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Dzialas V, Hoenig MC, Prange S, Bischof GN, Drzezga A, van Eimeren T. Structural underpinnings and long-term effects of resilience in Parkinson's disease. NPJ Parkinsons Dis 2024; 10:94. [PMID: 38697984 PMCID: PMC11066097 DOI: 10.1038/s41531-024-00699-x] [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: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Resilience in neuroscience generally refers to an individual's capacity to counteract the adverse effects of a neuropathological condition. While resilience mechanisms in Alzheimer's disease are well-investigated, knowledge regarding its quantification, neurobiological underpinnings, network adaptations, and long-term effects in Parkinson's disease is limited. Our study involved 151 Parkinson's patients from the Parkinson's Progression Marker Initiative Database with available Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Dopamine Transporter Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography scans, and clinical information. We used an improved prediction model linking neuropathology to symptom severity to estimate individual resilience levels. Higher resilience levels were associated with a more active lifestyle, increased grey matter volume in motor-associated regions, a distinct structural connectivity network and maintenance of relative motor functioning for up to a decade. Overall, the results indicate that relative maintenance of motor function in Parkinson's patients may be associated with greater neuronal substrate, allowing higher tolerance against neurodegenerative processes through dynamic network restructuring.
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- Verena Dzialas
- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Nuclear Medicine, 50937, Cologne, Germany
- University of Cologne, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 50923, Cologne, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Nuclear Medicine, 50937, Cologne, Germany
- Molecular Organization of the Brain, Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine II, Research Center Juelich, 52428, Juelich, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Nuclear Medicine, 50937, Cologne, Germany
- Université de Lyon, Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, UMR, 5229, Bron, France
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Nuclear Medicine, 50937, Cologne, Germany
- Molecular Organization of the Brain, Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine II, Research Center Juelich, 52428, Juelich, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Nuclear Medicine, 50937, Cologne, Germany
- Molecular Organization of the Brain, Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine II, Research Center Juelich, 52428, Juelich, Germany
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, 53127, Bonn, Germany
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- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Nuclear Medicine, 50937, Cologne, Germany.
- University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, 50937, Cologne, Germany.
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Chiu SY, Chen R, Wang WE, Armstrong MJ, Boeve BF, Savica R, Ramanan V, Fields JA, Graff-Radford N, Ferman TJ, Kantarci K, Vaillancourt DE. Longitudinal Free-Water Changes in Dementia with Lewy Bodies. Mov Disord 2024; 39:836-846. [PMID: 38477399 PMCID: PMC11102324 DOI: 10.1002/mds.29763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 01/06/2024] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) examines tissue microstructure integrity in vivo. Prior dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) diffusion tensor imaging studies yielded mixed results. OBJECTIVE We employed free-water (FW) imaging to assess DLB progression and correlate with clinical decline in DLB. METHODS Baseline and follow-up MRIs were obtained at 12 and/or 24 months for 27 individuals with DLB or mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies (MCI-LB). FW was analyzed using the Mayo Clinic Adult Lifespan Template. Primary outcomes were FW differences between baseline and 12 or 24 months. To compare FW change longitudinally, we included 20 cognitively unimpaired individuals from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. RESULTS We followed 23 participants to 12 months and 16 participants to 24 months. Both groups had worsening in Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and Movement Disorder Society-Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) scores. We found significant FW increases at both time points compared to baseline in the insula, amygdala, posterior cingulum, parahippocampal, entorhinal, supramarginal, fusiform, retrosplenial, and Rolandic operculum regions. At 24 months, we found more widespread microstructural changes in regions implicated in visuospatial processing, motor, and cholinergic functions. Between-group analyses (DLB vs. controls) confirmed significant FW changes over 24 months in most of these regions. FW changes were associated with longitudinal worsening of MDS-UPDRS and MoCA scores. CONCLUSIONS FW increased in gray and white matter regions in DLB, likely due to neurodegenerative pathology associated with disease progression. FW change was associated with clinical decline. The findings support dMRI as a promising tool to track disease progression in DLB. © 2024 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Shannon Y. Chiu
- Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Laboratory for Rehabilitation Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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- Laboratory for Rehabilitation Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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Piramide N, De Micco R, Di Nardo F, Caiazzo G, Siciliano M, Cirillo M, Russo A, Tedeschi G, Esposito F, Tessitore A. Altered domain-specific striatal functional connectivity in patients with Parkinson's disease and urinary symptoms. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2024:10.1007/s00702-024-02776-0. [PMID: 38661818 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-024-02776-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2024] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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BACKGROUND In this study, we aimed at investigating the possible association of urinary symptoms with whole-brain MRI resting-state functional connectivity (FC) alterations from distinct striatal subregions in a large cohort of early PD patients. METHODS Seventy-nine drug-naive PD patients (45 PD-urinary+/34 PD-urinary-) and 38 healthy controls (HCs) were consecutively enrolled. Presence/absence of urinary symptoms were assessed by means of the Nonmotor Symptom Scale - domain 7. Using an a priori connectivity-based domain-specific parcellation, we defined three ROIs (per each hemisphere) for different striatal functional subregions (sensorimotor, limbic and cognitive) from which seed-based FC voxel-wise analyses were conducted over the whole brain. RESULTS Compared to PD-urinary-, PD-urinary+ patients showed increased FC between striatal regions and motor and premotor/supplementary motor areas as well as insula/anterior dorsolateral PFC. Compared to HC, PD-urinary+ patients presented decreased FC between striatal regions and parietal, insular and cingulate cortices. CONCLUSIONS Our findings revealed a specific pattern of striatal FC alteration in PD patients with urinary symptoms, potentially associated to altered stimuli perception and sensorimotor integration even in the early stages. These results may potentially help clinicians to design more effective and tailored rehabilitation and neuromodulation protocols for PD patients.
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- Noemi Piramide
- Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy
- Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy
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- Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Napoli, Italy.
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Franco-O'Byrne D, Santamaría-García H, Migeot J, Ibáñez A. Emerging Theories of Allostatic-Interoceptive Overload in Neurodegeneration. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 2024. [PMID: 38637414 DOI: 10.1007/7854_2024_471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/20/2024]
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Recent integrative multilevel models offer novel insights into the etiology and course of neurodegenerative conditions. The predictive coding of allostatic-interoception theory posits that the brain adapts to environmental demands by modulating internal bodily signals through the allostatic-interoceptive system. Specifically, a domain-general allostatic-interoceptive network exerts adaptive physiological control by fine-tuning initial top-down predictions and bottom-up peripheral signaling. In this context, adequate adaptation implies the minimization of prediction errors thereby optimizing energy expenditure. Abnormalities in top-down interoceptive predictions or peripheral signaling can trigger allostatic overload states, ultimately leading to dysregulated interoceptive and bodily systems (endocrine, immunological, circulatory, etc.). In this context, environmental stress, social determinants of health, and harmful exposomes (i.e., the cumulative life-course exposition to different environmental stressors) may interact with physiological and genetic factors, dysregulating allostatic interoception and precipitating neurodegenerative processes. We review the allostatic-interoceptive overload framework across different neurodegenerative diseases, particularly in the behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). We describe how concepts of allostasis and interoception could be integrated with principles of predictive coding to explain how the brain optimizes adaptive responses, while maintaining physiological stability through feedback loops with multiple organismic systems. Then, we introduce the model of allostatic-interoceptive overload of bvFTD and discuss its implications for the understanding of pathophysiological and neurocognitive abnormalities in multiple neurodegenerative conditions.
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- Daniel Franco-O'Byrne
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Department of Psychiatry, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
- Center of Memory and Cognition Intellectus, Hospital Universitario San Ignacio, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile.
- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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Dahmani L, Bai Y, Zhang W, Ren J, Li S, Hu Q, Fu X, Ma J, Wei W, Wang M, Liu H, Wang D. Individualized functional connectivity markers associated with motor and mood symptoms of Parkinson's disease. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.01.31.578238. [PMID: 38352322 PMCID: PMC10862849 DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.31.578238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex neurological disorder characterized by many motor and non-motor symptoms. While most studies focus on the motor symptoms of the disease, it is important to identify markers that underlie different facets of the disease. In this case-control study, we sought to discover reliable, individualized functional connectivity markers associated with both motor and mood symptoms of PD. Using functional MRI, we extensively sampled 166 patients with PD (64 women, 102 men; mean age=61.8 years, SD=7.81) and 51 healthy control participants (32 women, 19 men; mean age=55.68 years, SD=7.62). We found that a model consisting of 44 functional connections predicted both motor (UPDRS-III: Pearson r=0.21, FDR-adjusted p=0.006) and mood symptoms (HAMD: Pearson r=0.23, FDR-adjusted p=0.006; HAMA: Pearson r=0.21, FDR-adjusted p=0.006). Two sets of connections contributed differentially to these predictions. Between-network connections, mainly connecting the sensorimotor and visual large-scale functional networks, substantially contributed to the prediction of motor measures, while within-network connections in the insula and sensorimotor network contributed more so to mood prediction. The middle to posterior insula region played a particularly important role in predicting depression and anxiety scores. We successfully replicated and generalized our findings in two independent PD datasets. Taken together, our findings indicate that sensorimotor and visual network markers are indicative of PD brain pathology, and that distinct subsets of markers are associated with motor and mood symptoms of PD.
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- Louisa Dahmani
- Department of Medical Imaging, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA, 02129
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Changping Laboratory, Beijing, China
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- Changping Laboratory, Beijing, China
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- Changping Laboratory, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- Changping Laboratory, Beijing, China
- Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA, 02129
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Simonetta C, Bissacco J, Conti M, Bovenzi R, Salimei C, Cerroni R, Pierantozzi M, Stefani A, Mercuri NB, Schirinzi T. Motor cortex transcranial direct current stimulation improves non-motor symptoms in early-onset Parkinson's disease: a pilot study. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2024; 131:189-193. [PMID: 38104296 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-023-02726-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Early-onset Parkinson's Disease (EOPD) demands tailored treatments. The younger age of patients might account for a higher sensitivity to transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) based non-invasive neuromodulation, which may raise as an integrative therapy in the field. Accordingly, here we assessed the safety and efficacy of the primary left motor cortex (M1) anodal tDCS in EOPD. Ten idiopathic EOPD patients received tDCS at 2.0 mA per 20 min for 10 days within a crossover, double-blind, sham-controlled pilot study. The outcome was evaluated by measuring changes in MDS-UPDRS part III, Non-Motor Symptoms Scale (NMSS), PD-cognitive rating scale, and PD Quality of Life Questionnaire-39 scores. We showed that anodal but not sham tDCS significantly reduced the NMSS total and "item 2" (sleep/fatigue) scores. Other parameters were not modified. No adverse events occurred. M1 anodal tDCS might thus evoke plasticity changes in cortical-subcortical circuits involved in non-motor functions, supporting the value as a therapeutic option in EOPD.
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- Clara Simonetta
- Unit of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 00133, Rome, Italy
- UOSD Parkinson Centre, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 00133, Rome, Italy
- UOSD Parkinson Centre, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Neurology, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 00133, Rome, Italy.
