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Carli G, Meles SK, Reesink FE, de Jong BM, Pilotto A, Padovani A, Galbiati A, Ferini-Strambi L, Leenders KL, Perani D. Comparison of univariate and multivariate analyses for brain [18F]FDG PET data in α-synucleinopathies. Neuroimage Clin 2023; 39:103475. [PMID: 37494757 PMCID: PMC10394024 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2023] [Revised: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/09/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND Brain imaging with [18F]FDG-PET can support the diagnostic work-up of patients with α-synucleinopathies. Validated data analysis approaches are necessary to evaluate disease-specific brain metabolism patterns in neurodegenerative disorders. This study compared the univariate Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM) single-subject procedure and the multivariate Scaled Subprofile Model/Principal Component Analysis (SSM/PCA) in a cohort of patients with α-synucleinopathies. METHODS We included [18F]FDG-PET scans of 122 subjects within the α-synucleinopathy spectrum: Parkinson's Disease (PD) normal cognition on long-term follow-up (PD - low risk to dementia (LDR); n = 28), PD who developed dementia on clinical follow-up (PD - high risk of dementia (HDR); n = 16), Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB; n = 67), and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA; n = 11). We also included [18F]FDG-PET scans of isolated REM sleep behaviour disorder (iRBD; n = 51) subjects with a high risk of developing a manifest α-synucleinopathy. Each [18F]FDG-PET scan was compared with 112 healthy controls using SPM procedures. In the SSM/PCA approach, we computed the individual scores of previously identified patterns for PD, DLB, and MSA: PD-related patterns (PDRP), DLBRP, and MSARP. We used ROC curves to compare the diagnostic performances of SPM t-maps (visual rating) and SSM/PCA individual pattern scores in identifying each clinical condition across the spectrum. Specifically, we used the clinical diagnoses ("gold standard") as our reference in ROC curves to evaluate the accuracy of the two methods. Experts in movement disorders and dementia made all the diagnoses according to the current clinical criteria of each disease (PD, DLB and MSA). RESULTS The visual rating of SPM t-maps showed higher performance (AUC: 0.995, specificity: 0.989, sensitivity 1.000) than PDRP z-scores (AUC: 0.818, specificity: 0.734, sensitivity 1.000) in differentiating PD-LDR from other α-synucleinopathies (PD-HDR, DLB and MSA). This result was mainly driven by the ability of SPM t-maps to reveal the limited or absent brain hypometabolism characteristics of PD-LDR. Both SPM t-maps visual rating and SSM/PCA z-scores showed high performance in identifying DLB (DLBRP = AUC: 0.909, specificity: 0.873, sensitivity 0.866; SPM t-maps = AUC: 0.892, specificity: 0.872, sensitivity 0.910) and MSA (MSARP: AUC: 0.921, specificity: 0.811, sensitivity 1.000; SPM t-maps: AUC: 1.000, specificity: 1.000, sensitivity 1.000) from other α-synucleinopathies. PD-HDR and DLB were comparable for the brain hypo and hypermetabolism patterns, thus not allowing differentiation by SPM t-maps or SSM/PCA. Of note, we found a gradual increase of PDRP and DLBRP expression in the continuum from iRBD to PD-HDR and DLB, where the DLB patients had the highest scores. SSM/PCA could differentiate iRBD from DLB, reflecting specifically the differences in disease staging and severity (AUC: 0.938, specificity: 0.821, sensitivity 0.941). CONCLUSIONS SPM-single subject maps and SSM/PCA are both valid methods in supporting diagnosis within the α-synucleinopathy spectrum, with different strengths and pitfalls. The former reveals dysfunctional brain topographies at the individual level with high accuracy for all the specific subtype patterns, and particularly also the normal maps; the latter provides a reliable quantification, independent from the rater experience, particularly in tracking the disease severity and staging. Thus, our findings suggest that differences in data analysis approaches exist and should be considered in clinical settings. However, combining both methods might offer the best diagnostic performance.
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- Giulia Carli
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Neurology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- Neurology Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
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- School of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Sleep Disorders Center, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- School of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Sleep Disorders Center, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- School of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; In Vivo Human Molecular and Structural Neuroimaging Unit, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan; Nuclear Medicine Unit, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
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Timmers ER, Klamer MR, Marapin RS, Lammertsma AA, de Jong BM, Dierckx RAJO, Tijssen MAJ. [ 18F]FDG PET in conditions associated with hyperkinetic movement disorders and ataxia: a systematic review. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2023; 50:1954-1973. [PMID: 36702928 PMCID: PMC10199862 DOI: 10.1007/s00259-023-06110-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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PURPOSE To give a comprehensive literature overview of alterations in regional cerebral glucose metabolism, measured using [18F]FDG PET, in conditions associated with hyperkinetic movement disorders and ataxia. In addition, correlations between glucose metabolism and clinical variables as well as the effect of treatment on glucose metabolism are discussed. METHODS A systematic literature search was performed according to PRISMA guidelines. Studies concerning tremors, tics, dystonia, ataxia, chorea, myoclonus, functional movement disorders, or mixed movement disorders due to autoimmune or metabolic aetiologies were eligible for inclusion. A PubMed search was performed up to November 2021. RESULTS Of 1240 studies retrieved in the original search, 104 articles were included. Most articles concerned patients with chorea (n = 27), followed by ataxia (n = 25), dystonia (n = 20), tremor (n = 8), metabolic disease (n = 7), myoclonus (n = 6), tics (n = 6), and autoimmune disorders (n = 5). No papers on functional movement disorders were included. Altered glucose metabolism was detected in various brain regions in all movement disorders, with dystonia-related hypermetabolism of the lentiform nuclei and both hyper- and hypometabolism of the cerebellum; pronounced cerebellar hypometabolism in ataxia; and striatal hypometabolism in chorea (dominated by Huntington disease). Correlations between clinical characteristics and glucose metabolism were often described. [18F]FDG PET-showed normalization of metabolic alterations after treatment in tremors, ataxia, and chorea. CONCLUSION In all conditions with hyperkinetic movement disorders, hypo- or hypermetabolism was found in multiple, partly overlapping brain regions, and clinical characteristics often correlated with glucose metabolism. For some movement disorders, [18F]FDG PET metabolic changes reflected the effect of treatment.
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- Elze R Timmers
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands.
- Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), PO Box 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Marapin RS, van der Horn HJ, van der Stouwe AMM, Dalenberg JR, de Jong BM, Tijssen MAJ. Altered brain connectivity in hyperkinetic movement disorders: A review of resting-state fMRI. Neuroimage Clin 2023; 37:103302. [PMID: 36669351 PMCID: PMC9868884 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 12/21/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Hyperkinetic movement disorders (HMD) manifest as abnormal and uncontrollable movements. Despite reported involvement of several neural circuits, exact connectivity profiles remain elusive. OBJECTIVES Providing a comprehensive literature review of resting-state brain connectivity alterations using resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI). We additionally discuss alterations from the perspective of brain networks, as well as correlations between connectivity and clinical measures. METHODS A systematic review was performed according to PRISMA guidelines and searching PubMed until October 2022. Rs-fMRI studies addressing ataxia, chorea, dystonia, myoclonus, tics, tremor, and functional movement disorders (FMD) were included. The standardized mean difference was used to summarize findings per region in the Automated Anatomical Labeling atlas for each phenotype. Furthermore, the activation likelihood estimation meta-analytic method was used to analyze convergence of significant between-group differences per phenotype. Finally, we conducted hierarchical cluster analysis to provide additional insights into commonalities and differences across HMD phenotypes. RESULTS Most articles concerned tremor (51), followed by dystonia (46), tics (19), chorea (12), myoclonus (11), FMD (11), and ataxia (8). Altered resting-state connectivity was found in several brain regions: in ataxia mainly cerebellar areas; for chorea, the caudate nucleus; for dystonia, sensorimotor and basal ganglia regions; for myoclonus, the thalamus and cingulate cortex; in tics, the basal ganglia, cerebellum, insula, and frontal cortex; for tremor, the cerebello-thalamo-cortical circuit; finally, in FMD, frontal, parietal, and cerebellar regions. Both decreased and increased connectivity were found for all HMD. Significant spatial convergence was found for dystonia, FMD, myoclonus, and tremor. Correlations between clinical measures and resting-state connectivity were frequently described. CONCLUSION Key brain regions contributing to functional connectivity changes across HMD often overlap. Possible increases and decreases of functional connections of a specific region emphasize that HMD should be viewed as a network disorder. Despite the complex interplay of physiological and methodological factors, this review serves to gain insight in brain connectivity profiles across HMD phenotypes.
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- Ramesh S Marapin
- University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, the Netherlands; Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, the Netherlands
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- University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, the Netherlands
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- University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, the Netherlands; Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, the Netherlands
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- University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, the Netherlands; Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, the Netherlands
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- University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, the Netherlands
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- University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, the Netherlands; Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Peretti DE, Vállez García D, Renken RJ, Reesink FE, Doorduin J, de Jong BM, De Deyn PP, Dierckx RAJO, Boellaard R. Alzheimer's disease pattern derived from relative cerebral flow as an alternative for the metabolic pattern using SSM/PCA. EJNMMI Res 2022; 12:37. [PMID: 35737201 PMCID: PMC9226207 DOI: 10.1186/s13550-022-00909-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 06/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND 2-Deoxy-2-[18F]fluoroglucose (FDG) PET is an important tool for the identification of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients through the characteristic neurodegeneration pattern that these patients present. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) images derived from dynamic 11C-labelled Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB) have been shown to present a similar pattern as FDG. Moreover, multivariate analysis techniques, such as scaled subprofile modelling using principal component analysis (SSM/PCA), can be used to generate disease-specific patterns (DP) that may aid in the classification of subjects. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare rCBF AD-DPs with FDG AD-DP and their respective performances. Therefore, 52 subjects were included in this study. Fifteen AD and 16 healthy control subjects were used to generate four AD-DP: one based on relative cerebral trace blood (R1), two based on time-weighted average of initial frame intervals (ePIB), and one based on FDG images. Furthermore, 21 subjects diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment were tested against these AD-DPs. RESULTS In general, the rCBF and FDG AD-DPs were characterized by a reduction in cortical frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes. FDG and rCBF methods presented similar score distribution. CONCLUSION rCBF images may provide an alternative for FDG PET scans for the identification of AD patients through SSM/PCA.
