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Neurosciences
Qiuting Wen, Shannon L. Risacher, Linhui Xie, Junjie Li, Jaroslaw Harezlak, Martin R. Farlow, Frederick W. Unverzagt, Sujuan Gao, Liana G. Apostolova, Andrew J. Saykin, Yu-Chien Wu
Summary: The study explored the spatial pattern of tau-white matter (WM) associations across the whole brain and found a distinct spatial pattern resembling the typical propagation of tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The association between tau and WM degeneration highlights the important role of WM alterations in the AD pathological cascade.
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
F. Andrew Bagdasarian, Xuegang Yuan, Jacob Athey, Bruce A. Bunnell, Samuel C. Grant
Summary: Diffusion MRI techniques have been used to evaluate ischemic stroke, but are limited for assessing therapeutic effects of mesenchymal stem cells. This study demonstrates that NODDI may offer valuable insights into the protective effects of human mesenchymal stem cells on stroke progression.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hea Ree Park, Hye Ryun Kim, Seunghwan Oh, Joon-Kyung Seong, Eun Yeon Joo
Summary: This study utilized TSSA to identify specific alterations in WM tracts of patients with RLS, which were associated with distinct clinical manifestations of the disorder.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Bingxin Zhao, Tengfei Li, Yue Yang, Xifeng Wang, Tianyou Luo, Yue Shan, Ziliang Zhu, Di Xiong, Mads E. Hauberg, Jaroslav Bendl, John F. Fullard, Panagiotis Roussos, Yun Li, Jason L. Stein, Hongtu Zhu
Summary: The study identified common genetic variants influencing white matter microstructure and detected multiple associated loci, some of which were related to brain diseases. Additionally, genetic correlations were observed between white matter microstructure and a wide range of complex traits and diseases.
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Neuroimaging
Ivana Kancheva, Floor Buma, Gert Kwakkel, Angelina Kancheva, Nick Ramsey, Mathijs Raemaekers
Summary: This study aimed to assess secondary white matter degeneration after ischemic stroke and found that it spreads along the entire damaged tract and worsens over time.
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2022)
Article
Neuroimaging
Masoumeh Rostampour, Zeinab Gharaylou, Nima Rostampour, Donya Kaveh, Khadijeh Noori, Reza Fadaei, Masoud Tahmasian, Habibolah Khazaie, Mojtaba Zarei
Summary: This study aimed to understand the alterations of white matter tracts in patients with insomnia using diffusion tensor imaging. It found significantly increased fractional anisotropy in certain white matter tracts and correlations between diffusion measures and sleep variables. The study highlights the importance of examining whole-tract and waypoint white matter integrity in insomnia disorder.
BRAIN IMAGING AND BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Yuwen Hung, Nina T. Dallenbach, Allison Green, Schuyler Gaillard, James Capella, Barbara Hoskova, Chloe Hutt Vater, Ellese Cooper, Nicole Rudberg, Atsushi Takahashi, John D. E. Gabrieli, Gagan Joshi
Summary: Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is highly comorbid with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but it is unclear whether there are overlapping or distinct neural correlates between individuals with both ADHD and ASD compared to those with ADHD only. This knowledge is critical for understanding treatment outcomes for comorbid ADHD symptoms.
PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Monica N. Toba, Raffaella Migliaccio, Alexia Potet, Pascale Pradat-Diehl, Paolo Bartolomeo
Summary: This study investigates the neglect of right-sided events in three right-handed patients after a left hemisphere stroke. The results suggest that left hemisphere stroke, specifically in the parietal region, may lead to neglect of right-sided events, and that disconnection in the superior longitudinal fasciculus plays an important role in right-side neglect, similar to the role of right SLF disconnection in left-side neglect.
BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
(2022)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Chunxiang Zhang, Xin Zhao, Zitao Zhu, Kaiyu Wang, Brianna F. Moon, Bohao Zhang, Sayed Noman Sadat, Jinxia Guo, Jieaoxue Bao, Ding Zhang, Xiaoan Zhang
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the value of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) combined with serum C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) in evaluating alterations of white matter (WM) microstructure in preterm infants with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). The results showed that preterm infants with NEC had reduced FA values and elevated MD values in specific WM regions, and these changes were correlated with serum CRP and PCT levels. The combination of WM, CRP, and PCT showed improved performance in detecting and evaluating WM microstructure alterations in preterm infants with NEC.
QUANTITATIVE IMAGING IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Malwina Molendowska, Jacek Matuszewski, Bartosz Kossowski, Lukasz Bola, Anna Banaszkiewicz, Malgorzata Paplinska, Katarzyna Jednorog, Bogdan Draganski, Artur Marchewka
Summary: The study found that training-induced white matter plasticity occurs both within and beyond the trained sensory modality. The temporal dynamics of microstructural plasticity in different cortical regions are modulated by the nature of computational demands.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Aleksi J. Sihvonen, Paula Virtala, Anja Thiede, Marja Laasonen, Teija Kujala
Summary: This study utilized a hodological approach to investigate the relationships between structural white matter connectivity and reading skills and phonological processing. The findings revealed specific brain regions associated with reading skills and phonological processing, as well as structural connectivity anomalies in dyslexics.