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Lyu H, Zhu X, He N, Li Q, Yin Q, Huang Y, Yan F, Liu J, Lu Y. Alterations in Resting-State MR Functional Connectivity of the Central Autonomic Network in Multiple System Atrophy and Relationship with Disease Severity. J Magn Reson Imaging 2023; 58:1472-1487. [PMID: 36988420 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.28693] [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: 12/07/2022] [Revised: 03/09/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The central autonomic network (CAN) plays a critical role in the body's sympathetic and parasympathetic control. However, functional connectivity (FC) changes of the CAN in patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) remain unknown. PURPOSE To investigate FC alterations of CAN in MSA patients. STUDY TYPE Prospective. POPULATION Eighty-two subjects (47 patients with MSA [44.7% female, 60.5 ± 6.9 years], 35 age- and sex-matched healthy controls [HC] [57.1% female, 62.5 ± 6.6 years]). FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE 3-T, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) using gradient echo-planar imaging (EPI), T1-weighted three-dimensional magnetization-prepared rapid gradient echo (3D MPRAGE) structural MRI. ASSESSMENT FC alterations were explored by using core modulatory regions of CAN as seeds, including midcingulate cortex, insula, amygdala, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Bartlett factor score (BFS) derived from a factor analysis of clinical assessments on disease severity was used as a grouping factor for moderate MSA (mMSA: BFS < 0) and severe MSA (sMSA: BFS > 0). STATISTICAL TESTS For FC analysis, the one-way ANCOVA with cluster-level family-wise error correction (statistical significance level of P < 0.025), and post hoc t-testing with Bonferroni correction or Tamhane's T2 correction (statistical significance level of adjusted-P < 0.05) were adopted. Correlation was assessed using Pearson correlation or Spearman correlation (statistical significance level of P < 0.05). RESULTS Compared with HC, patients with MSA exhibited significant FC aberrances between the CAN and brain areas of sensorimotor control, limbic network, putamen, and cerebellum. For MSA patients, most FC alterations of CAN, especially concerning FC between the right anterior insula and right primary sensorimotor cortices, were found to be significantly correlated with disease severity. FC changes were found to be more significant in sMSA group than in mMSA group when compared with HCs. DATA CONCLUSION MSA shows widespread FC changes of CAN, suggesting that abnormal functional integration of CAN may be involved in disease pathogenesis of MSA. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 2 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 3.
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- Haiying Lyu
- Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- MR Collaborations, Siemens Healthineers Ltd., Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
- Ruijin Hospital Lu Wan Branch, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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Meng L, Wang D, Shi Y, Li Z, Zhang J, Lu H, Zhu X, Ming D. Enhanced brain functional connectivity and activation after 12-week Tai Chi-based action observation training in patients with Parkinson's disease. Front Aging Neurosci 2023; 15:1252610. [PMID: 37881362 PMCID: PMC10595151 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1252610] [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: 07/04/2023] [Accepted: 09/12/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
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Introduction Motor-cognitive interactive interventions, such as action observation training (AOT), have shown great potential in restoring cognitive function and motor behaviors. It is expected that an advanced AOT incorporating specific Tai Chi movements with continuous and spiral characteristics can facilitate the shift from automatic to intentional actions and thus enhance motor control ability for early-stage PD. Nonetheless, the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. The study aimed to investigate changes in brain functional connectivity (FC) and clinical improvement after 12 weeks of Tai Chi-based action observation training (TC-AOT) compared to traditional physical therapy (TPT). Methods Thirty early-stage PD patients were recruited and randomly assigned to the TC-AOT group (N = 15) or TPT group (N = 15). All participants underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) scans before and after 12 weeks of training and clinical assessments. The FCs were evaluated by seed-based correlation analysis based on the default mode network (DMN). The rehabilitation effects of the two training methods were compared while the correlations between significant FC changes and clinical improvement were investigated. Results The results showed that the TC-AOT group exhibited significantly increased FCs between the dorsal medial prefrontal cortex and cerebellum crus I, between the posterior inferior parietal lobe and supramarginal gyrus, and between the temporal parietal junction and clusters of middle occipital gyrus and superior temporal. Moreover, these FC changes had a positive relationship with patients' improved motor and cognitive performance. Discussion The finding supported that the TC-AOT promotes early-stage PD rehabilitation outcomes by promoting brain neuroplasticity where the FCs involved in the integration of sensorimotor processing and motor learning were strengthened.
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- Lin Meng
- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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Shin JH, Kim H, Kim YK, Yoon EJ, Nam H, Jeon B, Lee JY. Longitudinal evolution of cortical thickness signature reflecting Lewy body dementia in isolated REM sleep behavior disorder: a prospective cohort study. Transl Neurodegener 2023; 12:27. [PMID: 37217951 DOI: 10.1186/s40035-023-00356-y] [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: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The isolated rapid-eye-movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) is a prodromal condition of Lewy body disease including Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We aim to investigate the longitudinal evolution of DLB-related cortical thickness signature in a prospective iRBD cohort and evaluate the possible predictive value of the cortical signature index in predicting dementia-first phenoconversion in individuals with iRBD. METHODS We enrolled 22 DLB patients, 44 healthy controls, and 50 video polysomnography-proven iRBD patients. Participants underwent 3-T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical/neuropsychological evaluations. We characterized DLB-related whole-brain cortical thickness spatial covariance pattern (DLB-pattern) using scaled subprofile model of principal components analysis that best differentiated DLB patients from age-matched controls. We analyzed clinical and neuropsychological correlates of the DLB-pattern expression scores and the mean values of the whole-brain cortical thickness in DLB and iRBD patients. With repeated MRI data during the follow-up in our prospective iRBD cohort, we investigated the longitudinal evolution of the cortical thickness signature toward Lewy body dementia. Finally, we analyzed the potential predictive value of cortical thickness signature as a biomarker of phenoconversion in iRBD cohort. RESULTS The DLB-pattern was characterized by thinning of the temporal, orbitofrontal, and insular cortices and relative preservation of the precentral and inferior parietal cortices. The DLB-pattern expression scores correlated with attentional and frontal executive dysfunction (Trail Making Test-A and B: R = - 0.55, P = 0.024 and R = - 0.56, P = 0.036, respectively) as well as visuospatial impairment (Rey-figure copy test: R = - 0.54, P = 0.0047). The longitudinal trajectory of DLB-pattern revealed an increasing pattern above the cut-off in the dementia-first phenoconverters (Pearson's correlation, R = 0.74, P = 6.8 × 10-4) but no significant change in parkinsonism-first phenoconverters (R = 0.0063, P = 0.98). The mean value of the whole-brain cortical thickness predicted phenoconversion in iRBD patients with hazard ratio of 9.33 [1.16-74.12]. The increase in DLB-pattern expression score discriminated dementia-first from parkinsonism-first phenoconversions with 88.2% accuracy. CONCLUSION Cortical thickness signature can effectively reflect the longitudinal evolution of Lewy body dementia in the iRBD population. Replication studies would further validate the utility of this imaging marker in iRBD.
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- Jung Hwan Shin
- Department of Neurology, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
- Institute of Radiation Medicine, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
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Clinical Phenotype Imprints on Brain Atrophy Progression in Parkinson’s Disease. CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE 2023. [DOI: 10.3390/ctn7010008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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There is much controversy about the link between motor symptom progression and the plethora of reported brain atrophy patterns in idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD). The main goal of this study is to provide empirical evidence for unique and common contributions of clinical phenotype characteristics on the dynamic changes of brain structure over time. We analyzed the behavioral and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of PD patients (n = 22) and healthy individuals (n = 21) acquired two years apart through the computational anatomy framework of longitudinal voxel-based morphometry (VBM). This analysis revealed a symmetrical bi-hemispheric pattern of accelerated grey matter decrease in PD extending through the insula, parahippocampal gyrus, medial temporal lobes and the precuneus. We observed a hemisphere-specific correlation between the established scores for motor symptoms severity and the rate of atrophy within motor regions, which was further differentiated by the clinical phenotype characteristics of PD patients. Baseline cerebellum anatomy differences between the tremor-dominant and akineto-rigid PD remained stable over time and can be regarded as trait rather than state-associated features. We interpret the observed pattern of progressive brain anatomy changes as mainly linked to insular areas that determine together with basal ganglia the motor and non-motor phenotype in PD. Our findings provide empirical evidence for the sensitivity of computational anatomy to dynamic changes in PD, offering additional opportunities to establish reliable models of disease progression.
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Beyond shallow feelings of complex affect: Non-motor correlates of subjective emotional experience in Parkinson's disease. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0281959. [PMID: 36827296 PMCID: PMC9955984 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/04/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
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Affective disorders in Parkinson's disease (PD) concern several components of emotion. However, research on subjective feeling in PD is scarce and has produced overall varying results. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the subjective emotional experience and its relationship with autonomic symptoms and other non-motor features in PD patients. We used a battery of film excerpts to elicit Amusement, Anger, Disgust, Fear, Sadness, Tenderness, and Neutral State, in 28 PD patients and 17 healthy controls. Self-report scores of emotion category, intensity, and valence were analyzed. In the PD group, we explored the association between emotional self-reported scores and clinical scales assessing autonomic dysregulation, depression, REM sleep behavior disorder, and cognitive impairment. Patient clustering was assessed by considering relevant associations. Tenderness occurrence and intensity of Tenderness and Amusement were reduced in the PD patients. Tenderness occurrence was mainly associated with the overall cognitive status and the prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms. In contrast, the intensity and valence reported for the experience of Amusement correlated with the prevalence of urinary symptoms. We identified five patient clusters, which differed significantly in their profile of non-motor symptoms and subjective feeling. Our findings further suggest the possible existence of a PD phenotype with more significant changes in subjective emotional experience. We concluded that the subjective experience of complex emotions is impaired in PD. Non-motor feature grouping suggests the existence of disease phenotypes profiled according to specific deficits in subjective emotional experience, with potential clinical implications for the adoption of precision medicine in PD. Further research on larger sample sizes, combining subjective and physiological measures of emotion with additional clinical features, is needed to extend our findings.
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Resting-state network connectivity changes in drug-naive Parkinson's disease patients with probable REM sleep behavior disorder. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2023; 130:43-51. [PMID: 36474090 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-022-02565-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 11/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Epidemiological studies have shown that Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with probable REM sleep behavior disorder (pRBD) present an increased risk of worse cognitive progression over the disease course. The aim of this study was to investigate, using resting-state functional MRI (RS-fMRI), the functional connectivity (FC) changes associated with the presence of pRBD in a cohort of newly diagnosed, drug-naive and cognitively unimpaired PD patients compared to healthy controls (HC). Fifty-six drug-naïve patients (25 PD-pRBD+ and 31 PD-pRBD-) and 23 HC underwent both RS-fMRI and clinical assessment. Single-subject and group-level independent component analysis was used to analyze intra- and inter-network FC differences within the major large-scale neurocognitive networks, namely the default mode (DMN), frontoparietal (FPN), salience (SN) and executive-control (ECN) networks. Widespread FC changes were found within the most relevant neurocognitive networks in PD patients compared to HC. Moreover, PD-pRBD+ patients showed abnormal intrinsic FC within the DMN, ECN and SN compared to PD-pRBD-. Finally, PD-pRBD+ patients showed functional decoupling between left and right FPN. In the present study, we revealed that FC changes within the most relevant neurocognitive networks are already detectable in early drug-naïve PD patients, even in the absence of clinical overt cognitive impairment. These changes are even more evident in PD patients with RBD, potentially leading to profound impairment in cognitive processing and cognitive/behavioral integration, as well as to fronto-striatal maladaptive compensatory mechanisms.
