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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6 Pt 1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-5-15
pubmed:abstractText
In this study, we used voxel-based mapping methods to compare the resting cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (CMRglc) measured with PET in five patients with permanent amnesia (three with chronic Wernicke-Korsakoff and two with postanoxia syndrome) to that of nine healthy age-matched subjects. We assessed (i) a group pattern of relative hypometabolism; and (ii) the consistency of this group pattern, if any, in individual subjects, according to etiology. The results from the group analysis documented that permanent amnesia is associated with hypometabolism in the thalamus, posterior cingulate cortex, and mesial prefrontal cortex (near the anterior cingulate gyrus), bilaterally, as well as in the left supramarginal and middle temporal gyri. The individual analysis showed that this group pattern was found in essentially each patient, regardless of the cause of amnesia. Thus, permanent amnesia is subtended by dysfunction in structures belonging to Papez/limbic circuits as well as in left-hemisphere areas typically concerned with verbal functions, probably through a mechanism of thalamo-cortical disconnection and possibly involved in retrograde amnesia. The use of a voxel-based method allowed us to map a common network of synaptic dysfunction in a neuropsychological syndrome regardless of etiology. Our results indicate that this should be a powerful method in functional neuropsychology.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1053-8119
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2001 Academic Press.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1164-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Voxel-based mapping of brain hypometabolism in permanent amnesia with PET.
pubmed:affiliation
INSERM U320, Cyceron and Department of Neurology, University of Caen, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports