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Naveed K, Rashidi-Ranjbar N, Kumar S, Zomorrodi R, Blumberger DM, Fischer CE, Sanches M, Mulsant BH, Pollock BG, Voineskos AN, Rajji TK. Effect of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex structural measures on neuroplasticity and response to paired-associative stimulation in Alzheimer's dementia. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2024; 379:20230233. [PMID: 38853564 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024] Open
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Long-term potentiation (LTP)-like activity can be induced by stimulation protocols such as paired associative stimulation (PAS). We aimed to determine whether PAS-induced LTP-like activity (PAS-LTP) of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is associated with cortical thickness and other structural measures impaired in Alzheimer's dementia (AD). We also explored longitudinal relationships between these brain structures and PAS-LTP response after a repetitive PAS (rPAS) intervention. Mediation and regression analyses were conducted using data from randomized controlled trials with AD and healthy control participants. PAS-electroencephalography assessed DLPFC PAS-LTP. DLPFC thickness and surface area were acquired from T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity (MD) of the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF)-a tract important to induce PAS-LTP-were measured with diffusion-weighted imaging. AD participants exhibited reduced DLPFC thickness and increased SLF MD. There was also some evidence that reduction in DLPFC thickness mediates DLPFC PAS-LTP impairment. Longitudinal analyses showed preliminary evidence that SLF MD, and to a lesser extent DLPFC thickness, is associated with DLPFC PAS-LTP response to active rPAS. This study expands our understanding of the relationships between brain structural changes and neuroplasticity. It provides promising evidence for a structural predictor to improving neuroplasticity in AD with neurostimulation. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Long-term potentiation: 50 years on'.
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- K Naveed
- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Cir , Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
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- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Cir , Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
- Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, 209 Victoria Street , Toronto, Ontario M5B 1T8, Canada
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- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Cir , Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH, 479 Spadina Avenue , Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
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- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Cir , Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH, 479 Spadina Avenue , Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1, Canada
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- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Cir , Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH, 479 Spadina Avenue , Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
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- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Cir , Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
- Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, 209 Victoria Street , Toronto, Ontario M5B 1T8, Canada
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- Biostatistics Core, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 60 White Squirrel Way , Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H4, Canada
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- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Cir , Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH, 479 Spadina Avenue , Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
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- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Cir , Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH, 479 Spadina Avenue , Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
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- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Cir , Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH, 479 Spadina Avenue , Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
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- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 1 King's College Cir , Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
- Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH, 479 Spadina Avenue , Toronto, Ontario M5S 2S1, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 250 College Street , Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R8, Canada
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Vallejo-Azar MN, Arenaza B, Elizalde Acevedo B, Alba-Ferrara L, Samengo I, Bendersky M, Gonzalez PN. Hemispheric asymmetries in cortical grey matter of gyri and sulci in modern human populations from South America. J Anat 2024; 244:815-830. [PMID: 38183319 PMCID: PMC11021627 DOI: 10.1111/joa.14001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Revised: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/08/2024] Open
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Structural asymmetries of brain regions associated with lateralised functions have been extensively studied. However, there are fewer morphometric analyses of asymmetries of the gyri and sulci of the entire cortex. The current study assessed cortical asymmetries in a sample of healthy adults (N = 175) from an admixed population from South America. Grey matter volume and surface area of 66 gyri and sulci were quantified on T1 magnetic resonance images. The departure from zero of the differences between left and right hemispheres (L-R), a measure of directional asymmetry (DA), the variance of L-R, and an index of fluctuating asymmetry (FA) were evaluated for each region. Significant departures from perfect symmetry were found for most cortical gyri and sulci. Regions showed leftward asymmetry at the population level in the frontal lobe and superior lateral parts of the parietal lobe. Rightward asymmetry was found in the inferior parietal, occipital, frontopolar, and orbital regions, and the cingulate (anterior, middle, and posterior-ventral). Despite this general pattern, several sulci showed the opposite DA compared to the neighbouring gyri, which remarks the need to consider the neurobiological differences in gyral and sulcal development in the study of structural asymmetries. The results also confirm the absence of DA in most parts of the inferior frontal gyrus and the precentral region. This study contributes with data on populations underrepresented in the databases used in neurosciences. Among its findings, there is agreement with previous results obtained in populations of different ancestry and some discrepancies in the middle frontal and medial parietal regions. A significant DA not reported previously was found for the volume of long and short insular gyri and the central sulcus of the insula, frontomarginal, transverse frontopolar, paracentral, and middle and posterior parts of the cingulate gyrus and sulcus, gyrus rectus, occipital pole, and olfactory sulcus, as well as for the volume and area of the transverse collateral sulcus and suborbital sulcus. Also, several parcels displayed significant variability in the left-right differences, which can be partially attributable to developmental instability, a source of FA. Moreover, a few gyri and sulci displayed ideal FA with non-significant departures from perfect symmetry, such as subcentral and posterior cingulate gyri and sulci, inferior frontal and fusiform gyri, and the calcarine, transverse collateral, precentral, and orbital sulci. Overall, these results show that asymmetries are ubiquitous in the cerebral cortex.
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- Mariana N Vallejo-Azar
- Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, ENyS (CONICET, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Hospital El Cruce), Florencio Varela, Argentina
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- Department of Medical Physics and Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atómico Bariloche, CONICET, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, ENyS (CONICET, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Hospital El Cruce), Florencio Varela, Argentina
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Medicina Traslacional (IIMT), CONICET-Universidad Austral, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, ENyS (CONICET, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Hospital El Cruce), Florencio Varela, Argentina
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- Department of Medical Physics and Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atómico Bariloche, CONICET, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, ENyS (CONICET, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Hospital El Cruce), Florencio Varela, Argentina
- Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, ENyS (CONICET, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Hospital El Cruce), Florencio Varela, Argentina
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Korbmacher M, van der Meer D, Beck D, de Lange AMG, Eikefjord E, Lundervold A, Andreassen OA, Westlye LT, Maximov II. Brain asymmetries from mid- to late life and hemispheric brain age. Nat Commun 2024; 15:956. [PMID: 38302499 PMCID: PMC10834516 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45282-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/03/2024] Open
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The human brain demonstrates structural and functional asymmetries which have implications for ageing and mental and neurological disease development. We used a set of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) metrics derived from structural and diffusion MRI data in N=48,040 UK Biobank participants to evaluate age-related differences in brain asymmetry. Most regional grey and white matter metrics presented asymmetry, which were higher later in life. Informed by these results, we conducted hemispheric brain age (HBA) predictions from left/right multimodal MRI metrics. HBA was concordant to conventional brain age predictions, using metrics from both hemispheres, but offers a supplemental general marker of brain asymmetry when setting left/right HBA into relationship with each other. In contrast to WM brain asymmetries, left/right discrepancies in HBA are lower at higher ages. Our findings outline various sex-specific differences, particularly important for brain age estimates, and the value of further investigating the role of brain asymmetries in brain ageing and disease development.
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- Max Korbmacher
- Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway.
- NORMENT Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
- Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Centre (MMIV), Bergen, Norway.
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- NORMENT Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- NORMENT Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
- Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Centre (MMIV), Bergen, Norway
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- Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Centre (MMIV), Bergen, Norway
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- NORMENT Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway.
- NORMENT Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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Dumitru ML. Brain asymmetry is globally different in males and females: exploring cortical volume, area, thickness, and mean curvature. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:11623-11633. [PMID: 37851852 PMCID: PMC10724869 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023] Open
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Brain asymmetry is a cornerstone in the development of higher-level cognition, but it is unclear whether and how it differs in males and females. Asymmetry has been investigated using the laterality index, which compares homologous regions as pairwise weighted differences between the left and the right hemisphere. However, if asymmetry differences between males and females are global instead of pairwise, involving proportions between multiple brain areas, novel methodological tools are needed to evaluate them. Here, we used the Amsterdam Open MRI collection to investigate sexual dimorphism in brain asymmetry by comparing laterality index with the distance index, which is a global measure of differences within and across hemispheres, and with the subtraction index, which compares pairwise raw values in the left and right hemisphere. Machine learning models, robustness tests, and group analyses of cortical volume, area, thickness, and mean curvature revealed that, of the three indices, distance index was the most successful biomarker of sexual dimorphism. These findings suggest that left-right asymmetry in males and females involves global coherence rather than pairwise contrasts. Further studies are needed to investigate the biological basis of local and global asymmetry based on growth patterns under genetic, hormonal, and environmental factors.
