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Ahsan SA, Dadario NB, Dhaliwal J, Briggs RG, Osipowicz K, Ahsan SM, Chendeb K, Conner AK, O'Neal CM, Glenn CA, Sughrue ME. A parcellation-based connectomic model of hemispatial neglect. J Neuroimaging 2024; 34:267-279. [PMID: 38115162 DOI: 10.1111/jon.13176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Revised: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hemispatial neglect is characterized by a reduced awareness to stimuli on the contralateral side. Current literature suggesting that damage to the right parietal lobe and attention networks may cause hemispatial neglect is conflicting and can be improved by investigating a connectomic model of the "neglect system" and the anatomical specificity of regions involved in it. METHODS A meta-analysis of voxel-based morphometry magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of hemispatial neglect was used to identify regions associated with neglect. We applied parcellation schemes to these regions and performed diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) tractography to determine their connectivity. By overlaying neglect areas and maps of the attention networks, we studied the relationship between them. RESULTS The meta-analysis generated a list of 13 right hemisphere parcellations. These 13 neglect-related parcellations were predominantly linked by the superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) throughout a fronto-parietal-temporal network. We found that the dorsal and ventral attention networks showed partial overlap with the neglect system and included various other higher-order networks. CONCLUSIONS We provide an anatomically specific connectomic model of the neurobehavioral substrates underlying hemispatial neglect. Our model suggests a fronto-parietal-temporal network linked via the SLF supports the functions impaired in neglect and implicates various higher-order networks which are not limited to the attention networks.
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- Syed A Ahsan
- Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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- Omniscient Neurotechnology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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- Center for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Blondiaux E, Diamantaras A, Schumacher R, Blanke O, Müri R, Heydrich L. The neural correlates of topographical disorientation-a lesion analysis study. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2024; 11:520-524. [PMID: 38234234 PMCID: PMC10863913 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.51967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024] Open
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Topographical disorientation refers to the selective inability to orient oneself in familiar surroundings. However, to date its neural correlates remain poorly understood. Here we use quantitative lesion analysis and a lesion network mapping approach in order to investigate seven patients with topographical disorientation. Our findings link not only the posterior parahippocampal gyrus (PHG) and retrosplenial cortex but also the lingual gyrus, the precuneus and the fusiform gyrus to topographical disorientation. We propose that topographical disorientation is due to the inability to integrate familiar landmarks within a framework of allocentric and egocentric orientation, supported by a neural network including the posterior PHG, the retrosplenial and the lingual cortex.
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- Eva Blondiaux
- Laboratory of Cognitive NeuroscienceBrain‐Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
- Center for NeuroprostheticsSchool of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
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- Department of NeurologyInselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
- CORE Lab, Psychosomatic Competence Center, Department of NeurologyInselspital. Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Department of NeurologyInselspital, University Neurorehabilitation, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Laboratory of Cognitive NeuroscienceBrain‐Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
- Center for NeuroprostheticsSchool of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
- Department of NeurologyUniversity Hospital GenevaGenevaSwitzerland
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- Department of NeurologyInselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
- Department of NeurologyInselspital, University Neurorehabilitation, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Department of NeurologyInselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
- CORE Lab, Psychosomatic Competence Center, Department of NeurologyInselspital. Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
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Putra HA, Park K, Oba H, Yamashita F. Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder traits in healthy adults associated with brain volumetric data identify precuneus involvement in traffic crashes. Sci Rep 2023; 13:22466. [PMID: 38105321 PMCID: PMC10725881 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49907-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023] Open
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This large-scale study including 2548 healthy adults with no clinical attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis intended to clarify the complex relationships between cerebral grey matter volumes (GMVs), ADHD traits, and driving safety behaviours. Path analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results and questionnaires about ADHD traits and traffic crashes over the past decade revealed significant correlations of ADHD traits with different brain regions relevant to different cognitive functions. The left precuneus responsible for visuospatial cognition was the sole region correlated with all ADHD trait categories, suggesting it plays an important role in understanding driving safety and traffic crashes. For the first time, a strong relationship was found among regional GMVs, ADHD traits, and real-life traffic crashes. These insights into the complex interplay may inform the development of an effective intervention with MRI examination to prevent traffic crashes. Large-scale brain volumetric data may further open social applications of behaviour science and neuroimaging.
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- Handityo Aulia Putra
- Research Organization for Regional Alliance, Kochi University of Technology, 185 Miyanokuchi Tosayamada‑cho, Kami, Kochi, 782‑0003, Japan
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- Research Organization for Regional Alliance, Kochi University of Technology, 185 Miyanokuchi Tosayamada‑cho, Kami, Kochi, 782‑0003, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki University, 66‑1, Hon‑cho, Hirosaki, Aomori, 036‑8564, Japan
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- Division of Ultrahigh Field MRI, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Iwate Medical University, 1‑1‑1 Idaidori, Yahaba‑cho, Shiwa‑gun, Iwate, 028‑3694, Japan
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Zhang G, Xiao Q, Wang C, Gao W, Su L, Lu G, Zhong Y. The Different Impact of Depressive or Manic First-episode on Pediatric Bipolar Disorder Patients: Evidence From Resting-state fMRI. Neuroscience 2023; 526:185-195. [PMID: 37385333 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2023.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2022] [Revised: 06/14/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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Bipolar disorder may begin as depression or mania, which can affect the treatment and prognosis of bipolar disorder. However, the physiological and pathological differences of pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD) patients with different onset symptoms are not clear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences of clinical, cognitive function and intrinsic brain networks in PBD patients with first-episode depression and first-episode mania. A total of 63 participants, including 43 patients and 20 healthy controls, underwent resting-state fMRI scans. PBD patients were classified as first-episode depressive and first-episode manic based on their first-episode symptoms. Cognitive tests were used to measure attention and memory of all participants. Independent component analysis (ICA) was used to extract the salience network (SN), default-mode network (DMN), central executive network (ECN) and limbic network (LN) for each participant. Spearman rank correlation analysis was performed between abnormal activation and clinical and cognitive measures. The results showed that there were differences in cognitive functions such as attention and visual memory between first-episode depression and mania, as well as differences activation in anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), precuneus, inferior parietal cortex and parahippocampus. And significant associations of brain activity with clinical assessments or cognition were found in different patients. In conclusion, we found differential impairments in cognitive and brain network activation in first-episode depressive and first-episode manic PBD patients, and correlations were found between these impairments. These evidences may shed light on the different developmental paths of bipolar disorder.
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- Gui Zhang
- School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China
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- Mental Health Centre of Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410008, Hunan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Nanjing Brain Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, Jiangsu, China
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- Children's Hospital affiliated to the Medical College of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, Zhejiang, China
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- Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410011, Hunan, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, 210093 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, China.
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Delvenne JF, Scally B, Rose Burke M. Splenium tract projections of the corpus callosum to the parietal cortex classifies Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment. Neurosci Lett 2023; 810:137331. [PMID: 37302566 PMCID: PMC10862691 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The corpus callosum (CC) is the largest bundle of white matter tracts in the brain connecting the left and right cerebral hemispheres. The posterior region of the CC, known as the splenium, seems to be relatively preserved throughout the lifespan and is regularly examined for indications of various pathologies, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). However, the splenium has rarely been investigated in terms of its distinct inter-hemispheric tract bundles that project to bilateral occipital, parietal and temporal areas of the cortex. The aim of the present study was to determine if any of these sub-splenium tract bundles are specifically affected by individuals with AD and MCI compared to normal controls. Diffusion Tensor Imaging was used to directly examine the integrity of these distinct tract bundles and their diffusion metrics were compared between groups of MCI, AD, and control individuals. Results revealed that differences between MCI, AD, and controls were particularly evident at parietal tracts of the CC splenium and were consistent with an interpretation of compromised white matter integrity. Combined parietal tract diffusivity and density information strongly discriminated between AD patients and controls with an accuracy (AUC) of 97.19%. Combined parietal tract diffusivity parameters correctly classified MCI subjects against controls with an accuracy of 74.97%. These findings demonstrated the potential of examining the CC splenium in terms of its distinct inter-hemispheric tract bundles for the diagnosis of AD and MCI.
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- School of Psychology, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Veréb D, Mijalkov M, Chang YW, Canal-Garcia A, Gomez-Ruis E, Maass A, Villeneuve S, Volpe G, Pereira JB. Functional gradients of the medial parietal cortex in a healthy cohort with family history of sporadic Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Res Ther 2023; 15:82. [PMID: 37076873 PMCID: PMC10114342 DOI: 10.1186/s13195-023-01228-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 04/05/2023] [Indexed: 04/21/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The medial parietal cortex is an early site of pathological protein deposition in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Previous studies have identified different subregions within this area; however, these subregions are often heterogeneous and disregard individual differences or subtle pathological alterations in the underlying functional architecture. To address this limitation, here we measured the continuous connectivity gradients of the medial parietal cortex and assessed their relationship with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, ApoE ε4 carriership and memory in asymptomatic individuals at risk to develop AD. METHODS Two hundred sixty-three cognitively normal participants with a family history of sporadic AD who underwent resting-state and task-based functional MRI using encoding and retrieval tasks were included from the PREVENT-AD cohort. A novel method for characterizing spatially continuous patterns of functional connectivity was applied to estimate functional gradients in the medial parietal cortex during the resting-state and task-based conditions. This resulted in a set of nine parameters that described the appearance of the gradient across different spatial directions. We performed correlation analyses to assess whether these parameters were associated with CSF biomarkers of phosphorylated tau181 (p-tau), total tau (t-tau), and amyloid-ß1-42 (Aß). Then, we compared the spatial parameters between ApoE ε4 carriers and noncarriers, and evaluated the relationship between these parameters and memory. RESULTS Alterations involving the superior part of the medial parietal cortex, which was connected to regions of the default mode network, were associated with higher p-tau, t-tau levels as well as lower Aß/p-tau levels during the resting-state condition (p < 0.01). Similar alterations were found in ApoE ε4 carriers compared to non-carriers (p < 0.003). In contrast, lower immediate memory scores were associated with changes in the middle part of the medial parietal cortex, which was connected to inferior temporal and posterior parietal regions, during the encoding task (p = 0.001). No results were found when using conventional connectivity measures. CONCLUSIONS Functional alterations in the medial parietal gradients are associated with CSF AD biomarkers, ApoE ε4 carriership, and lower memory in an asymptomatic cohort with a family history of sporadic AD, suggesting that functional gradients are sensitive to subtle changes associated with early AD stages.
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- Dániel Veréb
- Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), 39120, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Physics, Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
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Fairchild G, Sully K, Passamonti L, Staginnus M, Darekar A, Sonuga-Barke EJS, Toschi N. Neuroanatomical markers of familial risk in adolescents with conduct disorder and their unaffected relatives. Psychol Med 2023; 53:1721-1731. [PMID: 34607618 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291721003202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported brain structure abnormalities in conduct disorder (CD), but it is unclear whether these neuroanatomical alterations mediate the effects of familial (genetic and environmental) risk for CD. We investigated brain structure in adolescents with CD and their unaffected relatives (URs) to identify neuroanatomical markers of familial risk for CD. METHODS Forty-one adolescents with CD, 24 URs of CD probands, and 38 healthy controls (aged 12-18), underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging. We performed surface-based morphometry analyses, testing for group differences in cortical volume, thickness, surface area, and folding. We also assessed the volume of key subcortical structures. RESULTS The CD and UR groups both displayed structural alterations (lower surface area and folding) in left inferior parietal cortex compared with controls. In contrast, CD participants showed lower insula and pars opercularis volume than controls, and lower surface area and folding in these regions than controls and URs. The URs showed greater folding in rostral anterior cingulate and inferior temporal cortex than controls and greater medial orbitofrontal folding than CD participants. The surface area and volume differences were not significant when controlling for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder comorbidity. There were no group differences in subcortical volumes. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that alterations in inferior parietal cortical structure partly mediate the effects of familial risk for CD. These structural changes merit investigation as candidate endophenotypes for CD. Neuroanatomical changes in medial orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate cortex differentiated between URs and the other groups, potentially reflecting neural mechanisms of resilience to CD.
