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ArticleJournal of Huntington's disease2019

Impact of Huntington's Disease on Mental Rotation Performance in Motor Pre-Symptomatic Individuals.

Shahin Nasr, Herminia D Rosas

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Article in Journal of Huntington's disease, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shahin NasrAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Herminia D RosasAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Project 4P41EB015896 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ROSEN, BRUCE R · 2012 to 2018
$9.8M
Huntington's Disease: Learning from ExtremesR01NS106384 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ROSAS, HERMINIA DIANA · 2018 to 2022
$7.6M
Neuroimaging Biomarkers for disease-modyfying therapies in Hintington's diseaseP01NS058793 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI HERSCH, STEVEN M · 2008 to 2012
$6.6M
Prospective Neuroimaging in Huntington's DiseaseR01NS042861 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ROSAS, HERMINIA DIANA · 2003 to 2013
$5.6M
Prospective Neuroimaging in Huntington's DiseaseR56NS042861 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ROSAS, HERMINIA DIANA · 2014 to 2014
$870k
NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB015896NINDS NIH HHS P01 NS058793NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS042861NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS106384NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS042861
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHuntington's disease (HD) is a genetic disorder known for affecting motor control. Despite evidence for the impact of HD on visual cortico-striatal loops, evidence for impaired visual perception in early symptomatic HD patients is limited; much less is known about what happens during the HD prodrome.

objectiveThe goals of this study were to evaluate perceptual processing in motor pre-manifest HD gene-carriers (Pre-HDs) during a visual mental rotation task.

methodsTo achieve this goal, 79 participants including 24 Pre-HD participants and 55 healthy matched controls were scanned using functional MRI as they performed a mental rotation task. Another group of 36 subjects including 15 pre-HDs and 21 healthy age/gender matched controls participated in a control behavioral test of judgment of line orientation outside the scanner.

resultsWe found that, although Pre-HDs (in this stage of disease) did not demonstrate slower response times, their response accuracy was lower than controls. On the fMRI task, controls showed a significant decrease in activity in the occipito-temporal (OT) visual network and increase in activity in the caudo-fronto-parietal (CFP) network with mental rotation load. Interestingly, the amount of mental rotation-related activity decrease in the OT network was reduced in Pre-HDs compared to controls while, the level of CFP response remained unchanged between the two groups. Comparing the link between the evoked BOLD activity within these networks and response accuracy (i.e., behavior), we found that the models fit to data from controls were less accurate in predicting response accuracy of Pre-HDs.

conclusionThese findings provide some of the earliest functional evidence of impaired visual processing and altered neural processing underlying visual perceptual decision making during the HD prodrome.

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AdultBrainBrain MappingFemaleHumansHuntington DiseaseMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedMotion PerceptionPattern Recognition, VisualRotationYoung Adultfunctional MRIMental rotationPre-HDvisual system

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PMID31306138
PMCPMC7266007
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