路易氏体型失智症
幻觉
心理学
体素
痴呆
相关性
听力学
路易体
神经科学
视皮层
静息状态功能磁共振成像
病理
医学
精神科
放射科
数学
疾病
几何学
作者
Leonardo Iaccarino,Arianna Sala,Silvia Paola Caminiti,Roberto Santangelo,Sandro Iannaccone,Giuseppe Magnani,Daniela Perani
出处
期刊:Cortex
[Elsevier]
日期:2018-11-01
卷期号:108: 13-24
被引量:18
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.06.014
摘要
Visual hallucinations (VH) are a core clinical feature of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), but their specific neural substrate remains elusive. We used 18F-FDG-PET to study the neural dysfunctional signature of VH in a group of 38 DLB patients (mean age±SD 72.9 ± 7.5) with available anamnestic records, cognitive and neurological examination and NeuroPsychiatric Inventory assessing VH. We tested the voxel-wise correlation between 18F-FDG-PET hypometabolism and VH NPI scores at the whole-group level, then adopting inter-regional correlation analysis to explore the resting-state networks (RSNs) metabolic connectivity in DLB patients with and without visual hallucinations, as compared to N = 38 age-matched healthy controls (HCs) (mean age±SD 71.5 ± 6.9). At the whole-group level, we found a negative correlation between VH NPI scores and 18F-FDG-PET hypometabolism in the right occipito-temporal cortex (p < .001 uncorrected, p < .05 Family-Wise Error cluster-corrected). Then, splitting the group according to VH presence, we found that DLB non-hallucinators presented a pattern of connectivity seeding from this occipito-temporal cluster and extending to the ventral visual stream. At difference, the DLB hallucinators showed a metabolic connectivity pattern limited to the occipital-dorsal parietal regions. As for RSNs, both the DLB subgroups showed a markedly reduced extent of attention and visual networks compared to HCs, with a variable alteration in the topography. DLB-VH patients showed a more pronounced shrinkage of the primary visual network, which was disconnected from the higher visual hubs, at difference with both HC and DLB non-hallucinators. These findings suggest that an altered brain metabolic connectivity within and beyond visual systems may promote VH in DLB. These results support the most recent neurocognitive models interpreting VH as the result of an inefficient recruitment of the ventral visual stream and of a large-scale multi-network derangement.
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