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Li B, Li WG, Guo Y, Wang Y, Xu LY, Yang Y, Xu SG, Tan ZL, Mei YR, Wang KY. Integrating fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation and functional connectivity to investigate the mechanism and prognosis of severe traumatic brain injury. Front Neurol 2023; 14:1266167. [PMID: 38145123 PMCID: PMC10748505 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1266167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/26/2023] Open
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Objective Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used for evaluating residual brain function and predicting the prognosis of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI). This study aimed to integrate the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) and functional connectivity (FC) to investigate the mechanism and prognosis of patients with sTBI. Methods Sixty-five patients with sTBI were included and underwent fMRI scanning within 14 days after brain injury. The patient's outcome was assessed using the Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended (GOSE) at 6 months post-injury. Of the 63 patients who met fMRI data analysis standards, the prognosis of 18 patients was good (GOSE scores ≥ 5), and the prognosis of 45 patients was poor (GOSE scores ≤ 4). First, we apply fALFF to identify residual brain functional differences in patients who present different prognoses and conjoined it in regions of interest (ROI)-based FC analysis to investigate the residual brain function of sTBI at the acute phase of sTBI. Then, the area under the curve (AUC) was used to evaluate the predictive ability of the brain regions with the difference of fALFF and FC values. Results Patients who present good outcomes at 6 months post-injury have increased fALFF values in the Brodmann area (7, 18, 31, 13, 39 40, 42, 19, 23) and decreased FC values in the Brodmann area (28, 34, 35, 36, 20, 28, 34, 35, 36, 38, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 13, 40, 41, 43, 44, 20, 28 35, 36, 38) at the acute phase of sTBI. The parameters of these alterations can be used for predicting the long-term outcomes of patients with sTBI, of which the fALFF increase in the temporal lobe, occipital lobe, precuneus, and middle temporal gyrus showed the highest predictive ability (AUC = 0.883). Conclusion We provide a compensatory mechanism that several regions of the brain can be spontaneously activated at the acute phase of sTBI in those who present with a good prognosis in the 6-month follow-up, that is, a destructive mode that increases its fALFF in the local regions and weakens its FC to the whole brain. These findings provide a theoretical basis for developing early intervention targets for sTBI patients.
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- Biao Li
- Department of Emergency, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
- Department of Emergency, Nanchang Hongdu Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Imaging, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Emergency, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai Ninth People’s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Emergency, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Emergency, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Imaging, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Emergency, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
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Yan H, Wu H, Cai Z, Du S, Li L, Xu B, Chang C, Wang N. The neural correlates of apathy in the context of aging and brain disorders: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Front Aging Neurosci 2023; 15:1181558. [PMID: 37396666 PMCID: PMC10311641 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1181558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023] Open
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Introduction Apathy is a prevalent mood disturbance that occurs in a wide range of populations, including those with normal cognitive aging, mental disorders, neurodegenerative disorders and traumatic brain injuries. Recently, neuroimaging technologies have been employed to elucidate the neural substrates underlying brain disorders accompanying apathy. However, the consistent neural correlates of apathy across normal aging and brain disorders are still unclear. Methods This paper first provides a brief review of the neural mechanism of apathy in healthy elderly individuals, those with mental disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, and traumatic brain injuries. Further, following the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, the structural and functional neuroimaging meta-analysis using activation likelihood estimation method is performed on the apathy group with brain disorders and the healthy elderly, aiming at exploring the neural correlates of apathy. Results The structural neuroimaging meta-analysis showed that gray matter atrophy is associated with apathy in the bilateral precentral gyrus (BA 13/6), bilateral insula (BA 47), bilateral medial frontal gyrus (BA 11), bilateral inferior frontal gyrus, left caudate (putamen) and right anterior cingulate, while the functional neuroimaging meta-analysis suggested that the functional connectivity in putamen and lateral globus pallidus is correlated with apathy. Discussion Through the neuroimaging meta-analysis, this study has identified the potential neural locations of apathy in terms of brain structure and function, which may offer valuable pathophysiological insights for developing more effective therapeutic interventions for affected patients.
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- Hongjie Yan
- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Lianyungang Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Lianyungang, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Neurology, Suzhou Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Suzhou, China
- Department of Neurology, Gusu School, Suzhou Science and Technology Town Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, Guanyun People’s Hospital, Guanyun, China
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- Department of Neurology, Suzhou TCM Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Lianyungang Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Lianyungang, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
- Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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Jiang S, Zhang H, Fang Y, Yin D, Dong Y, Chao X, Gong X, Wang J, Sun W. Altered Resting-State Brain Activity and Functional Connectivity in Post-Stroke Apathy: An fMRI Study. Brain Sci 2023; 13:brainsci13050730. [PMID: 37239202 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13050730] [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: 03/08/2023] [Revised: 04/07/2023] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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Apathy is a common neuropsychiatric disease after stroke and is linked to a lower quality of life while undergoing rehabilitation. However, it is still unknown what are the underlying neural mechanisms of apathy. This research aimed to explore differences in the cerebral activity and functional connectivity (FC) of subjects with post-stroke apathy and those without it. A total of 59 individuals with acute ischemic stroke and 29 healthy subjects with similar age, sex, and education were recruited. The Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES) was used to evaluate apathy at 3 months after stroke. Patients were split into two groups-PSA (n = 21) and nPSA (n = 38)-based on their diagnosis. The fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) was used to measure cerebral activity, as well as region-of-interest to region-of-interest analysis to examine functional connectivity among apathy-related regions. Pearson correlation analysis between fALFF values and apathy severity was performed in this research. The values of fALFF in the left middle temporal regions, right anterior and middle cingulate regions, middle frontal region, and cuneus region differed significantly among groups. Pearson correlation analysis showed that the fALFF values in the left middle temporal region (p < 0.001, r = 0.66) and right cuneus (p < 0.001, r = 0.48) were positively correlated with AES scores in stroke patients, while fALFF values in the right anterior cingulate (p < 0.001, r = -0.61), right middle frontal gyrus (p < 0.001, r = -0.49), and middle cingulate gyrus (p = 0.04, r = -0.27) were negatively correlated with AES scores in stroke patients. These regions formed an apathy-related subnetwork, and functional connectivity analysis unveiled that altered connectivity was linked to PSA (p < 0.05). This research found that abnormalities in brain activity and FC in the left middle temporal region, right middle frontal region, right cuneate region, and right anterior and middle cingulate regions in stroke patients were associated with PSA, revealing a possible neural mechanism and providing new clues for the diagnosis and treatment of PSA.
