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Sihvonen AJ, Pitkäniemi A, Siponkoski ST, Kuusela L, Martínez-Molina N, Laitinen S, Särkämö ER, Pekkola J, Melkas S, Schlaug G, Sairanen V, Särkämö T. Structural Neuroplasticity Effects of Singing in Chronic Aphasia. eNeuro 2024; 11:ENEURO.0408-23.2024. [PMID: 38688718 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0408-23.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Revised: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024] Open
Abstract
Singing-based treatments of aphasia can improve language outcomes, but the neural benefits of group-based singing in aphasia are unknown. Here, we set out to determine the structural neuroplasticity changes underpinning group-based singing-induced treatment effects in chronic aphasia. Twenty-eight patients with at least mild nonfluent poststroke aphasia were randomized into two groups that received a 4-month multicomponent singing intervention (singing group) or standard care (control group). High-resolution T1 images and multishell diffusion-weighted MRI data were collected in two time points (baseline/5 months). Structural gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) neuroplasticity changes were assessed using language network region of interest-based voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and quantitative anisotropy-based connectometry, and their associations to improved language outcomes (Western Aphasia Battery Naming and Repetition) were evaluated. Connectometry analyses showed that the singing group enhanced structural WM connectivity in the left arcuate fasciculus (AF) and corpus callosum as well as in the frontal aslant tract (FAT), superior longitudinal fasciculus, and corticostriatal tract bilaterally compared with the control group. Moreover, in VBM, the singing group showed GM volume increase in the left inferior frontal cortex (Brodmann area 44) compared with the control group. The neuroplasticity effects in the left BA44, AF, and FAT correlated with improved naming abilities after the intervention. These findings suggest that in the poststroke aphasia group, singing can bring about structural neuroplasticity changes in left frontal language areas and in bilateral language pathways, which underpin treatment-induced improvement in speech production.
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- Aleksi J Sihvonen
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit and Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
- School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Queensland Aphasia Research Centre and UQ Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
- Department of Neurology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki 00029, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit and Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit and Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- HUS Helsinki Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki 00029, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit and Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- HUS Helsinki Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki 00029, Finland
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- Department of Neurology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki 00029, Finland
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- Department of Neurology, UMass Medical School, Springfield, Massachusetts 01655
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute of Applied Life Sciences, UMass Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01655
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- HUS Helsinki Medical Imaging Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki 00029, Finland
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit and Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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Mackay MT, Chen J, Shapiro J, Pastore-Wapp M, Slavova N, Grunt S, Stojanovski B, Steinlin M, Beare RJ, Yang JYM. Association of Acute Infarct Topography With Development of Cerebral Palsy and Neurologic Impairment in Neonates With Stroke. Neurology 2023; 101:e1509-e1520. [PMID: 37591776 PMCID: PMC10585702 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000207705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Research investigating neonatal arterial ischemic stroke (NAIS) outcomes have shown that combined cortical and basal ganglia infarction or involvement of the corticospinal tract predict cerebral palsy (CP). The research question was whether voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) on acute MRI can identify brain regions associated with CP and neurodevelopmental impairments in NAIS. METHODS Newborns were recruited from prospective Australian and Swiss pediatric stroke registries. CP diagnosis was based on clinical examination. Language and cognitive-behavioral impairments were assessed using the Pediatric Stroke Outcome Measure, dichotomized to good (0-0.5) or poor (≥1), at ≥18 months of age. Infarcts were manually segmented using diffusion-weighted imaging, registered to a neonatal-specific brain template. VLSM was conducted using MATLAB SPM12 toolbox. A general linear model was used to correlate lesion masks with motor, language, and cognitive-behavioral outcomes. Voxel-wise t-statistics were calculated, correcting for multiple comparisons using family-wise error (FWE) rate. RESULTS Eighty-five newborns met the inclusion criteria. Infarct lateralization was left hemisphere (62%), right (8%), and bilateral (30%). At a median age of 2.1 years (interquartile range 1.9-2.6), 33% developed CP and 42% had neurologic impairments. Fifty-four grey and white matter regions correlated with CP (t > 4.33; FWE < 0.05), including primary motor pathway regions, such as the precentral gyrus, and cerebral peduncle, and regions functionally connected to the primary motor pathway, such as the pallidum, and corpus callosum motor segment. No significant correlations were found for language or cognitive-behavioral outcomes. DISCUSSION CP after NAIS correlates with infarct regions directly involved in motor control and in functionally connected regions. Areas associated with language or cognitive-behavioral impairment are less clear.
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- Mark T Mackay
- From the Department of Neurology (M.T.M., B.S.), Royal Children's Hospital; Neuroscience Research (M.T.M., J.S., B.S., J.Y.-M.Y.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health (M.T.M.); Department of Paediatrics (M.T.M., J.Y.-M.Y.), University of Melbourne; Developmental Imaging (J.C., R.J.B., J.Y.-M.Y.); Brain and Mind (J.S.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) (M.P.-W., N.S.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital; Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation (S.G., M.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Peninsula Clinical School and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (R.J.B.), Monash University; Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS) (J.Y.-M.Y.), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation (M.P.-W.), University of Bern, Switzerland.
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- From the Department of Neurology (M.T.M., B.S.), Royal Children's Hospital; Neuroscience Research (M.T.M., J.S., B.S., J.Y.-M.Y.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health (M.T.M.); Department of Paediatrics (M.T.M., J.Y.-M.Y.), University of Melbourne; Developmental Imaging (J.C., R.J.B., J.Y.-M.Y.); Brain and Mind (J.S.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) (M.P.-W., N.S.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital; Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation (S.G., M.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Peninsula Clinical School and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (R.J.B.), Monash University; Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS) (J.Y.-M.Y.), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation (M.P.-W.), University of Bern, Switzerland
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- From the Department of Neurology (M.T.M., B.S.), Royal Children's Hospital; Neuroscience Research (M.T.M., J.S., B.S., J.Y.-M.Y.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health (M.T.M.); Department of Paediatrics (M.T.M., J.Y.-M.Y.), University of Melbourne; Developmental Imaging (J.C., R.J.B., J.Y.-M.Y.); Brain and Mind (J.S.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) (M.P.-W., N.S.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital; Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation (S.G., M.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Peninsula Clinical School and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (R.J.B.), Monash University; Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS) (J.Y.-M.Y.), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation (M.P.-W.), University of Bern, Switzerland
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- From the Department of Neurology (M.T.M., B.S.), Royal Children's Hospital; Neuroscience Research (M.T.M., J.S., B.S., J.Y.-M.Y.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health (M.T.M.); Department of Paediatrics (M.T.M., J.Y.-M.Y.), University of Melbourne; Developmental Imaging (J.C., R.J.B., J.Y.-M.Y.); Brain and Mind (J.S.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) (M.P.-W., N.S.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital; Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation (S.G., M.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Peninsula Clinical School and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (R.J.B.), Monash University; Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS) (J.Y.-M.Y.), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation (M.P.-W.), University of Bern, Switzerland
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- From the Department of Neurology (M.T.M., B.S.), Royal Children's Hospital; Neuroscience Research (M.T.M., J.S., B.S., J.Y.-M.Y.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health (M.T.M.); Department of Paediatrics (M.T.M., J.Y.-M.Y.), University of Melbourne; Developmental Imaging (J.C., R.J.B., J.Y.-M.Y.); Brain and Mind (J.S.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) (M.P.-W., N.S.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital; Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation (S.G., M.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Peninsula Clinical School and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (R.J.B.), Monash University; Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS) (J.Y.-M.Y.), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation (M.P.-W.), University of Bern, Switzerland
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- From the Department of Neurology (M.T.M., B.S.), Royal Children's Hospital; Neuroscience Research (M.T.M., J.S., B.S., J.Y.-M.Y.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health (M.T.M.); Department of Paediatrics (M.T.M., J.Y.-M.Y.), University of Melbourne; Developmental Imaging (J.C., R.J.B., J.Y.-M.Y.); Brain and Mind (J.S.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) (M.P.-W., N.S.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital; Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation (S.G., M.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Peninsula Clinical School and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (R.J.B.), Monash University; Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS) (J.Y.-M.Y.), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation (M.P.-W.), University of Bern, Switzerland
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- From the Department of Neurology (M.T.M., B.S.), Royal Children's Hospital; Neuroscience Research (M.T.M., J.S., B.S., J.Y.-M.Y.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health (M.T.M.); Department of Paediatrics (M.T.M., J.Y.-M.Y.), University of Melbourne; Developmental Imaging (J.C., R.J.B., J.Y.-M.Y.); Brain and Mind (J.S.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) (M.P.-W., N.S.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital; Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation (S.G., M.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Peninsula Clinical School and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (R.J.B.), Monash University; Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS) (J.Y.-M.Y.), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation (M.P.-W.), University of Bern, Switzerland
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- From the Department of Neurology (M.T.M., B.S.), Royal Children's Hospital; Neuroscience Research (M.T.M., J.S., B.S., J.Y.-M.Y.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health (M.T.M.); Department of Paediatrics (M.T.M., J.Y.-M.Y.), University of Melbourne; Developmental Imaging (J.C., R.J.B., J.Y.-M.Y.); Brain and Mind (J.S.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) (M.P.-W., N.S.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital; Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation (S.G., M.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Peninsula Clinical School and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (R.J.B.), Monash University; Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS) (J.Y.-M.Y.), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation (M.P.-W.), University of Bern, Switzerland
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- From the Department of Neurology (M.T.M., B.S.), Royal Children's Hospital; Neuroscience Research (M.T.M., J.S., B.S., J.Y.-M.Y.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health (M.T.M.); Department of Paediatrics (M.T.M., J.Y.-M.Y.), University of Melbourne; Developmental Imaging (J.C., R.J.B., J.Y.-M.Y.); Brain and Mind (J.S.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) (M.P.-W., N.S.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital; Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation (S.G., M.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Peninsula Clinical School and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (R.J.B.), Monash University; Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS) (J.Y.-M.Y.), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation (M.P.-W.), University of Bern, Switzerland
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- From the Department of Neurology (M.T.M., B.S.), Royal Children's Hospital; Neuroscience Research (M.T.M., J.S., B.S., J.Y.-M.Y.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Florey Institute of Neurosciences and Mental Health (M.T.M.); Department of Paediatrics (M.T.M., J.Y.-M.Y.), University of Melbourne; Developmental Imaging (J.C., R.J.B., J.Y.-M.Y.); Brain and Mind (J.S.), Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia; Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN) (M.P.-W., N.S.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital; Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation (S.G., M.S.), Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland; Peninsula Clinical School and National Centre for Healthy Ageing (R.J.B.), Monash University; Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS) (J.Y.-M.Y.), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation (M.P.-W.), University of Bern, Switzerland
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Piai V, Eikelboom D. Brain Areas Critical for Picture Naming: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Lesion-Symptom Mapping Studies. NEUROBIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE (CAMBRIDGE, MASS.) 2023; 4:280-296. [PMID: 37229507 PMCID: PMC10205157 DOI: 10.1162/nol_a_00097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
Lesion-symptom mapping (LSM) studies have revealed brain areas critical for naming, typically finding significant associations between damage to left temporal, inferior parietal, and inferior fontal regions and impoverished naming performance. However, specific subregions found in the available literature vary. Hence, the aim of this study was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of published lesion-based findings, obtained from studies with unique cohorts investigating brain areas critical for accuracy in naming in stroke patients at least 1 month post-onset. An anatomic likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis of these LSM studies was performed. Ten papers entered the ALE meta-analysis, with similar lesion coverage over left temporal and left inferior frontal areas. This small number is a major limitation of the present study. Clusters were found in left anterior temporal lobe, posterior temporal lobe extending into inferior parietal areas, in line with the arcuate fasciculus, and in pre- and postcentral gyri and middle frontal gyrus. No clusters were found in left inferior frontal gyrus. These results were further substantiated by examining five naming studies that investigated performance beyond global accuracy, corroborating the ALE meta-analysis results. The present review and meta-analysis highlight the involvement of left temporal and inferior parietal cortices in naming, and of mid to posterior portions of the temporal lobe in particular in conceptual-lexical retrieval for speaking.
