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Relationship of size of corpus callosum with white matter changes in elderly population; A retrospective analytical cross-sectional study. Ann Med Surg (Lond) 2022; 84:104953. [DOI: 10.1016/j.amsu.2022.104953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Revised: 10/23/2022] [Accepted: 11/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Hamadelseed O, Elkhidir IH, Skutella T. Psychosocial Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease in Patients with Down Syndrome and Their Association with Brain Changes: A Narrative Review. Neurol Ther 2022; 11:931-953. [PMID: 35596914 PMCID: PMC9338203 DOI: 10.1007/s40120-022-00361-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Several recent epidemiological studies attempted to identify risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. Age, family history, genetic factors (APOE genotype, trisomy 21), physical activity, and a low level of schooling are significant risk factors. In this review, we summarize the known psychosocial risk factors for the development of Alzheimer’s disease in patients with Down syndrome and their association with neuroanatomical changes in the brains of people with Down syndrome. We completed a comprehensive review of the literature on PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science about psychosocial risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, for Alzheimer’s disease in Down syndrome, and Alzheimer’s disease in Down syndrome and their association with neuroanatomical changes in the brains of people with Down syndrome. Alzheimer’s disease causes early pathological changes in individuals with Down syndrome, especially in the hippocampus and corpus callosum. People with Down syndrome living with dementia showed reduced volumes of brain areas affected by Alzheimer’s disease as the hippocampus and corpus callosum in association with cognitive decline. These changes occur with increasing age, and the presence or absence of psychosocial risk factors impacts the degree of cognitive function. Correlating Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in Down syndrome and cognitive function scores while considering the effect of psychosocial risk factors helps us identify the mechanisms leading to Alzheimer’s disease at an early age. Also, this approach enables us to create more sensitive and relevant clinical, memory, and reasoning assessments for people with Down syndrome.
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- Osama Hamadelseed
- Department of Neuroanatomy, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 307, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Alqasr St., Khartoum, Sudan
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- Department of Neuroanatomy, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 307, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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Sicilia A, Zhao X, Minhas DS, O'Connor EE, Aizenstein HJ, Klunk WE, Tudorascu DL, Hwang SJ. MULTI-DOMAIN LEARNING BY META-LEARNING: TAKING OPTIMAL STEPS IN MULTI-DOMAIN LOSS LANDSCAPES BY INNER-LOOP LEARNING. PROCEEDINGS. IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING 2021; 2021:650-654. [PMID: 34909112 PMCID: PMC8668019 DOI: 10.1109/isbi48211.2021.9433977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We consider a model-agnostic solution to the problem of Multi-Domain Learning (MDL) for multi-modal applications. Many existing MDL techniques are model-dependent solutions which explicitly require nontrivial architectural changes to construct domain-specific modules. Thus, properly applying these MDL techniques for new problems with well-established models, e.g. U-Net for semantic segmentation, may demand various low-level implementation efforts. In this paper, given emerging multi-modal data (e.g., various structural neuroimaging modalities), we aim to enable MDL purely algorithmically so that widely used neural networks can trivially achieve MDL in a model-independent manner. To this end, we consider a weighted loss function and extend it to an effective procedure by employing techniques from the recently active area of learning-to-learn (meta-learning). Specifically, we take inner-loop gradient steps to dynamically estimate posterior distributions over the hyperparameters of our loss function. Thus, our method is model-agnostic, requiring no additional model parameters and no network architecture changes; instead, only a few efficient algorithmic modifications are needed to improve performance in MDL. We demonstrate our solution to a fitting problem in medical imaging, specifically, in the automatic segmentation of white matter hyperintensity (WMH). We look at two neuroimaging modalities (T1-MR and FLAIR) with complementary information fitting for our problem.
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine - University of Maryland, Baltimore
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- Intelligent Systems Program - University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
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Wang P, Wang J, Tang Q, Alvarez TL, Wang Z, Kung YC, Lin CP, Chen H, Meng C, Biswal BB. Structural and functional connectivity mapping of the human corpus callosum organization with white-matter functional networks. Neuroimage 2020; 227:117642. [PMID: 33338619 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 11/28/2020] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The corpus callosum serves as a crucial organization for understanding the information integration between the two hemispheres. Our previous study explored the functional connectivity between the corpus callosum and white-matter functional networks (WM-FNs), but the corresponding physical connectivity remains unknown. The current study uses the resting-state fMRI of Human Connectome Project data to identify ten WM-FNs in 108 healthy subjects, and then independently maps the structural and functional connectivity between the corpus callosum and above WM-FNs using the diffusion tensor images (DTI) tractography and resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC). Our results demonstrated that the structural and functional connectivity between the human corpus callosum and WM-FNs have the following high overall correspondence: orbitofrontal WM-FN, DTI map = 89% and RSFC map = 92%; sensorimotor middle WM-FN, DTI map = 47% and RSFC map = 77%; deep WM-FN, DTI map = 50% and RSFC map = 79%; posterior corona radiata WM-FN, DTI map = 82% and RSFC map = 73%. These findings reinforce the notion that the corpus callosum has unique spatial distribution patterns connecting to distinct WM-FNs. However, important differences between the structural and functional connectivity mapping results were also observed, which demonstrated a synergy between DTI tractography and RSFC toward better understanding the information integration of primary and higher-order functional systems in the human brain.
