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Marcantoni I, Piccolantonio G, Ghoushi M, Valenti M, Reversi L, Mariotti F, Foschi N, Lattanzi S, Burattini L, Fabri M, Polonara G. Interhemispheric functional connectivity: an fMRI study in callosotomized patients. Front Hum Neurosci 2024; 18:1363098. [PMID: 38812473 PMCID: PMC11133720 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2024.1363098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024] Open
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Introduction Functional connectivity (FC) is defined in terms of temporal correlations between physiological signals, which mainly depend upon structural (axonal) connectivity; it is commonly studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Interhemispheric FC appears mostly supported by the corpus callosum (CC), although several studies investigating this aspect have not provided conclusive evidence. In this context, patients in whom the CC was resected for therapeutic reasons (split-brain patients) provide a unique opportunity for research into this issue. The present study was aimed at investigating with resting-state fMRI the interhemispheric FC in six epileptic patients who have undergone surgical resection of the CC. Methods The analysis was performed using fMRI of the Brain Software Library; the evaluation of interhemispheric FC and the recognition of the resting-state networks (RSNs) were performed using probabilistic independent component analysis. Results Generally, bilateral brain activation was often observed in primary sensory RSNs, while in the associative areas, such as those composing the default mode and fronto-parietal networks, the activation was often unilateral. Discussion These results suggest that even in the absence of the CC, some interhemispheric communication is still present. This residual FC might be supported through extra-callosal pathways that are likely subcortical, making it possible for some interhemispheric integration. Further studies are needed to confirm these conclusions.
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- Ilaria Marcantoni
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria per Medicina di Innovazione, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Radiologiche, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Umberto I, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Radiologiche, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Umberto I, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Radiologiche, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Umberto I, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Radiologiche, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Umberto I, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Umberto I, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche e Odontostomatologiche, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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Sanchez-Lopez J, Cardobi N, Parisi G, Savazzi S, Marzi CA. Role of corpus callosum in unconscious vision. Neuropsychologia 2024; 196:108839. [PMID: 38401630 PMCID: PMC11004727 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 02/01/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 02/26/2024]
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The existence of unconscious visually triggered behavior in patients with cortical blindness (e.g., homonymous hemianopia) has been amply demonstrated and the neural bases of this phenomenon have been thoroughly studied. However, a crosstalk between the two hemispheres as a possible mechanism of unconscious or partially conscious vision has not been so far considered. Thus, the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between structural and functional properties of the corpus callosum (CC), as shown by probabilistic tractography (PT), behavioral detection/discrimination performance and level of perceptual awareness in the blind field of patients with hemianopia. Twelve patients were tested in two tasks with black-and-white visual square-wave gratings, one task of movement and the other of orientation. The stimuli were lateralized to one hemifield either intact or blind. A PT analysis was carried out on MRI data to extract fiber properties along the CC (genu, body, and splenium). Compared with a control group of participants without brain damage, patients showed lower FA values in all three CC sections studied. For the intact hemifield we found a significant correlation between PT values and visual detection/discrimination accuracy. For the blind hemifield the level of perceptual awareness correlated with PT values for all three CC sections in the movement task. Importantly, significant differences in all three CC sections were found also between patients with above-vs. chance detection/discrimination performance while differences in the genu were found between patients with and without perceptual awareness. Overall, our study provides evidence that the properties of CC fibers are related to the presence of unconscious stimulus detection/discrimination and to hints of perceptual awareness for stimulus presentation to the blind hemifield. These results underline the importance of information exchange between the damaged and the healthy hemisphere for possible partial or full recovery from hemianopia.
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- Javier Sanchez-Lopez
- Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Queretaro, Mexico; Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement, University of Verona, Italy.
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- Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona, Italy.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement, University of Verona, Italy; Perception and Awareness (PandA) Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Italy.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement, University of Verona, Italy; Perception and Awareness (PandA) Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Italy.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement, University of Verona, Italy.
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Fetta A, Toni F, Pettenuzzo I, Ricci E, Rocca A, Gambi C, Soliani L, Di Pisa V, Martini S, Sperti G, Cagnazzo V, Accorsi P, Bartolini E, Battaglia D, Bernardo P, Canevini MP, Ferrari AR, Giordano L, Locatelli C, Mancardi M, Orsini A, Pippucci T, Pruna D, Rosati A, Suppiej A, Tagliani S, Vaisfeld A, Vignoli A, Izumi K, Krantz I, Cordelli DM. Structural brain abnormalities in Pallister-Killian syndrome: a neuroimaging study of 31 children. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2024; 19:107. [PMID: 38459574 PMCID: PMC10921669 DOI: 10.1186/s13023-024-03065-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Pallister-Killian syndrome (PKS) is a rare genetic disorder caused by mosaic tetrasomy of 12p with wide neurological involvement. Intellectual disability, developmental delay, behavioral problems, epilepsy, sleep disturbances, and brain malformations have been described in most individuals, with a broad phenotypic spectrum. This observational study, conducted through brain MRI scan analysis on a cohort of patients with genetically confirmed PKS, aims to systematically investigate the neuroradiological features of this syndrome and identify the possible existence of a typical pattern. Moreover, a literature review differentiating the different types of neuroimaging data was conducted for comparison with our population. RESULTS Thirty-one individuals were enrolled (17 females/14 males; age range 0.1-17.5 years old at first MRI). An experienced pediatric neuroradiologist reviewed brain MRIs, blindly to clinical data. Brain abnormalities were observed in all but one individual (compared to the 34% frequency found in the literature review). Corpus callosum abnormalities were found in 20/30 (67%) patients: 6 had callosal hypoplasia; 8 had global hypoplasia with hypoplastic splenium; 4 had only hypoplastic splenium; and 2 had a thin corpus callosum. Cerebral hypoplasia/atrophy was found in 23/31 (74%) and ventriculomegaly in 20/31 (65%). Other frequent features were the enlargement of the cisterna magna in 15/30 (50%) and polymicrogyria in 14/29 (48%). Conversely, the frequency of the latter was found to be 4% from the literature review. Notably, in our population, polymicrogyria was in the perisylvian area in all 14 cases, and it was bilateral in 10/14. CONCLUSIONS Brain abnormalities are very common in PKS and occur much more frequently than previously reported. Bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria was a main aspect of our population. Our findings provide an additional tool for early diagnosis.Further studies to investigate the possible correlations with both genotype and phenotype may help to define the etiopathogenesis of the neurologic phenotype of this syndrome.
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- Anna Fetta
- IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, UOC di Neuropsichiatria dell'Età Pediatrica, Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche (DIMEC), Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, Programma di Neuroradiologia con Tecniche ad elevata complessità- PNTEC, Bologna, Italy
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- IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, UOC di Neuropsichiatria dell'Età Pediatrica, Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche (DIMEC), Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Epilepsy Center, Childhood and Adolescence Neuropsychiatry Unit, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, San Paolo Hospital, 20142, Milan, Italy.
