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Parmera JB, de Oliveira MCB, Rodrigues RD, Coutinho AM. Progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration: novel clinical concepts and advances in biomarkers. Arq Neuropsiquiatr 2022; 80:126-136. [PMID: 35976324 PMCID: PMC9491415 DOI: 10.1590/0004-282x-anp-2022-s134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2022] [Accepted: 04/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and corticobasal degeneration (CBD) are sporadic adult-onset primary tauopathies clinically classified among the atypical parkinsonian syndromes. They are intrinsically related with regard to their clinical features, pathology, biochemistry, and genetic risk factors. OBJECTIVES This review highlights the current knowledge on PSP and CBD, focusing on evolving clinical concepts, new diagnostic criteria, and advances in biomarkers. METHODS We performed a non-systematic literature review through the PubMed database. The search was restricted to articles written in English, published from 1964 to date. RESULTS Clinicopathologic and in vivo biomarkers studies have broadened PSP and CBD clinical phenotypes. They are now recognized as a range of motor and behavioral syndromes associated with underlying 4R-tauopathy neuropathology. The Movement Disorders Society PSP diagnostic criteria included clinical variants apart from the classical description, increasing diagnostic sensitivity. Meanwhile, imaging biomarkers have explored the complexity of symptoms and pathological processes related to corticobasal syndrome and CBD. CONCLUSIONS In recent years, several prospective or clinicopathologic studies have assessed clinical, radiological, and fluid biomarkers that have helped us gain a better understanding of the complexity of the 4R-tauopathies, mainly PSP and CBD.
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- Jacy Bezerra Parmera
- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clínicas, Departamento de Neurologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clínicas, Departamento de Neurologia, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Radiologia, Laboratório de Medicina Nuclear (LIM 44), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Hospital das Clínicas, Instituto de Radiologia, Centro de Medicina Nuclear, Laboratório de Medicina Nuclear (LIM 43), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Narayana S, Parsons MB, Zhang W, Franklin C, Schiller K, Choudhri AF, Fox PT, LeDoux MS, Cannito M. Mapping typical and hypokinetic dysarthric speech production network using a connected speech paradigm in functional MRI. Neuroimage Clin 2020; 27:102285. [PMID: 32521476 PMCID: PMC7284131 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2020] [Revised: 05/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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We developed a task paradigm whereby subjects spoke aloud while minimizing head motion during functional MRI (fMRI) in order to better understand the neural circuitry involved in motor speech disorders due to dysfunction of the central nervous system. To validate our overt continuous speech paradigm, we mapped the speech production network (SPN) in typical speakers (n = 19, 10 females) and speakers with hypokinetic dysarthria as a manifestation of Parkinson disease (HKD; n = 21, 8 females) in fMRI. We then compared it with the SPN derived during overt speech production by 15O-water PET in the same group of typical speakers and another HKD cohort (n = 10, 2 females). The fMRI overt connected speech paradigm did not result in excessive motion artifacts and successfully identified the same brain areas demonstrated in the PET studies in the two cohorts. The SPN derived in fMRI demonstrated significant spatial overlap with the corresponding PET derived maps (typical speakers: r = 0.52; speakers with HKD: r = 0.43) and identified the components of the neural circuit of speech production belonging to the feedforward and feedback subsystems. The fMRI study in speakers with HKD identified significantly decreased activity in critical feedforward (bilateral dorsal premotor and motor cortices) and feedback (auditory and somatosensory areas) subsystems replicating previous PET study findings in this cohort. These results demonstrate that the overt connected speech paradigm is feasible during fMRI and can accurately localize the neural substrates of typical and disordered speech production. Our fMRI paradigm should prove useful for study of motor speech and voice disorders, including stuttering, apraxia of speech, dysarthria, and spasmodic dysphonia.
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- Shalini Narayana
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103, USA; Neuroscience Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN 38103, USA; Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103, USA.