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- Pan Wang
- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
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Wang P, Meng C, Yuan R, Wang J, Yang H, Zhang T, Zaborszky L, Alvarez TL, Liao W, Luo C, Chen H, Biswal BB. The Organization of the Human Corpus Callosum Estimated by Intrinsic Functional Connectivity with White-Matter Functional Networks. Cereb Cortex 2020; 30:3313-3324. [PMID: 32080708 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The corpus callosum is the commissural bridge of white-matter bundles important for the human brain functions. Previous studies have analyzed the structural links between cortical gray-matter networks and subregions of corpus callosum. While meaningful white-matter functional networks (WM-FNs) were recently reported, how these networks functionally link with distinct subregions of corpus callosum remained unknown. The current study used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging of the Human Connectome Project test–retest data to identify 10 cerebral WM-FNs in 119 healthy subjects and then parcellated the corpus callosum into distinct subregions based on the functional connectivity between each callosal voxel and above networks. Our results demonstrated the reproducible identification of WM-FNs and their links with known gray-matter functional networks across two runs. Furthermore, we identified reliably parcellated subregions of the corpus callosum, which might be involved in primary and higher order functional systems by functionally connecting with WM-FNs. The current study extended our knowledge about the white-matter functional signals to the intrinsic functional organization of human corpus callosum, which could help researchers understand the neural substrates underlying normal interhemispheric functional connectivity as well as dysfunctions in various mental disorders.
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- Pan Wang
- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA
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Malcolm JC, Breuillaud L, Do Carmo S, Hall H, Welikovitch LA, Macdonald JA, Goedert M, Cuello AC. Neuropathological changes and cognitive deficits in rats transgenic for human mutant tau recapitulate human tauopathy. Neurobiol Dis 2019; 127:323-338. [PMID: 30905766 PMCID: PMC6597947 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2019.03.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Revised: 03/08/2019] [Accepted: 03/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The assembly of tau protein into abnormal filaments and brain cell degeneration are characteristic of a number of human neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17. Several murine models have been generated to better understand the mechanisms contributing to tau assembly and neurodegeneration. Taking advantage of the more elaborate central nervous system and higher cognitive abilities of the rat, we generated a model expressing the longest human tau isoform (2N4R) with the P301S mutation. This transgenic rat line, R962-hTau, exhibits the main features of human tauopathies, such as: age-dependent increase in inclusions comprised of aggregated-tau, neuronal loss, global neurodegeneration as reflected by brain atrophy and ventricular dilation, alterations in astrocytic and microglial morphology, and myelin loss. In addition, substantial deficits across multiple memory and learning paradigms, including novel object recognition, fear conditioning and Morris water maze tasks, were observed at the time of advanced tauopathy. These results support the concept that progressive tauopathy correlates with brain atrophy and cognitive impairment.
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- Janice C Malcolm
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0C7, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 0C7, Canada; Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada; Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada.
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Kneynsberg A, Combs B, Christensen K, Morfini G, Kanaan NM. Axonal Degeneration in Tauopathies: Disease Relevance and Underlying Mechanisms. Front Neurosci 2017; 11:572. [PMID: 29089864 PMCID: PMC5651019 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 09/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Tauopathies are a diverse group of diseases featuring progressive dying-back neurodegeneration of specific neuronal populations in association with accumulation of abnormal forms of the microtubule-associated protein tau. It is well-established that the clinical symptoms characteristic of tauopathies correlate with deficits in synaptic function and neuritic connectivity early in the course of disease, but mechanisms underlying these critical pathogenic events are not fully understood. Biochemical in vitro evidence fueled the widespread notion that microtubule stabilization represents tau's primary biological role and that the marked atrophy of neurites observed in tauopathies results from loss of microtubule stability. However, this notion contrasts with the mild phenotype associated with tau deletion. Instead, an analysis of cellular hallmarks common to different tauopathies, including aberrant patterns of protein phosphorylation and early degeneration of axons, suggests that alterations in kinase-based signaling pathways and deficits in axonal transport (AT) associated with such alterations contribute to the loss of neuronal connectivity triggered by pathogenic forms of tau. Here, we review a body of literature providing evidence that axonal pathology represents an early and common pathogenic event among human tauopathies. Observations of axonal degeneration in animal models of specific tauopathies are discussed and similarities to human disease highlighted. Finally, we discuss potential mechanistic pathways other than microtubule destabilization by which disease-related forms of tau may promote axonopathy.