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- UO di Pediatria d'Urgenza, IRCCS Policlinico Sant'Orsola, Bologna, Italy
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- IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, UOC di Neuropsichiatria dell'Età Pediatrica, Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche (DIMEC), Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, UOC di Neuropsichiatria dell'Età Pediatrica, Bologna, Italy
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- IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, UOC di Neuropsichiatria dell'Età Pediatrica, Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche (DIMEC), Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, IRCCS AOUBO, Bologna, Italy
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- Scuola di Specializzazione in Pediatria - Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Scuola di Specializzazione in Pediatria - Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, 56128, Pisa, Italy
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- Pediatric Neurology, Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Child Health Area, Catholic University UCSC, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Pediatric Psychiatry and Neurology Unit, Santobono-Pausilipon Children's Hospital, Naples, Italy
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- Epilepsy Center, Childhood and Adolescence Neuropsychiatry Unit, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, San Paolo Hospital, 20142, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Developmental Neuroscience, IRCCS Stella Maris Foundation, 56128, Pisa, Italy
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- Child Neuropsychiatric Division, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
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- Unit of Child Neuropsychiatry, IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Epicare Network for Rare Disease, Genoa, Italy
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- Pediatric Neurology, Pediatric University Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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- U.O. Genetica Medica, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna Policlinico S Orsola, Bologna, Emilia- Romagna, Italy
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology and Epileptology, Pediatric Depatment, ARNAS Brotzu, Cagliari, Italy
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- Neuroscience Department, Children's Hospital Anna Meyer, University of Florence, Viale Gaetano Pieraccini, 24, 50139, Firenze, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Pediatric Section, University Hospital of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Pediatric Section, University Hospital of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche (DIMEC), Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- U.O. Genetica Medica, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna Policlinico S Orsola, Bologna, Emilia- Romagna, Italy
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- Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Health Sciences, ASSTGrande Ospedale Metropolitano, Niguarda, Milano, Italy
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- Division of Genetics and Metabolism, Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., 75390, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Divisions of Human Genetics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- IRCCS Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna, UOC di Neuropsichiatria dell'Età Pediatrica, Bologna, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche (DIMEC), Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Liu J, Tao W, Guo X, Kwapong WR, Ye C, Wang A, Wu X, Wang Z, Liu M. The Association of Retinal Microvasculature With Gray Matter Changes and Structural Covariance Network: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2023; 64:40. [PMID: 38153752 PMCID: PMC10756243 DOI: 10.1167/iovs.64.15.40] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023] Open
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Purpose Increasing evidence suggests that retinal microvasculature may reflect global cerebral atrophy. However, little is known about the relation of retinal microvasculature with specific brain regions and brain networks. Therefore, we aimed to unravel the association of retinal microvasculature with gray matter changes and structural covariance network using a voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis. Methods One hundred and forty-four volunteers without previously known neurological diseases were recruited from West China Hospital, Sichuan University between April 1, 2021, and December 31, 2021. Retinal microvasculature of superficial vascular plexus (SVP), intermediate capillary plexus (ICP), and deep capillary plexus (DCP) were measured by optical coherence tomography angiography using an automatic segmentation. The VBM and structural covariance network analyses were applied to process brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. The associations of retinal microvasculature with voxel-wise gray matter volumes and structural covariance network were assessed by linear regression models. Results In the study, 137 participants (mean age = 59.72 years, 37.2% men) were included for the final analysis. Reduced perfusion in SVP was significantly associated with reduced voxel-wise gray matter volumes of the brain regions including the insula, putamen, occipital, frontal, and temporal lobes, all of which were located in the anterior part of the brain supplied by internal carotid artery, except the occipital lobe. In addition, these regions were also involved in visual processing and cognitive impairment (such as left inferior occipital gyrus, left lingual gyrus, and right parahippocampal gyrus). In regard to the structural covariance, the perfusions in SVP were positively related to the structural covariance of the left lingual gyrus seed with the left middle occipital gyrus, the right middle occipital gyrus, and the left middle frontal gyrus. Conclusions Poor perfusion in SVP was correlated with reduced voxel-wise gray matter volumes and structural covariance networks in regions related to visual processing and cognitive impairment. It suggests that retinal microvasculature may offer a window to identify aging related cerebral alterations.
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- Junfeng Liu
- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University China, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University China, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University China, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University China, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University China, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University China, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University China, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University China, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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Fabri M, Polonara G. Functional topography of the corpus callosum as revealed by fMRI and behavioural studies of control subjects and patients with callosal resection. Neuropsychologia 2023; 183:108533. [PMID: 36906223 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2022] [Revised: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023]
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The concept of a topographical map of the corpus callosum (CC), the main interhemispheric commissure, has emerged from human lesion studies and from anatomical tracing investigations in other mammals. Over the last few years, a rising number of researchers have been reporting functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activation in also the CC. This short review summarizes the functional and behavioral studies performed in groups of healthy subjects and in patients undergone to partial or total callosal resection, and it is focused on the work conducted by the authors. Functional data have been collected by diffusion tensor imaging and tractography (DTI and DTT) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), both techniques allowing to expand and refine our knowledge of the commissure. Neuropsychological test were also administered, and simple behavioral task, as imitation perspective and mental rotation ability, were analyzed. These researches added new insight on the topographic organization of the human CC. By combining DTT and fMRI it was possible to observe that the callosal crossing points of interhemispheric fibers connecting homologous primary sensory cortices, correspond to the CC sites where the fMRI activation elicited by peripheral stimulation was detected. In addition, CC activation during imitation and mental rotation performance was also reported. These studies demonstrated the presence of specific callosal fiber tracts that cross the commissure in the genu, body, and splenium, at sites showing fMRI activation, consistently with cortical activated areas. Altogether, these findings lend further support to the notion that the CC displays a functional topographic organization, also related to specific behavior.
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- Mara Fabri
- Dipartimento di Scienze Della Vita e Dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche Specialistiche e Odontostomatologiche, Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Via Tronto 10/A, 60020, Ancona, Italy.
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Revsine C, Gonzalez-Castillo J, Merriam EP, Bandettini PA, Ramírez FM. A unifying model for discordant and concordant results in human neuroimaging studies of facial viewpoint selectivity. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.02.08.527219. [PMID: 36945636 PMCID: PMC10028835 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.08.527219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
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Our ability to recognize faces regardless of viewpoint is a key property of the primate visual system. Traditional theories hold that facial viewpoint is represented by view-selective mechanisms at early visual processing stages and that representations become increasingly tolerant to viewpoint changes in higher-level visual areas. Newer theories, based on single-neuron monkey electrophysiological recordings, suggest an additional intermediate processing stage invariant to mirror-symmetric face views. Consistent with traditional theories, human studies combining neuroimaging and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) methods have provided evidence of view-selectivity in early visual cortex. However, contradictory results have been reported in higher-level visual areas concerning the existence in humans of mirror-symmetrically tuned representations. We believe these results reflect low-level stimulus confounds and data analysis choices. To probe for low-level confounds, we analyzed images from two popular face databases. Analyses of mean image luminance and contrast revealed biases across face views described by even polynomials-i.e., mirror-symmetric. To explain major trends across human neuroimaging studies of viewpoint selectivity, we constructed a network model that incorporates three biological constraints: cortical magnification, convergent feedforward projections, and interhemispheric connections. Given the identified low-level biases, we show that a gradual increase of interhemispheric connections across network layers is sufficient to replicate findings of mirror-symmetry in high-level processing stages, as well as view-tuning in early processing stages. Data analysis decisions-pattern dissimilarity measure and data recentering-accounted for the variable observation of mirror-symmetry in late processing stages. The model provides a unifying explanation of MVPA studies of viewpoint selectivity. We also show how common analysis choices can lead to erroneous conclusions.
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- Cambria Revsine
- Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
- Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Section on Functional Imaging Methods, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Section on Functional Imaging Methods, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
- Functional MRI Core, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
- Section on Functional Imaging Methods, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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Zhao Y, Wang D, Wang X, Chiu SC. Brain mechanisms underlying the influence of emotions on spatial decision-making: An EEG study. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:989988. [PMID: 36248638 PMCID: PMC9562092 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.989988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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It is common for people to make bad decisions because of their emotions in life. When these decisions are important, such as aeronautical decisions and driving decisions, the mistakes of decisions can cause irreversible damage. Therefore, it is important to explore how emotions influence decision-making, so as to avoid the negative influence of emotions on decision-making as much as possible. Although existing researchers have found some mechanisms of emotion's influence on decision-making, only a few studies focused on the influence of emotions on decision-making based on electroencephalography (EEG). In addition, most of them were focused on risky and uncertain decision-making. We designed a novel experimental task to explore the influence of emotion on spatial decision-making and recorded subjective data, decision-making behavioral data, and EEG data. By analyzing these data, we came to three conclusions. Firstly, we observed three similar event-related potentials (ERP) microstates in the decision-making process under different emotions by microstate analysis. Additionally, the prefrontal, parietal and occipital lobes played key roles in decision-making. Secondly, we found that the P2 component of the prefrontal lobe presented the influence of different emotions on decision-making by ERP analysis. Among them, positive emotion evoked the largest P2 amplitude compared to negative emotions and no stimuli. Thirdly, we found some graph metrics that were significantly associated with decision accuracy by effective connectivity analysis combined with graph theoretic analysis. In consequence, the finding of our study may shed more light on the brain mechanisms underlying the influence of emotions on spatial decision-making, thereby providing a basis for avoiding decision-making accidents caused by emotions and realizing better decision-making.
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- Yanyan Zhao
- State Key Laboratory for Management and Control of Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Management and Control of Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Danli Wang
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- State Key Laboratory for Management and Control of Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- ECE Department, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, United States
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Bagattini C, Esposito M, Ferrari C, Mazza V, Brignani D. Connectivity alterations underlying the breakdown of pseudoneglect: New insights from healthy and pathological aging. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:930877. [PMID: 36118681 PMCID: PMC9475001 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.930877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A right-hemisphere dominance for visuospatial attention has been invoked as the most prominent neural feature of pseudoneglect (i.e., the leftward visuospatial bias exhibited in neurologically healthy individuals) but the neurophysiological underpinnings of such advantage are still controversial. Previous studies investigating visuospatial bias in multiple-objects visual enumeration reported that pseudoneglect is maintained in healthy elderly and amnesic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), but not in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In this study, we aimed at investigating the neurophysiological correlates sustaining the rearrangements of the visuospatial bias along the progression from normal to pathological aging. To this aim, we recorded EEG activity during an enumeration task and analyzed intra-hemispheric fronto-parietal and inter-hemispheric effective connectivity adopting indexes from graph theory in patients with mild AD, patients with aMCI, and healthy elderly controls (HC). Results revealed that HC showed the leftward bias and stronger fronto-parietal effective connectivity in the right as compared to the left hemisphere. A breakdown of pseudoneglect in patients with AD was associated with both the loss of the fronto-parietal asymmetry and the reduction of inter-hemispheric parietal interactions. In aMCI, initial alterations of the attentional bias were associated with a reduction of parietal inter-hemispheric communication, but not with modulations of the right fronto-parietal connectivity advantage, which remained intact. These data provide support to the involvement of fronto-parietal and inter-parietal pathways in the leftward spatial bias, extending these notions to the complex neurophysiological alterations characterizing pathological aging.
