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Singh-Reilly N, Botha H, Duffy JR, Clark HM, Utianski RL, Machulda MM, Graff-Radford J, Schwarz CG, Petersen RC, Lowe VJ, Jack CR, Josephs KA, Whitwell JL. Speech-language within and between network disruptions in primary progressive aphasia variants. Neuroimage Clin 2024; 43:103639. [PMID: 38991435 PMCID: PMC11296005 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103639] [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: 12/08/2023] [Revised: 05/20/2024] [Accepted: 06/30/2024] [Indexed: 07/13/2024]
Abstract
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) variants present with distinct disruptions in speech-language functions with little known about the interplay between affected and spared regions within the speech-language network and their interaction with other functional networks. The Neurodegenerative Research Group, Mayo Clinic, recruited 123 patients with PPA (55 logopenic (lvPPA), 44 non-fluent (nfvPPA) and 24 semantic (svPPA)) who were matched to 60 healthy controls. We investigated functional connectivity disruptions between regions within the left-speech-language network (Broca, Wernicke, anterior middle temporal gyrus (aMTG), supplementary motor area (SMA), planum temporale (PT) and parietal operculum (PO)), and disruptions to other networks (visual association, dorsal-attention, frontoparietal and default mode networks (DMN)). Within the speech-language network, multivariate linear regression models showed reduced aMTG-Broca connectivity in all variants, with lvPPA and nfvPPA findings remaining significant after Bonferroni correction. Additional loss in Wernicke-Broca connectivity in nfvPPA, Wernicke-PT connectivity in lvPPA and greater aMTG-PT connectivity in svPPA were also noted. Between-network connectivity findings in all variants showed reduced aMTG-DMN and increased aMTG-dorsal-attention connectivity, with additional disruptions between aMTG-visual association in both lvPPA and svPPA, aMTG-frontoparietal in lvPPA, and Wernicke-DMN breakdown in svPPA. These findings suggest that aMTG connectivity breakdown is a shared feature in all PPA variants, with lvPPA showing more extensive connectivity disruptions with other networks.
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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Shtyrov Y, Efremov A, Kuptsova A, Wennekers T, Gutkin B, Garagnani M. Breakdown of category-specific word representations in a brain-constrained neurocomputational model of semantic dementia. Sci Rep 2023; 13:19572. [PMID: 37949997 PMCID: PMC10638411 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-41922-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
Abstract
The neurobiological nature of semantic knowledge, i.e., the encoding and storage of conceptual information in the human brain, remains a poorly understood and hotly debated subject. Clinical data on semantic deficits and neuroimaging evidence from healthy individuals have suggested multiple cortical regions to be involved in the processing of meaning. These include semantic hubs (most notably, anterior temporal lobe, ATL) that take part in semantic processing in general as well as sensorimotor areas that process specific aspects/categories according to their modality. Biologically inspired neurocomputational models can help elucidate the exact roles of these regions in the functioning of the semantic system and, importantly, in its breakdown in neurological deficits. We used a neuroanatomically constrained computational model of frontotemporal cortices implicated in word acquisition and processing, and adapted it to simulate and explain the effects of semantic dementia (SD) on word processing abilities. SD is a devastating, yet insufficiently understood progressive neurodegenerative disease, characterised by semantic knowledge deterioration that is hypothesised to be specifically related to neural damage in the ATL. The behaviour of our brain-based model is in full accordance with clinical data-namely, word comprehension performance decreases as SD lesions in ATL progress, whereas word repetition abilities remain less affected. Furthermore, our model makes predictions about lesion- and category-specific effects of SD: our simulation results indicate that word processing should be more impaired for object- than for action-related words, and that degradation of white matter should produce more severe consequences than the same proportion of grey matter decay. In sum, the present results provide a neuromechanistic explanatory account of cortical-level language impairments observed during the onset and progress of semantic dementia.
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- Yury Shtyrov
- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Institute for Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
- Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
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- School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
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- Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
- Département d'Etudes Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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- Department of Computing, Goldsmiths - University of London, London, UK.