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- Andrew Kneynsberg
- Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States.,Department of Translational Science and Molecular Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, United States
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- Department of Translational Science and Molecular Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, United States
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- Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States.,Department of Translational Science and Molecular Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, United States
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- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States.,Department of Translational Science and Molecular Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI, United States.,Hauenstein Neuroscience Center, Mercy Health Saint Mary's, Grand Rapids, MI, United States
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Cimino-Knight AM, Gonzalez Rothi LJ, He Y, Heilman KM. Callosal ideomotor apraxia in Alzheimer’s disease. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2016; 39:1-8. [DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2016.1180345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Reginold W, Itorralba J, Luedke AC, Fernandez-Ruiz J, Reginold J, Islam O, Garcia A. Tractography at 3T MRI of Corpus Callosum Tracts Crossing White Matter Hyperintensities. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2016; 37:1617-22. [PMID: 27127001 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a4788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2015] [Accepted: 02/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The impact of white matter hyperintensities on the diffusion characteristics of crossing tracts is unclear. This study used quantitative tractography at 3T MR imaging to compare, in the same individuals, the diffusion characteristics of corpus callosum tracts that crossed white matter hyperintensities with the diffusion characteristics of corpus callosum tracts that did not pass through white matter hyperintensities. MATERIALS AND METHODS Brain T2 fluid-attenuated inversion recovery-weighted and diffusion tensor 3T MR imaging scans were acquired in 24 individuals with white matter hyperintensities. Tractography data were generated by the Fiber Assignment by Continuous Tracking method. White matter hyperintensities and corpus callosum tracts were manually segmented. In the corpus callosum, the fractional anisotropy, radial diffusivity, and mean diffusivity of tracts crossing white matter hyperintensities were compared with the fractional anisotropy, radial diffusivity, and mean diffusivity of tracts that did not cross white matter hyperintensities. The cingulum, long association fibers, corticospinal/bulbar tracts, and thalamic projection fibers were included for comparison. RESULTS Within the corpus callosum, tracts that crossed white matter hyperintensities had decreased fractional anisotropy compared with tracts that did not pass through white matter hyperintensities (P = .002). Within the cingulum, tracts that crossed white matter hyperintensities had increased radial diffusivity compared with tracts that did not pass through white matter hyperintensities (P = .001). CONCLUSIONS In the corpus callosum and cingulum, tracts had worse diffusion characteristics when they crossed white matter hyperintensities. These results support a role for white matter hyperintensities in the disruption of crossing tracts.
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- W Reginold
- From the Departments of Medical Imaging (W.R.) Memory Clinics (W.R., A.G.), Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies (J.I., A.G., A.C.L.), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience Studies (J.I., A.G., A.C.L.), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Facultad de Medicina, (J.F.-R.), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Coyoacán, Mexico
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- Life Sciences (J.R.), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology (O.I.), Kingston General Hospital, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Memory Clinics (W.R., A.G.), Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine Centre for Neuroscience Studies (J.I., A.G., A.C.L.), Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Wang XD, Ren M, Zhu MW, Gao WP, Zhang J, Shen H, Lin ZG, Feng HL, Zhao CJ, Gao K. Corpus callosum atrophy associated with the degree of cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer's dementia or mild cognitive impairment: a meta-analysis of the region of interest structural imaging studies. J Psychiatr Res 2015; 63:10-9. [PMID: 25748753 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2015.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2014] [Revised: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 02/09/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Individual structural neuroimaging studies of the corpus callosum (CC) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with the region of interest (ROI) analysis have yielded inconsistent findings. The aim of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis of structural imaging studies using ROI technique to measure the CC midsagittal area changes in patients with AD or MCI. Databases of PubMed, the Cochrane Library, the ISI Web of Science, and Science Direct from inception to June 2014 were searched with key words "corpus callosum" or "callosal", plus "Alzheimer's disease" or "mild cognitive impairment". Twenty-three studies with 603 patients with AD, 146 with MCI, and 638 healthy controls were included in this meta-analysis. Effect size was used to measure the difference between patients with AD or MCI and healthy controls. Significant callosal atrophy was found in MCI patients with an effect size of -0.36 (95% CI, -0.57 to -0.14; P = 0.001). The degree of the CC atrophy in mild AD was less severe than that in moderate AD with a mean effect size -0.69 (95% CI, -0.89 to -0.49) versus -0.92 (95% CI, -1.16 to -0.69), respectively. Comparing with healthy controls, patients with MCI had atrophy in the anterior portion of the CC (i.e., rostrum and genu). In contrast, patients with AD had atrophy in both anterior and posterior portions (i.e., splenium). These results suggest that callosal atrophy may be related to the degree of cognitive decline in patients with MCI and AD, and it may be used as a biomarker for patients with cognitive deficit even before meeting the criteria for AD.
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- Xu-Dong Wang
- Departments of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, PR China
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- Departments of Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Weifang Medical University, Weifang, Shandon Province, PR China
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- Departments of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, PR China
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- Bio-X Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, PR China
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- Department of Neurology, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, PR China
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- Departments of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, PR China
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- Departments of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, PR China
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- Departments of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, PR China.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, PR China.