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- School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology, National Research Council, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medical Physics, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
- Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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Smith SM, Garcia EL, Davidson CG, Thompson JJ, Lovett SD, Ferekides N, Federico Q, Bumanglag AV, Hernandez AR, Abisambra JF, Burke SN. Paired associates learning is disrupted after unilateral parietal lobe controlled cortical impact in rats: A trial-by-trial behavioral analysis. Behav Brain Res 2023; 437:114106. [PMID: 36089100 PMCID: PMC9927580 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2022.114106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
Approximately 60-70 million people suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year. Animal models continue to be paramount in understanding mechanisms of cellular dysfunction and testing new treatments for TBI. Enhancing the translational potential of novel interventions therefore necessitates testing pre-clinical intervention strategies with clinically relevant cognitive assays. This study used a unilateral parietal lobe controlled cortical impact (CCI) model of TBI and tested rats on a touchscreen-based Paired Associates Learning (PAL) task, which is part of the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery. In humans, the PAL task has been used to assess cognitive deficits in the ability to form stimulus-location associations in a multitude of disease states, including TBI. Although the use of PAL in animal models could be important for understanding the clinical severity of cognitive impairment post-injury and throughout intervention, to date, the extent to which a rat model of TBI produces deficits in PAL task performance has not yet been reported. This study details the behavioral consequences of the CCI injury model with a Trial-by-Trial analysis of PAL performance that enables behavioral strategy use to be inferred. Following behavior, the extent of the injury was quantified with histology and staining for the presence of glial fibrillary acid protein and ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule 1. Rats that received unilateral CCI were impaired on the PAL task and showed more aberrant response-driven behavior. The magnitude of PAL impairment was also correlated with Iba1 staining in the thalamus. These observations suggest that PAL could be useful for pre-clinical assessments of novel interventions for treating TBI.
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- Samantha M Smith
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States; Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience Concentration, University of Florida, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States; Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, United States; Institute on Aging, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.
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Meller T, Schmitt S, Ettinger U, Grant P, Stein F, Brosch K, Grotegerd D, Dohm K, Meinert S, Förster K, Hahn T, Jansen A, Dannlowski U, Krug A, Kircher T, Nenadić I. Brain structural correlates of schizotypal signs and subclinical schizophrenia nuclear symptoms in healthy individuals. Psychol Med 2022; 52:342-351. [PMID: 32578531 PMCID: PMC8842196 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291720002044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2019] [Revised: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Subclinical psychotic-like experiences (PLE), resembling key symptoms of psychotic disorders, are common throughout the general population and possibly associated with psychosis risk. There is evidence that such symptoms are also associated with structural brain changes. METHODS In 672 healthy individuals, we assessed PLE and associated distress with the symptom-checklist-90R (SCL-90R) scales 'schizotypal signs' (STS) and 'schizophrenia nuclear symptoms' (SNS) and analysed associations with voxel- and surfaced-based brain structural parameters derived from structural magnetic resonance imaging at 3 T with CAT12. RESULTS For SNS, we found a positive correlation with the volume in the left superior parietal lobule and the precuneus, and a negative correlation with the volume in the right inferior temporal gyrus [p < 0.05 cluster-level Family Wise Error (FWE-corrected]. For STS, we found a negative correlation with the volume of the left and right precentral gyrus (p < 0.05 cluster-level FWE-corrected). Surface-based analyses did not detect any significant clusters with the chosen statistical threshold of p < 0.05. However, in exploratory analyses (p < 0.001, uncorrected), we found a positive correlation of SNS with gyrification in the left insula and rostral middle frontal gyrus and of STS with the left precuneus and insula, as well as a negative correlation of STS with gyrification in the left temporal pole. CONCLUSIONS Our results show that brain structures in areas implicated in schizophrenia are also related to PLE and its associated distress in healthy individuals. This pattern supports a dimensional model of the neural correlates of symptoms of the psychotic spectrum.
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- Tina Meller
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Kaiser-Karl-Ring 9, 53111Bonn, Germany
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- Psychology School, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Marienburgstr. 6, 60528Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Faculty of Life Science Engineering, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Building A9, 48149Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Building A9, 48149Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Building A9, 48149Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Building A9, 48149Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Building A9, 48149Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032Marburg, Germany
- Core-Facility BrainImaging, Faculty of Medicine, Philipps-Universität, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Building A9, 48149Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032Marburg, Germany
- Marburg University Hospital – UKGM, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032Marburg, Germany
- Marburg University Hospital – UKGM, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032Marburg, Germany
- Marburg University Hospital – UKGM, Rudolf-Bultmann-Str. 8, 35039Marburg, Germany
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Hubl D, Michel C, Schultze-Lutter F, Hauf M, Schimmelmann BG, Kaess M, Kindler J. Basic symptoms and gray matter volumes of patients at clinical high risk for psychosis. Psychol Med 2021; 51:2666-2674. [PMID: 32404212 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291720001282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Clinical high-risk (CHR) for psychosis is indicated by ultra-high risk (UHR) and basic symptom (BS) criteria; however, conversion rates are highest when both UHR and BS criteria are fulfilled (UHR&BS). While BSs are considered the most immediate expression of neurobiological aberrations underlying the development of psychosis, research on neurobiological correlates of BS is scarce. METHODS We investigated gray matter volumes (GMV) of 20 regions of interest (ROI) previously associated with UHR criteria in 90 patients from the Bern early detection service: clinical controls (CC), first-episode psychosis (FEP), UHR, BS and UHR&BS. We expected lowest GMV in FEP and UHR&BS, and highest volume in CC with UHR and BS in-between. RESULTS Significantly, lower GMV was detected in FEP and UHR&BS patients relative to CC with no other significant between-group differences. When ROIs were analyzed separately, seven showed a significant group effect (FDR corrected), with five (inferior parietal, medial orbitofrontal, lateral occipital, middle temporal, precuneus) showing significantly lower GM volume in the FEP and/or UHR&BS groups than in the CC group (Bonferroni corrected). In the CHR group, only COGDIS scores correlated negatively with cortical volumes. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study to demonstrate that patients who fulfill both UHR and BS criteria - a population that has been associated with higher conversion rates - exhibit more severe GMV reductions relative to those who satisfy BS or UHR criteria alone. This result was mediated by the BS in the UHR&BS group, as only the severity of BS was linked to GMV reductions.
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- Daniela Hubl
- Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Support Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (SCAN), Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University of Bern, Switzerland
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- University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Switzerland
- University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Section for Translational Psychobiology in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Switzerland
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Yegla B, Joshi S, Strupp J, Parikh V. Dynamic interplay of frontoparietal cholinergic innervation and cortical reorganization in the regulation of attentional capacities in aging. Neurobiol Aging 2021; 105:186-198. [PMID: 34102380 PMCID: PMC8338743 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Revised: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Cortical remodeling is linked to age-related cognitive changes in humans; however, the mechanisms underlying cortical reorganization in aging remain unknown. Here we examined the consequences of mild cholinergic thinning of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and parietal cortex (PC) on attention performance-associated changes in cortical activity in young and aged rats. Prefrontal manipulation produced attentional deficits in aged but not young rats regardless of cholinergic pruning. Stereological assessment of c-fos expression revealed age-related reductions in occipital activity and a corresponding increase in PC activity, but these patterns did not correlate with performance. PC cholinergic deafferentation produced opposite changes in PFC recruitment between young and aged rats. Cholinergic pruning reversed the effects of PFC/PC cholinergic manipulations on the activity of CaMKII- and GAD-positive neurons in aged rats. Our results indicate that cortical shifts depend on multiple factors including chronological age, cholinergic changes, and cortical insult, and that cortical reorganization is not necessarily compensatory. Moreover, the cholinergic system modulates excitation/inhibition homeostasis to improve the efficiency of reorganized cortical circuits and stabilize attentional performance.
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- Brittney Yegla
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Rowe OE, Rangaprakash D, Weerasekera A, Godbole N, Haxton E, James PF, Stephen CD, Barry RL, Eichler FS, Ratai EM. Magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy in late-onset GM2-gangliosidosis. Mol Genet Metab 2021; 133:386-396. [PMID: 34226107 PMCID: PMC8289742 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2021.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Our study aimed to quantify structural changes in relation to metabolic abnormalities in the cerebellum, thalamus, and parietal cortex of patients with late-onset GM2-gangliosidosis (LOGG), which encompasses late-onset Tay-Sachs disease (LOTS) and Sandhoff disease (LOSD). METHODS We enrolled 10 patients with LOGG (7 LOTS, 3 LOSD) who underwent a neurological assessment battery and 7 age-matched controls. Structural MRI and MRS were performed on a 3 T scanner. Structural volumes were obtained from FreeSurfer and normalized by total intracranial volume. Quantified metabolites included N-acetylaspartate (NAA), choline (Cho), myo-inositol (mI), creatine (Cr), and combined glutamate-glutamine (Glx). Metabolic concentrations were corrected for partial volume effects. RESULTS Structural analyses revealed significant cerebellar atrophy in the LOGG cohort, which was primarily driven by LOTS patients. NAA was lower and mI higher in LOGG, but this was also significantly driven by the LOTS patients. Clinical ataxia deficits (via the Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia) were associated with neuronal injury (via NAA), neuroinflammation (via mI), and volumetric atrophy in the cerebellum. INTERPRETATION The decrease of NAA in the cerebellum suggests that, in addition to cerebellar atrophy, there is ongoing impaired neuronal function and/or loss, while an increase in mI indicates possible neuroinflammation in LOGG (more so within the LOTS subvariant). Quantifying cerebellar atrophy in relation to neurometabolic differences in LOGG may lead to improvements in assessing disease severity, progression, and pharmacological efficacy. Lastly, additional neuroimaging studies in LOGG are required to contrast LOTS and LOSD more accurately.
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- Olivia E Rowe
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Leukodystrophy Clinic, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Rare Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Leukodystrophy Clinic, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Rare Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Leukodystrophy Clinic, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Rare Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Rare Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Movement Disorders Division and Ataxia Center, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA; Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Health Sciences & Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Leukodystrophy Clinic, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Center for Rare Neurological Diseases, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA; Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Wanigatunga AA, Wang H, An Y, Simonsick EM, Tian Q, Davatzikos C, Urbanek JK, Zipunnikov V, Spira AP, Ferrucci L, Resnick SM, Schrack JA. Association Between Brain Volumes and Patterns of Physical Activity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2021; 76:1504-1511. [PMID: 33230557 PMCID: PMC8495900 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glaa294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Larger brain volumes are often associated with more free-living physical activity (PA) in cognitively normal older adults. Yet, whether greater brain volumes are associated with more favorable (less fragmented) PA patterns, and whether this association is stronger than with total PA, remains unknown. METHODS Brain magnetic resonance imaging and wrist-worn accelerometer data were collected in 301 participants (mean age = 77 [SD = 7] years, 59% women) enrolled in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Linear regression models were fit to examine whether brain volumes (cc) were cross-sectionally associated with: (a) total daily PA minutes and (b) activity fragmentation (mean number of PA bouts / total PA minutes × 100). Sensitivity analyses were conducted by adjusting for counterpart PA variables (eg, fragmentation covariate included in the PA minutes model). RESULTS Greater white matter volumes in the parietal and temporal lobes were associated with higher daily PA minutes (2.6 [SE = 1.0] and 3.8 [0.9] min/day, respectively; p < .009 for both) after adjusting for demographics, behavioral factors, medical conditions, gait speed, apolipoprotein E e4 status, and intracranial volume. Greater temporal white matter volume was associated with lower fragmentation (-0.16% [0.05], p = .003). In sensitivity analyses, observed associations between brain volumes and daily PA minutes remained significant while associations with fragmentation no longer remained significant. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest white matter brain structure in cognitively normal older adults is associated with the total amount of PA and, to a lesser extent, the PA accumulation patterns. More work is needed to elucidate the longitudinal relationship between brain structure and function and PA patterns with aging.
