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Olivé G, Peñaloza C, Vaquero L, Laine M, Martin N, Rodriguez-Fornells A. The right uncinate fasciculus supports verbal short-term memory in aphasia. Brain Struct Funct 2023; 228:875-893. [PMID: 37005932 PMCID: PMC10147778 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-023-02628-9] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 03/05/2023] [Indexed: 04/04/2023]
Abstract
Verbal short-term memory (STM) deficits are associated with language processing impairments in people with aphasia. Importantly, the integrity of STM can predict word learning ability and anomia therapy gains in aphasia. While the recruitment of perilesional and contralesional homologous brain regions has been proposed as a possible mechanism for aphasia recovery, little is known about the white-matter pathways that support verbal STM in post-stroke aphasia. Here, we investigated the relationships between the language-related white matter tracts and verbal STM ability in aphasia. Nineteen participants with post-stroke chronic aphasia completed a subset of verbal STM subtests of the TALSA battery including nonword repetition (phonological STM), pointing span (lexical-semantic STM without language output) and repetition span tasks (lexical-semantic STM with language output). Using a manual deterministic tractography approach, we investigated the micro- and macrostructural properties of the structural language network. Next, we assessed the relationships between individually extracted tract values and verbal STM scores. We found significant correlations between volume measures of the right Uncinate Fasciculus and all three verbal STM scores, with the association between the right UF volume and nonword repetition being the strongest one. These findings suggest that the integrity of the right UF is associated with phonological and lexical-semantic verbal STM ability in aphasia and highlight the potential compensatory role of right-sided ventral white matter language tracts in supporting verbal STM after aphasia-inducing left hemisphere insult.
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Affiliation(s)
- Guillem Olivé
- Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Legal Medicine, Psychiatry and Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Center for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Eleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
- Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, ICREA, 08010, Barcelona, Spain.
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Olivé G, Slušná D, Vaquero L, Muchart-López J, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Hinzen W. Structural connectivity in ventral language pathways characterizes non-verbal autism. Brain Struct Funct 2022; 227:1817-1829. [PMID: 35286477 PMCID: PMC9098538 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-022-02474-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Language capacities in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) range from normal scores on standardized language tests to absence of functional language in a substantial minority of 30% of individuals with ASD. Due to practical difficulties of scanning at this severe end of the spectrum, insights from MRI are scarce. Here we used manual deterministic tractography to investigate, for the first time, the integrity of the core white matter tracts defining the language connectivity network in non-verbal ASD (nvASD): the three segments of the arcuate (AF), the inferior fronto-occipital (IFOF), the inferior longitudinal (ILF) and the uncinate (UF) fasciculi, and the frontal aslant tract (FAT). A multiple case series of nine individuals with nvASD were compared to matched individuals with verbal ASD (vASD) and typical development (TD). Bonferroni-corrected repeated measure ANOVAs were performed separately for each tract-Hemisphere (2:Left/Right) × Group (3:TD/vASD/nvASD). Main results revealed (i) a main effect of group consisting in a reduction in fractional anisotropy (FA) in the IFOF in nvASD relative to TD; (ii) a main effect of group revealing lower values of radial diffusivity (RD) in the long segment of the AF in nvASD compared to vASD group; and (iii) a reduced volume in the left hemisphere of the UF when compared to the right, in the vASD group only. These results do not replicate volumetric differences of the dorsal language route previously observed in nvASD, and instead point to a disruption of the ventral language pathway, in line with semantic deficits observed behaviourally in this group.
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Affiliation(s)
- Guillem Olivé
- Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Campus Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Campus Poblenou, Pompeu Fabra University, 08018, Barcelona, Spain
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- Legal Medicine, Psychiatry, and Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Campus Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, ICREA, 08010, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Campus Poblenou, Pompeu Fabra University, 08018, Barcelona, Spain.
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, ICREA, 08010, Barcelona, Spain.