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- Vitória Piai
- Radboud University, Donders Centre for Cognition, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Radboudumc, Donders Centre for Medical Neuroscience, Department of Medical Psychology, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Busby N, Hillis AE, Bunker L, Rorden C, Newman-Norlund R, Bonilha L, Meier E, Goldberg E, Hickok G, Yourganov G, Fridriksson J. Comparing the brain-behaviour relationship in acute and chronic stroke aphasia. Brain Commun 2023; 5:fcad014. [PMID: 37056476 PMCID: PMC10088484 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Revised: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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In stroke aphasia, lesion volume is typically associated with aphasia severity. Although this relationship is likely present throughout recovery, different factors may affect lesion volume and behaviour early into recovery (acute) and in the later stages of recovery (chronic). Therefore, studies typically separate patients into two groups (acute/chronic), and this is often accompanied with arguments for and against using data from acute stroke patients over chronic. However, no comprehensive studies have provided strong evidence of whether the lesion-behaviour relationship early in recovery is comparable to later in the recovery trajectory. To that end, we investigated two aims: (i) whether lesion data from acute and chronic patients yield similar results in region-based lesion-symptom mapping analyses and (ii) if models based on one timepoint accurately predict the other. Lesions and aphasia severity scores from acute (N = 63) and chronic (N = 109) stroke survivors with aphasia were entered into separate univariate region-based lesion-symptom mapping analyses. A support vector regression model was trained on lesion data from either the acute or chronic data set to give an estimate of aphasia severity. Four model-based analyses were conducted: trained on acute/chronic using leave-one-out, tested on left-out behaviour or trained on acute/chronic to predict the other timepoint. Region-based lesion-symptom mapping analyses identified similar but not identical regions in both timepoints. All four models revealed positive correlations between actual and predicted Western Aphasia Battery-Revised aphasia-quotient scores. Lesion-to-behaviour predictions were almost equivalent when comparing within versus across stroke stage, despite differing lesion size/locations and distributions of aphasia severity between stroke timepoints. This suggests that research investigating the brain-behaviour relationship including subsets of patients from only one timepoint may also be applicable at other timepoints, although it is important to note that these comparable findings may only be seen using broad measures such as aphasia severity, rather than those aimed at identifying more specific deficits. Subtle differences found between timepoints may also be useful in understanding the nature of lesion volume and aphasia severity over time. Stronger correlations found when predicting acute behaviour (e.g. predicting acute: r = 0.6888, P < 0.001, predicting chronic r = 0.5014, P < 0.001) suggest that the acute lesion/perfusion patterns more accurately capture the critical changes in underlying vascular territories. Differences in critical brain regions between timepoints may shed light on recovery patterns. Future studies could focus on a longitudinal design to compare acute and chronic patients in a more controlled manner.
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- Natalie Busby
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29209, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MA 21287, USA
- Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA 21218, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA 21287, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MA 21287, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29209, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MA 21287, USA
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MA 21287, USA
- Department of Communication Disorders, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Department of Language Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Advanced Computing and Data Science, Cyberinfrastructure and Technology Integration, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29209, USA
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Keator LM, Yourganov G, Basilakos A, Hillis AE, Hickok G, Bonilha L, Rorden C, Fridriksson J. Independent contributions of structural and functional connectivity: Evidence from a stroke model. Netw Neurosci 2022; 5:911-928. [PMID: 35024536 PMCID: PMC8746188 DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Altered functional connectivity is related to severity of language impairment in poststroke aphasia. However, it is not clear whether this finding specifically reflects loss of functional coherence, or more generally, is related to decreased structural connectivity due to cortical necrosis. The aim of the current study was to investigate this issue by factoring out structural connectivity from functional connectivity measures and then relating the residual data to language performance poststroke. Ninety-seven participants with a history of stroke were assessed using language impairment measures (Auditory Verbal Comprehension and Spontaneous Speech scores from the Western Aphasia Battery–Revised) and MRI (structural, diffusion tensor imaging, and resting-state functional connectivity). We analyzed the association between functional connectivity and language and controlled for multiple potential neuroanatomical confounders, namely structural connectivity. We identified functional connections within the left hemisphere ventral stream where decreased functional connectivity, independent of structural connectivity, was associated with speech comprehension impairment. These connections exist in frontotemporal and temporoparietal regions. Our results suggest poor speech comprehension in aphasia is at least partially caused by loss of cortical synchrony in a left hemisphere ventral stream network and is not only reflective of localized necrosis or structural connectivity.
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- Lynsey M Keator
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Sciences, Department of Language Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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Rounis E, Halai A, Pizzamiglio G, Lambon Ralph MA. Characterising factors underlying praxis deficits in chronic left hemisphere stroke patients. Cortex 2021; 142:154-168. [PMID: 34271260 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Limb apraxia, a disorder of skilled action not consequent on primary motor or sensory deficits, has traditionally been defined according to errors patients make on neuropsychological tasks. Previous models of the disorder have failed to provide a unified account of patients' deficits, due to heterogeneity in the patients and tasks used. In this study we hypothesised that we may be able to map apraxic deficits onto principal components, some of which may be specific, whilst others may align with other cognitive disorders. We implemented principal component analysis (PCA) to elucidate core factors of the disorder in a preliminary cohort of 41 unselected left hemisphere chronic stroke patients who were tested on a comprehensive and validated apraxia screen. Three principal components were identified: posture selection, semantic control and multi-demand sequencing. These were submitted to a lesion symptom mapping (VBCM) analysis in a subset of 24 patients, controlled for lesion volume, age and time post-stroke. The first component revealed no significant structural correlates. The second component was related to regions in inferior frontal gyrus, primary motor area, and adjacent parietal opercular (including inferior parietal and supramarginal gyrus) areas. The third component was associated with lesions within the white matter underlying the left sensorimotor cortex, likely involving the 2nd branch of the left superior longitudinal fasciculus as well as the posterior orbitofrontal cortex (pOFC). These results highlight a significant role of common cognitive functions in apraxia, which include action selection, and sequencing, whilst more specific deficits may relate to semantic control. Moreover, they suggest that previously described 'ideomotor' and 'ideational' deficits may have a common neural basis within semantic control. Further research using this technique would help elucidate the cognitive processes underlying limb apraxia, its neural correlates and their relationship with other cognitive disorders.
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- Elisabeth Rounis
- Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth, UK; Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Zhang N, Yuan B, Yan J, Cheng J, Lu J, Wu J. Multivariate machine learning-based language mapping in glioma patients based on lesion topography. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 15:2552-2562. [PMID: 33619646 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-021-00457-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2019] [Revised: 12/11/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Diffusive and progressive tumor infiltration within language-related areas of the brain induces functional reorganization. However, the macrostructural basis of subsequent language deficits is less clear. To address this issue, lesion topography data from 137 preoperative patients with left cerebral language-network gliomas (81 low-grade gliomas and 56 high-grade gliomas), were adopted for multivariate machine-learning-based lesion-language mapping analysis. We found that tumor location in the left posterior middle temporal gyrus-a bottleneck where both dorsal and ventral language pathways travel-predicted deficits of spontaneous speech (cluster size = 1356 mm3, false discovery rate corrected P < 0.05) and naming scores (cluster size = 1491 mm3, false discovery rate corrected P < 0.05) in the high-grade glioma group. In contrast, no significant lesion-language mapping results were observed in the low-grade glioma group, suggesting a large functional reorganization. These findings suggest that in patients with gliomas, the macrostructural plasticity mechanisms that modulate brain-behavior relationships depend on glioma grade.
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- Nan Zhang
- Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, Hefei, China.,Glioma Surgery Division, Neurologic Surgery Department, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute for Brain Research and Rehabilitation, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.,Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China.,Center for Language and Brain, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of MRI , The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University , Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of MRI , The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University , Zhengzhou, China
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- Glioma Surgery Division, Neurologic Surgery Department, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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- Glioma Surgery Division, Neurologic Surgery Department, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Institute of Brain-Intelligence Technology , Zhangjiang Lab, Shanghai, China
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Kherif F, Muller S. Neuro-Clinical Signatures of Language Impairments: A Theoretical Framework for Function-to-structure Mapping in Clinics. Curr Top Med Chem 2021; 20:800-811. [PMID: 32116193 DOI: 10.2174/1568026620666200302111130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Revised: 11/10/2019] [Accepted: 01/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In the past decades, neuroscientists and clinicians have collected a considerable amount of data and drastically increased our knowledge about the mapping of language in the brain. The emerging picture from the accumulated knowledge is that there are complex and combinatorial relationships between language functions and anatomical brain regions. Understanding the underlying principles of this complex mapping is of paramount importance for the identification of the brain signature of language and Neuro-Clinical signatures that explain language impairments and predict language recovery after stroke. We review recent attempts to addresses this question of language-brain mapping. We introduce the different concepts of mapping (from diffeomorphic one-to-one mapping to many-to-many mapping). We build those different forms of mapping to derive a theoretical framework where the current principles of brain architectures including redundancy, degeneracy, pluri-potentiality and bow-tie network are described.
