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Disembodied Mind: Cortical Changes Following Brainstem Injury in Patients with Locked-in Syndrome.
Pistoia, Francesca; Cornia, Riccardo; Conson, Massimiliano et al.
2016In The open neuroimaging journal, 10, p. 32-40
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Keywords :
Cognition; locked-in syndrome; magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging; ventral brainstem damage
Abstract :
[en] Locked-in syndrome (LIS) following ventral brainstem damage is the most severe form of motor disability. Patients are completely entrapped in an unresponsive body despite consciousness is preserved. Although the main feature of LIS is this extreme motor impairment, minor non-motor dysfunctions such as motor imagery defects and impaired emotional recognition have been reported suggesting an alteration of embodied cognition, defined as the effects that the body and its performances may have on cognitive domains. We investigated the presence of structural cortical changes in LIS, which may account for the reported cognitive dysfunctions. For this aim, magnetic resonance imaging scans were acquired in 11 patients with LIS (6 males and 5 females; mean age: 52.3+/-5.2SD years; mean time interval from injury to evaluation: 9+/-1.2SD months) and 44 healthy control subjects matching patients for age, sex and education. Freesurfer software was used to process data and to estimate cortical volumes in LIS patients as compared to healthy subjects. Results showed a selective cortical volume loss in patients involving the superior frontal gyrus, the pars opercularis and the insular cortex in the left hemisphere, and the superior and medium frontal gyrus, the pars opercularis, the insular cortex, and the superior parietal lobule in the right hemisphere. As these structures are typically associated with the mirror neuron system, which represents the neural substrate for embodied simulation processes, our results provide neuroanatomical support for potential disembodiment in LIS.
Disciplines :
Neurology
Author, co-author :
Pistoia, Francesca
Cornia, Riccardo
Conson, Massimiliano
Gosseries, Olivia  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre de recherches du cyclotron
Carolei, Antonio
Sacco, Simona
Quattrocchi, Carlo C.
Mallio, Carlo A.
Iani, Cristina
Mambro, Debora Di
Sara, Marco
Language :
English
Title :
Disembodied Mind: Cortical Changes Following Brainstem Injury in Patients with Locked-in Syndrome.
Publication date :
2016
Journal title :
The open neuroimaging journal
ISSN :
1874-4400
Volume :
10
Pages :
32-40
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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