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Article Dans Une Revue Neurobiol Aging Année : 2007

Anatomical and functional alterations in semantic dementia: a voxel-based MRI and PET study.

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Rare studies have used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) to assess atrophy, and only two positron emission tomography (PET) studies used SPM to examine functional changes in semantic dementia (SD). Our aim was to highlight both morphological and functional abnormalities in a same group of 10 SD patients, in the entire brain, using a "state of the art" methodology (optimized VBM procedure, PET data corrected for partial volume effects and voxel-based analyses). We also used an extensive neuropsychological battery. We showed that main alterations concerned the left temporal lobe, in accordance with the striking impairment of semantic memory in SD patients, as well as the hippocampal region, which may partly explain their moderate episodic memory deficits. Hypometabolism was more extensive than grey matter loss in both temporal lobes, and specifically concerned the orbitofrontal areas, consistent with the moderate impairment of executive functions and behavioural changes. While PET is more sensitive than MRI, there is striking concordance between morphological and functional abnormalities, which contrasts with the discordance observed in Alzheimer's disease and might be a typical feature of SD.
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inserm-00277856 , version 1 (07-05-2008)

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Béatrice Desgranges, Vanessa Matuszewski, Pascale Piolino, Gaël Chételat, Florence Mézenge, et al.. Anatomical and functional alterations in semantic dementia: a voxel-based MRI and PET study.. Neurobiol Aging, 2007, 28 (12), pp.1904-13. ⟨10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.08.006⟩. ⟨inserm-00277856⟩
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