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Esteba-Castillo S, Garcia-Alba J, Rodríguez-Hildago E, Vaquero L, Novell R, Moldenhauer F, Castellanos MÁ. Proposed diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment in Down syndrome population. J Appl Res Intellect Disabil 2021; 35:495-505. [PMID: 34693611 DOI: 10.1111/jar.12959] [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] [Received: 08/23/2020] [Revised: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 10/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Despite presenting higher risk of dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is not well defined in Down syndrome population. OBJECTIVE We aimed to describe cognitive and neuropsychological patterns associated with MCI in Down syndrome individuals. METHOD Two groups of adults with Down syndrome (control and prodromal) were studied throughout 3 years. Two linear mixed models and a model including the variables that best predicted group membership were built. RESULTS Behavioural Regulation Index (BRI) (Behaviour Rating Inventory of Executive Function test) and the model composed of BRI, abstraction and delayed verbal memory were the variable and model best predicting group membership, respectively. CONCLUSION Suggest a diagnosis of MCI when BRI is the earliest change perceived by caregivers and this is combined with low scores in abstract thinking, and when an amnesic pattern in delayed verbal memory is observed, but adaptive skills are preserved.
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- Susanna Esteba-Castillo
- Specialized Service in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability, Institute of Health Assistance, Girona, Spain.,Neurodevelopmental Group [Girona Biomedical Research Institute]-IDIBGI, Institute of Health Assistance (IAS), Girona, Spain
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- Research and Psychology in Education Department (Faculty of Education), Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Specialized Service in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability, Institute of Health Assistance, Girona, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Department of Legal Medicine, Psychiatry and Pathology (Faculty of Medicine), Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Specialized Service in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability, Institute of Health Assistance, Girona, Spain.,Neurodevelopmental Group [Girona Biomedical Research Institute]-IDIBGI, Institute of Health Assistance (IAS), Girona, Spain
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- Adults' Section of the Down syndrome Department, Internal Medicine Department, La Princesa University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Methodology for Behavioral Science, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Ramírez-Toraño F, García-Alba J, Bruña R, Esteba-Castillo S, Vaquero L, Pereda E, Maestú F, Fernández A. Hypersynchronized Magnetoencephalography Brain Networks in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease in Down Syndrome. Brain Connect 2021; 11:725-733. [PMID: 33858203 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2020.0897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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: 12/30/2022] Open
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Introduction: The majority of individuals with Down syndrome (DS) show signs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology in their fourth decade. However, there is a lack of specific markers for characterizing the disease stages while considering this population's differential features. Methods: Forty-one DS individuals participated in the study, and were classified into three groups according to their clinical status: Alzheimer's disease (AD-DS), mild cognitive impairment (MCI-DS), and controls (CN-DS). We performed an exhaustive neuropsychological evaluation and assessed brain functional connectivity (FC) from magnetoencephalographic recordings. Results: Compared with CN-DS, both MCI-DS and AD-DS showed a pattern of increased FC within the high alpha band. The neuropsychological assessment showed a generalized cognitive impairment, especially affecting mnestic functions, in MCI-DS and, more pronouncedly, in AD-DS. Discussion: These findings might help to characterize the AD-continuum in DS. In addition, they support the role of the excitatory/inhibitory imbalance as a key pathophysiological factor in AD. Impact statement The pattern of functional connectivity (FC) hypersynchronization found in this study resembles the largely reported Alzheimer's disease (AD) FC evolution pattern in population with typical development. This study supports the hypothesis of the excitatory/inhibitory imbalance as a key pathophysiological factor in AD, and its conclusions could help in the characterization and prediction of Down syndrome individuals with a greater likelihood of converting to dementia.