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- Magda L Dumitru
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Postboks 7803, 5020 Bergen, Norway
- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Postboks 7807, 5020 Bergen, Norway
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Roe JM, Vidal-Pineiro D, Amlien IK, Pan M, Sneve MH, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Friedrich P, Sha Z, Francks C, Eilertsen EM, Wang Y, Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Westerhausen R. Tracing the development and lifespan change of population-level structural asymmetry in the cerebral cortex. eLife 2023; 12:e84685. [PMID: 37335613 PMCID: PMC10368427 DOI: 10.7554/elife.84685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023] Open
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Cortical asymmetry is a ubiquitous feature of brain organization that is subtly altered in some neurodevelopmental disorders, yet we lack knowledge of how its development proceeds across life in health. Achieving consensus on the precise cortical asymmetries in humans is necessary to uncover the developmental timing of asymmetry and the extent to which it arises through genetic and later influences in childhood. Here, we delineate population-level asymmetry in cortical thickness and surface area vertex-wise in seven datasets and chart asymmetry trajectories longitudinally across life (4-89 years; observations = 3937; 70% longitudinal). We find replicable asymmetry interrelationships, heritability maps, and test asymmetry associations in large-scale data. Cortical asymmetry was robust across datasets. Whereas areal asymmetry is predominantly stable across life, thickness asymmetry grows in childhood and peaks in early adulthood. Areal asymmetry is low-moderately heritable (max h2SNP ~19%) and correlates phenotypically and genetically in specific regions, indicating coordinated development of asymmetries partly through genes. In contrast, thickness asymmetry is globally interrelated across the cortex in a pattern suggesting highly left-lateralized individuals tend towards left-lateralization also in population-level right-asymmetric regions (and vice versa), and exhibits low or absent heritability. We find less areal asymmetry in the most consistently lateralized region in humans associates with subtly lower cognitive ability, and confirm small handedness and sex effects. Results suggest areal asymmetry is developmentally stable and arises early in life through genetic but mainly subject-specific stochastic effects, whereas childhood developmental growth shapes thickness asymmetry and may lead to directional variability of global thickness lateralization in the population.
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- James M Roe
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives-UMR 5293, CNRS, CEA, University of BordeauxBordeauxFrance
- Brian Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Sorbonne UniversityParisFrance
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
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- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenNetherlands
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- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenNetherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud UniversityNijmegenNetherlands
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical CenterNijmegenNetherlands
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- PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University HospitalOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University HospitalOsloNorway
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- Section for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of OsloOsloNorway
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Neuschwander P, Schmitt R, Jagoda L, Kurthen I, Giroud N, Meyer M. Different neuroanatomical correlates for temporal and spectral supra-threshold auditory tasks and speech in noise recognition in older adults with hearing impairment. Eur J Neurosci 2023; 57:981-1002. [PMID: 36683390 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2021] [Revised: 08/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Varying degrees of pure-tone hearing loss in older adults are differentially associated with cortical volume (CV) and thickness (CT) within and outside of the auditory pathway. This study addressed the question to what degree supra-threshold auditory performance (i.e., temporal compression and frequency selectivity) as well as speech in noise (SiN) recognition are associated with neurostructural correlates in a sample of 59 healthy older adults with mild to moderate pure-tone hearing loss. Using surface-based morphometry on T1-weighted MRI images, CT, CV, and surface area (CSA) of several regions-of-interest were obtained. The results showed distinct neurostructural patterns for the different tasks in terms of involved regions as well as morphometric parameters. While pure-tone averages (PTAs) positively correlated with CT in a right hemisphere superior temporal sulcus and gyrus cluster, supra-threshold auditory perception additionally extended significantly to CV and CT in left and right superior temporal clusters including Heschl's gyrus and sulcus, the planum polare and temporale. For SiN recognition, we found significant correlations with an auditory-related CT cluster and furthermore with language-related areas in the prefrontal cortex. Taken together, our results show that different auditory abilities are differently associated with cortical morphology in older adults with hearing impairment. Still, a common pattern is that greater PTAs and poorer supra-threshold auditory performance as well as poorer SiN recognition are all related to cortical thinning and volume loss but not to changes in CSA. These results support the hypothesis that mostly CT undergoes alterations in the context of auditory decline, while CSA remains stable.
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- Pia Neuschwander
- Division of Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Neuroscience of Speech & Hearing, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Division of Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Developmental Psychology: Infancy and Childhood, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Neuroscience of Speech & Hearing, Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Evolutionary Neuroscience of Language, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Cognitive Psychology Unit, Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
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Lumaca M, Bonetti L, Brattico E, Baggio G, Ravignani A, Vuust P. High-fidelity transmission of auditory symbolic material is associated with reduced right-left neuroanatomical asymmetry between primary auditory regions. Cereb Cortex 2023:7005170. [PMID: 36702496 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The intergenerational stability of auditory symbolic systems, such as music, is thought to rely on brain processes that allow the faithful transmission of complex sounds. Little is known about the functional and structural aspects of the human brain which support this ability, with a few studies pointing to the bilateral organization of auditory networks as a putative neural substrate. Here, we further tested this hypothesis by examining the role of left-right neuroanatomical asymmetries between auditory cortices. We collected neuroanatomical images from a large sample of participants (nonmusicians) and analyzed them with Freesurfer's surface-based morphometry method. Weeks after scanning, the same individuals participated in a laboratory experiment that simulated music transmission: the signaling games. We found that high accuracy in the intergenerational transmission of an artificial tone system was associated with reduced rightward asymmetry of cortical thickness in Heschl's sulcus. Our study suggests that the high-fidelity copying of melodic material may rely on the extent to which computational neuronal resources are distributed across hemispheres. Our data further support the role of interhemispheric brain organization in the cultural transmission and evolution of auditory symbolic systems.
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- Massimo Lumaca
- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus C 8000, Denmark
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus C 8000, Denmark.,Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9BX, United Kingdom.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom.,Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna 40127, Italy
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus C 8000, Denmark.,Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari 70122, Italy
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- Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim 7941, Norway
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus C 8000, Denmark.,Comparative Bioacoustics Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen 6525 XD, Netherlands
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- Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University & The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus C 8000, Denmark
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Vallejo-Azar MN, Alba-Ferrara L, Bouzigues A, Princich JP, Markov M, Bendersky M, Gonzalez PN. Influence of accessory sulci of the frontoparietal operculum on gray matter quantification. Front Neuroanat 2023; 16:1022758. [PMID: 37089581 PMCID: PMC10117380 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2022.1022758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2022] [Accepted: 12/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Introduction: The perisylvian region is the cortical core of language and speech. Several accessory sulci have been described in this area, whose presence could modify the results of the automatic quantification of gray matter by popularly used software. This study aimed to assess the expression of accessory sulci in the frontoparietal operculum (FPO) and to evaluate their influence on the gray matter volume estimated by an automatic parcellation of cortical gyri and sulci. Methods: Brain MRI scans of 100 healthy adult volunteers were visually analyzed. The existence of the triangular and diagonal sulci, and the number of accessory sulci in the frontoparietal operculum, were assessed on T1 images. Also, the gray matter volume of gyri and sulci was quantified by an automatized parcellation method. Interhemispheric differences in accessory sulci were evaluated with Chi-square and Wilcoxon paired tests. The effects of the hemisphere, sex, age, total intracranial volume, and accessory sulci on morphometric variables were assessed by linear models. Results: These sulci were found in more than half of the subjects, mostly in the left hemisphere, and showed a significant effect on the gray matter content of the FPO. In particular, the volume of the inferior frontal sulcus, pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus, horizontal ramus of the lateral sulcus, angular gyrus, and postcentral gyrus showed a significant influence on the presence of accessory sulci. Discussion: The prevalence of tertiary sulci in the FPO is high, although their meaning is not yet known. Therefore, they should be considered to reduce the risk of misclassifications of normal variation.
