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@ARTICLE{Schroeter:875140,
author = {Schroeter, Matthias L. and Eickhoff, Simon B. and Engel,
Annerose},
title = {{F}rom correlational approaches to meta-analytical symptom
reading in individual patients: {B}ilateral lesions in the
inferior frontal junction specifically cause dysexecutive
syndrome},
journal = {Cortex},
volume = {128},
issn = {0010-9452},
address = {New York, NY},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-01832},
pages = {73 - 87},
year = {2020},
note = {We thank the patient for giving permission to publish this
case report, and Joshua Grant, PhD, Max Planck Institute
forHuman Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig, Germany,
forproof-reading. MLS has been supported by LIFE e
LeipzigResearch Center for Civilization Diseases,
Universit€at Leipzig.LIFE is funded by means of the
European Union, by the EuropeanRegional Development Fund and
by means of the FreeState of Saxony within the framework of
the excellenceinitiative, by the German Research Foundation
(DFG; SCHR774/5-1), by the German Consortium for
Frontotemporal LobarDegeneration, funded by the German
Federal Ministry of Educationand Research (BMBF; FKZ
O1GI1007A), by the Parkinson’sDisease Foundation
(PDF-IRG-1307), and the Michael J.Fox Foundation
(MJFF-11362)},
abstract = {BACKGROUND:Executive functions describe a wide variety of
higher order cognitive processes allowing the modification
of thought and behavior in response to changing contexts.
Recent comprehensive quantitative and systematic
meta-analyses on functional imaging studies in healthy
subjects identified the inferior frontal junction (IFJ),
located at the junction of the inferior frontal sulcus and
the inferior precentral sulcus, as essential for executive
functions. Lesion studies in patients are necessary for
confirmation of this finding.CASE PRESENTATION:We present,
as a proof of concept, a 56 year old woman with bilateral
ischemic lesions in the IFJ caused by multiple
stroke-related brain infarcts in the bilateral territory of
the middle cerebral artery. Comprehensive neuropsychological
testing revealed specific deficits in executive functions,
namely working memory, task switching, inhibitory control,
interference resolution, fluency, and complex executive
function tests focusing on action planning and problem
solving abilities. Memory functions were within the normal
range. Furthermore, we applied comprehensive meta-analyses
to validate the importance of the IFJ for executive
functions. (i) Lesions in the patient's brain in the IFJ
coincide with regional activation in functional imaging
studies for working memory, task switching, and the Stroop
task. (ii) Lesions in the patient's IFJ should affect a
frontoparietal network as shown with connectivity analyses.
(iii) We introduce a new analysis tool - Meta-Analytical
Reading of Symptoms (MARS) - that enables prediction of
clinical symptoms from imaging data in individual
patients.CONCLUSIONS:Our study confirms the importance of
the IFJ as the causal agent, in a frontoparietal network,
for dysexecutive syndrome. As a lesion study, it goes beyond
correlational imaging approaches. The new meta-analytical
symptom reading approach can be applied in other patients
and diseases. It has a high potential to foster
individualized diagnosis and therapy in clinical settings in
the framework of personalized medicine.},
cin = {INM-7},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {572 - (Dys-)function and Plasticity (POF3-572)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-572},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:32320849},
UT = {WOS:000546451700007},
doi = {10.1016/j.cortex.2020.03.010},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/875140},
}