作者
Iman Beheshti, Daichi Sone, Farnaz Farokhian, Norihide Maikusa, Hiroshi Matsuda
发表日期
2018/3/13
期刊
Frontiers in neurology
卷号
9
页码范围
107
出版商
Frontiers Media SA
简介
The presentation and distribution of gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) have been widely studied. Here, we investigated the GM and WM abnormalities in TLE patients with and without hippocampal sclerosis (HS) in five groups of participants: healthy controls (HCs) (n = 28), right TLE patients with HS (n = 26), right TLE patients without HS (n = 30), left TLE patients with HS (n = 25), and left TLE patients without HS (n = 27). We performed a flexible factorial statistical test in a whole-brain voxel-based morphometry analysis to identify significant GM and WM abnormalities and analysis of variance of hippocampal and amygdala regions among the five groups using the FreeSurfer procedure. Furthermore, we conducted multiple regression analysis to assess regional GM and WM changes with disease duration. We observed significant ipsilateral mesiotemporal GM and WM volume reductions in TLE patients with HS compared with HCs. We also observed a slight GM amygdala swelling in right TLE patients without HS. The regression analysis revealed significant negative GM and WM changes with disease duration specifically in left TLE patients with HS. The observed GM and WM abnormalities may contribute to our understanding of the root of epilepsy mechanisms.
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