Gargouri Fatma, Messé Arnaud, Perlbarg Vincent, Valabregue Romain, McColgan Peter, Yahia-Cherif Lydia, Fernandez-Vidal Sara, Ben Hamida Ahmed, Benali Habib, Tabrizi Sarah, Durr Alexandra, Lehéricy Stéphane
Institut Du Cerveau Et De La Moelle Épinière - ICM, Centre De NeuroImagerie De Recherche - CENIR, Paris, France.
Institut Du Cerveau Et De La Moelle Épinière - ICM, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris, France.
Hum Brain Mapp. 2016 Nov;37(11):4112-4128. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23299.
Huntington's disease (HD) is a genetic neurological disorder resulting in cognitive and motor impairments. We evaluated the longitudinal changes of functional connectivity in sensorimotor, associative and limbic cortico-basal ganglia networks. We acquired structural MRI and resting-state fMRI in three visits one year apart, in 18 adult HD patients, 24 asymptomatic mutation carriers (preHD) and 18 gender- and age-matched healthy volunteers from the TRACK-HD study. We inferred topological changes in functional connectivity between 182 regions within cortico-basal ganglia networks using graph theory measures. We found significant differences for global graph theory measures in HD but not in preHD. The average shortest path length (L) decreased, which indicated a change toward the random network topology. HD patients also demonstrated increases in degree k, reduced betweeness centrality bc and reduced clustering C. Changes predominated in the sensorimotor network for bc and C and were observed in all circuits for k. Hubs were reduced in preHD and no longer detectable in HD in the sensorimotor and associative networks. Changes in graph theory metrics (L, k, C and bc) correlated with four clinical and cognitive measures (symbol digit modalities test, Stroop, Burden and UHDRS). There were no changes in graph theory metrics across sessions, which suggests that these measures are not reliable biomarkers of longitudinal changes in HD. preHD is characterized by progressive decreasing hub organization, and these changes aggravate in HD patients with changes in local metrics. HD is characterized by progressive changes in global network interconnectivity, whose network topology becomes more random over time. Hum Brain Mapp 37:4112-4128, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
亨廷顿舞蹈症(HD)是一种导致认知和运动障碍的遗传性神经疾病。我们评估了感觉运动、联合和边缘皮质-基底神经节网络中功能连接的纵向变化。我们对来自TRACK-HD研究的18名成年HD患者、24名无症状突变携带者(preHD)以及18名年龄和性别匹配的健康志愿者进行了三次间隔一年的随访,分别采集了结构MRI和静息态功能磁共振成像(fMRI)。我们使用图论方法推断皮质-基底神经节网络内182个区域之间功能连接的拓扑变化。我们发现HD患者在全局图论指标上存在显著差异,而preHD患者则没有。平均最短路径长度(L)缩短,这表明向随机网络拓扑结构转变。HD患者还表现出度k增加、介数中心性bc降低和聚类系数C降低。bc和C的变化在感觉运动网络中占主导,而k的变化在所有回路中均有观察到。在感觉运动和联合网络中,preHD患者的枢纽节点减少,而在HD患者中则不再可检测到。图论指标(L、k、C和bc)的变化与四项临床和认知指标(符号数字模式测试、斯特鲁普测试、负担量表和统一亨廷顿舞蹈症评定量表(UHDRS))相关。各次随访之间图论指标没有变化,这表明这些指标不是HD纵向变化的可靠生物标志物。preHD患者表现为枢纽组织逐渐减少,而这些变化在HD患者中随着局部指标的变化而加剧。HD的特征是全局网络互连性逐渐变化,其网络拓扑结构随时间变得更加随机。《人类大脑图谱》37:4112 - 4128,2016年。© 2016威利期刊公司。