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

Title
Comparison of regional brain atrophy and cognitive impairment between pure akinesia with gait freezing and Richardson's syndrome
Author
이종민
Keywords
pure akinesia with gait freezing; freezing of gait; progressive supranuclear palsy; cortical thickness; subcortical volume; cognition
Issue Date
2015-09
Publisher
FRONTIERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Citation
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE, v. 7, NO Article180, Page. 1-7
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.
URI
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnagi.2015.00180/fullhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/27374
ISSN
1663-4365
DOI
10.3389/fnagi.2015.00180
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