Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Rounis, Elisabeth; Thompson, Elinor; Scandola, Michele; Nozais, Victor; Pizzamiglio, Gloria; de Schotten, Michel Thiebaut; Pacella, Valentina

Titolo:

A preliminary study of white matter disconnections underlying deficits in praxis in left hemisphere stroke patients

Anno:

2024

Tipologia prodotto:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Lingua:

Inglese

Referee:

No

Nome rivista:

BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION

ISSN Rivista:

1863-2661

Intervallo pagine:

1-14

Parole chiave:

Disconnectome; Extrastriate visual areas; Limb apraxia; Meaningless gesture imitation; Splenium of the corpus callosum

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

: Limb apraxia is a higher-order motor disorder often occurring post-stroke, which affects skilled actions. It is assessed through tasks involving gesture production or pantomime, recognition, meaningless gesture imitation, complex figure drawing, single and multi-object use. A two-system model for the organisation of actions hypothesizes distinct pathways mediating praxis deficits via conceptual, 'indirect', and perceptual 'direct' routes to action. Traditional lesion- symptom mapping techniques have failed to identify these distinct routes. We assessed 29 left hemisphere stroke patients to investigate white matter disconnections on deficits of praxis tasks from the Birmingham Cognitive Screening. White matter disconnection maps derived from patients' structural T1 lesions were created using a diffusion-weighted healthy participant dataset acquired from the human connectome project (HCP). Initial group-level regression analyses revealed significant disconnection between occipital lobes via the splenium of the corpus callosum and involvement of the inferior longitudinal fasciculus in meaningless gesture imitation deficits. There was a trend of left fornix disconnection in gesture production deficits. Further, voxel-wise Bayesian Crawford single-case analyses performed on two patients with the most severe meaningless gesture imitation and meaningful gesture production deficits, respectively, confirmed distinct posterior interhemispheric disconnection, for the former, and disconnections between temporal and frontal areas via the fornix, rostrum of the corpus callosum and anterior cingulum, for the latter. Our results suggest distinct pathways associated with perceptual and conceptual deficits akin to 'direct' and 'indirect' action routes, with some patients displaying both. Larger studies are needed to validate and elaborate on these findings, advancing our understanding of limb apraxia.

Id prodotto:

140591

Handle IRIS:

11562/1131826

ultima modifica:

27 settembre 2024

Citazione bibliografica:

Rounis, Elisabeth; Thompson, Elinor; Scandola, Michele; Nozais, Victor; Pizzamiglio, Gloria; de Schotten, Michel Thiebaut; Pacella, Valentina, A preliminary study of white matter disconnections underlying deficits in praxis in left hemisphere stroke patients «BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION» , 2024 , pp. 1-14

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