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- Federico Ramírez-Toraño
- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Center for Biomedical Technology, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Experimental Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Center for Biomedical Technology, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Research and Psychology in Education Department, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Center for Biomedical Technology, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Experimental Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials, and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain
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- Specialized Department in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability, Parc Hospitalari Martí i Julià-Institut 'd'Assistència Sanitària, Institut 'd'Assistència Sanitària (IAS), Girona, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Center for Biomedical Technology, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Legal Medicine, Psychiatry and Pathology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Center for Biomedical Technology, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Group, Department of Industrial Engineering and IUNE and ITB Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Center for Biomedical Technology, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Experimental Psychology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials, and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (UCM-UPM), Center for Biomedical Technology, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.,Department of Legal Medicine, Psychiatry and Pathology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.,Institute of Sanitary Investigation (IdISSC), San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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Vaquero L, Ramos-Escobar N, Cucurell D, François C, Putkinen V, Segura E, Huotilainen M, Penhune V, Rodríguez-Fornells A. Arcuate fasciculus architecture is associated with individual differences in pre-attentive detection of unpredicted music changes. Neuroimage 2021; 229:117759. [PMID: 33454403 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 06/09/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
The mismatch negativity (MMN) is an event related brain potential (ERP) elicited by unpredicted sounds presented in a sequence of repeated auditory stimuli. The neural sources of the MMN have been previously attributed to a fronto-temporo-parietal network which crucially overlaps with the so-called auditory dorsal stream, involving inferior and middle frontal, inferior parietal, and superior and middle temporal regions. These cortical areas are structurally connected by the arcuate fasciculus (AF), a three-branch pathway supporting the feedback-feedforward loop involved in auditory-motor integration, auditory working memory, storage of acoustic templates, as well as comparison and update of those templates. Here, we characterized the individual differences in the white-matter macrostructural properties of the AF and explored their link to the electrophysiological marker of passive change detection gathered in a melodic multifeature MMN-EEG paradigm in 26 healthy young adults without musical training. Our results show that left fronto-temporal white-matter connectivity plays an important role in the pre-attentive detection of rhythm modulations within a melody. Previous studies have shown that this AF segment is also critical for language processing and learning. This strong coupling between structure and function in auditory change detection might be related to life-time linguistic (and possibly musical) exposure and experiences, as well as to timing processing specialization of the left auditory cortex. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time in which the relationship between neurophysiological (EEG) and brain white-matter connectivity indexes using DTI-tractography are studied together. Thus, the present results, although still exploratory, add to the existing evidence on the importance of studying the constraints imposed on cognitive functions by the underlying structural connectivity.
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- Lucía Vaquero
- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Complutense University of Madrid and Polytechnic University of Madrid, Campus Científico y Tecnológico de la UPM, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, and Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, and Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France
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- Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, and Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cicero Learning and Cognitive Brain Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Penhune Laboratory for Motor Learning and Neural Plasticity, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada; International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research (BRAMS). Montreal, QC, Canada; Center for Research on Brain, Language and Music (CRBLM), McGill University. Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, and Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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Vaquero L, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Pera-Jambrina MÁ, Bruna J, Simó M. Plasticity in bilateral hippocampi after a 3-month physical activity programme in lung cancer patients. Eur J Neurol 2020; 28:1324-1333. [PMID: 33296534 DOI: 10.1111/ene.14670] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2020] [Revised: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cancer treatments have deleterious effects on both brain structure and the cognition of lung cancer patients. Physical activity (PA) has beneficial effects on the cognition of healthy adults by eliciting brain plasticity, especially on the medial temporal lobe (hippocampus). Therefore, the aim was to study the neuroprotective effects of a 3-month PA programme (PAP) on the brain structure and cognitive performance of lung cancer patients. METHODS Twelve patients (seven non-small-cell lung cancer [NSCLC] patients following chemotherapy, five small-cell lung cancer [SCLC] patients following chemotherapy and prophylactic cranial irradiation) agreed to complete the PAP and underwent baseline and 3-month (post-PAP) brain magnetic resonance imaging and neuropsychological evaluations (PAP group). Twelve lung cancer patients (seven NSCLC, five SCLC; non-PAP group) and 12 healthy sex-, age- and education-matched controls were recruited and completed two evaluations separated by the same amount of time. A region of interest voxel-based morphometry analysis focused on bilateral hippocampi was performed. RESULTS Physical activity programme patients presented greater grey matter volume (GMV) across time in both hippocampi. Moreover, it was observed that SCLC patients in both the PAP and non-PAP groups presented a time-dependent GMV loss in bilateral hippocampi that was not significant in NSCLC patients. Importantly, the PA intervention decreased the magnitude of that GMV loss, becoming thus especially beneficial at the brain structural level for SCLC patients. CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrates, using a neuroimaging approach for the first time, that PA is able to stop the deleterious effects of systemic chemotherapy and brain radiation on brain structures of the lung cancer population, especially in SCLC patients.