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Neuroimaging
M. Domin, G. P. Mihai, T. Platz, M. Lotze
Summary: This study investigates the location and integrity of callosal fibers involved in swallowing function and their impact on swallowing compliance in stroke survivors. The results show decreased integrity of callosal fibers and suggest that the integrity of callosal fibers connecting the primary somatosensory cortex with swallowing representation sites is associated with effective swallowing compliance.
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Yiming Xiao, Terry M. Peters, Ali R. Khan
Summary: This study reveals strengthened and weakened white matter integrity that is subject to symptom laterality in a large drug-naive de novo PD cohort using complementary DTI and FBA measures. The findings suggest that the disease gives rise to tissue degeneration and potential re-organization in the early stage.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2021)
Review
Immunology
Enling He, Min Liu, Sizhu Gong, Xiyao Fu, Yue Han, Fang Deng
Summary: Depressive disorder is closely related to white matter changes, which may be caused by impaired cerebral blood flow, blood-brain barrier dysfunction, inflammatory factors, genes, and environmental factors. White matter changes are associated with clinical variables such as diagnosis, severity, and treatment efficacy in patients with depression.
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Jakob Wasserthal, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Peter F. Neher, Robert C. Wolf, Georg Northoff, John L. Waddington, Katharina M. Kubera, Stefan Fritze, Anais Harneit, Lena S. Geiger, Heike Tost, Dusan Hirjak
Summary: This study highlights the potential role of white matter microstructure alterations, specifically in the orbitofrontal cortex and superior frontal gyrus, in the pathogenesis of parkinsonism among patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. The findings suggest aberrant connectivity with fronto-parietal regions and striatum may play a significant role in the development of parkinsonism in patients with SSD.
EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biophysics
Anders Dyhr Sandgaard, Noam Shemesh, Valerij G. Kiselev, Sune Norhoj Jespersen
Summary: The magnetic susceptibility of tissue provides information about its chemical composition and microstructural organization, but the relationship between magnetic microstructure and the measurable Larmor frequency shift is only understood for a few idealized cases. In this study, we analyzed the microstructure formed by magnetized, NMR-invisible infinite cylinders in an NMR-reporting fluid. We examined various geometries of mesoscopic Lorentz cavities and inclusions through simulations, and found that the cavity size should be approximately one order of magnitude larger than the width of the inclusions. We also derived the Larmor frequency shift for a population of cylinders with arbitrary orientation dispersion and found that it depends on the Laplace expansion coefficients p2m of the cylinders' orientation distribution function. Our work emphasizes the importance of considering microstructural organization when estimating magnetic tissue properties.
NMR IN BIOMEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Jonas A. Hosp, Andrea Dressing, Anika Engesser, Volkmar Glauche, Dorothee Kummerer, Ema B. Vaidelyte, Mariachristina Musso, Michel Rijntjes, Cornelius Weiller
Summary: This study explores the role of the dopaminergic ventral tegmental midbrain nuclei-motor cortex (VTMC) tract in post-stroke recovery. The study found that both the VTMC tract and the corticospinal tract (CST) degenerate after stroke, but only the degeneration of the VTMC tract is associated with lesion size. Regression analysis showed that changes in VTMC tract integrity are more strongly related to independence in daily activities, upper limb motor impairment, and cortical symptoms compared to CST, which is mainly associated with the degree of hemiparesis.
ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Christoph Sperber, Laura Gallucci, Roza Umarova
Summary: For years, dissociation studies on neurological single-case patients with brain lesions were used to infer cognitive functions in neuropsychology, but the association between deficits was considered of less value. In contrast, computational methods such as principal component analysis became popular for identifying cognitive functions in stroke patients. However, the anatomy of stroke lesions alone influenced the dimensionality of data and limited the interpretability of cognitive deficits and insights into human cognitive architecture. It is suggested to use qualitative criteria and dissociation patterns to refine estimates and optimize interpretation strategies in cognitive deficit studies.
