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Mouse models of neurodegenerative disease: preclinical imaging and neurovascular component. Brain Imaging Behav 2017; 12:1160-1196. [PMID: 29075922 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-017-9770-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Neurodegenerative diseases represent great challenges for basic science and clinical medicine because of their prevalence, pathologies, lack of mechanism-based treatments, and impacts on individuals. Translational research might contribute to the study of neurodegenerative diseases. The mouse has become a key model for studying disease mechanisms that might recapitulate in part some aspects of the corresponding human diseases. Neurodegenerative disorders are very complicated and multifactorial. This has to be taken in account when testing drugs. Most of the drugs screening in mice are very difficult to be interpretated and often useless. Mouse models could be condiderated a 'pathway models', rather than as models for the whole complicated construct that makes a human disease. Non-invasive in vivo imaging in mice has gained increasing interest in preclinical research in the last years thanks to the availability of high-resolution single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), high field Magnetic resonance, Optical Imaging scanners and of highly specific contrast agents. Behavioral test are useful tool to characterize different animal models of neurodegenerative pathology. Furthermore, many authors have observed vascular pathological features associated to the different neurodegenerative disorders. Aim of this review is to focus on the different existing animal models of neurodegenerative disorders, describe behavioral tests and preclinical imaging techniques used for diagnose and describe the vascular pathological features associated to these diseases.
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Cortical Metabolic and Nigrostriatal Abnormalities Associated With Clinical Stage-Specific Dementia With Lewy Bodies. Clin Nucl Med 2015; 40:26-31. [DOI: 10.1097/rlu.0000000000000620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Misch MR, Mitchell S, Francis PL, Sherborn K, Meradje K, McNeely AA, Honjo K, Zhao J, Scott CJ, Caldwell CB, Ehrlich L, Shammi P, MacIntosh BJ, Bilbao JM, Lang AE, Black SE, Masellis M. Differentiating between visual hallucination-free dementia with Lewy bodies and corticobasal syndrome on the basis of neuropsychology and perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography. ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY 2014; 6:71. [PMID: 25484929 PMCID: PMC4256921 DOI: 10.1186/s13195-014-0071-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2013] [Accepted: 10/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Corticobasal Syndrome (CBS) are atypical parkinsonian disorders with fronto-subcortical and posterior cognitive dysfunction as common features. While visual hallucinations are a good predictor of Lewy body pathology and are rare in CBS, they are not exhibited in all cases of DLB. Given the clinical overlap between these disorders, neuropsychological and imaging markers may aid in distinguishing these entities. METHODS Prospectively recruited case-control cohorts of CBS (n =31) and visual hallucination-free DLB (n =30), completed neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric measures as well as brain perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Perfusion data were available for forty-two controls. Behavioural, perfusion, and cortical volume and thickness measures were compared between the groups to identify features that serve to differentiate them. RESULTS The Lewy body with no hallucinations group performed more poorly on measures of episodic memory compared to the corticobasal group, including the delayed and cued recall portions of the California Verbal Learning Test (F (1, 42) =23.1, P <0.001 and F (1, 42) =14.0, P =0.001 respectively) and the delayed visual reproduction of the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (F (1, 36) =9.7, P =0.004). The Lewy body group also demonstrated reduced perfusion in the left occipital pole compared to the corticobasal group (F (1,57) =7.4, P =0.009). At autopsy, the Lewy body cases all demonstrated mixed dementia with Lewy bodies, Alzheimer's disease and small vessel arteriosclerosis, while the corticobasal cases demonstrated classical corticobasal degeneration in five, dementia with agyrophilic grains + corticobasal degeneration + cerebral amyloid angiopathy in one, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy in two, and Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration-Ubiquitin/TAR DNA-binding protein 43 proteinopathy in one. MRI measures were not significantly different between the patient groups. CONCLUSIONS Reduced perfusion in the left occipital region and worse episodic memory performance may help to distinguish between DLB cases who have never manifested with visual hallucinations and CBS at earlier stages of the disease. Development of reliable neuropsychological and imaging markers that improve diagnostic accuracy will become increasingly important as disease modifying therapies become available.
