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2014

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Abnormal Metabolic Network Activity In Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder, F. Holtbernd, J. F. Gagnon, R. B. Postuma, Y. Ma, C. C. Tang, A. Feigin, V. Dhawan, J. P. Soucy, D. Eidelberg, J. Montplaisir, +1 Additional Author Jan 2014

Abnormal Metabolic Network Activity In Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder, F. Holtbernd, J. F. Gagnon, R. B. Postuma, Y. Ma, C. C. Tang, A. Feigin, V. Dhawan, J. P. Soucy, D. Eidelberg, J. Montplaisir, +1 Additional Author

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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the Parkinson disease-related covariance pattern (PDRP) expression is abnormally increased in idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) and whether increased baseline activity is associated with greater individual risk of subsequent phenoconversion. METHODS: For this cohort study, we recruited 2 groups of RBD and control subjects. Cohort 1 comprised 10 subjects with RBD (63.5 +/- 9.4 years old) and 10 healthy volunteers (62.7 +/- 8.6 years old) who underwent resting-state metabolic brain imaging with (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET. Cohort 2 comprised 17 subjects with RBD (68.9 +/- 4.8 years old) and 17 healthy volunteers (66.6 +/- 6.0 years old) …


Potholes And Molehills: Bias In The Diagnostic Performance Of Diffusion-Tensor Imaging In Concussion, R. Watts, A. Thomas, C. G. Filippi, J. P. Nickerson, K. Freeman Jan 2014

Potholes And Molehills: Bias In The Diagnostic Performance Of Diffusion-Tensor Imaging In Concussion, R. Watts, A. Thomas, C. G. Filippi, J. P. Nickerson, K. Freeman

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PURPOSE: To investigate the extent of bias in a clinical study involving "pothole analysis" of diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) data used to quantify white matter lesion load in diseases with a heterogeneous spatial distribution of pathologic findings, such as mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), and create a mathematical model of the bias. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Use of the same reference population to define normal findings and make comparisons with a patient group introduces bias, which potentially inflates reported diagnostic performance. In this institutional review board-approved prospective observational cohort study, DTI data were obtained in 20 patients admitted to the emergency department …