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Baagil H, Hohenfeld C, Habel U, Eickhoff SB, Gur RE, Reetz K, Dogan I. Neural correlates of impulse control behaviors in Parkinson's disease: Analysis of multimodal imaging data. Neuroimage Clin 2023; 37:103315. [PMID: 36610308 PMCID: PMC9850204 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2022] [Revised: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Impulse control behaviors (ICB) are frequently observed in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and are characterized by compulsive and repetitive behavior resulting from the inability to resist internal drives. OBJECTIVES In this study, we aimed to provide a better understanding of structural and functional brain alterations and clinical parameters related to ICB in PD patients. METHODS We utilized a dataset from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative including 36 patients with ICB (PDICB+) compared to 76 without ICB (PDICB-) and 61 healthy controls (HC). Using multimodal MRI data we assessed gray matter brain volume, white matter integrity, and graph topological properties at rest. RESULTS Compared with HC, PDICB+ showed reduced gray matter volume in the bilateral superior and middle temporal gyrus and in the right middle occipital gyrus. Compared with PDICB-, PDICB+ showed volume reduction in the left anterior insula. Depression and anxiety were more prevalent in PDICB+ than in PDICB- and HC. In PDICB+, lower gray matter volume in the precentral gyrus and medial frontal cortex, and higher axial diffusivity in the superior corona radiata were related to higher depression score. Both PD groups showed disrupted functional topological network pattern within the cingulate cortex compared with HC. PDICB+ vs PDICB- displayed reduced topological network pattern in the anterior cingulate cortex, insula, and nucleus accumbens. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that structural alterations in the insula and abnormal topological connectivity pattern in the salience network and the nucleus accumbens may lead to impaired decision making and hypersensitivity towards reward in PDICB+. Moreover, PDICB+ are more prone to suffer from depression and anxiety.
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- Hamzah Baagil
- Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstraße 30, Aachen, Germany; JARA-BRAIN Institute Molecular Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Research Center Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstraße 30, Aachen, Germany; JARA-BRAIN Institute Molecular Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Research Center Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstraße 30, Aachen, Germany; JARA‑BRAIN, Jülich‑Aachen Research Alliance, Institute of Brain Structure-Function Relationships, Aachen, Germany
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- Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstraße 30, Aachen, Germany; JARA-BRAIN Institute Molecular Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Research Center Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
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- Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstraße 30, Aachen, Germany; JARA-BRAIN Institute Molecular Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Research Center Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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Wen J, Guo T, Wu J, Bai X, Zhou C, Wu H, Liu X, Chen J, Cao Z, Gu L, Pu J, Zhang B, Zhang M, Guan X, Xu X. Nigral Iron Deposition Influences Disease Severity by Modulating the Effect of Parkinson's Disease on Brain Networks. JOURNAL OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE 2022; 12:2479-2492. [PMID: 36336939 PMCID: PMC9837680 DOI: 10.3233/jpd-223372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND In Parkinson's disease (PD), excessive iron deposition in the substantia nigra may exacerbate α-synuclein aggregation, facilitating the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons and their neural projection. OBJECTIVE To investigate the interaction effect between nigral iron deposition and PD status on brain networks. METHODS Eighty-five PD patients and 140 normal controls (NC) were included. Network function and nigral iron were measured using multi-modality magnetic resonance imaging. According to the median of nigral magnetic susceptibility of NC (0.095 ppm), PD and NC were respectively divided into high and low nigral iron group. The main and interaction effects were investigated by mixed effect analysis. RESULTS The main effect of disease was observed in basal ganglia network (BGN) and visual network (VN). The interaction effect between nigral iron and PD status was observed in left inferior frontal gyrus and left insular lobe in BGN, as well as right middle occipital gyrus, right superior temporal gyrus, and bilateral cuneus in VN. Furthermore, multiple mediation analysis revealed that the functional connectivity of interaction effect clusters in BGN and medial VN partially mediated the relationship between nigral iron and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale II score. CONCLUSION Our study demonstrates an interaction of nigral iron deposition and PD status on brain networks, that is, nigral iron deposition is associated with the change of brain network configuration exclusively when in PD. We identified a potential causal mediation pathway for iron to affect disease severity that was mediated by both BGN dysfunction and VN hyperfunction in PD.
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- Jiaqi Wen
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China,Correspondence to: Xiaojun Xu, MD, Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou 310009, China. Tel.: +86 0571 87315255; Fax: +86 0571 87315255; E-mail: and Xiaojun Guan, PhD, Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou 310009, China. Tel.: +86 0571 87315255; Fax: +86 0571 87315255;
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China,Correspondence to: Xiaojun Xu, MD, Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No.88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou 310009, China. Tel.: +86 0571 87315255; Fax: +86 0571 87315255; E-mail: and Xiaojun Guan, PhD, Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, No. 88 Jiefang Road, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou 310009, China. Tel.: +86 0571 87315255; Fax: +86 0571 87315255;
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Fathy YY, Jonkman LE, Bol JJ, Timmermans E, Jonker AJ, Rozemuller AJM, van de Berg WDJ. Axonal degeneration in the anterior insular cortex is associated with Alzheimer's co-pathology in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Transl Neurodegener 2022; 11:52. [PMID: 36474289 PMCID: PMC9728006 DOI: 10.1186/s40035-022-00325-x] [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: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Axons, crucial for impulse transmission and cellular trafficking, are thought to be primary targets of neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Axonal degeneration occurs early, preceeding and exceeding neuronal loss, and contributes to the spread of pathology, yet is poorly described outside the nigrostriatal circuitry. The insula, a cortical brain hub, was recently discovered to be highly vulnerable to pathology and plays a role in cognitive deficits in PD and DLB. The aim of this study was to evaluate morphological features as well as burden of proteinopathy and axonal degeneration in the anterior insular sub-regions in PD, PD with dementia (PDD), and DLB. METHODS α-Synuclein, phosphorylated (p-)tau, and amyloid-β pathology load were evaluated in the anterior insular (agranular and dysgranular) subregions of post-mortem human brains (n = 27). Axonal loss was evaluated using modified Bielschowsky silver staining and quantified using stereology. Cytoskeletal damage was comprehensively studied using immunofluorescent multi-labelling and 3D confocal laser-scanning microscopy. RESULTS Compared to PD and PDD, DLB showed significantly higher α-synuclein and p-tau pathology load, argyrophilic grains, and more severe axonal loss, particularly in the anterior agranular insula. Alternatively, the dysgranular insula showed a significantly higher load of amyloid-β pathology and its axonal density correlated with cognitive performance. p-Tau contributed most to axonal loss in the DLB group, was highest in the anterior agranular insula and significantly correlated with CDR global scores for dementia. Neurofilament and myelin showed degenerative changes including swellings, demyelination, and detachment of the axon-myelin unit. CONCLUSIONS Our results highlight the selective vulnerability of the anterior insular sub-regions to various converging pathologies, leading to impaired axonal integrity in PD, PDD and DLB, disrupting their functional properties and potentially contributing to cognitive, emotional, and autonomic deficits.
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- Yasmine Y. Fathy
- grid.12380.380000 0004 1754 9227Amsterdam UMC, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Section Clinical Neuroanatomy and Biobanking, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije University Amsterdam, O
- 2 Life Sciences building, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, Netherlands ,grid.484519.5Amsterdam Neuroscience, Program Neurodegeneration, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ,grid.5645.2000000040459992XDepartment of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Center, Postbus 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- grid.12380.380000 0004 1754 9227Amsterdam UMC, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Section Clinical Neuroanatomy and Biobanking, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije University Amsterdam, O
- 2 Life Sciences building, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, Netherlands ,grid.484519.5Amsterdam Neuroscience, Program Neurodegeneration, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- grid.12380.380000 0004 1754 9227Amsterdam UMC, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Section Clinical Neuroanatomy and Biobanking, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije University Amsterdam, O
- 2 Life Sciences building, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, Netherlands ,grid.484519.5Amsterdam Neuroscience, Program Neurodegeneration, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- grid.12380.380000 0004 1754 9227Amsterdam UMC, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Section Clinical Neuroanatomy and Biobanking, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije University Amsterdam, O
- 2 Life Sciences building, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, Netherlands ,grid.484519.5Amsterdam Neuroscience, Program Neurodegeneration, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- grid.12380.380000 0004 1754 9227Amsterdam UMC, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Section Clinical Neuroanatomy and Biobanking, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije University Amsterdam, O
- 2 Life Sciences building, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, Netherlands ,grid.484519.5Amsterdam Neuroscience, Program Neurodegeneration, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- grid.484519.5Amsterdam Neuroscience, Program Neurodegeneration, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ,grid.12380.380000 0004 1754 9227Amsterdam UMC, Department of Pathology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- grid.12380.380000 0004 1754 9227Amsterdam UMC, Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Section Clinical Neuroanatomy and Biobanking, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije University Amsterdam, O
- 2 Life Sciences building, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, Netherlands ,grid.484519.5Amsterdam Neuroscience, Program Neurodegeneration, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Migeot JA, Duran-Aniotz CA, Signorelli CM, Piguet O, Ibáñez A. A predictive coding framework of allostatic-interoceptive overload in frontotemporal dementia. Trends Neurosci 2022; 45:838-853. [PMID: 36057473 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2022.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Revised: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Recent allostatic-interoceptive explanations using predictive coding models propose that efficient regulation of the body's internal milieu is necessary to correctly anticipate environmental needs. We review this framework applied to understanding behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) considering both allostatic overload and interoceptive deficits. First, we show how this framework could explain divergent deficits in bvFTD (cognitive impairments, behavioral maladjustment, brain atrophy, fronto-insular-temporal network atypicality, aberrant interoceptive electrophysiological activity, and autonomic disbalance). We develop a set of theory-driven predictions based on levels of allostatic interoception associated with bvFTD phenomenology and related physiopathological mechanisms. This approach may help further understand the disparate behavioral and physiopathological dysregulations of bvFTD, suggesting targeted interventions and strengthening clinical models of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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- Joaquin A Migeot
- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago, Chile
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Physiology of Cognition, GIGA-CRC In Vivo Imaging, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, Saclay, France
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- The University of Sydney, School of Psychology and Brain & Mind Centre, Sydney, Australia
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- Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile; Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Global Brain Health Institute, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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Cerebro-cerebellar motor networks in clinical subtypes of Parkinson’s disease. NPJ Parkinsons Dis 2022; 8:113. [PMID: 36068246 PMCID: PMC9448730 DOI: 10.1038/s41531-022-00377-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients can be classified in tremor-dominant (TD) and postural-instability-and-gait-disorder (PIGD) motor subtypes. PIGD represents a more aggressive form of the disease that TD patients have a potentiality of converting into. This study investigated functional alterations within the cerebro-cerebellar system in PD-TD and PD-PIGD patients using stepwise functional connectivity (SFC) analysis and identified neuroimaging features that predict TD to PIGD conversion. Thirty-two PD-TD, 26 PD-PIGD patients and 60 healthy controls performed clinical/cognitive evaluations and resting-state functional MRI (fMRI). Four-year clinical follow-up data were available for 28 PD-TD patients, who were classified in 10 converters (cTD-PD) and 18 non-converters (ncTD-PD) to PIGD. The cerebellar seed-region was identified using a fMRI motor task. SFC analysis, characterizing regions that connect brain areas to the cerebellar seed at different levels of link-step distances, evaluated similar and divergent alterations in PD-TD and PD-PIGD. The discriminatory power of clinical data and/or SFC in distinguishing cPD-TD from ncPD-TD patients was assessed using ROC curve analysis. Compared to PD-TD, PD-PIGD patients showed decreased SFC in temporal lobe and occipital lobes and increased SFC in cerebellar cortex and ponto-medullary junction. Considering the subtype-conversion analysis, cPD-TD patients were characterized by increased SFC in temporal and occipital lobes and in cerebellum and ponto-medullary junction relative to ncPD-TD group. Combining clinical and SFC data, ROC curves provided the highest classification power to identify conversion to PIGD. These findings provide novel insights into the pathophysiology underlying different PD motor phenotypes and a potential tool for early characterization of PD-TD patients at risk of conversion to PIGD.