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- Ferath Kherif
- Laboratory for Research in Neuroimaging, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- 1Laboratory for Research in Neuroimaging, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Alyahya RSW, Halai AD, Conroy P, Lambon Ralph MA. A unified model of post-stroke language deficits including discourse production and their neural correlates. Brain 2020; 143:1541-1554. [PMID: 32330940 PMCID: PMC7241958 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awaa074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Revised: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 02/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The clinical profiles of individuals with post-stroke aphasia demonstrate considerable variation in the presentation of symptoms. Recent aphasiological studies have attempted to account for this individual variability using a multivariate data-driven approach (principal component analysis) on an extensive neuropsychological and aphasiological battery, to identify fundamental domains of post-stroke aphasia. These domains mainly reflect phonology, semantics and fluency; however, these studies did not account for variability in response to different forms of connected speech, i.e. discourse genres. In the current study, we initially examined differences in the quantity, diversity and informativeness between three different discourse genres, including a simple descriptive genre and two naturalistic forms of connected speech (storytelling narrative, and procedural discourse). Subsequently, we provided the first quantitative investigation on the multidimensionality of connected speech production at both behavioural and neural levels. Connected speech samples across descriptive, narrative, and procedural discourse genres were collected from 46 patients with chronic post-stroke aphasia and 20 neurotypical adults. Content analyses conducted on all connected speech samples indicated that performance differed across discourse genres and between groups. Specifically, storytelling narratives provided higher quantities of content words and lexical diversity compared to composite picture description and procedural discourse. The analyses further revealed that, relative to neurotypical adults, patients with aphasia, both fluent and non-fluent, showed reduction in the quantity of verbal production, lexical diversity, and informativeness across all discourses. Given the differences across the discourses, we submitted the connected speech metrics to principal component analysis alongside an extensive neuropsychological/aphasiological battery that assesses a wide range of language and cognitive skills. In contrast to previous research, three unique orthogonal connected speech components were extracted in a unified model, reflecting verbal quantity, verbal quality, and motor speech, alongside four core language and cognitive components: phonological production, semantic processing, phonological recognition, and executive functions. Voxel-wise lesion-symptom mapping using these components provided evidence on the involvement of widespread cortical regions and their white matter connections. Specifically, left frontal regions and their underlying white matter tracts corresponding to the frontal aslant tract and the anterior segment of the arcuate fasciculus were particularly engaged with the quantity and quality of fluent connected speech production while controlling for other co-factors. The neural correlates associated with the other language domains align with existing models on the ventral and dorsal pathways for language processing.
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- Reem S W Alyahya
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.,King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Multivariate Lesion-Behavior Mapping of General Cognitive Ability and Its Psychometric Constituents. J Neurosci 2020; 40:8924-8937. [PMID: 33046547 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1415-20.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2020] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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General cognitive ability, or general intelligence (g), is central to cognitive science, yet the processes that constitute it remain unknown, in good part because most prior work has relied on correlational methods. Large-scale behavioral and neuroanatomical data from neurologic patients with focal brain lesions can be leveraged to advance our understanding of the key mechanisms of g, as this approach allows inference on the independence of cognitive processes along with elucidation of their respective neuroanatomical substrates. We analyzed behavioral and neuroanatomical data from 402 humans (212 males; 190 females) with chronic, focal brain lesions. Structural equation models (SEMs) demonstrated a psychometric isomorphism between g and working memory in our sample (which we refer to as g/Gwm), but not between g and other cognitive abilities. Multivariate lesion-behavior mapping analyses indicated that g and working memory localize most critically to a site of converging white matter tracts deep to the left temporo-parietal junction. Tractography analyses demonstrated that the regions in the lesion-behavior map of g/Gwm were primarily associated with the arcuate fasciculus. The anatomic findings were validated in an independent cohort of acute stroke patients (n = 101) using model-based predictions of cognitive deficits generated from the Iowa cohort lesion-behavior maps. The neuroanatomical localization of g/Gwm provided the strongest prediction of observed g in the new cohort (r = 0.42, p < 0.001), supporting the anatomic specificity of our findings. These results provide converging behavioral and anatomic evidence that working memory is a key mechanism contributing to domain-general cognition.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT General cognitive ability (g) is thought to play an important role in individual differences in adaptive behavior, yet its core processes remain unknown, in large part because of difficulties in making causal inferences from correlated data. Using data from patients with focal brain damage, we demonstrate that there is a strong psychometric correspondence between g and working memory - the ability to maintain and control mental information, and that the critical neuroanatomical substrates of g and working memory include the arcuate fasciculus. This work provides converging behavioral and neuroanatomical evidence that working memory is a key mechanism contributing to domain-general cognition.
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Explicit and implicit monitoring in neurodegeneration and stroke. Sci Rep 2019; 9:14032. [PMID: 31575976 PMCID: PMC6773765 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50599-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2019] [Accepted: 09/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Monitoring is a complex multidimensional neurocognitive phenomenon. Patients with fronto-insular stroke (FIS), behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) show a lack of self-awareness, insight, and self-monitoring, which translate into anosognosia and daily behavioural impairments. Notably, they also present damage in key monitoring areas. While neuroscientific research on this domain has accrued in recent years, no previous study has compared monitoring performance across these brain diseases and none has applied a multiple lesion model approach combined with neuroimaging analysis. Here, we evaluated explicit and implicit monitoring in patients with focal stoke (FIS) and two types of dementia (bvFTD and AD) presenting damage in key monitoring areas. Participants performed a visual perception task and provided two types of report: confidence (explicit judgment of trust about their performance) and wagering (implicit reports which consisted in betting on their accuracy in the perceptual task). Then, damaged areas were analyzed via structural MRI to identify associations with potential behavioral deficits. In AD, inadequate confidence judgments were accompanied by poor wagering performance, demonstrating explicit and implicit monitoring impairments. By contrast, disorders of implicit monitoring in FIS and bvFTD patients occurred in the context of accurate confidence reports, suggesting a reduced ability to turn self-knowledge into appropriate wagering conducts. MRI analysis showed that ventromedial compromise was related to overconfidence, whereas fronto-temporo-insular damage was associated with excessive wagering. Therefore, joint assessment of explicit and implicit monitoring could favor a better differentiation of neurological profiles (frontal damage vs AD) and eventually contribute to delineating clinical interventions.
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Sihvonen AJ, Särkämö T, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Ripollés P, Münte TF, Soinila S. Neural architectures of music - Insights from acquired amusia. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2019; 107:104-114. [PMID: 31479663 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.08.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Revised: 08/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The ability to perceive and produce music is a quintessential element of human life, present in all known cultures. Modern functional neuroimaging has revealed that music listening activates a large-scale bilateral network of cortical and subcortical regions in the healthy brain. Even the most accurate structural studies do not reveal which brain areas are critical and causally linked to music processing. Such questions may be answered by analysing the effects of focal brain lesions in patients´ ability to perceive music. In this sense, acquired amusia after stroke provides a unique opportunity to investigate the neural architectures crucial for normal music processing. Based on the first large-scale longitudinal studies on stroke-induced amusia using modern multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, such as advanced lesion-symptom mapping, grey and white matter morphometry, tractography and functional connectivity, we discuss neural structures critical for music processing, consider music processing in light of the dual-stream model in the right hemisphere, and propose a neural model for acquired amusia.
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- Aleksi J Sihvonen
- Department of Neurosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Cognition, University of Barcelona, Cognition & Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Institució Catalana de recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, New York University and Music and Audio Research Laboratory, New York University, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Psychology II, University of Lübeck, Germany
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- Division of Clinical Neurosciences, Turku University Hospital, Department of Neurology, University of Turku, Finland
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Al Harrach M, Rousseau F, Groeschel S, Wang X, Hertz-Pannier L, Chabrier S, Bohi A, Lefevre J, Dinomais M. Alterations in Cortical Morphology after Neonatal Stroke: Compensation in the Contralesional Hemisphere? Dev Neurobiol 2019; 79:303-316. [PMID: 31004467 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2018] [Revised: 02/28/2019] [Accepted: 04/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
Abstract
Although neonatal arterial ischemic stroke is now well-studied, its complex consequences on long-term cortical brain development has not yet been solved. In order to understand the brain development after focal early brain lesion, brain morphometry needs to be evaluated using structural parameters. In this work, our aim was to study and analyze the changes in morphometry of ipsi- and contralesional hemispheres in seven-year-old children following neonatal stroke. Therefore, we used surface-based morphometry in order to examine the cortical thickness, surface area, cortical volume, and local gyrification index in two groups of children that suffered from neonatal stroke in the left (n = 19) and right hemispheres (n = 15) and a group of healthy controls (n = 30). Reduced cortical thickness, surface area, and cortical volumes were observed in the ipsilesional hemispheres for both groups in comparison with controls. For the group with left-sided lesions, higher gyrification of the contralesional hemisphere was observed primarily in the occipital region along with higher surface area and cortical volume. As for the group with right-sided lesions, higher gyrification was detected in two separate clusters also in the occipital lobe of the contralesional hemisphere, without a significant change in cortical thickness, surface area, or cortical volume. This is the first time that alterations of structural parameters are detected in the "healthy" hemisphere after unilateral neonatal stroke indicative of a compensatory phenomenon. Moreover, findings presented in this work suggest that lesion lateralization might have an influence on brain development and maturation.
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- Mariam Al Harrach
- Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes (LARIS) EA7315, Université d'Angers, Angers, 49000, France
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- Experimental Paediatric Neuroimaging, Department of Child Neurology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- IMT Atlantique, INSERM U1101 LaTIM, UBL, Brest, 29200, France
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- UNIACT, Neurospin, I2BM, DSV, CEA-Saclay, and Inserm U1129 Paris, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEA, Gif sur Yvette, F-91191, France
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- INSERM, UMR1059 Sainbiose, Univ Saint-Étienne, Univ Lyon, Saint-Étienne, F-42023, France.,CHU Saint-Étienne, French Centre for Paediatric Stroke, Paediatric Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Department, INSERM, CIC 1408, Saint-Étienne, F-42055, France
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- Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone UMR 7289, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, 13385, France
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- Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone UMR 7289, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, 13385, France
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- Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes (LARIS) EA7315, Université d'Angers, Angers, 49000, France.,Département de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptions and LUNAM, CHU Angers, Angers, France
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Ramirez-Garcia G, Harrison KA, Fernandez-Ruiz J, Nashed JY, Cook DJ. Stroke Longitudinal Volumetric Measures Correlate with the Behavioral Score in Non-Human Primates. Neuroscience 2018; 397:41-55. [PMID: 30481566 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.11.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Revised: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide. Brain imaging data from experimental rodent stroke models suggest that size and location of the ischemic lesion relate to behavioral outcome. However, such a relationship between these two variables has not been established in Non-Human Primate (NHP) models. Thus, we aimed to evaluate whether size, location, and severity of stroke following controlled Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion (MCAO) in NHP model correlated to neurological outcome. Forty cynomolgus macaques underwent MCAO, after four mortalities, thirty-six subjects were followed up during the longitudinal study. Structural T2 scans were obtained by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to, 48 h, and 30 days post-MCAO. Neurological function was assessed with the Non-human Primate Stroke Scale (NHPSS). T2 whole lesion volume was calculated per subject. At chronic stages, remaining brain volume was computed, and the affected hemisphere parceled into 50 regions of interest (ROIs). Whole and parceled volumetric measures were analyzed in relation to the NHPSS score. The longitudinal lesion volume evaluation showed a positive correlation with the NHPSS score, whereas the remaining brain volume negatively correlated with the NHPSS. Following ROI parcellation, NHPSS outcome correlated with frontal, temporal, occipital, and middle white matter, as well as the internal capsule, and the superior temporal and middle temporal gyri, and the caudate nucleus. These results represent an important step in stroke translational research by demonstrating close similarities between the NHP stroke model and the clinical characteristics following a human stroke and illustrating significant areas that could represent targets for novel neuroprotective strategies.
