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Disease-related cortical thinning in presymptomatic granulin mutation carriers
Borrego-Écija, Sergi; Sala-Llonch, Roser; van Swieten, John; Borroni, Barbara; Moreno, Fermín; Masellis, Mario; Tartaglia, Carmela; Graff, CarolineMutations in the granulin gene (GRN) cause familial frontotemporal dementia. Understanding the structural brain changes in presymptomatic GRN carriers would enforce the use of neuroimaging biomarkers for early diagnosis and monitoring. We studied 100 presymptomatic GRN mutation carriers and 94 noncarriers from the Genetic Frontotemporal dementia initiative (GENFI), with MRI structural images. We analyzed 3T MRI...
Impairment of episodic memory in genetic frontotemporal dementia : a GENFI study
Poos, Jackie M.; Russell, Lucy L.; Peakman, Georgia; Bocchetta, Martina; Greaves, Caroline V.; Jiskoot, Lize C.; Ende, Emma L.; Seelaar, HarroIntroduction: We aimed to assess episodic memory in genetic frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT). Methods: The FCSRT was administered in 417 presymptomatic and symptomatic mutation carriers (181 chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 [C9orf72], 163 progranulin [GRN], and 73 microtubule-associated protein tau [MAPT]) and 290 controls. Group differences and correlation...
Disease-related cortical thinning in presymptomatic granulin mutation carriers
Borrego-Écija, Sergi; Sala-Llonch, Roser; van Swieten, John; Borroni, Barbara; Moreno, Fermín; Masellis, Mario; Tartaglia, Carmela; Graff, CarolineMutations in the granulin gene (GRN) cause familial frontotemporal dementia. Understanding the structural brain changes in presymptomatic GRN carriers would enforce the use of neuroimaging biomarkers for early diagnosis and monitoring. We studied 100 presymptomatic GRN mutation carriers and 94 noncarriers from the Genetic Frontotemporal dementia initiative (GENFI), with MRI structural images. We analyzed 3T MRI...
Social cognition impairment in genetic frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI...
Russell, Lucy L.; Greaves, Caroline V.; Bocchetta, Martina; Nicholas, Jennifer; Convery, Rhian S.; Moore, Katrina; Cash, David M.; van Swieten, JohnA key symptom of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is difficulty interacting socially with others. Social cognition problems in FTD include impaired emotion processing and theory of mind difficulties, and whilst these have been studied extensively in sporadic FTD, few studies have investigated them in familial FTD. Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) and Faux Pas (FP) recognition tests were used to study social cognit...
Brain functional network integrity sustains cognitive function despite atrophy ...
Tsvetanov, Kamen A.; Gazzina, Stefano; Jones, P. Simon; Swieten, John; Borroni, Barbara; Sanchez‐Valle, Raquel; Moreno, Fermin; Laforce, RobertIntroduction: The presymptomatic phase of neurodegenerative disease can last many years, with sustained cognitive function despite progressive atrophy. We investigate this phenomenon in familial frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Methods: We studied 121 presymptomatic FTD mutation carriers and 134 family members without mutations, using multivariate data-driven approach to link cognitive performance with both struc...
Social cognition impairment in genetic frontotemporal dementia within the GENFI...
Russell, Lucy L.; Greaves, Caroline V.; Bocchetta, Martina; Nicholas, Jennifer; Convery, Rhian S.; Moore, Katrina; Cash, David M.; van Swieten, JohnA key symptom of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is difficulty interacting socially with others. Social cognition problems in FTD include impaired emotion processing and theory of mind difficulties, and whilst these have been studied extensively in sporadic FTD, few studies have investigated them in familial FTD. Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) and Faux Pas (FP) recognition tests were used to study social cognit...
Functional network resilience to pathology in presymptomatic genetic frontotemp...
Rittman, Timothy; Borchert, Robin; Jones, Simon; van Swieten, John; Borroni, Barbara; Galimberti, Daniela; Masellis, Mario; Tartaglia, Maria CarmelaThe presymptomatic phase of neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by structural brain changes without significant clinical features. We set out to investigate the contribution of functional network resilience to preserved cognition in presymptomatic genetic frontotemporal dementia. We studied 172 people from families carrying genetic abnormalities in C9orf72, MAPT, or PGRN. Networks were extracted from f...
The inner fluctuations of the brain in presymptomatic frontotemporal dementia: ...
Premi, Enrico; Calhoun, Vince D.; Diano, Matteo; Gazzina, Stefano; Cosseddu, Maura; Alberici, Antonella; Archetti, Silvana; Paternicò, DonataFrontotemporal Dementia (FTD) is preceded by a long period of subtle brain changes, occurring in the absence of overt cognitive symptoms, that need to be still fully characterized. Dynamic network analysis based on resting-state magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a potentially powerful tool for the study of preclinical FTD. In the present study, we employed a "chronnectome" approach (recurring, time-varyin...