Anatomical brain connectivity can assess cognitive dysfunction in multiple sclerosis
2013
Background:Brain disconnection plays a major role in determining cognitive disabilities in multiple sclerosis (MS). We recently developed a novel diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) tractography approach, namely anatomical connectivitity mapping (ACM), that quantifies structural brain connectivity.Objective:Use of ACM to assess structural connectivity modifications in MS brains and ascertain their relationship with the patients’ Paced-Auditory-Serial-Addition-Test (PASAT) scores.Methods:Relapsing–remitting MS (RRMS) patients (n = 25) and controls (n = 25) underwent MRI at 3T, including conventional images, T1-weighted volumes and DW-MRI. Volumetric scans were coregistered to fractional anisotropy (FA) images, to obtain parenchymal FA maps for both white and grey matter. We initiated probabilistic tractography from all parenchymal voxels, obtaining ACM maps by counting the number of streamlines passing through each voxel, then normalizing by the total number of streamlines initiated. The...
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