Cerebral Atrophy in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Parallels the Pathological Distribution of TDP43

Author:

Dadar MahsaORCID,Manera Ana LauraORCID,Zinman Lorne,Korngut Lawrence,Genge Angela,Graham Simon J.,Frayne Richard,Collins D. Louis,Kalra Sanjay

Abstract

AbstractAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a preferential involvement of both upper and lower motor neurons. Evidence from neuroimaging and post-mortem studies confirms additional involvement of brain regions extending beyond the motor cortex. The aim of this study was to assess the extent of cerebral disease in ALS cross-sectionally and longitudinally, and to compare the findings with a recently proposed disease-staging model of ALS pathology. Deformation-based morphometry (DBM) was used to identify the patterns of brain atrophy associated with ALS and to assess their relationship with clinical symptoms. Longitudinal T1-weighted MRI data and clinical measures were acquired at baseline, 4 months, and 8 months, from 66 ALS patients and 43 age-matched controls who participated in the Canadian ALS Neuroimaging Consortium (CALSNIC) study. Whole brain voxel-wise mixed-effects modelling analysis showed extensive atrophy patterns differentiating ALS patients from the normal controls. Cerebral atrophy was present in the motor cortex and corticospinal tract, involving both GM and WM, and to a lesser extent in non-motor regions. More specifically, the results showed significant bilateral atrophy in the motor cortex, the corticospinal tract including the internal capsule and brainstem, with an overall pattern of ventricular enlargement; along with significant progressive longitudinal atrophy in the precentral gyrus, frontal and parietal white matter, accompanied by ventricular and sulcal enlargement. Atrophy in the precentral gyrus was significantly associated with greater disability as quantified with the ALS Functional Rating Scale-Revised (ALSFRS-R) (p<0.0001). The pattern of atrophy observed using DBM was consistent with the Brettschneider’s four stage pathological model of the disease. Deformation based morphometry provides a sensitive indicator of atrophy in ALS, and has potential as a biomarker of disease burden, in both gray and white matter.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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