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- Mood and Anxiety Clinic in the Mood Disorder Program, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Canu E, McLaren DG, Fitzgerald ME, Bendlin BB, Zoccatelli G, Alessandrini F, Pizzini FB, Ricciardi GK, Beltramello A, Johnson SC, Frisoni GB. Mapping the structural brain changes in Alzheimer's disease: the independent contribution of two imaging modalities. J Alzheimers Dis 2012; 26 Suppl 3:263-74. [PMID: 21971466 DOI: 10.3233/jad-2011-0040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The macrostructural atrophy of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been fully described. Current literature reports that also microstructural alterations occur in AD since the early stages. However, whether the microstructural changes offer unique information independent from macrostructural atrophy is unclear. Aim of this study is to define the independent contribution of macrostructural atrophy and microstructural alterations on AD pathology. The study involved 17 moderate to severe AD patients and 13 healthy controls. All participants underwent conventional and non conventional MRI (respectively, T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted MR scanning). We processed the images in order to obtain gray and white matter volumes to assess macrostructural atrophy, and fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity to assess the microstructural damage. Analyses of covariance between patients and controls were performed to investigate microstructural tissue damage independent of macrostructural tissue loss, and vice versa, voxel by voxel. We observed microstructural differences, independent of macrostructural atrophy, between patients and controls in temporal and retrosplenial regions, as well as in thalamus, corticopontine tracts, striatum and precentral gyrus. Volumetric differences, independent of microstructural alterations, were observed mainly in the entorhinal cortex, posterior cingulum, and splenium. Measures of microstructural damage provide unique information not obtainable with volumetric mapping in regions known to be pivotal in AD as well as in others thought to be spared. This work expands the understanding of the topography of pathological changes in AD that can be captured with imaging techniques.
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- Elisa Canu
- LENITEM - Laboratory of Epidemiology Neuroimaging and Telemedicine, IRCCS Centro San Giovanni di Dio FBF, The National Centre for Research and Care of Alzheimer's and Mental Diseases, Brescia, Italy
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LO MENTZUNG, TSAI PINGHUANG, LIN PEIFENG, LIN CHEN, HSIN YUELOONG. THE NONLINEAR AND NONSTATIONARY PROPERTIES IN EEG SIGNALS: PROBING THE COMPLEX FLUCTUATIONS BY HILBERT–HUANG TRANSFORM. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011. [DOI: 10.1142/s1793536909000199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The analysis of biological fluctuations provides an excellent route to probe the underlying mechanisms in maintaining internal homeostasis of the body, especially under the challenges of the ever-changing environment or disease processes. However, the features of nonlinearity and nonstationarity in physiological time series limit the reliability of the conventional analysis. Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT), based on nonlinear theory, is an innovative approach to extract the dynamic information at different time scales, in particular, from nonstationary signals. In this paper, HHT is introduced to analyze the alpha waves of human's electroencephalography (EEG), which seemly oscillate regularly between 8 and 12 Hz in healthy subject but getting irregular or disappeared in different demented status. Furthermore, conventional time–frequency analyses are adopted to collate the results from those methods and HHT. Finally, the potential usages of HHT are demonstrated in characterizing the biological signals qualitatively and quantitatively, including stationarity analysis, instantaneous frequency and amplitude modulation or correlation analysis. Such applications on EEG have successively disclosed the differences of alpha rhythms between normal and demented brains and the nonlinear characteristics of the underlying mechanisms. Hopefully, in addition to empower the studies of EEG varied in diseased, aging, and physiological processes, these methods might find other applications in EEG analysis.
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- MEN-TZUNG LO
- Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan, ROC
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- Neurology Department, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yi-Lan, Taiwan, ROC
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformations, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC
- National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
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- Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC
- Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Tainan Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC
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- Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan, ROC
- Institute of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC
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- Neurology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualein, Taiwan, ROC
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Frederiksen KS, Garde E, Skimminge A, Ryberg C, Rostrup E, Baaré WFC, Siebner HR, Hejl AM, Leffers AM, Waldemar G. Corpus callosum atrophy in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease. NEURODEGENER DIS 2011; 8:476-82. [PMID: 21659724 DOI: 10.1159/000327753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2010] [Accepted: 03/14/2011] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Several studies have found atrophy of the corpus callosum (CC) in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, it remains unclear whether callosal atrophy is already present in the early stages of AD, and to what extent it may be associated with other structural changes in the brain, such as age-related white matter changes (ARWMC) and progression of the disease. METHODS Twenty-eight patients in the early stages of AD and 50 non-demented elderly subjects with varying degrees of ARWMC were investigated using MRI. The CC was assessed semi-automatically, and ARWMC were rated according to the Fazekas scale. RESULTS A significant difference in posterior CC size could be detected between non-demented elderly subjects and early stage AD patients. The sizes of the total CC, rostral body and splenium at baseline were correlated with change from baseline MMSE score after a 1-year follow-up in AD patients. There was no association between CC size and ARWMC. CONCLUSIONS The present findings indicate that posterior CC atrophy is present in mild AD independently of ARWMC. Furthermore, CC atrophy may be associated with cognitive deterioration.
