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An advanced white matter tract analysis in frontotemporal dementia and early-onset Alzheimer’s disease

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An advanced white matter tract analysis in frontotemporal dementia and early-onset Alzheimer’s disease
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Brain Imaging and Behavior, October 2015
DOI 10.1007/s11682-015-9458-5
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Madelaine Daianu, Mario F. Mendez, Vatche G. Baboyan, Yan Jin, Rebecca J. Melrose, Elvira E. Jimenez, Paul M. Thompson

Abstract

Cortical and subcortical nuclei degenerate in the dementias, but less is known about changes in the white matter tracts that connect them. To better understand white matter changes in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD), we used a novel approach to extract full 3D profiles of fiber bundles from diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) and map white matter abnormalities onto detailed models of each pathway. The result is a spatially complex picture of tract-by-tract microstructural changes. Our atlas of tracts for each disease consists of 21 anatomically clustered and recognizable white matter tracts generated from whole-brain tractography in 20 patients with bvFTD, 23 with age-matched EOAD, and 33 healthy elderly controls. To analyze the landscape of white matter abnormalities, we used a point-wise tract correspondence method along the 3D profiles of the tracts and quantified the pathway disruptions using common diffusion metrics - fractional anisotropy, mean, radial, and axial diffusivity. We tested the hypothesis that bvFTD and EOAD are associated with preferential degeneration in specific neural networks. We mapped axonal tract damage that was best detected with mean and radial diffusivity metrics, supporting our network hypothesis, highly statistically significant and more sensitive than widely studied fractional anisotropy reductions. From white matter diffusivity, we identified abnormalities in bvFTD in all 21 tracts of interest but especially in the bilateral uncinate fasciculus, frontal callosum, anterior thalamic radiations, cingulum bundles and left superior longitudinal fasciculus. This network of white matter alterations extends beyond the most commonly studied tracts, showing greater white matter abnormalities in bvFTD versus controls and EOAD patients. In EOAD, network alterations involved more posterior white matter - the parietal sector of the corpus callosum and parahipoccampal cingulum bilaterally. Widespread but distinctive white matter alterations are a key feature of the pathophysiology of these two forms of dementia.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Unknown 104 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 18%
Researcher 17 16%
Student > Master 14 13%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Student > Postgraduate 8 8%
Other 15 14%
Unknown 24 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 30 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 16%
Psychology 10 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 4%
Other 12 11%
Unknown 29 27%
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