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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2019

Default Mode Network Structural Integrity and Cerebellar Connectivity Predict Information Processing Speed Deficit in Multiple Sclerosis.

Giovanni Savini, Matteo Pardini, Gloria Castellazzi, Alessandro Lascialfari, Declan Chard, Egidio D'Angelo, Claudia A M Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Giovanni SaviniDepartment of Physics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Matteo PardiniDepartment of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics and Maternal and Child Health, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
Gloria CastellazziDepartment of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Alessandro LascialfariDepartment of Physics, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Declan ChardNMR Research Unit, Queen Square MS Centre, Department of Neuroinflammation, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Egidio D'AngeloDepartment of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Claudia A M Gandini Wheeler-KingshottNMR Research Unit, Queen Square MS Centre, Department of Neuroinflammation, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

Cognitive impairment affects about 50% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, but the mechanisms underlying this remain unclear. The default mode network (DMN) has been linked with cognition, but in MS its role is still poorly understood. Moreover, within an extended DMN network including the cerebellum (CBL-DMN), the contribution of cortico-cerebellar connectivity to MS cognitive performance remains unexplored. The present study investigated associations of DMN and CBL-DMN structural connectivity with cognitive processing speed in MS, in both cognitively impaired (CIMS) and cognitively preserved (CPMS) MS patients. 68 MS patients and 22 healthy controls (HCs) completed a symbol digit modalities test (SDMT) and had 3T brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that included a diffusion weighted imaging protocol. DMN and CBL-DMN tracts were reconstructed with probabilistic tractography. These networks (DMN and CBL-DMN) and the cortico-cerebellar tracts alone were modeled using a graph theoretical approach with fractional anisotropy (FA) as the weighting factor. Brain parenchymal fraction (BPF) was also calculated. In CIMS SDMT scores strongly correlated with the FA-weighted global efficiency (GE) of the network [GE(CBL-DMN): ρ = 0.87,

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cerebellumconnectomicsdefault mode network (DMN)diffusion weighted imaging (DWI)magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)multiple sclerosis (MS)symbol digit modalities test (SDMT)tractography

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PMCPMC6396736

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