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- Lucía Vaquero
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, Hospital Duran i Reynals, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, Hospital Duran i Reynals, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain.,Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Catalan Institution for Research and Advances Studies, Institució Catalana de Rercerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neuro-Oncology Unit, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO)-IDIBELL L'Hospitalet, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, Hospital Duran i Reynals, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain.,Neuro-Oncology Unit, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO)-IDIBELL L'Hospitalet, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
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Vaquero L, Rousseau PN, Vozian D, Klein D, Penhune V. What you learn & when you learn it: Impact of early bilingual & music experience on the structural characteristics of auditory-motor pathways. Neuroimage 2020; 213:116689. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Revised: 01/18/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Elmer S, Hänggi J, Vaquero L, Cadena GO, François C, Rodríguez-Fornells A. Tracking the microstructural properties of the main white matter pathways underlying speech processing in simultaneous interpreters. Neuroimage 2019; 191:518-528. [PMID: 30831314 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.02.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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: 10/30/2018] [Revised: 02/11/2019] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Due to the high linguistic and cognitive demands placed on real-time language translation, professional simultaneous interpreters (SIs) have previously been proposed to serve as a reasonable model for evaluating experience-dependent brain properties. However, currently it is still unknown whether intensive language training during adulthood might be reflected in microstructural changes in language-related white matter pathways contributing to sound-to-meaning mapping, auditory-motor integration, and verbal memory functions. Accordingly, we used a fully automated probabilistic tractography algorithm and compared the white matter microstructure of the bilateral inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), uncinate fasciculus (UF), and arcuate fasciculus (AF, long and anterior segments) between professional SIs and multilingual control participants. In addition, we classically re-evaluated the three constitutional elements of the AF (long, anterior, and posterior segments) using a deterministic manual dissection procedure. Automated probabilistic tractography demonstrated overall reduced mean fractional anisotropy (FA) and increased radial diffusivity (RD) in SIs in the fiber tracts of the left hemisphere (LH). Furthermore, SIs exhibited reduced mean FA in the bilateral AF. However, according to manual dissection, this effect was limited to the anterior AF segment and accompanied by increased mean RD. Deterministic AF reconstruction also uncovered increased mean FA in the right and RD in the left long AF segment in SIs compared to controls. These results point to a relationship between simultaneous interpreting and white matter organization of pathways underlying speech and language processing in the language-dominant LH as well as of the AF.
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- Stefan Elmer
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain; Division Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Division Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Cognition, Development and Education Pychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171, 08035, Barcelona, Spain; Laboratory of Motor learning and Neural Plasticity, Concordia University, 7141 Rue Sherbrooke West, H4B 1R6, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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- Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Campus Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Campus Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Recerca Pediàtrica Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain; Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France.
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Campus Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08097, Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, ICREA, 08010, Barcelona, Spain.
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Vaquero L, Ramos-Escobar N, François C, Penhune V, Rodríguez-Fornells A. White-matter structural connectivity predicts short-term melody and rhythm learning in non-musicians. Neuroimage 2018; 181:252-262. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Revised: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 06/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Havas V, Taylor J, Vaquero L, de Diego-Balaguer R, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Davis MH. Semantic and phonological schema influence spoken word learning and overnight consolidation. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2018; 71:1469-1481. [PMID: 28856956 DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1329325] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Abstract
We studied the initial acquisition and overnight consolidation of new spoken words that resemble words in the native language (L1) or in an unfamiliar, non-native language (L2). Spanish-speaking participants learned the spoken forms of novel words in their native language (Spanish) or in a different language (Hungarian), which were paired with pictures of familiar or unfamiliar objects, or no picture. We thereby assessed, in a factorial way, the impact of existing knowledge (schema) on word learning by manipulating both semantic (familiar vs unfamiliar objects) and phonological (L1- vs L2-like novel words) familiarity. Participants were trained and tested with a 12-hr intervening period that included overnight sleep or daytime awake. Our results showed (1) benefits of sleep to recognition memory that were greater for words with L2-like phonology and (2) that learned associations with familiar but not unfamiliar pictures enhanced recognition memory for novel words. Implications for complementary systems accounts of word learning are discussed.