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- Chiara Bagattini
- Neurophysiology Lab, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
- *Correspondence: Chiara Bagattini,
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- Neurophysiology Lab, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
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- Unit of Statistics, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
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- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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Interhemispheric transfer time differs between fast and slow healthy adult readers. Neuropsychologia 2022; 169:108205. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Wilkinson F. Aura Mapping: Where Vision and Somatosensation Meet. Vision (Basel) 2021; 5:52. [PMID: 34842832 PMCID: PMC8628888 DOI: 10.3390/vision5040052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Revised: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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While migraine auras are most frequently visual, somatosensory auras are also relatively common. Both are characterized by the spread of activation across a cortical region containing a spatial mapping of the sensory (retinal or skin) surface. When both aura types occur within a single migraine episode, they may offer an insight into the neural mechanism which underlies them. Could they both be initiated by a single neural event, or do the timing and laterality relationships between them demand multiple triggers? The observations reported here were carried out 25 years ago by a group of six individuals with migraine with aura. They timed, described and mapped their visual and somatosensory auras as they were in progress. Twenty-nine episode reports are summarized here. The temporal relationship between the onset of the two auras was quite variable within and across participants. Various forms of the cortical spreading depression hypothesis of migraine aura are evaluated in terms of whether they can account for the timing, pattern of symptom spread and laterality of the recorded auras.
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- Frances Wilkinson
- Centre for Vision Research & Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
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To date, both in monkeys and humans, very few studies have addressed the issue of the lateralization of the cortical parietal and premotor areas involved in the organization of voluntary movements and in-action understanding. In this review, we will first analyze studies in the monkey, describing the functional properties of neurons of the parieto-frontal circuits, involved in the organization of reaching-grasping actions, in terms of unilateral or bilateral control. We will concentrate, in particular, on the properties of the mirror neuron system (MNS). Then, we will consider the evidence about the mirror neuron mechanism in humans, describing studies in which action perception, as well as action execution, produces unilateral or bilateral brain activation. Finally, we will report some investigations demonstrating plastic changes of the MNS following specific unilateral brain damage, discussing how this plasticity can be related to the rehabilitation outcome
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Nucci C, Garaci F, Altobelli S, Di Ciò F, Martucci A, Aiello F, Lanzafame S, Di Giuliano F, Picchi E, Minosse S, Cesareo M, Guerrisi MG, Floris R, Passamonti L, Toschi N. Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging of White Matter Degeneration in Glaucoma. J Clin Med 2020; 9:jcm9103122. [PMID: 32992559 PMCID: PMC7600134 DOI: 10.3390/jcm9103122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Revised: 09/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy characterized by death of retinal ganglion cells and loss of their axons, progressively leading to blindness. Recently, glaucoma has been conceptualized as a more diffuse neurodegenerative disorder involving the optic nerve and also the entire brain. Consistently, previous studies have used a variety of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques and described widespread changes in the grey and white matter of patients. Diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) provides additional information as compared with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and consistently provides higher sensitivity to early microstructural white matter modification. In this study, we employ DKI to evaluate differences among healthy controls and a mixed population of primary open angle glaucoma patients ranging from stage I to V according to Hodapp–Parrish–Anderson visual field impairment classification. To this end, a cohort of patients affected by primary open angle glaucoma (n = 23) and a group of healthy volunteers (n = 15) were prospectively enrolled and underwent an ophthalmological evaluation followed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using a 3T MR scanner. After estimating both DTI indices, whole-brain, voxel-wise statistical comparisons were performed in white matter using Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS). We found widespread differences in several white matter tracts in patients with glaucoma relative to controls in several metrics (mean kurtosis, kurtosis anisotropy, radial kurtosis, and fractional anisotropy) which involved localization well beyond the visual pathways, and involved cognitive, motor, face recognition, and orientation functions amongst others. Our findings lend further support to a causal brain involvement in glaucoma and offer alternative explanations for a number of multidomain impairments often observed in glaucoma patients.
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- Carlo Nucci
- Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.M.); (F.A.); (M.C.)
- Correspondence: (C.N.); (F.G.); (L.P.); Tel.: +39-06-7259-6145 (C.N.); +39-06-2090-2471 (F.G.); +44-01223-330293 (L.P.)
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- Neuroradiology Unit, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy;
- San Raffaele Cassino, 03043 Frosinone, Italy
- Correspondence: (C.N.); (F.G.); (L.P.); Tel.: +39-06-7259-6145 (C.N.); +39-06-2090-2471 (F.G.); +44-01223-330293 (L.P.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (S.A.); (F.D.C.); (S.L.); (E.P.); (S.M.); (M.G.G.); (N.T.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (S.A.); (F.D.C.); (S.L.); (E.P.); (S.M.); (M.G.G.); (N.T.)
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- Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.M.); (F.A.); (M.C.)
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- Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.M.); (F.A.); (M.C.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (S.A.); (F.D.C.); (S.L.); (E.P.); (S.M.); (M.G.G.); (N.T.)
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- Neuroradiology Unit, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy;
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (S.A.); (F.D.C.); (S.L.); (E.P.); (S.M.); (M.G.G.); (N.T.)
- Diagnostic Imaging Unit, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy;
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (S.A.); (F.D.C.); (S.L.); (E.P.); (S.M.); (M.G.G.); (N.T.)
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- Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (A.M.); (F.A.); (M.C.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (S.A.); (F.D.C.); (S.L.); (E.P.); (S.M.); (M.G.G.); (N.T.)
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- Diagnostic Imaging Unit, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy;
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- Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology, National Research Council, 20090 Milano, Italy
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
- Correspondence: (C.N.); (F.G.); (L.P.); Tel.: +39-06-7259-6145 (C.N.); +39-06-2090-2471 (F.G.); +44-01223-330293 (L.P.)
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy; (S.A.); (F.D.C.); (S.L.); (E.P.); (S.M.); (M.G.G.); (N.T.)
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Harvard Medical School, 149 13th Street, Boston, MA 02129, USA
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Wilson R, Thomas A, Mayhew SD. Spatially congruent negative BOLD responses to different stimuli do not summate in visual cortex. Neuroimage 2020; 218:116891. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Revised: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Tarita-Nistor L, Samet S, Trope GE, González EG. Intra- and inter-hemispheric processing during binocular rivalry in mild glaucoma. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0229168. [PMID: 32097443 PMCID: PMC7041812 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Glaucoma is considered a progressive optic neuropathy because of the damage and death of the retinal ganglion cells. It is also a neurodegenerative disease because it affects neural structures in the visual system and beyond, including the corpus callosum–the largest white matter structure involved in inter-hemispheric transfer of information. In this study we probed the dysfunction of the inter-hemispheric processing in patients with mild glaucoma using the phenomenon of binocular rivalry. Patients with mild glaucoma and no measurable visual field defects and age-matched controls underwent a thorough visual assessment. Then they participated in a series of psychophysical tests designed to examine the binocular rivalry derived from intra- and inter-hemispheric processing. Static horizontal and vertical sinewave gratings were presented dichoptically using a double-mirror stereoscope in 3 locations: centrally, to probe inter-hemispheric processing, and peripherally to the left or to the right, to probe intra-hemispheric processing. Although the two groups were matched in functional measures, rivalry rate of the glaucoma group was significantly lower than that of the control group for the central location, but not for the peripheral location. These results were driven mainly by the patients with normal tension glaucoma whose average rivalry rate for the central location (from which information reaches the two hemispheres) was almost half (46% lower) that of the controls. These results indicate a dysfunction in inter-hemispheric transfer in mild glaucoma that can be detected behaviourally before any changes in standard functional measures.
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Tarita-Nistor L, Samet S, Trope GE, González EG. Dominance wave propagation during binocular rivalry in mild glaucoma. Vision Res 2019; 165:64-71. [PMID: 31678616 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2019.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Glaucoma is both a progressive optic neuropathy and a neurodegenerative disease affecting structures in the primary visual pathway. Other vision-associated areas may also be affected, including the corpus callosum which is involved in inter-hemispheric transfer. This study evaluated dominance wave propagation during binocular rivalry to probe the efficacy of the inter-hemispheric transfer in 20 patients with mild open angle glaucoma and 25 age-matched controls. The two groups were matched for functional measures such as stereo-acuity, binocular visual acuity, and visual field mean deviation. Monocular functional and structural measures were equivalent for the left and right eye of each participant. Using Wilson et al.'s travelling wave paradigm [Nature, 412 (2001) 907-910], intra- and inter-hemispheric failure rates of traveling wave transmission and the travelling wave propagation times were recorded for the two groups. For the control group, the wave propagation failure rate was significantly greater for the inter- than for the intra-hemispheric condition, but for the glaucoma group, the failure rates were equally high for the two conditions. The wave propagation time was significantly longer for the inter- than for the intra-hemispheric condition for the control group, while the opposite was true for the glaucoma group. These results reveal changes in the wave dynamics of rivalry dominance in patients with mild glaucoma who otherwise have normal performance on standard functional measures.