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- Shiyi Jiang
- Stroke Center & Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230001, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhongshan 528400, China
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- Stroke Center & Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230001, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230001, China
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- Stroke Center & Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230001, China
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- Stroke Center & Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230001, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan First People's Hospital, Huainan 232000, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210033, China
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- Stroke Center & Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230001, China
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Prange S, Metereau E, Maillet A, Klinger H, Schmitt E, Lhommée E, Bichon A, Lancelot S, Meoni S, Broussolle E, Castrioto A, Tremblay L, Krack P, Thobois S. Limbic Serotonergic Plasticity Contributes to the Compensation of Apathy in Early Parkinson's Disease. Mov Disord 2022; 37:1211-1221. [PMID: 35238430 DOI: 10.1002/mds.28971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Revised: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND De novo Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with apathy exhibit prominent limbic serotonergic dysfunction and microstructural disarray. Whether this distinctive lesion profile at diagnosis entails different prognosis remains unknown. OBJECTIVES To investigate the progression of dopaminergic and serotonergic dysfunction and their relation to motor and nonmotor impairment in PD patients with or without apathy at diagnosis. METHODS Thirteen de novo apathetic and 13 nonapathetic PD patients were recruited in a longitudinal double-tracer positron emission tomography cohort study. We quantified the progression of presynaptic dopaminergic and serotonergic pathology using [11 C]PE2I for dopamine transporter and [11 C]DASB for serotonin transporter at baseline and 3 to 5 years later, using linear mixed-effect models and mediation analysis to compare the longitudinal evolution between groups for clinical impairment and region-of-interest-based analysis. RESULTS After the initiation of dopamine replacement therapy, apathy, depression, and anxiety improved at follow-up in patients with apathy at diagnosis (n = 10) to the level of patients without apathy (n = 11). Patients had similar progression of motor impairment, whereas mild impulsive behaviors developed in both groups. Striato-pallidal and mesocorticolimbic presynaptic dopaminergic loss progressed similarly in both groups, as did serotonergic pathology in the putamen, caudate nucleus, and pallidum. Contrastingly, serotonergic innervation selectively increased in the ventral striatum and anterior cingulate cortex in apathetic patients, contributing to the reversal of apathy besides dopamine replacement therapy. CONCLUSION Patients suffering from apathy at diagnosis exhibit compensatory changes in limbic serotonergic innervation within 5 years of diagnosis, with promising evidence that serotonergic plasticity contributes to the reversal of apathy. The relationship between serotonergic plasticity and dopaminergic treatments warrants further longitudinal investigations. © 2022 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Stéphane Prange
- Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, UMR 5229, Univ Lyon, Bron, France.,Service de Neurologie C, Centre Expert Parkinson NS-PARK/FCRIN Network, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Bron, France
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- Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, UMR 5229, Univ Lyon, Bron, France.,Service de Neurologie C, Centre Expert Parkinson NS-PARK/FCRIN Network, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Bron, France
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- Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, UMR 5229, Univ Lyon, Bron, France
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- Service de Neurologie C, Centre Expert Parkinson NS-PARK/FCRIN Network, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Bron, France
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- Inserm, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Unité Troubles du Mouvement, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Inserm, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Unité Troubles du Mouvement, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Inserm, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Unité Troubles du Mouvement, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- CNRS UMR5292, INSERM U1028, Univ. Lyon 1, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France.,Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.,CERMEP-Imaging Platform, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Bron, France
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- Inserm, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Unité Troubles du Mouvement, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, UMR 5229, Univ Lyon, Bron, France.,Service de Neurologie C, Centre Expert Parkinson NS-PARK/FCRIN Network, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Bron, France.,Faculté de Médecine et de Maïeutique Lyon Sud Charles Mérieux, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Oullins, France
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- Inserm, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Unité Troubles du Mouvement, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, UMR 5229, Univ Lyon, Bron, France
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, UMR 5229, Univ Lyon, Bron, France.,Service de Neurologie C, Centre Expert Parkinson NS-PARK/FCRIN Network, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Bron, France.,Faculté de Médecine et de Maïeutique Lyon Sud Charles Mérieux, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Oullins, France
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