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- School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103, USA
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- Neuroscience Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN 38103, USA; Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
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- Veracity Neuroscience LLC, Memphis, TN 38157, USA; Department of Psychology and School of Health Studies, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
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- Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
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Solstrand Dahlberg L, Lungu O, Doyon J. Cerebellar Contribution to Motor and Non-motor Functions in Parkinson's Disease: A Meta-Analysis of fMRI Findings. Front Neurol 2020; 11:127. [PMID: 32174883 PMCID: PMC7056869 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 02/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) results in both motor and non-motor symptoms. Traditionally, the underlying mechanism of PD has been linked to neurodegeneration of the basal ganglia. Yet it does not adequately account for the non-motor symptoms of the disease, suggesting that other brain regions may be involved. One such region is the cerebellum, which is known to be involved, together with the basal ganglia, in both motor and non-motor functions. Many studies have found the cerebellum to be hyperactive in PD patients, a finding that is seldom discussed in detail, and warrants further examination. The current study thus aims to examine quantitively the current literature on the cerebellar involvement in both motor and non-motor functioning in PD. Methods: A meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging literature was conducted with Seed-based D mapping. Only the studies testing functional activation in response to motor and non-motor paradigms in PD and healthy controls (HC) were included in the meta-analysis. Separate analyses were conducted by including only studies with non-motor paradigms, as well as meta-regressions with UPDRS III scores and disease duration. Results: A total of 57 studies with both motor and non-motor paradigms fulfilled our inclusion criteria and were included in the meta-analysis, which revealed hyperactivity in Crus I-II and vermal III in PD patients compared to HC. An analysis including only studies with cognitive paradigms revealed a cluster of increased activity in PD patients encompassing lobule VIIB and VIII. Another meta-analysis including the only 20 studies that employed motor paradigms did not reveal any significant group differences. However, a descriptive analysis of these studies revealed that 60% of them reported cerebellar hyperactivations in PD and included motor paradigm with significant cognitive task demands, as opposed to 40% presenting the opposite pattern and using mainly force grip tasks. The meta-regression with UPDRS III scores found a negative association between motor scores and activation in lobule VI and vermal VII-VIII. No correlation was found with disease duration. Discussion: The present findings suggest that one of the main cerebellar implications in PD is linked to cognitive functioning. The negative association between UPDRS scores and activation in regions implicated in motor functioning indicate that there is less involvement of these areas as the disease severity increases. In contrast, the lack of correlation with disease duration seems to indicate that the cerebellar activity may be a compensatory mechanism to the dysfunctional basal ganglia, where certain sub-regions of the cerebellum are employed to cope with motor demands. Yet future longitudinal studies are needed to fully address this possibility.
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- Linda Solstrand Dahlberg
- Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Neurology & Neurosurgery, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Functional Neuroimaging Unit, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Johari K, den Ouden DB, Behroozmand R. Behavioral and neural correlates of normal aging effects on motor preparatory mechanisms of speech production and limb movement. Exp Brain Res 2019; 237:1759-72. [PMID: 31030282 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-019-05549-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 04/24/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Normal aging is associated with decline of the sensorimotor mechanisms that support movement function in the human brain. In this study, we used behavioral and event-related potential (ERP) recordings to investigate the effects of normal aging on the motor preparatory mechanisms of speech production and limb movement. The experiment involved two groups of older and younger adults who performed randomized speech vowel vocalization and button press motor reaction time tasks in response to temporally predictable and unpredictable visual stimuli. Behavioral results revealed age-related slowness of motor reaction time only during speech production in response to temporally unpredictable stimuli, and this effect was accompanied by increased pre-motor ERP activities in older vs. younger adults during the speech task. These results indicate that motor preparatory mechanisms of limb movement during button press are not affected by normal aging, whereas the functional capacity of these mechanisms is reduced in older adults during speech production in response to unpredictable sensory stimuli. These findings suggest that the aging brain selectively compromises the motor timing of speech and recruits additional neural resources for motor planning and execution of speech, as indexed by the increased pre-motor ERP activations in response to temporally unpredictable vs. predictable sensory stimuli.
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Baumann A, Nebel A, Granert O, Giehl K, Wolff S, Schmidt W, Baasch C, Schmidt G, Witt K, Deuschl G, Hartwigsen G, Zeuner KE, van Eimeren T. Neural Correlates of Hypokinetic Dysarthria and Mechanisms of Effective Voice Treatment in Parkinson Disease. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2018; 32:1055-1066. [DOI: 10.1177/1545968318812726] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Background. Hypokinetic dysarthria is highly prevalent in idiopathic Parkinson disease (PD), and effectiveness of high-intensity voice treatment is well established. However, the neural correlates remain largely unknown. Objective. We aimed to specify cerebral pathophysiology of hypokinetic dysarthria and treatment-induced changes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Methods. We used fMRI to investigate healthy controls (HCs) and patients with idiopathic PD–associated dysarthria before and after treatment according to the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment LOUD (LSVT). During fMRI, participants covertly read sentences with normal (eg, conversation in a quiet room) or high (eg, shouting on a windy beach) intensity. In addition, we tested LSVT effects on intelligibility and different speech features (intensity, pitch, articulation). Results. LSVT effectively improved intelligibility, articulation, and pitch in patients. Covert high-intensity speech compared with covert normal-intensity speech led to increased activation of mainly secondary motor areas and bilateral superior and medial temporal regions. Prior to LSVT, patients showed less activity in several speech-associated areas compared with HCs. As a neural correlate of effective LSVT, increased right-sided superior temporal activity correlated with improved intelligibility. Conclusion. This is the first brain imaging study using a covert speech paradigm in PD, which revealed cortical hypoactivation as correlate of hypokinetic dysarthria. Furthermore, cortical correlates of effective LSVT treatment colocalized with the neuronal network, showing increased activation during high- versus normal-intensity speech generation.