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- Michael R Misch
- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- Neuropsychology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- Department of Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- Morton and Gloria Shulman Movement Disorders Clinic and the Edmond J. Safra Program in Parkinson's Disease, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada ; Department of Medicine (Neurology), Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences, Centre University of Toronto, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada ; Department of Medicine (Neurology), Brain Sciences Research Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences, Centre University of Toronto, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada ; Cognition & Movement Disorders Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada ; Neurogenetics Section, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Room A4 42, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5 Canada
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Antonini A, Isaias IU. Single photon-emission computed tomography imaging in early Parkinson’s disease. Expert Rev Neurother 2014; 8:1853-64. [DOI: 10.1586/14737175.8.12.1853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Bittner V, Ullrich G, Thormann M, Müller NG, Friederichs C, Amthauer H, Heinze HJ, Bittner DM. Positive FP-CIT SPECT (DaTSCAN) in Clinical Alzheimer's Disease - An Unexpected Finding? Dement Geriatr Cogn Dis Extra 2011; 1:283-91. [PMID: 22545039 PMCID: PMC3235939 DOI: 10.1159/000330470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Clinically, Alzheimer's disease (AD) is by far the most common cause of dementia. Criteria for the diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are highly specific but not at all sensitive, which is reflected by the higher number of DLB cases detected histopathologically at autopsy. Imaging of dopamine transporter with FP-CIT SPECT is one possibility to increase sensitivity. Pathological confirmation was also included in the revised consensus criteria for the diagnosis of DLB. However, in the absence of parkinsonism, one of the core features, a clinical diagnosis of AD is more likely. The role of FP-CIT SPECT in DLB diagnosis remains to be clarified. Based on our 3 case reports and a review of the literature, the utility of this imaging method in the differential diagnosis of AD and DLB is highlighted.
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- Verena Bittner
- Departments of Neurology, Magdeburg, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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Fong TG, Inouye SK, Dai W, Press DZ, Alsop DC. Association cortex hypoperfusion in mild dementia with Lewy bodies: a potential indicator of cholinergic dysfunction? Brain Imaging Behav 2011; 5:25-35. [PMID: 20924800 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-010-9108-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is often associated with occipital hypometabolism or hypoperfusion, as well as deficits in cholinergic neurotransmission. In this study, 11 mild DLB, 16 mild AD and 16 age-matched controls underwent arterial spin-labeled perfusion MRI (ASL-pMRI) and neuropsychological testing. Patterns of cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cognitive performance were compared. In addition, combined ASL-pMRI and ChEI drug challenge (pharmacologic MRI) was tested as a probe of cholinergic function in 4 of the DLB participants. Frontal and parieto-occipital hypoperfusion was observed in both DLB and AD but was more pronounced in DLB. Following ChEI treatment, perfusion increased in temporal and parieto-occipital cortex, and cognitive performance improved on a verbal fluency task. If confirmed in a larger study, these results provide further evidence for brain cholinergic dysfunction in DLB pathophysiology, and use of pharmacologic MRI as an in vivo measure of cholinergic function.
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- Tamara G Fong
- Aging Brain Center, Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLife, 1200 Centre Street, Boston, MA 02131, USA.
