期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY
卷 69, 期 2, 页码 167-171出版社
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.69.2.167
关键词
brain mapping; neuropsychiatric inventory; HMPAO-SPECT; behaviour
资金
- NIA NIH HHS [K08AG100784, P50 AG16570] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [P20MH/DA 52176] Funding Source: Medline
Background-Psychotic symptoms are produced by distributed neuronal dysfunction. Abnormalities of reality testing and false inference implicate frontal lobe abnormalities. Objectives-To identify the functional imaging profile of patients with Alzheimer's disease manifesting psychotic symptoms as measured by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Methods-Twenty patients with Alzheimer's disease who had SPECT and clinical evaluations were divided into two equal groups with similar mini mental status examination (MMSE), age, sex, and the range of behaviours documented by the neuropsychiatric inventory (NPI), except delusions and hallucinations. SPECT studies, registered to a probabilistic anatomical atlas, were normalised across the combined group mean intensity level, and subjected to a voxel by voxel subtraction of the non-psychotic minus psychotic groups. Subvolume thresholding (SVT) corrected random lobar noise to produce a three dimensional functional significance map. Results-The significance map showed lower regional perfusion in the right and left dorsolateral frontal, left anterior cingulate, and left ventral striatal regions along with the left pulvinar and dorsolateral parietal cortex, in the psychotic versus non-psychotic group. Conclusion Patients with Alzheimer's disease who manifest psychosis may have disproportionate dysfunction of frontal lobes and related subcortical and parietal structures.
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