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ArticleEuropean journal of neurology2023

Selective perforant-pathway atrophy in Huntington disease: MRI analysis of hippocampal subfields.

Pierre Wibawa, Mark Walterfang, Charles B Malpas, Yifat Glikmann-Johnston, Govinda Poudel, Adeel Razi, Anthony J Hannan, Dennis Velakoulis, Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis

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Article in European journal of neurology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Pierre WibawaNeuropsychiatry, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7120-6984
Mark WalterfangNeuropsychiatry, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Charles B MalpasNeuropsychiatry, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0534-3718
Yifat Glikmann-JohnstonSchool of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Govinda PoudelMary Mackillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
Adeel RaziSchool of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Anthony J HannanFlorey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Dennis VelakoulisNeuropsychiatry, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Nellie Georgiou-KaristianisSchool of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0718-6760
The Royal Melbourne Hospital · AUMonash University · AUAustralian Catholic University · AUThe University of Melbourne · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionWhile individuals with Huntington disease (HD) show memory impairment that indicates hippocampal dysfunction, the available literature does not consistently identify structural evidence for involvement of the whole hippocampus but rather suggests that hippocampal atrophy may be confined to certain hippocampal subregions.

methodsWe processed T1-weighted MRI from IMAGE-HD study using FreeSurfer 7.0 and compared the volumes of the hippocampal subfields among 36 early motor symptomatic (symp-HD), 40 pre-symptomatic (pre-HD), and 36 healthy control individuals across three timepoints over 36 months.

resultsMixed-model analyses revealed significantly lower subfield volumes in symp-HD, compared with pre-HD and control groups, in the subicular regions of the perforant-pathway: presubiculum, subiculum, dentate gyrus, tail, and right molecular layer. These adjoining subfields aggregated into a single principal component, which demonstrated an accelerated rate of atrophy in the symp-HD. Volumes between pre-HD and controls did not show any significant difference. In the combined HD groups, CAG repeat length and disease burden score were associated with presubiculum, molecular layer, tail, and perforant-pathway subfield volumes. Hippocampal left tail and perforant-pathway subfields were associated with motor onset in the pre-HD group.

conclusionsHippocampal subfields atrophy in early symptomatic HD affects key regions of the perforant-pathway, which may implicate the distinctive memory impairment at this stage of illness. Their volumetric associations with genetic and clinical markers suggest the selective susceptibility of these subfields to mutant Huntingtin and disease progression.

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Huntington DiseaseAtrophyHippocampusHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingTemporal Lobehippocampal subfieldshippocampusHuntington diseasememoryMRI

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