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Pacella V, Moro V. Motor awareness: a model based on neurological syndromes. Brain Struct Funct 2022; 227:3145-3160. [PMID: 36064864 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-022-02558-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Motor awareness is a complex, multifaceted construct involving the awareness of both (i) one's motor state while executing a movement or remaining still and (ii) one's motor abilities. The analysis of neurological syndromes associated with motor disorders suggests the existence of various different components which are, however, integrated into a model of motor awareness. These components are: (i) motor intention, namely, a conscious desire to perform an action; (ii) motor monitoring and error recognition, that is, the capacity to check the execution of the action and identify motor errors; and (iii) a general awareness of one's own motor abilities and deficits, that is, the capacity to recognize the general state of one's motor abilities about the performance of specific actions and the potential consequences of motor impairment. Neuroanatomical correlates involving the parietal and insular cortices, the medial and lateral frontal regions, and subcortical structures (basal ganglia and limbic system) support this multi-component model. Specific damage (or disconnections) to these structures results in a number of different disorders in motor awareness, such as anosognosia for hemiplegia and apraxia, and a number of symptoms which are specific to motor intention disorders (e.g., the Anarchic Hand Syndrome and Tourette's Syndrome) or motor monitoring (e.g., Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases). All of these clinical conditions are discussed in the light of a motor awareness model.
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- Valentina Pacella
- Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives-UMR 5293, CNRS, CEA University of Bordeaux, 33076, Bordeaux, CS, France. .,Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Sorbonne Universities, Paris, France.
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- NPSY.Lab-VR, Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 17, 37129, Verona, Italy.
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Yin W, Li A, Yang B, Gao C, Hu Y, Luo Z, Li Y, Zhu Y, Zhou C, Ren H, Li S, Yang X. Abnormal cortical atrophy and functional connectivity are associated with depression in Parkinson’s disease. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:957997. [PMID: 36118705 PMCID: PMC9471004 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.957997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Objective This study aimed to investigate the association of altered cortical thickness and functional connectivity (FC) with depression in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Materials and methods A total of 26 non-depressed PD patients (PD-ND), 30 PD patients with minor depression (PD-MnD), 32 PD patients with major depression (PD-MDD), and 30 healthy controls (HC) were enrolled. Differences in cortical thickness among the four groups were assessed, and the results were used to analyze FC differences in regions of cortical atrophy. Binary logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses were also performed to identify clinical features and neuroimaging biomarkers that might help in the prediction of PD-MDD. Results Patients with PD-MDD showed decreased cortical thickness compared to patients with PD-ND in the left superior temporal and right rostral middle frontal gyri (RMFG), as well as weak FC between the left superior temporal gyrus and right cerebellum posterior lobe and between right RMFG and right inferior frontal gyrus and insula. The combination of cortical thickness, FC, and basic clinical features showed strong potential for predicting PD-MDD based on the area under the ROC curve (0.927, 95% CI 0.854–0.999, p < 0.001). Conclusion Patients with PD-MDD show extensive cortical atrophy and FC alterations, suggesting that cortical thickness and FC may be neuroimaging-based diagnostic biomarkers for PD-MDD.
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- Weifang Yin
- Department of Geriatric Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Geriatric Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Neurology, Chengdu Seventh People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Geriatric Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Geriatric Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Geriatric Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Geriatric Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Geriatric Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
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- Department of Anesthesia, Kunming Xishan District People’s Hospital, Kunming, China
- *Correspondence: Shimei Li,
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- Department of Geriatric Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
- Yunnan Provincial Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Kunming, China
- Yunnan Province Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disease, Kunming, China
- Xinglong Yang,
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The structural changes of gray matter in Parkinson disease patients with mild cognitive impairments. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0269787. [PMID: 35857782 PMCID: PMC9299333 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Objectives
Parkinson disease (PD) is associated with cognitive impairments. However, the underlying neural mechanism of cognitive impairments in PD is still not clear. This study aimed to investigate the anatomic alternations of gray matter in PD patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and their associations with neurocognitive measurements.
Methods
T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data were acquired from 23 PD patients with MCI, 23 PD patients without MCI, and 23 matched healthy controls. The MRI data were analyzed using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and surfaced-based morphometry (SBM) methods to assess the structural changes in gray matter volume and cortical thickness respectively. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to examine the diagnostic accuracies of the indexes of interest. The correlations between the structural metrics and neurocognitive assessments (e.g., Montreal cognitive assessment, MOCA; Mini-mental state examination, MMSE) were further examined.
Results
PD patients with MCI showed reduced gray matter volume (GMV) in the frontal cortex (e.g., right inferior frontal gyrus and middle frontal gyrus) and extended to insula as well as cerebellum compared with the healthy controls and PD patients without MIC. Thinner of cortical thickens in the temporal lobe (e.g., left middle temporal gyrus and right superior temporal gyrus) extending to parietal cortex (e.g., precuneus) were found in the PD patients with MCI relative to the healthy controls and PD patients without MCI.ROC analysis indicated that the area under the ROC curve (AUC) values in the frontal, temporal, and subcortical structures (e.g., insula and cerebellum) could differentiate the PD patients with MCI and without MCI and healthy controls. Furthermore, GMV of the right middle frontal gyrus and cortical thickness of the right superior temporal gyrus were correlated with neurocognitive dysfunctions (e.g., MOCA and MMSE) in PD patients with MCI.
Conclusion
This study provided further evidence that PD with MCI was associated with structural alternations of brain. Morphometric analysis focusing on the cortical and subcortical regions could be biomarkers of cognitive impairments in PD patients.
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Brak IV, Filimonova E, Zakhariya O, Khasanov R, Stepanyan I. Transcranial Current Stimulation as a Tool of Neuromodulation of Cognitive Functions in Parkinson’s Disease. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:781488. [PMID: 35903808 PMCID: PMC9314857 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.781488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Decrease in cognitive function is one of the most common causes of poor life quality and early disability in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Existing methods of treatment are aimed at both correction of motor and non-motor symptoms. Methods of adjuvant therapy (or complementary therapy) for maintaining cognitive functions in patients with PD are of interest. A promising subject of research in this regard is the method of transcranial electric current stimulation (tES). Here we reviewed the current understanding of the pathogenesis of cognitive impairment in PD and of the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and transcranial alternating current stimulation on the cognitive function of patients with PD-MCI (Parkinson’s Disease–Mild Cognitive Impairment).
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- Ivan V. Brak
- Laboratory of Comprehensive Problems of Risk Assessment to Population and Workers’ Health, Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Izmerov Research Institute of Occupational Health”, Moscow, Russia
- “Engiwiki” Scientific and Engineering Projects Laboratory, Department of Information Technologies, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
- *Correspondence: Ivan V. Brak,
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- Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- Independent Researcher, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia
- Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Valli M, Uribe C, Mihaescu A, Strafella AP. Neuroimaging of rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder and its relation to Parkinson's disease. J Neurosci Res 2022; 100:1815-1833. [DOI: 10.1002/jnr.25099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Revised: 05/10/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Mikaeel Valli
- Brain Health Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour – Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Brain Institute, UHN University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Institute of Medical Science University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Brain Health Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Medicine, Institute of Neuroscience University of Barcelona Barcelona Spain
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- Brain Health Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour – Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Brain Institute, UHN University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Institute of Medical Science University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Brain Health Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour – Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Brain Institute, UHN University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Institute of Medical Science University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Edmond J. Safra Parkinson Disease Program & Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorder Unit, Neurology Division, Department of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, UHN University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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Short latency afferent inhibition correlates with stage of disease in Parkinson's patients. Can J Neurol Sci 2022:1-5. [PMID: 35684949 DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2022.83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Kou L, Chi X, Sun Y, Han C, Wan F, Hu J, Yin S, Wu J, Li Y, Zhou Q, Zou W, Xiong N, Huang J, Xia Y, Wang T. The circadian clock protein Rev-erbα provides neuroprotection and attenuates neuroinflammation against Parkinson's disease via the microglial NLRP3 inflammasome. J Neuroinflammation 2022; 19:133. [PMID: 35668454 PMCID: PMC9169406 DOI: 10.1186/s12974-022-02494-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Circadian disturbance is a common nonmotor complaint in Parkinson's disease (PD). The molecular basis underlying circadian rhythm in PD is poorly understood. Neuroinflammation has been identified as a key contributor to PD pathology. In this study, we explored the potential link between the core clock molecule Rev-erbα and the microglia-mediated NLR family pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome in PD pathogenesis. METHODS We first examined the diurnal Rev-erbα rhythms and diurnal changes in microglia-mediated inflammatory cytokines expression in the SN of MPTP-induced PD mice. Further, we used BV2 cell to investigate the impacts of Rev-erbα on NLRP3 inflammasome and microglial polarization induced by 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) and αsyn pre-formed fibril. The role of Rev-erbα in regulating microglial activation via NF-κB and NLRP3 inflammasome pathway was then explored. Effects of SR9009 against NLRP3 inflammasome activation, microgliosis and nigrostriatal dopaminergic degeneration in the SN and striatum of MPTP-induced PD mice were studied in detail. RESULTS BV2 cell-based experiments revealed the role of Rev-erbα in regulating microglial activation and polarization through the NF-κB and NLRP3 inflammasome pathways. Circadian oscillation of the core clock gene Rev-erbα in the substantia nigra (SN) disappeared in MPTP-induced PD mice, as well as diurnal changes in microglial morphology. The expression of inflammatory cytokines in SN of the MPTP-induced mice were significantly elevated. Furthermore, dopaminergic neurons loss in the nigrostriatal system were partially reversed by SR9009, a selective Rev-erbα agonist. In addition, SR9009 effectively reduced the MPTP-induced glial activation, microglial polarization and NLRP3 inflammasome activation in the nigrostriatal system. CONCLUSIONS These observations suggest that the circadian clock protein Rev-erbα plays an essential role in attenuating neuroinflammation in PD pathology, and provides a potential therapeutic target for PD treatment.
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- Liang Kou
- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
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- Department of Neurology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
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Meier JM, Perdikis D, Blickensdörfer A, Stefanovski L, Liu Q, Maith O, Dinkelbach HÜ, Baladron J, Hamker FH, Ritter P. Virtual deep brain stimulation: Multiscale co-simulation of a spiking basal ganglia model and a whole-brain mean-field model with the virtual brain. Exp Neurol 2022; 354:114111. [DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2022.114111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Revised: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Wei X, Shen Q, Litvan I, Huang M, Lee RR, Harrington DL. Internetwork Connectivity Predicts Cognitive Decline in Parkinson’s and Is Altered by Genetic Variants. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:853029. [PMID: 35418853 PMCID: PMC8996114 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.853029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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In Parkinson’s disease (PD) functional changes in the brain occur years before significant cognitive symptoms manifest yet core large-scale networks that maintain cognition and predict future cognitive decline are poorly understood. The present study investigated internetwork functional connectivity of visual (VN), anterior and posterior default mode (aDMN, pDMN), left/right frontoparietal (LFPN, RFPN), and salience (SN) networks in 63 cognitively normal PD (PDCN) and 43 healthy controls who underwent resting-state functional MRI. The functional relevance of internetwork coupling topologies was tested by their correlations with baseline cognitive performance in each group and with 2-year cognitive changes in a PDCN subsample. To disentangle heterogeneity in neurocognitive functioning, we also studied whether α-synuclein (SNCA) and microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) variants alter internetwork connectivity and/or accelerate cognitive decline. We found that internetwork connectivity was largely preserved in PDCN, except for reduced pDMN-RFPN/LFPN couplings, which correlated with poorer baseline global cognition. Preserved internetwork couplings also correlated with domain-specific cognition but differently for the two groups. In PDCN, stronger positive internetwork coupling topologies correlated with better cognition at baseline, suggesting a compensatory mechanism arising from less effective deployment of networks that supported cognition in healthy controls. However, stronger positive internetwork coupling topologies typically predicted greater longitudinal decline in most cognitive domains, suggesting that they were surrogate markers of neuronal vulnerability. In this regard, stronger aDMN-SN, LFPN-SN, and/or LFPN-VN connectivity predicted longitudinal decline in attention, working memory, executive functioning, and visual cognition, which is a risk factor for dementia. Coupling strengths of some internetwork topologies were altered by genetic variants. PDCN carriers of the SNCA risk allele showed amplified anticorrelations between the SN and the VN/pDMN, which supported cognition in healthy controls, but strengthened pDMN-RFPN connectivity, which maintained visual memory longitudinally. PDCN carriers of the MAPT risk allele showed greater longitudinal decline in working memory and increased VN-LFPN connectivity, which in turn predicted greater decline in visuospatial processing. Collectively, the results suggest that cognition is maintained by functional reconfiguration of large-scale internetwork communications, which are partly altered by genetic risk factors and predict future domain-specific cognitive progression.
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- Xiangyu Wei
- Research and Radiology Services, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States
- Revelle College, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Research and Radiology Services, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States
- Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Research and Radiology Services, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States
- Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Research and Radiology Services, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States
- Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Research and Radiology Services, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States
- Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
- *Correspondence: Deborah L. Harrington,
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Cavanagh JF, Ryman S, Richardson SP. Cognitive control in Parkinson's disease. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2022; 269:137-152. [PMID: 35248192 DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Cognitive control is the ability to act according to plan. Problems with cognitive control are a primary symptom and a major decrement of quality of life in Parkinson's disease (PD). Individuals with PD have problems with seemingly different controlled processes (e.g., task switching, impulsivity, gait disturbance, apathetic motivation). We review how these varied processes all rely upon disease-related alteration of common neural substrates, particularly due to dopaminergic imbalance. A comprehensive understanding of the neural systems underlying cognitive control will hopefully lead to more concise and reliable explanations of distributed deficits. However, high levels of clinical heterogeneity and medication-invariant control deficiencies suggest the need for increasingly detailed elaboration of the neural systems underlying control in PD.
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- James F Cavanagh
- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
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- Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States; Neurology Service, New Mexico Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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Tatum PS, Kornbluth J, Soroka A. Embolic MCA Stroke Treated With tPA and TICI-3 Mechanical Thrombectomy Complicated by Hemiballismus: A Case Study and Literature Review. Mil Med 2021; 188:usab436. [PMID: 34755859 DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usab436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Revised: 09/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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This report examines the etiology of hemiballistic movements that began 24 hours after a 63-year-old male with vascular risk factors received tissue plasminogen activator (tPa) and thrombolysis in cerebral ischemia 3 (TICI3) thrombectomy for a left middle cerebral artery (MCA) ischemic stroke. The clinical course was reviewed from an admission at a large academic institution where assessments included physical exams, head and neck computed tomography angiography (CTA), and head magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) without contrast. The patient's initial physical exam was consistent with a left MCA syndrome and included a National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) of 20. CTA showed an embolic M2 occlusion. After tPA and TICI 3 thrombectomy, NIHSS improved to 3 for dysarthria, facial weakness, and language deficits. MRI showed left insular diffusion restriction. New right-sided hemiballistic movements began 24 hours after treatment. At his six-week follow-up outpatient appointment, the movements were no longer present, and his neurologic exam was unremarkable, including an NIHSS of zero. No prior cases of hemiballism have been reported as a likely complication of treatment with tPa and thrombectomy. The globus pallidus is the suspected origin of the ballistic movements either from a decreased insular signal or embolic event during treatment. As stroke interventions improve, the susceptibility of certain tissues to brief ischemic events during treatment must be assessed.
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- Peter S Tatum
- TUFTS Medical Center Department of Neurology, Boston, MA 02116, USA
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- TUFTS Medical Center Department of Neurology, Boston, MA 02116, USA
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- TUFTS Medical Center Department of Radiology, Boston, MA 02116, USA
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Tremblay C, Iravani B, Aubry Lafontaine É, Steffener J, Fischmeister FPS, Lundström JN, Frasnelli J. Parkinson's Disease Affects Functional Connectivity within the Olfactory-Trigeminal Network. JOURNAL OF PARKINSONS DISEASE 2021; 10:1587-1600. [PMID: 32597818 DOI: 10.3233/jpd-202062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Olfactory dysfunction (OD) is a frequent symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD) that appears years prior to diagnosis. Previous studies suggest that PD-related OD is different from non-parkinsonian forms of olfactory dysfunction (NPOD) as PD patients maintain trigeminal sensitivity as opposed to patients with NPOD who typically exhibit reduced trigeminal sensitivity. We hypothesize the presence of a specific alteration of functional connectivity between trigeminal and olfactory processing areas in PD. OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess potential differences in functional connectivity within the chemosensory network in 15 PD patients and compared them to 15 NPOD patients, and to 15 controls. METHODS Functional MRI scanning session included resting-state and task-related scans where participants carried out an olfactory and a trigeminal task. We compared functional connectivity, using a seed-based correlation approach, and brain network modularity of the chemosensory network. RESULTS PD patients had impaired functional connectivity within the chemosensory network while no such changes were observed for NPOD patients. No group differences we found in modularity of the identified networks. Both patient groups exhibited impaired connectivity when executing an olfactory task, while network modularity was significantly weaker for PD patients than both other groups. When performing a trigeminal task, no changes were found for PD patients, but NPOD patients exhibited impaired connectivity. Conversely, PD patients exhibited a significantly higher network modularity than both other groups. CONCLUSION In summary, the specific pattern of functional connectivity and chemosensory network recruitment in PD-related OD may explain distinct behavioral chemosensory features in PD when compared to NPOD patients and healthy controls.
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- Cécilia Tremblay
- Department of Anatomy, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Anatomy, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Anatomy, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.,Research Center, Sacré-Coeur Hospital of Montrealéal, Québec, Canada
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Goelman G, Dan R, Růžička F, Bezdicek O, Jech R. Asymmetry of the insula-sensorimotor circuit in Parkinson's disease. Eur J Neurosci 2021; 54:6267-6280. [PMID: 34449938 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2021] [Revised: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) experience motor and non-motor symptoms, suggesting alterations of the motor and/or limbic system or more probably of their communications. We hypothesized that the communication between the insula (part of the limbic system) and sensorimotor cortex in PD is altered and hemispheric asymmetric. Furthermore, that this asymmetry relates to non-motor symptoms, and specifically, that apathy-related asymmetry is unique to PD. To test these hypotheses, we used a novel multivariate time-frequency analysis method applied to resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of 28 controls and 25 participants with PD measured in their OFF medication state. The analysis infers directionality of coupling, that is, afferent or efferent, among four anatomical regions, thus defining directed pathways of information flow, which enables the extension of symmetry measures to include directionality. A major right asymmetry reduction of the dorsal-posterior insula efferent and a slight bilateral increase of insula afferent pathways were observed in participants with PD versus controls. Between-group pathways that correlated with mild cognitive impairments combined the central-executive and default-mode networks through the right insula. Apathy-correlated pathways of the posterior insula in participants with PD versus controls exhibited reduced right efferent and increased left afferent. Because apathy scores were comparable between the groups and effects of the other motor and non-motor symptoms were statistically removed by the analysis, the differences in apathy-correlated pathways were suggested as unique to PD. These pathways could be predictors in the pre-symptomatic phase in patients with apathy.
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- Gadi Goelman
- Department of Neurology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Neurology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.,Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Bonaz B, Lane RD, Oshinsky ML, Kenny PJ, Sinha R, Mayer EA, Critchley HD. Diseases, Disorders, and Comorbidities of Interoception. Trends Neurosci 2021; 44:39-51. [PMID: 33378656 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2020.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Revised: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Interoception, the sense of the body's internal physiological state, underpins homeostatic reflexes, motivational states, and sensations contributing to emotional experiences. The continuous nature of interoceptive processing, coupled to behavior, is implicated in the neurobiological construction of the sense of self. Aberrant integration and control of interoceptive signals, originating in the brain and/or the periphery, can perturb the whole system. Interoceptive abnormalities are implicated in the pathophysiology of psychiatric disorders and in the symptomatic expression of developmental, neurodegenerative, and neurological disorders. Moreover, interoceptive mechanisms appear central to somatic disorders of brain-body interactions, including functional digestive disorders, chronic pain, and comorbid conditions. The present article provides an overview of disorders of interoception and suggests future directions for better understanding, diagnosis, and management of these disorders.