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- Débora E Peretti
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, Cognitive Neuroscience Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Centre, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Centre, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Centre, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behaviour, Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. .,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Location VU Medical Center, Amsterdam University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Weersink JB, de Jong BM, Maurits NM. Neural coupling between upper and lower limb muscles in Parkinsonian gait. Clin Neurophysiol 2021; 134:65-72. [PMID: 34979292 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.11.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Revised: 11/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To explore to what extent neuronal coupling between upper and lower limb muscles during gait is preserved or affected in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD). METHODS Electromyography recordings were obtained from the bilateral deltoideus anterior and bilateral rectus femoris and biceps femoris muscles during overground gait in 20 healthy participants (median age 69 years) and 20 PD patients (median age 68.5 years). PD patients were able to walk independently (Hoehn and Yahr scale: Stage 2-3), had an equally distributed symptom laterality (6 left side, 7 both sides and 7 right side) and no cognitive problems or tremor dominant PD. Time-dependent directional intermuscular coherence analysis was employed to compare the neural coupling between upper and lower limb muscles between healthy participants and PD patients in three different directions: zero-lag (i.e. common driver), forward (i.e. shoulders driving the legs) and reverse component (i.e. legs driving the shoulders). RESULTS Compared to healthy participants, PD patients exhibited (i) reduced intermuscular zero-lag coherence in the beta/gamma frequency band during end-of-stance and (ii) enhanced forward as well as reverse directed coherence in the alpha and beta/gamma frequency bands around toe-off. CONCLUSIONS PD patients had a reduced common cortical drive to upper and lower limb muscles during gait, possibly contributing to disturbed interlimb coordination. Enhanced bidirectional coupling between upper and lower limb muscles on subcortical and transcortical levels in PD patients suggests a mechanism of compensation. SIGNIFICANCE These findings provide support for the facilitating effect of arm swing instructions in PD gait.
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- Joyce B Weersink
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Neurology, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Neurology, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Neurology, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Weersink JB, Maurits NM, van Laar T, de Jong BM. Enhanced arm swing improves Parkinsonian gait with EEG power modulations resembling healthy gait. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2021; 91:96-101. [PMID: 34547655 DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2021.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Revised: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND The supplementary motor area (SMA) is implicated in stereotypic multi-limb movements such as walking with arm swing. Gait difficulties in Parkinson's Disease (PD) include reduced arm swing, which is associated with reduced SMA activity. OBJECTIVE To test whether enhanced arm swing improves Parkinsonian gait and explore the role of the SMA in such an improvement. METHODS Cortical activity and gait characteristics were assessed by ambulant EEG, accelerometers and video recordings in 27 PD patients with self-reported gait difficulties and 35 healthy participants when walking normally. Within these two groups, 19 PD patients additionally walked with enhanced arm swing and 30 healthy participants walked without arm swing. Power changes across the EEG frequency spectrum were assessed by Event Related Spectral Perturbation analysis of recordings from Fz over the putative SMA and gait analysis was performed. RESULTS Baseline PD gait, characterized by reduced arm swing among other features, exhibited reduced within-step Event Related Desynchronization (ERD)/Synchronization (ERS) alternation (Fz; 20-50Hz), accompanied by a reduced step length and walking speed. All became similar to normal gait when patients walked with enhanced arm swing. When healthy controls walked without arm swing, their alternating ERD-ERS pattern decreased, mimicking baseline PD gait. CONCLUSION Enhanced arm swing may serve as a driving force to overcome impaired gait control in PD patients by restoring reduced ERD-ERS alternation over the putative SMA. Accompanied by increased step length and walking speed, this provides a neural underpinning of arm swing as an effective rehabilitation concept for improving Parkinsonian gait.
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- Joyce B Weersink
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Weersink JB, Maurits NM, de Jong BM. Amble Gait EEG Points at Complementary Cortical Networks Underlying Stereotypic Multi-Limb Co-ordination. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:691482. [PMID: 34413729 PMCID: PMC8370810 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.691482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Background Walking is characterized by stable antiphase relations between upper and lower limb movements. Such bilateral rhythmic movement patterns are neuronally generated at levels of the spinal cord and brain stem, that are strongly interconnected with cortical circuitries, including the Supplementary Motor Area (SMA). Objective To explore cerebral activity associated with multi-limb phase relations in human gait by manipulating mutual attunement of the upper and lower limb antiphase patterns. Methods Cortical activity and gait were assessed by ambulant EEG, accelerometers and videorecordings in 35 healthy participants walking normally and 19 healthy participants walking in amble gait, where upper limbs moved in-phase with the lower limbs. Power changes across the EEG frequency spectrum were assessed by Event Related Spectral Perturbation analysis and gait analysis was performed. Results Amble gait was associated with enhanced Event Related Desynchronization (ERD) prior to and during especially the left swing phase and reduced Event Related Synchronization (ERS) at final swing phases. ERD enhancement was most pronounced over the putative right premotor, right primary motor and right parietal cortex, indicating involvement of higher-order organization and somatosensory guidance in the production of this more complex gait pattern, with an apparent right hemisphere dominance. The diminished within-step ERD/ERS pattern in amble gait, also over the SMA, suggests that this gait pattern is more stride driven instead of step driven. Conclusion Increased four-limb phase complexity recruits distributed networks upstream of the primary motor cortex, primarily lateralized in the right hemisphere. Similar parietal-premotor involvement has been described to compensate impaired SMA function in Parkinson’s disease bimanual antiphase movement, indicating a role as cortical support regions.
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- Joyce B Weersink
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Marapin RS, Gelauff JM, Marsman JBC, de Jong BM, Dreissen YEM, Koelman JHTM, van der Horn HJ, Tijssen MAJ. Altered Posterior Midline Activity in Patients with Jerky and Tremulous Functional Movement Disorders. Brain Connect 2021; 11:584-593. [PMID: 33724053 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2020.0779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Objective: To explore changes in resting-state networks in patients with jerky and tremulous functional movement disorders (JT-FMD). Methods: Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from seventeen patients with JT-FMD and seventeen age-, sex-, and education-matched healthy controls (HC) were investigated. Independent component analysis was used to examine the central executive network (CEN), salience network, and default mode network (DMN). Frequency distribution of network signal fluctuations and intra- and internetwork functional connectivity were investigated. Symptom severity was measured using the Clinical Global Impression-Severity scale. Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Inventory scores were collected to measure depression and anxiety in FMD, respectively. Results: Compared with HC, patients with JT-FMD had significantly decreased power of lower range (0.01-0.10 Hz) frequency fluctuations in a precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex component of the DMN and in the dorsal attention network (DAN) component of the CEN (false discovery rate-corrected p < 0.05). No significant group differences were found for intra- and internetwork functional connectivity. In patients with JT-FMD, symptom severity was not significantly correlated with network measures. Depression scores were weakly correlated with intranetwork functional connectivity in the medial prefrontal cortex, while anxiety was not found to be related to network connectivity. Conclusions: Given the changes in the posterodorsal components of the DMN and DAN, we postulate that the JT-FMD-related functional alterations found in these regions could provide support for the concept that particularly attentional dysregulation is a fundamental disturbance in these patients.
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- Ramesh S Marapin
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Weersink JB, de Jong BM, Halliday DM, Maurits NM. Intermuscular coherence analysis in older adults reveals that gait-related arm swing drives lower limb muscles via subcortical and cortical pathways. J Physiol 2021; 599:2283-2298. [PMID: 33687081 PMCID: PMC8252748 DOI: 10.1113/jp281094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [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: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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KEY POINTS Gait-related arm swing in humans supports efficient lower limb muscle activation, indicating a neural coupling between the upper and lower limbs during gait. Intermuscular coherence analyses of gait-related electromyography from upper and lower limbs in 20 healthy participants identified significant coherence in alpha and beta/gamma bands indicating that upper and lower limbs share common subcortical and cortical drivers that coordinate the rhythmic four-limb gait pattern. Additional directed connectivity analyses revealed that upper limb muscles drive and shape lower limb muscle activity during gait via subcortical and cortical pathways and to a lesser extent vice versa. The results provide a neural underpinning that arm swing may serve as an effective rehabilitation therapy concerning impaired gait in neurological diseases. ABSTRACT Human gait benefits from arm swing, as it enhances efficient lower limb muscle activation in healthy participants as well as patients suffering from neurological impairment. The underlying neuronal mechanisms of such coupling between upper and lower limbs remain poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to examine this coupling by intermuscular coherence analysis during gait. Additionally, directed connectivity analysis of this coupling enabled assessment of whether gait-related arm swing indeed drives lower limb muscles. To that end, electromyography recordings were obtained from four lower limb muscles and two upper limb muscles bilaterally, during gait, of 20 healthy participants (mean (SD) age 67 (6.8) years). Intermuscular coherence analysis revealed functional coupling between upper and lower limb muscles in the alpha and beta/gamma band during muscle specific periods of the gait cycle. These effects in the alpha and beta/gamma bands indicate involvement of subcortical and cortical sources, respectively, that commonly drive the rhythmic four-limb gait pattern in an efficiently coordinated fashion. Directed connectivity analysis revealed that upper limb muscles drive and shape lower limb muscle activity during gait via subcortical and cortical pathways and to a lesser extent vice versa. This indicates that gait-related arm swing reflects the recruitment of neuronal support for optimizing the cyclic movement pattern of the lower limbs. These findings thus provide a neural underpinning for arm swing to potentially serve as an effective rehabilitation therapy concerning impaired gait in neurological diseases.
