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Latent atrophy factors related to phenotypical variants of posterior cortical atrophy

Groot, C; Yeo, BTT; Vogel, JW; Zhang, X; Sun, N; Mormino, EC; Pijnenburg, YAL; ... Ossenkoppele, R; + view all (2020) Latent atrophy factors related to phenotypical variants of posterior cortical atrophy. Neurology , 95 (12) e1672-e1685. 10.1212/WNL.0000000000010362. Green open access

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether atrophy relates to phenotypical variants of posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) recently proposed in clinical criteria; dorsal, ventral, dominant-parietal and caudal, we assessed associations between latent atrophy factors and cognition. METHODS: We employed a data-driven Bayesian modelling framework based on latent Dirichlet allocation to identify latent atrophy factors in a multi-center cohort of 119 individuals with PCA (age:64±7, 38% male, MMSE:21±5, 71% amyloid-β-positive, 29% amyloid-β status unknown). The model uses standardized gray matter density images as input (adjusted for age, sex, intracranial volume, field-strength and whole-brain gray matter volume) and provides voxelwise probabilistic maps for a predetermined number of atrophy factors, allowing every individual to express each factor to a degree without a-priori classification. Individual factor expressions were correlated to four PCA-specific cognitive domains (object-perception, space-perception, non-visual/parietal functions and primary visual processing) using general linear models. RESULTS: The model revealed four distinct yet partially overlapping atrophy factors; right-dorsal, right-ventral, left-ventral, and limbic. We found that object-perception and primary visual processing were associated with atrophy that predominantly reflects the right-ventral factor. Furthermore, space-perception was associated with atrophy that predominantly represents the right-dorsal and right-ventral factors. However, individual participant profiles revealed that the vast majority expressed multiple atrophy factors and had mixed clinical profiles with impairments across multiple domains, rather than displaying a discrete clinical-radiological phenotype. CONCLUSION: Our results indicate that particular brain-behavior networks are vulnerable in PCA, but most individuals display a constellation of affected brain-regions and symptoms, indicating that classification into four mutually exclusive variants is unlikely to be clinically useful.

Type: Article
Title: Latent atrophy factors related to phenotypical variants of posterior cortical atrophy
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000010362
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000010362
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, MRI, Cognitive neuropsychology in dementia
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Brain Repair and Rehabilitation
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10108315
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