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ArticleHuman brain mapping2014

Brain tissue properties differentiate between motor and limbic basal ganglia circuits.

Ettore A Accolla, Juergen Dukart, Gunther Helms, Nikolaus Weiskopf, Ferath Kherif, Antoine Lutti, Rumana Chowdhury, Stefan Hetzer, John-Dylan Haynes, Andrea A Kühn and 1 more

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Article in Human brain mapping, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

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11 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Ettore A AccollaDepartment of Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany; LREN, Département des Neurosciences Cliniques, CHUV, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
Juergen Dukart
Gunther Helms
Nikolaus Weiskopf
Ferath Kherif
Antoine Lutti
Rumana Chowdhury
Stefan Hetzer
John-Dylan Haynes
Andrea A Kühn
Bogdan Draganski
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEUniversity of Lausanne · CHWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging · GBBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin · DEMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences · DEUniversitätsmedizin Göttingen · DE

Funding

Wellcome Trust 091593Wellcome Trust 0915/Z/10/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite advances in understanding basic organizational principles of the human basal ganglia, accurate in vivo assessment of their anatomical properties is essential to improve early diagnosis in disorders with corticosubcortical pathology and optimize target planning in deep brain stimulation. Main goal of this study was the detailed topological characterization of limbic, associative, and motor subdivisions of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) in relation to corresponding corticosubcortical circuits. To this aim, we used magnetic resonance imaging and investigated independently anatomical connectivity via white matter tracts next to brain tissue properties. On the basis of probabilistic diffusion tractography we identified STN subregions with predominantly motor, associative, and limbic connectivity. We then computed for each of the nonoverlapping STN subregions the covariance between local brain tissue properties and the rest of the brain using high-resolution maps of magnetization transfer (MT) saturation and longitudinal (R1) and transverse relaxation rate (R2*). The demonstrated spatial distribution pattern of covariance between brain tissue properties linked to myelin (R1 and MT) and iron (R2*) content clearly segregates between motor and limbic basal ganglia circuits. We interpret the demonstrated covariance pattern as evidence for shared tissue properties within a functional circuit, which is closely linked to its function. Our findings open new possibilities for investigation of changes in the established covariance pattern aiming at accurate diagnosis of basal ganglia disorders and prediction of treatment outcome.

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Brain MappingAdultAgedBasal GangliaDiffusion Tensor ImagingFemaleFunctional LateralityHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedNeural PathwaysProbabilitySubthalamic NucleusWhite Matterdiffusion-weighted imagingMTmultiparameter mappingR2*voxel-based quantification

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PMID24777915
PMCPMC4282398
OpenAlexW1501017967

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