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- Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- University Hospital of Cologne, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Center Jülich, Germany
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany
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Kryshtopava M, Van Lierde K, Meerschman I, D'Haeseleer E, Vandemaele P, Vingerhoets G, Claeys S. Brain Activity During Phonation in Women With Muscle Tension Dysphonia: An fMRI Study. J Voice 2017; 31:675-690. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2017.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2016] [Revised: 03/13/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Brabenec L, Mekyska J, Galaz Z, Rektorova I. Speech disorders in Parkinson’s disease: early diagnostics and effects of medication and brain stimulation. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2017; 124:303-34. [PMID: 28101650 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-017-1676-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2016] [Accepted: 01/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder affecting patients in large numbers throughout the world. In this article, we review all the published data on PD based on studies in Indian population. We have tried to consolidate the contribution of Indian studies in PD research. We found 95 articles, of which 92 were original research papers. This is a relatively less number, but in the last decade, there has been an increase in research on PD from this country. But most of them seem to be restricted to only a few research institutes. The nonmotor symptoms and genetics are the most commonly studied aspects. The systematic review of the articles reveals that the epidemiology in India may be different with relatively lesser incidence here. Most of the genetic mutations found to cause PD in other population are not found in India, revealing that other genetic factors may be involved. Further research needs to be encouraged to understand the disease in Indian patients better, as all the results cannot be extrapolated from the Western literature to this heterogeneous Indian population. There need to be more studies on therapeutic aspects of the disease.
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- Pratibha Surathi
- Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Hosur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Hosur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Hosur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Hosur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Saxena M, Behari M, Kumaran SS, Goyal V, Narang V. Assessing speech dysfunction using BOLD and acoustic analysis in parkinsonism. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2014; 20:855-61. [DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2014.04.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2013] [Revised: 04/16/2014] [Accepted: 04/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Maillet A, Krainik A, Debû B, Troprès I, Lagrange C, Thobois S, Pollak P, Pinto S. Levodopa effects on hand and speech movements in patients with Parkinson's disease: a FMRI study. PLoS One 2012; 7:e46541. [PMID: 23056337 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2012] [Accepted: 08/31/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Levodopa (L-dopa) effects on the cardinal and axial symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) differ greatly, leading to therapeutic challenges for managing the disabilities in this patient’s population. In this context, we studied the cerebral networks associated with the production of a unilateral hand movement, speech production, and a task combining both tasks in 12 individuals with PD, both off and on levodopa (L-dopa). Unilateral hand movements in the off medication state elicited brain activations in motor regions (primary motor cortex, supplementary motor area, premotor cortex, cerebellum), as well as additional areas (anterior cingulate, putamen, associative parietal areas); following L-dopa administration, the brain activation profile was globally reduced, highlighting activations in the parietal and posterior cingulate cortices. For the speech production task, brain activation patterns were similar with and without medication, including the orofacial primary motor cortex (M1), the primary somatosensory cortex and the cerebellar hemispheres bilaterally, as well as the left- premotor, anterior cingulate and supramarginal cortices. For the combined task off L-dopa, the cerebral activation profile was restricted to the right cerebellum (hand movement), reflecting the difficulty in performing two movements simultaneously in PD. Under L-dopa, the brain activation profile of the combined task involved a larger pattern, including additional fronto-parietal activations, without reaching the sum of the areas activated during the simple hand and speech tasks separately. Our results question both the role of the basal ganglia system in speech production and the modulation of task-dependent cerebral networks by dopaminergic treatment.