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada; Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada; Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of Toronto, Canada
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Wang Y, Wang X, Chen W, Shao Y, Zhou J, Chen Q, Lv J. BRAIN FUNCTION ALTERATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY COMPLICATED BY RETINOPATHY UNDER RESTING STATE CONDITIONS ASSESSED BY VOXEL-MIRRORED HOMOTOPIC CONNECTIVITY. Endocr Pract 2019; 26:291-298. [PMID: 31682517 DOI: 10.4158/ep-2019-0355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Objective: The voxel-mirrored homologous connection (VHMC) technique was applied to detect resting brain function alterations in patients with diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy (DNR), and their relationships with clinical manifestations in the kidneys and eyes are discussed. Methods: Twenty-two patients with DNR and 22 healthy controls (HCs) similarly matched in age, sex, and educational background were recruited. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scans were performed for all subjects. Retinal fundus photography and renal biopsy were employed to observe the clinical features of the kidney and retina. Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the relationship between clinical manifestations and experimental results. Results: Compared with the HCs, patients with DNR showed decreased mean VMHC values in the bilateral middle temporal gyrus, bilateral middle occipital gyrus (BMOG), and bilateral medial frontal gyrus. The receiver operating characteristic curve analysis of each brain region confirmed that the accuracy of the area under the curve was excellent. The results showed that the average VHMC value of BMOG signals was positively correlated with the urinary protein to creatinine ratio in female subjects (r = 0.626; P<.05). Nonetheless, no such correlation was noted among the male subjects. Conclusion: There were significant changes in brain function in DNR patients compared to the control group. Changes in the central nervous system in patients with DNR were mainly due to the dual negative effects of kidney function and diabetes mellitus. Abbreviations: ACR = albumin/creatinine ratio; BMFG = bilateral medial frontal gyrus; BMOG = bilateral middle occipital gyrus; BMTG = bilateral middle temporal gyrus; DN = diabetic nephropathy; DNR = diabetic nephropathy complicated by retinopathy; DR = diabetic retinopathy; fMRI = functional magnetic resonance imaging; HC = healthy control; MRI = magnetic resonance imaging; PCR = protein to creatinine ratio; ROC = receiver operating characteristic; VHMC = voxel-mirrored homologous connection.
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Waugh JL, Kuster JK, Makhlouf ML, Levenstein JM, Multhaupt-Buell TJ, Warfield SK, Sharma N, Blood AJ. A registration method for improving quantitative assessment in probabilistic diffusion tractography. Neuroimage 2019; 189:288-306. [PMID: 30611874 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2017] [Revised: 12/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Diffusion MRI-based probabilistic tractography is a powerful tool for non-invasively investigating normal brain architecture and alterations in structural connectivity associated with disease states. Both voxelwise and region-of-interest methods of analysis are capable of integrating population differences in tract amplitude (streamline count or density), given proper alignment of the tracts of interest. However, quantification of tract differences (between groups, or longitudinally within individuals) has been hampered by two related features of white matter. First, it is unknown to what extent healthy individuals differ in the precise location of white matter tracts, and to what extent experimental factors influence perceived tract location. Second, white matter lacks the gross neuroanatomical features (e.g., gyri, histological subtyping) that make parcellation of grey matter plausible - determining where tracts "should" lie within larger white matter structures is difficult. Accurately quantifying tractographic connectivity between individuals is thus inherently linked to the difficulty of identifying and aligning precise tract location. Tractography is often utilized to study neurological diseases in which the precise structural and connectivity abnormalities are unknown, underscoring the importance of accounting for individual differences in tract location when evaluating the strength of structural connectivity. We set out to quantify spatial variance in tracts aligned through a standard, whole-brain registration method, and to assess the impact of location mismatch on groupwise assessments of tract amplitude. We then developed a method for tract alignment that enhances the existing standard whole brain registration, and then tested whether this method improved the reliability of groupwise contrasts. Specifically, we conducted seed-based probabilistic diffusion tractography from primary motor, supplementary motor, and visual cortices, projecting through the corpus callosum. Streamline counts decreased rapidly with movement from the tract center (-35% per millimeter); tract misalignment of a few millimeters caused substantial compromise of amplitude comparisons. Alignment of tracts "peak-to-peak" is essential for accurate amplitude comparisons. However, for all transcallosal tracts registered through the whole-brain method, the mean separation distance between an individual subject's tract and the average tract (3.2 mm) precluded accurate comparison: at this separation, tract amplitudes were reduced by 74% from peak value. In contrast, alignment of subcortical tracts (thalamo-putaminal, pallido-rubral) was substantially better than alignment for cortical tracts; whole-brain registration was sufficient for these subcortical tracts. We demonstrated that location mismatches in cortical tractography were sufficient to produce false positive and false negative amplitude estimates in both groupwise and longitudinal comparisons. We then showed that our new tract alignment method substantially reduced location mismatch and improved both reliability and statistical power of subsequent quantitative comparisons.
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- J L Waugh
- Mood and Motor Control Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Division of Child Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, MA, United States.
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- Mood and Motor Control Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; Dept. Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, MA, United States.
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- Mood and Motor Control Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; Dept. Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard-MIT HST Program, United States; Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, MA, United States.
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- Mood and Motor Control Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; Dept. Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, MA, United States.
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- Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
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- Dept. of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
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- Mood and Motor Control Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; Laboratory of Neuroimaging and Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; Dept. Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, MA, United States.
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Casco C, Barollo M, Contemori G, Battaglini L. Neural Restoration Training improves visual functions and expands visual field of patients with homonymous visual field defects. Restor Neurol Neurosci 2018. [PMID: 29526854 DOI: 10.3233/rnn-170752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND In recent years, the introduction of visual rehabilitation for patients with homonymous visual field defects has been met with both enthusiasm and caution. Despite the evidence that restitutive training results in expansion of the visual field, several concerns have been raised. OBJECTIVE We tested the effectiveness of a new rehabilitative protocol called "Neuro Restoration Training" (NRT) in reducing visual field defects and in restituting visual functions in the restored hemianopic area. METHODS Ten patients with homonymous visual field defects (lesion age >6 months) where trained in detecting low contrast Gabor patches randomly presented in the blind field, which refers to regions of 0 dB sensitivity, and along the hemianopic boundary between absolute (0 dB) and partial blindness (>0 dB). Training included static, drifting, and flickering Gabors in different blocks. Positions along the hemianopic boundary were systematically shifted toward the blind field according to the threshold reduction during the training. Before and after the training, we assessed visual field expansion and improvement in different high-level transfer tasks (i.e., letter identification and shape recognition) performed in the hemianopic boundary and in the blind field. RESULTS NRT led to significant visual field enlargement (≈5 deg), as indicated by the conventional Humphrey perimetry, and two custom made evaluations of visual field expansion with eye movement control (one static and one dynamic). The restored area acquired new visual functions such as small letter recognition and perception of moving shapes. Finally, for some patients, NRT also improved detection, either aware or not, of high contrast flickering grating and recognition of geometrical shapes entirely presented within the blind field. CONCLUSION These results suggest that NRT may lead to visual field enlargement and translate into untrained visual functions.
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- Clara Casco
- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.,Neuro.Vis.U.S. Laboratory, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.,Neuro.Vis.U.S. Laboratory, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.,Neuro.Vis.U.S. Laboratory, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.,Neuro.Vis.U.S. Laboratory, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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Mutlu U, Ikram MK, Roshchupkin GV, Bonnemaijer PWM, Colijn JM, Vingerling JR, Niessen WJ, Ikram MA, Klaver CCW, Vernooij MW. Thinner retinal layers are associated with changes in the visual pathway: A population-based study. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:4290-4301. [PMID: 29935103 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2018] [Revised: 05/26/2018] [Accepted: 05/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
Abstract
Increasing evidence shows that thinner retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and ganglion cell layer (GCL), assessed on optical coherence tomography (OCT), are reflecting global brain atrophy. Yet, little is known on the relation of these layers with specific brain regions. Using voxel-based analysis, we aimed to unravel specific brain regions associated with these retinal layers. We included 2,235 persons (mean age: 67.3 years, 55% women) from the Rotterdam Study (2007-2012) who had gradable retinal OCT images and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, including diffusion tensor (DT) imaging. Thicknesses of peripapillary RNFL and perimacular GCL were measured using an automated segmentation algorithm. Voxel-based morphometry protocols were applied to process DT-MRI data. We investigated the association between retinal layer thickness with voxel-wise gray matter density and white matter microstructure by performing linear regression models. We found that thinner RNFL and GCL were associated with lower gray matter density in the visual cortex, and with lower fractional anisotropy and higher mean diffusivity in white matter tracts that are part of the optic radiation. Furthermore, thinner GCL was associated with lower gray matter density of the thalamus. Thinner RNFL and GCL are associated with gray and white matter changes in the visual pathway suggesting that retinal thinning on OCT may be specifically associated with changes in the visual pathway rather than with changes in the global brain. These findings may serve as a basis for understanding visual symptoms in elderly patients, patients with Alzheimer's disease, or patients with posterior cortical atrophy.
