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Wiley Open Access, Human Brain Mapping, 3(35), p. 792-809, 2012

DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22214

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Regionally selective atrophy of subcortical structures in prodromal HD as revealed by statistical shape analysis

Journal article published in 2012 by J. Zimbelman, Y. Zhang, R. Zschiegner, Laurent Younes, M. I. Miller, C. A. Ross, T. Wassink, S. Cross, M. Kimble, J. Tilak Ratnanather, P. Ryan, E. A. Epping, E. Chiu, O. Yastrubetskaya, J. Preston and other authors.
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Abstract

Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that involves preferential atrophy in the striatal complex and related subcortical nuclei. In this article, which is based on a dataset extracted from the PREDICT-HD study, we use statistical shape analysis with deformation markers obtained through “Large Deformation Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping” of cortical surfaces to highlight specific atrophy patterns in the caudate, putamen, and globus pallidus, at different prodromal stages of the disease. On the basis of the relation to cortico-basal ganglia circuitry, we propose that statistical shape analysis, along with other structural and functional imaging studies, may help expand our understanding of the brain circuitry affected and other aspects of the neurobiology of HD, and also guide the most effective strategies for intervention.