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- Viktória Havas
- 1 Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,2 Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.,3 Department of Language and Literature, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- 4 Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK.,5 Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK
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- 1 Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- 1 Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,2 Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.,6 Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.,7 Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- 1 Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,2 Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.,6 Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- 4 Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK
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Simó M, Gurtubay-Antolin A, Vaquero L, Bruna J, Rodríguez-Fornells A. Performance monitoring in lung cancer patients pre- and post-chemotherapy using fine-grained electrophysiological measures. Neuroimage Clin 2017; 18:86-96. [PMID: 29387526 PMCID: PMC5789765 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2017.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [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: 09/22/2017] [Revised: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
No previous event-related potentials (ERPs) study has explored the error-related negativity (ERN) - an ERP component indexing performance monitoring - associated to cancer and chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment in a lung cancer population. The aim of this study was to examine differences in performance monitoring in a small-cell lung cancer group (SCLC, C +) 1-month following chemotherapy and two control groups: a non-small cell lung cancer patient group (NSCLC, C −) prior to chemotherapy and a healthy control group (HC). Seventeen SCLC (C +) underwent a neuropsychological assessment and an ERP study using a flanker and a stop-signal paradigm. This group was compared to fifteen age-, gender- and education-matched NSCLC (C −) and eighteen HC. Between 20 and 30% of patients in both lung cancer groups (C + and C −) met criteria for cognitive impairment. Concerning ERPs, lung cancer patients showed lower overall hit rate and a severe ERN amplitude reduction compared to HC. Lung cancer patients exhibited an abnormal pattern of performance monitoring thus suggesting that chemotherapy and especially cancer itself, may contribute to cognitive deterioration. ERN appeared as an objective laboratory tool sensitive to cognitive dysfunction in cancer population. This is the first study to explore error-related negativity in lung cancer patients. Lung cancer patients showed a severe ERN amplitude reduction. ERN resulted a potential biomarker of cognitive impairment in lung cancer population.
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- M Simó
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907 Barcelona, Spain; Neuro-Oncology Unit, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-ICO L'Hospitalet-IDIBELL, 08907 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907 Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907 Barcelona, Spain; Laboratory for Motor Learning and Neural Plasticity, Concordia University, HUB 1R6 Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Neuro-Oncology Unit, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-ICO L'Hospitalet-IDIBELL, 08907 Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907 Barcelona, Spain; Dept. of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, University of Barcelona, Campus Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907 Barcelona, Spain; Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, ICREA, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Vaquero L, Cámara E, Sampedro F, Pérez de los Cobos J, Batlle F, Fabregas JM, Sales JA, Cervantes M, Ferrer X, Lazcano G, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Riba J. Cocaine addiction is associated with abnormal prefrontal function, increased striatal connectivity and sensitivity to monetary incentives, and decreased connectivity outside the human reward circuit. Addict Biol 2017; 22:844-856. [PMID: 26786150 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2015] [Revised: 11/25/2015] [Accepted: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Cocaine addiction has been associated with increased sensitivity of the human reward circuit to drug-related stimuli. However, the capacity of non-drug incentives to engage this network is poorly understood. Here, we characterized the functional sensitivity to monetary incentives and the structural integrity of the human reward circuit in abstinent cocaine-dependent (CD) patients and their matched controls. We assessed the BOLD response to monetary gains and losses in 30 CD patients and 30 healthy controls performing a lottery task in a magnetic resonance imaging scanner. We measured brain gray matter volume (GMV) using voxel-based morphometry and white matter microstructure using voxel-based fractional anisotropy (FA). Functional data showed that, after monetary incentives, CD patients exhibited higher activation in the ventral striatum than controls. Furthermore, we observed an inverted BOLD response pattern in the prefrontal cortex, with activity being highest after unexpected high gains and lowest after losses. Patients showed increased GMV in the caudate and the orbitofrontal cortex, increased white matter FA in the orbito-striatal pathway but decreased FA in antero-posterior association bundles. Abnormal activation in the prefrontal cortex correlated with GMV and FA increases in the orbitofrontal cortex. While functional abnormalities in the ventral striatum were inversely correlated with abstinence duration, structural alterations were not. In conclusion, results suggest abnormal incentive processing in CD patients with high salience for rewards and punishments in subcortical structures but diminished prefrontal control after adverse outcomes. They further suggest that hypertrophy and hyper-connectivity within the reward circuit, to the expense of connectivity outside this network, characterize cocaine addiction.