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- Amal A Wanigatunga
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
- Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Intramural Research Program, National Institute on
Aging, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Intramural Research Program, National Institute on
Aging, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Intramural Research Program, National Institute on
Aging, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
and Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Intramural Research Program, National Institute on
Aging, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Intramural Research Program, National Institute on
Aging, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
- Center on Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland
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Sawada K, Kamiya S, Aoki I. Neonatal valproic acid exposure produces altered gyrification related to increased parvalbumin-immunopositive neuron density with thickened sulcal floors. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250262. [PMID: 33878144 PMCID: PMC8057614 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Valproic acid (VPA) treatment is associated with autism spectrum disorder in humans, and ferrets can be used as a model to test this; so far, it is not known whether ferrets react to developmental VPA exposure with gyrencephalic abnormalities. The current study characterized gyrification abnormalities in ferrets following VPA exposure during neonatal periods, corresponding to the late stage of cortical neurogenesis as well as the early stage of sulcogyrogenesis. Ferret pups received intraperitoneal VPA injections (200 μg/g of body weight) on postnatal days (PD) 6 and 7. BrdU was administered simultaneously at the last VPA injection. Ex vivo MRI-based morphometry demonstrated significantly lower gyrification index (GI) throughout the cortex in VPA-treated ferrets (1.265 ± 0.027) than in control ferrets (1.327 ± 0.018) on PD 20, when primary sulcogyrogenesis is complete. VPA-treated ferrets showed significantly smaller sulcal-GIs in the rostral suprasylvian sulcus and splenial sulcus but a larger lateral sulcus surface area than control ferrets. The floor cortex of the inner stratum of both the rostral suprasylvian and splenial sulci and the outer stratum of the lateral sulcus showed a relatively prominent expansion. Parvalbumin-positive neuron density was significantly greater in the expanded cortical strata of sulcal floors in VPA-treated ferrets, regardless of the BrdU-labeled status. Thus, VPA exposure during the late stage of cortical neurogenesis may alter gyrification, primarily in the frontal and parietotemporal cortical divisions. Altered gyrification may thicken the outer or inner stratum of the cerebral cortex by increasing parvalbumin-positive neuron density.
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- Kazuhiko Sawada
- Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tsukuba International University, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan
- * E-mail: (KS); (IA)
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- Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tsukuba International University, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Imaging and Theranostics, NIRS, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Chib, Japan
- * E-mail: (KS); (IA)
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Cai JW, Chen XY, Chen JY, Wu ZY, Wu XY, Yu LH, You HH. Glioblastoma in a female neurofibromatosis 1 patient without IDH1, BRAF V600E, and TERT promoter mutations: A case report. Medicine (Baltimore) 2021; 100:e25346. [PMID: 33787635 PMCID: PMC8021349 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000025346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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RATIONALE Glioblastoma is the most lethal and common malignant brain tumor but rare in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1. The clinical findings and pathological findings with gene signatures in female patients have not been well clarified. PATIENT CONCERNS A 51-year-old female patient complained of headache and left limb weakness lasting for 20 days. The patient underwent a cesarean section 20 years ago and hysterectomy 1 year ago because of uterine leiomyomas. Multiple café-au-lait spots and neurofibromas were found over patient's chest, neck, back, and arms. The myodynamia of left distant and proximate epipodite were grade 0 and grade 1 respectively. The myodynamia of lower left limb was grade 3. DIAGNOSES Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a malignant lesion which was most likely a glioblastoma in the right temporo-parietal lobe, approximately 5.6 × 5.9 × 6.9 cm in size with a rounded boundary. INTERVENTIONS A right temporo-parietal craniotomy was performed to resect the space-occupying lesion for gross total removal. Then, the patient received concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Histological examination confirmed a glioblastoma without v-RAF murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 gene, isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 gene, and telomerase reverse transcriptase gene promoter mutations. OUTCOMES After surgery, the headache was relieved and the muscular strength of left limbs did improve. After receiving the standard treatment regimen, the patient was alive at 13 months follow-up. LESSONS This is the first reported glioblastoma in female neurofibromatosis type 1 patient without v-RAF murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B1 gene, isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 gene, and telomerase reverse transcriptase gene promoter mutations. Tumors in adult patients with these signatures were less aggressive with well-circumscribed border and had long-term survivals which strengthened the evidence that these patients may comprise a unique subset in glioblastoma.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China
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Calderon-Villalon J, Ramirez-Garcia G, Fernandez-Ruiz J, Sangri-Gil F, Campos-Romo A, Galvez V. Planning deficits in Huntington's disease: A brain structural correlation by voxel-based morphometry. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0249144. [PMID: 33760890 PMCID: PMC7990304 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Introduction Early Huntington’s disease (HD) patients begin to show planning deficits even before motor alterations start to manifest. Generally, planning ability is associated with the functioning of anterior brain areas such as the medial prefrontal cortex. However, early HD neuropathology involves significant atrophy in the occipital and parietal cortex, suggesting that more posterior regions could also be involved in these planning deficits. Objective To identify brain regions associated with planning deficits in HD patients at an early clinical stage. Materials and methods Twenty-two HD-subjects genetically confirmed with incipient clinical manifestation and twenty healthy subjects were recruited. All participants underwent MRI T1 image acquisition as well as testing in the Stockings of Cambridge (SOC) task to measure planning ability. First, group comparison of SOC measures were performed. Then, correlation voxel-based morphometry analyses were done between gray matter degeneration and SOC performance in the HD group. Results Accuracy and efficiency planning scores correlated with gray matter density in right lingual gyrus, middle temporal gyrus, anterior cingulate gyrus, and paracingulate gyrus. Conclusions Our results suggest that planning deficits exhibited by early HD-subjects are related to occipital and temporal cortical degeneration in addition to the frontal areas deterioration.
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- Jesus Calderon-Villalon
- Laboratorio de Neurociencias Cognitivas y Desarrollo, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Panamericana, Ciudad de México, México
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- Laboratorio de Neuropsicología, Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Laboratorio de Neuropsicología, Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
- Instituto de Neuroetología, Universidad Veracruzana, Ciudad de México, México
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- Laboratorio de Neurociencias Cognitivas y Desarrollo, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Panamericana, Ciudad de México, México
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- Unidad Periférica de Neurociencias, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía “MVS”, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Laboratorio de Neurociencias Cognitivas y Desarrollo, Escuela de Psicología, Universidad Panamericana, Ciudad de México, México
- Unidad Periférica de Neurociencias, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía “MVS”, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, México
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Lapomarda G, Pappaianni E, Siugzdaite R, Sanfey AG, Rumiati RI, Grecucci A. Out of control: An altered parieto-occipital-cerebellar network for impulsivity in bipolar disorder. Behav Brain Res 2021; 406:113228. [PMID: 33684426 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Revised: 01/28/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Bipolar disorder is an affective disorder characterized by rapid fluctuations in mood ranging from episodes of depression to mania, as well as by increased impulsivity. Previous studies investigated the neural substrates of bipolar disorder mainly using univariate methods, with a particular focus on the neural circuitry underlying emotion regulation difficulties. In the present study, capitalizing on an innovative whole-brain multivariate method to structural analysis known as Source-based Morphometry, we investigated the neural substrates of bipolar disorder and their relation with impulsivity, assessed with both self-report measures and performance-based tasks. Structural images from 46 patients with diagnosis of bipolar disorder and 60 healthy controls were analysed. Compared to healthy controls, patients showed decreased gray matter concentration in a parietal-occipital-cerebellar network. Notably, the lower the gray matter concentration in this circuit, the higher the self-reported impulsivity. In conclusion, we provided new evidence of an altered brain network in bipolar disorder patients related to their abnormal impulsivity. Taken together, these findings extend our understanding of the neural and symptomatic characterization of bipolar disorder.
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- Gaia Lapomarda
- Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
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Hu MB, Kesha K, Glenn C, Stables S, Tse R. Hemorrhagic Pseudocyst: A Rare Cerebral Mass Lesion Causing Death. A Case Report and Brief Review of Literature. Am J Forensic Med Pathol 2021; 42:77-80. [PMID: 33555675 DOI: 10.1097/paf.0000000000000605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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ABSTRACT Mass lesions in the brain encompass a wide range neoplastic and nonneoplastic entities. These can present as a diagnostic pitfall, with nonspecific, overlapping symptoms and similar appearances on radiology. They may cause death through varied mechanisms, either specific to the underlying pathophysiology or due to the space-occupying effect of the lesion. We report a case of fatal hemorrhagic cerebral pseudocyst, a rare mass lesion, associated with a cerebral varix, causing death in a morbidly obese individual. To the best of our knowledge, there is no previous documentation in the postmortem literature of this entity as a cause of death. This case aims to document this rare entity in the differential diagnosis of a tumor-like lesion in the brain, highlight the clinical difficulty in its assessment, and demonstrate an uncommon mechanism of death, of a mass lesion acting as a focus causing seizures, with resulting hypoxia due to effects of morbid obesity and heart failure.
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- Mindy Bizhe Hu
- From the Department of Forensic Pathology, LabPLUS, Auckland City Hospital
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- From the Department of Forensic Pathology, LabPLUS, Auckland City Hospital
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- From the Department of Forensic Pathology, LabPLUS, Auckland City Hospital
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- From the Department of Forensic Pathology, LabPLUS, Auckland City Hospital
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BACKGROUND D. Frank Benson and colleagues first described the clinical and neuropathological features of posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) from patients in the UCLA Neurobehavior Program. OBJECTIVE We reviewed the Program's subsequent clinical experience with PCA, and its potential for clarifying this relatively rare syndrome in comparison to the accumulated literature on PCA. METHODS Using the original criteria derived from this clinic, 65 patients with neuroimaging-supported PCA were diagnosed between 1995 and 2020. RESULTS On presentation, most had visual localization complaints and related visuospatial symptoms, but nearly half had memory complaints followed by symptoms of depression. Neurobehavioral testing showed predominant difficulty with visuospatial constructions, Gerstmann's syndrome, and Balint's syndrome, but also impaired memory and naming. On retrospective application of the current Consensus Criteria for PCA, 59 (91%) met PCA criteria with a modification allowing for "significantly greater visuospatial over memory and naming deficits." There were 37 deaths (56.9%) with the median overall survival of 10.3 years (95% CI: 9.6-13.6 years), consistent with a slow neurodegenerative disorder in most patients. CONCLUSION Together, these findings recommend modifying the PCA criteria for "relatively spared" memory, language, and behavior to include secondary memory and naming difficulty and depression, with increased emphasis on the presence of Gerstmann's and Balint's syndromes.
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- Oleg Yerstein
- Department of Neurology, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Behavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Neurology Service, Neurobehavior Unit, V.A. Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Behavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Neurology Service, Neurobehavior Unit, V.A. Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Cohen‐Zimerman S, Khilwani H, Smith GNL, Krueger F, Gordon B, Grafman J. The neural basis for mental state attribution: A voxel-based lesion mapping study. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:65-79. [PMID: 33030812 PMCID: PMC7721243 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2019] [Revised: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The ability to infer other persons' mental states, "Theory of Mind" (ToM), is a key function of social cognition and is needed when interpreting the intention of others. ToM is associated with a network of functionally related regions, with reportedly key prominent hubs located in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) and the temporoparietal junction (TPJ). The involvement of (mainly the right) TPJ in ToM is based primarily on functional imaging studies that provide correlational evidence for brain-behavior associations. In this lesion study, we test whether certain brain areas are necessary for intact ToM performance. We investigated individuals with penetrating traumatic brain injury (n = 170) and healthy matched controls (n = 30) using voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) and by measuring the impact of a given lesion on white matter disconnections. ToM performance was compared between five patient groups based on lesion location: right TPJ, left TPJ, right dlPFC, left dlPFC, and other lesion, as well as healthy controls. The only group to present with lower ToM abilities was the one with lesions in the right dlPFC. Similarly, VLSM analysis revealed a main cluster in the right frontal middle gyrus and a secondary cluster in the left inferior parietal gyrus. Last, we found that disconnection of the left inferior longitudinal fasciculus and right superior longitudinal fasciculus were associated with poor ToM performance. This study highlights the importance of lesion studies in complementing functional neuroimaging findings and supports the assertion that the right dlPFC is a key region mediating mental state attribution.
