Association between Gray and White Matter Lesions and Its Involvement in Clinical Symptoms of Alzheimer’s-Type Dementia

Taizen Nakase, Benjamin Thyreau, Yasuko Tatewaki, Naoki Tomita, Yumi Takano, Michiho Muranaka, Yasuyuki Taki, Elliott J Mufson, Muh-Shi Lin, Andrew Chih Wei Huang, Seong Soo A An, Bai Chuang Shyu, Anna Kozłowska · 2023

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Taizen Nakase and colleagues examine how two kinds of brain lesion conspire in the symptoms of Alzheimer-type dementia, in this study from twenty twenty-three. Gray matter loss is the famous damage. White matter lesions, scars in the wiring, are the quieter partner. One hundred fifty-six memory clinic patients, with dementia or its amnestic prelude, had both blood-flow scans and MRI.

The pairing mattered, symptom by symptom. Disorientation and poor attention tracked with the precuneus region together with white matter lesions in both hemispheres. Hyperactivity, a behavioral symptom, linked frontal gray matter on both sides with the white matter damage. Patients at the earlier, milder stage actually showed more of these cross-lesion ties than full dementia patients. The authors read dementia's symptoms as duets between tissue loss and wire damage, changing as the disease advances.

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CREATORTaizen Nakase, Benjamin Thyreau, Yasuko Tatewaki, Naoki Tomita, Yumi Takano, Michiho Muranaka, Yasuyuki Taki, Elliott J Mufson, Muh-Shi Lin, Andrew Chih Wei Huang, Seong Soo A An, Bai Chuang Shyu, Anna Kozłowska
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE35 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10744158

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