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- Title
Brain Circuit Alterations and Cognitive Disability in Late-Onset Cobalamin D Disorder.
- Authors
De Las Heras, Javier; Diez, Ibai; Jimenez-Marin, Antonio; Cabrera, Alberto; Ramos-Usuga, Daniela; Diaz-Fernandez, Marta Venecia; Torices, Leire; Nunes-Xavier, Caroline E.; Pulido, Rafael; Arango-Lasprilla, Juan Carlos; Cortes, Jesus M.
- Abstract
Neuroimaging studies describing brain circuits' alterations in cobalamin (vitamin B12)-deficient patients are limited and have not been carried out in patients with inborn errors of cobalamin metabolism. The objective of this study was to assess brain functionality and brain circuit alterations in a patient with an ultra-rare inborn error of cobalamin metabolism, methylmalonic aciduria, and homocystinuria due to cobalamin D disease, as compared with his twin sister as a healthy control (HC). We acquired magnetic resonance imaging (including structural, functional, and diffusion images) to calculate brain circuit abnormalities and combined these results with the scores after a comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation. As compared with HC, the patient had severe patterns of damage, such as a 254% increment of ventricular volume, pronounced subcortical and cortical atrophies (mainly at striatum, cingulate cortex, and precuneus), and connectivity alterations at fronto-striato-thalamic circuit, cerebellum, and corpus callosum. In agreement with brain circuit alterations, cognitive deficits existed in attention, executive function, inhibitory control, and mental flexibility. This is the first study that provides the clinical, genetic, neuroanatomical, neuropsychological, and psychosocial characterization of a patient with the cobalamin D disorder, showing functional alterations in central nervous system motor tracts, thalamus, cerebellum, and basal ganglia, that, as far as we know, have not been reported yet in vitamin B12-related disorders.
- Subjects
EFFERENT pathways; VITAMIN B12; CENTRAL nervous system; CORPUS callosum; INBORN errors of metabolism; BASAL ganglia diseases
- Publication
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2020, Vol 9, Issue 4, p990
- ISSN
2077-0383
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/jcm9040990