Experience of using MRI morphometry in Huntington’s disease

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One of the most important inherited neurodegenerative disorders, Huntington’s disease (HD), is characterized by cerebral atrophy, the features of which need to be clarified. MRI morphometry allows assessing quantitatively the atrophy of different brain regions, and this method may be regarded as a potential biomarker of neurodegeneration. We used whole-brain voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and region-of-interest (ROI) morphometry in 24 patients with HD, 10 preclinical HD gene carriers and 9 controls. On whole-brain VBM patients had significantly lower grey matter in the caudate, the putamen, and the pre- and postcentral gyri bilaterally compared to controls, while on ROI morphometry the grey matter volume decrease in patients was seen in the caudate, the putamen and the pallidum bilaterally. In clinically unaffected gene carriers the pallidum, the putamen, and the pre-and postcentral gyri bilaterally were larger and the left pallidum was smaller compared to controls. We found more pronounced atrophy of a dominant hemisphere in patients and gene carriers, as well as negative correlation between basal ganglia and cortical structures volumes and the mutation severity, motor and cognitive impairment.

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E. N. Yudina

Research Center of Neurology,

Email: snillario@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow

Rodion N. Konovalov

Research Center of Neurology

Email: snillario@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5539-245X

Cand. Sci. (Med.), senior researcher, Neuroradiology department

Russian Federation, 125367 Moscow, Volokolamskoye shosse, 80

Natal’ya Yu. Abramycheva

Research Center of Neurology

Email: snillario@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow

Sergey A. Klyushnikov

Research Center of Neurology

Email: snillario@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow

Sergey N. Illarioshkin

Research Center of Neurology

Author for correspondence.
Email: snillario@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2704-6282

D. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Corr. Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director, Head, Department for brain research

Russian Federation, Moscow

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