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- Joyce B Weersink
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Electronic Engineering & York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Peretti DE, Renken RJ, Reesink FE, de Jong BM, De Deyn PP, Dierckx RAJO, Doorduin J, Boellaard R, Vállez García D. Feasibility of pharmacokinetic parametric PET images in scaled subprofile modelling using principal component analysis. Neuroimage Clin 2021; 30:102625. [PMID: 33756179 PMCID: PMC8020472 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Scaled subprofile model using principal component analysis (SSM/PCA) is a multivariate analysis technique used, mainly in [18F]-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) PET studies, for the generation of disease-specific metabolic patterns (DP) that may aid with the classification of subjects with neurological disorders, like Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of using quantitative parametric images for this type of analysis, with dynamic [11C]-labelled Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB) PET data as an example. Therefore, 15 AD patients and 15 healthy control subjects were included in an SSM/PCA analysis to generate four AD-DPs using relative cerebral blood flow (R1), binding potential (BPND) and SUVR images derived from dynamic PIB and static FDG-PET studies. Furthermore, 49 new subjects with a variety of neurodegenerative cognitive disorders were tested against these DPs. The AD-DP was characterized by a reduction in the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes voxel values for R1 and SUVR-FDG DPs; and by a general increase of values in cortical areas for BPND and SUVR-PIB DPs. In conclusion, the results suggest that the combination of parametric images derived from a single dynamic scan might be a good alternative for subject classification instead of using 2 independent PET studies.
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- Débora E Peretti
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, The Netherlands.
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Cognitive Neuroscience Centre, Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cell & Systems, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Research Centre, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Research Centre, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Research Centre, The Netherlands; University of Antwerp, Institute Born-Bunge, Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behaviour, Belgium
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, The Netherlands
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, The Netherlands
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Kolinger GD, Vállez García D, Willemsen ATM, Reesink FE, de Jong BM, Dierckx RAJO, De Deyn PP, Boellaard R. Amyloid burden quantification depends on PET and MR image processing methodology. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0248122. [PMID: 33667281 PMCID: PMC7935288 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Quantification of amyloid load with positron emission tomography can be useful to assess Alzheimer's Disease in-vivo. However, quantification can be affected by the image processing methodology applied. This study's goal was to address how amyloid quantification is influenced by different semi-automatic image processing pipelines. Images were analysed in their Native Space and Standard Space; non-rigid spatial transformation methods based on maximum a posteriori approaches and tissue probability maps (TPM) for regularisation were explored. Furthermore, grey matter tissue segmentations were defined before and after spatial normalisation, and also using a population-based template. Five quantification metrics were analysed: two intensity-based, two volumetric-based, and one multi-parametric feature. Intensity-related metrics were not substantially affected by spatial normalisation and did not significantly depend on the grey matter segmentation method, with an impact similar to that expected from test-retest studies (≤10%). Yet, volumetric and multi-parametric features were sensitive to the image processing methodology, with an overall variability up to 45%. Therefore, the analysis should be carried out in Native Space avoiding non-rigid spatial transformations. For analyses in Standard Space, spatial normalisation regularised by TPM is preferred. Volumetric-based measurements should be done in Native Space, while intensity-based metrics are more robust against differences in image processing pipelines.
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- Guilherme D. Kolinger
- Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Research Centre, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Research Centre, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Research Centre, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behaviour, Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Medical Imaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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van Veen R, Gurvits V, Kogan RV, Meles SK, de Vries GJ, Renken RJ, Rodriguez-Oroz MC, Rodriguez-Rojas R, Arnaldi D, Raffa S, de Jong BM, Leenders KL, Biehl M. An application of generalized matrix learning vector quantization in neuroimaging. Comput Methods Programs Biomed 2020; 197:105708. [PMID: 32977181 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2020] [Accepted: 08/08/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's disease often take several years before they can be diagnosed reliably based on clinical grounds. Imaging techniques such as MRI are used to detect anatomical (structural) pathological changes. However, these kinds of changes are usually seen only late in the development. The measurement of functional brain activity by means of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) can provide useful information, but its interpretation is more difficult. The scaled sub-profile model principal component analysis (SSM/PCA) was shown to provide more useful information than other statistical techniques. Our objective is to improve the performance further by combining SSM/PCA and prototype-based generalized matrix learning vector quantization (GMLVQ). METHODS We apply a combination of SSM/PCA and GMLVQ as a classifier. In order to demonstrate the combination's validity, we analyze FDG-PET data of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients collected at three different neuroimaging centers in Europe. We determine the diagnostic performance by performing a ten times repeated ten fold cross validation. Additionally, discriminant visualizations of the data are included. The prototypes and relevance of GMLVQ are transformed back to the original voxel space by exploiting the linearity of SSM/PCA. The resulting prototypes and relevance profiles have then been assessed by three neurologists. RESULTS One important finding is that discriminative visualization can help to identify disease-related properties as well as differences which are due to center-specific factors. Secondly, the neurologist assessed the interpretability of the method and confirmed that prototypes are similar to known activity profiles of PD patients. CONCLUSION We have shown that the presented combination of SSM/PCA and GMLVQ can provide useful means to assess and better understand characteristic differences in FDG-PET data from PD patients and HCs. Based on the assessments by medical experts and the results of our computational analysis we conclude that the first steps towards a diagnostic support system have been taken successfully.
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- Rick van Veen
- Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells & Systems, Cognitive Neuroscience Center, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Genoa, Italy; Neurology Clinic, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Genoa, Italy; Nuclear Medicine Unit, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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Kok JG, Leemans A, Teune LK, Leenders KL, McKeown MJ, Appel-Cresswell S, Kremer HPH, de Jong BM. Structural Network Analysis Using Diffusion MRI Tractography in Parkinson's Disease and Correlations With Motor Impairment. Front Neurol 2020; 11:841. [PMID: 32982909 PMCID: PMC7492210 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Functional impairment of spatially distributed brain regions in Parkinson's disease (PD) suggests changes in integrative and segregative network characteristics, for which novel analysis methods are available. To assess underlying structural network differences between PD patients and controls, we employed MRI T1 gray matter segmentation and diffusion MRI tractography to construct connectivity matrices to compare patients and controls with data originating from two different centers. In the Dutch dataset (Data-NL), 14 PD patients, and 15 healthy controls were analyzed, while 19 patients and 18 controls were included in the Canadian dataset (Data-CA). All subjects underwent T1 and diffusion-weighted MRI. Patients were assessed with Part 3 of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS). T1 images were segmented using FreeSurfer, while tractography was performed using ExploreDTI. The regions of interest from the FreeSurfer segmentation were combined with the white matter streamline sets resulting from the tractography, to construct connectivity matrices. From these matrices, both global and local efficiencies were calculated, which were compared between the PD and control groups and related to the UPDRS motor scores. The connectivity matrices showed consistent patterns among the four groups, without significant differences between PD patients and control subjects, either in Data-NL or in Data-CA. In Data-NL, however, global and local efficiencies correlated negatively with UPDRS scores at both the whole-brain and the nodal levels [false discovery rate (FDR) 0.05]. At the nodal level, particularly, the posterior parietal cortex showed a negative correlation between UPDRS and local efficiency, while global efficiency correlated negatively with the UPDRS in the sensorimotor cortex. The spatial patterns of negative correlations between UPDRS and parameters for network efficiency seen in Data-NL suggest subtle structural differences in PD that were below sensitivity thresholds in Data-CA. These correlations are in line with previously described functional differences. The methodological approaches to detect such differences are discussed.
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- Jelmer G Kok
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Marapin RS, van der Stouwe AMM, de Jong BM, Gelauff JM, Vergara VM, Calhoun VD, Dalenberg JR, Dreissen YEM, Koelman JHTM, Tijssen MAJ, van der Horn HJ. The chronnectome as a model for Charcot's 'dynamic lesion' in functional movement disorders. Neuroimage Clin 2020; 28:102381. [PMID: 32927233 PMCID: PMC7495110 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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This exploratory study set out to investigate dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) in patients with jerky and tremulous functional movement disorders (JT-FMD). The focus in this work is on dynamic brain states, which represent distinct dFC patterns that reoccur in time and across subjects. Resting-state fMRI data were collected from 17 patients with JT-FMD and 17 healthy controls (HC). Symptom severity was measured using the Clinical Global Impression-Severity scale. Depression and anxiety were measured using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), respectively. Independent component analysis was used to extract functional brain components. After computing dFC, dynamic brain states were determined for every subject using k-means clustering. Compared to HC, patients with JT-FMD spent more time in a state that was characterized predominantly by increasing medial prefrontal, and decreasing posterior midline connectivity over time. They also tended to visit this state more frequently. In addition, patients with JT-FMD transitioned significantly more often between different states compared to HC, and incorporated a state with decreasing medial prefrontal, and increasing posterior midline connectivity in their attractor, i.e., the cyclic patterns of state transitions. Altogether, this is the first study that demonstrates altered functional brain network dynamics in JT-FMD that may support concepts of increased self-reflective processes and impaired sense of agency as driving factors in FMD.