- Brain Language Laboratory, Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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Hua AY, Roy ARK, Kosik EL, Morris NA, Chow TE, Lukic S, Montembeault M, Borghesani V, Younes K, Kramer JH, Seeley WW, Perry DC, Miller ZA, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Rankin KP, Gorno-Tempini ML, Sturm VE. Diminished baseline autonomic outflow in semantic dementia relates to left-lateralized insula atrophy. Neuroimage Clin 2023; 40:103522. [PMID: 37820490 PMCID: PMC10582496 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103522] [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: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/30/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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In semantic dementia (SD), asymmetric degeneration of the anterior temporal lobes is associated with loss of semantic knowledge and alterations in socioemotional behavior. There are two clinical variants of SD: semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), which is characterized by predominant atrophy in the anterior temporal lobe and insula in the left hemisphere, and semantic behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (sbvFTD), which is characterized by predominant atrophy in those structures in the right hemisphere. Previous studies of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, an associated clinical syndrome that targets the frontal lobes and anterior insula, have found impairments in baseline autonomic nervous system activity that correlate with left-lateralized frontotemporal atrophy patterns and disruptions in socioemotional functioning. Here, we evaluated whether there are similar impairments in resting autonomic nervous system activity in SD that also reflect left-lateralized atrophy and relate to diminished affiliative behavior. A total of 82 participants including 33 people with SD (20 svPPA and 13 sbvFTD) and 49 healthy older controls completed a laboratory-based assessment of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; a parasympathetic measure) and skin conductance level (SCL; a sympathetic measure) during a two-minute resting baseline period. Participants also underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging, and informants rated their current affiliative behavior on the Interpersonal Adjective Scale. Results indicated that baseline RSA and SCL were lower in SD than in healthy controls, with significant impairments present in both svPPA and sbvFTD. Voxel-based morphometry analyses revealed left-greater-than-right atrophy related to diminished parasympathetic and sympathetic outflow in SD. While left-lateralized atrophy in the mid-to-posterior insula correlated with lower RSA, left-lateralized atrophy in the ventral anterior insula correlated with lower SCL. In SD, lower baseline RSA, but not lower SCL, was associated with lower gregariousness/extraversion. Neither autonomic measure related to warmth/agreeableness, however. Through the assessment of baseline autonomic nervous system physiology, the present study contributes to expanding conceptualizations of the biological basis of socioemotional alterations in svPPA and sbvFTD.
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- Alice Y Hua
- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Stanford Neuroscience Health Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, Memory and Aging Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Mandelli ML, Lorca‐Puls DL, Lukic S, Montembeault M, Gajardo‐Vidal A, Licata A, Scheffler A, Battistella G, Grasso SM, Bogley R, Ratnasiri BM, La Joie R, Mundada NS, Europa E, Rabinovici G, Miller BL, De Leon J, Henry ML, Miller Z, Gorno‐Tempini ML. Network anatomy in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia. Hum Brain Mapp 2023; 44:4390-4406. [PMID: 37306089 PMCID: PMC10318204 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26388] [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: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023] Open
Abstract
The logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized linguistically by gradual loss of repetition and naming skills resulting from left posterior temporal and inferior parietal atrophy. Here, we sought to identify which specific cortical loci are initially targeted by the disease (epicenters) and investigate whether atrophy spreads through predetermined networks. First, we used cross-sectional structural MRI data from individuals with lvPPA to define putative disease epicenters using a surface-based approach paired with an anatomically fine-grained parcellation of the cortical surface (i.e., HCP-MMP1.0 atlas). Second, we combined cross-sectional functional MRI data from healthy controls and longitudinal structural MRI data from individuals with lvPPA to derive the epicenter-seeded resting-state networks most relevant to lvPPA symptomatology and ascertain whether functional connectivity in these networks predicts longitudinal atrophy spread in lvPPA. Our results show that two partially distinct brain networks anchored to the left anterior angular and posterior superior temporal gyri epicenters were preferentially associated with sentence repetition and naming skills in lvPPA. Critically, the strength of connectivity within these two networks in the neurologically-intact brain significantly predicted longitudinal atrophy progression in lvPPA. Taken together, our findings indicate that atrophy progression in lvPPA, starting from inferior parietal and temporoparietal junction regions, predominantly follows at least two partially nonoverlapping pathways, which may influence the heterogeneity in clinical presentation and prognosis.