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- Mariana N. Vallejo-Azar
- Unidad de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, CONICET, Hospital El Cruce Dr, “Néstor C. Kirchner”, Universidad Arturo Jauretche, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, CONICET, Hospital El Cruce Dr, “Néstor C. Kirchner”, Universidad Arturo Jauretche, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- INSERM U1127, Institut du cerveau, Sorbonne Université, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Unidad de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, CONICET, Hospital El Cruce Dr, “Néstor C. Kirchner”, Universidad Arturo Jauretche, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, CONICET, Hospital El Cruce Dr, “Néstor C. Kirchner”, Universidad Arturo Jauretche, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, CONICET, Hospital El Cruce Dr, “Néstor C. Kirchner”, Universidad Arturo Jauretche, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Laboratorio de Anatomía Viviente, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Estudios en Neurociencias y Sistemas Complejos, CONICET, Hospital El Cruce Dr, “Néstor C. Kirchner”, Universidad Arturo Jauretche, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Bolton TAW, Van De Ville D, Régis J, Witjas T, Girard N, Levivier M, Tuleasca C. Morphometric features of drug-resistant essential tremor and recovery after stereotactic radiosurgical thalamotomy. Netw Neurosci 2022; 6:850-869. [PMID: 36605417 PMCID: PMC9810368 DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Essential tremor (ET) is the most common movement disorder. Its neural underpinnings remain unclear. Here, we quantified structural covariance between cortical thickness (CT), surface area (SA), and mean curvature (MC) estimates in patients with ET before and 1 year after ventro-intermediate nucleus stereotactic radiosurgical thalamotomy, and contrasted the observed patterns with those from matched healthy controls. For SA, complex rearrangements within a network of motion-related brain areas characterized patients with ET. This was complemented by MC alterations revolving around the left middle temporal cortex and the disappearance of positive-valued covariance across both modalities in the right fusiform gyrus. Recovery following thalamotomy involved MC readjustments in frontal brain centers, the amygdala, and the insula, capturing nonmotor characteristics of the disease. The appearance of negative-valued CT covariance between the left parahippocampal gyrus and hippocampus was another recovery mechanism involving high-level visual areas. This was complemented by the appearance of negative-valued CT/MC covariance, and positive-valued SA/MC covariance, in the right inferior temporal cortex and bilateral fusiform gyrus. Our results demonstrate that different morphometric properties provide complementary information to understand ET, and that their statistical cross-dependences are also valuable. They pinpoint several anatomical features of the disease and highlight routes of recovery following thalamotomy.
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- Thomas A. W. Bolton
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Neurosurgery Service and Gamma Knife Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland,Connectomics Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland,* Corresponding Author:
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- Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland,Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva (UNIGE), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Service and Gamma Knife Unit, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Timone, Marseille, France
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- Neurology Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Timone, Marseille, France
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Timone, Marseille, France
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Neurosurgery Service and Gamma Knife Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland,Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Neurosurgery Service and Gamma Knife Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland,Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland,Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS 5), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Bolton TAW, Van De Ville D, Régis J, Witjas T, Girard N, Levivier M, Tuleasca C. Graph Theoretical Analysis of Structural Covariance Reveals the Relevance of Visuospatial and Attentional Areas in Essential Tremor Recovery After Stereotactic Radiosurgical Thalamotomy. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:873605. [PMID: 35677202 PMCID: PMC9168220 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.873605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Essential tremor (ET) is the most common movement disorder. Its pathophysiology is only partially understood. Here, we leveraged graph theoretical analysis on structural covariance patterns quantified from morphometric estimates for cortical thickness, surface area, and mean curvature in patients with ET before and one year after (to account for delayed clinical effect) ventro-intermediate nucleus (Vim) stereotactic radiosurgical thalamotomy. We further contrasted the observed patterns with those from matched healthy controls (HCs). Significant group differences at the level of individual morphometric properties were specific to mean curvature and the post-/pre-thalamotomy contrast, evidencing brain plasticity at the level of the targeted left thalamus, and of low-level visual, high-level visuospatial and attentional areas implicated in the dorsal visual stream. The introduction of cross-correlational analysis across pairs of morphometric properties strengthened the presence of dorsal visual stream readjustments following thalamotomy, as cortical thickness in the right lingual gyrus, bilateral rostral middle frontal gyrus, and left pre-central gyrus was interrelated with mean curvature in the rest of the brain. Overall, our results position mean curvature as the most relevant morphometric feature to understand brain plasticity in drug-resistant ET patients following Vim thalamotomy. They also highlight the importance of examining not only individual features, but also their interactions, to gain insight into the routes of recovery following intervention.
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- Thomas A. W. Bolton
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Neurosurgery Service and Gamma Knife Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Connectomics Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Bioengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, University of Geneva (UNIGE), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Service and Gamma Knife Unit, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Timone, Marseille, France
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- Neurology Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Timone, Marseille, France
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Timone, Marseille, France
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Neurosurgery Service and Gamma Knife Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Neurosurgery Service and Gamma Knife Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS5), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Eckert MA, Vaden KI, Iuricich F. Cortical asymmetries at different spatial hierarchies relate to phonological processing ability. PLoS Biol 2022; 20:e3001591. [PMID: 35381012 PMCID: PMC8982829 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The ability to map speech sounds to corresponding letters is critical for establishing proficient reading. People vary in this phonological processing ability, which has been hypothesized to result from variation in hemispheric asymmetries within brain regions that support language. A cerebral lateralization hypothesis predicts that more asymmetric brain structures facilitate the development of foundational reading skills like phonological processing. That is, structural asymmetries are predicted to linearly increase with ability. In contrast, a canalization hypothesis predicts that asymmetries constrain behavioral performance within a normal range. That is, structural asymmetries are predicted to quadratically relate to phonological processing, with average phonological processing occurring in people with the most asymmetric structures. These predictions were examined in relatively large samples of children (N = 424) and adults (N = 300), using a topological asymmetry analysis of T1-weighted brain images and a decoding measure of phonological processing. There was limited evidence of structural asymmetry and phonological decoding associations in classic language-related brain regions. However, and in modest support of the cerebral lateralization hypothesis, small to medium effect sizes were observed where phonological decoding accuracy increased with the magnitude of the largest structural asymmetry across left hemisphere cortical regions, but not right hemisphere cortical regions, for both the adult and pediatric samples. In support of the canalization hypothesis, small to medium effect sizes were observed where phonological decoding in the normal range was associated with increased asymmetries in specific cortical regions for both the adult and pediatric samples, which included performance monitoring and motor planning brain regions that contribute to oral and written language functions. Thus, the relevance of each hypothesis to phonological decoding may depend on the scale of brain organization.
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- Mark A. Eckert
- Hearing Research Program, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Hearing Research Program, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America
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- Visual Computing Division, School of Computing, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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Bottino F, Lucignani M, Pasquini L, Mastrogiovanni M, Gazzellini S, Ritrovato M, Longo D, Figà-Talamanca L, Rossi Espagnet MC, Napolitano A. Spatial Stability of Functional Networks: A Measure to Assess the Robustness of Graph-Theoretical Metrics to Spatial Errors Related to Brain Parcellation. Front Neurosci 2022; 15:736524. [PMID: 35250432 PMCID: PMC8894326 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.736524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Accepted: 12/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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There is growing interest in studying human brain connectivity and in modelling the brain functional structure as a network. Brain network creation requires parcellation of the cerebral cortex to define nodes. Parcellation might be affected by possible errors due to inter- and intra-subject variability as a consequence of brain structural and physiological characteristics and shape variations related to ageing and diseases, acquisition noise, and misregistration. These errors could induce a knock-on effect on network measure variability. The aim of this study was to investigate spatial stability, a measure of functional connectivity variations induced by parcellation errors. We simulated parcellation variability with random small spatial changes and evaluated its effects on twenty-seven graph-theoretical measures. The study included subjects from three public online datasets. Two brain parcellations were performed using FreeSurfer with geometric atlases. Starting from these, 100 new parcellations were created by increasing the area of 30% of parcels, reducing the area of neighbour parcels, with a rearrangement of vertices. fMRI data were filtered with linear regression, CompCor, and motion correction. Adjacency matrices were constructed with 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4 thresholds. Differences in spatial stability between datasets, atlases, and threshold were evaluated. The higher spatial stability resulted for Characteristic-path-length, Density, Transitivity, and Closeness-centrality, and the lower spatial stability resulted for Bonacich and Katz. Multivariate analysis showed a significant effect of atlas, datasets, and thresholds. Katz and Bonacich centrality, which was subject to larger variations, can be considered an unconventional graph measure, poorly implemented in the clinical field and not yet investigated for reliability assessment. Spatial stability (SS) is affected by threshold, and it decreases with increasing threshold for several measures. Moreover, SS seems to depend on atlas choice and scanning parameters. Our study highlights the importance of paying close attention to possible parcellation-related spatial errors, which may affect the reliability of functional connectivity measures.
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- Francesca Bottino
- Medical Physics Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Neuroradiology Unit, NESMOS Department, Sant’Andrea Hospital, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
- Neuroradiology Service, Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital – IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Health Technology and Safety Research Unit, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital – IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Neuroradiology Unit, Imaging Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Neuroradiology Unit, Imaging Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Neuroradiology Unit, Imaging Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
- NESMOS, Neuroradiology Department, S. Andrea Hospital Sapienza Rome University, Rome, Italy
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- Medical Physics Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy
- *Correspondence: Antonio Napolitano,
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Liu X, Gu L, Liu J, Hong S, Luo Q, Wu Y, Yang J, Jiang J. MRI Study of Cerebral Cortical Thickness in Patients with Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia. J Pain Res 2022; 15:623-632. [PMID: 35250306 PMCID: PMC8894103 DOI: 10.2147/jpr.s352105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Objective To measure the changes in cerebral cortical thickness in patients with herpes zoster (HZ) and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) by surface-based morphometry (SBM) and further estimate its correlation with clinical scores. Materials and Methods Twenty-nine HZ patients, 30 PHN patients and 30 well-matched healthy controls (HCs) were included. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data from all subjects were collected and then analyzed by SBM. The changes in cortical thickness among the HZ, PHN and HC groups were analyzed by ANOVA and correlated with clinical scores. Results The thickness of the bilateral primary visual cortex (V1, V2) and right primary visual cortex (V3), left somatosensory cortex (L3A), right anterior cingulate gyrus and medial prefrontal cortex (RS32) increased in PHN group, and the thickness the left insular and frontal opercular cortex (LFOP4), left motor cortex (L3B), and right superior temporal visual cortex (RSTV) were decreased in the HZ and PHN groups compared to the HC group. The thickness measurements of RS32, LFOP4, and (L3B) in HZ and PHN patients were correlated with the duration of disease. In HZ and PHN patients, the Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA) and Hamilton Depression Scale (HAMD) scores were significantly positively correlated. Conclusion Changes in cortical thickness in the areas related to sensory, motor, and cognitive/emotional changes in patients with PHN affect the neuroplasticity process of the brain, which may be the reason for the transformation of HZ into PHN and provide a possible explanation for the neuropathological mechanism of pain persistence in PHN patients.
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- Xian Liu
- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Pain, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330006, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China
- Correspondence: Jian Jiang, Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwaizheng Street, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 791 8869 3825, Email
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Friedrich P, Patil KR, Mochalski LN, Li X, Camilleri JA, Kröll JP, Wiersch L, Eickhoff SB, Weis S. Is it left or is it right? A classification approach for investigating hemispheric differences in low and high dimensionality. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 227:425-440. [PMID: 34882263 PMCID: PMC8844166 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02418-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Hemispheric asymmetries, i.e., differences between the two halves of the brain, have extensively been studied with respect to both structure and function. Commonly employed pairwise comparisons between left and right are suitable for finding differences between the hemispheres, but they come with several caveats when assessing multiple asymmetries. What is more, they are not designed for identifying the characterizing features of each hemisphere. Here, we present a novel data-driven framework—based on machine learning-based classification—for identifying the characterizing features that underlie hemispheric differences. Using voxel-based morphometry data from two different samples (n = 226, n = 216), we separated the hemispheres along the midline and used two different pipelines: First, for investigating global differences, we embedded the hemispheres into a two-dimensional space and applied a classifier to assess if the hemispheres are distinguishable in their low-dimensional representation. Second, to investigate which voxels show systematic hemispheric differences, we employed two classification approaches promoting feature selection in high dimensions. The two hemispheres were accurately classifiable in both their low-dimensional (accuracies: dataset 1 = 0.838; dataset 2 = 0.850) and high-dimensional (accuracies: dataset 1 = 0.966; dataset 2 = 0.959) representations. In low dimensions, classification of the right hemisphere showed higher precision (dataset 1 = 0.862; dataset 2 = 0.894) compared to the left hemisphere (dataset 1 = 0.818; dataset 2 = 0.816). A feature selection algorithm in the high-dimensional analysis identified voxels that most contribute to accurate classification. In addition, the map of contributing voxels showed a better overlap with moderate to highly lateralized voxels, whereas conventional t test with threshold-free cluster enhancement best resembled the LQ map at lower thresholds. Both the low- and high-dimensional classifiers were capable of identifying the hemispheres in subsamples of the datasets, such as males, females, right-handed, or non-right-handed participants. Our study indicates that hemisphere classification is capable of identifying the hemisphere in their low- and high-dimensional representation as well as delineating brain asymmetries. The concept of hemisphere classifiability thus allows a change in perspective, from asking what differs between the hemispheres towards focusing on the features needed to identify the left and right hemispheres. Taking this perspective on hemispheric differences may contribute to our understanding of what makes each hemisphere special.
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- Patrick Friedrich
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany.
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany.,Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany.,Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany.,Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany.,Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany.,Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany.,Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany.,Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, 52428, Jülich, Germany.,Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Bilateral age-related atrophy in the planum temporale is associated with vowel discrimination difficulty in healthy older adults. Hear Res 2021; 406:108252. [PMID: 33951578 DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2021.108252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2020] [Revised: 04/04/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
In this study we investigated the association between age-related brain atrophy and behavioural as well as electrophysiological markers of vowel perception in a sample of healthy younger and older adults with normal pure-tone hearing. Twenty-three older adults and 27 younger controls discriminated a set of vowels with altered second formants embedded in consonant-vowel syllables. Additionally, mismatch negativity (MMN) responses were recorded in a separate oddball paradigm with the same set of stimuli. A structural magnet resonance scan was obtained for each participant to determine cortical architecture of the left and right planum temporale (PT). The PT was chosen for its function as a major processor of auditory cues and speech. Results suggested that older adults performed worse in vowel discrimination despite normal-for-age pure-tone hearing. In the older group, we found evidence that those with greater age-related cortical atrophy (i.e., lower cortical surface area and cortical volume) in the left and right PT also showed weaker vowel discrimination. In comparison, we found a lateralized correlation in the younger group suggesting that those with greater cortical thickness in only the left PT performed weaker in the vowel discrimination task. We did not find any associations between macroanatomical traits of the PT and MMN responses. We conclude that deficient vowel processing is not only caused by pure-tone hearing loss but is also influenced by atrophy-related changes in the ageing auditory-related cortices. Furthermore, our results suggest that auditory processing might become more bilateral across the lifespan.
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Bisiacchi P, Cainelli E. Structural and functional brain asymmetries in the early phases of life: a scoping review. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 227:479-496. [PMID: 33738578 PMCID: PMC8843922 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02256-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Asymmetry characterizes the brain in both structure and function. Anatomical asymmetries explain only a fraction of functional variability in lateralization, with structural and functional asymmetries developing at different periods of life and in different ways. In this work, we perform a scoping review of the cerebral asymmetries in the first brain development phases. We included all English-written studies providing direct evidence of hemispheric asymmetries in full-term neonates, foetuses, and premature infants, both at term post-conception and before. The final analysis included 57 studies. The reviewed literature shows large variability in the used techniques and methodological procedures. Most structural studies investigated the temporal lobe, showing a temporal planum more pronounced on the left than on the right (although not all data agree), a morphological asymmetry already present from the 29th week of gestation. Other brain structures have been poorly investigated, and the results are even more discordant. Unlike data on structural asymmetries, functional data agree with each other, identifying a leftward dominance for speech stimuli and an overall dominance of the right hemisphere in all other functional conditions. This generalized dominance of the right hemisphere for all conditions (except linguistic stimuli) is in line with theories stating that the right hemisphere develops earlier and that its development is less subject to external influences because it sustains functions necessary to survive.
