 | THE PARAHIPPOCAMPAL REGION: IMPLICATIONS FOR NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DISEASES
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 911:495-500 (2000)
© 2000 New York Academy of Sciences
Morphometric MRI Analysis of the Parahippocampal Region in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
NEDA BERNASCONIa,
ANDREA BERNASCONI,
ZOGRAFOS CARAMANOS,
FREDERICK ANDERMANN,
FRANÇOIS DUBEAU AND
DOUGLAS L. ARNOLD
Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University and Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada
aAddress for correspondence: Dr. Neda Bernasconi, Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Hospital and Institute, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4. Tel.: (514) 398-8185; fax: (514) 398-2975.
e-mail: neda{at}bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Despite neuropathological and electrophysiological evidence for the involvement of parahippocampal structures in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), little attention has been paid to morphometric changes in these structures, and the relation of these changes to TLE. We performed high-resolution MRI volumetric analysis to examine in vivo the morphology of the parahippocampal region in 20 healthy subjects and 6 TLE patients with MRI evidence of unilateral hippocampal atrophy. In normal controls the standardized volume of the left entorhinal cortex (EC) was 1305 ± 138 mm 3 and that of the right EC was 1376 ± 170 mm 3; the left perirhinal cortex (PC) was 2900 ± 554 mm 3 and the right PC was 2771 ± 486 mm 3; the left posterior parahippocampal cortex (PPC) was 2499 ± 583 mm 3 and the right PPC was 2234 ± 404 mm 3. Using a 2 standard deviation cutoff from the mean of normal controls, we found ipsilateral to the seizure focus: ( i) a reduction in the volume of the EC in all patients; ( ii) a reduction of the PC in 2/6 (33%) patients; ( iii) no reduction in the volume of the PPC in any patient. In 3/6 (50%) of patients, the EC was also abnormally small contralateral to the seizure focus. In patients with unilateral TLE, the EC is the most affected structure within the parahippocampal region. Whether this is due to a primary role of the EC in the genesis of TLE or is the consequence of its pivotal position in the reciprocal flow of information between the hippocampus and the neo- and limbic cortices remains to be explored.
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