Altered intrahemispheric structural connectivity in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
Altered intrahemispheric structural connectivity in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.nicl.2013.11.011
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
Thomalla, Goetz
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作者:
Cheng, Bastian;Braass, Hanna;Ganos, Christos;Treszl, Andras;Biermann-Ruben, Katja;Hummel, Friedhelm C.;Mueller-Vahl, Kirsten;Schnitzler, Alfons;Gerloff, Christian;Muenchau, Alexander;Thomalla, Goetz
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a common developmental neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by tics and frequent psychiatric comorbidities, often causing significant disability. Tic generation has been linked to disturbed networks of brain areas involved in planning, controlling and execution of actions, particularly structural and functional disorders in the striatum and cortico–striato–thalamo–cortical loops. We therefore applied structural diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to characterize changes in intrahemispheric white matter connectivity in cortico-subcortical circuits engaged in motor control in 15 GTS patients without psychiatric comorbidities. White matter connectivity was analyzed by probabilistic fiber tractography between 12 predefined cortical and subcortical regions of interest. Connectivity values were combined with measures of clinical severity rated by the Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS). GTS patients showed widespread structural connectivity deficits. Lower connectivity values were found specifically in tracts connecting the supplementary motor areas (SMA) with basal ganglia (pre-SMA–putamen, SMA–putamen) and in frontal cortico-cortical circuits. There was an overall trend towards negative correlations between structural connectivity in these tracts and YGTSS scores. Structural connectivity of frontal brain networks involved in planning, controlling and executing actions is reduced in adult GTS patients which is associated with tic severity. These findings are in line with the concept of GTS as a neurodevelopmental disorder of brain immaturity. We examine white matter pathways in Tourette syndrome with diffusion tensor imaging. GTS patients showed widespread structural connectivity deficits. Altered connectivity in GTS patients was associated with tic severity. Our findings are in line with the concept of GTS as disorder of brain immaturity.
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DOI:
10.1093/brain/awq300
发表时间:
2010-12
期刊:
Brain : a journal of neurology
影响因子:
--
作者:
Draganski B;Martino D;Cavanna AE;Hutton C;Orth M;Robertson MM;Critchley HD;Frackowiak RS
通讯作者:
Frackowiak RS
影响因子:
14.5
作者:
Berlin, HA;Rolls, ET;Kischka, U
通讯作者:
Kischka, U
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0403743101
发表时间:
2004-09-07
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Johansen-Berg, H;Behrens, TEJ;Matthews, PM
通讯作者:
Matthews, PM
影响因子:
14.5
作者:
Church, Jessica A.;Fair, Damien A.;Dosenbach, Nico U. F.;Cohen, Alexander L.;Miezin, Francis M.;Petersen, Steven E.;Schlaggar, Bradley L.
通讯作者:
Schlaggar, Bradley L.
影响因子:
4.8
作者:
Govindan, Rajkumar Munian;Makki, Malek I.;Chugani, Harry T.
通讯作者:
Chugani, Harry T.