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- Bruno Bonaz
- Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U1216, Grenoble Institute Neurosciences and Division of Hepato-Gastroenterology, CHU Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724-5002, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724-5002, USA; Department of Neuroscience, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724-5002, USA
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Yale Stress Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06519, USA
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- G. Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK
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Structural network topology and microstructural alterations of the anterior insula associate with cognitive and affective impairment in Parkinson's disease. Sci Rep 2021; 11:16021. [PMID: 34362996 PMCID: PMC8346470 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95638-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The aim of the current study was to assess the structural centrality and microstructural integrity of the cortical hubs of the salience network, the anterior insular cortex (AIC) subregions and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and their relationship to cognitive and affective impairment in PD. MRI of 53 PD patients and 15 age-matched controls included 3D-T1 for anatomical registration, and diffusion tensor imaging for probabilistic tractography. Network topological measures of eigenvector and betweenness centrality were calculated for ventral (vAI) and dorsal (dAI) AIC. Microstructural tract integrity between vAI, dAI and the ACC was quantified with fractional anisotrophy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD). Structural integrity and connectivity were related to cognitive and affective scores. The dAI had significantly higher eigenvector centrality in PD than controls (p < 0.01), associated with higher depression scores (left dAI only, rs = 0.28, p < 0.05). Tracts between dAI and ACC showed lower FA and higher MD in PD (p < 0.05), and associated with lower semantic fluency, working memory and executive functioning, and higher anxiety scores (range 0.002 < p < 0.05). This study provides evidence for clinically relevant structural damage to the cortical hubs of the salience network in PD, possibly due to extensive local neuropathology and loss of interconnecting AIC-ACC tracts.
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Hamada T, Higashiyama Y, Saito A, Morihara K, Landin-Romero R, Okamoto M, Kimura K, Miyaji Y, Joki H, Kishida H, Doi H, Ueda N, Takeuchi H, Tanaka F. Qualitative Deficits in Verbal Fluency in Parkinson's Disease with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Clinical and Neuroimaging Study. JOURNAL OF PARKINSONS DISEASE 2021; 11:2005-2016. [PMID: 34366367 DOI: 10.3233/jpd-202473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in Parkinson's disease (PD) is considered a risk factor for PD with dementia (PDD). Verbal fluency tasks are widely used to assess executive function in PDD. However, in cases of PD with MCI (PD-MCI), the relative diagnostic accuracy of different qualitative verbal fluency measures and their related neural mechanisms remain unknown. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the relative diagnostic accuracy of qualitative (clustering and switching) verbal fluency strategies and their correlates with functional imaging in PD-MCI. METHODS Forty-five patients with PD (26 with MCI and 19 without MCI) and 25 healthy controls underwent comprehensive neurocognitive testing and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. MCI in patients with PD was diagnosed according to established clinical criteria. The diagnostic accuracy of verbal fluency measures was determined via receiver operating characteristic analysis. Changes in brain functional connectivity between groups and across clinical measures were assessed using seed-to-voxel analyses. RESULTS Patients with PD-MCI generated fewer words and switched less frequently in semantic and phonemic fluency tasks compared to other groups. Switching in semantic fluency showed high diagnostic accuracy for PD-MCI and was associated with reduced functional connectivity in the salience network. CONCLUSION Our results indicate that reduced switching in semantic fluency tasks is a sensitive and specific marker for PD-MCI. Qualitative verbal fluency deficits and salience network dysfunction represent early clinical changes observed in PD-MCI.
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- Tomoya Hamada
- Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.,Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Therapy, Japan Welfare Education College, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- The University of Sydney, School of Psychology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.,The University of Sydney, Brain & Mind Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia.,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Yokohama City University Medical Center Hospital, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Yokohama City University Medical Center Hospital, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Yokohama City University Medical Center Hospital, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Wang E, Jia Y, Ya Y, Xu J, Mao C, Luo W, Fan G, Jiang Z. Patterns of Sulcal depth and cortical thickness in Parkinson's disease. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 15:2340-2346. [PMID: 34018166 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-020-00428-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Previous voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and cortical thickness (CT) studies on Parkinson's disease (PD) have mainly reported the gray matter size reduction, whereas the shape of cortical surface can also change in PD patients. For the first time, we analyzed sulcal depth (SD) patterns in PD patients by using whole brain region of interest (ROI)-based approach. In a cross-sectional study, high-resolution brain structural MRI images were collected from 60 PD patients without dementia and 56 age-and sex-matched healthy controls (HC). SD and CT were estimated using the Computational Anatomy Toolbox (CAT12) and statistically compared between groups on whole brain ROI-based level using statistical parametric mapping 12 (SPM12). Additionally, correlations between regional brain changes and clinical variables were also examined. Compared to HC, PD patients showed lower SD in widespread regions, including temporal (the bilateral transverse temporal, the left inferior temporal, the right middle temporal and the right superior temporal), insular (the left insula), frontal (the left pars triangularis, the left pars opercularis and the left precentral), parietal (the bilateral superior parietal) and occipital (the right cuneus) regions. For CT, only the left pars opercularis showed lower CT in PD patients compared to HC. No regions showed higher SD or CT in PD patients compared to HC. In PD patients, a significant positive correlation was found between SD of the left pars opercularis and MMSE scores, such that lower MMSE scores were related to lower SD of the left pars opercularis. Our results of widespread lower SD, but relatively localized lower CT, indicate that SD seems to be more sensitive to brain changes than CT and may be mainly affected by white matter damage. Hence, SD may be a more promising indicator to investigate the surface shape changes in PD patients. The significant positive correlation between SD of the left pars opercularis and MMSE scores suggests that SD may be prognostic of future cognitive decline.
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- Erlei Wang
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
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Pan C, Ren J, Li L, Li Y, Xu J, Xue C, Hu G, Yu M, Chen Y, Zhang L, Zhang W, Hu X, Sun Y, Liu W, Chen J. Differential functional connectivity of insular subdivisions in de novo Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 16:1-10. [PMID: 33770371 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-021-00471-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The insula, consisting of functionally diverse subdivisions, plays a significant role in Parkinson's disease (PD)-related cognitive disorders. However, the functional connectivity (FC) patterns of insular subdivisions in PD remain unclear. Our aim is to investigate the changes in FC patterns of insular subdivisions and their relationships with cognitive domains. Three groups of participants were recruited in this study, including PD patients with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI, n = 25), PD patients with normal cognition (PD-NC, n = 13), and healthy controls (HCs, n = 17). Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) was used to investigate the FC in insular subdivisions of the three groups. Moreover, all participants underwent a neuropsychological battery to assess cognition so that the relationship between altered FC and cognitive performance could be elucidated. Compared with the PD-NC group, the PD-MCI group exhibited increased FC between the left dorsal anterior insular (dAI) and the right superior parietal gyrus (SPG), and altered FC was negatively correlated with memory and executive function. Compared with the HC group, the PD-MCI group showed significantly increased FC between the right dAI and the right median cingulate and paracingulate gyri (DCG), and altered FC was positively related to attention/working memory, visuospatial function, and language. Our findings highlighted the different abnormal FC patterns of insular subdivisions in PD patients with different cognitive abilities. Furthermore, dysfunction of the dAI may partly contribute to the decline in executive function and memory in early drug-naïve PD patients.
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- Chenxi Pan
- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No.264, Guangzhou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No.264, Guangzhou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No.264, Guangzhou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No.264, Guangzhou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No.264, Guangzhou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No.264, Guangzhou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 210029, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Geriatrics, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 210029, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- School of Biology Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No.264, Guangzhou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China.
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- Institute of Brain Functional Imaging, Nanjing Medical University, 210029, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
- Institute of Neuropsychiatry, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Fourth Clinical College of Nanjing Medical University, No.264, Guangzhou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210029, China.
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Fathy YY, Hoogers SE, Berendse HW, van der Werf YD, Visser PJ, de Jong FJ, van de Berg WDJ. Differential insular cortex sub-regional atrophy in neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 14:2799-2816. [PMID: 31011951 PMCID: PMC7648006 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-019-00099-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The insular cortex is proposed to function as a central brain hub characterized by wide-spread connections and diverse functional roles. As a result, its centrality in the brain confers high metabolic demands predisposing it to dysfunction in disease. However, the functional profile and vulnerability to degeneration varies across the insular sub-regions. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to summarize and quantitatively analyze the relationship between insular cortex sub-regional atrophy, studied by voxel based morphometry, with cognitive and neuropsychiatric deficits in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We systematically searched through Pubmed and Embase and identified 519 studies that fit our criteria. A total of 41 studies (n = 2261 subjects) fulfilled the inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis. The peak insular coordinates were pooled and analyzed using Anatomic Likelihood Estimation. Our results showed greater left anterior insular cortex atrophy in FTD whereas the right anterior dorsal insular cortex showed larger clusters of atrophy in AD and PD/DLB. Yet contrast analyses did not reveal significant differences between disease groups. Functional analysis showed that left anterior insular cortex atrophy is associated with speech, emotion, and affective-cognitive deficits, and right dorsal atrophy with perception and cognitive deficits. In conclusion, insular sub-regional atrophy, particularly the anterior dorsal region, may contribute to cognitive and neuropsychiatric deficits in neurodegeneration. Our results support anterior insular cortex vulnerability and convey the differential involvement of the insular sub-regions in functional deficits in neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Yasmine Y Fathy
- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Section Clinical Neuroanatomy and Biobanking, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Center, Postbus, 2040 3000, Rotterdam, CA, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Section Neuropsychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Center, Postbus, 2040 3000, Rotterdam, CA, Netherlands
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Section Clinical Neuroanatomy and Biobanking, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, De Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Brain Metabolic Correlates of Persistent Olfactory Dysfunction after SARS-Cov2 Infection. Biomedicines 2021; 9:biomedicines9030287. [PMID: 33808956 PMCID: PMC7998481 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines9030287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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We aimed to evaluate the brain hypometabolic signature of persistent isolated olfactory dysfunction after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Twenty-two patients underwent whole-body [18F]-FDG PET, including a dedicated brain acquisition at our institution between May and December 2020 following their recovery after SARS-Cov2 infection. Fourteen of these patients presented isolated persistent hyposmia (smell diskettes olfaction test was used). A voxel-wise analysis (using Statistical Parametric Mapping software version 8 (SPM8)) was performed to identify brain regions of relative hypometabolism in patients with hyposmia with respect to controls. Structural connectivity of these regions was assessed (BCB toolkit). Relative hypometabolism was demonstrated in bilateral parahippocampal and fusiform gyri and in left insula in patients with respect to controls. Structural connectivity maps highlighted the involvement of bilateral longitudinal fasciculi. This study provides evidence of cortical hypometabolism in patients with isolated persistent hyposmia after SARS-Cov2 infection. [18F]-FDG PET may play a role in the identification of long-term brain functional sequelae of COVID-19.
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Yoon EJ, Monchi O. Probable REM sleep behavior disorder is associated with longitudinal cortical thinning in Parkinson's disease. NPJ Parkinsons Dis 2021; 7:19. [PMID: 33654107 PMCID: PMC7925528 DOI: 10.1038/s41531-021-00164-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) has a poor prognostic implication in both motor and non-motor functions in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. However, to the best of our knowledge no study to date investigated the longitudinal cerebral changes underlying RBD symptoms in PD. We performed the longitudinal study to investigate the association between probable RBD and cortical and subcortical changes in early, de novo PD patients. We studied 78 participants from the Parkinson’s Progression Marker Initiative who underwent structural MRI at baseline and after 2 years. The presence of probable RBD (pRBD) was evaluated using the RBD screening questionnaire. We compared the cross-sectional and longitudinal cortical thickness and subcortical volume changes, between PD patients with and without pRBD. At baseline, we found bilateral inferior temporal cortex thinning in the PD-pRBD group compared with the PD-noRBD group. Longitudinally, the PD-pRBD group revealed a significant increase in the rate of thinning in the left insula compared with the PD-noRBD group, and the increased thinning correlated with decreased cognitive performance. In subcortical volume analyses, the presence of pRBD was linked with volume decrease over time in the left caudate nucleus, pallidum and amygdala. The volume changes in the left caudate nucleus revealed correlations with global cognition. These results support the idea that RBD is an important marker of rapid progression in PD motor and non-motor symptoms and suggest that the atrophy in the left insula and caudate nucleus might be the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of the poorer prognosis in PD patients with RBD.
