Journal
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
Volume 41, Issue 14, Pages 3855-3866Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25091
Keywords
connectome; diffusion tensor imaging; mutation; paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia; psychoradiology
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81621003, 81820108018]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT) [IRT16R52]
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This study explored the topological characteristics of brain white matter structural networks in patients with Paroxysmal Kinesigenic Dyskinesia (PKD), and the potential influence of the brain network stability genePRRT2on the structural connectome in PKD. Thirty-five PKD patients withPRRT2mutations (PKD-M), 43 PKD patients withoutPRRT2mutations (PKD-N), and 40 demographically-matched healthy control (HC) subjects underwent diffusion tensor imaging. Graph theory and network-based statistic (NBS) approaches were performed; the topological properties of the white matter structural connectome were compared across the groups, and their relationships with the clinical variables were assessed. Both disease groups PKD-M and PKD-N showed lower local efficiency (implying decreased segregation ability) compared to the HC group; PKD-M had longer characteristic path length and lower global efficiency (implying decreased integration ability) compared to PKD-N and HC, independently of the potential effects of medication. Both PKD-M and PKD-N had decreased nodal characteristics in the left thalamus and left inferior frontal gyrus, the alterations being more pronounced in PKD-M patients, who also showed abnormalities in the left fusiform and bilateral middle temporal gyrus. In the connectivity characteristics assessed by NBS, the alterations were more pronounced in the PKD-M group versus HC than in PKD-N versus HC. As well as the white matter alterations in the basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical circuit related to PKD with or withoutPRRT2mutations, findings in the PKD-M group of weaker small-worldness and more pronounced regional disturbance show the adverse effects ofPRRT2gene mutations on brain structural connectome.
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