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- Shira Cohen‐Zimerman
- Cognitive Neuroscience LaboratoryBrain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLabChicagoIllinoisUSA
- Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoIllinoisUSA
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- Cognitive Neuroscience LaboratoryBrain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLabChicagoIllinoisUSA
- Department of Biomedical EngineeringNorthwestern UniversityChicagoIllinoisUSA
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- Cognitive Neuroscience LaboratoryBrain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLabChicagoIllinoisUSA
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- School of Systems BiologyGeorge Mason UniversityFairfaxVirginiaUSA
- Department of PsychologyUniversity of MannheimMannheimGermany
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- Department of NeurologyJohns Hopkins University School of MedicineBaltimoreMarylandUSA
- Department of Cognitive ScienceJohns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreMarylandUSA
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- Cognitive Neuroscience LaboratoryBrain Injury Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLabChicagoIllinoisUSA
- Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoIllinoisUSA
- Department of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer's Disease, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of PsychologyNorthwestern UniversityChicagoIllinoisUSA
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Phillips NS, Kesler SR, Scoggins MA, Glass JO, Cheung YT, Liu W, Banerjee P, Ogg RJ, Srivastava D, Pui CH, Robison LL, Reddick WE, Hudson MM, Krull KR. Connectivity of the Cerebello-Thalamo-Cortical Pathway in Survivors of Childhood Leukemia Treated With Chemotherapy Only. JAMA Netw Open 2020; 3:e2025839. [PMID: 33216140 PMCID: PMC7679952 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.25839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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IMPORTANCE Treatment with contemporary chemotherapy-only protocols is associated with risk for neurocognitive impairment among survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). OBJECTIVE To determine whether concurrent use of methotrexate and glucocorticoids is associated with interference with the antioxidant system of the brain and damage and disruption of glucocorticoid-sensitive regions of the cerebello-thalamo-cortical network. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2016 to July 2019 in a single pediatric cancer tertiary care center. Participants included survivors of childhood ALL who were more than 5 years from cancer diagnosis, age 8 years or older, and treated on an institutional chemotherapy-only protocol. Age-matched community members were recruited as a control group. Data were analyzed from August 2017 to August 2020. EXPOSURE ALL treatment using chemotherapy-only protocols. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES This study compared brain volumes between survivors and individuals in a community control group and examined associations among survivors of methotrexate and dexamethasone exposure with neurocognitive outcomes. Functional and effective connectivity measures were compared between survivors with and without cognitive impairment. The Rey-Osterrieth complex figure test, a neurocognitive evaluation in which individuals are asked to copy a figure and then draw the figure from memory, was scored according to published guidelines and transformed into age-adjusted z scores based on nationally representative reference data and used to measure organization and planning deficits. β values for neurocognitive tests represented the amount of change in cerebellar volume or chemotherapy exposure associated with 1 SD change in neurocognitive outcome by z score (mm3/1 SD in z score for cerebellum, mm3/[g×hr/L] for dexamethasone and methotrexate AUC, and mm3/intrathecal count for total intrathecal count). RESULTS Among 302 eligible individuals, 218 (72%) participated in the study and 176 (58%) had usable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results. Among these, 89 (51%) were female participants and the mean (range) age was 6.8 (1-18) years at diagnosis and 14.5 (8-27) years at evaluation. Of 100 community individuals recruited as the control group, 82 had usable MRI results; among these, 35 (43%) were female individuals and the mean (range) age was 13.8 (8-26) years at evaluation. There was no significant difference in total brain volume between survivors and individuals in the control group. Survivors of both sexes showed decreased mean (SD) cerebellar volumes compared with the control population (female: 70 568 [6465] mm3 vs 75 134 [6780] mm3; P < .001; male: 77 335 [6210] mm3 vs 79 020 [7420] mm3; P < .001). In female survivors, decreased cerebellar volume was associated with worse performance in Rey-Osterrieth complex figure test (left cerebellum: β = 55.54; SE = 25.55; P = .03; right cerebellum: β = 52.57; SE = 25.50; P = .04) and poorer dominant-hand motor processing speed (ie, grooved pegboard performance) (left cerebellum: β = 82.71; SE = 31.04; P = .009; right cerebellum: β = 91.06; SE = 30.72; P = .004). In female survivors, increased number of intrathecal treatments (ie, number of separate injections) was also associated with Worse Rey-Osterrieth test performance (β = -0.154; SE = 0.063; P = .02), as was increased dexamethasone exposure (β = -0.0014; SE = 0.0005; P = .01). Executive dysfunction was correlated with increased global efficiency between smaller brain regions (Pearson r = -0.24; P = .01) compared with individuals without dysfunction. Anatomical connectivity showed differences between impaired and nonimpaired survivors. Analysis of variance of effective-connectivity weights identified a significant interaction association (F = 3.99; P = .02) among the direction and strength of connectivity between the cerebellum and DLPFC, female sex, and executive dysfunction. Finally, no effective connectivity was found between the precuneus and DLPFC in female survivors with executive dysfunction. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE These findings suggest that dexamethasone exposure was associated with smaller cerebello-thalamo-cortical regions in survivors of ALL and that disruption of effective connectivity was associated with impairment of executive function in female survivors.
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- Nicholas S. Phillips
- Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
- Department of Oncology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Now with School of Nursing, University of Texas at Austin
- Department of Neuro-oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Biostatistics, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Oncology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
- Department of Oncology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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- Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
- Department of Psychology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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Wu YJ, Wu N, Huang X, Rao J, Yan L, Shi L, Huang H, Li SY, Zhou FQ, Wu XR. Evidence of cortical thickness reduction and disconnection in high myopia. Sci Rep 2020; 10:16239. [PMID: 33004887 PMCID: PMC7530748 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-73415-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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High myopia (HM) is associated with impaired long-distance vision. accumulating evidences reported that abnormal visual experience leads to dysfunction in brain activity in HM even corrected. However, whether the long-term of abnormal visual experience lead to neuroanatomical changes remain unknown, the aim at this study is to investigate the alternation of cortical surface thickness in HM patients. 82 patients with HM (HM groups), 57 healthy controls (HC groups) were recruited. All participants underwent high-resolution T1 and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The cortical thickness analysis was preformed to investigate the neuroanatomical changes in HM patients using computational anatomy toolbox (CAT 12) toolbox. Compare with HCs, HM patients showed decreased the cortical surface thickness in the left middle occipital gyrus (MOG), left inferior parietal lobule (IPL), right inferior temporal gyrus (ITG), right precuneus, right primary visual area 1 (V1), right superior temporal gyrus (STG), right superior parietal lobule (SPL), right occipital pole, and right the primary motor cortex (M1), and increased to the parietal operculum (OP4) (P < 0.01, FWE-corrected), the mean cortical thickness of right orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and right subcallosal cortex showed negatively correlation between clinical variables (axis length (ALM), the average macular thickness (AMT), keratometer (KER) 1, KER2, the mean KER, the mean macular fovea thickness (MFK), the refractive diopter) in HM patients. Our result mainly provided an evidence of cortical thickness reduction and disconnection in visual center and visual processing area, and cortical thickness increase in left multimodal integration region in HM patients. This may provide important significance of the study of the neural mechanism of HM.
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- Ya-Jun Wu
- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China.
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Yokosawa K, Kimura K, Takase R, Murakami Y, Boasen J. Functional decline of the precuneus associated with mild cognitive impairment: Magnetoencephalographic observations. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0239577. [PMID: 32986743 PMCID: PMC7521706 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a border or precursor state of dementia. To optimize implemented interventions for MCI, it is essential to clarify the underlying neural mechanisms. However, knowledge regarding the brain regions responsible for MCI is still limited. Here, we implemented the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test, a screening tool for MCI, in 20 healthy elderly participants (mean age, 67.5 years), and then recorded magnetoencephalograms (MEG) while they performed a visual sequential memory task. In the task, each participant memorized the four possible directions of seven sequentially presented arrow images. Recall accuracy for beginning items of the memory sequence was significantly positively related with MoCA score. Meanwhile, MEG revealed stronger alpha-band (8-13 Hz) rhythm desynchronization bilaterally in the precuneus (PCu) for higher MoCA (normal) participants. Most importantly, this PCu desynchronization response weakened in correspondence with lower MoCA score during the beginning of sequential memory encoding, a time period that should rely on working memory and be affected by declined cognitive function. Our results suggest that deactivation of the PCu is associated with early MCI, and corroborate pathophysiological findings based on post-mortem tissue which have implicated hypoperfusion of the PCu in early stages of Alzheimer disease. Our results indicate the possibility that cognitive decline can be detected early and non-invasively by monitoring PCu activity with electrophysiological methods.
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- Koichi Yokosawa
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Graduate School of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Human Science, Hokkaido Bunkyo University, Eniwa, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Tech3Lab, HEC Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Peran P, Malagurski B, Nemmi F, Sarton B, Vinour H, Ferre F, Bounes F, Rousset D, Mrozeck S, Seguin T, Riu B, Minville V, Geeraerts T, Lotterie JA, Deboissezon X, Albucher JF, Fourcade O, Olivot JM, Naccache L, Silva S. Functional and Structural Integrity of Frontoparietal Connectivity in Traumatic and Anoxic Coma. Crit Care Med 2020; 48:e639-e647. [PMID: 32697504 PMCID: PMC7365681 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000004406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Recovery from coma might critically depend on the structural and functional integrity of frontoparietal networks. We aimed to measure this integrity in traumatic brain injury and anoxo-ischemic (cardiac arrest) coma patients by using an original multimodal MRI protocol. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Three Intensive Critical Care Units affiliated to the University in Toulouse (France). PATIENTS We longitudinally recruited 43 coma patients (Glasgow Coma Scale at the admission < 8; 29 cardiac arrest and 14 traumatic brain injury) and 34 age-matched healthy volunteers. Exclusion criteria were disorders of consciousness lasting more than 30 days and focal brain damage within the explored brain regions. Patient assessments were conducted at least 2 days (5 ± 2 d) after complete withdrawal of sedation. All patients were followed up (Coma Recovery Scale-Revised) 3 months after acute brain injury. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Functional and structural MRI data were recorded, and the analysis was targeted on the posteromedial cortex, the medial prefrontal cortex, and the cingulum. Univariate analyses and machine learning techniques were used to assess diagnostic and predictive values. Coma patients displayed significantly lower medial prefrontal cortex-posteromedial cortex functional connectivity (area under the curve, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.93-0.95). Cardiac arrest patients showed specific structural disturbances within posteromedial cortex. Significant cingulum architectural disturbances were observed in traumatic brain injury patients. The machine learning medial prefrontal cortex-posteromedial cortex multimodal classifier had a significant predictive value (area under the curve, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.95-0.97), best combination of subregions that discriminates a binary outcome based on Coma Recovery Scale-Revised). CONCLUSIONS This exploratory study suggests that frontoparietal functional disconnections are specifically observed in coma and their structural counterpart provides information about brain injury mechanisms. Multimodal MRI biomarkers of frontoparietal disconnection predict 3-month outcome in our sample. These findings suggest that fronto-parietal disconnection might be particularly relevant for coma outcome prediction and could inspire innovative precision medicine approaches.
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- Patrice Peran
- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
- Critical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Critical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
- Critical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Critical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Rangueil, Avenue Pr Jean Poulhès, Toulouse, France
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- Neurocritical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Neurocritical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Critical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Rangueil, Avenue Pr Jean Poulhès, Toulouse, France
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- Critical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Anesthesiology Department, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Neurocritical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
- Neurology Department, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Neurocritical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
- Neurology Department, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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- Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle épinière, ICM, PICNIC Lab, Paris, France
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- Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, Toulouse University, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
- Critical Care Unit, University Teaching Hospital of Purpan, Place du Dr Baylac, Toulouse, France
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Linares-González L, Ródenas-Herranz T, Vera-Álvarez S, Ruiz-Villaverde R. Massive painful parietal necrosis. Med Clin (Barc) 2020; 156:418. [PMID: 32718714 DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2020.04.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Revised: 03/31/2020] [Accepted: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Peers PV, Astle DE, Duncan J, Murphy FC, Hampshire A, Das T, Manly T. Dissociable effects of attention vs working memory training on cognitive performance and everyday functioning following fronto-parietal strokes. Neuropsychol Rehabil 2020; 30:1092-1114. [PMID: 30569816 PMCID: PMC7266670 DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2018.1554534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 10/29/2022]
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Difficulties with attention are common following stroke, particularly in patients with frontal and parietal damage, and are associated with poor outcome. Home-based online cognitive training may have the potential to provide an efficient and effective way to improve attentional functions in such patients. Little work has been carried out to assess the efficacy of this approach in stroke patients, and the lack of studies with active control conditions and rigorous evaluations of cognitive functioning pre and post-training means understanding is limited as to whether and how such interventions may be effective. Here, in a feasibility pilot study, we compare the effects of 20 days of cognitive training using either novel Selective Attention Training (SAT) or commercial Working Memory Training (WMT) programme, versus a waitlist control on a range of attentional and working memory tasks. We demonstrate separable effects of each training condition, with SAT leading to improvements in spatial and non-spatial aspects of attention and WMT leading to improvements on closely related working memory tasks. In addition, both training groups reported improvements in everyday functioning, which were associated with improvements in attention, suggesting that improving attention may be of particular importance in maximising functional improvements in this patient group.
