Diffusion tensor imaging and MR morphometry of the central auditory pathway and auditory cortex in aging

Authors: Oliver Profant, A. Škoch, Zuzana Balogová, J. Tintěra, Jaroslav Hlinka, Josef Syka
Publication year: 2014
Publication type: Článek v odborném periodiku
Periodical: Neuroscience
Projects: Personality and spontaneous brain activity during rest and movie watching: relation and structural determinants
Bibliographic citation: PROFANT, Oliver, ŠKOCH, A., BALOGOVÁ, Zuzana, TINTĚRA, J., HLINKA, Jaroslav, SYKA, Josef. Diffusion tensor imaging and MR morphometry of the central auditory pathway and auditory cortex in aging. Neuroscience. 2014, 260(FEB 28), 87-97. ISSN 0306-4522. E-ISSN 1873-7544
Dostupné z: doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.12.010
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.12.010
ID: 429702

Abstract

We used MR morphometry and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) with a 3T MR system with the aim to study the state of the central auditory system in a group of elderly subjects (>65years) with mild presbycusis, in a group of elderly subjects with expressed presbycusis and in young controls. Almost all of the measured parameters were significantly smaller in the elderly subjects in Heschl's gyrus, planum temporale and gyrus frontalis superior. Aging did not change the side asymmetry (laterality) of the gyri. The results suggest that in addition to peripheral changes, changes in the central part of the auditory system in elderly subjects are also present.