Diffusion-weighted imaging and magnetization transfer imaging of tardive and edentulous orodyskinesia

Oral dyskinesias occur in elderly individuals in relation to drug use (tardive dyskinesia, TD) or edentulousness (edentulous orodyskinesia, EOD) but their characterization remains incomplete. Our aim was to investigate whether magnetic resonance techniques such as diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI) an...

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Published in:Movement disorders 2008-07, Vol.23 (9), p.1281-1285
Main Authors: Khiat, Abdesslem, Kuznetsov, Yevgeniy, Blanchet, Pierre J., Boulanger, Yvan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Akathisia, Drug-Induced - diagnosis
antidepressants
basal ganglia
Biological and medical sciences
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods
diffusion-weighted imaging
edentulous orodyskinesia
Female
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted - methods
Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects)
magnetization transfer imaging
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mouth, Edentulous - physiopathology
Movement Disorders - diagnosis
Nervous system
Neurology
Radiodiagnosis. Nmr imagery. Nmr spectrometry
tardive dyskinesia
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Summary:Oral dyskinesias occur in elderly individuals in relation to drug use (tardive dyskinesia, TD) or edentulousness (edentulous orodyskinesia, EOD) but their characterization remains incomplete. Our aim was to investigate whether magnetic resonance techniques such as diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI) and magnetization transfer imaging (MTI) of the brain could be used to differentiate dyskinetic patients from control subjects. Eight drug‐treated patients with TD, 12 EOD patients, 8 drug‐treated patients without TD, and 10 control subjects were recruited and examined by DWI and MTI. Measurements in the caudate nucleus, putamen, and globus pallidus yielded globally different apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values between drug treated patients with TD and control subjects but the magnetization transfer ratios showed no significant variations. The discrimination between dyskinetic patients and control subjects offered by ADC values was however slightly poorer than the discrimination offered by the previously published choline/creatine ratios measured by MR spectroscopy in the basal ganglia. The results are consistent with the pathophysiological hypothesis of damage to cholinergic interneurons. © 2008 Movement Disorder Society
ISSN:0885-3185
1531-8257
DOI:10.1002/mds.22081