Corpus callosum damage in PSP and unsteady PD patients: A multimodal MRI study.

Autor:	Eugenia Caligiuri M; Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University 'Magna Graecia', Catanzaro, Italy., Quattrone A; Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University 'Magna Graecia', Catanzaro, Italy; Institute of Neurology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy. Electronic address: an.quattrone@unicz.it., Giovanna Bianco M; Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University 'Magna Graecia', Catanzaro, Italy., Riccardo Aquila V; Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University 'Magna Graecia', Catanzaro, Italy., Celeste Bonacci M; Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University 'Magna Graecia', Catanzaro, Italy., Calomino C; Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University 'Magna Graecia', Catanzaro, Italy., Camastra C; Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University 'Magna Graecia', Catanzaro, Italy., Buonocore J; Institute of Neurology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy., Augimeri A; Biotecnomed S.C.aR.L. Catanzaro, Italy., Morelli M; Institute of Neurology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy., Quattrone A; Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University 'Magna Graecia', Catanzaro, Italy.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	NeuroImage. Clinical [Neuroimage Clin] 2024; Vol. 43, pp. 103642. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 15.
DOI:	10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103642
Abstrakt:	Introduction: Postural instability (PI) is a common disabling symptom in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, but the brain alterations underlying this sign are not fully understood yet. This study aimed to investigate the association between PI and callosal damage in PD and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) patients, using multimodal MR imaging. Methods: One-hundred and two PD patients stratified according to the presence/absence of PI (PD-steady N=58; PD-unsteady N=44), 69 PSP patients, and 38 healthy controls (HC) underwent structural and diffusion 3T brain MRI. Thickness, fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) were calculated over 50 equidistant points covering the whole midsagittal profile of the corpus callosum (CC) and compared among groups. Associations between imaging metrics and postural instability score were investigated using linear regression. Results: Both PSP and PD-unsteady patient groups showed CC involvement in comparison with HC, while no difference was found between PD-steady patients and controls. The CC damage was more severe and widespread in PSP than in PD patients. The CC genu was the regions most damaged in PD-unsteady patients compared with PD-steady patients, showing significant microstructural alterations of MD and FA metrics. Linear regression analysis pointed at the MD in the CC genu as the main contributor to PI among the considered MRI metrics. Conclusion: This study identified callosal microstructural alterations associated with PI in unsteady PD and PSP patients, which provide new insights on PI pathophysiology and might serve as imaging biomarkers for assessing postural instability progression and treatment response. Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. (Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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