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- Gabriel Ramirez-Garcia
- Unidad Periférica de Neurociencias, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México en Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía "Manuel Velasco Suarez", Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Centre for Neuroscience studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
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- Centre for Neuroscience studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada; Translational Stroke Research Lab, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
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DeMarco AT, Turkeltaub PE. A multivariate lesion symptom mapping toolbox and examination of lesion-volume biases and correction methods in lesion-symptom mapping. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:4169-4182. [PMID: 29972618 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Revised: 05/17/2018] [Accepted: 06/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Lesion-symptom mapping has become a cornerstone of neuroscience research seeking to localize cognitive function in the brain by examining the sequelae of brain lesions. Recently, multivariate lesion-symptom mapping methods have emerged, such as support vector regression, which simultaneously consider many voxels at once when determining whether damaged regions contribute to behavioral deficits (Zhang, Kimberg, Coslett, Schwartz, & Wang, ). Such multivariate approaches are capable of identifying complex dependences that traditional mass-univariate approach cannot. Here, we provide a new toolbox for support vector regression lesion-symptom mapping (SVR-LSM) that provides a graphical interface and enhances the flexibility and rigor of analyses that can be conducted using this method. Specifically, the toolbox provides cluster-level family-wise error correction via permutation testing, the capacity to incorporate arbitrary nuisance models for behavioral data and lesion data and makes available a range of lesion volume correction methods including a new approach that regresses lesion volume out of each voxel in the lesion maps. We demonstrate these new tools in a cohort of chronic left-hemisphere stroke survivors and examine the difference between results achieved with various lesion volume control methods. A strong bias was found toward brain wide lesion-deficit associations in both SVR-LSM and traditional mass-univariate voxel-based lesion symptom mapping when lesion volume was not adequately controlled. This bias was corrected using three different regression approaches; among these, regressing lesion volume out of both the behavioral score and the lesion maps provided the greatest sensitivity in analyses.
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- Andrew T DeMarco
- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia
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- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia.,Research Division, MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia
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Bonilha L, Hillis AE, Hickok G, den Ouden DB, Rorden C, Fridriksson J. Temporal lobe networks supporting the comprehension of spoken words. Brain 2017; 140:2370-2380. [PMID: 29050387 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awx169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2016] [Accepted: 05/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Auditory word comprehension is a cognitive process that involves the transformation of auditory signals into abstract concepts. Traditional lesion-based studies of stroke survivors with aphasia have suggested that neocortical regions adjacent to auditory cortex are primarily responsible for word comprehension. However, recent primary progressive aphasia and normal neurophysiological studies have challenged this concept, suggesting that the left temporal pole is crucial for word comprehension. Due to its vasculature, the temporal pole is not commonly completely lesioned in stroke survivors and this heterogeneity may have prevented its identification in lesion-based studies of auditory comprehension. We aimed to resolve this controversy using a combined voxel-based-and structural connectome-lesion symptom mapping approach, since cortical dysfunction after stroke can arise from cortical damage or from white matter disconnection. Magnetic resonance imaging (T1-weighted and diffusion tensor imaging-based structural connectome), auditory word comprehension and object recognition tests were obtained from 67 chronic left hemisphere stroke survivors. We observed that damage to the inferior temporal gyrus, to the fusiform gyrus and to a white matter network including the left posterior temporal region and its connections to the middle temporal gyrus, inferior temporal gyrus, and cingulate cortex, was associated with word comprehension difficulties after factoring out object recognition. These results suggest that the posterior lateral and inferior temporal regions are crucial for word comprehension, serving as a hub to integrate auditory and conceptual processing. Early processing linking auditory words to concepts is situated in posterior lateral temporal regions, whereas additional and deeper levels of semantic processing likely require more anterior temporal regions.10.1093/brain/awx169_video1awx169media15555638084001.
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- Leonardo Bonilha
- Department of Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California. Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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Yang M, Yang P, Fan YS, Li J, Yao D, Liao W, Chen H. Altered Structure and Intrinsic Functional Connectivity in Post-stroke Aphasia. Brain Topogr 2017; 31:300-310. [PMID: 28921389 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-017-0594-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2017] [Accepted: 09/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
Previous studies have demonstrated that alterations of gray matter exist in post-stroke aphasia (PSA) patients. However, so far, few studies combined structural alterations of gray matter volume (GMV) and intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC) imbalances of resting-state functional MRI to investigate the mechanism underlying PSA. The present study investigated specific regions with GMV abnormality in patients with PSA (n = 17) and age- and sex- matched healthy controls (HCs, n = 20) using voxel-based morphometry. In addition, we examined whether there is a link between abnormal gray matter and altered iFC. Furthermore, we explored the correlations between abnormal iFC and clinical scores in aphasic patients. We found significantly increased GMV in the right superior temporal gyrus, right inferior parietal lobule (IPL)/supramarginal gyrus (SMG), and left middle occipital gyrus. Decreased GMV was found in the right caudate gyrus, bilateral thalami in PSA patients. Patients showed increased remote interregional FC between the right IPL/SMG and right precuneus, right angular gyrus, right superior occipital gyrus; while reduced FC in the right caudate gyrus and supplementary motor area, dorsolateral superior frontal gyrus. Moreover, iFC strength between the left middle occipital gyrus and the left orbital middle frontal gyrus was positively correlated with the performance quotient. We suggest that GMV abnormality contributes to interregional FC in PSA. These results may provide useful information to understand the pathogenesis of post-stroke aphasia.
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- Mi Yang
- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, Center for Information in BioMedicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, People's Republic of China
- Department of Stomatology, the Fourth People's Hospital of Chengdu, Chengdu, 610036, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, Center for Information in BioMedicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, Center for Information in BioMedicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, Center for Information in BioMedicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, Center for Information in BioMedicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, Center for Information in BioMedicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, People's Republic of China.
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- Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, Center for Information in BioMedicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, People's Republic of China.
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Neural Basis of Acquired Amusia and Its Recovery after Stroke. J Neurosci 2017; 36:8872-81. [PMID: 27559169 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0709-16.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2016] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Although acquired amusia is a relatively common disorder after stroke, its precise neuroanatomical basis is still unknown. To evaluate which brain regions form the neural substrate for acquired amusia and its recovery, we performed a voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) and morphometry (VBM) study with 77 human stroke subjects. Structural MRIs were acquired at acute and 6 month poststroke stages. Amusia and aphasia were behaviorally assessed at acute and 3 month poststroke stages using the Scale and Rhythm subtests of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA) and language tests. VLSM analyses indicated that amusia was associated with a lesion area comprising the superior temporal gyrus, Heschl's gyrus, insula, and striatum in the right hemisphere, clearly different from the lesion pattern associated with aphasia. Parametric analyses of MBEA Pitch and Rhythm scores showed extensive lesion overlap in the right striatum, as well as in the right Heschl's gyrus and superior temporal gyrus. Lesions associated with Rhythm scores extended more superiorly and posterolaterally. VBM analysis of volume changes from the acute to the 6 month stage showed a clear decrease in gray matter volume in the right superior and middle temporal gyri in nonrecovered amusic patients compared with nonamusic patients. This increased atrophy was more evident in anterior temporal areas in rhythm amusia and in posterior temporal and temporoparietal areas in pitch amusia. Overall, the results implicate right temporal and subcortical regions as the crucial neural substrate for acquired amusia and highlight the importance of different temporal lobe regions for the recovery of amusia after stroke. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Lesion studies are essential in uncovering the brain regions causally linked to a given behavior or skill. For music perception ability, previous lesion studies of amusia have been methodologically limited in both spatial accuracy and time domain as well as by small sample sizes, providing coarse and equivocal information about which brain areas underlie amusia. By using longitudinal MRI and behavioral data from a large sample of stroke patients coupled with modern voxel-based analyses methods, we were able provide the first systematic evidence for the causal role of right temporal and striatal areas in music perception. Clinically, these results have important implications for the diagnosis and prognosis of amusia after stroke and for rehabilitation planning.
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Multivariate Connectome-Based Symptom Mapping in Post-Stroke Patients: Networks Supporting Language and Speech. J Neurosci 2017; 36:6668-79. [PMID: 27335399 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4396-15.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2015] [Accepted: 05/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Language processing relies on a widespread network of brain regions. Univariate post-stroke lesion-behavior mapping is a particularly potent method to study brain-language relationships. However, it is a concern that this method may overlook structural disconnections to seemingly spared regions and may fail to adjudicate between regions that subserve different processes but share the same vascular perfusion bed. For these reasons, more refined structural brain mapping techniques may improve the accuracy of detecting brain networks supporting language. In this study, we applied a predictive multivariate framework to investigate the relationship between language deficits in human participants with chronic aphasia and the topological distribution of structural brain damage, defined as post-stroke necrosis or cortical disconnection. We analyzed lesion maps as well as structural connectome measures of whole-brain neural network integrity to predict clinically applicable language scores from the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB). Out-of-sample prediction accuracy was comparable for both types of analyses, which revealed spatially distinct, albeit overlapping, networks of cortical regions implicated in specific aspects of speech functioning. Importantly, all WAB scores could be predicted at better-than-chance level from the connections between gray-matter regions spared by the lesion. Connectome-based analysis highlighted the role of connectivity of the temporoparietal junction as a multimodal area crucial for language tasks. Our results support that connectome-based approaches are an important complement to necrotic lesion-based approaches and should be used in combination with lesion mapping to fully elucidate whether structurally damaged or structurally disconnected regions relate to aphasic impairment and its recovery. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT We present a novel multivariate approach of predicting post-stroke impairment of speech and language from the integrity of the connectome. We compare it with multivariate prediction of speech and language scores from lesion maps, using cross-validation framework and a large (n = 90) database of behavioral and neuroimaging data from individuals with post-stroke aphasia. Connectome-based analysis was similar to lesion-based analysis in terms of predictive accuracy and provided additional details about the importance of specific connections (in particular, between parietal and posterior temporal areas) for preserving speech functions. Our results suggest that multivariate predictive analysis of the connectome is a useful complement to multivariate lesion analysis, being less dependent on the spatial constraints imposed by underlying vasculature.
