Resting state fMRI analysis of pseudobulbar affect in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS): motor dysfunction of emotional expression.

Autor: Trojsi F; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy. francesca.trojsi@unicampania.it., Di Nardo F; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., D'Alvano G; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., Caiazzo G; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., Passaniti C; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., Mangione A; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., Sharbafshaaer M; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., Russo A; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., Silvestro M; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., Siciliano M; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., Cirillo M; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., Tedeschi G; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy., Esposito F; Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, MRI Research Center, Università degli Studi della Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli', P.Zza Miraglia 2, 80138, Naples, Italy.
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Zdroj: Brain imaging and behavior [Brain Imaging Behav] 2023 Feb; Vol. 17 (1), pp. 77-89. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 12.
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-022-00744-4
Abstrakt: Pseudobulbar affect (PBA), referring to exaggerated or inappropriate episodes of laughing and/or crying without an apparent motivating stimulus, has been mainly attributed to bilateral degeneration of corticobulbar tracts. We aimed at exploring brain functional connectivity (FC) correlates of PBA in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common motor neuron disease, frequently associated with PBA. Resting state functional MRI (RS-fMRI) independent component (ICA) and seed-based analyses and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) whole-brain analysis were performed on 27 ALS patients (13 with PBA; 14 without PBA) and 26 healthy controls (HC), for investigating functional and structural abnormalities in ALS patients compared to HC and in patients with PBA compared to patients without PBA. Between-patient analysis revealed different FC patterns, especially regarding decreased FC in several areas of cognitive (default mode, frontoparietal, salience) and sensory-motor networks in patients with PBA compared to those without PBA. However, no significant differences were found in gray matter atrophy. Seed-based analysis showed increased FC between middle cerebellar peduncles and posterior cingulate cortex and decreased FC between middle cerebellar peduncles and left middle frontal gyrus in patients with PBA compared to patients without PBA. Our findings suggest that some alterations of fronto-tempo-parietal-cerebellar circuits could be related to PBA in ALS. In particular, the abnormal FC between cerebellum and posterior cingulate cortex and left middle frontal gyrus in patients with PBA compared to patients without PBA highlights a crucial role of the cerebellum in regulating emotion expression in patients with ALS.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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