Incomplete hippocampal inversion: A comprehensive MRI study of over 2000 subjects

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Contributors

  • INSERM - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
  • Sorbonne Université
  • Paris Brain Institute
  • INRIA - Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
  • Centre for Acquisition and Image Processing
  • Institut Pasteur Paris
  • French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
  • Heidelberg University 
  • Trinity College Dublin
  • University of Hamburg
  • Stanford University
  • King's College London (KCL)
  • Medical Research Council (MRC)
  • University of Montreal
  • Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  • University of Nottingham
  • