard
- Stroke and Dementia Research Centre, St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 ORE, UK.
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- Stroke and Dementia Research Centre, St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 ORE, UK
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- UCSF Memory and Aging Center, Sandler Neurosciences Center, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, Suite 190, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- UCSF Memory and Aging Center, Sandler Neurosciences Center, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, Suite 190, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- UCSF Memory and Aging Center, Sandler Neurosciences Center, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, Suite 190, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Caso F, Gesierich B, Henry M, Sidhu M, LaMarre A, Babiak M, Miller BL, Rabinovici GD, Huang EJ, Magnani G, Filippi M, Comi G, Seeley WW, Gorno-Tempini ML. Nonfluent/agrammatic PPA with in-vivo cortical amyloidosis and Pick's disease pathology. Behav Neurol 2013; 26:95-106. [PMID: 22713404 PMCID: PMC3526142 DOI: 10.3233/ben-2012-120255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The role of biomarkers in predicting pathological findings in the frontotemporal dementia (FTD) clinical spectrum disorders is still being explored. We present comprehensive, prospective longitudinal data for a 66 year old, right-handed female who met current criteria for the nonfluent/agrammatic variant of primary progressive aphasia (nfvPPA). She first presented with a 3-year history of progressive speech and language impairment mainly characterized by severe apraxia of speech. Neuropsychological and general motor functions remained relatively spared throughout the clinical course. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) showed selective cortical atrophy of the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and underlying insula that worsened over time, extending along the left premotor strip. Five years after her first evaluation, she developed mild memory impairment and underwent PET-FDG and PiB scans that showed left frontal hypometabolism and cortical amyloidosis. Three years later (11 years from first symptom), post-mortem histopathological evaluation revealed Pick's disease, with severe degeneration of left IFG, mid-insula, and precentral gyrus. Alzheimer's disease (AD) (CERAD frequent/Braak Stage V) was also detected. This patient demonstrates that biomarkers indicating brain amyloidosis should not be considered conclusive evidence that AD pathology accounts for a typical FTD clinical/anatomical syndrome.
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- Francesca Caso
- Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-1207, USA.
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Deleon J, Gesierich B, Besbris M, Ogar J, Henry ML, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML, Wilson SM. Elicitation of specific syntactic structures in primary progressive aphasia. Brain Lang 2012; 123:183-190. [PMID: 23046707 PMCID: PMC3502680 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2012] [Revised: 09/01/2012] [Accepted: 09/09/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Many patients with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) are impaired in syntactic production. Because most previous studies of expressive syntax in PPA have relied on quantitative analysis of connected speech samples, which is a relatively unconstrained task, it is not well understood which specific syntactic structures are most challenging for these patients. We used an elicited syntactic production task to identify which syntactic structures pose difficulties for 31 patients with three variants of PPA: non-fluent/agrammatic, semantic and logopenic. Neurodegenerative and healthy age-matched participants were included as controls. As expected, non-fluent/agrammatic patients made the most syntactic errors. The structures that resulted in the most errors were constructions involving third person singular present agreement, and constructions involving embedded clauses. Deficits on this elicited production task were associated with atrophy of the left posterior inferior frontal gyrus.
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- Jessica Deleon
- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Caso F, Henry M, Gesierich B, Wilson S, Dronkers N, Miller B, Seeley W, Gorno-Tempini ML. Clinical, Neuroimaging, and Pathologic Features in a Group of Nonfluent Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia (nfvPPA) Studied Prospectively (P07.172). Neurology 2012. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.78.1_meetingabstracts.p07.172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Caso F, Gesierich B, Henry M, LaMarre A, Rabinovici G, Wilson S, Miller B, Seeley W, Gorno-Tempini ML. Nonfluent/Agrammatic Variant of PPA with a PIB Positive PET Scan and Pick's Disease Pathology (P07.171). Neurology 2012. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.78.1_meetingabstracts.p07.171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Gesierich B, Jovicich J, Riello M, Adriani M, Monti A, Brentari V, Robinson SD, Wilson SM, Fairhall SL, Gorno-Tempini ML. Distinct neural substrates for semantic knowledge and naming in the temporoparietal network. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 22:2217-26. [PMID: 22047967 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Patients with anterior temporal lobe (ATL) lesions show semantic and lexical retrieval deficits, and the differential role of this area in the 2 processes is debated. Functional neuroimaging in healthy individuals has not clarified the matter because semantic and lexical processes usually occur simultaneously and automatically. Furthermore, the ATL is a region challenging for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) due to susceptibility artifacts, especially at high fields. In this study, we established an optimized ATL-sensitive fMRI acquisition protocol at 4 T and applied an event-related paradigm to study the identification (i.e., association of semantic biographical information) of celebrities, with and without the ability to retrieve their proper names. While semantic processing reliably activated the ATL, only more posterior areas in the left temporal and temporal-parietal junction were significantly modulated by covert lexical retrieval. These results suggest that within a temporoparietal network, the ATL is relatively more important for semantic processing, and posterior language regions are relatively more important for lexical retrieval.
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- Benno Gesierich
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto 38068, Italy
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Gesierich B, Bruzzo A, Ottoboni G, Finos L. Human gaze behaviour during action execution and observation. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2008; 128:324-30. [PMID: 18445490 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2007] [Revised: 03/05/2008] [Accepted: 03/10/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Gaze shifts and fixations appear to be proactive in both action execution and observation. We investigated a dependency of anticipatory gaze behaviour by using a block stacking task. Blocks were rectangles depicted on a computer screen and the stacking movements were controlled via computer mouse. Subjects either had to execute the task or had to observe it made by the experimenter, or by the computer. The dependency of gaze behaviour on the visibility of a virtual effector, the visibility of the actor, and the nature of the actor was tested by measuring eye movements. Anticipatory eye movements were predominant when the subjects themselves executed the task. During action observation, gaze behaviour did neither depend on the visibility nor depend on the nature of the actor. However, big variability was found between the subjects suggesting the use of two different strategies in action observation: some subjects were mainly tracking the blocks during stacking movements; others were strongly anticipating. We suggest that gaze behaviour during action observation is not predetermined by rigid neural circuitry, but strongly depends on the context. The possibility to explain the causal mechanism, as well as the ownership of the action may be crucial preconditions for anticipatory gaze behaviour.
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- Benno Gesierich
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Corso Bettini, Rovereto, Italy.
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Bruzzo A, Gesierich B, Wohlschläger A. Simulating biological and non-biological motion. Brain Cogn 2007; 66:145-9. [PMID: 17681411 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2007.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2007] [Revised: 06/10/2007] [Accepted: 06/25/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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It is widely accepted that the brain processes biological and non-biological movements in distinct neural circuits. Biological motion, in contrast to non-biological motion, refers to active movements of living beings. Aim of our experiment was to investigate the mechanisms underlying mental simulation of these two movement types. Subjects had to either simulate mentally or to overtly reproduce previously executed or observed movements. Healthy subjects showed a very high timing precision when simulating biological and a strong distortion when simulating non-biological movements. Schizophrenic subjects, however, showed the opposite. Since overt reproduction was precise in any case, this double dissociation shows that processes underlying mental simulation of biological and non-biological movements are separate from each other and from perceptual and motor-control processes.
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- Angela Bruzzo
- Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, viale Carlo Berti Pichat, 5, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
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Inferior parietal lobule (IPL) neurons were studied when monkeys performed motor acts embedded in different actions and when they observed similar acts done by an experimenter. Most motor IPL neurons coding a specific act (e.g., grasping) showed markedly different activations when this act was part of different actions (e.g., for eating or for placing). Many motor IPL neurons also discharged during the observation of acts done by others. Most responded differentially when the same observed act was embedded in a specific action. These neurons fired during the observation of an act, before the beginning of the subsequent acts specifying the action. Thus, these neurons not only code the observed motor act but also allow the observer to understand the agent's intentions.
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- Leonardo Fogassi
- Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Parma, Borgo Carissimi 10, 43100 Parma, Italy.
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Awareness of actions is partly based on the intentions accompanying them. Thus, the awareness of self- and other-generated actions should differ to the extent that access to own and other's intentions differs. Recent studies have found a brain circuit (the mirror-neuron system) that represents self- and other-generated actions in an integrated fashion. This system does not respond to actions made by nonagents, such as machines. We measured the estimated onset time of actions that subjects either executed themselves or observed being executed by someone else or by a machine. In three experiments, the estimates of the machine actions always differed from those of self- and other-generated actions, whereas the latter two were indistinguishable. Our results are consistent with the view that intentions are attributed to others but not to machines. They also raise the interesting possibility that people attribute intentions to themselves in the same way as they do to others.
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