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- Polly V Peers
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Radiology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Tozzi L, Garczarek L, Janowitz D, Stein DJ, Wittfeld K, Dobrowolny H, Lagopoulos J, Hatton SN, Hickie IB, Carballedo A, Brooks SJ, Vuletic D, Uhlmann A, Veer IM, Walter H, Bülow R, Völzke H, Klinger-König J, Schnell K, Schoepf D, Grotegerd D, Opel N, Dannlowski U, Kugel H, Schramm E, Konrad C, Kircher T, Jüksel D, Nenadić I, Krug A, Hahn T, Steinsträter O, Redlich R, Zaremba D, Zurowski B, Fu CH, Dima D, Cole J, Grabe HJ, Connolly CG, Yang TT, Ho TC, LeWinn KZ, Li M, Groenewold NA, Salminen LE, Walter M, Simmons AN, van Erp TG, Jahanshad N, Baune BT, van der Wee NJ, van Tol MJ, Penninx BW, Hibar DP, Thompson PM, Veltman DJ, Schmaal L, Frodl T. Interactive impact of childhood maltreatment, depression, and age on cortical brain structure: mega-analytic findings from a large multi-site cohort. Psychol Med 2020; 50:1020-1031. [PMID: 31084657 PMCID: PMC9254722 DOI: 10.1017/s003329171900093x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Childhood maltreatment (CM) plays an important role in the development of major depressive disorder (MDD). The aim of this study was to examine whether CM severity and type are associated with MDD-related brain alterations, and how they interact with sex and age. METHODS Within the ENIGMA-MDD network, severity and subtypes of CM using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire were assessed and structural magnetic resonance imaging data from patients with MDD and healthy controls were analyzed in a mega-analysis comprising a total of 3872 participants aged between 13 and 89 years. Cortical thickness and surface area were extracted at each site using FreeSurfer. RESULTS CM severity was associated with reduced cortical thickness in the banks of the superior temporal sulcus and supramarginal gyrus as well as with reduced surface area of the middle temporal lobe. Participants reporting both childhood neglect and abuse had a lower cortical thickness in the inferior parietal lobe, middle temporal lobe, and precuneus compared to participants not exposed to CM. In males only, regardless of diagnosis, CM severity was associated with higher cortical thickness of the rostral anterior cingulate cortex. Finally, a significant interaction between CM and age in predicting thickness was seen across several prefrontal, temporal, and temporo-parietal regions. CONCLUSIONS Severity and type of CM may impact cortical thickness and surface area. Importantly, CM may influence age-dependent brain maturation, particularly in regions related to the default mode network, perception, and theory of mind.
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- Leonardo Tozzi
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, California, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, UCT Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Site Rostock/Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
- Sunshine Coast Mind and Neuroscience – Thompson Institute, Queensland, Australia
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- Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
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- Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
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- Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, UCT Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cape Town, South Africa
- School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, UCT Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cape Town, South Africa
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- SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, UCT Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, and Center of Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Germany, partner site Greifswald
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of General Psychiatry, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Asklepios Fachklinikum Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Germany, and Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Vitos Weil-Lahn, Hesse, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Radiology, University of Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Psychiatric University Clinic, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Agaplesion Diakoniklinikum, Rotenburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
- Core Facility Brain Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Germany
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- Center for Integrative Psychiatry, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- School of Psychology, College of Applied Health and Communities, University of East London, London, UK
- Centre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London, London, UK
- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry & Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- Department of Psychology and Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry & Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
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- SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, UCT Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of University of California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tuebingen, Germany
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- VA San Diego Healthcare, San Francisco, CA, USA
- School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Clinical Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of University of California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Germany
- Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, SA 5005 Adelaide, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Melbourne, Australia
- The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, Cognitive Neuroscience Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Clinical Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of University of California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Campus Amsterdam, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, Melbourne, Australia
- Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia
- German Center of Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Site Magdeburg, Germany
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Ding J, Martin RC, Hamilton AC, Schnur TT. Dissociation between frontal and temporal-parietal contributions to connected speech in acute stroke. Brain 2020; 143:862-876. [PMID: 32155246 PMCID: PMC7089660 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awaa027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Humans are uniquely able to retrieve and combine words into syntactic structure to produce connected speech. Previous identification of focal brain regions necessary for production focused primarily on associations with the content produced by speakers with chronic stroke, where function may have shifted to other regions after reorganization occurred. Here, we relate patterns of brain damage with deficits to the content and structure of spontaneous connected speech in 52 speakers during the acute stage of a left hemisphere stroke. Multivariate lesion behaviour mapping demonstrated that damage to temporal-parietal regions impacted the ability to retrieve words and produce them within increasingly complex combinations. Damage primarily to inferior frontal cortex affected the production of syntactically accurate structure. In contrast to previous work, functional-anatomical dissociations did not depend on lesion size likely because acute lesions were smaller than typically found in chronic stroke. These results are consistent with predictions from theoretical models based primarily on evidence from language comprehension and highlight the importance of investigating individual differences in brain-language relationships in speakers with acute stroke.
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- Junhua Ding
- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Institution Reporting, Research and Information Systems, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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Hua JPY, Trull TJ, Merrill AM, McCarty RM, Straub KT, Kerns JG. Daily-life affective instability in emotional distress disorders is associated with function and structure of posterior parietal cortex. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2020; 296:111028. [PMID: 31911320 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2019.111028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2019] [Revised: 12/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Affective instability (i.e., large and frequent shifts in negative emotions) is a key emotion dysregulation symptom in emotional distress disorders and can be reliably and validly assessed using ambulatory assessment. However, no study has examined whether affective instability is associated with brain function and structure. Using multimodal neuroimaging and ambulatory assessment, we examined associations between functional activation and cortical structure with ambulatory-assessed affective instability in emotional distress disorders (n = 27). Increased daily life-affective instability was associated with decreased neural activation on an emotion regulation task in a left inferior parietal region consistently associated with emotion regulation. Daily-life affective instability was also associated with hypogyria in this same left inferior parietal region, with hypogyria extending into additional posterior parietal regions. This study found evidence that daily-life affective instability was associated with both functionstructure of the posterior parietal cortex, a key attentional control region involved in emotion regulation.
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- Jessica P Y Hua
- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 204A McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, United States; San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, United States
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 204A McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, United States
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 204A McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, United States; Kansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO 64128, United States
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 204A McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, United States; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 204A McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, United States
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 204A McAlester Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, United States.
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Preston C, Alvarez AM, Barragan A, Becker J, Kasoff WS, Witte RS. High resolution transcranial acoustoelectric imaging of current densities from a directional deep brain stimulator. J Neural Eng 2020; 17:016074. [PMID: 31978914 PMCID: PMC7446234 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ab6fc3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE New innovations in deep brain stimulation (DBS) enable directional current steering-allowing more precise electrical stimulation of the targeted brain structures for Parkinson's disease, essential tremor and other neurological disorders. While intra-operative navigation through MRI or CT approaches millimeter accuracy for placing the DBS leads, no existing modality provides feedback of the currents as they spread from the contacts through the brain tissue. In this study, we investigate transcranial acoustoelectric imaging (tAEI) as a new modality to non-invasively image and characterize current produced from a directional DBS lead. tAEI uses ultrasound (US) to modulate tissue resistivity to generate detectable voltage signals proportional to the local currents. APPROACH An 8-channel directional DBS lead (Infinity 6172ANS, Abbott Inc) was inserted inside three adult human skulls submerged in 0.9% NaCl. A 2.5 MHz linear array delivered US pulses through the transtemporal window and focused near the contacts on the lead, while a custom amplifier and acquisition system recorded the acoustoelectric (AE) interaction used to generate images. MAIN RESULTS tAEI detected monopolar current with stimulation pulses as short as 100 µs with an SNR ranging from 10-27 dB when using safe US pressure (mechanical indices <0.78) and injected current of ~2 mA peak amplitude. Adjacent contacts were discernable along the length and within each ring of the lead with a mean radial separation between contacts of 2.10 and 1.34 mm, respectively. SIGNIFICANCE These results demonstrate the feasibility of tAEI for high resolution mapping of directional DBS currents using clinically-relevant stimulation parameters. This new modality may improve the accuracy for placing the DBS leads, guide calibration and programming, and monitor long-term performance of DBS for treatment of Parkinson's disease.
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- Chet Preston
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America
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- Department of Medical Imaging, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America
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- Department of Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America
- Department of Medical Imaging, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America
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BACKGROUND Early identification of people at risk of imminent progression to dementia due to Alzheimer disease is crucial for timely intervention and treatment. We investigated whether the texture of MRI brain scans could predict the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to Alzheimer disease earlier than volume. METHODS We constructed a development data set (121 people who were cognitively normal and 145 who had mild Alzheimer disease) and a validation data set (113 patients with stable MCI who did not progress to Alzheimer disease for 3 years; 40 with early MCI who progressed to Alzheimer disease after 12–36 months; and 41 with late MCI who progressed to Alzheimer disease within 12 months) from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. We analyzed the texture of the hippocampus, precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex using a grey-level co-occurrence matrix. We constructed texture and volume indices from the development data set using logistic regression. Using area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operator characteristics, we compared the accuracy of hippocampal volume, hippocampal texture and the composite texture of the hippocampus, precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex in predicting conversion from MCI to Alzheimer disease in the validation data set. RESULTS Compared with hippocampal volume, hippocampal texture (0.790 v. 0.739, p = 0.047) and composite texture (0.811 v. 0.739, p = 0.007) showed larger AUCs for conversion to Alzheimer disease from both early and late MCI. Hippocampal texture showed a marginally larger AUC than hippocampal volume in early MCI (0.795 v. 0.726, p = 0.060). Composite texture showed a larger AUC for conversion to Alzheimer disease than hippocampal volume in both early (0.817 v. 0.726, p = 0.027) and late MCI (0.805 v. 0.753, p = 0.019). LIMITATIONS This study was limited by the absence of histological data, and the pathology reflected by the texture measures remains to be validated. CONCLUSION Textures of the hippocampus, precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex predicted conversion from MCI to Alzheimer disease at an earlier time point and with higher accuracy than hippocampal volume.
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- Subin Lee
- From the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Korea (S. Lee, Kim); the Health Innovation Big Data Center, Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (H. Lee); the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea (Kim); and the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (Kim)
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- From the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Korea (S. Lee, Kim); the Health Innovation Big Data Center, Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (H. Lee); the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea (Kim); and the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (Kim)
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- From the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences, Seoul, Korea (S. Lee, Kim); the Health Innovation Big Data Center, Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (H. Lee); the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea (Kim); and the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea (Kim)
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Kim K, Adams L, Keator LM, Sheppard SM, Breining BL, Rorden C, Fridriksson J, Bonilha L, Rogalsky C, Love T, Hickok G, Hillis AE. Neural processing critical for distinguishing between speech sounds. Brain Lang 2019; 197:104677. [PMID: 31442633 PMCID: PMC6726570 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2019] [Revised: 06/29/2019] [Accepted: 08/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We aimed to identify neural regions where ischemia acutely after stroke is associated with impairment in phoneme discrimination, and to determine whether such deficits are associated with impairment of spoken word comprehension. We evaluated 33 patients within 48 h of left hemisphere ischemic stroke onset with tests of phoneme discrimination and word-picture matching. We identified Pearson correlations between accuracy in phoneme discrimination and accuracy of word comprehension and identified areas where the percentage of infarcted tissue was associated with severity of phoneme discrimination deficit. We found that 54% had deficits in phoneme discrimination relative to healthy controls. Accuracy in phoneme discrimination correlated with accuracy on word comprehension tests. Damage to left intraparietal sulcus and hypoperfusion and/or infarct of left superior temporal gyrus were associated with phoneme discrimination deficits acutely, although patients with these lesions showed improvement or resolution of the deficit by six months.
