期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
卷 269, 期 7, 页码 3636-3652出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-022-10983-6
关键词
Visual hallucination; Lewy body dementia; Parkinson dementia; Neuroimaging; Misperceptions
资金
- Sapienza University of Rome
- NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research [RP-PG-0610-10100]
Visual hallucinations in Lewy body disease have heterogenous phenomenology, classified into minor phenomena and complex hallucinations. Minor VH is not associated with cognitive impairment, while complex VH is associated with impairments in visuoperceptual processes, attention and visual abstract reasoning. Functional connectivity analysis identified associations between severity, duration and frequency of visual hallucinations and distinct cognitive domains and neural networks. These findings support the hodotopic hypothesis of visual hallucinations and provide insights into the underlying mechanisms.
Visual hallucinations (VH) in Lewy body disease (LBD) have a heterogenous phenomenology classified into minor phenomena (MVH) and complex hallucinations (CVH). Mechanisms underpinning VH and their temporal aspects are largely unknown. According to the hodotopic model, we investigated whether changes in distinct cognitive domains and neural networks in the hallucination trait underpin temporal aspects of MVH and CVH in the hallucination state. 35 LBD patients with VH underwent a complete neuropsychological evaluation and resting-state fMRI. North-East-Visual-Hallucinations-Interview was used to assess their typical VH content, duration, and frequency. We found that MVH was not associated with cognitive impairment, while CVH was associated with impairments in visuoperceptual processes, attention and visual abstract reasoning. In seed-to-seed functional connectivity (FC) analysis we identified functional couplings associated with MVH and CVH temporal severity (duration x frequency), duration and frequency. MVH severity was negatively associated with FC between early visual areas (EVA) and ventral-visual-stream regions, and negatively associated with FC between brainstem and EVA, which may be linked to LBD brainstem neuropathology. CVH duration was positively associated with FC between ventral-visual stream and salience network (SN). CVH frequency was negatively associated with FC between DMN and SN. Functional alterations in distinct visual and attentional networks and their dynamic interaction in trait LBD hallucinators are linked to both the phenomenology of state content and its temporal characteristics. Within a network, VH frequency and duration may be linked to different types of functional alterations: increased connectivity leading to sustained activity prolonging VH (duration) and decreased connectivity increasing dysregulated, spontaneous activity (frequency). These findings support the hodotopic hypothesis of VH and may reflect a link between VH phenomenology, LBD neuropathological progression and the involvement of specific neurotransmitter systems.
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