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- Lucía Vaquero
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) IDIBELL; L'Hospitalet de Llobregat; Spain
- Department of Basic Psychology; University of Barcelona; Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) IDIBELL; L'Hospitalet de Llobregat; Spain
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- Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry; Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau); Spain
- Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine; Autonomous University of Barcelona; Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental CIBERSAM; Spain
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- Addictive Behaviors Unit, Department of Psychiatry; Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute (IIB Sant Pau); Spain
- Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine; Autonomous University of Barcelona; Spain
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- Fundació Salut i Comunitat; Spain
- Addiction postgraduate course, School of Psychology; University of Barcelona; Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) IDIBELL; L'Hospitalet de Llobregat; Spain
- Department of Basic Psychology; University of Barcelona; Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies; ICREA; Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental CIBERSAM; Spain
- Human Neuropsychopharmacology Group; Sant Pau Institute of Biomedical Research (IIB-Sant Pau); Spain
- Centre d'Investigació de Medicaments, Servei de Farmacologia Clínica; Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau; Spain
- Departament de Farmacologia i Terapèutica; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Spain
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Simó M, Rifà-Ros X, Vaquero L, Ripollés P, Cayuela N, Jové J, Navarro A, Cardenal F, Bruna J, Rodríguez-Fornells A. Brain functional connectivity in lung cancer population: an exploratory study. Brain Imaging Behav 2017; 12:369-382. [DOI: 10.1007/s11682-017-9697-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Simó M, Rifà-Ros X, Vaquero L, Ripollés P, Jové J, Navarro A, Cardenal F, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Bruna J. P14.03 Brain functional connectivity in lung cancer population: a pilot study. Neuro Oncol 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/now188.263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Vaquero L, Hartmann K, Ripollés P, Rojo N, Sierpowska J, François C, Càmara E, van Vugt FT, Mohammadi B, Samii A, Münte TF, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Altenmüller E. Structural neuroplasticity in expert pianists depends on the age of musical training onset. Neuroimage 2016; 126:106-19. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2015] [Revised: 11/02/2015] [Accepted: 11/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Simó M, Vaquero L, Ripollés P, Gurtubay-Antolin A, Jové J, Navarro A, Cardenal F, Bruna J, Rodríguez-Fornells A. Longitudinal Brain Changes Associated with Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation in Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2016; 11:475-86. [PMID: 26804637 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2015.12.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [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: 10/26/2015] [Revised: 12/24/2015] [Accepted: 12/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The toxic effects of prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) and platinum-based chemotherapy on cognition in the lung cancer population have not yet been well established. In the present study we examined the longitudinal neuropsychological and brain structural changes observed in patients with lung cancer who were undergoing these treatments. METHODS Twenty-two patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) who underwent platinum-based chemotherapy and PCI were compared with two control groups: an age- and education-matched group of healthy controls (n = 21) and a group of patients with non-SCLC (NSCLC, n = 13) who underwent platinum-based chemotherapy. All groups were evaluated using a neuropsychological battery and multimodal structural magnetic resonance imaging: T1-weighted and diffusion tensor imaging at baseline (before PCI for SCLC and chemotherapy for NSCLC) and at 3 months after treatment. T1 voxel-based morphometry and tract-based spatial statistics were used to analyze microstructural changes in gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM). The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core Questionnaire was also completed. RESULTS Patients with SCLC exhibited cognitive deterioration in verbal fluency over time. Structural magnetic resonance imaging showed decreases in GM at 3 months in the right subcortical regions, bilateral insular cortex, and superior temporal gyrus in patients with SCLC compared with both control groups. Additionally, patients with SCLC showed decreases in GM over time in the aforementioned regions plus in the right parahippocampal gyrus and hippocampus, together with changes in the WM microstructure of the entire corpus callosum. These changes had a limited impact on responses to the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core Questionnaire, however. Patients with NSCLC showed no cognitive or brain structural differences after chemotherapy. CONCLUSIONS This longitudinal study documents moderate neuropsychological deficits together with notable brain-specific structural changes (in GM and WM) in patients with SCLC after chemotherapy and PCI, suggesting that chemotherapy and especially PCI are associated with the development of cognitive and structural brain toxic effects.
