• World Neurosurg · Sep 2018

    Pretherapeutic Motor Thalamus Resting-State Functional Connectivity with Visual Areas Predicts Tremor Arrest After Thalamotomy for Essential Tremor: Tracing the Cerebello-thalamo-visuo-motor Network.

    • Constantin Tuleasca, Elena Najdenovska, Jean Régis, Tatiana Witjas, Nadine Girard, Jérôme Champoudry, Mohamed Faouzi, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Marc Levivier, and Dimitri Van De Ville.
    • Neurosurgery Service and Gamma Knife Center, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland; Medical Image Analysis Laboratory (MIAL) and Department of Radiology-Center of Biomedical Imaging (CIBM), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland; Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS 5), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland; Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: constantin.tuleasca@gmail.com.
    • World Neurosurg. 2018 Sep 1; 117: e438-e449.

    BackgroundEssential tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive neuroimaging method acquired in absence of task.ObjectiveOur study aimed to correlate pretherapeutic ventrolateral thalamus functional connectivity (FC) with clinical results 1 year after stereotactic radiosurgical thalamotomy (SRS-T) for drug-resistant ET. Data from 12 healthy control individuals were additionally included.MethodsResting state was acquired for 17 consecutive (right-handed) patients, before and 1 year after left unilateral SRS-T. Standard tremor scores were evaluated pretherapeutically and 1 year after SRS-T. Tremor network was investigated using region of interest, left ventrolateral ventral (VLV) cluster, obtained from pretherapeutic diffusion magnetic resonance imaging. Seed-based FC was obtained as correlations between the time courses of the VLV and that of every other voxel. The seed-connectivity maps were obtained pretherapeutically and correlated across all patients with clinical outcome 1 year after SRS-T. One-year magnetic resonance signature volume was always located inside VLV and did not correlate with reported seed-FC measures (P > 0.05).ResultsWe report statistically significant correlations between pretherapeutic VLV FC with clinical outcome for 1) right visual association area (Brodmann area, BA19) predicting 1 year activities of daily living decrease (Punc = 0.02); 2) left fusiform gyrus (BA37) predicting 1 year head tremor score improvement (Punc = 0.04); and 3) posterior cingulate (left BA23, Puncor = 0.009), lateral temporal cortex (right BA21, Punc = 0.02) predicting time to tremor arrest.ConclusionsOur results suggest that pretherapeutic resting-state seed-FC of left VLV predicts tremor arrest after SRS-T for ET. Visual areas are identified as the main regions in this correlation.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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