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- Maria Luisa Mandelli
- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Sección de Neurología, Departamento de Especialidades, Facultad de MedicinaUniversidad de ConcepciónConcepciónChile
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Department of Communication Sciences and DisordersAdelphi UniversityGarden CityNew YorkUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Department of PsychiatryDouglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill UniversityMontréalCanada
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Faculty of Health SciencesUniversidad del DesarrolloConcepciónChile
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
- Department of OtolaryngologyHead and Neck Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing SciencesUniversity of TexasAustinTexasUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Communicative Disorders and SciencesSan Jose State UniversitySan JoseCaliforniaUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing SciencesUniversity of TexasAustinTexasUSA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of NeurologyUniversity of CaliforniaSan FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
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Mandelli ML, Lorca-Puls DL, Lukic S, Montembeault M, Gajardo-Vidal A, Licata A, Scheffler A, Battistella G, Grasso SM, Bogley R, Ratnasiri BM, La Joie R, Mundada NS, Europa E, Rabinovici G, Miller BL, De Leon J, Henry ML, Miller Z, Gorno-Tempini ML. Network anatomy in logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2023:2023.05.15.23289065. [PMID: 37292690 PMCID: PMC10246009 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.15.23289065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
The logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) is a neurodegenerative syndrome characterized linguistically by gradual loss of repetition and naming skills, resulting from left posterior temporal and inferior parietal atrophy. Here, we sought to identify which specific cortical loci are initially targeted by the disease (epicenters) and investigate whether atrophy spreads through pre-determined networks. First, we used cross-sectional structural MRI data from individuals with lvPPA to define putative disease epicenters using a surface-based approach paired with an anatomically-fine-grained parcellation of the cortical surface (i.e., HCP-MMP1.0 atlas). Second, we combined cross-sectional functional MRI data from healthy controls and longitudinal structural MRI data from individuals with lvPPA to derive the epicenter-seeded resting-state networks most relevant to lvPPA symptomatology and ascertain whether functional connectivity in these networks predicts longitudinal atrophy spread in lvPPA. Our results show that two partially distinct brain networks anchored to the left anterior angular and posterior superior temporal gyri epicenters were preferentially associated with sentence repetition and naming skills in lvPPA. Critically, the strength of connectivity within these two networks in the neurologically-intact brain significantly predicted longitudinal atrophy progression in lvPPA. Taken together, our findings indicate that atrophy progression in lvPPA, starting from inferior parietal and temporo-parietal junction regions, predominantly follows at least two partially non-overlapping pathways, which may influence the heterogeneity in clinical presentation and prognosis.
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Zhu H, Fitzhugh MC, Keator LM, Johnson L, Rorden C, Bonilha L, Fridriksson J, Rogalsky C. How can graph theory inform the dual-stream model of speech processing? a resting-state fMRI study of post-stroke aphasia. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.04.17.537216. [PMID: 37131756 PMCID: PMC10153155 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.17.537216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Abstract
The dual-stream model of speech processing has been proposed to represent the cortical networks involved in speech comprehension and production. Although it is arguably the prominent neuroanatomical model of speech processing, it is not yet known if the dual-stream model represents actual intrinsic functional brain networks. Furthermore, it is unclear how disruptions after a stroke to the functional connectivity of the dual-stream model's regions are related to specific types of speech production and comprehension impairments seen in aphasia. To address these questions, in the present study, we examined two independent resting-state fMRI datasets: (1) 28 neurotypical matched controls and (2) 28 chronic left-hemisphere stroke survivors with aphasia collected at another site. Structural MRI, as well as language and cognitive behavioral assessments, were collected. Using standard functional connectivity measures, we successfully identified an intrinsic resting-state network amongst the dual-stream model's regions in the control group. We then used both standard functional connectivity analyses and graph theory approaches to determine how the functional connectivity of the dual-stream network differs in individuals with post-stroke aphasia, and how this connectivity may predict performance on clinical aphasia assessments. Our findings provide strong evidence that the dual-stream model is an intrinsic network as measured via resting-state MRI, and that weaker functional connectivity of the hub nodes of the dual-stream network defined by graph theory methods, but not overall average network connectivity, is weaker in the stroke group than in the control participants. Also, the functional connectivity of the hub nodes predicted specific types of impairments on clinical assessments. In particular, the relative strength of connectivity of the right hemisphere's homologues of the left dorsal stream hubs to the left dorsal hubs versus right ventral stream hubs is a particularly strong predictor of post-stroke aphasia severity and symptomology.