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Tateno M, Kobayashi S, Saito T. Imaging improves diagnosis of dementia with lewy bodies. Psychiatry Investig 2009; 6:233-40. [PMID: 20140120 PMCID: PMC2808791 DOI: 10.4306/pi.2009.6.4.233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2009] [Accepted: 11/12/2009] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common cause of degenerative dementia after Alzheimer's disease (AD), and is clinically characterized by the progressive cognitive decline with fluctuations in cognition and alertness, recurrent visual hallucinations and Parkinsonism. Once these characteristic symptoms of DLB emerge, discriminating it from AD is relatively easy. However, in the early disease stages, the clinical symptoms of various types of dementias largely overlap and it is difficult to distinguish DLB from other neurodegenerative dementias based on clinical manifestations alone. To increase the accuracy of antemortem diagnosis of DLB, the latest diagnostic criteria incorporate findings from 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) myocardial scintigraphy, or from neuroimaging such as computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and positron emission tomography (PET). In the present guidelines, decreased dopamine transporter uptake revealed by SPECT or PET receives the greatest importance among various neuroimaging findings and is listed as one of the suggestive features. Supportive features that commonly present but are not proven to have diagnostic specificity include relatively-preserved medial-temporal-lobe structures, occipital hypoperfusion, and abnormal MIBG myocardial scintigraphy. In this paper, we review the major findings on various neuroimaging modalities and discuss the clinical usefulness of them for the diagnosis of DLB. Although there is not enough evidence to reach the conclusion, considering the accessibility in clinical practice, in our personal views, we recommend the use of brain-perfusion SPECT and MIBG myocardial scintigraphy to improve the diagnosis of DLB.
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- Masaru Tateno
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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Streitparth F, Wieners G, Kämena A, Schröder RJ, Stiepani H, Kokocinski T, Röttgen R, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Lenzen-Grossimlimghaus R, Hidajat N. [Diagnostic value of multislice perfusion CT in dementia patients]. Radiologe 2009; 48:175-83. [PMID: 17136405 DOI: 10.1007/s00117-006-1443-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND The diagnostic value of perfusion CT in dementia patients was retrospectively evaluated in comparison to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). MATERIAL AND METHODS The perfusion CT database of 55 subjects was investigated. All patients underwent an unenhanced, contrast-enhanced, and perfusion CT of the head. The clinical evaluation of the degree of dementia was performed with the MMSE. In the perfusion CT data, 24 ROI were marked. Then blood volume (BV), blood flow (BF), and mean transit time (MTT) were calculated and compared with the ipsilateral and contralateral regions and with the degree of dementia. RESULTS With increasing degree of dementia, a significant decrease of the occipital and temporal BV was found. A significant decrease of the BF in the frontal lobe, basal ganglia, and occipital region was found. Concurrently, the MTT increased significantly in the basal ganglia region. The group with Alzheimer's disease showed significant regional hypoperfusion compared with the group of cognitively normal subjects in the frontal, basal ganglia, occipital, and temporal region. CONCLUSIONS The cerebral perfusion decreased with increasing degree of dementia. The inexpensive and widely available perfusion CT reveals information about regional differences of cerebral perfusion, which may be useful in differentiating severity and types of dementia.
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- F Streitparth
- Klinik für Strahlenheilkunde, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 , Berlin.
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Wallin A, Ekberg S, Lind K, Milos V, Granérus AK, Granerus G. Posterior cortical brain dysfunction in cognitively impaired patients with Parkinson's disease--a rCBF scintigraphy study. Acta Neurol Scand 2007; 116:347-54. [PMID: 17927803 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2007.00887.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to visualize cortical function in Parkinson's patients with various degrees of cognitive impairment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-seven patients with Parkinson's disease and three with Parkinson plus syndromes underwent cognitive assessment and rCBF using (99m)TC-HMPAO-SPECT. RESULTS Almost no regional reductions in cerebral blood flow were seen in patients without cognitive impairment (n = 16). Limited, mainly posterior, blood flow reductions were seen in patients with mild cognitive impairment (n = 14), whereas the reductions were extensive and bilaterally symmetric, involving both anterior and posterior brain regions in patients with dementia (n = 10). CONCLUSIONS The findings suggest a widespread cortical, mainly posterior type of dysfunction and a relationship between the degree of cognitive impairment and the magnitude of the dysfunction.
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- A Wallin
- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg University, Mölndal, Sweden.