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Wairagkar M, McCrindle R, Robson H, Meteyard L, Sperrin M, Smith A, Pugh M. MaLT - Combined Motor and Language Therapy Tool for Brain Injury Patients Using Kinect. Methods Inf Med 2017; 56:127-137. [PMID: 28220928 DOI: 10.3414/me16-02-0015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2016] [Accepted: 12/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND The functional connectivity and structural proximity of elements of the language and motor systems result in frequent co-morbidity post brain injury. Although rehabilitation services are becoming increasingly multidisciplinary and "integrated", treatment for language and motor functions often occurs in isolation. Thus, behavioural therapies which promote neural reorganisation do not reflect the high intersystem connectivity of the neurologically intact brain. As such, there is a pressing need for rehabilitation tools which better reflect and target the impaired cognitive networks. OBJECTIVES The objective of this research is to develop a combined high dosage therapy tool for language and motor rehabilitation. The rehabilitation therapy tool developed, MaLT (Motor and Language Therapy), comprises a suite of computer games targeting both language and motor therapy that use the Kinect sensor as an interaction device. The games developed are intended for use in the home environment over prolonged periods of time. In order to track patients' engagement with the games and their rehabilitation progress, the game records patient performance data for the therapist to interrogate. METHODS MaLT incorporates Kinect-based games, a database of objects and language parameters, and a reporting tool for therapists. Games have been developed that target four major language therapy tasks involving single word comprehension, initial phoneme identification, rhyme identification and a naming task. These tasks have 8 levels each increasing in difficulty. A database of 750 objects is used to programmatically generate appropriate questions for the game, providing both targeted therapy and unique gameplay every time. The design of the games has been informed by therapists and by discussions with a Public Patient Involvement (PPI) group. RESULTS Pilot MaLT trials have been conducted with three stroke survivors for the duration of 6 to 8 weeks. Patients' performance is monitored through MaLT's reporting facility presented as graphs plotted from patient game data. Performance indicators include reaction time, accuracy, number of incorrect responses and hand use. The resultant games have also been tested by the PPI with a positive response and further suggestions for future modifications made. CONCLUSION MaLT provides a tool that innovatively combines motor and language therapy for high dosage rehabilitation in the home. It has demonstrated that motion sensor technology can be successfully combined with a language therapy task to target both upper limb and linguistic impairment in patients following brain injury. The initial studies on stroke survivors have demonstrated that the combined therapy approach is viable and the outputs of this study will inform planned larger scale future trials.
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- Maitreyee Wairagkar
- Maitreyee Wairagkar, Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AY, UK, E-mail:
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Griffis JC, Nenert R, Allendorfer JB, Szaflarski JP. Damage to white matter bottlenecks contributes to language impairments after left hemispheric stroke. Neuroimage Clin 2017; 14:552-565. [PMID: 28337410 PMCID: PMC5350568 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2017.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2016] [Revised: 02/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Damage to the white matter underlying the left posterior temporal lobe leads to deficits in multiple language functions. The posterior temporal white matter may correspond to a bottleneck where both dorsal and ventral language pathways are vulnerable to simultaneous damage. Damage to a second putative white matter bottleneck in the left deep prefrontal white matter involving projections associated with ventral language pathways and thalamo-cortical projections has recently been proposed as a source of semantic deficits after stroke. Here, we first used white matter atlases to identify the previously described white matter bottlenecks in the posterior temporal and deep prefrontal white matter. We then assessed the effects of damage to each region on measures of verbal fluency, picture naming, and auditory semantic decision-making in 43 chronic left hemispheric stroke patients. Damage to the posterior temporal bottleneck predicted deficits on all tasks, while damage to the anterior bottleneck only significantly predicted deficits in verbal fluency. Importantly, the effects of damage to the bottleneck regions were not attributable to lesion volume, lesion loads on the tracts traversing the bottlenecks, or damage to nearby cortical language areas. Multivariate lesion-symptom mapping revealed additional lesion predictors of deficits. Post-hoc fiber tracking of the peak white matter lesion predictors using a publicly available tractography atlas revealed evidence consistent with the results of the bottleneck analyses. Together, our results provide support for the proposal that spatially specific white matter damage affecting bottleneck regions, particularly in the posterior temporal lobe, contributes to chronic language deficits after left hemispheric stroke. This may reflect the simultaneous disruption of signaling in dorsal and ventral language processing streams.
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- Joseph C. Griffis
- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Psychology, United States
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Neurology, United States
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Stephan-Otto C, Núñez C, Arca G, Agut T, García-Alix A. Three-Dimensional Map of Neonatal Arterial Ischemic Stroke Distribution From Early Multimodal Brain Imaging. Stroke 2017; 48:482-485. [DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.116.014186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2016] [Revised: 10/28/2016] [Accepted: 11/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background and Purpose—
Although neonatal arterial ischemic stroke (NAIS) location has considerable impact on long-term outcome, a map showing spatial distribution of NAIS is lacking. Our aim was to generate this distribution map, based on early magnetic resonance imaging data.
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Lesions from 34 consecutive neonates with NAIS from a single center were segmented using multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (median age at acquisition =5 days). Lesion masks for all subjects were registered onto a standard neonatal brain and then overlaid to generate a 3D map of NAIS distribution.
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The region posterior to the central sulcus is the most frequently affected in neonates, with 24 of the 34 neonates (71%) showing lesions in this region in at least one hemisphere. Moreover, NAIS frequency is markedly higher in the left hemisphere.
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This is the first report of an NAIS distribution map. Regions posterior to the central sulcus present increased vulnerability. Our findings suggest that motor areas are not as frequently affected as has been previously reported. By contrast, we find high NAIS vulnerability in functional areas related to language. The distribution of ischemic strokes in neonates seems to be different from that seen in adults.
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- Christian Stephan-Otto
- From the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu-CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain (C.S.-O., C.N.); Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain (G.A.); and Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (T.A., A.G.-A.)
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- From the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu-CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain (C.S.-O., C.N.); Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain (G.A.); and Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (T.A., A.G.-A.)
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- From the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu-CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain (C.S.-O., C.N.); Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain (G.A.); and Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (T.A., A.G.-A.)
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- From the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu-CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain (C.S.-O., C.N.); Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain (G.A.); and Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (T.A., A.G.-A.)
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- From the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu-CIBERSAM, Barcelona, Spain (C.S.-O., C.N.); Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain (G.A.); and Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (T.A., A.G.-A.)
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Investigating structure and function in the healthy human brain: validity of acute versus chronic lesion-symptom mapping. Brain Struct Funct 2016; 222:2059-2070. [PMID: 27807627 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-016-1325-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 10/13/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Modern voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) analyses techniques provide powerful tools to examine the relationship between structure and function of the healthy human brain. However, there is still uncertainty on the type of and the appropriate time point of imaging and of behavioral testing for such analyses. Here we tested the validity of the three most common combinations of structural imaging data and behavioral scores used in VLSM analyses. Given the established knowledge about the neural substrate of the primary motor system in humans, we asked the mundane question of where the motor system is represented in the normal human brain, analyzing individual arm motor function of 60 unselected stroke patients. Only the combination of acute behavioral scores and acute structural imaging precisely identified the principal brain area for the emergence of hemiparesis after stroke, i.e., the corticospinal tract (CST). In contrast, VLSM analyses based on chronic behavior-in combination with either chronic or acute imaging-required the exclusion of patients who had recovered from an initial paresis to reveal valid anatomical results. Thus, if the primary research aim of a VLSM lesion analysis is to uncover the neural substrates of a certain function in the healthy human brain and if no longitudinal designs with repeated evaluations are planned, the combination of acute imaging and behavior represents the ideal dataset.
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Martinaud O, Besharati S, Jenkinson PM, Fotopoulou A. Ownership illusions in patients with body delusions: Different neural profiles of visual capture and disownership. Cortex 2016; 87:174-185. [PMID: 27839786 PMCID: PMC5312675 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.09.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2016] [Revised: 07/22/2016] [Accepted: 09/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The various neurocognitive processes contributing to the sense of body ownership have been investigated extensively in healthy participants, but studies in neurological patients can shed unique light into such phenomena. Here, we aimed to investigate whether visual capture by a fake hand (without any synchronous or asynchronous tactile stimulation) affects body ownership in a group of hemiplegic patients with or without disturbed sensation of limb ownership (DSO) following damage to the right hemisphere. We recruited 31 consecutive patients, including seven patients with DSO. The majority of our patients (64.5% overall and up to 86% of the patients with DSO) experienced strong feelings of ownership over a rubber hand within 15 sec following mere visual exposure, which correlated with the degree of proprioceptive deficits across groups and in the DSO group. Using voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping analysis, we were able to identify lesions associated with this pathological visual capture effect in a selective fronto-parietal network, including significant voxels (p < .05) in the frontal operculum and the inferior frontal gyrus. By contrast, lesions associated with DSO involved more posterior lesions, including the right temporoparietal junction and a large area of the supramarginal gyrus, and to a lesser degree the middle frontal gyrus. Thus, this study suggests that our sense of ownership includes dissociable mechanisms of multisensory integration.
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- Olivier Martinaud
- Department of Neurology, Rouen University Hospital, France; Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology Research Department, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, University College London, UK
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- Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology Research Department, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, University College London, UK; Academic Unit of Neuropsychiatry, King's College London, UK
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- School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, UK
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- Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology Research Department, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, University College London, UK.
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Moro V, Pernigo S, Tsakiris M, Avesani R, Edelstyn NM, Jenkinson PM, Fotopoulou A. Motor versus body awareness: Voxel-based lesion analysis in anosognosia for hemiplegia and somatoparaphrenia following right hemisphere stroke. Cortex 2016; 83:62-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2016.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2016] [Revised: 05/06/2016] [Accepted: 07/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Yuan Y, Yunhe M, Xiang W, Yanhui L, Ruofei L, Jiewen L, Qing M. Mapping genetic factors in high-grade glioma patients. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2016; 150:159-163. [PMID: 27668860 DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2016.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2016] [Revised: 09/04/2016] [Accepted: 09/19/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Tumor location, which serves as a prognostic factor for high-grade gliomas, may reflect the molecular and genetic phenotype of tumor initiate cells and thus predict tumor origin. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to combine radiographic atlases and tumor biomarkers through a voxel-based neuroimaging approach. METHODS Preoperative MRIs were collected from 65 newly diagnosed patients with histologically confirmed high-grades gliomas. These samples were analyzed for TP53 mutations and MMP-9.PTEN, MGMT, EGFR and IDH1 statuses using a statistical voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) method, which correlates the anatomical location of HGGs with their molecular profile. RESULTS VLSM analysis identified P53, Wild-type IDH and EGFR overexpression mutations in the white matter of the periventricular region in the left hemisphere, which can be predicted by a short overall survival from the time of diagnosis. The lack of MGMT promoter methylation deep in the right frontal lobe region indicates a poor prognosis. CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrates that different molecular phenotypes are related to specific brain regions. In addition, the structural MRI and genetic profile-based analysis of brain regions associated with survival-associated factors could be used in planning glioma operations and clinical survival predictions.