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- Unal Mutlu
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Imaging Science and Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Neurology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Corballis MC. Mirror-Image Equivalence and Interhemispheric Mirror-Image Reversal. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:140. [PMID: 29706878 PMCID: PMC5907058 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Mirror-image confusions are common, especially in children and in some cases of neurological impairment. They can be a special impediment in activities such as reading and writing directional scripts, where mirror-image patterns (such as b and d) must be distinguished. Treating mirror images as equivalent, though, can also be adaptive in the natural world, which carries no systematic left-right bias and where the same object or event can appear in opposite viewpoints. Mirror-image equivalence and confusion are natural consequences of a bilaterally symmetrical brain. In the course of learning, mirror-image equivalence may be established through a process of symmetrization, achieved through homotopic interhemispheric exchange in the formation of memory circuits. Such circuits would not distinguish between mirror images. Learning to discriminate mirror-image discriminations may depend either on existing brain asymmetries, or on extensive learning overriding the symmetrization process. The balance between mirror-image equivalence and mirror-image discrimination may nevertheless be precarious, with spontaneous confusions or reversals, such as mirror writing, sometimes appearing naturally or as a manifestation of conditions like dyslexia.
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Wang B, Li T, Niu Y, Xiang J, Cheng J, Liu B, Zhang H, Yan T, Kanazawa S, Wu J. Differences in neural responses to ipsilateral stimuli in wide-view fields between face- and house-selective areas. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0192532. [PMID: 29451872 PMCID: PMC5815592 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 01/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Category-selective brain areas exhibit varying levels of neural activity to ipsilaterally presented stimuli. However, in face- and house-selective areas, the neural responses evoked by ipsilateral stimuli in the peripheral visual field remain unclear. In this study, we displayed face and house images using a wide-view visual presentation system while performing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The face-selective areas (fusiform face area (FFA) and occipital face area (OFA)) exhibited intense neural responses to ipsilaterally presented images, whereas the house-selective areas (parahippocampal place area (PPA) and transverse occipital sulcus (TOS)) exhibited substantially smaller and even negative neural responses to the ipsilaterally presented images. We also found that the category preferences of the contralateral and ipsilateral neural responses were similar. Interestingly, the face- and house-selective areas exhibited neural responses to ipsilateral images that were smaller than the responses to the contralateral images. Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) was implemented to evaluate the difference between the contralateral and ipsilateral responses. The classification accuracies were much greater than those expected by chance. The classification accuracies in the FFA were smaller than those in the PPA and TOS. The closer eccentricities elicited greater classification accuracies in the PPA and TOS. We propose that these ipsilateral neural responses might be interpreted by interhemispheric communication through intrahemispheric connectivity of white matter connection and interhemispheric connectivity via the corpus callosum and occipital white matter connection. Furthermore, the PPA and TOS likely have weaker interhemispheric communication than the FFA and OFA, particularly in the peripheral visual field.
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- Bin Wang
- College of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
- Department of Radiology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
- * E-mail: (BW); (TY); (HZ); (JW)
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
- * E-mail: (BW); (TY); (HZ); (JW)
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- School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (BW); (TY); (HZ); (JW)
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- Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
- Key Laboratory of Biomimetic Robots and Systems, Ministry of Education, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (BW); (TY); (HZ); (JW)
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- Marco Catani
- NatBrainLab, Department of Neuroimaging and Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science, Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
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On the role of the corpus callosum in interhemispheric functional connectivity in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:13278-13283. [PMID: 29183973 PMCID: PMC5740665 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707050114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The relation between structural and functional connectivity has profound implications for our understanding of cerebral physiology and cognitive neuroscience. Yet, this relation remains incompletely understood. Cases in which the corpus callosum is sectioned for medical reasons provide a unique opportunity to study this question. We report functional connectivity assessed before and after surgical section of the corpus callosum, including multiyear follow-up in a limited subsample. Our results demonstrate a causal role for the corpus callosum in maintaining functional connectivity between the hemispheres. Additionally, comparison of results obtained in complete vs. partial callosotomy demonstrate that polysynaptic connections also play a role in maintaining interhemispheric functional connectivity. Resting state functional connectivity is defined in terms of temporal correlations between physiologic signals, most commonly studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Major features of functional connectivity correspond to structural (axonal) connectivity. However, this relation is not one-to-one. Interhemispheric functional connectivity in relation to the corpus callosum presents a case in point. Specifically, several reports have documented nearly intact interhemispheric functional connectivity in individuals in whom the corpus callosum (the major commissure between the hemispheres) never develops. To investigate this question, we assessed functional connectivity before and after surgical section of the corpus callosum in 22 patients with medically refractory epilepsy. Section of the corpus callosum markedly reduced interhemispheric functional connectivity. This effect was more profound in multimodal associative areas in the frontal and parietal lobe than primary regions of sensorimotor and visual function. Moreover, no evidence of recovery was observed in a limited sample in which multiyear, longitudinal follow-up was obtained. Comparison of partial vs. complete callosotomy revealed several effects implying the existence of polysynaptic functional connectivity between remote brain regions. Thus, our results demonstrate that callosal as well as extracallosal anatomical connections play a role in the maintenance of interhemispheric functional connectivity.
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Vanston JE, Strother L. Sex differences in the human visual system. J Neurosci Res 2017; 95:617-625. [PMID: 27870438 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2016] [Revised: 07/20/2016] [Accepted: 08/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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This Mini-Review summarizes a wide range of sex differences in the human visual system, with a primary focus on sex differences in visual perception and its neural basis. We highlight sex differences in both basic and high-level visual processing, with evidence from behavioral, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging studies. We argue that sex differences in human visual processing, no matter how small or subtle, support the view that females and males truly see the world differently. We acknowledge some of the controversy regarding sex differences in human vision and propose that such controversy should be interpreted as a source of motivation for continued efforts to assess the validity and reliability of published sex differences and for continued research on sex differences in human vision and the nervous system in general. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- John E Vanston
- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada
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Gigliotta O, Seidel Malkinson T, Miglino O, Bartolomeo P. Pseudoneglect in Visual Search: Behavioral Evidence and Connectional Constraints in Simulated Neural Circuitry. eNeuro 2017; 4:ENEURO.0154-17.2017. [PMID: 29291241 PMCID: PMC5745611 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0154-17.2017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Revised: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Most people tend to bisect horizontal lines slightly to the left of their true center (pseudoneglect) and start visual search from left-sided items. This physiological leftward spatial bias may depend on hemispheric asymmetries in the organization of attentional networks, but the precise mechanisms are unknown. Here, we modeled relevant aspects of the ventral and dorsal attentional networks (VAN and DAN) of the human brain. First, we demonstrated pseudoneglect in visual search in 101 right-handed psychology students. Participants consistently tended to start the task from a left-sided item, thus showing pseudoneglect. Second, we trained populations of simulated neurorobots to perform a similar task, by using a genetic algorithm. The neurorobots' behavior was controlled by artificial neural networks, which simulated the human VAN and DAN in the two brain hemispheres. Neurorobots differed in the connectional constraints that were applied to the anatomy and function of the attention networks. Results indicated that (1) neurorobots provided with a biologically plausible hemispheric asymmetry of the VAN-DAN connections, as well as with interhemispheric inhibition, displayed the best match with human data; however; (2) anatomical asymmetry per se was not sufficient to generate pseudoneglect; in addition, the VAN must have an excitatory influence on the ipsilateral DAN; and (3) neurorobots provided with bilateral competence in the VAN but without interhemispheric inhibition failed to display pseudoneglect. These findings provide a proof of concept of the causal link between connectional asymmetries and pseudoneglect and specify important biological constraints that result in physiological asymmetries of human behavior.