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Kasama S, Tachibana H, Kawabata K, Yoshikawa H. Cerebral blood flow in Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and Alzheimer's disease according to three-dimensional stereotactic surface projection imaging. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 2005; 19:266-75. [PMID: 15775716 DOI: 10.1159/000084551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/30/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Regional brain perfusion was analyzed using single-photon emission computed tomography with three-dimensional stereotactic surface projections (3D-SSP) in 69 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), 16 patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and 15 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and compared with that in 24 age-equivalent normal subjects. Nondemented PD patients revealed less parietal and frontal flow than controls. With mental impairment, flow reduction extended to other areas including occipital regions. PD with dementia and DLB showed similar reduction patterns, although frontal flow showed a greater reduction in DLB. AD showed little occipital reduction, but a severe parieto-temporal reduction. Thus, 3D-SSP appears to be useful in the detection of cortical lesions and the differential diagnosis of patients with cognitive impairment.
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- Shuhei Kasama
- Division of Neurology and Stroke Care Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan
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Gilman S, Koeppe RA, Little R, An H, Junck L, Giordani B, Persad C, Heumann M, Wernette K. Differentiation of Alzheimer's disease from dementia with Lewy bodies utilizing positron emission tomography with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose and neuropsychological testing. Exp Neurol 2005; 191 Suppl 1:S95-S103. [PMID: 15629765 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2004.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2004] [Revised: 06/03/2004] [Accepted: 06/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We compared the relative utility of neuropsychological testing and positron emission tomography (PET) with [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) in differentiating Alzheimer's disease (AD) from dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We studied 25 patients with AD, 20 with DLB, and 19 normal elderly controls. There was no difference between patient groups for MMSE, confrontational naming, or verbal learning. The DLB group was significantly more impaired than the AD group for verbal fluency, and the AD group was significantly more impaired than the DLB group for verbal delayed recall. The DLB group had greater difficulty than the AD group on a visual discrimination task that does not require motor functioning, but the difference did not reach significance. Family ratings of motor functioning suggested significantly greater impairment in DLB patients than in AD patients. PET studies revealed significantly lower local cerebral metabolic rates for glucose (lCMRglc) for visual cortex (Brodmann areas 17, 18, and 19) in the DLB than the AD group, but no differences for other regions commonly affected in AD, including posterior cingulate, superior parietal lobe, lateral temporal lobe, and the prefrontal region. Motor ratings were significantly correlated with lCMRglc in all areas of cerebral cortex, including Brodmann areas 17, 18, and 19. The results demonstrate a similar profile of cerebral hypometabolism in the two patient groups except in the visual cortex, where the DLB group shows markedly lower lCMRglc than the AD group. Neuropsychological testing also differentiates the groups, and family ratings of motor functioning are as robust as PET in these later stages of the disorders.
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- Sid Gilman
- Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0489, USA.
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Kaneko K, Kuwabara Y, Sasaki M, Ogomori K, Ichimiya A, Koga H, Nakagawa M, Hayashi K, Honda H. Posterior Cingulate Hypoperfusion in Alzheimerʼs Disease, Senile Dementia of Alzheimer type, and Other Dementias Evaluated by Three-Dimensional Stereotactic Surface Projections Using Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT. Clin Nucl Med 2004; 29:362-6. [PMID: 15166883 DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000127091.43180.92] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Hypoperfusion in the posterior cingulate cortex is thought to be useful for the early diagnosis of dementia of Alzheimer type (DAT). In the present study, we compared the incidence of posterior cingulate hypoperfusion in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), patients with senile dementia of Alzheimer type (SDAT), and patients with other types of dementia, as evaluated by three-dimensional stereotactic surface projection (3D-SSP) imaging. The subjects were 20 AD patients, 20 SDAT patients, 13 frontotemporal dementia patients, and 3 other types of dementia patients. A SPECT study was performed 5 minutes after the injection of 740 MBq technetium-99m hexamethylpropylene amine oxime. 3D-SSP images were obtained with global normalization to perform the statistical analysis. The normal database of 3D-SSP consisted of 15 healthy volunteers. Hypoperfusion was considered to be significant when the Z-score was over 2.5. Posterior cingulate hypoperfusion was observed in 13 of 20 AD patients (65%), in 5 of 20 SDAT patients (25%), but in none of other type of dementia patients. Posterior cingulate hypoperfusion was considered to be a finding specific to DAT, and this finding was thought to be useful to diagnose DAT patients, especially for AD patients. However, it was considered to be difficult to diagnose early-stage SDAT patients.