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- Ramesh S Marapin
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands; Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands; Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory, 55 Park Pl NE, Atlanta, GA 30303, United States
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- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory, 55 Park Pl NE, Atlanta, GA 30303, United States.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands; Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, location AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, location AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands; Expertise Center Movement Disorders Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Weersink JB, Gefferie SR, van Laar T, Maurits NM, de Jong BM. Pre-Movement Cortico-Muscular Dynamics Underlying Improved Parkinson Gait Initiation after Instructed Arm Swing. J Parkinsons Dis 2020; 10:1675-1693. [PMID: 32773398 PMCID: PMC7683047 DOI: 10.3233/jpd-202112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The supplementary motor area (SMA) is implicated in both motor initiation and stereotypic multi-limb movements such as walking with arm swing. Gait in Parkinson's disease exhibits starting difficulties and reduced arm swing, consistent with reduced SMA activity. OBJECTIVE We tested whether enhanced arm swing could improve Parkinson gait initiation and assessed whether increased SMA activity during preparation might facilitate such improvement. METHODS Effects of instructed arm swing on cortical activity, muscle activity and kinematics were assessed by ambulant EEG, EMG, accelerometers and video in 17 Parkinson patients and 19 controls. At baseline, all participants repeatedly started walking after a simple auditory cue. Next, patients started walking at this cue, which now meant starting with enhanced arm swing. EEG changes over the putative SMA and leg motor cortex were assessed by event related spectral perturbation (ERSP) analysis of recordings at Fz and Cz. RESULTS Over the putative SMA location (Fz), natural PD gait initiation showed enhanced alpha/theta synchronization around the auditory cue, and reduced alpha/beta desynchronization during gait preparation and movement onset, compared to controls. Leg muscle activity in patients was reduced during preparation and movement onset, while the latter was delayed compared to controls. When starting with enhanced arm swing, these group differences virtually disappeared. CONCLUSION Instructed arm swing improves Parkinson gait initiation. ERSP normalization around the cue indicates that the attributed information may serve as a semi-internal cue, recruiting an internalized motor program to overcome initiation difficulties.
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- Joyce B. Weersink
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Peretti DE, Vállez García D, Reesink FE, Doorduin J, de Jong BM, De Deyn PP, Dierckx RAJO, Boellaard R. Diagnostic performance of regional cerebral blood flow images derived from dynamic PIB scans in Alzheimer's disease. EJNMMI Res 2019; 9:59. [PMID: 31273465 PMCID: PMC6609664 DOI: 10.1186/s13550-019-0528-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2019] [Accepted: 06/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In clinical practice, visual assessment of glucose metabolism images is often used for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) through 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) scans. However, visual assessment of the characteristic AD hypometabolic pattern relies on the expertise of the reader. Therefore, user-independent pipelines are preferred to evaluate the images and to classify the subjects. Moreover, glucose consumption is highly correlated with cerebral perfusion. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) images can be derived from dynamic 11C-labelled Pittsburgh Compound B PET scans, which are also used for the assessment of the deposition of amyloid-β plaques on the brain, a fundamental characteristic of AD. The aim of this study was to explore whether these rCBF PIB images could be used for diagnostic purposes through the PMOD Alzheimer's Discrimination Tool. RESULTS Both tracer relative cerebral flow (R1) and early PIB (ePIB) (20-130 s) uptake presented a good correlation when compared to FDG standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR), while ePIB (1-8 min) showed a worse correlation. All receiver operating characteristic curves exhibited a similar shape, with high area under the curve values, and no statistically significant differences were found between curves. However, R1 and ePIB (1-8 min) had the highest sensitivity, while FDG SUVR had the highest specificity. CONCLUSION rCBF images were suggested to be a good surrogate for FDG scans for diagnostic purposes considering an adjusted threshold value.
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- Débora E. Peretti
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Centrum Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Centrum Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Centrum Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
- Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behaviour, Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ Groningen, The Netherlands
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Beudel M, Sadnicka A, Edwards M, de Jong BM. Linking Pathological Oscillations With Altered Temporal Processing in Parkinsons Disease: Neurophysiological Mechanisms and Implications for Neuromodulation. Front Neurol 2019; 10:462. [PMID: 31133967 PMCID: PMC6523774 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2019.00462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [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: 01/29/2019] [Accepted: 04/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Emerging evidence suggests that Parkinson's disease (PD) results from disrupted oscillatory activity in cortico-basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical (CBGTC) and cerebellar networks which can be partially corrected by applying deep brain stimulation (DBS). The inherent dynamic nature of such oscillatory activity might implicate that is represents temporal aspects of motor control. While the timing of muscle activities in CBGTC networks constitute the temporal dimensions of distinct motor acts, these very networks are also involved in somatosensory processing. In this respect, a temporal aspect of somatosensory processing in motor control concerns matching predicted (feedforward) and actual (feedback) sensory consequences of movement which implies a distinct contribution to demarcating the temporal order of events. Emerging evidence shows that such somatosensory processing is altered in movement disorders. This raises the question how disrupted oscillatory activity is related to impaired temporal processing and how/whether DBS can functionally restore this. In this perspective article, the neural underpinnings of temporal processing will be reviewed and translated to the specific alternated oscillatory neural activity specifically found in Parkinson's disease. These findings will be integrated in a neurophysiological framework linking somatosensory and motor processing. Finally, future implications for neuromodulation will be discussed with potential implications for strategy across a range of movement disorders.
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- Martijn Beudel
- Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Brain Sciences, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Neurology, St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurology, St. George's University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Weersink JB, Maurits NM, de Jong BM. EEG time-frequency analysis provides arguments for arm swing support in human gait control. Gait Posture 2019; 70:71-78. [PMID: 30826690 DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2019.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Revised: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 02/22/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Human gait benefits from arm swing, which requires four-limb co-ordination. The Supplementary Motor Area (SMA) is involved in multi-limb coordination. With its location anterior to the leg motor cortex and the pattern of its connections, this suggests a distinct role in gait control. RESEARCH QUESTION Is the SMA functionally implicated in gait-related arm swing? METHODS Ambulant electroencephalography (EEG) was employed during walking with and without arm swing in twenty healthy subjects (mean age: 64.9yrs, SD 7.2). Power changes across the EEG frequency spectrum were assessed by Event Related Spectral Perturbation (ERSP) analysis over both the putative SMA at electrode position Fz and additional sensorimotor regions. RESULTS During walking with arm swing, midline electrodes Fz and Cz showed a step-related pattern of Event Related Desynchronization (ERD) followed by Event Related Synchronization (ERS). Walking without arm swing was associated with significant ERD-ERS power reduction in the high-beta/low-gamma band over Fz and a power increase over Cz. Electrodes C3 and C4 revealed a pattern of ERD during contralateral- and ERS during ipsilateral leg swing. This ERD power decreased in gait without arm swing (low-frequency band). The ERSP pattern during walking with arm swing was similar at CP1 and CP2: ERD was seen during double support and the initial swing phase of the right leg, while a strong ERS emerged during the second half of the left leg's swing. Walking without arm swing showed a significant power reduction of this ERD-ERS pattern over CP2, while over CP1, ERS during left leg's swing turned into ERD. CONCLUSION The relation between arm swing in walking and a step-related ERD-ERS pattern in the high-beta/low-gamma band over the putative SMA, points at an SMA contribution to integrated cyclic anti-phase movements of upper- and lower limbs. This supports a cortical underpinning of arm swing support in gait control.
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- Joyce B Weersink
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, POB 30.001, Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Peretti DE, Vállez García D, Reesink FE, van der Goot T, De Deyn PP, de Jong BM, Dierckx RAJO, Boellaard R. Correction: Relative cerebral flow from dynamic PIB scans as an alternative for FDG scans in Alzheimer's disease PET studies. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0214187. [PMID: 30883613 PMCID: PMC6422286 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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de Jong BM. Free Will Emerges From a Multistage Process of Target Assignment and Body-Scheme Recruitment for Free Effector Selection. Front Psychol 2019; 10:388. [PMID: 30873085 PMCID: PMC6401622 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 02/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Self-intended action implies an initial stage of assigning an external entity as target of action, with subsequent recruitment of body-scheme information serving the free selection of an appropriate effector system to achieve the action aim. This plurality underscores the concept that neuronal response freedom underlying the generation of such action is not necessarily restricted to a singular cerebral event at its initiation, but that such freedom is embedded in a series of successive processing steps. In this respect, action intention initially concerns the transition of a neutral object into a target of action, while the “will” to act further crystalizes with the recruitment of one’s body scheme. The latter is a prerequisite for effector selection and indeed complements the emerging sense of agency. This temporal order of neuronal events fits a model of fronto-parietal interactions associated with volition. A concise behavioral experiment is additionally described, in which successively displayed balls represent either a recognizable object with distinct shape and color features, or a target of action. Instructions to write down the ball’s characteristics were alternated by the command ”action.” When shifting from a neutral object to an action target, the ball was placed in one of three backgrounds: empty, an outdoor goal or indoor basket. In response to the action command, subjects reported intended actions such as kicking, seizing, throwing and heading, thus implicitly referring to the foot, hand, or head as chosen effector. For the latter the parietal cortex is strongly implicated, not only concerning predefined but also free selection. Although subjects were free to choose what to do with the ball, the environmental cues of the ball strongly influenced their choices. These results illustrate the temporal order in fronto-parietal processing associated with initial target assignment, instantly followed by the embodiment of will, i.e., the recruitment of body-scheme information for possible effector selection. Such multistage neuronal processing underlying free action selection underscores that the onset of brain signals prior to the perceived sense of free will is not a valid argument to reduce free will to an illusion.
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- Bauke M de Jong
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Peretti DE, Vállez García D, Reesink FE, van der Goot T, De Deyn PP, de Jong BM, Dierckx RAJO, Boellaard R. Relative cerebral flow from dynamic PIB scans as an alternative for FDG scans in Alzheimer's disease PET studies. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0211000. [PMID: 30653612 PMCID: PMC6336325 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Accepted: 01/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
In Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) dual-tracer positron emission tomography (PET) studies with 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) and 11C-labelled Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB) are used to assess metabolism and cerebral amyloid-β deposition, respectively. Regional cerebral metabolism and blood flow (rCBF) are closely coupled, both providing an index for neuronal function. The present study compared PIB-derived rCBF, estimated by the ratio of tracer influx in target regions relative to reference region (R1) and early-stage PIB uptake (ePIB), to FDG scans. Fifteen PIB positive (+) patients and fifteen PIB negative (-) subjects underwent both FDG and PIB PET scans to assess the use of R1 and ePIB as a surrogate for FDG. First, subjects were classified based on visual inspection of the PIB PET images. Then, discriminative performance (PIB+ versus PIB-) of rCBF methods were compared to normalized regional FDG uptake. Strong positive correlations were found between analyses, suggesting that PIB-derived rCBF provides information that is closely related to what can be seen on FDG scans. Yet group related differences between method’s distributions were seen as well. Also, a better correlation with FDG was found for R1 than for ePIB. Further studies are needed to validate the use of R1 as an alternative for FDG studies in clinical applications.
