Zafer Keser1, Erin L Meier2, Melissa D Stockbridge3, Argye E Hillis4. 1. Department of Neurology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston TX, United States; Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States. Electronic address: zafer.keser@uth.tmc.edu. 2. Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States. Electronic address: emeier5@jhmi.edu. 3. Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States. Electronic address: md.stockbridge@jhmi.edu. 4. Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States. Electronic address: argye@jhmi.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Left hemisphere stroke often results in a variety of language deficits due to varying patterns of damage to language networks. The Cookie Theft picture description task, a classic, quick bedside assessment, has been shown to quantify narrative speech reliably. In this study, we utilized diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to assess language network white matter tract correlates of lexical-semantic and syntactic impairments longitudinally. METHODS: Twenty-eight patients with mild to severe language impairments after left hemispheric lobar and/or subcortical ischemic stroke underwent the Cookie Theft picture description test and DTI up to three different time points: within the first three months, six months and twelve months after stroke. Dorsal and ventral stream language pathways were segmented to obtain DTI integrity metrics of both hemispheres. Multivariable regression models and partial correlation analyses adjusted for age, education, and lesion load were conducted to evaluate the temporal DTI profile of the white matter microstructural integrity of the language tracts as neural correlates of narrative speech within the first year after stroke. RESULTS: Among all the major language white matter pathways, the integrity of the left arcuate (AF), inferior fronto-occipital, and inferior longitudinal fasciculi (ILF) were related to picture description performance. After FDR correction, left ILF fractional anisotropy correlated with syntactic cohesiveness (r=0.85,p=0.00087) within the first three months after stroke, whereas at one year post-stroke, the strongest correlations were found between lexical-semantic performance and left AF radial diffusivity (r = -0.71, p = 0.00065). CONCLUSION: Our study provides a temporal profile of associations between the integrity of the main language pathways and lexical semantics and syntactic impairments in left hemispheric strokes.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Left hemisphere stroke often results in a variety of language deficits due to varying patterns of damage to language networks. The Cookie Theft picture description task, a classic, quick bedside assessment, has been shown to quantify narrative speech reliably. In this study, we utilized diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to assess language network white matter tract correlates of lexical-semantic and syntactic impairments longitudinally. METHODS: Twenty-eight patients with mild to severe language impairments after left hemispheric lobar and/or subcortical ischemic stroke underwent the Cookie Theft picture description test and DTI up to three different time points: within the first three months, six months and twelve months after stroke. Dorsal and ventral stream language pathways were segmented to obtain DTI integrity metrics of both hemispheres. Multivariable regression models and partial correlation analyses adjusted for age, education, and lesion load were conducted to evaluate the temporal DTI profile of the white matter microstructural integrity of the language tracts as neural correlates of narrative speech within the first year after stroke. RESULTS: Among all the major language white matter pathways, the integrity of the left arcuate (AF), inferior fronto-occipital, and inferior longitudinal fasciculi (ILF) were related to picture description performance. After FDR correction, left ILF fractional anisotropy correlated with syntactic cohesiveness (r=0.85,p=0.00087) within the first three months after stroke, whereas at one year post-stroke, the strongest correlations were found between lexical-semantic performance and left AF radial diffusivity (r = -0.71, p = 0.00065). CONCLUSION: Our study provides a temporal profile of associations between the integrity of the main language pathways and lexical semantics and syntactic impairments in left hemispheric strokes.
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