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  • Neuroscience
  • Clinical Neurology

Background:

  • Gait and cognitive impairments are key challenges in multiple sclerosis (MS).
  • Cognitive-motor dual tasking (CM-DT) assesses the interplay between gait and cognition, crucial for therapeutic strategies in MS.
  • The cerebellum's role in integrating gait and cognitive functions during CM-DT is under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effects of adding cognitive tasks to walking in patients with multiple sclerosis (PMS).
  • To explore the cerebellum's role in the cognitive-motor interference (CMI) process during dual-tasking in PMS.

Main Methods:

  • A case-control study involving 20 patients with MS and 18 healthy controls (HC).
  • Participants underwent clinical assessments, dual-task (DT) testing (walking with cognitive tasks), and 3T MRI.
  • DT involved 2-minute trials of fast walking, with two different cognitive tasks added in separate trials.

Main Results:

  • Both groups exhibited cognitive-motor interference (CMI), with a more pronounced effect in PMS during a word list generation task.
  • Analysis revealed significantly increased cerebellar Vermis lobules VIIIa and IX volume in high-performing patients compared to HC.
  • Higher performers showed greater cerebellar volume, suggesting a compensatory mechanism.

Conclusions:

  • CMI is present in healthy individuals but is significantly more debilitating in PMS.
  • MRI findings suggest an initial cerebellar reorganization mechanism in PMS to mitigate interference.
  • Failure of this compensatory mechanism with disease progression leads to increased symptom severity.