Bocchetta, M;
Iglesias, JE;
Russell, L;
Greaves, CV;
Marshall, C;
Scelsi, MA;
Cash, D;
... Rohrer, J; + view all
(2019)
Segmentation of medial temporal subregions reveals early right-sided involvement in semantic variant PPA.
Alzheimer's Research and Therapy
, 11
, Article 41. 10.1186/s13195-019-0489-9.
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Abstract
Background: Semantic variant of primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) is a subtype of frontotemporal dementia characterized by asymmetric temporal atrophy. Methods: We investigated the pattern of medial temporal lobe atrophy in 24 svPPA patients compared to 72 controls using novel approaches to segment the hippocampal and amygdalar subregions on MRIs. Based on semantic knowledge scores, we split the svPPA group into 3 subgroups of early, middle and late disease stage. Results: Early stage: all left amygdalar and hippocampal subregions (except the tail) were affected in svPPA (21–35% smaller than controls), together with the following amygdalar nuclei in the right hemisphere: lateral, accessory basal and superficial (15–23%). On the right, only the temporal pole was affected among the cortical regions. Middle stage: the left hippocampal tail became affected (28%), together with the other amygdalar nuclei (22–26%), and CA4 (15%) on the right, with orbitofrontal cortex and subcortical structures involvement on the left, and more posterior temporal lobe on the right. Late stage: the remaining right hippocampal regions (except the tail) (19–24%) became affected, with more posterior left cortical and right extra-temporal anterior cortical involvement. Conclusions: With advanced subregions segmentation, it is possible to detect early involvement of the right medial temporal lobe in svPPA that is not detectable by measuring the amygdala or hippocampus as a whole.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Segmentation of medial temporal subregions reveals early right-sided involvement in semantic variant PPA |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13195-019-0489-9 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-019-0489-9 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creative commons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/public domain/zero/1.0/)applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| Keywords: | Semantic variant PPA, Magnetic resonance imaging, Medial temporal subregions |
| 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 UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10074034 |
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