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- Kristian Steen Frederiksen
- Department of Neurology, Memory Disorders Research Group, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. kristian.steen.frederiksen @ rh.regionh.dk
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Chaim TM, Schaufelberger MS, Ferreira LK, Duran FLS, Ayres AM, Scazufca M, Menezes PR, Amaro E, Leite CC, Murray RM, McGuire PK, Rushe TM, Busatto GF. Volume reduction of the corpus callosum and its relationship with deficits in interhemispheric transfer of information in recent-onset psychosis. Psychiatry Res 2010; 184:1-9. [PMID: 20817487 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2009] [Revised: 04/26/2010] [Accepted: 06/08/2010] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The present study aimed to investigate the presence of corpus callosum (CC) volume deficits in a population-based recent-onset psychosis (ROP) sample, and whether CC volume relates to interhemispheric communication deficits. For this purpose, we used voxel-based morphometry comparisons of magnetic resonance imaging data between ROP (n =122) and healthy control (n = 94) subjects. Subgroups (38 ROP and 39 controls) were investigated for correlations between CC volumes and performance on the Crossed Finger Localization Test (CFLT). Significant CC volume reductions in ROP subjects versus controls emerged after excluding substance misuse and non-right-handedness. CC reductions retained significance in the schizophrenia subgroup but not in affective psychoses subjects. There were significant positive correlations between CC volumes and CFLT scores in ROP subjects, specifically in subtasks involving interhemispheric communication. From these results, we can conclude that CC volume reductions are present in association with ROP. The relationship between such deficits and CFLT performance suggests that interhemispheric communication impairments are directly linked to CC abnormalities in ROP.
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- Tiffany M Chaim
- Department of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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Falzone TL, Gunawardena S, McCleary D, Reis GF, Goldstein LSB. Kinesin-1 transport reductions enhance human tau hyperphosphorylation, aggregation and neurodegeneration in animal models of tauopathies. Hum Mol Genet 2010; 19:4399-408. [PMID: 20817925 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddq363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Neurodegeneration induced by abnormal hyperphosphorylation and aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein tau defines neurodegenerative tauopathies. Destabilization of microtubules by loss of tau function and filament formation by toxic gain of function are two mechanisms suggested for how abnormal tau triggers neuronal loss. Recent experiments in kinesin-1 deficient mice suggested that axonal transport defects can initiate biochemical changes that induce activation of axonal stress kinase pathways leading to abnormal tau hyperphosphorylation. Here we show using Drosophila and mouse models of tauopathies that reductions in axonal transport can exacerbate human tau protein hyperphosphorylation, formation of insoluble aggregates and tau-dependent neurodegeneration. Together with previous work, our results suggest that non-lethal reductions in axonal transport, and perhaps other types of minor axonal stress, are sufficient to induce and/or accelerate abnormal tau behavior characteristic of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative tauopathies.
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- Tomás L Falzone
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Canu E, McLaren DG, Fitzgerald ME, Bendlin BB, Zoccatelli G, Alessandrini F, Pizzini FB, Ricciardi GK, Beltramello A, Johnson SC, Frisoni GB. Microstructural diffusion changes are independent of macrostructural volume loss in moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease. J Alzheimers Dis 2010; 19:963-76. [PMID: 20157252 DOI: 10.3233/jad-2010-1295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Although it is established that Alzheimer's disease (AD) leads to cerebral macrostructural atrophy, microstructural diffusion changes have also been observed, but it is not yet known whether these changes offer unique information about the disease pathology. Thus, a multi-modal imaging study was conducted to determine the independent contribution of each modality in moderate to severe AD. Seventeen patients with moderate-severe AD and 13 healthy volunteers underwent diffusion-weighted and T1-weighted MR scanning. Images were processed to obtain measures of macrostructural atrophy (gray and white matter volumes) and microstructural damage (fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity). Microstructural diffusion changes independent of macrostructural loss were investigated using an ANCOVA where macrostructural maps were used as voxel-wise covariates. The reverse ANCOVA model was also assessed, where macrostructural loss was the dependent variable and microstructural diffusion tensor imaging maps were the imaging covariates. Diffusion differences between patients and controls were observed after controlling for volumetric differences in medial temporal, retrosplenial regions, anterior commissure, corona radiata, internal capsule, thalamus, corticopontine tracts, cerebral peduncle, striatum, and precentral gyrus. Independent volumetric differences were observed in the entorhinal cortex, inferior temporal lobe, posterior cingulate cortex, splenium and cerebellum. While it is well known that AD is associated with pronounced volumetric change, this study suggests that measures of microstructure provide unique information not obtainable with volumetric mapping in regions known to be pivotal in AD and in those thought to be spared. As such this work provides great understanding of the topography of pathological changes in AD that can be captured with imaging.