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Montembeault M, Miller ZA, Geraudie A, Pressman P, Slegers A, Millanski C, Licata A, Ratnasiri B, Mandelli ML, Henry M, Cobigo Y, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Brambati SM, Gorno-Tempini ML, Battistella G. Spared speech fluency is associated with increased functional connectivity in the speech production network in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. Brain Commun 2023; 5:fcad077. [PMID: 37038501 PMCID: PMC10082556 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Revised: 01/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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Semantic variant primary progressive aphasia is a clinical syndrome characterized by marked semantic deficits, anterior temporal lobe atrophy and reduced connectivity within a distributed set of regions belonging to the functional network associated with semantic processing. However, to fully depict the clinical signature of semantic variant primary progressive aphasia, it is necessary to also characterize preserved neural networks and linguistic abilities, such as those subserving speech production. In this case-control observational study, we employed whole-brain seed-based connectivity on task-free MRI data of 32 semantic variant primary progressive aphasia patients and 46 healthy controls to investigate the functional connectivity of the speech production network and its relationship with the underlying grey matter. We investigated brain-behaviour correlations with speech fluency measures collected through clinical tests (verbal agility) and connected speech (speech rate and articulation rate). As a control network, we also investigated functional connectivity within the affected semantic network. Patients presented with increased connectivity in the speech production network between left inferior frontal and supramarginal regions, independent of underlying grey matter volume. In semantic variant primary progressive aphasia patients, preserved (verbal agility) and increased (articulation rate) speech fluency measures correlated with increased connectivity between inferior frontal and supramarginal regions. As expected, patients demonstrated decreased functional connectivity in the semantic network (dependent on the underlying grey matter atrophy) associated with average nouns' age of acquisition during connected speech. Collectively, these results provide a compelling model for studying compensation mechanisms in response to disease that might inform the design of future rehabilitation strategies in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia.
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- Maxime Montembeault
- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montréal, QC H4H 1R3, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 1A1, Canada
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Department of Neurology, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse 31400, France
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- Department of Neurology, Behavioral Neurology Section, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80238, USA
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- Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada
- Centre de recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3W 1W5, Canada
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-0114, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-0114, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada
- Centre de recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3W 1W5, Canada
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Ramanan S, Irish M, Patterson K, Rowe JB, Gorno-Tempini ML, Lambon Ralph MA. Understanding the multidimensional cognitive deficits of logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia. Brain 2022; 145:2955-2966. [PMID: 35857482 PMCID: PMC9473356 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awac208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2022] [Revised: 05/06/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia is characterized by early deficits in language production and phonological short-term memory, attributed to left-lateralized temporoparietal, inferior parietal and posterior temporal neurodegeneration. Despite patients primarily complaining of language difficulties, emerging evidence points to performance deficits in non-linguistic domains. Temporoparietal cortex, and functional brain networks anchored to this region, are implicated as putative neural substrates of non-linguistic cognitive deficits in logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia, suggesting that degeneration of a shared set of brain regions may result in co-occurring linguistic and non-linguistic dysfunction early in the disease course. Here, we provide a Review aimed at broadening the understanding of logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia beyond the lens of an exclusive language disorder. By considering behavioural and neuroimaging research on non-linguistic dysfunction in logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia, we propose that a significant portion of multidimensional cognitive features can be explained by degeneration of temporal/inferior parietal cortices and connected regions. Drawing on insights from normative cognitive neuroscience, we propose that these regions underpin a combination of domain-general and domain-selective cognitive processes, whose disruption results in multifaceted cognitive deficits including aphasia. This account explains the common emergence of linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive difficulties in logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia, and predicts phenotypic diversification associated with progression of pathology in posterior neocortex.