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- Yang Yuan
- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, Si Chuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- West China Hospital, Si Chuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, Si Chuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, Si Chuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, Si Chuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, Si Chuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West China Hospital, Si Chuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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Meng D, Hosseini AA, Simpson RJ, Shaikh Q, Tench CR, Dineen RA, Auer DP. Lesion Topography and Microscopic White Matter Tract Damage Contribute to Cognitive Impairment in Symptomatic Carotid Artery Disease. Radiology 2016; 282:502-515. [PMID: 27598537 PMCID: PMC5283872 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2016152685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Subcortical disconnection of cognitive neural networks is a key mechanism of cognitive impairment in patients with probable vascular cognitive disorder. Purpose To investigate associations between neuroimaging markers of cerebrovascular disease, including lesion topography and extent and severity of strategic and global cerebral tissue injury, and cognition in carotid artery disease (CAD). Materials and Methods All participants gave written informed consent to undergo brain magnetic resonance imaging and the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination–Revised. One hundred eight patients with symptomatic CAD but no dementia were included, and a score less than 82 represented cognitive impairment. Group comparison and interrelations between global cognitive and fluency performance, lesion topography, and ultrastructural damage were assessed with voxel-based statistics. Associations between cognition, medial temporal lobe atrophy (MTA), lesion volumes, and global white matter ultrastructural damage indexed as increased mean diffusivity were tested with regression analysis by controlling for age. Diagnostic accuracy of imaging markers selected from a multivariate prediction model was tested with receiver operating characteristic analysis. Results Cognitively impaired patients (n = 53 [49.1%], classified as having probable vascular cognitive disorder) were older than nonimpaired patients (P = .027) and had more frequent MTA (P < .001), more cortical infarctions (P = .016), and larger volumes of acute (P = .028) and chronic (P = .009) subcortical ischemic lesions. Lesion volumes did not correlate with global cognitive performance (lacunar infarctions, P = .060; acute lesions, P = .088; chronic subcortical ischemic lesions, P = .085). In contrast, cognitive performance correlated with presence of chronic ischemic lesions within the interhemispheric tracts and thalamic radiation (P < .05, false discovery rate corrected). Skeleton mean diffusivity showed the closest correlation with cognition (R2 = 0.311, P < .001) and promising diagnostic accuracy for vascular cognitive disorder (area under the curve, 0.82 [95% confidence interval: 0.75, 0.90]). Findings were confirmed in subjects with a low risk of preclinical Alzheimer disease indexed by the absence of MTA (n = 85). Conclusion Subcortical white matter ischemic lesion locations and severity of ultrastructural tract damage contribute to cognitive impairment in symptomatic CAD, which suggests that subcortical disconnection within large-scale cognitive neural networks is a key mechanism of vascular cognitive disorder. Online supplemental material is available for this article.
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- Dewen Meng
- From the Department of Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England (D.M., A.A.H., R.J.S., Q.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England (D.M., R.J.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Department of Vascular Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (R.J.S.); and Department of Clinical Neurology, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (C.R.T.)
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- From the Department of Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England (D.M., A.A.H., R.J.S., Q.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England (D.M., R.J.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Department of Vascular Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (R.J.S.); and Department of Clinical Neurology, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (C.R.T.)
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- From the Department of Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England (D.M., A.A.H., R.J.S., Q.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England (D.M., R.J.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Department of Vascular Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (R.J.S.); and Department of Clinical Neurology, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (C.R.T.)
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- From the Department of Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England (D.M., A.A.H., R.J.S., Q.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England (D.M., R.J.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Department of Vascular Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (R.J.S.); and Department of Clinical Neurology, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (C.R.T.)
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- From the Department of Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England (D.M., A.A.H., R.J.S., Q.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England (D.M., R.J.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Department of Vascular Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (R.J.S.); and Department of Clinical Neurology, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (C.R.T.)
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- From the Department of Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England (D.M., A.A.H., R.J.S., Q.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England (D.M., R.J.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Department of Vascular Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (R.J.S.); and Department of Clinical Neurology, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (C.R.T.)
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- From the Department of Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Derby Road, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England (D.M., A.A.H., R.J.S., Q.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England (D.M., R.J.S., R.A.D., D.P.A.); Department of Vascular Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (R.J.S.); and Department of Clinical Neurology, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England (C.R.T.)
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Tan BYQ, Kong WY, Ngiam JN, Teoh HL, Sharma VK, Yeo LLL. The Role of Topographic Collaterals in Predicting Functional Outcome after Thrombolysis in Anterior Circulation Ischemic Stroke. J Neuroimaging 2016; 27:217-220. [PMID: 27572717 DOI: 10.1111/jon.12387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Revised: 07/17/2016] [Accepted: 07/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The Alberta Stroke Program Early CT (ASPECTS) leptomeningeal collaterals score on CT-angiography helps in prognosticating functional outcome in acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis. We evaluated whether a simplified topological ASPECTS collaterals scoring could serve as a rapid biomarker for early prediction in thrombolyzed AIS patients. METHODS Consecutive patients from 2010 to 2014 with anterior circulation AIS treated with intravenous thrombolysis were included. The primary outcome was good functional outcome (modified Rankin scale score 0-1 at 3-months). Collaterals were scored according to the extent of contrast opacification in arteries distal to the acute occlusion. Prognostic value of individual ASPECTS leptomeningeal collateral regions was determined by multivariate logistic regression. RESULTS A total of 283 patients were included (mean National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale [NIHSS] score 19.0 ± 6.3 points). Using multivariate logistic regression, good M5 region (parietal)-collaterals (OR 2.62, 95%CI 1.215-5.682, P = .014), younger age (OR .97 per year, 95%CI .943-.990, P = .006), nondiabetics (OR .44, 95%CI .224-.889, P = .021), and lower NIHSS (OR .89 per point, 95%CI .842-.935, P < .001) were independently associated with good functional outcome. The receiver operating characteristic curve showed NIHSS as a good predictor of functional outcome (area under the curve .718, 95%CI .656-.780, P < .001). However, a better predictive value was achieved when M5 collateral score was added to the NIHSS (area under the curve .752, 95%CI .694-.809, P < .001). CONCLUSIONS Good collaterals in the M5 region are associated with good functional outcome. Addition of this simple neuroimaging tool to the pretreatment NIHSS may serve as a reliable biomarker for prognosis.
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore
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- Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore
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Price CJ, Hope TM, Seghier ML. Ten problems and solutions when predicting individual outcome from lesion site after stroke. Neuroimage 2016; 145:200-208. [PMID: 27502048 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2015] [Revised: 07/08/2016] [Accepted: 08/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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In this paper, we consider solutions to ten of the challenges faced when trying to predict an individual's functional outcome after stroke on the basis of lesion site. A primary goal is to find lesion-outcome associations that are consistently observed in large populations of stroke patients because consistent associations maximise confidence in future individualised predictions. To understand and control multiple sources of inter-patient variability, we need to systematically investigate each contributing factor and how each factor depends on other factors. This requires very large cohorts of patients, who differ from one another in typical and measurable ways, including lesion site, lesion size, functional outcome and time post stroke (weeks to decades). These multivariate investigations are complex, particularly when the contributions of different variables interact with one another. Machine learning algorithms can help to identify the most influential variables and indicate dependencies between different factors. Multivariate lesion analyses are needed to understand how the effect of damage to one brain region depends on damage or preservation in other brain regions. Such data-led investigations can reveal predictive relationships between lesion site and outcome. However, to understand and improve the predictions we need explanatory models of the neural networks and degenerate pathways that support functions of interest. This will entail integrating the results of lesion analyses with those from functional imaging (fMRI, MEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and diffusor tensor imaging (DTI) studies of healthy participants and patients.
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- Cathy J Price
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, UCL, UK.
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, UCL, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, UCL, UK; Educational Neuroscience Research Centre, ECAE, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Beyond the Arcuate Fasciculus: Damage to Ventral and Dorsal Language Pathways in Aphasia. Brain Topogr 2016; 30:249-256. [DOI: 10.1007/s10548-016-0503-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2016] [Accepted: 06/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Laganiere S, Boes AD, Fox MD. Network localization of hemichorea-hemiballismus. Neurology 2016; 86:2187-95. [PMID: 27170566 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000002741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2015] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether neuroanatomically heterogeneous strokes causing hemichorea-hemiballismus localize to a common functional network. METHODS We identified 29 cases of lesion-induced hemichorea-hemiballismus from the literature and mapped each lesion volume onto a reference brain. Using a recently validated technique termed lesion network mapping, we tested whether these lesions belonged to the same functional network. To accomplish this, the network of brain regions functionally connected to each lesion was identified using a connectome dataset from healthy participants. Network maps were overlapped to identify any region functionally connected to our set of lesions. Specificity was evaluated using a case-control design; control cohorts included a group of similar lesions randomized to different brain locations and a second group of lesions causing a separate movement disorder, asterixis. Reproducibility was evaluated using an independent cohort of 10 additional hemichorea-hemiballismus cases. RESULTS Lesions showed heterogeneity in anatomical location, consistent with prior reports. However, at least 90% of these lesions showed network overlap in the posterolateral putamen. This result was specific to lesions causing hemichorea-hemiballismus and reproducible in an independent cohort. The putaminal overlap site was itself connected to a broader motor network that predicted the distribution of lesions causing hemichorea-hemiballismus. CONCLUSIONS Strokes causing hemichorea-hemiballismus, while anatomically heterogeneous, localize to a common functional network. Specifically, lesions occur in regions functionally connected to the posterolateral putamen, a region previously implicated in hyperkinetic movement disorders. Lesion network mapping may be useful in identifying the neuroanatomical substrates of heterogeneous lesion-based disorders.
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- Simon Laganiere
- From the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (S.L., A.D.B., M.D.F.), Division of Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston; Departments of Pediatric Neurology (A.D.B.) and Neurology (M.D.F.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (M.D.F.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown
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- From the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (S.L., A.D.B., M.D.F.), Division of Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston; Departments of Pediatric Neurology (A.D.B.) and Neurology (M.D.F.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (M.D.F.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown
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- From the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (S.L., A.D.B., M.D.F.), Division of Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston; Departments of Pediatric Neurology (A.D.B.) and Neurology (M.D.F.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (M.D.F.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown.
