title: Regional cerebral metabolic patterns demonstrate the role of anterior forebrain mesocircuit dysfunction in the severely injured brain.
abstract: Although disorders of consciousness (DOCs) demonstrate widely varying clinical presentations and patterns of structural injury, global down-regulation and bilateral reductions in metabolism of the thalamus and frontoparietal network are consistent findings. We test the hypothesis that global reductions of background synaptic activity in DOCs will associate with changes in the pattern of metabolic activity in the central thalamus and globus pallidus. We compared 32 [(18)F]fluorodeoxyglucose PETs obtained from severely brain-injured patients (BIs) and 10 normal volunteers (NVs). We defined components of the anterior forebrain mesocircuit on high-resolution T1-MRI (ventral, associative, and sensorimotor striatum; globus pallidus; central thalamus and noncentral thalamus). Metabolic profiles for BI and NV demonstrated distinct changes in the pattern of uptake: ventral and association striatum (but not sensorimotor) were significantly reduced relative to global mean uptake after BI; a relative increase in globus pallidus metabolism was evident in BI subjects who also showed a relative reduction of metabolism in the central thalamus. The reversal of globus pallidus and central thalamus profiles across BIs and NVs supports the mesocircuit hypothesis that broad functional (or anatomic) deafferentation may combine to reduce central thalamus activity and release globus pallidus activity in DOCs. In addition, BI subjects showed broad frontoparietal metabolic down-regulation consistent with prior studies supporting the link between central thalamic/pallidal metabolism and down-regulation of the frontoparietal network. Recovery of left hemisphere frontoparietal metabolic activity was further associated with command following.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Brain, and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065.
authors.forename: Esteban A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Fridman
authors.forename: Bradley J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Beattie
authors.forename: Allegra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Broft
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Laureys
authors.forename: Nicholas D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Schiff
mesh_terms: D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D054022:Cerebrum / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012146:Rest
chemical_list: D005947:Glucose
keywords: fronto-striato-thalamic circuit; minimally conscious state; thalamocortical loops; vegetative state
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