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- Koichiro Kaneko
- Department of Clinical Radiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Camicioli R, Fisher N. Progress in clinical neurosciences: Parkinson's disease with dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. Can J Neurol Sci 2004; 31:7-21. [PMID: 15038467 DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100002791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Dementia occurs in up to 30% of people with Parkinson's disease and is a major cause of disability. Pathologically, Parkinson's dementia, where dementia follows the onset of parkinsonism by at least one year, overlaps with dementia with Lewy bodies. We review the functional impact, definitions, neuropsychology, epidemiology and pathophysiology of Parkinson's dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies and their overlap. Associated psychiatric and imaging findings are also considered. Lastly, current and emerging approaches to assessment and treatment in patients with these Lewy body associated dementias are presented.
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- Richard Camicioli
- Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, University of Alberta, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Leenders KL. Significance of non-presynaptic SPECT tracer methods in Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord 2004; 18 Suppl 7:S39-42. [PMID: 14531045 DOI: 10.1002/mds.10577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Tropane-related tracers for SPECT and PET scanning have shown their value in assessing the in vivo striatal presynaptic status of the dopaminergic neurotransmitter system in man. Previously, there were a few other tracers suggested to be useful in the study of in vivo brain biochemistry in humans, particularly in patients afflicted with Parkinson's disease (PD) or parkinsonian syndromes. We summarize the work concerning the two main tracers applied in that context using single photon emission tomography (SPECT) scanning in patients with PD: IBZM and HMPAO. IBZM binds specifically to striatal dopamine D(2) receptors and HMPAO uptake is a measure of cerebral tissue perfusion.
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- Klaus L Leenders
- Department of Neurology, Groningen University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Londos E, Passant U, Brun A, Rosén I, Risberg J, Gustafson L. Regional cerebral blood flow and EEG in clinically diagnosed dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 2003; 36:231-45. [PMID: 12849079 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4943(02)00168-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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This study was undertaken in order to compare regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and EEG findings of patients with clinically diagnosed dementia with Lewy bodies (clinDLB) and Alzheimer's disease (clinAD). Furthermore, within the clinDLB group to compare cases with and without neuropathologically verified Lewy bodies (LBs). When we studied 200 dementia cases in a prospective longitudinal dementia study, 48 had clinDLB and 45 clinAD in retrospective analyses. EEG information was analysed in 34 clinDLB and 28 clinAD patients and cerebral blood flow, measured with the Xe 133 inhalation method, in 26 clinDLB and 25 clinAD. There were no differences in EEG between the clinDLB and clinAD groups or between the cases with and without LBs. The rCBF patterns in the clinDLB and clinAD groups showed similar reductions in the temporoparietal areas. The rCBF in cases with LBs showed heterogeneous pathology. The imaging results in clinDLB and clinAD were strikingly similar. The EEG and rCBF could not differentiate between cases with or without LB. The study illustrates the lack of specific changes of EEG and rCBF in cases with LB pathology.
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- Elisabet Londos
- Department of Psychogeriatrics, Lund University hospital, SE-221 85, Lund, Sweden.
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Minoshima S, Foster NL, Petrie EC, Albin RL, Frey KA, Kuhl DE. Neuroimaging in dementia with Lewy bodies: metabolism, neurochemistry, and morphology. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 2003; 15:200-9. [PMID: 12489916 DOI: 10.1177/089198870201500405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is recognized as one of the most common forms of neurodegenerative dementia. Neuroimaging contributes to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of DLB by examining alterations in brain metabolism, neurochemisty, and morphology in living patients. Neuroimaging can provide objective and quantifiable antemortem markers for the presence of and the progression of DLB and permits differentiation from other dementias. This article reviews current neuroimaging findings in DLB with particular attention to occipital hypometabolism, dopaminergic and cholinergic deficits, and medial temporal lobe atrophy as measured by positron emission tomography, single-photon emission computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging.