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Altered Intrinsic Regional Activity and Interregional Functional Connectivity in Post-stroke Aphasia. Sci Rep 2016; 6:24803. [PMID: 27091494 PMCID: PMC4835729 DOI: 10.1038/srep24803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2015] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Several neuroimaging studies have examined cerebral function in patients who suffer from aphasia, but the mechanism underlying this disorder remains poorly understood. In this study, we examined alterations in the local regional and remote interregional network cerebral functions in aphasia combined with amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations and interregional functional connectivity (FC) using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. A total of 17 post-stroke aphasic patients, all having suffered a stroke in the left hemisphere, as well as 20 age- and sex-matched healthy controls, were enrolled in this study. The aphasic patients showed significantly increased intrinsic regional activity mainly in the contralesional mesial temporal (hippocampus/parahippocampus, [HIP/ParaHIP]) and lateral temporal cortices. In addition, intrinsic regional activity in the contralesional HIP/ParaHIP was negatively correlated with construction score. Aphasic patients showed increased remote interregional FC between the contralesional HIP/ParaHIP and fusiform gyrus, but reduced FC in the ipsilesional occipital and parietal cortices. These findings suggested that the intrinsic regional brain dysfunctions in aphasia were related to interregional functional connectivity. Changes in the intrinsic regional brain activity and associated remote functional connectivity pattern would provide valuable information to enhance the understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of aphasia.
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Besharati S, Forkel SJ, Kopelman M, Solms M, Jenkinson PM, Fotopoulou A. Mentalizing the body: spatial and social cognition in anosognosia for hemiplegia. Brain 2016; 139:971-85. [PMID: 26811254 PMCID: PMC4766377 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awv390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2015] [Revised: 10/12/2015] [Accepted: 11/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Following right-hemisphere damage, a specific disorder of motor awareness can occur called anosognosia for hemiplegia, i.e. the denial of motor deficits contralateral to a brain lesion. The study of anosognosia can offer unique insights into the neurocognitive basis of awareness. Typically, however, awareness is assessed as a first person judgement and the ability of patients to think about their bodies in more 'objective' (third person) terms is not directly assessed. This may be important as right-hemisphere spatial abilities may underlie our ability to take third person perspectives. This possibility was assessed for the first time in the present study. We investigated third person perspective taking using both visuospatial and verbal tasks in right-hemisphere stroke patients with anosognosia (n = 15) and without anosognosia (n = 15), as well as neurologically healthy control subjects (n = 15). The anosognosic group performed worse than both control groups when having to perform the tasks from a third versus a first person perspective. Individual analysis further revealed a classical dissociation between most anosognosic patients and control subjects in mental (but not visuospatial) third person perspective taking abilities. Finally, the severity of unawareness in anosognosia patients was correlated to greater impairments in such third person, mental perspective taking abilities (but not visuospatial perspective taking). In voxel-based lesion mapping we also identified the lesion sites linked with such deficits, including some brain areas previously associated with inhibition, perspective taking and mentalizing, such as the inferior and middle frontal gyri, as well as the supramarginal and superior temporal gyri. These results suggest that neurocognitive deficits in mental perspective taking may contribute to anosognosia and provide novel insights regarding the relation between self-awareness and social cognition.
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- Sahba Besharati
- 1 Department of Psychology, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, UK 2 Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa 3 Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, UK
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- 3 Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, UK 4 Natbrainlab, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK
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- 5 Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, UK
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- 2 Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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- 6 Department of Psychology, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, UK
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- 3 Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, UK
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Griffis JC, Allendorfer JB, Szaflarski JP. Voxel-based Gaussian naïve Bayes classification of ischemic stroke lesions in individual T1-weighted MRI scans. J Neurosci Methods 2016; 257:97-108. [PMID: 26432931 PMCID: PMC4662880 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2015] [Revised: 08/17/2015] [Accepted: 09/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Manual lesion delineation by an expert is the standard for lesion identification in MRI scans, but it is time-consuming and can introduce subjective bias. Alternative methods often require multi-modal MRI data, user interaction, scans from a control population, and/or arbitrary statistical thresholding. NEW METHOD We present an approach for automatically identifying stroke lesions in individual T1-weighted MRI scans using naïve Bayes classification. Probabilistic tissue segmentation and image algebra were used to create feature maps encoding information about missing and abnormal tissue. Leave-one-case-out training and cross-validation was used to obtain out-of-sample predictions for each of 30 cases with left hemisphere stroke lesions. RESULTS Our method correctly predicted lesion locations for 30/30 un-trained cases. Post-processing with smoothing (8mm FWHM) and cluster-extent thresholding (100 voxels) was found to improve performance. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD Quantitative evaluations of post-processed out-of-sample predictions on 30 cases revealed high spatial overlap (mean Dice similarity coefficient=0.66) and volume agreement (mean percent volume difference=28.91; Pearson's r=0.97) with manual lesion delineations. CONCLUSIONS Our automated approach agrees with manual tracing. It provides an alternative to automated methods that require multi-modal MRI data, additional control scans, or user interaction to achieve optimal performance. Our fully trained classifier has applications in neuroimaging and clinical contexts.
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- Joseph C Griffis
- Department of Psychology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States.
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- Department of Neurology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
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- Department of Neurology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States
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The relationships between the amount of spared tissue, percent signal change, and accuracy in semantic processing in aphasia. Neuropsychologia 2016; 84:113-26. [PMID: 26775192 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Revised: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 10/12/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Recovery from aphasia, loss of language following a cerebrovascular incident (stroke), is a complex process involving both left and right hemispheric regions. In our study, we analyzed the relationships between semantic processing behavioral data, lesion size and location, and percent signal change from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. This study included 14 persons with aphasia in the chronic stage of recovery (six or more months post stroke), along with normal controls, who performed semantic processing tasks of determining whether a written semantic feature matched a picture or whether two written words were related. Using region of interest (ROI) analysis, we found that left inferior frontal gyrus pars opercularis and pars triangularis, despite significant damage, were the only regions to correlate with behavioral accuracy. Additionally, bilateral frontal regions including superior frontal gyrus, middle frontal gyrus, and anterior cingulate appear to serve as an assistive network in the case of damage to traditional language regions that include inferior frontal gyrus, middle temporal gyrus, supramarginal gyrus, and angular gyrus. Right hemisphere posterior regions including right middle temporal gyrus, right supramarginal gyrus, and right angular gyrus are engaged in the case of extensive damage to left hemisphere language regions. Additionally, right inferior frontal gyrus pars orbitalis is presumed to serve a monitoring function. These results reinforce the importance of the left hemisphere in language processing in aphasia, and provide a framework for the relative importance of left and right language regions in the brain.
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Wilson SM. Lesion-symptom mapping in the study of spoken language understanding. LANGUAGE, COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE 2016; 32:891-899. [PMID: 29051908 PMCID: PMC5642290 DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1248984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Lesion-symptom mapping studies aim to make inferences about the functional neuroanatomy of spoken language understanding by investigating relationships between damage to different brain regions and the various speech perception and comprehension deficits that result. Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM), and studies focused on specific cortical regions of interest or fiber pathways have all yielded insights regarding the localization of different components of spoken language processing. Major challenges include the fact that brain damage rarely impacts just a single brain region or just a single processing component, and that neuroplasticity and recovery can complicate the interpretation of lesion-deficit correlations. Future studies involving large patient cohorts derived from multi-center projects, and multivariate approaches to quantifying patterns of brain damage and patterns of linguistic deficits, will continue to yield new insights into the neural basis of spoken language understanding.
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- Stephen M Wilson
- Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Kong APH, Lam PHP, Ho DWL, Lau JK, Humphreys GW, Riddoch J, Weekes B. The Hong Kong version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen (HK-OCS): validation study for Cantonese-speaking chronic stroke survivors. AGING NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION 2015; 23:530-48. [PMID: 26702642 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2015.1127321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Anthony Pak-Hin Kong
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
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- Laboratory for Communication Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
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- School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Laboratory for Communication Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
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Geva S, Correia MM, Warburton EA. Contributions of bilateral white matter to chronic aphasia symptoms as assessed by diffusion tensor MRI. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2015; 150:117-28. [PMID: 26401977 PMCID: PMC4669306 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2015.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2015] [Revised: 06/09/2015] [Accepted: 09/01/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Language reorganisation following stroke has been studied widely. However, while studies of brain activation and grey matter examined both hemispheres, studies of white matter changes have mostly focused on the left hemisphere. Here we examined the relationship between bilateral hemispheric white matter and aphasia symptoms. 15 chronic stroke patients with aphasia and 18 healthy adults were studied using Diffusion Weighted Imaging data. By applying histogram analysis, Tract-Based Spatial Statistics, tractography and lesion-tract overlap methods, it was found that damage to the left hemisphere in general, and to the arcuate fasciculus in particular, correlated with impairments on word repetition, object naming, sentence comprehension and homophone and rhyme judgement. However, no such relationship was found in the right hemisphere. It is suggested that while some language function in aphasia can be explained by damage to the left arcuate fasciculus, it cannot be explained by looking at the contra-lesional tract.
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- Sharon Geva
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry Section, UCL Institute of Child Health, United Kingdom.
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Dinomais M, Hertz-Pannier L, Groeschel S, Chabrier S, Delion M, Husson B, Kossorotoff M, Renaud C, Nguyen The Tich S. Long term motor function after neonatal stroke: Lesion localization above all. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 36:4793-807. [PMID: 26512551 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2015] [Revised: 08/07/2015] [Accepted: 08/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Motor outcome is variable following neonatal arterial ischemic stroke (NAIS). We analyzed the relationship between lesion characteristics on brain MRI and motor function in children who had suffered from NAIS. Thirty eight full term born children with unilateral NAIS were investigated at the age of seven. 3D T1- and 3D FLAIR-weighted MR images were acquired on a 3T MRI scanner. Lesion characteristics were compared between patients with and without cerebral palsy (CP) using the following approaches: lesion localization either using a category-based analysis, lesion mapping as well as voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM). Using diffusion-weighted imaging the microstructure of the cortico-spinal tract (CST) was related to the status of CP by measuring DTI parameters. Whereas children with lesions sparing the primary motor system did not develop CP, CP was always present when extensive lesions damaged at least two brain structures involving the motor system. The VLSM approach provided a statistical map that confirmed the cortical lesions in the primary motor system and revealed that CP was highly correlated with lesions in close proximity to the CST. In children with CP, diffusion parameters indicated microstructural changes in the CST at the level of internal capsule and the centrum semiovale. White matter damage of the CST in centrum semiovale was a highly reproducible marker of CP. This is the first description of the implication of this latter region in motor impairment after NAIS. In conclusion, CP in childhood was closely linked to the location of the infarct in the motor system.