Article
Neurosciences
Mariacristina Musso, Eckart Altenmueller, Marco Reisert, Jonas Hosp, Ralf Schwarzwald, Bettina Blank, Julian Horn, Volkmar Glauche, Christoph Kaller, Cornelius Weiller, Martin Schumacher
Summary: Conducting is a well-structured system used to convey information about the rhythm and dynamic of a musical piece. Conductors communicate the musical tempo to the orchestra, creating a unified and expressive musical gestalt. This study found that conducting activates specific regions of the brain, including the supplementary and premotor cortex, superior temporal gyrus, and Broca's area, which are involved in sensorimotor mapping and language processing.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Clinical Neurology
Cornelius Weiller, Michel Rijntjes
Letter
Clinical Neurology
Christoph Sperber, Laura Gallucci, Roza Umarova
Article
Clinical Neurology
Nils Schroeter, Antonia Weiller, Michel Rijntjes, Andreas Harloff, Horst Urbach, Juraj Kukolja, Juergen Bardutzky, Cornelius Weiller, Lena-Alexandra Beume
Summary: Telemedicine plays an important role in emergency neurology, and head and/or gaze deviation can serve as a reliable biomarker for ischemic stroke and large vessel occlusions (LVOs), making it easier to assess.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Christoph Sperber, Laura Gallucci, Stefan Smaczny, Roza Umarova
Summary: Statistical lesion-symptom mapping is dominated by frequentist approaches, but Bayesian lesion deficit inference (BLDI) has advantages in dealing with small samples and low statistical power. BLDI collects evidence for the null hypothesis and provides more flexibility. However, it suffers from the association problem.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Anina Schwarzwald, Urs Fischer, David Seiffge, Morin Beyeler, Adrian Scutelnic, Johannes Kaesmacher, Pasquale Mordasini, Tomas Dobrocky, Jan Gralla, Mirjam R. Heldner, Roza Umarova, Thomas R. Meinel, Marcel Arnold, Simon Jung, Barbara Goeggel Simonetti
Summary: This study investigated the sex differences in young stroke patients and found that women have a higher incidence of stroke in the very young age group, possibly due to sex specific risk factors such as pregnancy, puerperium, the use of oral contraceptives, and hormonal replacement therapy. There were no differences in stroke severity, etiology, stroke localization, management, and outcome between women and men.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Nils Schroeter, Tobias Bormann, Michel Rijntjes, Ganna Blazhenets, Raissa Berti, Bastian E. A. Sajonz, Horst Urbach, Cornelius Weiller, Philipp T. Meyer, Alexander Rau, Lars Frings
Summary: This study suggests that microangiopathic white matter lesions do not have a significant impact on neurocognitive performance in Parkinson's disease, while neuronal dysfunction does.
MOVEMENT DISORDERS CLINICAL PRACTICE
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Urs Wuertemberger, Daniel Erny, Alexander Rau, Jonas A. Hosp, Veysel Akguen, Marco Reisert, Valerij G. Kiselev, Jurgen Beck, Sonja Jankovic, Peter C. Reinacher, Marc Hohenhaus, Horst Urbach, Martin Diebold, Theo Demerath
Summary: The study successfully differentiated glioblastomas and brain metastases using advanced diffusion techniques and structural histopathology. Analysis of microstructural features in the contrast-enhancing tumor components served as imaging biomarkers for distinguishing these tumor entities.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEURORADIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Christoph Sperber, Arsany Hakim, Laura Gallucci, David Seiffge, Beata Rezny-Kasprzak, Eugen Jager, Thomas Meinel, Roland Wiest, Urs Fischer, Marcel Arnold, Roza Umarova
Summary: Based on brain imaging features, different subtypes of cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) were identified, and the validity of these features as part of clinical ratings and biomarkers for stroke outcome was evaluated. A total of five clusters were identified, with EPVS and WMH identified as imaging features of presumably early progression. The number of microbleeds and WMH severity appeared to be promising biomarkers for distinguishing clinical subgroups.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Thomas R. Meinel, Camilla B. Triulzi, Johannes Kaesmacher, Adnan Mujanovic, Marco Pasi, Lester Y. Leung, David M. Kent, Yi Sui, David Seiffge, Philipp Bucke, Roza Umarova, Marcel Arnold, Laurent Roten, Thanh N. Nguyen, Joanna Wardlaw, Urs Fischer
Summary: This survey study found a high degree of uncertainty and heterogeneity in the management of covert brain infarction (CBI), even among experienced stroke physicians. There is a lack of evidence to guide management decisions for CBI, highlighting the need for more data to inform clinical practice.
EUROPEAN STROKE JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Alexander Rau, Nils Schroeter, Michel Rijntjes, Fabian Bamberg, Wolfgang H. H. Jost, Maxim Zaitsev, Cornelius Weiller, Stephan Rau, Horst Urbach, Marco Reisert, Maximilian F. F. Russe
Summary: This study compared the performance of a Deep Neural Patchwork (DNP) with other established segmentation algorithms in accurately delineating atrophic structures in multiple system atrophy (MSA), Parkinson's disease (PD), and healthy controls. The results showed that DNP had significantly better performance in delineating the putamen compared to other algorithms, and it also demonstrated superior diagnostic accuracy in distinguishing MSA, PD, and healthy controls.
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neuroimaging
Christoph Sperber, Laura Gallucci, Daniel Mirman, Marcel Arnold, Roza M. Umarova
Summary: Lesion size is a decent biomarker for stroke outcome and severity, slightly inferior to spatial lesion features but particularly suited in studies with small samples.
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2023)