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- Patrizia Bisiacchi
- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35121, Padova, Italy. .,Padova Neuroscience Centre, PNC, Padova, Italy.
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35121, Padova, Italy
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Hassankhani A, Stein JM, Haboosheh AG, Vossough A, Loevner LA, Nabavizadeh SA. Anatomical Variations, Mimics, and Pitfalls in Imaging of Patients with Epilepsy. J Neuroimaging 2020; 31:20-34. [PMID: 33314527 DOI: 10.1111/jon.12809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 10/22/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Epilepsy is among one of the most common neurologic disorders. The role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis and management of patients with epilepsy is well established, and most patients with epilepsy are likely to undergo at least one or more MRI examinations in the course of their disease. Recent advances in high-field MRI have enabled high resolution in vivo visualization of small and intricate anatomic structures that are of great importance in the assessment of seizure disorders. Familiarity with normal anatomic variations is essential in the accurate diagnosis and image interpretation, as these variations may be mistaken for epileptogenic foci, leading to unnecessary follow-up imaging, or worse, unnecessary treatment. After a brief overview of normal imaging anatomy of the mesial temporal lobe, this article will review a few important common and uncommon anatomic variations, mimics, and pitfalls that may be encountered in the imaging evaluation of patients with epilepsy.
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- Alvand Hassankhani
- Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Radiology, Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Profant O, Škoch A, Tintěra J, Svobodová V, Kuchárová D, Svobodová Burianová J, Syka J. The Influence of Aging, Hearing, and Tinnitus on the Morphology of Cortical Gray Matter, Amygdala, and Hippocampus. Front Aging Neurosci 2020; 12:553461. [PMID: 33343328 PMCID: PMC7746808 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.553461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Age related hearing loss (presbycusis) is a natural process represented by elevated auditory thresholds and decreased speech intelligibility, especially in noisy conditions. Tinnitus is a phantom sound that also potentially leads to cortical changes, with its highest occurrence coinciding with the clinical onset of presbycusis. The aim of our project was to identify age, hearing loss and tinnitus related structural changes, within the auditory system and associated structures. Groups of subjects with presbycusis and tinnitus (22 subjects), with only presbycusis (24 subjects), young tinnitus patients with normal hearing (10 subjects) and young controls (17 subjects), underwent an audiological examination to characterize hearing loss and tinnitus. In addition, MRI (3T MR system, analysis in Freesurfer software) scans were used to identify changes in the cortical and subcortical structures. The following areas of the brain were analyzed: Heschl gyrus (HG), planum temporale (PT), primary visual cortex (V1), gyrus parahippocampus (PH), anterior insula (Ins), amygdala (Amg), and hippocampus (HP). A statistical analysis was performed in R framework using linear mixed-effects models with explanatory variables: age, tinnitus, laterality and hearing. In all of the cortical structures, the gray matter thickness decreased significantly with aging without having an effect on laterality (differences between the left and right hemispheres). The decrease in the gray matter thickness was faster in the HG, PT and Ins in comparison with the PH and V1. Aging did not influence the surface of the cortical areas, however there were differences between the surface size of the reported regions in the left and right hemispheres. Hearing loss caused only a borderline decrease of the cortical surface in the HG. Tinnitus was accompanied by a borderline decrease of the Ins surface and led to an increase in the volume of Amy and HP. In summary, aging is accompanied by a decrease in the cortical gray matter thickness; hearing loss only has a limited effect on the structure of the investigated cortical areas and tinnitus causes structural changes which are predominantly within the limbic system and insula, with the structure of the auditory system only being minimally affected.
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- Oliver Profant
- Department of Auditory Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.,Department of Otorhinolaryngology, 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Faculty Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- MR Unit, Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czechia
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- MR Unit, Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Auditory Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.,Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, 1st Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Motol, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Auditory Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.,Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, 1st Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Motol, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Auditory Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Auditory Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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Xiang L, Crow TJ, Hopkins WD, Roberts N. Comparison of Surface Area and Cortical Thickness Asymmetry in the Human and Chimpanzee Brain. Cereb Cortex 2020; 34:bhaa202. [PMID: 33026423 PMCID: PMC10859246 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 06/01/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Comparative study of the structural asymmetry of the human and chimpanzee brain may shed light on the evolution of language and other cognitive abilities in humans. Here we report the results of vertex-wise and ROI-based analyses that compared surface area (SA) and cortical thickness (CT) asymmetries in 3D MR images obtained for 91 humans and 77 chimpanzees. The human brain is substantially more asymmetric than the chimpanzee brain. In particular, the human brain has 1) larger total SA in the right compared with the left cerebral hemisphere, 2) a global torque-like asymmetry pattern of widespread thicker cortex in the left compared with the right frontal and the right compared with the left temporo-parieto-occipital lobe, and 3) local asymmetries, most notably in medial occipital cortex and superior temporal gyrus, where rightward asymmetry is observed for both SA and CT. There is also 4) a prominent asymmetry specific to the chimpanzee brain, namely, rightward CT asymmetry of precentral cortex. These findings provide evidence of there being substantial differences in asymmetry between the human and chimpanzee brain. The unique asymmetries of the human brain are potential neural substrates for cognitive specializations, and the presence of significant CT asymmetry of precentral gyrus in the chimpanzee brain should be further investigated.
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- Li Xiang
- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
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- POWIC, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, TX 78602, USA
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- School of Clinical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, UK
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Unmasking the relevance of hemispheric asymmetries—Break on through (to the other side). Prog Neurobiol 2020; 192:101823. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2020] [Revised: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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DeCasien AR, Sherwood CC, Schapiro SJ, Higham JP. Greater variability in chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes) brain structure among males. Proc Biol Sci 2020; 287:20192858. [PMID: 32315585 PMCID: PMC7211446 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2019] [Accepted: 03/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Across the animal kingdom, males tend to exhibit more behavioural and morphological variability than females, consistent with the 'greater male variability hypothesis'. This may reflect multiple mechanisms operating at different levels, including selective mechanisms that produce and maintain variation, extended male development, and X chromosome effects. Interestingly, human neuroanatomy shows greater male variability, but this pattern has not been demonstrated in any other species. To address this issue, we investigated sex-specific neuroanatomical variability in chimpanzees by examining relative and absolute surface areas of 23 cortical sulci across 226 individuals (135F/91M), using permutation tests of the male-to-female variance ratio of residuals from MCMC generalized linear mixed models controlling for relatedness. We used these models to estimate sulcal size heritability, simulations to assess the significance of heritability, and Pearson correlations to examine inter-sulcal correlations. Our results show that: (i) male brain structure is relatively more variable; (ii) sulcal surface areas are heritable and therefore potentially subject to selection; (iii) males exhibit lower heritability values, possibly reflecting longer development; and (iv) males exhibit stronger inter-sulcal correlations, providing indirect support for sex chromosome effects. These results provide evidence that greater male neuroanatomical variability extends beyond humans, and suggest both evolutionary and developmental explanations for this phenomenon.
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- Alex R. DeCasien
- Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
- New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Anthropology and Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, TX, USA
- Department of Experimental Medicine, The University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York, NY, USA
- New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, NY, USA
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Esteves M, Ganz E, Sousa N, Leite-Almeida H. Asymmetrical Brain Plasticity: Physiology and Pathology. Neuroscience 2020; 454:3-14. [PMID: 32027996 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.01.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Revised: 01/11/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The brain is inherently asymmetrical. How that attribute, manifest both structurally (volumetric, cytological, molecular) as well as functionally, relates to cognitive function, is not fully understood. Since the early descriptions of Paul Broca and Marc Dax it has been known that the processing of language in the brain is fundamentally asymmetrical. Contemporary imaging studies have corroborated early observations, and have also revealed significant functional links to multiple other systems, such as those sub serving memory or emotion. Recent studies have demonstrated that laterality is both plastic and adaptive. Learning and training have shown to affect regional changes in asymmetry, such as that observed in the volume of the planum temporale associated with musical practice. Increasing task complexity has been demonstrated to induce recruitment of contralateral regions, suggesting that laterality is a manifestation of functional reserve. Indeed, in terms of cognitive function, successful aging is often associated with a reduction of asymmetrical activity. The goal of this review is to survey and critically appraise the current literature addressing brain laterality, both morphological and functional, with particular emphasis on the asymmetrical plasticity associated with environmental factors and training. The plastic recruitment of contralateral areas associated with aging and unilateral lesions will be discussed in the context of the loss of asymmetry as a compensatory mechanism, and specific instances of maladaptive plasticity will be explored.