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- Marta Simó
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Neuro-Oncology Unit, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge - Institut Català d'Oncologia Hospital Duran i Reynals, L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol- Institut Català d'Oncologia Badalona, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lung Cancer Unit, Radiation Oncology Department, Institut Català d'Oncologia Duran i Reynals, L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Lung Cancer Unit, Medical Oncology Department, Institut Català d'Oncologia Hospital Duran i Reynals, L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neuro-Oncology Unit, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge - Institut Català d'Oncologia Hospital Duran i Reynals, L'Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Basic Psychology, Bellvitge Campus, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain; Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Instituciá Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain.
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Ripollés P, Rojo N, Grau-Sánchez J, Amengual JL, Càmara E, Marco-Pallarés J, Juncadella M, Vaquero L, Rubio F, Duarte E, Garrido C, Altenmüller E, Münte TF, Rodríguez-Fornells A. Music supported therapy promotes motor plasticity in individuals with chronic stroke. Brain Imaging Behav 2015; 10:1289-1307. [DOI: 10.1007/s11682-015-9498-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Havas V, Waris O, Vaquero L, Rodríguez-Fornells A, Laine M. Morphological learning in a novel language: A cross-language comparison. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2015; 68:1426-41. [DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.983531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Being able to extract and interpret the internal structure of complex word forms such as the English word dance+r+s is crucial for successful language learning. We examined whether the ability to extract morphological information during word learning is affected by the morphological features of one's native tongue. Spanish and Finnish adult participants performed a word–picture associative learning task in an artificial language where the target words included a suffix marking the gender of the corresponding animate object. The short exposure phase was followed by a word recognition task and a generalization task for the suffix. The participants’ native tongues vary greatly in terms of morphological structure, leading to two opposing hypotheses. On the one hand, Spanish speakers may be more effective in identifying gender in a novel language because this feature is present in Spanish but not in Finnish. On the other hand, Finnish speakers may have an advantage as the abundance of bound morphemes in their language calls for continuous morphological decomposition. The results support the latter alternative, suggesting that lifelong experience on morphological decomposition provides an advantage in novel morphological learning.
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- Viktória Havas
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Basic Psychology, Campus Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Basic Psychology, Campus Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Basic Psychology, Campus Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
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Álvarez-Cuenllas B, Díez-Rodríguez R, Vaquero L, Pisabarros C, Aparicio M, Rodríguez-Martín L, Muñoz F, Olcoz J, Jorquera F, Vivas S. Descriptive analysis of endoscopic findings in patients with a family history of colorectal cancer. Revista de Gastroenterología de México (English Edition) 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rgmxen.2015.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Rodríguez-Martín L, Vaquero L, Vivas S. Letter: serum I-FABP as marker for enterocyte damage in first-degree relatives of patients with coeliac disease. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2015; 42:121-2. [PMID: 26040522 DOI: 10.1111/apt.13187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/08/2022]
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de Leon, Leon, Spain
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de Leon, Leon, Spain.