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- Mickael Dinomais
- LUNAM, Université d'Angers, Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes (LARIS) - EA7315, F-49000, Angers, France.,LUNAM, CHU Angers, Université d'Angers, Département de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, F- 49933, Angers, France
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- UNIACT, Neurospin, I2BM, DSV, CEA-Saclay, and INSERM U1129 Paris, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEA, F-91191, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- Experimental Pediatric Neuroimaging, Department of Pediatric Neurology & Developmental Medicine, University Children's Hospital Tübingen, Germany
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- CHU Saint-Étienne, Centre national de référence de l'AVC de l'enfant and Inserm CIC1408, F-42055, Saint-Étienne, France.,Université de Saint-x000C9;tienne, Groupe de recherche sur la thrombose - EA3065, F-42023, Saint-Étienne, France
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- LUNAM, CHU Angers, Université d'Angers, Département de Neurochirurgie, F-49933, Angers, France.,LUNAM, Université d'Angers, Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Faculté de Médecine F-49045, Angers, France
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, CHU Bicêtre, Service d'Imagerie Pédiatrique and Centre national de référence de l'AVC de l'enfant, Paris, France
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- Pediatric Neurology Department and French Center for Pediatric Stroke, University Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, F-75743, Paris, France
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- CHU Saint-Étienne, Centre national de référence de l'AVC de l'enfant and Inserm CIC1408, F-42055, Saint-Étienne, France
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- LUNAM, Université d'Angers, Laboratoire Angevin de Recherche en Ingénierie des Systèmes (LARIS) - EA7315, F-49000, Angers, France.,LUNAM, CHU Angers, Université d'Angers, Département de Neuropédiatrie, F-49933, Angers, France
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Besharati S, Forkel SJ, Kopelman M, Solms M, Jenkinson PM, Fotopoulou A. The affective modulation of motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia: behavioural and lesion evidence. Cortex 2015; 61:127-40. [PMID: 25481471 PMCID: PMC4296216 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2014] [Revised: 06/16/2014] [Accepted: 08/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The possible role of emotion in anosognosia for hemiplegia (i.e., denial of motor deficits contralateral to a brain lesion), has long been debated between psychodynamic and neurocognitive theories. However, there are only a handful of case studies focussing on this topic, and the precise role of emotion in anosognosia for hemiplegia requires empirical investigation. In the present study, we aimed to investigate how negative and positive emotions influence motor awareness in anosognosia. Positive and negative emotions were induced under carefully-controlled experimental conditions in right-hemisphere stroke patients with anosognosia for hemiplegia (n = 11) and controls with clinically normal awareness (n = 10). Only the negative, emotion induction condition resulted in a significant improvement of motor awareness in anosognosic patients compared to controls; the positive emotion induction did not. Using lesion overlay and voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping approaches, we also investigated the brain lesions associated with the diagnosis of anosognosia, as well as with performance on the experimental task. Anatomical areas that are commonly damaged in AHP included the right-hemisphere motor and sensory cortices, the inferior frontal cortex, and the insula. Additionally, the insula, putamen and anterior periventricular white matter were associated with less awareness change following the negative emotion induction. This study suggests that motor unawareness and the observed lack of negative emotions about one's disabilities cannot be adequately explained by either purely motivational or neurocognitive accounts. Instead, we propose an integrative account in which insular and striatal lesions result in weak interoceptive and motivational signals. These deficits lead to faulty inferences about the self, involving a difficulty to personalise new sensorimotor information, and an abnormal adherence to premorbid beliefs about the body.
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- Sahba Besharati
- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK; Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, University College London, UK.
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- Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, University College London, UK; King's College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Natbrainlab, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychology, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, UK
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- Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, Division of Psychology & Language Sciences, University College London, UK.
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Humphreys GW, Chechlacz M. A Neural Decomposition of Visual Search Using Voxel-based Morphometry. J Cogn Neurosci 2015; 27:1854-69. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The ability to search efficiently for visual targets among distractors can break down after a variety of brain lesions, but the specific processes affected by the lesions are unclear. We examined search over space (conjunction search) and over time plus space (preview search) in a consecutive series of patients with acquired brain lesions. We also assessed performance on standard neuropsychological measures of visuospatial short-term memory (Corsi Block), sustained attention and memory updating (the contrast between forward and backward digit span), and visual neglect. Voxel-based morphometry analyses revealed regions in the occipital (middle occipital gyrus), posterior parietal (angular gyrus), and temporal cortices (superior and middle temporal gyri extending to the insula), along with underlying white matter pathways, associated with poor search. Going beyond standard voxel-based morphometry analyses, we then report correlation measures of structural damage in these regions and the independent neuropsychological measures of other cognitive functions. We find distinct patterns of correlation in areas linked to poor search, suggesting that the areas play functionally different roles in search. We conclude that neuropsychological disorders of search can be linked to necessary and distinct cognitive functions, according to the site of lesion.
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Butler RA, Lambon Ralph MA, Woollams AM. Capturing multidimensionality in stroke aphasia: mapping principal behavioural components to neural structures. Brain 2014; 137:3248-66. [PMID: 25348632 PMCID: PMC4240295 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awu286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2014] [Revised: 07/30/2014] [Accepted: 08/14/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Stroke aphasia is a multidimensional disorder in which patient profiles reflect variation along multiple behavioural continua. We present a novel approach to separating the principal aspects of chronic aphasic performance and isolating their neural bases. Principal components analysis was used to extract core factors underlying performance of 31 participants with chronic stroke aphasia on a large, detailed battery of behavioural assessments. The rotated principle components analysis revealed three key factors, which we labelled as phonology, semantic and executive/cognition on the basis of the common elements in the tests that loaded most strongly on each component. The phonology factor explained the most variance, followed by the semantic factor and then the executive-cognition factor. The use of principle components analysis rendered participants' scores on these three factors orthogonal and therefore ideal for use as simultaneous continuous predictors in a voxel-based correlational methodology analysis of high resolution structural scans. Phonological processing ability was uniquely related to left posterior perisylvian regions including Heschl's gyrus, posterior middle and superior temporal gyri and superior temporal sulcus, as well as the white matter underlying the posterior superior temporal gyrus. The semantic factor was uniquely related to left anterior middle temporal gyrus and the underlying temporal stem. The executive-cognition factor was not correlated selectively with the structural integrity of any particular region, as might be expected in light of the widely-distributed and multi-functional nature of the regions that support executive functions. The identified phonological and semantic areas align well with those highlighted by other methodologies such as functional neuroimaging and neurostimulation. The use of principle components analysis allowed us to characterize the neural bases of participants' behavioural performance more robustly and selectively than the use of raw assessment scores or diagnostic classifications because principle components analysis extracts statistically unique, orthogonal behavioural components of interest. As such, in addition to improving our understanding of lesion-symptom mapping in stroke aphasia, the same approach could be used to clarify brain-behaviour relationships in other neurological disorders.
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- Rebecca A Butler
- Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, Zochonis Building, University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, Zochonis Building, University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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- Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, Zochonis Building, University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
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Cheng B, Forkert ND, Zavaglia M, Hilgetag CC, Golsari A, Siemonsen S, Fiehler J, Pedraza S, Puig J, Cho TH, Alawneh J, Baron JC, Ostergaard L, Gerloff C, Thomalla G. Influence of stroke infarct location on functional outcome measured by the modified rankin scale. Stroke 2014; 45:1695-702. [PMID: 24781084 DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.114.005152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In the early days after ischemic stroke, information on structural brain damage from MRI supports prognosis of functional outcome. It is rated widely by the modified Rankin Scale that correlates only moderately with lesion volume. We therefore aimed to elucidate the influence of lesion location from early MRI (days 2-3) on functional outcome after 1 month using voxel-based lesion symptom mapping. METHODS We analyzed clinical and MRI data of patients from a prospective European multicenter stroke imaging study (I-KNOW). Lesions were delineated on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery images on days 2 to 3 after stroke onset. We generated statistic maps of lesion contribution related to clinical outcome (modified Rankin Scale) after 1 month using voxel-based lesion symptom mapping. RESULTS Lesion maps of 101 patients with middle cerebral artery infarctions were included for analysis (right-sided stroke, 47%). Mean age was 67 years, median admission National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale was 11. Mean infarct volumes were comparable between both sides (left, 37.5 mL; right, 43.7 mL). Voxel-based lesion symptom mapping revealed areas with high influence on higher modified Rankin Scale in regions involving the corona radiata, internal capsule, and insula. In addition, asymmetrically distributed impact patterns were found involving the right inferior temporal gyrus and left superior temporal gyrus. CONCLUSIONS In this group of patients with stroke, characteristic lesion patterns in areas of motor control and areas involved in lateralized brain functions on early MRI were found to influence functional outcome. Our data provide a novel map of the impact of lesion localization on functional stroke outcome as measured by the modified Rankin Scale.
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- Bastian Cheng
- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.).
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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- From the Department of Neurology (B.C., A.G., C.G., G.T.), Department of Computational Neuroscience (N.D.F., M.Z., C.H.), and Department of Neuroradiology (S.S., J.F.), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Radiology (IDI), Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBGI), Hospital Universitari de Girona Dr Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain (S.P., J.P.); Department of Neurology, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France (T.-H.C.); Centre de Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Inserm U894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France (J.-C.B.); Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom (J.A., J.-C.B.); and Department of Neuroradiology, Aarhus University Hospital and Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience/MINDLab, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (L.O.)
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Sanjuán A, Price CJ, Mancini L, Josse G, Grogan A, Yamamoto AK, Geva S, Leff AP, Yousry TA, Seghier ML. Automated identification of brain tumors from single MR images based on segmentation with refined patient-specific priors. Front Neurosci 2013; 7:241. [PMID: 24381535 PMCID: PMC3865426 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2013] [Accepted: 11/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Brain tumors can have different shapes or locations, making their identification very challenging. In functional MRI, it is not unusual that patients have only one anatomical image due to time and financial constraints. Here, we provide a modified automatic lesion identification (ALI) procedure which enables brain tumor identification from single MR images. Our method rests on (A) a modified segmentation-normalization procedure with an explicit “extra prior” for the tumor and (B) an outlier detection procedure for abnormal voxel (i.e., tumor) classification. To minimize tissue misclassification, the segmentation-normalization procedure requires prior information of the tumor location and extent. We therefore propose that ALI is run iteratively so that the output of Step B is used as a patient-specific prior in Step A. We test this procedure on real T1-weighted images from 18 patients, and the results were validated in comparison to two independent observers' manual tracings. The automated procedure identified the tumors successfully with an excellent agreement with the manual segmentation (area under the ROC curve = 0.97 ± 0.03). The proposed procedure increases the flexibility and robustness of the ALI tool and will be particularly useful for lesion-behavior mapping studies, or when lesion identification and/or spatial normalization are problematic.
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- Ana Sanjuán
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College of London London, UK ; Departamento de Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología, Universitat Jaume I Castellón, Spain
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College of London London, UK
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- Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery London, UK
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- Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle épinière Paris, France
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College of London London, UK
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- Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery London, UK
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- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College of London London, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College of London London, UK ; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College of London London, UK
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- Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery London, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College of London London, UK
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