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- Elisa Canu
- The National Centre for Research and Care of Alzheimer's and Mental Diseases, Brescia, Italy
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Ryberg C, Rostrup E, Sjöstrand K, Paulson OB, Barkhof F, Scheltens P, van Straaten ECW, Fazekas F, Schmidt R, Erkinjuntti T, Wahlund LO, Basile AM, Pantoni L, Inzitari D, Waldemar G. White matter changes contribute to corpus callosum atrophy in the elderly: the LADIS study. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2008; 29:1498-504. [PMID: 18556357 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a1169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The corpus callosum (CC) is the most important structure involved in the transmission of interhemispheric information. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential correlation between regional age-related white matter changes (ARWMC) and atrophy of CC in elderly subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 578 subjects with ARWMC from the Leukoaraiosis And DISability (LADIS) study, the cross-sectional area of the CC was automatically segmented on the normalized midsagittal MR imaging section and subdivided into 5 regions. The ARWMC volumes were measured quantitatively by using a semiautomated technique and segmented into 6 brain regions. RESULTS Significant correlation between the area of the rostrum and splenium regions of the CC and the ARWMC load in most brain regions was identified. This correlation persisted after correction for global atrophy. CONCLUSION Increasing loads of ARWMC volume were significantly correlated with atrophy of the CC and its subregions in nondisabled elderly subjects with leukoaraiosis. However, the pattern of correlation between CC subregions and ARWMC was not specifically related to the topographic location of ARWMC. The results suggest that ARWMC may lead to a gradual loss of CC tissue.
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- C Ryberg
- Memory Disorders Research Group, Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Chua TC, Wen W, Slavin MJ, Sachdev PS. Diffusion tensor imaging in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimerʼs disease: a review. Curr Opin Neurol 2008; 21:83-92. [DOI: 10.1097/wco.0b013e3282f4594b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Naggara O, Oppenheim C, Rieu D, Raoux N, Rodrigo S, Dalla Barba G, Meder JF. Diffusion tensor imaging in early Alzheimer's disease. Psychiatry Res 2006; 146:243-9. [PMID: 16520023 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2005] [Revised: 01/12/2006] [Accepted: 01/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Our aim was to investigate the extent of white matter tissue damage in patients with early Alzheimer disease (AD) using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI). Although AD pathology mainly affects cortical grey matter, previous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies showed that changes also exist in the white matter (WM). However, the nature of AD-associated WM damage is still unclear. Conventional and DTI examinations (b=1000 s/mm(2), 25 directions) were obtained from 12 patients with early AD (Mini Mental State Examination [MMSE] score=27, Grober and Buschke test score=33.2, digit span score=5.6) and 12 sex- and age-matched volunteers. The right and left mean diffusivity (MD) and fractional anisotropy (FA) of several WM regions were pooled in each patient and control, and compared between the two groups. Volumes of the whole brain and degree of atrophy of the temporal lobe were compared between the two groups. In AD, MD was increased in the splenium of the corpus callosum and in the WM in the frontal and parietal lobes. FA was bilaterally decreased in the WM of the temporal lobe, the frontal lobe and the splenium compared with corresponding regions in controls. Values in other areas (occipital area, superior temporal area, cingulum, internal capsule, and genu of the corpus callosum) were not different between patients and controls. No correlations were found between the MMSE score and the anisotropy indices. Findings of DTI reveal abnormalities in the frontal and temporal WM in early AD patients. These changes are compatible with early temporal-to-frontal disconnections.
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- Olivier Naggara
- University Paris-Descartes, Faculty of Medecine, Department of Neuroradiology, Sainte-Anne Hospital, 1 rue Cabanis, 75674 Paris, France.
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Wiltshire K, Foster S, Kaye JA, Small BJ, Camicioli R. Corpus callosum in neurodegenerative diseases: findings in Parkinson's disease. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2006; 20:345-51. [PMID: 16192724 DOI: 10.1159/000088526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Corpus callosum area has been examined in neurodegenerative diseases as a marker for cortical pathology and for differential diagnosis; however, it has not been examined in Parkinson's disease (PD). We compared callosal area in patients with PD and PD with dementia (PDD) to healthy controls and patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). We subsequently compared our results to a meta-analysis of studies examining callosal area in AD, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and corticobasal degeneration (CBD). For the imaging study, midsagittal T1-weighted MRIs were analyzed and the callosal area was determined in patients with PD (n = 24), PDD (n = 25), AD (n = 16) and controls (n = 27). The meta-analysis combined results from all publications (Medline or PubMed) representing unique samples and measuring callosal area in AD, FTD, PSP, and CBD. We found that PD and PDD patients did not show statistically significant callosal atrophy compared to controls (effect size d, 95% CI, d = 0.13, -0.26 to 0.52, and d = 0.05, -0.44 to 0.33, respectively) or AD. The AD patients had a significant loss of callosal area compared to controls (d = -0.58, -1.01 to -0.15). Dementia severity was correlated with total callosal atrophy in AD (R = 0.66, p < 0.01) but not in PDD patients (R = 0.18, p > 0.1). The meta-analysis revealed significant combined effect sizes for callosal atrophy of: AD (d = -1.03, -1.13 to -0.93), FTD (d = -1.21, -1.56 to -0.86), PSP (d = -1.09, -1.38 to -0.81), and CBD (d = -1.80, -2.18 to -1.43). We conclude that PD and PDD patients do not have callosal atrophy in contrast to other neurodegenerative diseases, including AD. Callosal atrophy was correlated with dementia severity in patients with AD but not PDD.
