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Lower self-report fatigue in multiple sclerosis is associated with localized white matter tract disruption between amygdala, temporal pole, insula, and other connected structures
Ist Teil von
Multiple sclerosis and related disorders, 2019-01, Vol.27, p.298-304
Ort / Verlag
Netherlands: Elsevier B.V
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
•Global lesion-based brain disconnection is positively associated with fatigue in MS.•Local white matter tract disruption in amygdala-centered networks opposes this effect.•These measures explain fatigue better than conventional clinical and MRI measures.
Fatigue, a frequent and disabling symptom for people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), inconsistently correlates with white matter (WM) pathology. Network-based analysis, accounting for the manner in which lesions disrupt networks of structurally connected gray matter (GM) regions, may provide additional insight.
To identify patterns of WM tract disruption which explain self-reported fatigue severity in PwMS.
137 PwMS and 50 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HC) underwent fatigue assessment and brain MRI. Lesion maps were applied to determine the severity of WM tract disruption between pairs of GM regions. Then, the Network-Based-Statistics tool was applied to identify structural networks whose disruption explained fatigue severity. To determine whether these networks explain unique variance above conventional MRI measures and depression, regressions were applied controlling for age, sex, brain volume, T2-lesion volume, and depression.
Patient-perceived fatigue in PwMS was positively associated with overall lesion burden (β = 0.563, p-value < 0.001). In contrast, localized disruptions in WM tracts between regions including the amygdala, insula, hippocampus, putamen, temporal pole, caudal-middle-frontal gyrus, rostral-middle-frontal gyrus, inferior-parietal gyrus, and banks of the superior temporal sulcus were significantly negatively correlated with fatigue in PwMS (β = −0.586, p-value < 0.001). Average disruption within this specific, localized network explained significant additional variance in fatigue above what was otherwise explained by depression and conventional MRI measures of neuropathology (ΔR2 = 0.078, p-value < 0.001).
Although overall lesion burden correlates positively with fatigue in PwMS, localized WM damage between the amygdala, temporal pole, and other connected structures is associated with lower severity of patient-perceived fatigue.