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- M Esteves
- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4710-057, Portugal; ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal; Clinical Academic Center - Braga, Braga, Portugal
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- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4710-057, Portugal; ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal; Clinical Academic Center - Braga, Braga, Portugal
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- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4710-057, Portugal; ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal; Clinical Academic Center - Braga, Braga, Portugal
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- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4710-057, Portugal; ICVS/3B's - PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal; Clinical Academic Center - Braga, Braga, Portugal.
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Frizon LA, Gopalakrishnan R, Hogue O, Floden D, Nagel SJ, Baker KB, Isolan GR, Stefani MA, Machado AG. Cortical thickness in visuo-motor areas is related to motor outcomes after STN DBS for Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2020; 71:17-22. [PMID: 31978672 DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2020.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Revised: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a widely accepted therapy for Parkinson's disease. While outcome predictors such as levodopa-response are well established, there remains a need for objective and unbiased predictors in clinical practice. We performed an exploratory study to examine whether cortical thickness, derived from preoperative MRI, correlates with postoperative outcome. METHODS Using freesurfer, we retrospectively measured cortical thickness on the preoperative MRI of 38 patients who underwent bilateral STN-DBS for PD during a 4-year period. The Unified Parkinson Disease Rating motor (UPDRS III) and experiences of daily living subscales (UPDRS II) were collected at baseline and six months after surgery. As an initial analysis, a series of partial correlations was conducted to evaluate the association between postoperative outcome scores and average cortical thickness from predefined regions of interest, adjusting for candidate confounders, without correcting for multiple comparisons. A confirmatory vertex-wise analysis was performed using a cluster-wise correction for multiple comparisons. RESULTS Based on the ROI analysis, the strongest correlation with motor outcome was found to be with the left lateral-occipital cortex. Patients with greater cortical thickness in this area presented with greater improvements in motor scores. This relationship was also supported by the vertex-wise analysis. Greater cortical thickness in frontal and temporal regions may be correlated with greater post-operative improvements in UPDRS II, but this was not confirmed in the vertex-wise analysis. CONCLUSIONS Our data indicate that greater cortical thickness in visuo-motor areas is correlated with motor outcomes after DBS for PD. Further prospective investigations are needed to confirm our findings and better-investigate potential image biomarkers.
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- Leonardo A Frizon
- Center for Neurological Restoration, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA; Post-graduate Program in Medicine: Surgical Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Center for Neurological Restoration, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Center for Neurological Restoration, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Center for Neurological Restoration, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA; Center for Neurological Restoration, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Post-graduate Program in Medicine: Surgical Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Post-graduate Program in Medicine: Surgical Sciences, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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- Center for Neurological Restoration, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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Lou Y, Zhao L, Yu S, Sun B, Hou Z, Zhang Z, Tang Y, Liu S. Brain asymmetry differences between Chinese and Caucasian populations: a surface-based morphometric comparison study. Brain Imaging Behav 2019; 14:2323-2332. [PMID: 31435899 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-019-00184-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Asymmetry has been proved to exist in the human brain structure, function and behavior. Most of the existing brain asymmetry findings are originated from the western populations, while studies about the brain structural and functional asymmetries in East Asians are limited. Extensive evidence suggested that cultural differences, e.g. education and language, may lead to differences in brain structure and function between races. Therefore, we hypothesized that differences in brain structural asymmetries exist between East Asians and Westerners. In this study, we performed a comprehensive surface-based morphometric (SBM) analysis of brain asymmetries in cortical thickness, volume and surface area in two well-matched groups of right-handed, Chinese (n = 45) and Caucasian (n = 45) young male adults (age = 22-29 years). Our results showed consistent inter-hemispheric asymmetries in the three brain morphological measures in multiple brain regions in the Chinese young adults, including the temporal, frontal, parietal, occipital, insular cortices and the cingulate gyrus. Comparing with the Caucasians, the Chinese group showed greater structural asymmetry in the frontal, temporal, occipital and insular cortices, and smaller asymmetry in the parietal cortex and cingulate gyrus. These findings could provide a new neuroanatomical basis for understanding the distinctions between East Asian and Caucasian in brain functional lateralization.
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- Yunxia Lou
- Research Center for Sectional and Imaging Anatomy, Shandong University Cheeloo College of Medicine, Jinan, China.,School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Shandong Cancer Hospital and Institute, Jinan, China
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- Research Center for Sectional and Imaging Anatomy, Shandong University Cheeloo College of Medicine, Jinan, China.,Shandong Medical Imaging Research Institute, Jinan, China
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- Research Center for Sectional and Imaging Anatomy, Shandong University Cheeloo College of Medicine, Jinan, China.,Department of Medical Imaging, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Research Center for Sectional and Imaging Anatomy, Shandong University Cheeloo College of Medicine, Jinan, China.,Department of Medical Imaging, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Research Center for Sectional and Imaging Anatomy, Shandong University Cheeloo College of Medicine, Jinan, China. .,School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
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- Research Center for Sectional and Imaging Anatomy, Shandong University Cheeloo College of Medicine, Jinan, China.,School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Garcia-Gorro C, Llera A, Martinez-Horta S, Perez-Perez J, Kulisevsky J, Rodriguez-Dechicha N, Vaquer I, Subira S, Calopa M, Muñoz E, Santacruz P, Ruiz-Idiago J, Mareca C, Beckmann CF, de Diego-Balaguer R, Camara E. Specific patterns of brain alterations underlie distinct clinical profiles in Huntington's disease. Neuroimage Clin 2019; 23:101900. [PMID: 31255947 PMCID: PMC6606833 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Revised: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Huntington's disease (HD) is a genetic neurodegenerative disease which involves a triad of motor, cognitive and psychiatric disturbances. However, there is great variability in the prominence of each type of symptom across individuals. The neurobiological basis of such variability remains poorly understood but would be crucial for better tailored treatments. Multivariate multimodal neuroimaging approaches have been successful in disentangling these profiles in other disorders. Thus we applied for the first time such approach to HD. We studied the relationship between HD symptom domains and multimodal measures sensitive to grey and white matter structural alterations. Forty-three HD gene carriers (23 manifest and 20 premanifest individuals) were scanned and underwent behavioural assessments evaluating motor, cognitive and psychiatric domains. We conducted a multimodal analysis integrating different structural neuroimaging modalities measuring grey matter volume, cortical thickness and white matter diffusion indices - fractional anisotropy and radial diffusivity. All neuroimaging measures were entered into a linked independent component analysis in order to obtain multimodal components reflecting common inter-subject variation across imaging modalities. The relationship between multimodal neuroimaging independent components and behavioural measures was analysed using multiple linear regression. We found that cognitive and motor symptoms shared a common neurobiological basis, whereas the psychiatric domain presented a differentiated neural signature. Behavioural measures of different symptom domains correlated with different neuroimaging components, both the brain regions involved and the neuroimaging modalities most prominently associated with each type of symptom showing differences. More severe cognitive and motor signs together were associated with a multimodal component consisting in a pattern of reduced grey matter, cortical thickness and white matter integrity in cognitive and motor related networks. In contrast, depressive symptoms were associated with a component mainly characterised by reduced cortical thickness pattern in limbic and paralimbic regions. In conclusion, using a multivariate multimodal approach we were able to disentangle the neurobiological substrates of two distinct symptom profiles in HD: one characterised by cognitive and motor features dissociated from a psychiatric profile. These results open a new view on a disease classically considered as a uniform entity and initiates a new avenue for further research considering these qualitative individual differences.
