Machts, J;
Cardenas-Blanco, A;
Acosta-Cabronero, J;
Kaufmann, J;
Loewe, K;
Kasper, E;
Schuster, C;
... Nestor, PJ; + view all
(2018)
Prefrontal cortical thickness in motor neuron disease.
NeuroImage: Clinical
, 18
pp. 648-655.
10.1016/j.nicl.2018.03.002.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether the distribution of prefrontal cortical thickness in patients with motor neuron disease is normal or bimodal and how it compares to the normal population. METHODS: 158 patients with motor neuron disease (MND) and 86 healthy controls (HC) were enrolled in a prospective, two-center study with a common structural MRI protocol. Cortical thickness measures were extracted for the prefrontal cortex, premotor cortex, motor cortex, and occipital cortex using FreeSurfer, adjusted for age and sex, and tested for normality of distribution. RESULTS: Cortical thickness measures of the bilateral prefrontal, premotor, motor, and occipital cortex were normally distributed in patients and healthy controls. MND-related cortical thinning was observed in the right motor cortex (p = 0.002), reflected in a significantly higher proportion of MND cases being worse than −1 standard deviation of the healthy control mean: 29.1% in the right motor cortex (p = 0.002). Cortical thinning of the left motor cortex was a function of clinical phenotype and physical disability. Left prefrontal cortical thickness was reduced in patients with additional cognitive and/or behavioural deficits compared to MND patients without cognitive deficits. Prefrontal, premotor, motor, and occipital cortical thickness was related to patients' general cognitive abilities. CONCLUSION: The study shows that prefrontal cortical thickness in MND is normally distributed but shifted towards thinner cortex in MND patients with cognitive and/or behavioural impairment. The distribution of thickness values did not indicate the assumption of a bimodal distribution although patients with comorbid cognitive deficits are more likely to suffer from prefrontal cortical thinning.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Prefrontal cortical thickness in motor neuron disease |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.03.002 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.03.002 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2018 Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Motor neuron disease; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Frontotemporal dementia; Cortical thickness; Structural MRI |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10045424 |
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