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- Kevin Kim
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States.
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, United States
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- Department of Communication Disorders, University of South Carolina, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of South Carolina, United States
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- Department of Speech & Hearing Science, Arizona State University, United States
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- University of California San Diego, United States; San Diego State University, United States
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- Departments of Cognitive Sciences & Language Science, University of California, Irvine, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States
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Thubron EB, Rosa HS, Hodges A, Sivaprasad S, Francis PT, Pienaar IS, Malik AN. Regional mitochondrial DNA and cell-type changes in post-mortem brains of non-diabetic Alzheimer's disease are not present in diabetic Alzheimer's disease. Sci Rep 2019; 9:11386. [PMID: 31388037 PMCID: PMC6684616 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47783-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2019] [Accepted: 07/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD), and mitochondrial dysfunction is implicated in both diseases, however the impact of both diabetes and AD on brain mitochondria is not known. We measured mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), an indicator of mitochondrial function, in frontal, parietal, and cerebellar regions of post-mortem human brains (n = 74) from non-cognitively impaired controls (NCI), mild-cognitively impaired (MCI) and AD cases. In a subset of parietal cortices, we measured mRNAs corresponding to cell types and mitochondrial function and semi-automated stereological assessment was performed on immune-staining of parietal cortex sections. mtDNA showed significant regional variation, highest in parietal cortex, and lowest in cerebellum. Irrespective of cognitive status, all brain regions had significantly higher mtDNA in diabetic cases. In the absence of diabetes, AD parietal cortices had decreased mtDNA, reduced MAP2 (neuronal) and increased GFAP (astrocyte) mRNA, relative to NCI. However, in the presence of diabetes, we did not observe these AD-related changes, suggesting that the pathology observed in diabetic AD may be different to that seen in non-diabetic AD. The lack of clear functional changes in mitochondrial parameters in diabetic AD suggest different cellular mechanisms contributing to cognitive impairment in diabetes which remain to be fully understood.
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- Elisabeth B Thubron
- Department of Diabetes, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Diabetes, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London, London, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9PH, UK
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- Department of Diabetes, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
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Gudbrandsen M, Daly E, Murphy CM, Wichers RH, Stoencheva V, Perry E, Andrews D, Blackmore CE, Rogdaki M, Kushan L, Bearden CE, Murphy DGM, Craig MC, Ecker C. The Neuroanatomy of Autism Spectrum Disorder Symptomatology in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. Cereb Cortex 2019; 29:3655-3665. [PMID: 30272146 PMCID: PMC6644859 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhy239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2018] [Revised: 08/10/2018] [Accepted: 09/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11.2DS) is a genetic condition associated with a high prevalence of neuropsychiatric conditions that include autism spectrum disorder (ASD). While evidence suggests that clinical phenotypes represent distinct neurodevelopmental outcomes, it remains unknown whether this translates to the level of neurobiology. To fractionate the 22q11.2DS phenotype on the level of neuroanatomy, we examined differences in vertex-wise estimates of cortical volume, surface area, and cortical thickness between 1) individuals with 22q11.2DS (n = 62) and neurotypical controls (n = 57) and 2) 22q11.2DS individuals with ASD symptomatology (n = 30) and those without (n = 25). We firstly observed significant differences in surface anatomy between 22q11.2DS individuals and controls for all 3 neuroanatomical features, predominantly in parietotemporal regions, cingulate and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices. We also established that 22q11.2DS individuals with ASD symptomatology were neuroanatomically distinct from 22q11.2DS individuals without ASD symptoms, particularly in brain regions that have previously been linked to ASD (e.g., dorsolateral prefrontal cortices and the entorhinal cortex). Our findings indicate that different clinical 22q11.2DS phenotypes, including those with ASD symptomatology, may represent different neurobiological subgroups. The spatially distributed patterns of neuroanatomical differences associated with ASD symptomatology in 22q11.2DS may thus provide useful information for patient stratification and the prediction of clinical outcomes.
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- M Gudbrandsen
- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, UK
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- The Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (MIND) Institute and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, UC Davis School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, UK
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- Psychiatric Imaging Group, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, UK
- National Autism Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, and the Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, UK
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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den Haan J, Csinscik L, Parker T, Paterson RW, Slattery CF, Foulkes A, Bouwman FH, Verbraak FD, Scheltens P, Peto T, Lengyel I, Schott JM, Crutch SJ, Shakespeare TJ, Yong KXX. Retinal thickness as potential biomarker in posterior cortical atrophy and typical Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Res Ther 2019; 11:62. [PMID: 31319885 PMCID: PMC6639972 DOI: 10.1186/s13195-019-0516-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Retinal thickness can be measured non-invasively with optical coherence tomography (OCT) and may offer compelling potential as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Retinal thinning is hypothesized to be a result of retrograde atrophy and/or parallel neurodegenerative processes. Changes in the visual pathway are of particular interest in posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), the most common atypical AD phenotype predominantly affecting the parietal-occipital cortices. We therefore evaluated retinal thickness as non-invasive biomarker of neurodegeneration in well-characterized participants with posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) and typical Alzheimer's disease (tAD). METHODS Retinal thickness measures were acquired from 48 patient participants (N = 25 PCA; N = 23 tAD) fulfilling consensus diagnostic criteria and 70 age-matched controls. Participants were recruited between 2014 and 2016. All participants underwent optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging, including measurement of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) thickness and total macular thickness (mRT). Participants did not show evidence of any significant ophthalmological conditions. Subgroup analyses were performed in participants with available MRI and CSF measures, providing evidence of neurodegeneration and underlying AD pathology respectively. RESULTS There was no evidence of overall between-group differences in pRNFL thickness (mean PCA 98.7 ± 12.2; tAD 99.9 ± 8.7; controls 99.6 ± 10.0 μm, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) p = 0.92) or total mRT (mean PCA 266.9 ± 16.3; tAD 267.8 ± 13.6; controls 269.3 ± 13.6 μm, one-way ANOVA p = 0.75). Similarly, subgroup analysis with MRI biomarkers (PCA = 18, tAD = 17, controls = 31) showing neurodegeneration, and CSF biomarkers (PCA = 18, tAD = 14, controls = 13) supporting underlying AD pathology did not provide evidence of overall between-group differences in pRNFL or mRT measures (all p > 0.3). CONCLUSIONS Retinal thickness did not discriminate tAD and PCA from controls or from one another despite unequivocal differences on standard clinical, neuro-imaging and CSF measures. Findings from this well-characterized sample, including cases with PCA, do not support the hypothesis that retinal neurodegeneration, measured using conventional OCT, is a useful biomarker for AD or PCA.
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- Jurre den Haan
- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Mailbox 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
- Institute of Ophthalmology UCL, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Mailbox 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Mailbox 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL, London, UK
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- Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
- Institute of Ophthalmology UCL, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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Chu CP, Wu SW, Huang YJ, Chiang MC, Hsieh ST, Guo YL. Neuroimaging signatures of brain plasticity in adults with prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls: Altered functional connectivity on functional MRI. Environ Pollut 2019; 250:960-968. [PMID: 31085483 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2019.04.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), persistent organic pollutants in food chains and environment, exerts negative effects on children's cognitive function. To study the long-term effects, we examined cognitive functions in the male children of women with substantial PCB exposure in Taiwan during 1978-1979 and investigated neural basis of cognitive function changes through structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI), which included resting-state and task-activated fMRI with two paradigms: a 2-back task and a picture rotation task. Ten men aged 30.0 ± 3.7 years with prenatal exposure to PCBs and 11 unexposed controls aged 28.1 ± 3.1 years participated. Both groups had similar cognitive phenotypes and behavioral results. Structural MRI analysis results showed that the PCB group had increased cortical thickness over the right inferior parietal lobule. In the resting-state study, the PCB group showed alterations in the default mode network. During the tasks, the PCB group showed decreased task-induced deactivation signals in cognition-associated brain areas during the 2-back task but enhanced deactivations during the picture rotation task. This study demonstrated altered structural MRI as well as resting and task-related fMRI in men with prenatal PCB exposure, suggesting altered brain plasticity and compensatory neuropsychological performance.
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- Chih-Pang Chu
- Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Science, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Division of Psychosomatic Medicine, Taipei City Hospital Songde Branch, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Science, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Science, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan.
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Leyton CE, Landin-Romero R, Liang CT, Burrell JR, Kumfor F, Hodges JR, Piguet O. Correlates of anomia in non-semantic variants of primary progressive aphasia converge over time. Cortex 2019; 120:201-211. [PMID: 31325799 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2019] [Revised: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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To track neural correlates of naming performance with disease progression, we estimated key areas affected in nonfluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA) and logopenic (lvPPA) primary progressive aphasia variants over time and changes in naming correlates over time. Twenty-nine non-semantic PPA participants (17 nfvPPA and 12 lvPPA) were selected based upon current diagnostic criteria and PiB-PET status and conducted a confrontation-naming task and a structural MRI. Linear mixed-effect models implemented in FreeSurfer were used for tracking cortical thickness and epicenters of atrophy over time. Using averaged cortical thickness of epicenters and naming performance as variables of interest, two sets of multivariate analyses were conducted to compare atrophy progression and naming correlates across groups. While all PPA participants demonstrated naming deterioration and progressive cortical thinning in the left temporal lobe and the left inferior frontal gyrus, the lvPPA cohort showed greater naming deterioration and thinning in the left posterior inferior parietal cortex over time than it did the nfvPPA cohort. The multivariate analyses confirmed a widespread cortical thinning in lvPPA over time, but a more rapid thinning in the right superior frontal gyrus of nfvPPA participants. Impaired naming correlated with common cortical regions in both groups. These regions included the left anterior superior temporal gyrus and the posterior middle temporal gyrus, which was primarily affected in lvPPA. Non-semantic PPA variants initially present with separate epicenters of atrophy and different spatial-temporal patterns of neurodegeneration over time, but the common involvement in key cortical regions of the left temporal lobe accounts for naming deterioration in both groups.
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- Cristian E Leyton
- The University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Frontotemporal Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology Massachusetts, General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- The University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre, School of Psychology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- The University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre, School of Psychology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- The University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre, School of Psychology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- The University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre, School of Psychology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- The University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre, School of Psychology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Jović M, Lončarević-Vasiljković N, Ivković S, Dinić J, Milanović D, Zlokovic B, Kanazir S. Short-term fish oil supplementation applied in presymptomatic stage of Alzheimer's disease enhances microglial/macrophage barrier and prevents neuritic dystrophy in parietal cortex of 5xFAD mouse model. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0216726. [PMID: 31095617 PMCID: PMC6522015 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2019] [Accepted: 04/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Dystrophic neurites and activated microglia are one of the main neuropathological characteristics of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although the use of supplements with omega-3 fatty acids has been associated with reduced risk and lessened AD pathology, it still remains elusive whether such a treatment could affect dystrophic neurites (DNs) formation and microglia/macrophage behavior in the early phase of disease. We analyzed the effects of short-term (3 weeks) fish oil supplementation on DNs formation, tau hyperphosphorylation, Amyloid-beta peptide 1–42 (Aβ42) levels and microglial/macrophage response to AD pathology in the parietal cortex of 4-month-old 5xFAD mice, a mouse model of AD. The present study shows for the first time that short-term FO supplementation applied in presymptomatic stage of AD, alters the behaviour of microglia/macrophages prompting them to establish a physical barrier around amyloid plaques. This barrier significantly suppresses DNs formation through the reduction of both Aβ content and tau hyperphosphorylation. Moreover, the short-term FO treatment neither suppresses inflammation nor enhances phagocytic properties of microglia/macrophages in the response to Aβ pathology, the effects most commonly attributed to the fish oil supplementation. Our findings suggest that fish oil consumption may play an important role in modulating microglial/macrophage response and ameliorating the AD pathology in presymptomatic stage of Alzheimer's disease.