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- Satoshi Minoshima
- Departments of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195-6004, USA
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Doubleday EK, Snowden JS, Varma AR, Neary D. Qualitative performance characteristics differentiate dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002; 72:602-7. [PMID: 11971046 PMCID: PMC1737879 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.72.5.602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To determine whether dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be differentiated on the basis of qualitative performance characteristics during neuropsychological evaluation. METHODS Forty one patients with clinically defined DLB were matched with 26 patients with AD for age, illness duration, nature and severity of cognitive deficits, and regional blood flow distribution on SPECT. The presence or absence of a set of qualitative performance characteristics, observed and recorded during the patients' initial cognitive evaluation, was identified by retrospective analysis of patients' records and the groups compared. RESULTS Inattention, visual distractibility, impairments in establishing and shifting mental set, incoherence, confabulatory responses, perseveration, and intrusions were significantly more common in DLB than AD. Intrusions were particularly common in DLB, occurring in 78% of the group. They included externally cued intrusions arising from the visual environment, a feature never seen in AD. In a stepwise logistic regression analysis impaired mental set shifting, perseveration, and the presence of intrusions correctly classified 79% of patients. CONCLUSION It is possible to differentiate DLB and AD on the basis of qualitative features of performance. As many features are amenable to detection at clinical interview, they ought to contribute to clinicians' diagnostic armoury, leading to improved clinical recognition of DLB.
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- E K Doubleday
- Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre, Hope Hospital, Salford, UK
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Van Heertum RL, Drocea C, Ichise M, Lobotesis K, Fawwaz RA. Single photon emission CT and positron emission tomography in the evaluation of neurologic disease. Radiol Clin North Am 2001; 39:1007-33. [PMID: 11587056 DOI: 10.1016/s0033-8389(05)70326-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Widely available SPECT allows imaging of certain critical components of neurotransmission, providing clinically and experimentally significant information. Future efforts may be directed toward developing innovative techniques to delineate dynamic neurochemical changes in vivo.
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- R L Van Heertum
- Department of Radiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
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Lorberboym M, Lampl Y. The evolution of cerebral perfusion abnormalities in Lewy body disease: assessment with Tc-99m hexamethylpropylene amineoxime single photon emission computed tomography. Semin Nucl Med 2001; 31:165-7. [PMID: 11330787 DOI: 10.1053/snuc.2001.21487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- M Lorberboym
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Edith Wolfson Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Gurd JM, Herzberg L, Joachim C, Marshall JC, Jobst K, McShane RH, Hindley NJ, King EE. Dementia with Lewy bodies: a pure case. Brain Cogn 2000; 44:307-23. [PMID: 11104528 DOI: 10.1006/brcg.1999.1124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A pure case of autopsy-confirmed dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is described. The patient presented with distinctive verbal fluency deficits in the context of mild language impairment, intact recognition memory, and impaired paragraph recall. Neuroimaging (CT and SPECT) showed progressive medial temporal lobe atrophy. Neuropathology revealed Lewy bodies, degeneration in the substantia nigra, nucleus basalis of Meynert (Nakano & Hirano, 1984), and locus ceruleus, but no pathology characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. It is in this sense that the case is "pure" DLB. Early neuropsychological diagnosis of DLB is essential (Salmon et al., 1996) given the potentially fatal hazard of neuroleptics (McKeith et al., 1992) and the difficulties associated with clinical neurological diagnoses (Litvan et al., 1998).
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- J M Gurd
- University Department of Clinical Neurology, Oxford, UK.
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AbstractFunctional neuroimaging is playing an increasing role in psychiatry and has moved from academic isolation into clinical practice. This review examines the basis for the use of Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, the most widely available functional modality, in the two important areas of dementia and parkinsonism. Its contribution to the diagnosis and management of patients is discussed and its likely impact in clinical trials indicated. As functional imaging moves closer to those most able to utilise its power its impact in these and other areas of psychiatry and neurology will increase further.