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- Onofrio Gigliotta
- Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples Federico II, 80133 Naples, Italy
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1127, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7225, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière ICM, 75013 Paris, France
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- Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Naples Federico II, 80133 Naples, Italy
- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1127, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7225, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière ICM, 75013 Paris, France
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Schintu S, Patané I, Caldano M, Salemme R, Reilly KT, Pisella L, Farnè A. The asymmetrical effect of leftward and rightward prisms on intact visuospatial cognition. Cortex 2017; 97:23-31. [PMID: 29078083 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2015] [Revised: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Rightward prismatic adaptation (RPA) can reduce neglect symptoms in patients whereas adaptation to leftward deviating prisms (LPA) can induce neglect-like behavior in healthy subjects. One influential anatomo-functional model of prismatic adaptation (PA) postulates that it inhibits activity of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) contralateral to the prismatic deviation. By hypo-activating the PPC and thus eventually acting on interhemispheric balance, both LPA and RPA could possibly affect visuospatial perception in healthy subjects, however, such behavioral modulation has seldom been reported after RPA. In the light of recent evidence showing that LPA-induced visuospatial shift need time to develop we hypothesized that RPA might induce significant changes in visuospatial cognition on a longer time scale. We thus assessed the Landmark task, as well as sensorimotor aftereffects, several times over 8 h after a single session of either LPA or RPA. In agreement with previous reports, sensorimotor effects were symmetrical and long-lasting, with both LPA and RPA inducing shifts of comparable amplitudes in the direction opposite to the deviation that lasted up to 8 h. Visuospatial cognition assessed by Landmark performance, was also significantly modulated for up to 8 h, but only after LPA. Interestingly, the timing and direction of this modulation differed according to participants' baseline bias. An initial leftward bias led to a rapid, but short-lasting rightward shift, whereas an initial rightward bias led to a slower-developing and longer-lasting leftward shift. These findings shed new light on a so-far relatively overlooked feature of spatial cognition that may interact with the effect of PA: the state of the visuospatial system prior to PA should be taken into account when attempting to understand and modulate visuospatial cognition in healthy and brain-damaged populations. This highlights the need for refining current models of PA's mechanisms of action.
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- Selene Schintu
- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France.
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France; Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France
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- Integrative Multisensory Perception Action & Cognition Team (ImpAct), Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; University Lyon 1, Lyon, France; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Neuro-immersion & Mouvement et Handicap, Lyon, France
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Zhang Y, Wu J, Wu W, Liu R, Pang L, Guan D, Xu Y. Reduction of white matter integrity correlates with apathy in Parkinson's disease. Int J Neurosci 2017. [PMID: 28648111 DOI: 10.1080/00207454.2017.1347170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Apathy is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD), but little is known about apathy and white matter (WM) change. In this study, we investigated whether fractional anisotropy (FA) of the WM can distinguish apathetic patients from non-apathetic PD patients, and whether the FA value correlates with the severity of apathy in PD. METHODS Thirty-nine PD patients participated in our study, of which 18 participants were with apathy symptom, and 21 without apathy symptom. Diffusion tensor imaging was performed on all the subjects. RESULTS Compared to non-apathetic PD patients, the apathetic group had reduced FA values in the genu and body of corpus callosum, bilateral anterior corona radiata, left superior corona radiata and left cingulum. Furthermore, in these WM regions, the FA values were negatively correlated with the Lille Apathy Rating Scale scores in apathetic subjects. CONCLUSION The WM change is associated with apathy in PD patients. In addition, the FA values of specific regions of WM could be a promising marker to predict the severity of apathy.
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- Yang Zhang
- a Department of Neurology , Drum Tower Hospital , Medical School of Nanjing University , Nanjing , China
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- a Department of Neurology , Drum Tower Hospital , Medical School of Nanjing University , Nanjing , China
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- b Department of Medical Imaging , Drum Tower Hospital , Medical School of Nanjing University , Nanjing , China
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- b Department of Medical Imaging , Drum Tower Hospital , Medical School of Nanjing University , Nanjing , China
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- a Department of Neurology , Drum Tower Hospital , Medical School of Nanjing University , Nanjing , China
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- a Department of Neurology , Drum Tower Hospital , Medical School of Nanjing University , Nanjing , China
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- a Department of Neurology , Drum Tower Hospital , Medical School of Nanjing University , Nanjing , China
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Boucard CC, Hanekamp S, Ćurčić-Blake B, Ida M, Yoshida M, Cornelissen FW. Neurodegeneration beyond the primary visual pathways in a population with a high incidence of normal-pressure glaucoma. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 2017; 36:344-53. [PMID: 27112227 DOI: 10.1111/opo.12297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2015] [Accepted: 03/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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PURPOSE Glaucoma is the most common age-related neurodegenerative eye disease in western society. It is an insidious disease that, when untreated or detected too late, leads inevitably to blindness. An outstanding issue is whether glaucoma should be considered exclusively an eye disease or also a brain disease. To further examine it, we used Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) to study white matter integrity in a Japanese glaucoma population. This population has a very high incidence of normal-pressure glaucoma, in which optic nerve damage occurs in the absence of the elevated eye pressure that characterises the more common form of glaucoma. METHODS We performed DTI in 30 participants with normal-pressure glaucoma and 21 age-matched healthy controls. We used voxel-wise tract-based spatial statistics to compare fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity of the white matter of the brain between patients and control group. Whole-brain and region of interest-based analyses served to find associations between diffusion indices and clinical measures of glaucomatous damage. RESULTS Fractional Anisotropy was significantly lower in glaucoma patients in a cluster in the right occipital lobe (p < 0.05; family-wise error-corrected) comprising fibres of both the optic radiation and the forceps major. Additional analysis confirmed bilateral involvement of the optic radiations and forceps major and additionally revealed damage to the corpus callosum and parietal lobe (p < 0.09; family-wise error-corrected). The region of interest-based analysis revealed a positive association between Fractional Anisotropy of the optic radiation and optic nerve damage. CONCLUSIONS In this specific population, glaucoma is associated with lower Fractional Anisotropy in the optic radiations, forceps major and corpus callosum. We interpret these reductions as evidence for white matter degeneration in these loci. In particular, the degeneration of the corpus callosum suggests the presence of neurodegeneration of the brain beyond what can be explained on the basis of propagated retinal and pre-geniculate damage. We discuss how this finding links to the emerging view that a brain component that is independent from the eye damage plays a role in the aetiology of glaucoma.
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- Christine C Boucard
- Department of Ophthalmology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation, Ebara Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Gao X, Pan W, Li C, Weng L, Yao M, Chen A. Long-Time Exposure to Violent Video Games Does Not Show Desensitization on Empathy for Pain: An fMRI Study. Front Psychol 2017; 8:650. [PMID: 28512439 PMCID: PMC5412091 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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As a typical form of empathy, empathy for pain refers to the perception and appraisal of others’ pain, as well as the corresponding affective responses. Numerous studies investigated the factors affecting the empathy for pain, in which the exposure to violent video games (VVGs) could change players’ empathic responses to painful situations. However, it remains unclear whether exposure to VVG influences the empathy for pain. In the present study, in terms of the exposure experience to VVG, two groups of participants (18 in VVG group, VG; 17 in non-VVG group, NG) were screened from nearly 200 video game experience questionnaires. And then, the functional magnetic resonance imaging data were recorded when they were viewing painful and non-painful stimuli. The results showed that the perception of others’ pain were not significantly different in brain regions between groups, from which we could infer that the desensitization effect of VVGs was overrated.
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- Xuemei Gao
- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China.,Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China.,Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China.,Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China.,Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China.,Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China.,Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Ministry of Education, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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Sharma S, Zhang Y. Fourier transform power spectrum is a potential measure of tissue alignment in standard MRI: A multiple sclerosis study. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0175979. [PMID: 28414816 PMCID: PMC5393867 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Accepted: 04/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Loss of tissue coherency in brain white matter is found in many neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). While several approaches have been proposed to evaluate white matter coherency including fractional anisotropy and fiber tracking in diffusion-weighted imaging, few are available for standard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Here we present an image post-processing method for this purpose based on Fourier transform (FT) power spectrum. T2-weighted images were collected from 19 patients (10 relapsing-remitting and 9 secondary progressive MS) and 19 age- and gender-matched controls. Image processing steps included: computation, normalization, and thresholding of FT power spectrum; determination of tissue alignment profile and dominant alignment direction; and calculation of alignment complexity using a new measure named angular entropy. To test the validity of this method, we used a highly organized brain white matter structure, corpus callosum. Six regions of interest were examined from the left, central and right aspects of both genu and splenium. We found that the dominant orientation of each ROI derived from our method was significantly correlated with the predicted directions based on anatomy. There was greater angular entropy in patients than controls, and a trend to be greater in secondary progressive MS patients. These findings suggest that it is possible to detect tissue alignment and anisotropy using traditional MRI, which are routinely acquired in clinical practice. Analysis of FT power spectrum may become a new approach for advancing the evaluation and management of patients with MS and similar disorders. Further confirmation is warranted.