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- Siddharth Ramanan
- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- The University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre and School of Psychology, Sydney, Australia
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- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge University Centre for Frontotemporal Dementia, Cambridge, UK
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK
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- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Cirillo S, Battistella G, Castellano A, Sanvito F, Iadanza A, Bailo M, Barzaghi RL, Acerno S, Mortini P, Gorno-Tempini ML, Mandelli ML, Falini A. Comparison between inferior frontal gyrus intrinsic connectivity network and verb-generation task fMRI network for presurgical language mapping in healthy controls and in glioma patients. Brain Imaging Behav 2022; 16:2569-2585. [PMID: 35908147 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-022-00712-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Task-based functional MRI (tb-fMRI) represents an extremely valuable approach for the identification of language eloquent regions for presurgical mapping in patients with brain tumors. However, its routinely application is limited by patient-related factors, such as cognitive disability and difficulty in coping with long-time acquisitions, and by technical factors, such as lack of equipment availability for stimuli delivery. Resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) instead, allows the identification of distinct language networks in a 10-min acquisition without the need of performing active tasks and using specific equipment. Therefore, to test the feasibility of rs-fMRI as a preoperative mapping tool, we reconstructed a lexico-semantic intrinsic connectivity network (ICN) in healthy controls (HC) and in a case series of patients with gliomas and compared the organization of this language network with the one derived from tb-fMRI in the patient's group. We studied three patients with extra-frontal gliomas who underwent functional mapping with auditory verb-generation (AVG) task and rs-fMRI with a seed in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). First, we identified the functional connected areas to the IFG in HC. We qualitatively compared these areas with those that showed functional activation in AVG task derived from Neurosynth meta-analysis. Last, in each patient we performed single-subject analyses both for rs- and tb-fMRI, and we evaluated the spatial overlap between the two approaches. In HC, the IFG-ICN network showed a predominant left fronto-temporal functional connectivity in regions overlapping with the AVG network derived from a meta-analysis. In two patients, rs- and tb-fMRI showed comparable patterns of activation in left fronto-temporal regions, with different levels of contralateral activations. The third patient could not accomplish the AVG task and thus it was not possible to make any comparison with the ICN. However, in this patient, task-free approach disclosed a consistent network of fronto-temporal regions as in HC, and additional parietal regions. Our preliminary findings support the value of rs-fMRI approach for presurgical mapping, particularly for identifying left fronto-temporal core language-related areas in glioma patients. In a preoperative setting, rs-fMRI approach could represent a powerful tool for the identification of eloquent language areas, especially in patients with language or cognitive impairments.
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- Sara Cirillo
- Neuroradiology Unit and CERMAC, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Neuroradiology Unit and CERMAC, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. .,Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
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- Neuroradiology Unit and CERMAC, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.,Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Unit, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Unit, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.,Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Unit, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Neuroradiology Unit and CERMAC, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.,Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
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Rolls ET, Deco G, Huang CC, Feng J. The human language effective connectome. Neuroimage 2022; 258:119352. [PMID: 35659999 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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To advance understanding of brain networks involved in language, the effective connectivity between 26 cortical regions implicated in language by a community analysis and 360 cortical regions was measured in 171 humans from the Human Connectome Project, and complemented with functional connectivity and diffusion tractography, all using the HCP multimodal parcellation atlas. A (semantic) network (Group 1) involving inferior cortical regions of the superior temporal sulcus cortex (STS) with the adjacent inferior temporal visual cortex TE1a and temporal pole TG, and the connected parietal PGi region, has effective connectivity with inferior temporal visual cortex (TE) regions; with parietal PFm which also has visual connectivity; with posterior cingulate cortex memory-related regions; with the frontal pole, orbitofrontal cortex, and medial prefrontal cortex; with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; and with 44 and 45 for output regions. It is proposed that this system can build in its temporal lobe (STS and TG) and parietal parts (PGi and PGs) semantic representations of objects incorporating especially their visual and reward properties. Another (semantic) network (Group 3) involving superior regions of the superior temporal sulcus cortex and more superior temporal lobe regions including STGa, auditory A5, TPOJ1, the STV and the Peri-Sylvian Language area (PSL) has effective connectivity with auditory areas (A1, A4, A5, Pbelt); with relatively early visual areas involved in motion, e.g., MT and MST, and faces/words (FFC); with somatosensory regions (frontal opercular FOP, insula and parietal PF); with other TPOJ regions; and with the inferior frontal gyrus regions (IFJa and IFSp). It is proposed that this system builds semantic representations specialising in auditory and related facial motion information useful in theory of mind and somatosensory / body image information, with outputs directed not only to regions 44 and 45, but also to premotor 55b and midcingulate premotor cortex. Both semantic networks (Groups 1 and 3) have access to the hippocampal episodic memory system via parahippocampal TF. A third largely frontal network (Group 2) (44, 45, 47l; 55b; the Superior Frontal Language region SFL; and including temporal pole TGv) receives effective connectivity from the two semantic systems, and is implicated in syntax and speech output.
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- Edmund T Rolls
- Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Oxford, UK; Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; Institute of Science and Technology for Brain Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200403, China.