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- Clara Garcia-Gorro
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), IDIBELL (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge), Spain
- Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBERNED (Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases), Carlos III Institute, Madrid, Spain
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- Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBERNED (Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases), Carlos III Institute, Madrid, Spain
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- Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBERNED (Center for Networked Biomedical Research on Neurodegenerative Diseases), Carlos III Institute, Madrid, Spain
- Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hestia Duran i Reynals, Hospital Duran i Reynals, Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain
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- Hestia Duran i Reynals, Hospital Duran i Reynals, Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain
- Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
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- Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
- IDIBAPS (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer), Barcelona, Spain
- Facultat de Medicina, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hospital Mare de Deu de la Mercè, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hospital Mare de Deu de la Mercè, Barcelona, Spain
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), IDIBELL (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge), Spain
- Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- The Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- ICREA (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies), Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), IDIBELL (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge), Spain
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Scheppele M, Evans JL, Brown TT. Patterns of structural lateralization in cortical language areas of older adolescents. Laterality 2018; 24:450-481. [DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2018.1543312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Meredith Scheppele
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas-Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas-Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences and Center for Multimodal Imaging and Genetics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Xie H, Wall J, Wang X. Relationships in Ongoing Structural Maintenances of the Two Cerebral Cortices of an Individual Brain. J Exp Neurosci 2018; 12:1179069518795875. [PMID: 30202210 PMCID: PMC6122241 DOI: 10.1177/1179069518795875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2018] [Accepted: 07/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
A human brain has separate left and right cerebral cortices, each of which must
be continuously structurally maintained during adulthood. There is no
understanding of how ongoing structural maintenances of separate parts of a
mature individual brain, including the 2 cortices, are related. To explore this
issue, this study used an unconventional N-of-1 magnetic resonance imaging
time-series paradigm to identify relationships between maintenances of
structural thicknesses of the 2 cortices in an adult human brain over week
intervals for 6 months. The results suggest that maintenances of left and right
cortical thicknesses were symmetrically related in some, but asymmetrically
related in other, respects. For matched times, thickness magnitudes and
variations on the 2 sides were positively correlated and appeared to reflect
maintenance symmetry. Maintenance relationships also extended from earlier to
later times with temporal continuity and apparent “if-then” contingencies which
were reflected in symmetry and asymmetry dynamics spanning 1- to 2-week periods.
The findings suggest concepts of individual brain cortical maintenance symmetry,
asymmetry, and temporal continuity dynamics that have not been previously
recognized. They have implications for defining cortical maintenance traits or
states and for development of N-of-1 precision medicine paradigms that can
contribute to understanding individual brain health.
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- Hong Xie
- William R. Bauer Human Brain MRI Laboratory and Department of Neurosciences, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
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- William R. Bauer Human Brain MRI Laboratory and Department of Neurosciences, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
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- William R. Bauer Human Brain MRI Laboratory and Department of Neurosciences, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA.,William R. Bauer Human Brain MRI Laboratory and Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
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Botha H, Duffy JR, Whitwell JL, Strand EA, Machulda MM, Spychalla AJ, Tosakulwong N, Senjem ML, Knopman DS, Petersen RC, Jack CR, Lowe VJ, Josephs KA. Non-right handed primary progressive apraxia of speech. J Neurol Sci 2018; 390:246-254. [PMID: 29801898 PMCID: PMC5986290 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2018.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2018] [Revised: 05/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
In recent years a large and growing body of research has greatly advanced our understanding of primary progressive apraxia of speech. Handedness has emerged as one potential marker of selective vulnerability in degenerative diseases. This study evaluated the clinical and imaging findings in non-right handed compared to right handed participants in a prospective cohort diagnosed with primary progressive apraxia of speech. A total of 30 participants were included. Compared to the expected rate in the population, there was a higher prevalence of non-right handedness among those with primary progressive apraxia of speech (6/30, 20%). Small group numbers meant that these results did not reach statistical significance, although the effect sizes were moderate-to-large. There were no clinical differences between right handed and non-right handed participants. Bilateral hypometabolism was seen in primary progressive apraxia of speech compared to controls, with non-right handed participants showing more right hemispheric involvement. This is the first report of a higher rate of non-right handedness in participants with isolated apraxia of speech, which may point to an increased vulnerability for developing this disorder among non-right handed participants. This challenges prior hypotheses about a relative protective effect of non-right handedness for tau-related neurodegeneration. We discuss potential avenues for future research to investigate the relationship between handedness and motor disorders more generally.
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- Hugo Botha
- Department of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurology (Speech Pathology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Radiology (Neuroradiology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurology (Speech Pathology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (Neuropsychology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Radiology (Neuroradiology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Health Sciences Research (Biostatistics), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Radiology (Neuroradiology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; Department of Information Technology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Radiology (Neuroradiology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; Department of Neurology (Movement Disorders), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
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Le Guen Y, Leroy F, Auzias G, Riviere D, Grigis A, Mangin JF, Coulon O, Dehaene-Lambertz G, Frouin V. The chaotic morphology of the left superior temporal sulcus is genetically constrained. Neuroimage 2018; 174:297-307. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2017] [Revised: 03/01/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Mitchell RH, Metcalfe AW, Islam AH, Toma S, Patel R, Fiksenbaum L, Korczak D, MacIntosh BJ, Goldstein BI. Sex differences in brain structure among adolescents with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord 2018; 20:448-458. [PMID: 29956452 DOI: 10.1111/bdi.12663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Bipolar disorder (BD) is twice as prevalent amongst female as amongst male adolescents. Thus far, little is known regarding the neurostructural substrates underlying this disparity. We therefore examined sex differences in neurostructural magnetic resonane imaging (MRI) phenotypes amongst adolescents with BD. METHODS T1-weighted structural MRI was acquired from 44 BD (25 female [F] and 19 male [M]) and 58 (28 F and 30 M) healthy control (HC) adolescents (13-21 years old). Whole-brain and region-of-interest (ROI) analyses examined structural volume and cortical thickness using FreeSurfer. ROIs included the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), amygdala and hippocampus. General linear models evaluated sex-by-diagnosis interactions, controlling for age and intracranial volume. RESULTS Whole-brain analysis revealed sex-by-diagnosis interactions in the left supramarginal gyrus (SMG) (P = .02, η2 = 0.02) and right inferior parietal lobule (IPL) volumes (P = .04, η2 = 0.01). Sex differences in HCs were found in the SMG (M > F) and IPL (F > M). In BD, sex differences were reversed and of smaller magnitude in the SMG (M < F) and of greater magnitude in the IPL (F > M), driven by trends towards smaller SMG and IPL in BD vs HC male participants (P = .05 and .14). Whole-brain analyses for cortical thickness, and ROI analyses for volume and cortical thickness, were not significant. CONCLUSIONS Normative sex differences may be disrupted in adolescent BD in the SMG and IPL, heteromodal association network hubs responsible for higher order integration of cognitive and emotional processing. Unexpectedly, these findings may inform our understanding of aberrant brain structure in adolescent BD male patients, rather than female patients. Future work should focus on replication, as well as the impact of puberty status and sex hormones on measures of brain structure and function.
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- Rachel Hb Mitchell
- Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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- Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
- Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
- Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Centre for Youth Bipolar Disorder, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
- Heart and Stroke Foundation Canadian Partnership for Stroke Recovery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Andescavage NN, du Plessis A, McCarter R, Serag A, Evangelou I, Vezina G, Robertson R, Limperopoulos C. Complex Trajectories of Brain Development in the Healthy Human Fetus. Cereb Cortex 2018; 27:5274-5283. [PMID: 27799276 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2016] [Accepted: 09/10/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This study characterizes global and hemispheric brain growth in healthy human fetuses during the second half of pregnancy using three-dimensional MRI techniques. We studied 166 healthy fetuses that underwent MRI between 18 and 39 completed weeks gestation. We created three-dimensional high-resolution reconstructions of the brain and calculated volumes for left and right cortical gray matter (CGM), fetal white matter (FWM), deep subcortical structures (DSS), and the cerebellum. We calculated the rate of growth for each tissue class according to gestational age and described patterns of hemispheric growth. Each brain region demonstrated major increases in volume during the second half of gestation, the most pronounced being the cerebellum (34-fold), followed by FWM (22-fold), CGM (21-fold), and DSS (10-fold). The left cerebellar hemisphere, CGM, and DSS had larger volumes early in gestation, but these equalized by term. It has been increasingly recognized that brain asymmetry evolves throughout the human life span. Advanced quantitative MRI provides noninvasive measurements of early structural asymmetry between the left and right fetal brain that may inform functional and behavioral laterality differences seen in children and young adulthood.
