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Neurology 2001;57:1259-1268
© 2001 American Academy of Neurology
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Neural and cognitive bases of upper limb apraxia in corticobasal degeneration

P. Peigneux, PhD, E. Salmon, MD PhD;, G. Garraux, MD PhD;, S. Laureys, MD PhD;, S. Willems, LPsy, K. Dujardin, PhD, C. Degueldre, PhD, C. Lemaire, PhD, A. Luxen, PhD, G. Moonen, MD PhD;, G. Franck, MD PhD;, A. Destee, MD PhD and M. Van der Linden, PhD

From the Centre de Recherches du Cyclotron (Drs. Peigneux, Salmon, Garraux, Laureys, Degueldre, Lemaire, and Luxen), Service de Neuropsychologie (Drs. Peigneux and Van der Linden, and S. Willems), Université de Liège; Service de Neurologie (Drs. Peigneux, Salmon, Garraux, Laureys, Moonen, and Franck), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Liège, Belgium; Unité de Psychopathologie Cognitive (Dr. Van der Linden and S. Willems), Université de Genève, Switzerland; and Service de Neurologie (Drs. Dujardin and Destee), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, Lille, France.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Philippe Peigneux, Centre de Recherches du Cyclotron, Université de Liège, Bât. B30, Sart Tilman, B-4000 Liège, Belgium; e-mail: Philippe.Peigneux{at}ulg.ac.be

Objective: To investigate the neural and cognitive bases of upper limb apraxia in corticobasal degeneration (CBD). Methods: Eighteen patients with CBD underwent a cognitive neuropsychological assessment of apraxia and resting [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose PET scanning. Two complementary measures of apraxia were computed for each modality of gesture production. First, a performance score measured error frequency during gesture execution. Second, as a more stringent test of the integrity of the praxis system, the correction score measured the patient’s ability to correct his or her errors on a second attempt. For each measure type, a cut-off score for the presence of apraxia was defined with regard to healthy controls. Using each cut-off score, the regional cerebral glucose metabolism of patients with CBD with apraxia (i.e., performing below cut-off score) was compared with that of patients with CBD without apraxia. Results: Mean performance scores were below normal values in all modalities. Anterior cingulate hypometabolism predominated in patients with CBD who performed below the cut-off performance score. At variance, mean correction scores were below normal values for gesture imitation only. Hypometabolism in superior parietal lobule and supplementary motor area characterized patients with CBD who were unable to correct their errors at the same rate as control subjects did. Conclusions: Distinct neural networks underlie distinct aspects of the upper limb apraxic deficits in CBD. Extending previous findings of gesture production deficits in CBD, the use of complementary measures of apraxic behavior discloses a visuoimitative upper limb apraxia in CBD, underlain by a metabolic decrease in a parietofrontal neural network.




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