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Simó M, Ripollés P, Fuentemilla L, Vaquero L, Bruna J, Rodríguez-Fornells A. Studying memory encoding to promote reliable engagement of the medial temporal lobe at the single-subject level. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0119159. [PMID: 25803273 PMCID: PMC4372361 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [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: 07/14/2014] [Accepted: 01/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The medial temporal lobe (MTL)—comprising hippocampus and the surrounding neocortical regions—is a targeted brain area sensitive to several neurological diseases. Although functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been widely used to assess brain functional abnormalities, detecting MTL activation has been technically challenging. The aim of our study was to provide an fMRI paradigm that reliably activates MTL regions at the individual level, thus providing a useful tool for future research in clinical memory-related studies. Twenty young healthy adults underwent an event-related fMRI study consisting of three encoding conditions: word-pairs, face-name associations and complex visual scenes. A region-of-interest analysis at the individual level comparing novel and repeated stimuli independently for each task was performed. The results of this analysis yielded activations in the hippocampal and parahippocampal regions in most of the participants. Specifically, 95% and 100% of participants showed significant activations in the left hippocampus during the face-name encoding and in the right parahippocampus, respectively, during scene encoding. Additionally, a whole brain analysis, also comparing novel versus repeated stimuli at the group level, showed mainly left frontal activation during the word task. In this group analysis, the face-name association engaged the HP and fusiform gyri bilaterally, along with the left inferior frontal gyrus, and the complex visual scenes activated mainly the parahippocampus and hippocampus bilaterally. In sum, our task design represents a rapid and reliable manner to study and explore MTL activity at the individual level, thus providing a useful tool for future research in clinical memory-related fMRI studies.
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- Marta Simó
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Neuro-Oncology Unit, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge (HUB) and Hospital Duran i Reynals (Institut Català d’Oncologia), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Basic Psychology, Bellvitge Campus, University of Barcelona, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Basic Psychology, Bellvitge Campus, University of Barcelona, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Basic Psychology, Bellvitge Campus, University of Barcelona, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neuro-Oncology Unit, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge (HUB) and Hospital Duran i Reynals (Institut Català d’Oncologia), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Basic Psychology, Bellvitge Campus, University of Barcelona, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
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Simo M, Vaquero L, Ripolles P, Jove J, Fuentes R, Cardenal F, Rodriguez-Fornells A, Bruna J. O3.04 * COGNITIVE AND STRUCTURAL BRAIN CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH PROPHYLACTIC CRANIAL IRRADIATION IN LONG TERM SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER SURVIVORS. Neuro Oncol 2014. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/nou174.18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Amengual JL, Rojo N, Veciana de Las Heras M, Marco-Pallarés J, Grau-Sánchez J, Schneider S, Vaquero L, Juncadella M, Montero J, Mohammadi B, Rubio F, Rueda N, Duarte E, Grau C, Altenmüller E, Münte TF, Rodríguez-Fornells A. Sensorimotor plasticity after music-supported therapy in chronic stroke patients revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation. PLoS One 2013; 8:e61883. [PMID: 23613966 PMCID: PMC3629163 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [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: 11/26/2012] [Accepted: 03/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Several recently developed therapies targeting motor disabilities in stroke sufferers have shown to be more effective than standard neurorehabilitation approaches. In this context, several basic studies demonstrated that music training produces rapid neuroplastic changes in motor-related brain areas. Music-supported therapy has been recently developed as a new motor rehabilitation intervention. METHODS AND RESULTS In order to explore the plasticity effects of music-supported therapy, this therapeutic intervention was applied to twenty chronic stroke patients. Before and after the music-supported therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation was applied for the assessment of excitability changes in the motor cortex and a 3D movement analyzer was used for the assessment of motor performance parameters such as velocity, acceleration and smoothness in a set of diadochokinetic movement tasks. Our results suggest that the music-supported therapy produces changes in cortical plasticity leading the improvement of the subjects' motor performance. CONCLUSION Our findings represent the first evidence of the neurophysiological changes induced by this therapy in chronic stroke patients, and their link with the amelioration of motor performance. Further studies are needed to confirm our observations.
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- Julià L Amengual
- Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group, Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute-, l'Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
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Dimitriadis Y, Asensio J, Gómez E, Martínez A, Bote M, Vega G, Vaquero L. Middleware for CSCL: Software Components Framework and Grid Technology Support. Int Artif 2007. [DOI: 10.4114/ia.v8i24.777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Aldecoa C, Castañeda J, Vaquero L, Gomez J, Rico J, Alonso A. Crit Care 2003; 7:P162. [DOI: 10.1186/cc2051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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