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- Nickie N Andescavage
- Division of Neonatology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC 20010, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20052, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20052, USA.,Division of Fetal and Translational Medicine, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC 20010, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics and Informatics, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC 20010, USA
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- Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC 20010, USA
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- Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC 20010, USA
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- Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC 20010, USA.,Department of Radiology, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20052, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Fetal and Translational Medicine, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC 20010, USA.,Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC 20010, USA.,Department of Radiology, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20052, USA
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Mapping cortical brain asymmetry in 17,141 healthy individuals worldwide via the ENIGMA Consortium. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E5154-E5163. [PMID: 29764998 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1718418115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Hemispheric asymmetry is a cardinal feature of human brain organization. Altered brain asymmetry has also been linked to some cognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, the ENIGMA (Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis) Consortium presents the largest-ever analysis of cerebral cortical asymmetry and its variability across individuals. Cortical thickness and surface area were assessed in MRI scans of 17,141 healthy individuals from 99 datasets worldwide. Results revealed widespread asymmetries at both hemispheric and regional levels, with a generally thicker cortex but smaller surface area in the left hemisphere relative to the right. Regionally, asymmetries of cortical thickness and/or surface area were found in the inferior frontal gyrus, transverse temporal gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, and entorhinal cortex. These regions are involved in lateralized functions, including language and visuospatial processing. In addition to population-level asymmetries, variability in brain asymmetry was related to sex, age, and intracranial volume. Interestingly, we did not find significant associations between asymmetries and handedness. Finally, with two independent pedigree datasets (n = 1,443 and 1,113, respectively), we found several asymmetries showing significant, replicable heritability. The structural asymmetries identified and their variabilities and heritability provide a reference resource for future studies on the genetic basis of brain asymmetry and altered laterality in cognitive, neurological, and psychiatric disorders.
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Schremm A, Novén M, Horne M, Söderström P, van Westen D, Roll M. Cortical thickness of planum temporale and pars opercularis in native language tone processing. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2018; 176:42-47. [PMID: 29223785 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2017.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2017] [Revised: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/01/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The present study investigated the relationship between linguistic tone processing and cortical thickness of bilateral planum temporale (PT) and pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFGpo). Swedish tones on word stems function as cues to upcoming endings. Correlating structural brain imaging data with participants' response time patterns for suffixes, we found that thicker cortex in the left PT was associated with greater reliance on tones to anticipate upcoming inflections on real words. On inflected pseudoword stems, however, the cortical thickness of left IFGpo was associated with tone-suffix processing. Thus cortical thickness of the left PT might play a role in processing tones as part of stored representations for familiar speech segments, most likely when inflected forms are accessed as whole words. In the absence of stored representations, listeners might need to rely on morphosyntactic rules specifying tone-suffix associations, potentially facilitated by greater cortical thickness of left IFGpo.
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- Andrea Schremm
- Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University, Box 201, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
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- Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University, Box 201, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
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- Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University, Box 201, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
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- Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University, Box 201, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Box 201, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
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- Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University, Box 201, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
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Vallesi A, Mazzonetto I, Ambrosini E, Babcock L, Capizzi M, Arbula S, Tarantino V, Semenza C, Bertoldo A. Structural hemispheric asymmetries underlie verbal Stroop performance. Behav Brain Res 2017; 335:167-173. [PMID: 28834738 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.08.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Revised: 07/13/2017] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Performance on tasks involving cognitive control such as the Stroop task is often associated with left lateralized brain activations. Based on this neuro-functional evidence, we tested whether leftward structural grey matter asymmetries would also predict inter-individual differences in combatting Stroop interference. To check for the specificity of the results, both a verbal Stroop task and a spatial one were administered to a total of 111 healthy young individuals, for whom T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images were also acquired. Surface thickness and area estimations were calculated using FreeSurfer. Participants' hemispheres were registered to a symmetric template and Laterality Indices (LI) for the surface thickness and for the area at each vertex in each participant were computed. The correlation of these surface LI measures with the verbal and spatial Stroop effects (incongruent-congruent difference in trial performance) was assessed at each vertex by means of general linear models at the whole-brain level. We found a significant correlation between performance and surface area LI in an inferior posterior temporal cluster (overlapping with the so-called visual word form area, VWFA), with a more left-lateralized area in this region associated with a smaller Stroop effect only in the verbal task. These results point to an involvement of the VWFA for higher-level processes based on word reading, including the suppression of this process when required by the task, and could be interpreted in the context of cross-hemispheric rivalry.
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- Antonino Vallesi
- Department of Neuroscience, 35128, University of Padova, Italy; San Camillo Hospital IRCCS, 30126, Venice, Italy.
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- Department of Neuroscience, 35128, University of Padova, Italy; Department of Information Engineering, 35128, University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 17177, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience, 35128, University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, 35128, University of Padova, Italy; San Camillo Hospital IRCCS, 30126, Venice, Italy
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Felton A, Vazquez D, Ramos-Nunez AI, Greene MR, McDowell A, Hernandez AE, Chiarello C. Bilingualism Influences Structural Indices of Interhemispheric Organization. JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS 2017; 42:1-11. [PMID: 28579694 PMCID: PMC5450970 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Bilingualism represents an interesting model of possible experience-dependent alterations in brain structure. The current study examines whether interhemispheric adaptations in brain structure are associated with bilingualism. Corpus callosum volume and cortical thickness asymmetry across 13 regions of interest (selected to include critical language and bilingual cognitive control areas) were measured in a sample of Spanish-English bilinguals and age- and gender-matched monolingual individuals (N = 39 per group). Cortical thickness asymmetry of the anterior cingulate region differed across groups, with thicker right than left cortex for bilinguals and the reverse for monolinguals. In addition, two adjacent regions of the corpus callosum (mid-anterior and central) had greater volume in bilinguals. The findings suggest that structural indices of interhemispheric organization in a critical cognitive control region are sensitive to variations in language experience.
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- Adam Felton
- University of California, Riverside, 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA, USA 92521
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- University of California, Riverside, 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA, USA 92521
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- University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun Rd., Houston, TX, USA 77004
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- University of California, Riverside, 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA, USA 92521
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- University of California, Riverside, 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA, USA 92521
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Maingault S, Tzourio-Mazoyer N, Mazoyer B, Crivello F. Regional correlations between cortical thickness and surface area asymmetries: A surface-based morphometry study of 250 adults. Neuropsychologia 2016; 93:350-364. [PMID: 27020136 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2015] [Revised: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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We report on the patterns of asymmetries of various MRI-derived cortical phenotypes, namely cortical thickness (CT), cortical surface area (CSA), cortical volume (CV) and sulcal depth (SULC), as well as on their cross-relationships. A surface-based approach was designed to obtain cortical asymmetry maps unbiased for inter-hemispheric structural positional misalignment. Accurate vertex-wise asymmetries of CT, CSA, CV, and SULC were so obtained in 250 individuals including 120 left-handers that had been selected from a larger population as having a typical leftward language lateralization. We found no significant effect of handedness on CT, CSA or CV asymmetries, although a trend for a significant difference in the SULC asymmetry of the Rolandic genu was present (leftward in right-handers, rightward in left-handers). At the hemispheric level, we found rightward CT and CSA asymmetries that were not correlated. At the regional level, asymmetry patterns of CT and CSA were marked by a spatial overlap of both concordant and opposite CT and CSA asymmetries. Half of these regions of overlap presented a significant association (positive or negative) between CT and CSA asymmetries. Strikingly, the 3 regions showing positive correlations between CT and CSA asymmetries were those known to exhibit robust asymmetries across methodologies, such as the leftward asymmetrical planum temporale and the rightward asymmetrical superior temporal sulcus and cingulate cortex. This study demonstrates that regional correlations between CT and CSA asymmetries are a characteristic of brain structural organization that could be of significance in the choice of structural markers in studies dealing with the genetic basis of brain lateralization.
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- Sophie Maingault
- Université de Bordeaux, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France; CEA, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France; CEA, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France; CEA, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France
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- Université de Bordeaux, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France; CEA, GIN, IMN UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France.
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