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Gootjes L, Bouma A, Van Strien JW, Van Schijndel R, Barkhof F, Scheltens P. Corpus callosum size correlates with asymmetric performance on a dichotic listening task in healthy aging but not in Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychologia 2006; 44:208-17. [PMID: 15955540 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2004] [Revised: 04/28/2005] [Accepted: 05/05/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) involves not only gray matter but also white matter pathology, as reflected by atrophy of the corpus callosum (CC). Since decreased CC size may indicate reduced functional interhemispheric connectivity, differences in callosal size may have cognitive consequences that may become specifically apparent in neuropsychological tasks that tap hemispheric laterality. In the present study, we examined callosal functioning with a dichotic listening task in 25 Alzheimer patients, 20 healthy elderly and 20 healthy elderly with subjective memory complaints. We found decreased performance, increased ear asymmetry, and decreased callosal size in the AD group compared to healthy elderly. As expected, in the healthy elderly, we found significant negative correlations between ear asymmetry and callosal size, specifically in the anterior and posterior callosal subareas. While the association with the posterior subareas (isthmus and splenium) points at involvement of temporal areas mediating language processing, the association with the anterior subarea (the rostrum and genu) points at involvement of frontal areas mediating attention and executive functions. Remarkably however, in contrast to the healthy elderly, callosal size was not related to ear asymmetry in the AD group. The absence of an association between callosal atrophy and ear asymmetry implies that other pathological processes, next to reduced callosal functioning, attribute to ear asymmetry in AD. Difficulties to attend specifically to the left ear during dichotic listening in some of the AD patients, points at decreased attention and executive functions and suggests that pathology of specifically the frontal areas is involved.
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- L Gootjes
- Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Xu D, Mori S, Solaiyappan M, van Zijl PCM, Davatzikos C. A framework for callosal fiber distribution analysis. Neuroimage 2002; 17:1131-43. [PMID: 12414255 DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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This paper presents a framework for analyzing the spatial distribution of neural fibers in the brain, with emphasis on interhemispheric fiber bundles crossing through the corpus callosum. The proposed approach combines methodologies for fiber tracking and spatial normalization and is applied on diffusion tensor images and standard magnetic resonance images.
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- Dongrong Xu
- Center for Biomedical Image Computing, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
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Bozzali M, Falini A, Franceschi M, Cercignani M, Zuffi M, Scotti G, Comi G, Filippi M. White matter damage in Alzheimer's disease assessed in vivo using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002; 72:742-6. [PMID: 12023417 PMCID: PMC1737921 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.72.6.742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 382] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the extent and the nature of white matter tissue damage of patients with Alzheimer's disease using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI). BACKGROUND Although Alzheimer's disease pathology mainly affects cortical grey matter, previous pathological and MRI studies showed that also the brain white matter of patients is damaged. However, the nature of Alzheimer's disease associated white matter damage is still unclear. METHODS Conventional and DT-MRI scans were obtained from 16 patients with Alzheimer's disease and 10 sex and age matched healthy volunteers. The mean diffusivity (D), fractional anisotropy (FA), and inter-voxel coherence (C) of several white matter regions were measured. RESULTS D was higher and FA lower in the corpus callosum, as well as in the white matter of the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes from patients with Alzheimer's disease than in the corresponding regions from healthy controls. D and FA of the white matter of the occipital lobe and internal capsule were not different between patients and controls. C values were also not different between patients and controls for any of the regions studied. Strong correlations were found between the mini mental state examination score and the average overall white matter D (r=0.92, p<0.001) and FA (r=0.78; p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS White matter changes in patients with Alzheimer's disease are likely to be secondary to wallerian degeneration of fibre tracts due to neuronal loss in cortical associative areas.
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- M Bozzali
- Neuroimaging Research Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Scientific Institute and University Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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Hsu YY, Du AT, Schuff N, Weiner MW. Magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy in dementias. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 2001; 14:145-66. [PMID: 11563438 PMCID: PMC1857299 DOI: 10.1177/089198870101400308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This article reviews recent studies of magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy in dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, idiopathic Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and vascular dementia. Magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy can detect structural alteration and biochemical abnormalities in the brain of demented subjects and may help in the differential diagnosis and early detection of affected individuals, monitoring disease progression, and evaluation of therapeutic effect.