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- Débora E. Peretti
- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Research Centre, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Research Centre, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Institute Born-Bunge, Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behaviour, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Research Centre, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Weersink JB, Eikelboom C, Dominguez Vega ZT, Maurits NM, de Jong BM. Forward arm extension as a cue for gait initiation in Parkinson's patients. Mov Disord 2018; 33:1826-1827. [PMID: 30329182 DOI: 10.1002/mds.27510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2018] [Revised: 08/29/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Joyce B Weersink
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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van Zijl JC, Beudel M, de Jong BM, van der Naalt J, Zutt R, Lange F, van den Bergh WM, Elting JWJ, Tijssen MAJ. The interrelation between clinical presentation and neurophysiology of posthypoxic myoclonus. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2018; 5:386-396. [PMID: 29687017 PMCID: PMC5899907 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2017] [Accepted: 11/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Objective Posthypoxic myoclonus (PHM) in the first few days after resuscitation can be divided clinically into generalized and focal (uni‐ and multifocal) subtypes. The former is associated with a subcortical origin and poor prognosis in patients with postanoxic encephalopathy (PAE), and the latter with a cortical origin and better prognosis. However, use of PHM as prognosticator in PAE is hampered by the modest objectivity in its clinical assessment. Therefore, we aimed to obtain the anatomical origin of PHM with use of neurophysiological investigations, and relate these to its clinical presentation. Methods This study included 20 patients (56 ± 18 y/o, 68% M, 2 survived, 1 excluded) with EEG‐EMG‐video recording. Three neurologists classified PHM into generalized or focal PHM. Anatomical origin (cortical/subcortical) was assessed with basic and advanced neurophysiology (Jerk‐Locked Back Averaging, coherence analysis). Results Clinically assessed origin of PHM did not match the result obtained with neurophysiology: cortical PHM was more likely present in generalized than in focal PHM. In addition, some cases demonstrated co‐occurrence of cortical and subcortical myoclonus. Patients that recovered from PAE had cortical myoclonus (1 generalized, 1 focal). Interpretation Hypoxic damage to variable cortical and subcortical areas in the brain may lead to mixed and varying clinical manifestations of myoclonus that differ of those patients with myoclonus generally encountered in the outpatient clinic. The current clinical classification of PHM is not adequately refined to play a pivotal role in guiding treatment decisions to withdraw care. Our neurophysiological characterization of PHM provides specific parameters to be used in designing future comprehensive studies addressing the potential role of PHM as prognosticator in PAE.
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- Jonathan C van Zijl
- Department of Neurology University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands.,Department of Clinical Neurophysiology University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands
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- Department of Critical Care University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands.,Department of Clinical Neurophysiology University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) University of Groningen Hanzeplein 1 9700 RB Groningen Netherlands
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Smit M, Vállez García D, de Jong BM, Zoons E, Booij J, Dierckx RA, Willemsen AT, de Vries EF, Bartels AL, Tijssen MA. Relationships between Serotonin Transporter Binding in the Raphe Nuclei, Basal Ganglia, and Hippocampus with Clinical Symptoms in Cervical Dystonia: A [ 11C]DASB Positron Emission Tomography Study. Front Neurol 2018. [PMID: 29541052 PMCID: PMC5835525 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Purpose Alterations of the central serotonergic system have been implicated in the pathophysiology of dystonia. In this molecular imaging study, we assessed whether altered presynaptic serotonin transporter (SERT) binding contributes to the pathophysiology of cervical dystonia (CD), concerning both motor and non-motor symptoms (NMS). Methods We assessed the non-displaceable binding potential (BPND) using the selective SERT tracer [11C]DASB and positron emission tomography (PET) in 14 CD patients and 12 age- and gender-matched controls. Severity of motor symptoms was scored using the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale and Clinical Global Impression jerks/tremor scale. NMS for depressive symptoms, anxiety, fatigue, and sleep disturbances were assessed with quantitative rating scales. The relationship between SERT binding and clinical patient characteristics was analyzed with the Spearman’s rho test and multiple regression. Results When comparing the CD patients with controls, no significant differences in BPND were found. Higher BPND in the dorsal raphe nucleus was statistically significantly correlated (p < 0.001) with motor symptom severity (rs = 0.65), pain (rs = 0.73), and sleep disturbances (rs = 0.73), with motor symptom severity being the most important predictor of SERT binding. Furthermore, fatigue was negatively associated with the BPND in the medial raphe nucleus (rs = −0.61, p = 0.045), and sleep disorders were positively associated with the BPND in the caudate nucleus (rs = 0.58, p = 0.03) and the hippocampus (rs = 0.56, p = 0.02). Conclusion Motor symptoms, as well as pain, sleep disturbances, and fatigue in CD showed a significant relationship with SERT binding in the raphe nuclei. Moreover, fatigue showed a significant relationship with the medial raphe nucleus and sleep disorders with the caudate nucleus and hippocampus. These findings suggest that an altered serotonergic signaling in different brain areas in CD is related to different motor as well as NMS, which will further stimulate research on the role of serotonin in the pathogenesis of dystonia.
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- Marenka Smit
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.,Department of Neurology, Ommelander Hospital Group, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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van Zijl JC, Beudel M, Elting JWJ, de Jong BM, van der Naalt J, van den Bergh WM, Rossetti AO, Tijssen MAJ, Horn J. The Inter-rater Variability of Clinical Assessment in Post-anoxic Myoclonus. Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y) 2017; 7:470. [PMID: 28966876 PMCID: PMC5618111 DOI: 10.7916/d81r6xbv] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/01/2017] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
Background Acute post-anoxic myoclonus (PAM) can be divided into an unfavorable (generalized/subcortical) and more favorable ((multi)focal/cortical) outcome group that could support prognostication in post-anoxic encephalopathy; however, the inter-rater variability of clinically assessing these PAM subtypes is unknown. Methods We prospectively examined PAM patients using a standardized video protocol. Videos were rated by three neurologists who classified PAM phenotype (generalized/(multi)focal), stimulus sensitivity, localization (proximal/distal/both), and severity (Clinical Global Impression-Severity Scale (CGI-S) and Unified Myoclonus Rating Scale (UMRS)). Results Poor inter-rater agreement was found for phenotype and stimulus sensitivity (κ=−0.05), moderate agreement for localization (κ=0.46). Substantial agreement was obtained for the CGI-S (intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)=0.64) and almost perfect agreement for the UMRS (ICC=0.82). Discussion Clinical assessment of PAM is not reproducible between physicians, and should therefore not be used for prognostication. PAM severity measured by the UMRS appears to be reliable; however, the relation between PAM severity and outcome is unknown.
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- Jonathan C van Zijl
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Intensive Care Medicine, Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Harris R, Leenders KL, de Jong BM. Speech dysprosody but no music 'dysprosody' in Parkinson's disease. Brain Lang 2016; 163:1-9. [PMID: 27618779 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2016.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2015] [Revised: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 08/21/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Parkinson's disease is characterized not only by bradykinesia, rigidity, and tremor, but also by impairments of expressive and receptive linguistic prosody. The facilitating effect of music with a salient beat on patients' gait suggests that it might have a similar effect on vocal behavior, however it is currently unknown whether singing is affected by the disease. In the present study, fifteen Parkinson patients were compared with fifteen healthy controls during the singing of familiar melodies and improvised melodic continuations. While patients' speech could reliably be distinguished from that of healthy controls matched for age and gender, purely on the basis of aural perception, no significant differences in singing were observed, either in pitch, pitch range, pitch variability, and tempo, or in scale tone distribution, interval size or interval variability. The apparent dissociation of speech and singing in Parkinson's disease suggests that music could be used to facilitate expressive linguistic prosody.
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- Robert Harris
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands; Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Veemarktstraat 76, 9724 GA Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Meles SK, Teune LK, de Jong BM, Dierckx RA, Leenders KL. Metabolic Imaging in Parkinson Disease. J Nucl Med 2016; 58:23-28. [DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.116.183152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2016] [Accepted: 11/18/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Erkelens CD, van der Wal HH, de Jong BM, Elting JW, Renken R, Gerritsen M, van Laar PJ, van Deursen VM, van der Meer P, van Veldhuisen DJ, Voors AA, Luijckx GJ. Dynamics of cerebral blood flow in patients with mild non-ischaemic heart failure. Eur J Heart Fail 2016; 19:261-268. [PMID: 27862767 DOI: 10.1002/ejhf.660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2016] [Revised: 08/02/2016] [Accepted: 08/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
AIMS Heart failure (HF) is associated with tissue hypoperfusion and congestion leading to organ dysfunction. Although cerebral blood flow (CBF) is preserved over a wide range of perfusion pressures in healthy subjects, it is impaired in end-stage HF. We aimed to compare CBF, autoregulation, and cognitive function in patients with mild non-ischaemic HF with healthy controls. METHODS AND RESULTS Fifteen patients with mild idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and 15 matched healthy controls were studied. Co-existing cerebrovascular disease was excluded. All subjects, except five patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, underwent magnetic resonance imaging for measurements of both CBF by arterial spin labelling and quantitative volume flow entering the brain. Cardiocerebral vascular function was assessed with Doppler techniques testing cerebral dynamic autoregulation and vasomotor reactivity. Cognitive analysis was performed by neuropsychological testing. Global and regional CBF did not differ between HF patients (44.3 mL/100 g.min) and controls (42.1 mL/100 g.min). Basilar but not carotid artery inflow was reduced in patients (1.95 mL/s vs. 2.51 mL/s, P = 0.009). Testing autoregulation revealed fewer dampened blood flow fluctuations in HF patients vs. controls (0.96% vs. 0.67%, P < 0.001). Vasomotor reactivity in HF patients showed a reduced CBF velocity (48.4% vs. 61.0%, P = 0.05) and regional cerebral oxygen saturation (18.3% vs. 23.8%, P = 0.02). Cognitive function overall was not affected. CONCLUSION Although global CBF was unaffected in patients with mild HF, significant changes in basilar inflow volume, cerebral autoregulation and vasomotor reactivity were observed. We describe a model of dynamic cerebral mechanisms required to compensate for the impaired haemodynamics in early-stage HF.
