Cited by 44Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchCerebrovascular and genetic disordersNeurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 52 of the 52 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Clinical and Biological Correlates of White Matter Hyperintensities in Patients With Behavioral-Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

Huynh, Katharine, Piguet, Olivier, Kwok, John, Dobson-Stone, Carol, Halliday, Glenda M., Hodges, John R., Landin-Romero, Ramón·2021·Neurology

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and Alzheimer disease (AD) are associated with disease variables such as disease severity, cortical atrophy, and cognition, we conducted a cross-sectional brain MRI study with volumetric and voxel-wise analyses. METHODS: A total of 129 patients (64 bvFTD, 65 AD) and 66 controls underwent high-resolution brain MRI and clinical and neuropsychological examination. Genetic screening was conducted in 124 cases (54 bvFTD, 44 AD, 26 controls) and postmortem pathology was available in 18 cases (13 bvFTD, 5 AD). WMH were extracted using an automated segmentation algorithm and analyses of total volumes and spatial distribution were conducted. Group differences in total WMH volume and associations with vascular risk and disease severity were examined. Syndrome-specific voxel-wise associations between WMH, cortical atrophy, and performance across different cognitive domains were assessed. RESULTS: Total WMH volumes were larger in patients with bvFTD than patients with AD and controls. In bvFTD, WMH volumes were associated with disease severity but not vascular risk. Patients with bvFTD and patients with AD showed distinct spatial patterns of WMH that mirrored characteristic patterns of cortical atrophy. Regional WMH load correlated with worse cognitive performance in discrete cognitive domains. WMH-related cognitive impairments were shared between syndromes, with additional associations found in bvFTD. CONCLUSION: Increased WMH are common in patients with bvFTD and patients with AD. Our findings suggest that WMH are partly independent of vascular pathology and associated with the neurodegenerative process. WMH occur in processes independent of and related to cortical atrophy. Furthermore, increased WMH in different regions contributes to cognitive deficits.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1212/wnl.0000000000011638

Cites

52 of 52 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Show all 52 references

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. FSLeyes [computer program]. Version 0.30.0. Zenodo; 2019.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

See all 44

Metadata

Authors
Huynh, K., Piguet, O., Kwok, J., Dobson-Stone, C., Halliday, G. M., Hodges, J. R., & Landin-Romero, R.
Affiliations
  • The University of Sydney (AU)
  • From the School of Psychology (K.H., O.P., R.L.-R.), Brain and Mind Centre (K.H., O.P., J.K., C.D.-S., G.M.H., J.R.H., R.L.-R.), Central Clinical School (J.K., C.D.-S., G.M.H., J.R.H.), The University of Sydney; and the School of Medical Sciences (J.K., C.D.-S., G.M.H., J.R.H.), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Venue
Neurology
Published
2021-03-30
Volume
96
Issue
13
Pages
e1743-e1754
ISSN
  • 0028-3878 (ISSN-L)
  • 1526-632X
OpenAlex
W3130302888
Cited by
43
References
52
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 5
FWCI
5.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Neurology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Cerebrovascular and genetic disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
Keywords
white matter hyperintensities, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, cortical atrophy, cognitive impairment, disease severity, vascular risk, neurodegeneration, voxel-based analysis, white matter segmentation, postmortem pathology
MeSH terms
C9orf72 Protein, Progranulins, Brain Cortical Thickness, Cerebral Cortical Thinning, Aged, Alzheimer Disease, Atrophy, Cerebral Cortex, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Organ Size, Severity of Illness Index, Case-Control Studies, tau Proteins, Leukoencephalopathies, Frontotemporal Dementia, Spatial Analysis, White Matter

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review