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- Milena Jović
- Department of Neurobiology, Institute for Biological Research ‘Sinisa Stankovic’, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Neurobiology, Institute for Biological Research ‘Sinisa Stankovic’, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
- * E-mail: (NLV); (SK)
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- Department of Neurobiology, Institute for Biological Research ‘Sinisa Stankovic’, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Neurobiology, Institute for Biological Research ‘Sinisa Stankovic’, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Neurobiology, Institute for Biological Research ‘Sinisa Stankovic’, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
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- Department of Neurobiology, Institute for Biological Research ‘Sinisa Stankovic’, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
- * E-mail: (NLV); (SK)
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Bourassa P, Tremblay C, Schneider JA, Bennett DA, Calon F. Beta-amyloid pathology in human brain microvessel extracts from the parietal cortex: relation with cerebral amyloid angiopathy and Alzheimer's disease. Acta Neuropathol 2019; 137:801-823. [PMID: 30729296 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-019-01967-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2018] [Revised: 01/24/2019] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Several pieces of evidence suggest that blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction is implicated in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), exemplified by the frequent occurrence of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and the defective clearance of Aβ peptides. However, the specific role of brain microvascular cells in these anomalies remains elusive. In this study, we validated by Western, ELISA and immunofluorescence analyses a procedure to generate microvasculature-enriched fractions from frozen samples of human cerebral cortex. We then investigated Aβ and proteins involved in its clearance or production in microvessel extracts generated from the parietal cortex of 60 volunteers in the Religious Orders Study. Volunteers were categorized as AD (n = 38) or controls (n = 22) based on the ABC scoring method presented in the revised guidelines for the neuropathological diagnosis of AD. Higher ELISA-determined concentrations of vascular Aβ40 and Aβ42 were found in persons with a neuropathological diagnosis of AD, in apoE4 carriers and in participants with advanced parenchymal CAA, compared to respective age-matched controls. Vascular levels of two proteins involved in Aβ clearance, ABCB1 and neprilysin, were lower in persons with AD and positively correlated with cognitive function, while being inversely correlated to vascular Aβ40. In contrast, BACE1, a protein necessary for Aβ production, was increased in individuals with AD and in apoE4 carriers, negatively correlated to cognitive function and positively correlated to Aβ40 in microvessel extracts. The present report indicates that concentrating microvessels from frozen human brain samples facilitates the quantitative biochemical analysis of cerebrovascular dysfunction in CNS disorders. Data generated overall show that microvessels extracted from individuals with parenchymal CAA-AD contained more Aβ and BACE1 and less ABCB1 and neprilysin, evidencing a pattern of dysfunction in brain microvascular cells contributing to CAA and AD pathology and symptoms.
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- Philippe Bourassa
- Faculté de pharmacie, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada
- Axe Neurosciences, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, 2705, Boulevard Laurier, Room T2-67, Quebec, QC, G1V 4G2, Canada
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- Axe Neurosciences, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, 2705, Boulevard Laurier, Room T2-67, Quebec, QC, G1V 4G2, Canada
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Faculté de pharmacie, Université Laval, Quebec, QC, Canada.
- Axe Neurosciences, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, 2705, Boulevard Laurier, Room T2-67, Quebec, QC, G1V 4G2, Canada.
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Schmitgen MM, Depping MS, Bach C, Wolf ND, Kubera KM, Vasic N, Hirjak D, Sambataro F, Wolf RC. Aberrant cortical neurodevelopment in major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord 2019; 243:340-347. [PMID: 30261449 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Revised: 08/07/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND There is strong neuroimaging evidence that cortical alterations represent a core pathophysiological feature of major depressive disorder (MDD). Differential contributions of cortical features of neurodevelopmental origin, which may distinctly contribute to MDD vulnerability, disease-onset, or symptom expression, are unclear at present. METHODS We investigated distinct markers of cortical neurodevelopment, i.e. local cortical gyrification (LGI) and thickness (CT) in patients with MDD (n = 38) and healthy controls (HC, n = 22) using 3 T structural magnetic resonance imaging data and surface-based data analysis techniques. CT and LGI were computed using the Computational Anatomy Toolbox (CAT12). Analyses were performed for the entire cortical surface followed by a complementary regions-of-interest approach. RESULTS MDD patients showed significantly greater LGI in frontal, cingulate, parietal, temporal, and occipital regions compared to HC (FDR-corrected at p < 0.05 using threshold-free cluster enhancement). No significant differences of CT were found. In the MDD-group, correlations were found between duration of illness in years and number of depressive episodes and LGI of frontal, temporal, and parietal regions (p < 0.05). LIMITATIONS Main limitations are the relatively modest sample size and a cross-sectional study design. We did not control for early environmental factors potentially influencing neurodevelopment, such as childhood trauma. We report associations uncorrected for multiple comparisons. CONCLUSIONS The data suggest different local trajectories of cortical change in MDD. In addition, our data support the notion that aberrant cortical development may serve as a vulnerability marker of MDD, as well as a potential predictor of disease course.
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- Mike M Schmitgen
- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University, Vosstrasse 4, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University, Vosstrasse 4, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University, Vosstrasse 4, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University, Vosstrasse 4, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University, Vosstrasse 4, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Clinical Center Christophsbad, Göppingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medical Sciences (DISM), University of Udine, Italy
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- Department of General Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University, Vosstrasse 4, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Homma T, Hanashima Y, Maebayashi T, Nakanishi Y, Ishige T, Ohta T, Yoshino A, Hao H. Papillary glioblastoma exhibiting a neuroradiological cyst with a mural nodule: A case report. Medicine (Baltimore) 2019; 98:e14102. [PMID: 30633222 PMCID: PMC6336597 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000014102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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RATIONALE Glioblastomas are malignant, infiltrating gliomas classified as grade IV by the World Health Organization. Genetically, most glioblastomas do not exhibit the isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) 1/2 gene mutation and rarely harbor the 1p/19q co-deletion. Neuroradiologically, glioblastomas rarely form a cyst with a mural nodule lesion. PATIENT CONCERNS In this study, a 78-year-old woman, with speech difficulty and forgetfulness, had a cystic tumor with a mural nodule in the right frontoparietal lobe. Therefore, partial tumor resection was performed. DIAGNOSIS Histopathology of the tumor, a glioblastoma, exhibited pseudopapillary features with non-hyalinized capillary cores and rich mini-gemistocytic cells. Genetic analysis of the tumor revealed co-deletion of 1p36/19q13, with wild-type IDH. INTERVENTIONS The patient underwent a combination of postoperative radiotherapy and temozolomide chemotherapy before leaving the hospital. After discharge, she was treated by 20 courses of temozolomide chemotherapy. OUTCOMES The patient is free from tumor recurrence 23 months after the operation. LESSONS We present a unique case of glioblastoma that exhibited novel neuroradiological, histopathological, and genetic features with a favorable prognosis for the patient. Therefore, a compilation of similar cases with clinicopathological and genetic analyses to characterize this unique glioblastoma is critical. Clinical evidence will help develop effective therapeutic approaches to improve prognosis in patients with glioblastoma.
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- Taku Homma
- Division of Human Pathology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology
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- Division of Oncologic Pathology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Human Pathology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology
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- Division of Human Pathology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology
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Chen J, Calhoun VD, Lin D, Perrone-Bizzozero NI, Bustillo JR, Pearlson GD, Potkin SG, van Erp TGM, Macciardi F, Ehrlich S, Ho BC, Sponheim SR, Wang L, Stephen JM, Mayer AR, Hanlon FM, Jung RE, Clementz BA, Keshavan MS, Gershon ES, Sweeney JA, Tamminga CA, Andreassen OA, Agartz I, Westlye LT, Sui J, Du Y, Turner JA, Liu J. Shared Genetic Risk of Schizophrenia and Gray Matter Reduction in 6p22.1. Schizophr Bull 2019; 45:222-232. [PMID: 29474680 PMCID: PMC6293216 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sby010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Genetic factors are known to influence both risk for schizophrenia (SZ) and variation in brain structure. A pressing question is whether the genetic underpinnings of brain phenotype and the disorder overlap. Using multivariate analytic methods and focusing on 1,402 common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) mapped from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) 108 regions, in 777 discovery samples, we identified 39 SNPs to be significantly associated with SZ-discriminating gray matter volume (GMV) reduction in inferior parietal and superior temporal regions. The findings were replicated in 609 independent samples. These 39 SNPs in chr6:28308034-28684183 (6p22.1), the most significant SZ-risk region reported by PGC, showed regulatory effects on both DNA methylation and gene expression of postmortem brain tissue and saliva. Furthermore, the regulated methylation site and gene showed significantly different levels of methylation and expression in the prefrontal cortex between cases and controls. In addition, for one regulated methylation site we observed a significant in vivo methylation-GMV association in saliva, suggesting a potential SNP-methylation-GMV pathway. Notably, the risk alleles inferred for GMV reduction from in vivo imaging are all consistent with the risk alleles for SZ inferred from postmortem data. Collectively, we provide evidence for shared genetic risk of SZ and regional GMV reduction in 6p22.1 and demonstrate potential molecular mechanisms that may drive the observed in vivo associations. This study motivates dissecting SZ-risk variants to better understand their associations with focal brain phenotypes and the complex pathophysiology of the illness.
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- Jiayu Chen
- The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM
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- The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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- Department of Neurosciences and Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM
- Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM
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- Department of Neurosciences and Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM
- Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM
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- Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford, CT
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA
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- MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA
- Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Minneapolis Veterans Administration Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
- Department of Radiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), KG Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM
- National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM
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- The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM
- Psychology Department and Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
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- The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM
- Department of Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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Giannouli V, Tsolaki M. Are left angular gyrus and amygdala volumes important for financial capacity in mild cognitive impairment? Hell J Nucl Med 2019; 22 Suppl:160-164. [PMID: 30877733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of specific brain areas for financial capacity in patients suffering from amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) over time. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifteen aMCI patients underwent assessment of cognitive and mood functioning, as well as quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (for three times a 3 Tesla MRI). We used a detailed neuropsychological examination and a new instrument measuring financial capacity, the Legal Capacity for Property Law Transactions Assessment Scale (LCPLTAS), during a 12-month period. RESULTS Spearman and Kendall correlations revealed a number of statistically significant positive relationships at synchronous testing between financial capacity and brain volumes, while repetitive testing revealed that the right amygdala volume correlated with measured financial capacity (r first-third time=.908, P=.000), and the left angular gyrus volume difference showed a similarly strong correlation. In contrast to that, a number of neuropsychological tests correlated with financial capacity, but only MMSE seems to have the strongest correlation (r=.899, P=.000). CONCLUSION Financial capacity in Greek aMCI patients strongly correlates with right amygdala and left angular gyrus volumes, a finding that supports that emotion as well arithmetic skills are involved in financial capacity, while the importance of MMSE as the only neuropsychological test with the strongest positive correlation is discussed.
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- Vaitsa Giannouli
- School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Sarrazin S, Cachia A, Hozer F, McDonald C, Emsell L, Cannon DM, Wessa M, Linke J, Versace A, Hamdani N, D'Albis MA, Delavest M, Phillips ML, Brambilla P, Bellani M, Polosan M, Favre P, Leboyer M, Mangin JF, Houenou J. Neurodevelopmental subtypes of bipolar disorder are related to cortical folding patterns: An international multicenter study. Bipolar Disord 2018; 20:721-732. [PMID: 29981196 PMCID: PMC6516086 DOI: 10.1111/bdi.12664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Brain sulcation is an indirect marker of neurodevelopmental processes. Studies of the cortical sulcation in bipolar disorder have yielded mixed results, probably due to high variability in clinical phenotype. We investigated whole-brain cortical sulcation in a large sample of selected patients with high neurodevelopmental load. METHODS A total of 263 patients with bipolar disorder I and 320 controls were included in a multicentric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study. All subjects underwent high-resolution T1-weighted brain MRI. Images were processed with an automatized pipeline to extract the global sulcal index (g-SI) and the local sulcal indices (l-SIs) from 12 a priori determined brain regions covering the whole brain. We compared l-SI and g-SI between patients with and without early-onset bipolar disorder and between patients with and without a positive history of psychosis, adjusting for age, gender and handedness. RESULTS Patients with early-onset bipolar disorder had a higher l-SI in the right prefrontal dorsolateral region. Patients with psychotic bipolar disorder had a decreased l-SI in the left superior parietal cortex. No group differences in g-SI or l-SI were found between healthy subjects and the whole patient cohort. We could replicate the early-onset finding in an independent cohort. CONCLUSIONS Our work suggests that bipolar disorder is not associated with generalized abnormalities of sulcation, but rather with localized changes of cortical folding restricted to patients with a heavy neurodevelopmental loading. These findings support the hypothesis that bipolar disorder is heterogeneous but may be disentangled using MRI, and suggest the need for investigations into neurodevelopmental deviations in the disorder.