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- Christian D Erkelens
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Neuro-Imaging Centre, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neuropsychology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Neuro-Imaging Centre, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, PO Box 30.001, 9700RB, Groningen, the Netherlands
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Harris R, van Kranenburg P, de Jong BM. Behavioral Quantification of Audiomotor Transformations in Improvising and Score-Dependent Musicians. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0166033. [PMID: 27835631 PMCID: PMC5105996 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2016] [Accepted: 10/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The historically developed practice of learning to play a music instrument from notes instead of by imitation or improvisation makes it possible to contrast two types of skilled musicians characterized not only by dissimilar performance practices, but also disparate methods of audiomotor learning. In a recent fMRI study comparing these two groups of musicians while they either imagined playing along with a recording or covertly assessed the quality of the performance, we observed activation of a right-hemisphere network of posterior superior parietal and dorsal premotor cortices in improvising musicians, indicating more efficient audiomotor transformation. In the present study, we investigated the detailed performance characteristics underlying the ability of both groups of musicians to replicate music on the basis of aural perception alone. Twenty-two classically-trained improvising and score-dependent musicians listened to short, unfamiliar two-part excerpts presented with headphones. They played along or replicated the excerpts by ear on a digital piano, either with or without aural feedback. In addition, they were asked to harmonize or transpose some of the excerpts either to a different key or to the relative minor. MIDI recordings of their performances were compared with recordings of the aural model. Concordance was expressed in an audiomotor alignment score computed with the help of music information retrieval algorithms. Significantly higher alignment scores were found when contrasting groups, voices, and tasks. The present study demonstrates the superior ability of improvising musicians to replicate both the pitch and rhythm of aurally perceived music at the keyboard, not only in the original key, but also in other tonalities. Taken together with the enhanced activation of the right dorsal frontoparietal network found in our previous fMRI study, these results underscore the conclusion that the practice of improvising music can be associated with enhanced audiomotor transformation in response to aurally perceived music.
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- Robert Harris
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- BCN Neuroimaging Center, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- BCN Neuroimaging Center, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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A 42‐year‐old male was admitted for refractory status epilepticus. At the age of 25, he had been diagnosed with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. He had a stable clinical course for over a decade until a recent deterioration of behavior and epilepsy. After exclusion of acquired disorders, diagnostic work‐up included application of next‐generation sequencing (NGS), with a gene panel targeting progressive myoclonic epilepsies. This resulted in the diagnosis Lafora disease resulting from compound heterozygous NHLRC1 pathogenic variants. Although these pathogenic variants may be associated with a variable phenotype, including both severe and mild clinical course, the clinical presentation of our patient at this age is very unusual for Lafora disease. Our case expands the phenotype spectrum of Lafora disease resulting from pathogenic NHLRC1 variants and illustrates the value of using NGS in clinical practice to lead to a rapid diagnosis and guide therapeutic options.
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- Rodi Zutt
- Department of Neurology University Medical Centre Groningen University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Centre Groningen University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands
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- Department of Genetics University Medical Centre Groningen University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Centre Groningen University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Centre Groningen University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Centre Groningen University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Centre Groningen University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology University Medical Centre Groningen University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands
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Nordhjem B, Ćurčić-Blake B, Meppelink AM, Renken RJ, de Jong BM, Leenders KL, van Laar T, Cornelissen FW. Lateral and Medial Ventral Occipitotemporal Regions Interact During the Recognition of Images Revealed from Noise. Front Hum Neurosci 2016; 9:678. [PMID: 26778997 PMCID: PMC4701927 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 07/24/2015] [Accepted: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Several studies suggest different functional roles for the medial and the lateral sections of the ventral visual cortex in object recognition. Texture and surface information is processed in medial sections, while shape information is processed in lateral sections. This begs the question whether and how these functionally specialized sections interact with each other and with early visual cortex to facilitate object recognition. In the current research, we set out to answer this question. In an fMRI study, 13 subjects viewed and recognized images of objects and animals that were gradually revealed from noise while their brains were being scanned. We applied dynamic causal modeling (DCM)-a method to characterize network interactions-to determine the modulatory effect of object recognition on a network comprising the primary visual cortex (V1), the lingual gyrus (LG) in medial ventral cortex and the lateral occipital cortex (LO). We found that object recognition modulated the bilateral connectivity between LG and LO. Moreover, the feed-forward connectivity from V1 to LG and LO was modulated, while there was no evidence for feedback from these regions to V1 during object recognition. In particular, the interaction between medial and lateral areas supports a framework in which visual recognition of objects is achieved by networked regions that integrate information on image statistics, scene content and shape-rather than by a single categorically specialized region-within the ventral visual cortex.
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- Barbara Nordhjem
- Laboratory for Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands; NeuroImaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands
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- NeuroImaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands
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- NeuroImaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands; Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands
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- NeuroImaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands
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- NeuroImaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands; Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands
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- NeuroImaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands; Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands
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- NeuroImaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands; Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands; NeuroImaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of GroningenGroningen, Netherlands
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Broersma M, van der Stouwe AMM, Buijink AWG, de Jong BM, Groot PFC, Speelman JD, Tijssen MAJ, van Rootselaar AF, Maurits NM. Bilateral cerebellar activation in unilaterally challenged essential tremor. Neuroimage Clin 2015; 11:1-9. [PMID: 26909321 PMCID: PMC4732188 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [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: 08/25/2015] [Revised: 12/23/2015] [Accepted: 12/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Background Essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common hyperkinetic movement disorders. Previous research into the pathophysiology of ET suggested underlying cerebellar abnormalities. Objective In this study, we added electromyography as an index of tremor intensity to functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (EMG-fMRI) to study a group of ET patients selected according to strict criteria to achieve maximal homogeneity. With this approach we expected to improve upon the localization of the bilateral cerebellar abnormalities found in earlier fMRI studies. Methods We included 21 propranolol sensitive patients, who were not using other tremor medication, with a definite diagnosis of ET defined by the Tremor Investigation Group. Simultaneous EMG-fMRI recordings were performed while patients were off tremor medication. Patients performed unilateral right hand and arm extension, inducing tremor, alternated with relaxation (rest). Twenty-one healthy, age- and sex-matched participants mimicked tremor during right arm extension. EMG power variability at the individual tremor frequency as a measure of tremor intensity variability was used as a regressor, mathematically independent of the block regressor, in the general linear model used for fMRI analysis, to find specific tremor-related activations. Results Block-related activations were found in the classical upper-limb motor network, both for ET patients and healthy participants in motor, premotor and supplementary motor areas. In ET patients, we found tremor-related activations bilaterally in the cerebellum: in left lobules V, VI, VIIb and IX and in right lobules V, VI, VIIIa and b, and in the brainstem. In healthy controls we found simulated tremor-related activations in right cerebellar lobule V. Conclusions Our results expand on previous findings of bilateral cerebellar involvement in ET. We have identified specific areas in the bilateral somatomotor regions of the cerebellum: lobules V, VI and VIII.
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- Marja Broersma
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands; Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands; Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Brain Imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands; Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands.
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- Brain Imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands; Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Brain Imaging Center, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands; Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Harris R, de Jong BM. Differential parietal and temporal contributions to music perception in improvising and score-dependent musicians, an fMRI study. Brain Res 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.06.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Kortekaas R, Nanetti L, Overgoor MLE, de Jong BM, Georgiadis JR. Central Somatosensory Networks Respond to a De Novo Innervated Penis: A Proof of Concept in Three Spina Bifida Patients. J Sex Med 2015; 12:1865-77. [PMID: 26293889 DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Spina bifida (SB) causes low spinal lesions, and patients often have absent genital sensation and a highly impaired sex life. TOMAX (TO MAX-imize sensation, sexuality and quality of life) is a surgical procedure whereby the penis is newly innervated using a sensory nerve originally targeting the inguinal area. Most TOMAX-treated SB patients initially experience penile stimulation as inguinal sensation, but eventually, the perception shifts to penis sensation with erotic feelings. The brain mechanisms mediating this perceptual shift, which are completely unknown, could hold relevance for understanding the brain's role in sexual development. AIM The aim of this study was to study how a newly perceived penis would be mapped onto the brain after a lifelong disconnection. METHODS Three TOMAX-treated SB patients participated in a functional magnetic resonance imagery experiment while glans penis, inguinal area, and index finger were stimulated with a paint brush. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Brush stimulation-induced activation of the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) and functional connectivity between SI and remote cerebral regions. RESULTS Stimulation of the re-innervated side of the glans penis and the intact contralateral inguinal area activated a very similar location on SI. Yet, connectivity analysis identified distinct SI functional networks. In all three subjects, the middle cingulate cortex (MCC) and the parietal operculum-insular cortex (OIC) were functionally connected to SI activity during glans penis stimulation, but not to SI activity induced by inguinal stimulation. CONCLUSIONS Investigating central somatosensory network activity to a de novo innervated penis in SB patients is feasible and informative. The consistent involvement of MCC and OIC above and beyond the brain network expected on the basis of inguinal stimulation suggests that these areas mediate the novel penis sensation in these patients. The potential role of MCC and OIC in this process is discussed, along with recommendations for further research.