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- Eun Jin Yoon
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. .,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada. .,Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. .,Centre de Recherche Institut, Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.
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Kas A, Soret M, Pyatigoskaya N, Habert MO, Hesters A, Le Guennec L, Paccoud O, Bombois S, Delorme C. The cerebral network of COVID-19-related encephalopathy: a longitudinal voxel-based 18F-FDG-PET study. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2021; 48:2543-2557. [PMID: 33452633 PMCID: PMC7810428 DOI: 10.1007/s00259-020-05178-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Purpose Little is known about the neuronal substrates of neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with COVID-19 and their evolution during the course of the disease. We aimed at describing the longitudinal brain metabolic pattern in COVID-19-related encephalopathy using 18F-FDG-PET/CT. Methods Seven patients with variable clinical presentations of COVID-19-related encephalopathy were explored thrice with brain 18F-FDG-PET/CT, once in the acute phase, 1 month later and 6 months after COVID-19 onset. PET images were analysed with voxel-wise and regions-of-interest approaches in comparison with 32 healthy controls. Results Patients’ neurological manifestations during acute encephalopathy were heterogeneous. However, all of them presented with predominant cognitive and behavioural frontal disorders. SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR in the CSF was negative for all patients. MRI revealed no specific abnormalities for most of the subjects. All patients had a consistent pattern of hypometabolism in a widespread cerebral network including the frontal cortex, anterior cingulate, insula and caudate nucleus. Six months after COVID-19 onset, the majority of patients clinically had improved but cognitive and emotional disorders of varying severity remained with attention/executive disabilities and anxio-depressive symptoms, and lasting prefrontal, insular and subcortical 18F-FDG-PET/CT abnormalities. Conclusion The implication of this widespread network could be the neural substrate of clinical features observed in patients with COVID-19, such as frontal lobe syndrome, emotional disturbances and deregulation of respiratory failure perception. This study suggests that this network remains mildly to severely impaired 6 months after disease onset.
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- Aurélie Kas
- Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, Service de Médecine Nucléaire and LIB, INSERM U1146, 75013, Paris, France.
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- Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, Service de Médecine Nucléaire and LIB, INSERM U1146, 75013, Paris, France
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- Département de Neuroradiologie, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, Service de Médecine Nucléaire and LIB, INSERM U1146, 75013, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, 75013, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, 75013, Paris, France
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- Service de Maladies infectieuses et Tropicales, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, Institut de la Mémoire et de la Maladie d'Alzheimer, 75013, Paris, France
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- Département de Neurologie, Sorbonne Université, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié-Salpêtrière Charles Foix, 75013, Paris, France
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Weitnauer L, Frisch S, Melie-Garcia L, Preisig M, Schroeter ML, Sajfutdinow I, Kherif F, Draganski B. Mapping grip force to motor networks. Neuroimage 2021; 229:117735. [PMID: 33454401 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Revised: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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AIM There is ongoing debate about the role of cortical and subcortical brain areas in force modulation. In a whole-brain approach, we sought to investigate the anatomical basis of grip force whilst acknowledging interindividual differences in connectivity patterns. We tested if brain lesion mapping in patients with unilateral motor deficits can inform whole-brain structural connectivity analysis in healthy controls to uncover the networks underlying grip force. METHODS Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and whole-brain voxel-based morphometry in chronic stroke patients (n=55) and healthy controls (n=67), we identified the brain regions in both grey and white matter significantly associated with grip force strength. The resulting statistical parametric maps (SPMs) provided seed areas for whole-brain structural covariance analysis in a large-scale community dwelling cohort (n=977) that included beyond volume estimates, parameter maps sensitive to myelin, iron and tissue water content. RESULTS The SPMs showed symmetrical bilateral clusters of correlation between upper limb motor performance, basal ganglia, posterior insula and cortico-spinal tract. The covariance analysis with the seed areas derived from the SPMs demonstrated a widespread anatomical pattern of brain volume and tissue properties, including both cortical, subcortical nodes of motor networks and sensorimotor areas projections. CONCLUSION We interpret our covariance findings as a biological signature of brain networks implicated in grip force. The data-driven definition of seed areas obtained from chronic stroke patients showed overlapping structural covariance patterns within cortico-subcortical motor networks across different tissue property estimates. This cumulative evidence lends face validity of our findings and their biological plausibility.
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- Ladina Weitnauer
- LREN, Department of clinical neurosciences - CHUV, University Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Max-Planck Institute for Human Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Leipzig, German; Department of Gerontopsychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Psychotherapy, Pfalzklinikum, Klingenmünster, Germany; Institute of Psychology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- LREN, Department of clinical neurosciences - CHUV, University Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of psychiatry - CHUV, University Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Day Clinic for Cognitive Neurology, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- LREN, Department of clinical neurosciences - CHUV, University Lausanne, Switzerland
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- LREN, Department of clinical neurosciences - CHUV, University Lausanne, Switzerland; Max-Planck Institute for Human Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Leipzig, German.
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Criaud M, Kim JH, Zurowski M, Lobaugh N, Chavez S, Houle S, Strafella AP. Anxiety in Parkinson's disease: Abnormal resting activity and connectivity. Brain Res 2021; 1753:147235. [PMID: 33412150 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2020.147235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Revised: 11/19/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Anxiety is a very common yet poorly understood symptom of Parkinson's disease. We investigated whether Parkinson's disease patients experiencing anxiety share neural mechanisms described in the general population with involvement of critical regions for the control of behaviour and movement. Thirty-nine patients with PD were recruited for this study, 20 with higher anxiety scores and 19 with lower anxiety scores. They all underwent a resting-state fMRI scan, while they were on medication. The amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) and seed-based connectivity were investigated to reveal the changes of the spontaneous activity and the interaction among different related regions. The results provided evidence that anxiety in Parkinson's disease is associated with the over-activation of the amygdala and impaired inter-relationship of regions involved in behavior (i.e. medial prefrontal cortex, insula) and motor control (i.e. basal ganglia).
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- Marion Criaud
- Research Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Research Institute, UHN, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Research Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Research Institute, UHN, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Research Institute, UHN, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Research Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Research Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Research Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorder Unit & E.J. Safra Parkinson Disease Program, Toronto Western Hospital, UHN, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Research Imaging Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Krembil Research Institute, UHN, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Byun JI, Cha KS, Kim M, Lee WJ, Lee HS, Sunwoo JS, Shin JW, Kim TJ, Moon J, Lee ST, Jung KH, Chu K, Kim MH, Kim HJ, Shin WC, Lee SK, Jung KY. Altered insular functional connectivity in isolated REM sleep behavior disorder: a data-driven functional MRI study. Sleep Med 2021; 79:88-93. [PMID: 33485260 DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2020.12.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 12/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Functional connectivity (FC) changes can occur prior to structural changes. This study aimed to evaluate data-driven whole-brain FC associated with isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) using multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA). METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 50 polysomnography-confirmed iRBD patients and 20 age- and sex-matched controls. We used MVPA implemented in the connectome-MVPA CONN toolbox to identify data-driven seed regions for post hoc seed-to-voxel connectivity analysis. The association between FC changes and clinical characteristics, including cognition, depression, autonomic function, and daytime sleepiness, was evaluated. RESULTS MVPA revealed one significant cluster located in the left posterior insular cortex. Seed-to-voxel FC analysis using the cluster as a seed showed significantly reduced FC with two clusters located in the precuneus in iRBD patients compared to the controls. The degree of FC was associated with the Montreal Cognitive Assessment-Korean version scores (r = 0.317, p = 0.025). CONCLUSION This study emphasizes the insula as an important neural correlate associated with iRBD that was associated with cognitive function.
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- Jung-Ick Byun
- Department of Neurology, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Rare Disease Center, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Protein Metabolism and Neuroscience Research Center, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
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Iyer KK, Au TR, Angwin AJ, Copland DA, Dissanayaka NN. Theta and gamma connectivity is linked with affective and cognitive symptoms in Parkinson's disease. J Affect Disord 2020; 277:875-884. [PMID: 33065829 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.08.086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Revised: 07/16/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND The progression of Parkinson's disease (PD) can often exacerbate symptoms of depression, anxiety, and/or cognitive impairment. In this study, we explore the possibility that multiple brain network responses are associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety and cognitive impairment in PD. This association is likely to provide insights into a single multivariate relationship, where common affective symptoms occurring in PD cohorts are related with alterations to electrophysiological response. METHODS 70 PD patients and 21 healthy age-matched controls (HC) participated in a high-density electroencephalography (EEG) study. Functional connectivity differences between PD and HC groups of oscillatory activity at rest and during completion of an emotion-cognition task were examined to identify key brain oscillatory activities. A canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was applied to identify a putative multivariate relationship between connectivity patterns and affective symptoms in PD groups. RESULTS A CCA analysis identified a single mode of co-variation linking theta and gamma connectivity with affective symptoms in PD groups. Increases in frontotemporal gamma, frontal and parietal theta connectivity were related with increased anxiety and cognitive impairment. Decreases in temporal region theta and frontoparietal gamma connectivity were associated with higher depression ratings and PD patient age. LIMITATIONS This study only reports on optimal dosage of dopaminergic treatment ('on' state) in PD and did not investigate at "off" medication". CONCLUSIONS Theta and gamma connectivity during rest and task-states are linked to affective and cognitive symptoms within fronto-temporo-parietal networks, suggesting a potential assessment avenue for understanding brain-behaviour associations in PD with electrophysiological task paradigms.
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- Kartik K Iyer
- UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Herston, QLD 4029, Brisbane, Australia; Clinical Brain Networks group, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia; School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Brisbane, Australia
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- UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Herston, QLD 4029, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Brisbane, Australia
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- UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Herston, QLD 4029, Brisbane, Australia; School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Brisbane, Australia
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- UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Herston, QLD 4029, Brisbane, Australia; Department of Neurology, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Herston, QLD 4029, Brisbane, Australia; School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Brisbane, Australia.