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- Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Roc Boronat 138, Barcelona 08018, Spain; Brain and Cognition, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona 08018, Spain; Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Passeig Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (Ministry of Education), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200602, China
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; Institute of Science and Technology for Brain Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200403, China
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Meier EL. The role of disrupted functional connectivity in aphasia. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2022; 185:99-119. [PMID: 35078613 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-823384-9.00005-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Language is one of the most complex and specialized higher cognitive processes. Brain damage to the distributed, primarily left-lateralized language network can result in aphasia, a neurologic disorder characterized by receptive and/or expressive deficits in spoken and/or written language. Most often, aphasia is the consequence of stroke-termed poststroke aphasia (PSA)-yet, aphasia can also manifest due to neurodegenerative disease, specifically, a disorder called primary progressive aphasia (PPA). In recent years, functional connectivity neuroimaging studies have provided emerging evidence supporting theories regarding the relationships between language impairments, structural brain damage, and functional network properties in these two disorders. This chapter reviews the current evidence for the "network phenotype of stroke injury" hypothesis (Siegel et al., 2016) as it pertains to PSA and the "network degeneration hypothesis" (Seeley et al., 2009) as it pertains to PPA. Methodologic considerations for functional connectivity studies, limitations of the current functional connectivity literature in aphasia, and future directions are also discussed.
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- Erin L Meier
- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States.
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Pistono A, Senoussi M, Guerrier L, Rafiq M, Giméno M, Péran P, Jucla M, Pariente J. Language Network Connectivity Increases in Early Alzheimer's Disease. J Alzheimers Dis 2021; 82:447-460. [PMID: 34024825 PMCID: PMC8293644 DOI: 10.3233/jad-201584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Background: Language production deficits occur early in the course of Alzheimer’s disease (AD); however, only a few studies have focused on language network’s functional connectivity in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to AD. Objective: The current study aims to uncover the extent of language alteration at the MCI stage, at a behavioral and neural level, using univariate and multivariate analyses of structural MRI and resting-state fMRI. Methods: Twenty-four MCI due to AD participants and 24 matched healthy controls underwent a comprehensive language evaluation, a structural T1-3D MRI, and resting-state fMRI. We performed seed-based analyses, using the left inferior frontal gyrus and left posterior temporal gyrus as seeds. Then, we analyzed connectivity between executive control networks and language network in each group. Finally, we used multivariate pattern analyses to test whether the two groups could be distinguished based on the pattern of atrophy within the language network; within the executive control networks, as well as the pattern of functional connectivity within the language network and within the executive control networks. Results: MCI due to AD participants had language impairment during standardized language tasks and connected-speech production. Regarding functional connectivity, univariate analyses were not able to discriminate participants, while multivariate pattern analyses could significantly predict participants’ group. Language network’s functional connectivity could discriminate MCI due to AD participants better than executive control networks. Most notably, they revealed an increased connectivity at the MCI stage, positively correlated with language performance. Conclusion: Multivariate analyses represent a useful tool for investigating the functional and structural (re-)organization of the neural bases of language.
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- Aurélie Pistono
- Octogone-Lordat Interdisciplinary Research Unit (EA 4156), University of Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France.,Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, France
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- Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Centre, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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- Octogone-Lordat Interdisciplinary Research Unit (EA 4156), University of Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, France
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- Octogone-Lordat Interdisciplinary Research Unit (EA 4156), University of Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, France.,Department of Neurology, Neuroscience Centre, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
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Berry SC, Wise RG, Lawrence AD, Lancaster TM. Extended-amygdala intrinsic functional connectivity networks: A population study. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:1594-1616. [PMID: 33314443 PMCID: PMC7978137 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 11/12/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Pre-clinical and human neuroimaging research implicates the extended-amygdala (ExtA) (including the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis [BST] and central nucleus of the amygdala [CeA]) in networks mediating negative emotional states associated with stress and substance-use behaviours. The extent to which individual ExtA structures form a functionally integrated unit is controversial. We utilised a large sample (n > 1,000 healthy young adult humans) to compare the intrinsic functional connectivity networks (ICNs) of the BST and CeA using task-free functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from the Human Connectome Project. We assessed whether inter-individual differences within these ICNs were related to two principal components representing negative disposition and alcohol use. Building on recent primate evidence, we tested whether within BST-CeA intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC) was heritable and further examined co-heritability with our principal components. We demonstrate the BST and CeA to have discrete, but largely overlapping ICNs similar to previous findings. We found no evidence that within BST-CeA iFC was heritable; however, post hoc analyses found significant BST iFC heritability with the broader superficial and centromedial amygdala regions. There were no significant correlations or co-heritability associations with our principal components either across the ICNs or for specific BST-Amygdala iFC. Possible differences in phenotype associations across task-free, task-based, and clinical fMRI are discussed, along with suggestions for more causal investigative paradigms that make use of the now well-established ExtA ICNs.
