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FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY
卷 4, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00212
关键词
frontotemporal dementia; primary progressive aphasia; diffusion-weighted MRI; magnetic resonance imaging; neuropsychology
资金
- NIH [AG043503, AG17586, NS44266, AG15116, AG32953, NS53488]
- Wyncote Foundation
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [P50NS053488, R01NS044266] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R01AG015116, P01AG032953, P01AG017586, K01AG043503] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Objective: To relate fractional anisotropy (FA) changes associated with the semantic and logopenic variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) to measures of lexical retrieval. Methods: We collected neuropsychological testing, volumetric magnetic resonance imaging, and diffusion-weighted imaging on semantic variant PPA (svPPA) (n=11) and logopenic variant PPA (IvPPA) (n=13) patients diagnosed using published criteria. We also acquired neuroimaging data on a group of demographically comparable healthy seniors (n=34). FA was calculated and analyzed using a white matter (VW) tract-specific analysis approach. This approach utilizes anatomically guided data reduction to increase sensitivity and localizes results within canonically defined tracts. We used non-parametric, cluster-based statistical analysis to relate language performance to FA and determine regions of reduced FA in patients. Results: We found widespread FA reductions in WM for both variants of PPA. FA was related to both confrontation naming and category naming fluency performance in left uncinate fasciculus and corpus callosum in svPPA and left superior and inferior longitudinal fasciculi in IvPPA. Conclusion: SvPPA and IvPPA are associated with distinct disruptions of a large-scale network implicated in lexical retrieval, and the WM disease in each phenotype may contribute to language impairments including lexical retrieval.
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