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- Dechent, Peter, et al.
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Basal cerebral blood volume during the poststimulation undershoot in BOLD MRI of the human brain
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Ingår i: Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. - : SAGE Publications. - 1559-7016 .- 0271-678X. ; 31:1, s. 82-89
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the characteristics of the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) response to functional challenges of the brain is the poststimulation undershoot, which has been suggested to originate from a delayed recovery of either cerebral blood volume (CBV) or cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen to baseline. Using bolus-tracking MRI in humans, we recently showed that relative CBV rapidly normalizes after the end of stimulation. As this observation contradicts at least part of the blood-pool contrast agent studies performed in animals, we reinvestigated the CBV contribution by dynamic T1-weighted three-dimensional MRI (8 seconds temporal resolution) and Vasovist at 3 T (12 subjects). Initially, we determined the time constants of individual BOLD responses. After injection of Vasovist, CBV-related T1-weighted signal changes revealed a signal increase during visual stimulation (1.7%±0.4%), but no change relative to baseline in the poststimulation phase (0.2%±0.3%). This finding renders the specific nature of the contrast agent unlikely to be responsible for the discrepancy between human and animal studies. With the assumption of normalized cerebral blood flow after stimulus cessation, a normalized CBV lends support to the idea that the BOLD MRI undershoot reflects a prolonged elevation of oxidative metabolism.
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- Metzger, F. Luise, et al.
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Shifted dynamic interactions between subcortical nuclei and inferior frontal gyri during response preparation in persistent developmental stuttering
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Ingår i: Brain Structure and Function. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1863-2653 .- 1863-2661. ; 223:1, s. 165-182
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Persistent developmental stuttering is associated with basal ganglia dysfunction or dopamine dysregulation. Here, we studied whole-brain functional connectivity to test how basal ganglia structures coordinate and reorganize sensorimotor brain networks in stuttering. To this end, adults who stutter and fluent speakers (control participants) performed a response anticipation paradigm in the MRI scanner. The preparation of a manual Go/No-Go response reliably produced activity in the basal ganglia and thalamus and particularly in the substantia nigra. Strikingly, in adults who stutter, substantia nigra activity correlated positively with stuttering severity. Furthermore, functional connectivity analyses yielded altered task-related network formations in adults who stutter compared to fluent speakers. Specifically, in adults who stutter, the globus pallidus and the thalamus showed increased network synchronization with the inferior frontal gyrus. This implies dynamic shifts in the response preparation-related network organization through the basal ganglia in the context of a non-speech motor task in stuttering. Here we discuss current findings in the traditional framework of how D1 and D2 receptor activity shapes focused movement selection, thereby suggesting a disproportional involvement of the direct and the indirect pathway in stuttering.
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