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- Rudie Kortekaas
- Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Isala Klinieken, Zwolle, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Background Writing is a sequential motor action based on sensorimotor integration in visuospatial and linguistic functional domains. To test the hypothesis of lateralized circuitry concerning spatial and language components involved in such action, we employed an fMRI paradigm including writing and drawing with each hand. In this way, writing-related contributions of dorsal and ventral premotor regions in each hemisphere were assessed, together with effects in wider distributed circuitry. Given a right-hemisphere dominance for spatial action, right dorsal premotor cortex dominance was expected in left-hand writing while dominance of the left ventral premotor cortex was expected during right-hand writing. Methods Sixteen healthy right-handed subjects were scanned during audition-guided writing of short sentences and simple figure drawing without visual feedback. Tapping with a pencil served as a basic control task for the two higher-order motor conditions. Activation differences were assessed with Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM). Results Writing and drawing showed parietal-premotor and posterior inferior temporal activations in both hemispheres when compared to tapping. Drawing activations were rather symmetrical for each hand. Activations in left- and right-hand writing were left-hemisphere dominant, while right dorsal premotor activation only occurred in left-hand writing, supporting a spatial motor contribution of particularly the right hemisphere. Writing contrasted to drawing revealed left-sided activations in the dorsal and ventral premotor cortex, Broca’s area, pre-Supplementary Motor Area and posterior middle and inferior temporal gyri, without parietal activation. Discussion The audition-driven postero-inferior temporal activations indicated retrieval of virtual visual form characteristics in writing and drawing, with additional activation concerning word form in the left hemisphere. Similar parietal processing in writing and drawing pointed at a common mechanism by which such visually formatted information is used for subsequent sensorimotor integration along a dorsal visuomotor pathway. In this, the left posterior middle temporal gyrus subserves phonological-orthographical conversion, dissociating dorsal parietal-premotor circuitry from perisylvian circuitry including Broca's area.
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- Adriaan R. E. Potgieser
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Neuroimaging center, University Medical Center, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Neuroimaging center, University Medical Center, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Neuroimaging center, University Medical Center, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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van der Hoorn A, Potgieser ARE, Brouwer OF, de Jong BM. Compensatory cerebral motor control following presumed perinatal ischemic stroke. Eur J Paediatr Neurol 2014; 18:793-5. [PMID: 24958558 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpn.2014.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2013] [Revised: 05/27/2014] [Accepted: 06/01/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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CASE A fifteen year-old left-handed girl presented with right-sided focal motor seizures. Neuroimaging showed a large left hemisphere lesion compatible with a middle cerebral artery stroke of presumed perinatal origin. She was not previously diagnosed with a motor deficit, although neurological examination now revealed that it required more attention to use the affected right hand during both unimanual and bimanual movements. METHODS As perinatal stroke provides unique insight in plasticity of the brain, we performed functional and diffusion brain imaging showing reduction of pyramidal efferents from the affected hemisphere and extensive compensatory bilateral brain activations during right hand movements. RESULTS The activated compensatory network was extensive, comprising regions involved in higher-order motor control and visuospatial attention, now recruited during simple right unimanual and bimanual antiphase movements. DISCUSSION This pre-existing network for simple movements that healthy subjects only need to recruit for more complex motor actions, enabled our patient to perform simple right-handed movements.
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- Anouk van der Hoorn
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Potgieser AR, van der Hoorn A, Meppelink AM, Teune LK, Koerts J, de Jong BM. Anterior Temporal Atrophy and Posterior Progression in Patients with Parkinson's Disease. NEURODEGENER DIS 2014; 14:125-32. [DOI: 10.1159/000363245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Accepted: 04/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Teune LK, Renken RJ, de Jong BM, Willemsen AT, van Osch MJ, Roerdink JBTM, Dierckx RA, Leenders KL. Parkinson's disease-related perfusion and glucose metabolic brain patterns identified with PCASL-MRI and FDG-PET imaging. Neuroimage Clin 2014; 5:240-4. [PMID: 25068113 PMCID: PMC4110884 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2014.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [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: 02/07/2014] [Revised: 06/26/2014] [Accepted: 06/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Introduction Under normal conditions, the spatial distribution of resting cerebral blood flow and cerebral metabolic rate of glucose are closely related. A relatively new magnetic resonance (MR) technique, pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL), can be used to measure regional brain perfusion. We identified a Parkinson's disease (PD)-related perfusion and metabolic covariance pattern in the same patients using PCASL and FDG-PET imaging and assessed (dis)similarities in the disease-related pattern between perfusion and metabolism in PD patients. Methods Nineteen PD patients and seventeen healthy controls underwent [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) imaging. Of 14 PD patients and all healthy controls PCASL-MRI could be obtained. Data were analyzed using scaled subprofile model/principal component analysis (SSM/PCA). Results Unique Parkinson's disease-related perfusion and metabolic covariance patterns were identified using PCASL and FDG-PET in the same patients. The PD-related metabolic covariance brain pattern is in high accordance with previously reports. Also our disease-related perfusion pattern is comparable to the earlier described perfusion pattern. The most marked difference between our perfusion and metabolic patterns is the larger perfusion decrease in cortical regions including the insula. Conclusion We identified PD-related perfusion and metabolic brain patterns using PCASL and FDG-PET in the same patients which were comparable with results of existing research. In this respect, PCASL appears to be a promising addition in the early diagnosis of individual parkinsonian patients. Unique PD-related perfusion and metabolic covariance patterns were identified. PD-related metabolic pattern is highly reproducible compared to earlier reports. PCASL is a promising addition in the early diagnosis of parkinsonian patients.
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- Laura K Teune
- Department of Neurology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Neuroimaging Center, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands
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van der Hoorn A, Potgieser ARE, de Jong BM. Transcallosal connection patterns of opposite dorsal premotor regions support a lateralized specialization for action and perception. Eur J Neurosci 2014; 40:2980-6. [PMID: 24945328 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2014] [Revised: 04/14/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Lateralization of higher brain functions requires that a dominant hemisphere collects relevant information from both sides. The right dorsal premotor cortex (PMd), particularly implicated in visuomotor transformations, was hypothesized to be optimally located to converge visuospatial information from both hemispheres for goal-directed movement. This was assessed by probabilistic tractography and a novel analysis enabling group comparisons of whole-brain connectivity distributions of the left and right PMd in standard space (16 human subjects). The resulting dominance of contralateral PMd connections was characterized by right PMd connections with left visual and parietal areas, indeed supporting a dominant role in visuomotor transformations, while the left PMd showed dominant contralateral connections with the frontal lobe. Ipsilateral right PMd connections were also stronger with posterior parietal regions, relative to the left PMd connections, while ipsilateral connections of the left PMd were stronger with, particularly, the anterior cingulate, the ventral premotor and anterior parietal cortex. The pattern of dominant right PMd connections thus points to a specific role in guiding perceptual information into the motor system, while the left PMd connections are consistent with action dominance based on a lead in motor intention and fine precision skills.
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- Anouk van der Hoorn
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9700, RB Groningen, The Netherlands; Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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van der Hoorn A, Renken RJ, Leenders KL, de Jong BM. Parkinson-related changes of activation in visuomotor brain regions during perceived forward self-motion. PLoS One 2014; 9:e95861. [PMID: 24755754 PMCID: PMC3995937 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2013] [Accepted: 03/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Radial expanding optic flow is a visual consequence of forward locomotion. Presented on screen, it generates illusionary forward self-motion, pointing at a close vision-gait interrelation. As particularly parkinsonian gait is vulnerable to external stimuli, effects of optic flow on motor-related cerebral circuitry were explored with functional magnetic resonance imaging in healthy controls (HC) and patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Fifteen HC and 22 PD patients, of which 7 experienced freezing of gait (FOG), watched wide-field flow, interruptions by narrowing or deceleration and equivalent control conditions with static dots. Statistical parametric mapping revealed that wide-field flow interruption evoked activation of the (pre-)supplementary motor area (SMA) in HC, which was decreased in PD. During wide-field flow, dorsal occipito-parietal activations were reduced in PD relative to HC, with stronger functional connectivity between right visual motion area V5, pre-SMA and cerebellum (in PD without FOG). Non-specific ‘changes’ in stimulus patterns activated dorsolateral fronto-parietal regions and the fusiform gyrus. This attention-associated network was stronger activated in HC than in PD. PD patients thus appeared compromised in recruiting medial frontal regions facilitating internally generated virtual locomotion when visual motion support falls away. Reduced dorsal visual and parietal activations during wide-field optic flow in PD were explained by impaired feedforward visual and visuomotor processing within a magnocellular (visual motion) functional chain. Compensation of impaired feedforward processing by distant fronto-cerebellar circuitry in PD is consistent with motor responses to visual motion stimuli being either too strong or too weak. The ‘change’-related activations pointed at covert (stimulus-driven) attention.