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- Y Y Hsu
- Magnetic Resonance Unit, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco 94121, USA
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Hanyu H, Asano T, Sakurai H, Imon Y, Iwamoto T, Takasaki M, Shindo H, Abe K. Diffusion-weighted and magnetization transfer imaging of the corpus callosum in Alzheimer's disease. J Neurol Sci 1999; 167:37-44. [PMID: 10500260 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(99)00135-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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We investigated structural changes of the corpus callosum in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) using sagittal diffusion-weighted (DW) and magnetization transfer (MT) imaging. Patients with AD (n=23) had a significantly decreased area only in the posterior portion of the corpus callosum. Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values perpendicular to the commisural fiber orientation were significantly higher in the anterior portion of the corpus callosum without definite atrophy, as well as in the posterior portion with significant atrophy, in patients with AD than in controls (n=16) and thus diffusion in these regions showed a significantly lower degree of anisotropy in patients than in controls. MT ratios were also significantly lower in patients with AD in the anterior and posterior portions of the corpus callosum than in controls. These findings probably reflect structural changes in the corpus callosum including axonal loss and/or demyelination. DW and MT imagings may be useful in detecting degeneration of the corpus callosum in AD.
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- H Hanyu
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Pantel J, Schröder J, Jauss M, Essig M, Minakaran R, Schönknecht P, Schneider G, Schad LR, Knopp MV. Topography of callosal atrophy reflects distribution of regional cerebral volume reduction in Alzheimer's disease. Psychiatry Res 1999; 90:181-92. [PMID: 10466737 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4927(99)00018-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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It has been suggested that regional corpus callosum atrophy in Alzheimer's disease (AD) may serve as an in vivo index of neuronal loss in the neocortex. In this study total and regional size of the corpus callosum was evaluated with respect to the volumes of the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes in 38 patients with AD (NINCDS-ADRDA criteria) using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging. Twenty healthy subjects matched for age and gender served as a control group. All quantitative measurements were performed by manual tracing using personal computer-based software. Both total size and the five measured regional subsections were significantly smaller in AD when compared to the control subjects. The severity of dementia was significantly correlated with the size of the middle sections of the corpus callosum (rostral body and midbody). Within the AD group, the rostral body of the corpus callosum was significantly correlated with the frontal lobe volumes, the midbody was correlated with the temporal lobe volumes, and size of the splenium was correlated with the parietal lobe volumes. We conclude that callosal atrophy in AD reflects the severity and pattern of cortical neuronal damage. Correlations between regional callosal atrophy and severity of dementia indicate that interhemispheric cortico-cortical disconnection may contribute to the dementia syndrome.
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- J Pantel
- Department of Psychiatry, Section of Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
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Zambenedetti P, Giordano R, Zatta P. Metallothioneins are highly expressed in astrocytes and microcapillaries in Alzheimer's disease. J Chem Neuroanat 1998; 15:21-6. [PMID: 9710146 DOI: 10.1016/s0891-0618(98)00024-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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One of the neuropathological characteristics of Alzheimer's disease is the presence of a large number of reactive astrocytes, often, but not always, associated with senile plaques. The factors responsible for such an activation are as yet totally unknown. Other characteristic features of this disease such as betaA4 amyloid accumulation, senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles represent well known pathological phenomena. Some studies suggest that betaA4 plays a major role in the reactive astrocytosis characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. In the normal human brain, metallothionein isoforms I and II are expressed in astrocytes but not in neurons. In the present study, we used anti-metallothionein antibodies to detect cells expressing metallothioneins isoforms I and II in normal and Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain sections. Results showed that expression of these proteins in the cortex, cerebral white matter and cerebellum is a relevant anatomopathological characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. Analysis of Alzheimer's disease brain sections revealed high expression of metallothioneins I/II in astrocytes and microcapillaries, and in the granular but not the molecular layer of the cerebellum. Furthermore, metallothionein expression can be used as a marker to identify subtypes of astrocytes.
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Fazekas F, Kapeller P, Schmidt R, Offenbacher H, Payer F, Fazekas G. The relation of cerebral magnetic resonance signal hyperintensities to Alzheimer's disease. J Neurol Sci 1996; 142:121-5. [PMID: 8902731 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(96)00169-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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To further elucidate the relation of cerebral magnetic resonance signal hyperintensities to Alzheimer's disease (AD) we performed a case-control comparison between 30 consecutive patients with probable AD (age range 49-76, mean 65 years) and 60 asymptomatic volunteers matched for age, sex, and major cerebrovascular risk factors. We used a 1.5T magnet and determined the extent of morphologic abnormalities both by visual grading and measurement. AD patients showed comparable grades of deep/subcortical white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and a similar extent of the total WMH area as controls (3.3 cm2 +/- 8.8 vs. 2.0 cm2 +/- 4.6). They had significantly more often a "halo' of periventricular hyperintensity (PVH) (p < 0.0005) and an increased mean PVH thickness (3.0 mm +/- 1.9 vs. 1.3 mm +/- 1.2; p < 0.001). This PVH thickness correlated significantly with measures of ventricular enlargement. While univariate logistic regression also suggested a significant association of PVH thickness with a diagnosis of AD this association was lost against atrophy measures in a multivariate analysis. Our results confirm a significantly greater extent of PVH in AD patients than controls even when matched for cerebrovascular risk factors. However, this abnormality was not independently related to the disease but rather appears to be an epiphenomenon of brain atrophy.
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- F Fazekas
- Department of Neurology, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria
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