One-year changes in brain microstructure differentiate preclinical Huntington's disease stages
Pflanz C, Charquero-Ballester M, Majid D, Winkler A, Vallée E, Aron A, Jenkinson M, Douaud G. One-year changes in brain microstructure differentiate preclinical Huntington's disease stages. NeuroImage Clinical 2019, 25: 102099. PMID: 31865023, PMCID: PMC6931230, DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.102099.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOnset of symptomsPreclinical stageDisease stageMean diffusivityHuntington's diseaseGender-matched healthy controlsOnly clinical measurePosterior basal gangliaDistinct pathophysiological mechanismsOptimal therapeutic windowOne-year changeSignificant differencesPreclinical Huntington's diseasePresymptomatic Huntington's diseaseNeurodegenerative phaseNeuroinflammatory processesMotor scoresPathophysiological mechanismsBasal gangliaDisease progressionHealthy controlsHuntington's disease stagesCorpus callosumTreatment responseClinical measures