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- Shrushrita Sharma
- Biomedical Engineering Program, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Biomedical Engineering Program, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Strother L, Zhou Z, Coros AK, Vilis T. An fMRI study of visual hemifield integration and cerebral lateralization. Neuropsychologia 2017; 100:35-43. [PMID: 28396097 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2016] [Revised: 03/27/2017] [Accepted: 04/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The human brain integrates hemifield-split visual information via interhemispheric transfer. The degree to which neural circuits involved in this process behave differently during word recognition as compared to object recognition is not known. Evidence from neuroimaging (fMRI) suggests that interhemispheric transfer during word viewing converges in the left hemisphere, in two distinct brain areas, an "occipital word form area" (OWFA) and a more anterior occipitotemporal "visual word form area" (VWFA). We used a novel fMRI half-field repetition technique to test whether or not these areas also integrate nonverbal hemifield-split string stimuli of similar visual complexity. We found that the fMRI responses of both the OWFA and VWFA while viewing nonverbal stimuli were strikingly different than those measured during word viewing, especially with respect to half-stimulus changes restricted to a single hemifield. We conclude that normal reading relies on left-lateralized neural mechanisms, which integrate hemifield-split visual information for words but not for nonverbal stimuli.
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- Lars Strother
- University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Psychology, USA.
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- University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Psychology, USA
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- University of Western Ontario, Brain and Mind Institute, Canada
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Marchi A, Bonini F, Lagarde S, McGonigal A, Gavaret M, Scavarda D, Carron R, Aubert S, Villeneuve N, Médina Villalon S, Bénar C, Trebuchon A, Bartolomei F. Occipital and occipital "plus" epilepsies: A study of involved epileptogenic networks through SEEG quantification. Epilepsy Behav 2016; 62:104-14. [PMID: 27454330 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2016.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2016] [Revised: 05/14/2016] [Accepted: 06/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Compared with temporal or frontal lobe epilepsies, the occipital lobe epilepsies (OLE) remain poorly characterized. In this study, we aimed at classifying the ictal networks involving OLE and investigated clinical features of the OLE network subtypes. We studied 194 seizures from 29 consecutive patients presenting with OLE and investigated by stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG). Epileptogenicity of occipital and extraoccipital regions was quantified according to the 'epileptogenicity index' (EI) method. We found that 79% of patients showed widespread epileptogenic zone organization, involving parietal or temporal regions in addition to the occipital lobe. Two main groups of epileptogenic zone organization within occipital lobe seizures were identified: a pure occipital group and an occipital "plus" group, the latter including two further subgroups, occipitotemporal and occipitoparietal. In 29% of patients, the epileptogenic zone was found to have a bilateral organization. The most epileptogenic structure was the fusiform gyrus (mean EI: 0.53). Surgery was proposed in 18/29 patients, leading to seizure freedom in 55% (Engel Class I). Results suggest that, in patient candidates for surgery, the majority of cases are characterized by complex organization of the EZ, corresponding to the occipital plus group.
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- Angela Marchi
- APHM, Timone Hospital, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department, Marseille 13005, France; Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes, UMR_S 1106, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department, Marseille 13005, France; Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes, UMR_S 1106, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department, Marseille 13005, France; Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes, UMR_S 1106, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department, Marseille 13005, France; Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes, UMR_S 1106, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department, Marseille 13005, France; Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes, UMR_S 1106, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Paediatric Neurosurgery Department, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Functional and Stereotactical Neurosurgery Department, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department, Marseille 13005, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes, UMR_S 1106, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department, Marseille 13005, France; Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes, UMR_S 1106, Marseille 13005, France
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- APHM, Timone Hospital, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology Department, Marseille 13005, France; Aix-Marseille Université, Institut de Neuroscience des Systèmes, UMR_S 1106, Marseille 13005, France.
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Chen J, Li J, Han Q, Lin J, Yang T, Chen Z, Zhang J. Long-term acclimatization to high-altitude hypoxia modifies interhemispheric functional and structural connectivity in the adult brain. Brain Behav 2016; 6:e00512. [PMID: 27688941 PMCID: PMC5036434 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2015] [Revised: 05/09/2016] [Accepted: 05/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Structural and functional networks can be reorganized to adjust to environmental pressures and physiologic changes in the adult brain, but such processes remain unclear in prolonged adaptation to high-altitude (HA) hypoxia. This study aimed to characterize the interhemispheric functionally and structurally coupled modifications in the brains of adult HA immigrants. METHODS We performed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in 16 adults who had immigrated to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (2300-4400 m) for 2 years and in 16 age-matched sea-level (SL) controls. A recently validated approach of voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) was employed to examine the interhemispheric resting-state functional connectivity. Areas showing changed VMHC in HA immigrants were selected as regions of interest for follow-up DTI tractography analysis. The fiber parameters of fractional anisotropy and fiber length were obtained. Cognitive and physiological assessments were made and correlated with the resulting image metrics. RESULTS Compared with SL controls, VMHC in the bilateral visual cortex was significantly increased in HA immigrants. The mean VMHC value extracted within the visual cortex was positively correlated with hemoglobin concentration. Moreover, the path length of the commissural fibers connecting homotopic visual areas was increased in HA immigrants, covarying positively with VMHC. CONCLUSIONS These observations are the first to demonstrate interhemispheric functional and structural connectivity resilience in the adult brain after prolonged HA acclimatization independent of inherited and developmental effects, and the coupled modifications in the bilateral visual cortex indicate important neural compensatory mechanisms underlying visual dysfunction in physiologically well-acclimatized HA immigrants. The study of human central adaptation to extreme environments promotes the understanding of our brain's capacity for survival.
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- Ji Chen
- Department of Medical ImagingFuzhou Dongfang HospitalXiamen UniversityFuzhouFujianChina
- Department of Physiology and NeurobiologyMedical College of Xiamen UniversityXiamenFujianChina
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- Department of Clinical PsychologyGulangyu Sanatorium of PLAXiamenFujianChina
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- Department of Clinical PsychologyGulangyu Sanatorium of PLAXiamenFujianChina
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- Magnetic Resonance CenterThe Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen UniversityXiamenFujianChina
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- Magnetic Resonance CenterThe Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen UniversityXiamenFujianChina
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- Department of Medical ImagingFuzhou Dongfang HospitalXiamen UniversityFuzhouFujianChina
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- Department of Physiology and NeurobiologyMedical College of Xiamen UniversityXiamenFujianChina
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Strother L, Coros AM, Vilis T. Visual Cortical Representation of Whole Words and Hemifield-split Word Parts. J Cogn Neurosci 2016; 28:252-60. [DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Reading requires the neural integration of visual word form information that is split between our retinal hemifields. We examined multiple visual cortical areas involved in this process by measuring fMRI responses while observers viewed words that changed or repeated in one or both hemifields. We were specifically interested in identifying brain areas that exhibit decreased fMRI responses as a result of repeated versus changing visual word form information in each visual hemifield. Our method yielded highly significant effects of word repetition in a previously reported visual word form area (VWFA) in occipitotemporal cortex, which represents hemifield-split words as whole units. We also identified a more posterior occipital word form area (OWFA), which represents word form information in the right and left hemifields independently and is thus both functionally and anatomically distinct from the VWFA. Both the VWFA and the OWFA were left-lateralized in our study and strikingly symmetric in anatomical location relative to known face-selective visual cortical areas in the right hemisphere. Our findings are consistent with the observation that category-selective visual areas come in pairs and support the view that neural mechanisms in left visual cortex—especially those that evolved to support the visual processing of faces—are developmentally malleable and become incorporated into a left-lateralized visual word form network that supports rapid word recognition and reading.
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- Lars Strother
- 1University of Western Ontario
- 2University of Nevada, Reno
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- Marco Catani
- NatBrainLab, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
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Time-varying effective connectivity during visual object naming as a function of semantic demands. J Neurosci 2015; 35:8768-76. [PMID: 26063911 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4888-14.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Accumulating evidence suggests that visual object understanding involves a rapid feedforward sweep, after which subsequent recurrent interactions are necessary. The extent to which recurrence plays a critical role in object processing remains to be determined. Recent studies have demonstrated that recurrent processing is modulated by increasing semantic demands. Differentially from previous studies, we used dynamic causal modeling to model neural activity recorded with magnetoencephalography while 14 healthy humans named two sets of visual objects that differed in the degree of semantic accessing demands, operationalized in terms of the values of basic psycholinguistic variables associated with the presented objects (age of acquisition, frequency, and familiarity). This approach allowed us to estimate the directionality of the causal interactions among brain regions and their associated connectivity strengths. Furthermore, to understand the dynamic nature of connectivity (i.e., the chronnectome; Calhoun et al., 2014) we explored the time-dependent changes of effective connectivity during a period (200-400 ms) where adding semantic-feature information improves modeling and classifying visual objects, at 50 ms increments. First, we observed a graded involvement of backward connections, that became active beyond 200 ms. Second, we found that semantic demands caused a suppressive effect in the backward connection from inferior frontal cortex (IFC) to occipitotemporal cortex over time. These results complement those from previous studies underscoring the role of IFC as a common source of top-down modulation, which drives recurrent interactions with more posterior regions during visual object recognition. Crucially, our study revealed the inhibitory modulation of this interaction in situations that place greater demands on the conceptual system.