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- Samuel C. Berry
- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of PsychologyCardiff UniversityCardiffUK
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- Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences"G. D'Annunzio University" of Chieti‐PescaraChietiItaly
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of PsychologyCardiff UniversityCardiffUK
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Benhamou E, Marshall CR, Russell LL, Hardy CJD, Bond RL, Sivasathiaseelan H, Greaves CV, Friston KJ, Rohrer JD, Warren JD, Razi A. The neurophysiological architecture of semantic dementia: spectral dynamic causal modelling of a neurodegenerative proteinopathy. Sci Rep 2020; 10:16321. [PMID: 33004840 PMCID: PMC7530731 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72847-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
The selective destruction of large-scale brain networks by pathogenic protein spread is a ubiquitous theme in neurodegenerative disease. Characterising the circuit architecture of these diseases could illuminate both their pathophysiology and the computational architecture of the cognitive processes they target. However, this is challenging using standard neuroimaging techniques. Here we addressed this issue using a novel technique-spectral dynamic causal modelling-that estimates the effective connectivity between brain regions from resting-state fMRI data. We studied patients with semantic dementia-the paradigmatic disorder of the brain system mediating world knowledge-relative to healthy older individuals. We assessed how the effective connectivity of the semantic appraisal network targeted by this disease was modulated by pathogenic protein deposition and by two key phenotypic factors, semantic impairment and behavioural disinhibition. The presence of pathogenic protein in SD weakened the normal inhibitory self-coupling of network hubs in both antero-mesial temporal lobes, with development of an abnormal excitatory fronto-temporal projection in the left cerebral hemisphere. Semantic impairment and social disinhibition were linked to a similar but more extensive profile of abnormally attenuated inhibitory self-coupling within temporal lobe regions and excitatory projections between temporal and inferior frontal regions. Our findings demonstrate that population-level dynamic causal modelling can disclose a core pathophysiological feature of proteinopathic network architecture-attenuation of inhibitory connectivity-and the key elements of distributed neuronal processing that underwrite semantic memory.
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- Elia Benhamou
- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK.
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
- Preventive Neurology Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, 8-11 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
- Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Häkkinen S, Chu SA, Lee SE. Neuroimaging in genetic frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurobiol Dis 2020; 145:105063. [PMID: 32890771 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2020.105063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Revised: 07/30/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have a strong clinical, genetic and pathological overlap. This review focuses on the current understanding of structural, functional and molecular neuroimaging signatures of genetic FTD and ALS. We overview quantitative neuroimaging studies on the most common genes associated with FTD (MAPT, GRN), ALS (SOD1), and both (C9orf72), and summarize visual observations of images reported in the rarer genes (CHMP2B, TARDBP, FUS, OPTN, VCP, UBQLN2, SQSTM1, TREM2, CHCHD10, TBK1).
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- Suvi Häkkinen
- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Tomasi D, Volkow ND. Network connectivity predicts language processing in healthy adults. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 41:3696-3708. [PMID: 32449559 PMCID: PMC7416057 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2019] [Revised: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Brain imaging has been used to predict language skills during development and neuropathology but its accuracy in predicting language performance in healthy adults has been poorly investigated. To address this shortcoming, we studied the ability to predict reading accuracy and single‐word comprehension scores from rest‐ and task‐based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) datasets of 424 healthy adults. Using connectome‐based predictive modeling, we identified functional brain networks with >400 edges that predicted language scores and were reproducible in independent data sets. To simplify these complex models we identified the overlapping edges derived from the three task‐fMRI sessions (language, working memory, and motor tasks), and found 12 edges for reading recognition and 11 edges for vocabulary comprehension that accounted for 20% of the variance of these scores, both in the training sample and in the independent sample. The overlapping edges predominantly emanated from language areas within the frontoparietal and default‐mode networks, with a strong precuneus prominence. These findings identify a small subset of edges that accounted for a significant fraction of the variance in language performance that might serve as neuromarkers for neuromodulation interventions to improve language performance or for presurgical planning to minimize language impairments.
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- Dardo Tomasi
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.,National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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