Frontotemporal pathology in motor neuron disease phenotypes: Insights from neuroimaging

MC McKenna, P Corcia, P Couratier, WF Siah… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Frontotemporal involvement has been extensively investigated in amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) but remains relatively poorly characterized in other motor neuron disease …

“Switchboard” malfunction in motor neuron diseases: Selective pathology of thalamic nuclei in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and primary lateral sclerosis

RH Chipika, E Finegan, SLH Shing, MC McKenna… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2020 - Elsevier
The thalamus is a key cerebral hub relaying a multitude of corticoefferent and corticoafferent
connections and mediating distinct extrapyramidal, sensory, cognitive and behavioural …

Structural MRI signatures in genetic presentations of the frontotemporal dementia/motor neuron disease spectrum

EG Spinelli, A Ghirelli, S Basaia, C Cividini, N Riva… - Neurology, 2021 - AAN Enterprises
Background and Objectives To assess cortical, subcortical, and cerebellar gray matter (GM)
atrophy using MRI in patients with disorders of the frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) …

[HTML][HTML] Widespread subcortical grey matter degeneration in primary lateral sclerosis: a multimodal imaging study with genetic profiling

E Finegan, SLH Shing, RH Chipika, MA Doherty… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) is a low incidence motor neuron disease which
carries a markedly better prognosis than amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Despite …

Imaging extra-motor dysfunction in motor neuron disease: achievements and controversies

P Bede, RH Chipika, EL Tan - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
There is an ever growing literature on frontotemporal dysfunction in motor neuron diseases,
but the practical caveats of using imaging to evaluate extra-motor changes and linking …

Microstructural changes across different clinical milestones of disease in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

F Trojsi, G Caiazzo, D Corbo, G Piccirillo, V Cristillo… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Neurodegenerative process in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been proven to
involve several cortical and subcortical brain regions within and beyond motor areas …

Not a benign motor neuron disease: longitudinal imaging captures relentless motor connectome disintegration in primary lateral sclerosis

M Tahedl, EL Tan, SLH Shing… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) is a progressive upper motor
neuron disorder associated with considerable clinical disability. Symptoms are typically …

Dissociation of structural and functional integrities of the motor system in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia

JS Bae, M Ferguson, R Tan, E Mioshi… - Journal of Clinical …, 2016 - synapse.koreamed.org
Background and Purpose This study investigated the structural and functional changes in
the motor system in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; n= 25) and behavioral-variant fronto …

Clinicopathological correlates in the frontotemporal lobar degeneration–motor neuron disease spectrum

Á Carbayo, S Borrego-Écija, J Turon-Sans… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating motor neuron disease (MND) that
shares a common clinical, genetic and pathologic spectrum with frontotemporal dementia …

Frontotemporal degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): a longitudinal MRI one-year study

F Trojsi, F Di Nardo, M Siciliano, G Caiazzo… - CNS …, 2021 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveAdvanced neuroimaging techniques may offer the potential to monitor disease
progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative, multisystem …