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Sun Y, Cai Y, Lu S. Hemispheric asymmetry in the influence of language on visual perception. Conscious Cogn 2015; 34:16-27. [PMID: 25840357 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2014] [Revised: 03/04/2015] [Accepted: 03/05/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Many studies have shown that language can affect visual perception; however, our understanding of the neural basis of linguistic influence is inadequate. This can be investigated by examining the hemispheric asymmetry of linguistic influence. The left and right hemispheres are dominant in close and distant semantic processing, respectively. In this study, we investigated whether the hemispheric asymmetry of semantic processing led to hemispheric asymmetry for concept priming on the detection of objects degraded by continuous flash suppression. We combined a priming paradigm with the divided visual field paradigm and used continuous flash suppression, which renders objects invisible. The results indicated that the hemispheric asymmetry of semantic processing led to a right lateralization in the influence of more abstract concepts on visual perception. The lateralization of brain connectomes may be the underlying neural basis of this effect.
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- Yanliang Sun
- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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Cortese R, Pontrelli G, Mogavero MP, Dicuonzo F, Tortorella C. Reversible splenial lesion and complex visual disturbances due to carbamazepine withdrawal. Neurol Sci 2015; 36:1515-6. [PMID: 25772076 DOI: 10.1007/s10072-015-2144-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2015] [Accepted: 03/02/2015] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- Rosa Cortese
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurosciences and Sense Organs, University of Bari, Piazza G. Cesare, 11, 70124, Bari, Italy,
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Caspers S, Axer M, Caspers J, Jockwitz C, Jütten K, Reckfort J, Grässel D, Amunts K, Zilles K. Target sites for transcallosal fibers in human visual cortex - A combined diffusion and polarized light imaging study. Cortex 2015; 72:40-53. [PMID: 25697048 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2014] [Revised: 12/17/2014] [Accepted: 01/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Transcallosal fibers of the visual system have preferential target sites within the occipital cortex of monkeys. These target sites coincide with vertical meridian representations of the visual field at borders of retinotopically defined visual areas. The existence of preferential target sites of transcallosal fibers in the human brain at the borders of early visual areas was claimed, but controversially discussed. Hence, we studied the distribution of transcallosal fibers in human visual cortex, searching for an organizational principle across early and higher visual areas. In-vivo high angular resolution diffusion imaging data of 28 subjects were used for probabilistic fiber tracking using a constrained spherical deconvolution approach. The fiber architecture within the target sites was analyzed at microscopic resolution using 3D polarized light imaging in a post-mortem human hemisphere. Fibers through a seed in the splenium of the corpus callosum reached the occipital cortex via the forceps major and the tapetum. We found target sites of these transcallosal fibers at borders of cytoarchitectonically defined occipital areas not only between early visual areas V1 and V2, V3d and V3A, and V3v and V4, but also between higher extrastriate areas, namely V4 (ventral) and posterior fusiform area FG1 as well as posterior fusiform area FG2 and lateral occipital cortex. In early visual areas, the target sites coincided with the vertical meridian representations of retinotopic maps. The spatial arrangement of the fibers in the 'border tuft' region at the V1/V2 border was found to be more complex than previously observed in myeloarchitectonic studies. In higher visual areas, our results provided additional evidence for a hemi-field representation in human area V4. The fiber topography in posterior fusiform gyrus indicated that additional retinotopic areas might exist, located between the recently identified retinotopic representations phPITv/phPITd and PHC-1/PHC-2 in lateral occipital cortex and parahippocampal gyrus.
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- Svenja Caspers
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; C. and O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; JARA-BRAIN, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; JARA-BRAIN, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, Jülich, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Fabri M, Pierpaoli C, Barbaresi P, Polonara G. Functional topography of the corpus callosum investigated by DTI and fMRI. World J Radiol 2014; 6:895-906. [PMID: 25550994 PMCID: PMC4278150 DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v6.i12.895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2014] [Revised: 09/02/2014] [Accepted: 10/29/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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This short review examines the most recent functional studies of the topographic organization of the human corpus callosum, the main interhemispheric commissure. After a brief description of its anatomy, development, microstructure, and function, it examines and discusses the latest findings obtained using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and tractography (DTT) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), three recently developed imaging techniques that have significantly expanded and refined our knowledge of the commissure. While DTI and DTT have been providing insights into its microstructure, integrity and level of myelination, fMRI has been the key technique in documenting the activation of white matter fibers, particularly in the corpus callosum. By combining DTT and fMRI it has been possible to describe the trajectory of the callosal fibers interconnecting the primary olfactory, gustatory, motor, somatic sensory, auditory and visual cortices at sites where the activation elicited by peripheral stimulation was detected by fMRI. These studies have demonstrated the presence of callosal fiber tracts that cross the commissure at the level of the genu, body, and splenium, at sites showing fMRI activation. Altogether such findings lend further support to the notion that the corpus callosum displays a functional topographic organization that can be explored with fMRI.
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Bui Quoc E, Milleret C. Origins of strabismus and loss of binocular vision. Front Integr Neurosci 2014; 8:71. [PMID: 25309358 PMCID: PMC4174748 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2014.00071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2014] [Accepted: 08/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Strabismus is a frequent ocular disorder that develops early in life in humans. As a general rule, it is characterized by a misalignment of the visual axes which most often appears during the critical period of visual development. However other characteristics of strabismus may vary greatly among subjects, for example, being convergent or divergent, horizontal or vertical, with variable angles of deviation. Binocular vision may also vary greatly. Our main goal here is to develop the idea that such “polymorphy” reflects a wide variety in the possible origins of strabismus. We propose that strabismus must be considered as possibly resulting from abnormal genetic and/or acquired factors, anatomical and/or functional abnormalities, in the sensory and/or the motor systems, both peripherally and/or in the brain itself. We shall particularly develop the possible “central” origins of strabismus. Indeed, we are convinced that it is time now to open this “black box” in order to move forward. All of this will be developed on the basis of both presently available data in literature (including most recent data) and our own experience. Both data in biology and medicine will be referred to. Our conclusions will hopefully help ophthalmologists to better understand strabismus and to develop new therapeutic strategies in the future. Presently, physicians eliminate or limit the negative effects of such pathology both on the development of the visual system and visual perception through the use of optical correction and, in some cases, extraocular muscle surgery. To better circumscribe the problem of the origins of strabismus, including at a cerebral level, may improve its management, in particular with respect to binocular vision, through innovating tools by treating the pathology at the source.
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- Emmanuel Bui Quoc
- Ophthalmology Department, Hopital Robert Debre/Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris Paris, France
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- Collège de France, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB), Spatial Navigation and Memory Team Paris, France
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Lunven M, Thiebaut De Schotten M, Glize B, Migliaccio R, Jacquin-Courtois S, Cotton F, Bartolomeo P, Rode G. Effector-dependent neglect and splenial disconnection: a spherical deconvolution tractography study. Exp Brain Res 2014; 232:3727-36. [PMID: 25116649 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-4051-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2014] [Accepted: 07/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We present the case of a patient with left homonymous hemianopia and chronic left neglect consequent to a stroke in the occipito-temporal regions of the right hemisphere. When the patient performed cancellation tasks with her right (dominant) hand, she had severe and persistent left neglect at retest 7 and 8 years after onset. However, her performance on line bisection was invariably within normal limits. Strikingly, performance on cancellation tests reverted to normal when the patient used her left hand. White matter tractography using spherical deconvolution demonstrated damage to the splenium of the corpus callosum, as well as a relative preservation of the right fronto-parietal network. Effector-dependent neglect may occur because splenial disconnection deprives the right fronto-parietal network from visual information processed by the left hemisphere. Consequently, spatial exploration reverts to normal when the patient uses her left hand, thus involving more directly the fronto-parietal attentional networks in the right-hemisphere.
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- Marine Lunven
- Inserm UMR_S 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, ImpAct, Centre des Neurosciences de Lyon, Université Lyon-1, 16, Avenue Lépine, 69676, Bron, France,
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Speeded manual responses to unseen visual stimuli in hemianopic patients: what kind of blindsight? Conscious Cogn 2014; 32:6-14. [PMID: 25123328 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2013] [Revised: 07/09/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Blindsight, i.e., unconscious visually guided behaviour triggered by stimuli presented to a cortically blind hemifield, has been typically found either by using direct (forced choice) or indirect (interhemispheric) methods. However, one would expect to find blindsight also in fast responses to suddenly appearing visual stimuli, a reminiscence of evolutionary ancient adaptive behaviour. In this study we provide preliminary evidence of this form of blindsight by using a conservative method for assessing blindsight based on a comparison between the cumulative probability functions (CPFs) of simple reaction times to blind and intact field stimuli. Furthermore, in two patients with blindsight we provided evidence that their above-chance unconscious responses were likely to be triggered by the intact hemisphere.
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