Aberrant frontostriatal connectivity in Alzheimer's disease with positive palmomental reflex.

European Journal of Neurology : the Official Journal of the European Federation of Neurological Societies
H GramespacherO A Onur

Abstract

Primitive reflexes may reoccur in various neurodegenerative diseases. However, little is known about their structural and functional correlates in the human brain. Notably, the neural mechanisms underlying a positive palmomental reflex (PMR) are poorly understood. As recent studies link Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related primitive reflexes to a dysfunction of the corticostriatal motor circuit (CMC), we conducted the present study to investigate functional and structural correlates of a positive PMR. We hypothesized an involvement of frontostriatal structures and an impairment of the CMC. Using whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity (FC), hypothesis and FC result-based probabilistic tractography, and voxel-based morphometry analyses, we compared two groups of AD patients with either positive (n = 12) or negative PMR (n = 12). No significant differences in grey matter volume or structural connectivity (SC) could be observed between the PMR-positive and PMR-negative groups. In contrast, the PMR-positive group showed a decreased seed-to-voxel FC between the bilateral supplementary motor area and parts of the right-hemispherical caudate nucleus and thalamus and a decreased region of interest (ROI)-to-ROI FC between the left...Continue Reading

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