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Farkas E, De Jong GI, Apró E, De Vos RA, Steur EN, Luiten PG. Similar ultrastructural breakdown of cerebrocortical capillaries in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and experimental hypertension. What is the functional link? Ann N Y Acad Sci 2000; 903:72-82. [PMID: 10818491 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06352.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The brain, as an intensely active organ, is highly dependent on a sufficient nutrient and oxygen availability in order to reach its optimal working capacity. It is well known that the vital supply of energy substrates is provided by the circulatory system, which splits up into a fine, terminal capillary network in target tissues. These capillaries are considered as important sites, since the actual nutrient trafficking takes place through their walls. That is why an intact, preserved structure of the microvessels is crucial to fulfill their function. Since the brain is known to be particularly vulnerable to suboptimal oxygen and glucose delivery, the intact morphology of capillaries is of paramount importance. Several observations have indicated that the cerebral capillary ultrastructure is damaged in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Curiously, the regional cerebral blood flow of AD patients is also significantly lower than in age-matched control individuals. Based on these data, it has been suggested that the decreased blood supply and the cerebrovascular alterations contribute to the development of dementia. However, we have observed similar capillary damage in Parkinson's disease patients and chronically hypertensive rats in addition to AD cases, as presented here. These findings indicate that cerebral capillary damage is not exclusive for AD but occurs under other neurodegenerative disorders and hypertension, as well. We hypothesize that ultrastructural abnormalities of cerebral capillaries are causally related to decreased cerebral blood flow and create a condition that favors neurodegenerative mechanisms including the development of dementia.
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- E Farkas
- Department of Animal Physiology, Graduate School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Recent progress in diagnostic criteria of non-Alzheimer degenerative dementias is reviewed. These dementias comprise frontotemporal dementias (including hereditary dementias), primary progressive aphasia and anarthria, corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy and dementia with Lewy bodies. The approach of studying these diseases has changed considerably with genetic and biochemical analyses. A molecular classification is suggested and the clinical significance of this classification is discussed.
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- F Pasquier
- Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire, Lille, France.
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Talbot PR, Lloyd JJ, Snowden JS, Neary D, Testa HJ. A clinical role for 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT in the investigation of dementia? J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1998; 64:306-13. [PMID: 9527139 PMCID: PMC2169991 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.64.3.306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To provide the clinician with a guide to the clinical utility of 99mTc-HMPAO single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and to the interpretation of specific test results in the differential diagnosis of dementia. METHODS Three hundred and sixty three patients with dementia were studied prospectively for a median three (range 1-6) years and classified into disease groups on the basis of established clinical criteria. The degree to which different patterns of cerebral blood flow (CBF) abnormality found on 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT imaging at the time of initial patient presentation modified clinical diagnoses was determined by calculating the likelihood ratios for pairwise disease group comparisons. The optimal clinical usage of 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT was determined by calculating the percentage of significant test results for each pairwise disease group comparison. RESULTS Bilateral posterior CBF abnormality was found to significantly increase the odds of a patient having Alzheimer's disease as opposed to vascular dementia or frontotemporal dementia. Bilateral anterior CBF abnormality significantly increased the odds of a patient having frontotemporal dementia as opposed to Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, or Lewy body disease. "Patchy" CBF changes significantly increased the odds of a patient having vascular dementia as opposed to Alzheimer's disease. Unilateral anterior, unilateral anterior plus unilateral posterior, and generalised CBF abnormality failed to contribute to the differentiation of any of these forms of dementia. CONCLUSIONS 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT was found to be most useful in distinguishing Alzheimer's disease from vascular dementia and fronto temporal dementia, and least useful in differentiating between Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body disease, and between vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, and progressive aphasia. It is suggested that CBF SPECT should be used selectively and as an adjunct to clinical evaluation and CT.
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- P R Talbot
- Department of Neurology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK
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