Jargonaphasia as a disconnection syndrome: A study combining white matter electrical stimulation and disconnectome mapping

Background: In jargonaphasia, speech is fluent but meaningless. While neuropsychological evaluation may distinguish a neologistic component characterised by non-word production and a semantic component where pronounced words are real but speech is senseless, how this relates to the underlying white...

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Autores principales: Davide Giampiccolo, Sylvie Moritz-Gasser, Sam Ng, Anne-Laure Lemaître, Hugues Duffau
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:42d2d71d68ab48ec977d71b77a951b2b2021-11-20T05:05:13ZJargonaphasia as a disconnection syndrome: A study combining white matter electrical stimulation and disconnectome mapping1935-861X10.1016/j.brs.2021.11.012https://doaj.org/article/42d2d71d68ab48ec977d71b77a951b2b2022-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X21008287https://doaj.org/toc/1935-861XBackground: In jargonaphasia, speech is fluent but meaningless. While neuropsychological evaluation may distinguish a neologistic component characterised by non-word production and a semantic component where pronounced words are real but speech is senseless, how this relates to the underlying white matter anatomy is debated. Objective: To identify white matter pathways causally involved in jargonaphasia. Methods: We retrospectively screened the intraoperative brain mapping data of 571 awake oncological resections using direct cortico-subcortical electrostimulation. Jargonaphasia was induced in 17 patients (19 sites) during a naming task. Stimulation sites were normalized to the Montreal Neurological Institute template space and used to generate individual disconnectome maps. Non-parametric voxelwise one and two sample t-tests were performed to identify the underlying white matter anatomy. Results: Jargonaphasia was induced only during stimulation of the left hemisphere. No cortical stimulation generated jargonaphasia. Subcortical sites causally associated with jargonaphasia clustered in 3 regions: in the temporal lobe (middle to inferior temporal gyri; n = 12), in the parietal lobe (supramarginal gyrus; n = 3) and in the temporal stem (n = 4). Disconnectome analysis indicated the inferior-fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF) was damaged in both neologistic and semantic jargonaphasia, while the involvement of the arcuate fasciculus was specific to neologistic jargonaphasia. Conclusion: For the first time, we show that jargonaphasia is induced by white matter stimulation, hinting at disconnection. As IFOF disconnection unites both variants, these may represent a continuum of disorders distinguished by semantic impairment. Conversely, damage to the arcuate fasciculus in addition to the IFOF is specific to neologistic jargonaphasia, thus suggesting a dual-disconnection syndrome.Davide GiampiccoloSylvie Moritz-GasserSam NgAnne-Laure LemaîtreHugues DuffauElsevierarticleArcuate fasciculusJargonJargon aphasiaPhonologySemanticsBrain mappingNeurosciences. Biological psychiatry. NeuropsychiatryRC321-571ENBrain Stimulation, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 87-95 (2022)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Arcuate fasciculus
Jargon
Jargon aphasia
Phonology
Semantics
Brain mapping
Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
RC321-571
spellingShingle Arcuate fasciculus
Jargon
Jargon aphasia
Phonology
Semantics
Brain mapping
Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
RC321-571
Davide Giampiccolo
Sylvie Moritz-Gasser
Sam Ng
Anne-Laure Lemaître
Hugues Duffau
Jargonaphasia as a disconnection syndrome: A study combining white matter electrical stimulation and disconnectome mapping
description Background: In jargonaphasia, speech is fluent but meaningless. While neuropsychological evaluation may distinguish a neologistic component characterised by non-word production and a semantic component where pronounced words are real but speech is senseless, how this relates to the underlying white matter anatomy is debated. Objective: To identify white matter pathways causally involved in jargonaphasia. Methods: We retrospectively screened the intraoperative brain mapping data of 571 awake oncological resections using direct cortico-subcortical electrostimulation. Jargonaphasia was induced in 17 patients (19 sites) during a naming task. Stimulation sites were normalized to the Montreal Neurological Institute template space and used to generate individual disconnectome maps. Non-parametric voxelwise one and two sample t-tests were performed to identify the underlying white matter anatomy. Results: Jargonaphasia was induced only during stimulation of the left hemisphere. No cortical stimulation generated jargonaphasia. Subcortical sites causally associated with jargonaphasia clustered in 3 regions: in the temporal lobe (middle to inferior temporal gyri; n = 12), in the parietal lobe (supramarginal gyrus; n = 3) and in the temporal stem (n = 4). Disconnectome analysis indicated the inferior-fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF) was damaged in both neologistic and semantic jargonaphasia, while the involvement of the arcuate fasciculus was specific to neologistic jargonaphasia. Conclusion: For the first time, we show that jargonaphasia is induced by white matter stimulation, hinting at disconnection. As IFOF disconnection unites both variants, these may represent a continuum of disorders distinguished by semantic impairment. Conversely, damage to the arcuate fasciculus in addition to the IFOF is specific to neologistic jargonaphasia, thus suggesting a dual-disconnection syndrome.
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author Davide Giampiccolo
Sylvie Moritz-Gasser
Sam Ng
Anne-Laure Lemaître
Hugues Duffau
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Sylvie Moritz-Gasser
Sam Ng
Anne-Laure Lemaître
Hugues Duffau
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title Jargonaphasia as a disconnection syndrome: A study combining white matter electrical stimulation and disconnectome mapping
title_short Jargonaphasia as a disconnection syndrome: A study combining white matter electrical stimulation and disconnectome mapping
title_full Jargonaphasia as a disconnection syndrome: A study combining white matter electrical stimulation and disconnectome mapping
title_fullStr Jargonaphasia as a disconnection syndrome: A study combining white matter electrical stimulation and disconnectome mapping
title_full_unstemmed Jargonaphasia as a disconnection syndrome: A study combining white matter electrical stimulation and disconnectome mapping
title_sort jargonaphasia as a disconnection syndrome: a study combining white matter electrical stimulation and disconnectome mapping
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2022
url https://doaj.org/article/42d2d71d68ab48ec977d71b77a951b2b
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