ArticleNeuroImage. Clinical2018
Unique degeneration signatures in the cerebellar cortex for spinocerebellar ataxias 2, 3, and 7.
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- A Severity-Agnostic Atrophy Pattern in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3: Volumetrics from ENIGMA-Ataxia.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2026Article
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- The Pattern and Stages of Atrophy in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2: Volumetrics from ENIGMA-Ataxia.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025Article
- Axonal pathology differentially affects human Purkinje cell subtypes in the essential tremor cerebellum.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Gray Matter Asymmetry Alterations in Patients With Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3: A Voxel-Based Morphometric Comparison Study.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
- Dysregulation of zebrin-II cell subtypes in the cerebellum is a shared feature across polyglutamine ataxia mouse models and patients.Science translational medicine · 2024Article
- The Pattern and Staging of Brain Atrophy in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 (SCA2): MRI Volumetrics from ENIGMA-Ataxia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Cerebellar Volumetry in Ataxias: Relation to Ataxia Severity and Duration.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Article
- Cerebellum in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases: an emerging research frontier.MedComm · 2024Review
- A comprehensive review of iPS cell line-based disease modelling of the polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias 2 and 3: a focus on the research outcomes.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Review
- No Evidence for Semantic Prediction Deficits in Individuals With Cerebellar Degeneration.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Cerebellar Degeneration Impairs Strategy Discovery but Not Strategy Recall.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2023Article
- Continuous manipulation of mental representations is compromised in cerebellar degeneration.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Article
- Cerebellar neuronal dysfunction accompanies early motor symptoms in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3.Disease models & mechanisms · 2022Article
- Neurodegenerative and functional signatures of the cerebellar cortex in m.3243A > G patients.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Cerebellar Degeneration Signature in Huntington's Disease.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2021Article
- Regional Brain and Spinal Cord Volume Loss in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2021Article
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Abstract
Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative diseases that selectively affect vulnerable neuronal populations in the cerebellum and other subcortical regions. While previous studies have reported subtype differences in the absolute amount of degeneration in specific regions of interest, they failed to account for two important factors. First, they did not control for overall differences in the severity of the degeneration pattern, and second, they did not fully characterize the spatial pattern of degeneration for each SCA subtype. Here, we provide a systematic characterization of the spatial degeneration patterns for three polyQ SCAs (55 patients, either SCA2, SCA3, or SCA7) while controlling for the severity of the degeneration pattern. After this correction, the cerebellar degeneration pattern can successfully classify between the three different SCA subtypes with high cross-validated accuracy. Specifically, degeneration in SCA3 disproportionally affects motor regions of the cerebellar cortex, which explains the relatively severe motor symptoms observed in this subtype. Our results demonstrate that each of the three studied SCA subtypes has a unique cerebellar degeneration signature, hinting at differences in the disease process. Clinically, these differentiable patterns of cerebellar degeneration can be used to reliably discern subtypes, even at relatively early stages of the disease.
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