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- Samuel Sarrazin
- APHP, DHU PePSY, Pôle de psychiatrie et d'addictologie des Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
- INSERM U955, Team 15, "Translationnal Psychiatry", IMRB, Créteil, France
- Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
- Lab. UNIACT, NeuroSpin, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Imaging Biomarkers for Brain Development and Disorders, UMR INSERM 894, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l'Éducation de l'enfant (LaPsyDÉ), UMR CNRS 8240, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Lab. UNIACT, NeuroSpin, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Corentin-Celton Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
- Paris Descartes University, PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Old Age Psychiatry, University Psychiatric Centre (UPC)-KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Translational MRI & Radiology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology, Psychological Institute, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology, Psychological Institute, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- APHP, DHU PePSY, Pôle de psychiatrie et d'addictologie des Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
- INSERM U955, Team 15, "Translationnal Psychiatry", IMRB, Créteil, France
- Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- APHP, DHU PePSY, Pôle de psychiatrie et d'addictologie des Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
- INSERM U955, Team 15, "Translationnal Psychiatry", IMRB, Créteil, France
- Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
- Lab. UNIACT, NeuroSpin, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- APHP, Service de Psychiatrie, Hôpital Lariboisiere Fernand Widal, INSERM U 705 CNRS UMR 8206, Paris Diderot University, Paris, France
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- Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Section of Psychiatry, AOUI Verona/Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences/University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Inserm U1216 Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience, CHU Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- APHP, DHU PePSY, Pôle de psychiatrie et d'addictologie des Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
- INSERM U955, Team 15, "Translationnal Psychiatry", IMRB, Créteil, France
- Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
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- APHP, DHU PePSY, Pôle de psychiatrie et d'addictologie des Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
- INSERM U955, Team 15, "Translationnal Psychiatry", IMRB, Créteil, France
- Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
- Lab. UNIACT, NeuroSpin, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Est, Créteil, France
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Yue L, Wang Y, Kaye WH, Kang Q, Huang JB, Cheung EFC, Xiao SF, Wang Z, Chen J, Chan RCK. Structural alterations in the caudate nucleus and precuneus in un-medicated anorexia nervosa patients. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2018; 281:12-18. [PMID: 30212787 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2018.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2018] [Revised: 08/13/2018] [Accepted: 08/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a mental disorder characterized by a preoccupation with thinness and may be associated with brain structural alteration. The aim of the study was to examine the brain structural alteration in AN patients, including subcortical structure volume and cortical thickness. Thirty-five un-medicated AN patients and 20 matched healthy controls underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging brain scans. High resolution structural images were acquired on a SIEMENS 3T scanner and preprocessed using FreeSurfer software. Subcortical structure volume and cortical thickness were compared between the two groups. We found larger percentage of caudate volume relative to total grey matter (GM) volume in the AN group. Reduced cortical thickness at the left precuneus was also observed in AN patients. Moreover, an interaction between group and hemisphere was found, suggesting that cortical thinning was more prominent in the left hemisphere in AN patients. These findings provide further evidence for structural brain abnormalities in patients with AN.
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- Ling Yue
- Department of Clinical Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Mental Health Centre, Shanghai Clinical Centre for Mental Disorders, Shanghai, China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Mental Health Centre, Shanghai Clinical Centre for Mental Disorders, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Mental Health Centre, Shanghai Clinical Centre for Mental Disorders, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Adult Psychiatry, Castle Peak Hospital, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Mental Health Centre, Shanghai Clinical Centre for Mental Disorders, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Mental Health Centre, Shanghai Clinical Centre for Mental Disorders, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Mental Health Centre, Shanghai Clinical Centre for Mental Disorders, Shanghai, China.
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Mental Health Centre, Shanghai Clinical Centre for Mental Disorders, Shanghai, China; Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Translational Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Shanghai Mental Health Centre, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
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RATIONALE An intracranial arachnoid cyst is a relatively common congenital benign lesion. A small number of patients present with neurological symptoms. Endoscopic fenestration has become a common treatment for arachnoid cysts in recent years, but intracerebral hematoma after surgery is rarely reported. PATIENT CONCERNS A 60-year-old woman with an arachnoid cyst in the left parietal and occipital lobes showed obvious progressive neurological deficits. She had weakness in her right limbs for 2 years and a sudden convulsion in her left limbs. DIAGNOSIS An arachnoid cyst in the left parietal and occipital lobes was detected on magnetic resonance imaging. INTERVENTION Endoscopic fenestration was performed for the cyst. However, she developed an intracerebral hematoma after surgery, which was detected by computed tomography. Due to the exacerbation of the patient's condition in the early stage after surgery, reoperation was performed to remove the hematoma. OUTCOMES The patient was finally cured with no serious neurological deficits. LESSONS The rare complication of intracerebral hematoma after surgery for an arachnoid cyst can lead to a rapid deterioration in the patient's condition. More-adequate preoperative examination and neuronavigation should be conducted during surgery. Appropriate enlargement of the bone hole may help protect against this complication. Moreover, prompt reoperation for the intracerebral hematoma may improve the prognosis.
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Chen F, Chen B, Wang H, Xu W, Li W, Chen D. Intracranial Nonskull-Based Chondrosarcoma Arising from the Sagittal Sinus: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. World Neurosurg 2018; 120:234-239. [PMID: 30205213 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.08.239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2018] [Revised: 08/29/2018] [Accepted: 08/31/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Intracranial nonskull-based chondrosarcoma is a very rare malignant tumor. In fact, it is difficult to diagnose because of its atypical radiologic and morphologic features. We report a case of an intracranial parasagittal chondrosarcoma in the left parietal lobe accompanied with significant peritumoral edema (an extremely rare phenomenon for this tumor), with a review of the literature, to clarify aspects in the diagnosis of this rare tumor. METHODS A literature search was using PubMed with specific key terms, inclusion criteria, and exclusion criteria. Selected case studies and case series were then compared and summarized them in Table 1. A 59-year-old male patient presented with a history of progressive right hemiparesis and loss of sensation for 45 days. RESULTS Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a 2.6 × 2.4 × 2.8-cm mass arising from the superior sagittal sinus in his left parietal lobe. A left parietal parasagittal craniotomy was performed, and a macroscopically complete excision of the tumor was achieved. The patient recovered well postoperatively. Regular follow-up after 6 months revealed that he had almost recovered full strength to his right limbs, and there was no evidence of recurrence. Intracranial parasagittal chondrosarcoma in the parietal lobe is extremely rare. CONCLUSIONS Although magnetic resonance imaging was performed, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish intracranial chondrosarcoma from meningioma and glioma, especially when the tumor arises from a nonskull base such as the meninges. Some cases could have significant peritumoral edema, although it is extremely rare. Histologic examination may aid in the diagnosis of this tumor. Neurosurgery is the most effective therapy for these tumors. Postoperative radiotherapy needs to be considered when the tumor is incompletely resected, has atypical histology, or is associated with significant peritumoral edema.
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- Fan Chen
- Department of Neurosurgery, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Neurosurgery, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China.
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Wang YM, Zou LQ, Xie WL, Yang ZY, Zhu XZ, Cheung EFC, Sørensen TA, Møller A, Chan RCK. Altered grey matter volume and cortical thickness in patients with schizo-obsessive comorbidity. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2018; 276:65-72. [PMID: 29628272 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2018.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2017] [Revised: 03/23/2018] [Accepted: 03/23/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Recent findings suggest that schizo-obsessive comorbidity (SOC) may be a unique diagnostic entity. We examined grey matter (GM) volume and cortical thickness in 22 patients with SOC, and compared them with 21 schizophrenia (SCZ) patients, 22 obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients and 22 healthy controls (HCs). We found that patients with SOC exhibited reduced GM volume in the left thalamus, the left inferior semi-lunar lobule of the cerebellum, the bilateral medial orbitofrontal cortex (medial oFC), the medial superior frontal gyrus (medial sFG), the rectus gyrus and the anterior cingulate cortex (aCC) compared with HCs. Patients with SOC also exhibited reduced cortical thickness in the right superior temporal gyrus (sTG), the right angular gyrus, the right supplementary motor area (SMA), the right middle cingulate cortex (mCC) and the right middle occipital gyrus (mOG) compared with HCs. Together with the differences in GM volume and cortical thickness between patients with SOC and patients with only SCZ or only OCD, these findings highlight the GM changes specific to patients with SOC.
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- Yong-Ming Wang
- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing 100101, PR China; Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China; Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Beijing 100190, PR China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing 100101, PR China; Department of Psychology, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University (Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research), Guangzhou, Guangdong, PR China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing 100101, PR China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing 100101, PR China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, PR China; Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, PR China
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- Castle Peak Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, PR China
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- Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Beijing 100190, PR China; Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark
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- Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Beijing 100190, PR China; Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark; Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Beijing 100101, PR China; Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China; Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Beijing 100190, PR China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China.
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Peyser A, Bristow SL, Hershlag A. Two successful pregnancies following fertility preservation in a patient with anaplastic astrocytoma: a case report. BMC Cancer 2018; 18:544. [PMID: 29739361 PMCID: PMC5941593 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-018-4472-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 05/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Astrocytomas are the most common malignant glial tumors. With improved prognosis, it is possible for patients to pursue pregnancy post-treatment. However, with potential gonadotoxicity of oncology treatments, fertility preservation prior to chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy should be considered. This requires close collaboration between the oncologist and reproductive endocrinologist. To our knowledge this is the first report of successful pregnancies following fertility preservation for AA. CASE PRESENTATION 33-year-old nulligravid woman with newly diagnosed anaplastic astrocytoma (AA; WHO grade III, IDH1-negative) sought fertility preservation. Prior to chemotherapy and radiation for AA, the patient underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) for fertility preservation, resulting in 8 vitrified embryos. Following chemo-radiation, the patient underwent two rounds of frozen embryo transfers (FET), each resulting in a successful singleton pregnancy. CONCLUSION This case illustrates the realistic possibility, in carefully selected patients with brain tumors, of oocyte or embryo cryo-preservation prior to chemo-radiation and subsequent pregnancies.
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- Alexandra Peyser
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwell Health, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, 300 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030 USA
- Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine, 500 Hofstra Blvd, Hempstead, NY 11549 USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwell Health, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, 300 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030 USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwell Health, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, 300 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030 USA
- Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine, 500 Hofstra Blvd, Hempstead, NY 11549 USA
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RATIONALE Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an uncommon multiple systems disorder. The main characteristics of the disease in the central nervous system include cortical or subcortical tubers, subependymal nodules, and subependymal giant cell astrocytoma. However, progressive cystic lesions in the cerebral hemispheres have rarely been reported in previous studies of TSC. PATIENT CONCERNS We present the case of a 35-year-old man with TSC who was admitted to our hospital for a sudden attack of serious headache, vomiting, and left hemiplegia. Brain computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed multiple subependymal calcific nodes and multiple cystic lesions in the right frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes. The solid nodule in the lesion demonstrated contrast enhancement. DIAGNOSES The patient was diagnosed with TSC, but the properties of the cystic lesion in the brain were unclear and a tumor was suspected. INTERVENTIONS Emergency operation was performed immediately. Pathological examination of the lesion revealed a vascular malformation, but no tumor cells. OUTCOMES In the fourth year after the surgery, brain MRI revealed a relapse of the cystic mass and surgery was suggested again. However, the patient refused to undergo surgery again. LESSONS This case describes an atypical MRI presentation of TSC occurring in middle-age. This condition can cause a life-threatening condition and may recur after surgery. Our finding emphasizes the importance of neuroimaging surveillance in patients older than 25 years old and after lesion resection.
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- Department of Pathology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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