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- Anouk van der Hoorn
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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de Vries PM, de Jong BM, Bohning DE, Hinson VK, George MS, Leenders KL. Reduced parietal activation in cervical dystonia after parietal TMS interleaved with fMRI. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2012; 114:914-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2012.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2010] [Revised: 02/04/2012] [Accepted: 02/06/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Toxopeus CM, Maurits NM, Valsan G, Conway BA, Leenders KL, de Jong BM. Cerebral activations related to ballistic, stepwise interrupted and gradually modulated movements in Parkinson patients. PLoS One 2012; 7:e41042. [PMID: 22911738 PMCID: PMC3402450 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2011] [Accepted: 06/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) experience impaired initiation and inhibition of movements such as difficulty to start/stop walking. At single-joint level this is accompanied by reduced inhibition of antagonist muscle activity. While normal basal ganglia (BG) contributions to motor control include selecting appropriate muscles by inhibiting others, it is unclear how PD-related changes in BG function cause impaired movement initiation and inhibition at single-joint level. To further elucidate these changes we studied 4 right-hand movement tasks with fMRI, by dissociating activations related to abrupt movement initiation, inhibition and gradual movement modulation. Initiation and inhibition were inferred from ballistic and stepwise interrupted movement, respectively, while smooth wrist circumduction enabled the assessment of gradually modulated movement. Task-related activations were compared between PD patients (N = 12) and healthy subjects (N = 18). In healthy subjects, movement initiation was characterized by antero-ventral striatum, substantia nigra (SN) and premotor activations while inhibition was dominated by subthalamic nucleus (STN) and pallidal activations, in line with the known role of these areas in simple movement. Gradual movement mainly involved antero-dorsal putamen and pallidum. Compared to healthy subjects, patients showed reduced striatal/SN and increased pallidal activation for initiation, whereas for inhibition STN activation was reduced and striatal-thalamo-cortical activation increased. For gradual movement patients showed reduced pallidal and increased thalamo-cortical activation. We conclude that PD-related changes during movement initiation fit the (rather static) model of alterations in direct and indirect BG pathways. Reduced STN activation and regional cortical increased activation in PD during inhibition and gradual movement modulation are better explained by a dynamic model that also takes into account enhanced responsiveness to external stimuli in this disease and the effects of hyper-fluctuating cortical inputs to the striatum and STN in particular.
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- Carolien M Toxopeus
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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van der Hoorn A, Hof AL, Leenders KL, de Jong BM. Narrowing wide-field optic flow affects treadmill gait in left-sided Parkinson's disease. Mov Disord 2011; 27:580-1. [PMID: 22173937 DOI: 10.1002/mds.24011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2011] [Revised: 09/01/2011] [Accepted: 09/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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van der Hoorn A, Burger H, Leenders KL, de Jong BM. Handedness correlates with the dominant Parkinson side: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Mov Disord 2011; 27:206-10. [PMID: 21994149 DOI: 10.1002/mds.24007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2011] [Revised: 08/25/2011] [Accepted: 09/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Parkinson's disease (PD) characteristically presents with asymmetrical symptoms, contralateral to the side of the most extensive cerebral affection. This intriguing asymmetry, even included in the definition for diagnosing PD, however, is still part of a mystery. The relation with handedness as a common indicator of cerebral asymmetry might provide a clue in the search for causal factors of asymmetrical symptom onset in PD. This possible relationship, however, is still under debate. The objective of this study was to establish whether a relation between handedness and dominant PD side exists. We searched for cross-sectional or cohort studies that registered handedness and onset side in PD patients in PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science from their first record until 14 February 2011. Data about handedness and dominant PD side was extracted. Authors who registered both but not described their relation were contacted for further information. Odds ratios (ORs) were analyzed with a fixed effect Mantel-Haenszel model. Heterogeneity and indications of publication bias were limited. Our electronic search identified 10 studies involving 4405 asymmetric PD patients. Of the right-handed patients, 2413 (59.5%) had right-dominant and 1644 (40.5%) had left-dominant PD symptoms. For the left-handed patients this relation was reversed, with 142 (40.8%) right-dominant and 206 (59.2%) left-dominant PD symptoms. Overall OR was 2.13 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.71-2.66). Handedness and symptom dominance in PD are firmly related with each other in such a way that the PD symptoms emerge more often on the dominant hand-side. Possible causal factors are discussed.
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- Anouk van der Hoorn
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Toxopeus CM, de Jong BM, Valsan G, Conway BA, van der Hoeven JH, Leenders KL, Maurits NM. Impairment of gradual muscle adjustment during wrist circumduction in Parkinson's disease. PLoS One 2011; 6:e24572. [PMID: 21912704 PMCID: PMC3166324 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2011] [Accepted: 08/14/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Purposeful movements are attained by gradually adjusted activity of opposite muscles, or synergists. This requires a motor system that adequately modulates initiation and inhibition of movement and selectively activates the appropriate muscles. In patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) initiation and inhibition of movements are impaired which may manifest itself in e.g. difficulty to start and stop walking. At single-joint level, impaired movement initiation is further accompanied by insufficient inhibition of antagonist muscle activity. As the motor symptoms in PD primarily result from cerebral dysfunction, quantitative investigation of gradually adjusted muscle activity during execution of purposeful movement is a first step to gain more insight in the link between impaired modulation of initiation and inhibition at the levels of (i) cerebrally coded task performance and (ii) final execution by the musculoskeletal system. To that end, the present study investigated changes in gradual adjustment of muscle synergists using a manipulandum that enabled standardized smooth movement by continuous wrist circumduction. Differences between PD patients (N = 15, off-medication) and healthy subjects (N = 16) concerning the relation between muscle activity and movement performance in these groups were assessed using kinematic and electromyographic (EMG) recordings. The variability in the extent to which a particular muscle was active during wrist circumduction--defined as muscle activity differentiation--was quantified by EMG. We demonstrated that more differentiated muscle activity indeed correlated positively with improved movement performance, i.e. higher movement speed and increased smoothness of movement. Additionally, patients employed a less differentiated muscle activity pattern than healthy subjects. These specific changes during wrist circumduction imply that patients have a decreased ability to gradually adjust muscles causing a decline in movement performance. We propose that less differentiated muscle use in PD patients reflects impaired control of modulated initiation and inhibition due to decreased ability to selectively and jointly activate muscles.
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- Carolien M Toxopeus
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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In this study, we describe a 58-year-old male patient (FZ) with a right-amygdala lesion after temporal lobe infarction. FZ is unable to recognize fearful facial expressions. Instead, he consistently misinterprets expressions of fear for expressions of surprise. Employing EEG/ERP measures, we investigated whether presentation of fearful and surprised facial expressions would lead to different response patterns. We also measured ERPs to aversively conditioned and unconditioned fearful faces. We compared ERPs elicited by supraliminally and subliminally presented conditioned fearful faces (CS+), unconditioned fearful faces (CS-) and surprised faces. Despite FZ's inability to recognize fearful facial expressions in emotion recognition tasks, ERP components showed different response patterns to pictures of surprised and fearful facial expressions, indicating that covert or implicit recognition of fear is still intact. Differences between ERPs to CS+ and CS- were only found when these stimuli were presented subliminally. This indicates that intact right amygdala function is not necessary for aversive conditioning. Previous studies have stressed the importance of the right amygdala for discriminating facial emotional expressions and for classical conditioning. Our study suggests that the right amygdala is necessary for explicit recognition of fear, while implicit recognition of fear and classical conditioning may still occur following lesion of the right amygdala.
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- Joost Heutink
- Department of Neuropsychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Metting Z, Rödiger LA, de Jong BM, Stewart RE, Kremer BP, van der Naalt J. Acute cerebral perfusion CT abnormalities associated with posttraumatic amnesia in mild head injury. J Neurotrauma 2011; 27:2183-9. [PMID: 20939700 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [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] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) is a common symptom following traumatic brain injury. Although this transient memory deficit implies specific impairment of higher brain function, the actual pathophysiology of PTA is not well understood. The aim of this study was to assess regional cerebral hemodynamics with perfusion computed tomography (CT) in patients during PTA following mild head injury compared to patients with resolved PTA. A total of 74 patients with mild head injury without structural abnormalities on a non-contrast CT scan were included and compared to 25 healthy controls. Two patient groups were defined: (1) a PTA group that was scanned during the episode of PTA (n = 34), and (2) a post-PTA group scanned after resolution of PTA (n = 40). The PTA group had significantly reduced cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the frontal grey matter (41.78 [SD 7.4] versus 44.44 [SD 6.2] mL • 100 g⁻¹ • min⁻¹, p = 0.023), and caudate nucleus (44.59 [SD 6.2] versus 47.85 [SD 7.7] mL • 100 g⁻¹ • min⁻¹, p = 0.021), compared to the post-PTA group. Thus in patients with mild head injury, PTA is associated with cerebral perfusion abnormalities in specific cortical and subcortical regions.
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- Zwany Metting
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Teune LK, Bartels AL, de Jong BM, Willemsen ATM, Eshuis SA, de Vries JJ, van Oostrom JCH, Leenders KL. Typical cerebral metabolic patterns in neurodegenerative brain diseases. Mov Disord 2011; 25:2395-404. [PMID: 20669302 DOI: 10.1002/mds.23291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative brain diseases on clinical grounds is difficult, especially at an early disease stage. Several studies have found specific regional differences of brain metabolism applying [(18)F]-fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), suggesting that this method can assist in early differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative brain diseases.We have studied patients who had an FDG-PET scan on clinical grounds at an early disease stage and included those with a retrospectively confirmed diagnosis according to strictly defined clinical research criteria. Ninety-six patients could be included of which 20 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), 21 multiple system atrophy (MSA), 17 progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), 10 corticobasal degeneration (CBD), 6 dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), 15 Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 7 frontotemporal dementia (FTD). FDG PET images of each patient group were analyzed and compared to18 healthy controls using Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM5).Disease-specific patterns of relatively decreased metabolic activity were found in PD (contralateral parietooccipital and frontal regions), MSA (bilateral putamen and cerebellar hemispheres), PSP (prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus, thalamus, and mesencephalon), CBD (contralateral cortical regions), DLB (occipital and parietotemporal regions), AD (parietotemporal regions), and FTD (frontotemporal regions).The integrated method addressing a spectrum of various neurodegenerative brain diseases provided means to discriminate patient groups also at early disease stages. Clinical follow-up enabled appropriate patient inclusion. This implies that an early diagnosis in individual patients can be made by comparing each subject's metabolic findings with a complete database of specific disease related patterns.
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- Laura K Teune
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Meppelink AM, de Jong BM, van der Hoeven JH, van Laar T. Lasting visual hallucinations in visual deprivation; fMRI correlates and the influence of rTMS. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010; 81:1295-6. [PMID: 20547615 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.183087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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