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Rektorova I, Mikl M, Barrett J, Marecek R, Rektor I, Paus T. Functional neuroanatomy of vocalization in patients with Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Sci 2011; 313:7-12. [PMID: 22078745 DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2011.10.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2011] [Revised: 06/14/2011] [Accepted: 10/17/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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UNLABELLED In Parkinson's disease (PD) both speech production and self-monitoring of voiced speech are altered. METHODS In our previous study we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine which brain areas are involved in overt reading in nine female PD patients (mean age 66.0 ± 11.6 years) compared with eight age-matched healthy female controls (mean age 62.2 years ± 12.3). Here we performed the post-hoc seed-based functional connectivity analysis of our data to assess the functional connectivity between the periaqueductal gray matter (PAG; i.e. the core subcortical structure involved in human vocalization) and other brain regions in the same groups of PD patients and controls. RESULTS In PD patients as compared with controls we observed increased connectivity between PAG and basal ganglia, posterior superior temporal gyrus, supramarginal and fusiform gyri and inferior parietal lobule on the right side. In the PD group, the connectivity strength in the right putamen and the right sypramarginal gyrus was correlated with variability of pitch while the connectivity strength in the right posterior superior temporal gyrus and in the right inferior parietal lobule was correlated with speech loudness. CONCLUSION We observed functional reorganization in PD patients as compared with controls in both the motor basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical circuitry and cortical areas known to be engaged in-auditory and somatosensory feedback control of voiced speech. These changes were hemisphere-specific and might either reflect effects of dopaminergic treatment or at least partially successful compensatory mechanisms involved in early-stage PD.
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- I Rektorova
- Applied Neurosciences Research Group, Central European Institute of Technology, CEITEC, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Pinto S, Mancini L, Jahanshahi M, Thornton JS, Tripoliti E, Yousry TA, Limousin P. Functional magnetic resonance imaging exploration of combined hand and speech movements in Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord 2011; 26:2212-9. [PMID: 21714000 DOI: 10.1002/mds.23799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2010] [Revised: 03/22/2011] [Accepted: 04/21/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Among the repertoire of motor functions, although hand movement and speech production tasks have been investigated widely by functional neuroimaging, paradigms combining both movements have been studied less so. Such paradigms are of particular interest in Parkinson's disease, in which patients have specific difficulties performing two movements simultaneously. In 9 unmedicated patients with Parkinson's disease and 15 healthy control subjects, externally cued tasks (i.e., hand movement, speech production, and combined hand movement and speech production) were performed twice in a random order and functional magnetic resonance imaging detected cerebral activations, compared to the rest. F-statistics tested within-group (significant activations at P values < 0.05, familywise error corrected), between-group, and between-task comparisons (regional activations significant at P values < 0.001, uncorrected, with cluster size > 10 voxels). For control subjects, the combined task activations comprised the sum of those obtained during hand movement and speech production performed separately, reflecting the neural correlates of performing movements sharing similar programming modalities. In patients with Parkinson's disease, only activations underlying hand movement were observed during the combined task. We interpreted this phenomenon as patients' potential inability to recruit facilitatory activations while performing two movements simultaneously. This lost capacity could be related to a functional prioritization of one movement (i.e., hand movement), in comparison with the other (i.e., speech production). Our observation could also reflect the inability of patients with Parkinson's disease to intrinsically engage the motor coordination necessary to perform a combined task.
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- Serge Pinto
- Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, France.
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Pinto S, Ghio A, Teston B, Viallet F. [Dysarthria across Parkinson's disease progression. Natural history of its components: dysphonia, dysprosody and dysarthria]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2010; 166:800-10. [PMID: 20800250 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2010.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2010] [Accepted: 07/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Dysarthria refers to a collective name for a group of neurologic motor speech disorders, resulting from central and/or peripheral nervous system abnormalities. Speech alteration in Parkinson's disease, so-called hypokinetic dysarthria, presents with prosodic insufficiency, related to a monotony of pitch and intensity, a reduction of accentuation, variable speech rate and possible phoneme imprecision. In most cases, voice is harsh and breathy. This symptom can affect both voice and speech quality, as well as prosody and intelligibility. As a consequence, many patients complain about speech impairments, which affect their communication in daily living activities. Perceptual and instrumental assessments require different and numerous investigation methods, which use may help to further understand the specific dysarthria pathophysiology. This is of importance in order to adjust treatments for dysarthria; as a matter of fact, dopa-therapy, functional neurosurgery or even behavioural speech therapy have variable effects on voice and speech quality in Parkinson's disease.
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- S Pinto
- UMR 6057, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL), CNRS, Université Aix-Marseille, BP 80975, 5 Avenue Pasteur, 13604 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France.
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