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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2024

Visuo-Cognitive Phenotypes in Early Multiple Sclerosis: A Multisystem Model of Visual Processing.

Hariklia Vagias, Michelle L Byrne, Lyn Millist, Owen White, Meaghan Clough, Joanne Fielding

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2024. 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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1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: from phenomenology to neurobiological mechanisms.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2024
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hariklia VagiasSchool of Psychological Sciences and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia.
Michelle L ByrneSchool of Psychological Sciences and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4180-8095
Lyn MillistDepartment of Neuroscience, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne 3004, Australia.
Owen WhiteDepartment of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne 3004, Australia.
Meaghan CloughDepartment of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne 3004, Australia.
Joanne FieldingDepartment of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne 3004, Australia.
Monash University · AUThe Alfred Hospital · AU

Funding

Sanofi GZ-2016-11520
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCognitive impairment can emerge in the earliest stages of multiple sclerosis (MS), with heterogeneity in cognitive deficits often hindering symptom identification and management. Sensory-motor dysfunction, such as visual processing impairment, is also common in early disease and can impact neuropsychological task performance in MS. However, cognitive phenotype research in MS does not currently consider the relationship between early cognitive changes and visual processing impairment.

objectivesThis study explored the relationship between cognition and visual processing in early MS by adopting a three-system model of afferent sensory, central cognitive and efferent ocular motor visual processing to identify distinct visuo-cognitive phenotypes.

methodsPatients with clinically isolated syndrome and relapsing-remitting MS underwent neuro-ophthalmic, ocular motor and neuropsychological evaluation to assess each visual processing system. The factor structure of ocular motor variables was examined using exploratory factor analysis, and phenotypes were identified using latent profile analysis.

resultsAnalyses revealed three ocular-motor constructs (cognitive control, cognitive processing speed and basic visual processing) and four visuo-cognitive phenotypes (early visual changes, efferent-cognitive, cognitive control and afferent-processing speed). While the efferent-cognitive phenotype was present in significantly older patients than was the early visual changes phenotype, there were no other demographic differences between phenotypes. The efferent-cognitive and cognitive control phenotypes had poorer performance on the Symbol Digit Modalities Test compared to that of other phenotypes; however, no other differences in performance were detected.

conclusionOur findings suggest that distinct visual processing deficits in early MS may differentially impact cognition, which is not captured using standard neuropsychological evaluation. Further research may facilitate improved symptom identification and intervention in early disease.

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cognitionmultiple sclerosisphenotypesvisual processingvisuo-cognitive

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