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Cortical microstructure in the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia continuum

Ignacio Illán-Gala1, Victor Montal2, Jordi Pegueroles2

  • 1From the Sant Pau Memory Unit (I.I.-G., V.M., J.P., E.V., D.A., O.D.-I., L.M.-R., M.B.S.-S., A.S., L.V., I.S., I.B., S.V., R.B., J.C., A.L., J.F.), Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Neuromuscular Diseases Unit (N.d.L., J.T.-S., E.C.-V., R.R.-G.), Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER) (N.d.L., J.T.-S., E.C.-V., R.R.-G.), Valencia; Barcelona Down Medical Center (I.I.G., L.V., J.F.), Fundació Catalana de Síndrome de Down, Barcelona; and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (I.I.-G., V.M., J.P., E.V., D.A., O.D.-I., I.B., R.B., J.C., A.L., J.F.), CIBERNED, Madrid, Spain. iillan@santpau.cat jfortea@santpau.cat.

Neurology
|September 11, 2020
PubMed
Summary

Cortical microstructure changes, specifically increased mean diffusivity, are linked to cognitive impairment in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). These changes may indicate extramotor neurodegeneration in the ALS-FTD spectrum.

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