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Comparison of regional brain atrophy and cognitive impairment between pure akinesia with gait freezing and Richardson's syndrome

Authors
 Jin YongHong  ;  HyukJinYun  ;  MunKyungSunwoo  ;  JeeHyunHam  ;  Jong-MinLee  ;  YoungH.Sohn  ;  PhilHyuLee 
Citation
 FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE, Vol.7 : 180, 2015 
Journal Title
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
Issue Date
2015
Keywords
cognition ; cortical thickness ; freezing of gait ; progressive supranuclear palsy ; pure akinesia with gait freezing ; subcortical volume
Abstract
Pure akinesia with gait freezing (PAGF) is considered a clinical phenotype of progressive supranuclear palsy. The brain atrophy and cognitive deficits in PAGF are expected to be less prominent than in classical Richardson's syndrome (RS), but this hypothesis has not been explored yet. We reviewed the medical records of 28 patients with probable RS, 19 with PAGF, and 29 healthy controls, and compared cortical thickness, subcortical gray matter volume, and neuropsychological performance among the three groups. Patients with PAGF had thinner cortices in frontal, inferior parietal, and temporal areas compared with controls; however, areas of cortical thinning in PAGF patients were less extensive than those in RS patients. In PAGF patients, hippocampal, and thalamic volumes were also smaller than controls, whereas subcortical gray matter volumes in PAGF and RS patients were comparable. In a comparison of neuropsychological tests, PAGF patients had better cognitive performance in executive function, visual memory, and visuospatial function than RS patients had. These results demonstrate that cognitive impairment, cortical thinning, and subcortical gray matter atrophy in PAGF patients resemble to those in RS patients, though the severity of cortical thinning and cognitive dysfunction is milder. Our results suggest that, PAGF and RS may share same pathology but that it appears to affect a smaller proportion of the cortex in PAGF.
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DOI
10.3389/fnagi.2015.00180
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1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Neurology (신경과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Sohn, Young Ho(손영호) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6533-2610
Lee, Phil Hyu(이필휴) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9931-8462
Ham, Jee Hyun(함지현)
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/141281
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