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Hadley R, Eastwood-Gray O, Kiddier M, Rose D, Ponzo S. "Dance Like Nobody's Watching": Exploring the Role of Dance-Based Interventions in Perceived Well-Being and Bodily Awareness in People With Parkinson's. Front Psychol 2020; 11:531567. [PMID: 33224044 PMCID: PMC7674205 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.531567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Evidence indicates that bodily perception is negatively related to Parkinson's disease (PD); in particular, people with Parkinson's (PwP) feel dissatisfaction in their physical abilities and appearance. While established treatments exist to ameliorate motor symptoms in PD, research has yet to explore the effects of well-being-focused interventions in relation to the subjective experience of bodily concerns of PwP. This mixed methods exploratory study investigated the constructs of body appreciation in relation to well-being in PwP and the impact of participation in a dance class on body appreciation and well-being, comparing PwP with age-matched controls. Participants (n = 27 PwP, n = 14 controls) completed the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale and the Body Appreciation Scale before and after taking part in a dance class. Well-being was positively associated with body appreciation in PwP (r s = 0.64, p < 0.001) but not in controls. Following participation in a dance class, all participants' well-being scores increased; a greater increase in well-being scores was observed for controls. A pilot qualitative study explored bodily awareness with PwP who attended dance classes (n = 4) and other movement-based activities (n = 4). Analysis of the interview data indicated that PwP who danced showed heightened bodily awareness, including bodily limitations, in comparison with PwP who did not dance. These preliminary findings provide initial insight explaining the lack of improvements in body appreciation in PwP following a dance class. The current study highlights the need for dance interventions for PwP to consider incorporating elements that encourage a body positive attitude alongside fostering perceived well-being.
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- Rebecca Hadley
- Department of Psychology and Sports Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology and Sports Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
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- School of Music, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology and Sports Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
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van der Zee S, Müller MLTM, Kanel P, van Laar T, Bohnen NI. Cholinergic Denervation Patterns Across Cognitive Domains in Parkinson's Disease. Mov Disord 2020; 36:642-650. [PMID: 33137238 DOI: 10.1002/mds.28360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Revised: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 10/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The cholinergic system plays a key role in cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD). Previous acetylcholinesterase positron emission tomography imaging studies found memory, attention, and executive function correlates of global cortical cholinergic losses. Vesicular acetylcholine transporter positron emission tomography allows for more accurate topographic assessment of not only cortical but also subcortical cholinergic changes. OBJECTIVE The objectiveof this study was to investigate the topographic relationship between cognitive functioning and regional cholinergic innervation in patients with PD. METHODS A total of 86 nondemented patients with PD (mean ± SD age 67.8 ± 7.6 years, motor disease duration 5.8 ± 4.6 years), and 12 healthy control participants (age 67.8 ± 7.8 years) underwent cholinergic [18 F]Fluoroethoxybenzovesamicol positron emission tomography imaging. Patients with PD underwent neuropsychological assessment. The z scores for each cognitive domain were determined using an age-matched, gender-matched, and educational level-matched control group. Correlations between domain-specific cognitive functioning and cholinergic innervation were examined, controlling for motor impairments and levodopa equivalent dose. Additional correlational analyses were performed using a mask limited to PD versus normal aging binding differences to assess for disease-specific versus normal aging effects. RESULTS Voxel-based whole-brain analysis demonstrated partial overlapping topography across cognitive domains, with most robust correlations in the domains of memory, attention, and executive functioning (P < 0.01, corrected for multiple comparisons). The shared pattern included the cingulate cortex, insula/operculum, and (visual) thalamus. CONCLUSION Our results confirm and expand on previous observations of cholinergic system involvement in cognitive functioning in PD. The topographic overlap across domains may reflect a partially shared cholinergic functionality underlying cognitive functioning, representing a combination of disease-specific and aging effects. © 2020 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Sygrid van der Zee
- Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Department of Neurology and Department of Neuropsychology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Department of Neuropsychology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.,Neurology Service and Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), Veterans Administration Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Parkinson's Disease-Related Risk of Suicide and Effect of Deep Brain Stimulation: Meta-Analysis. PARKINSONS DISEASE 2020; 2020:8091963. [PMID: 33062248 PMCID: PMC7537696 DOI: 10.1155/2020/8091963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2020] [Revised: 09/06/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Background Previous studies investigated the risk of suicide in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) but reported discrepant results. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective therapy for PD, while its effect on suicide risk has seldom been researched. This meta-analysis aimed to estimate the risk of suicide and/or suicidal ideation in PD patients and in PD patients who underwent DBS. Methods Relevant articles published in the PubMed or EMBASE or CNKI database from 1990 to December 2019 were sourced, and the combined standardized mortality rate (SMR) or odds ratio (OR) was pooled. Result A total of 1070 articles were found. After screening, 4 cross-sectional studies, 4 cohort studies, 2 randomized controlled trial studies, and 2 case-control studies were included in this meta-analysis. Pooled data indicated that PD patients may have increased risk of suicide (lnSMR, 0.459; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.286 to 0.632; p < 0.001). No significant difference was found in the risk of suicide when comparing PD patients who underwent DBS with PD patients who received only drug therapy (OR = 2.844, 95%CI: 0.619 to 13.072, p=0.179). DBS may increase the risk of suicide and/or suicidal ideation in PD patients compared with general population (lnSMR = 3.383, 95%CI: 2.839 to 3.927, p < 0.001). Conclusion PD patients have higher risk of suicide and/or suicidal ideation compared with controls, while PD patients who received DBS tend to have an increased risk of suicide or suicidal ideation. Psychological evaluation is needed in PD patients, and pre- and post-operation evaluations are necessary for PD patients who underwent DBS.
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Functional Connectome Analyses Reveal the Human Olfactory Network Organization. eNeuro 2020; 7:ENEURO.0551-19.2020. [PMID: 32471848 PMCID: PMC7418535 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0551-19.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2019] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The olfactory system is uniquely heterogeneous, performing multifaceted functions (beyond basic sensory processing) across diverse, widely distributed neural substrates. While knowledge of human olfaction continues to grow, it remains unclear how the olfactory network is organized to serve this unique set of functions. The olfactory system is uniquely heterogeneous, performing multifaceted functions (beyond basic sensory processing) across diverse, widely distributed neural substrates. While knowledge of human olfaction continues to grow, it remains unclear how the olfactory network is organized to serve this unique set of functions. Leveraging a large and high-quality resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) dataset of nearly 900 participants from the Human Connectome Project (HCP), we identified a human olfactory network encompassing cortical and subcortical regions across the temporal and frontal lobes. Highlighting its reliability and generalizability, the connectivity matrix of this olfactory network mapped closely onto that extracted from an independent rs-fMRI dataset. Graph theoretical analysis further explicated the organizational principles of the network. The olfactory network exhibits a modular composition of three (i.e., the sensory, limbic, and frontal) subnetworks and demonstrates strong small-world properties, high in both global integration and local segregation (i.e., circuit specialization). This network organization thus ensures the segregation of local circuits, which are nonetheless integrated via connecting hubs [i.e., amygdala (AMY) and anterior insula (INSa)], thereby enabling the specialized, yet integrative, functions of olfaction. In particular, the degree of local segregation positively predicted olfactory discrimination performance in the independent sample, which we infer as a functional advantage of the network organization. In sum, an olfactory functional network has been identified through the large HCP dataset, affording a representative template of the human olfactory functional neuroanatomy. Importantly, the topological analysis of the olfactory network provides network-level insights into the remarkable functional specialization and spatial segregation of the olfactory system.
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Fathy YY, Hepp DH, de Jong FJ, Geurts JJG, Foncke EMJ, Berendse HW, van de Berg WDJ, Schoonheim MM. Anterior insular network disconnection and cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2020; 28:102364. [PMID: 32781423 PMCID: PMC7417948 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Revised: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cognitive dysfunction in PD is related to FC of the dorsal anterior insula (dAI) In PD only, FC between the dAI and DMN was most strongly related to cognition. FC of dAI with anterior cingulate was reduced and related to cognition in PD. Increased DMN and FPN centrality is related to dAI-ACC disconnection in PD. Altered interplay between dAI, DMN, and FPN underlies poor cognition in PD.
Background The insula is a central brain hub involved in cognition and affected in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The aim of this study was to assess functional connectivity (FC) and betweenness centrality (BC) of insular sub-regions and their relationship with cognitive impairment in PD. Methods Whole-brain 3D-T1, resting-state functional MRI and a battery of cognitive tests (CAMCOG) were included for 53 PD patients and 15 controls. The insular cortex was segmented into ventral (vAI) and dorsal (dAI) anterior and posterior sub-regions. Connectivity between insular sub-regions and resting-state networks was assessed and related to cognition; BC was used to further explore nodes associated with cognition. Results Cognitive performance was significantly lower in PD patients compared to controls (p < 0.01) and was associated with FC of the dAI with default mode network (DMN) (adjusted R2 = 0.37, p < 0.001). In controls, cognitive performance was positively related to FC of the dAI with the fronto-parietal network (FPN) only (adjusted R2 = 0.5, p = 0.003). Regionally, FC of the dAI with the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) was significantly reduced in PD (F(1,65) = 11, p = 0.002) and correlated with CAMCOG (r = 0.4, p = 0.001). DMN and FPN showed increased BC in PD which correlated with cognition and reduced connectivity of dAI with the ACC (rs = −0.33, p = 0.014 and rs = −0.44, p = 0.001 respectively). Conclusions These results highlight the relevance of the insula in cognitive dysfunction in PD. Disconnection of the dAI with ACC was related to altered centrality in the DMN and FPN only in patients. Disturbance in this network triad appears to be particularly relevant for cognitive impairment in PD.
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- Yasmine Y Fathy
- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Frequency-Specific Changes of Resting Brain Activity in Parkinson’s Disease: A Machine Learning Approach. Neuroscience 2020; 436:170-183. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.01.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2019] [Revised: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Lang S, Ismail Z, Kibreab M, Kathol I, Sarna J, Monchi O. Common and unique connectivity at the interface of motor, neuropsychiatric, and cognitive symptoms in Parkinson's disease: A commonality analysis. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 41:3749-3764. [PMID: 32476230 PMCID: PMC7416059 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2020] [Revised: 05/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by overlapping motor, neuropsychiatric, and cognitive symptoms. Worse performance in one domain is associated with worse performance in the other domains. Commonality analysis (CA) is a method of variance partitioning in multiple regression, used to separate the specific and common influence of collinear predictors. We apply, for the first time, CA to the functional connectome to investigate the unique and common neural connectivity underlying the interface of the symptom domains in 74 non-demented PD subjects. Edges were modeled as a function of global motor, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric scores. CA was performed, yielding measures of the unique and common contribution of the symptom domains. Bootstrap confidence intervals were used to determine the precision of the estimates and to directly compare each commonality coefficient. The overall model identified a network with the caudate nucleus as a hub. Neuropsychiatric impairment accounted for connectivity in the caudate-dorsal anterior cingulate and caudate-right dorsolateral prefrontal-right inferior parietal circuits, while caudate-medial prefrontal connectivity reflected a unique effect of both neuropsychiatric and cognitive impairment. Caudate-precuneus connectivity was explained by both unique and shared influence of neuropsychiatric and cognitive symptoms. Lastly, posterior cortical connectivity reflected an interplay of the unique and common effects of each symptom domain. We show that CA can determine the amount of variance in the connectome that is unique and shared amongst motor, neuropsychiatric, and cognitive symptoms in PD, thereby improving our ability to interpret the data while gaining novel insight into networks at the interface of these symptom domains.
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- Stefan Lang
- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Mathison Center for Brain and Mental Health Research, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.,Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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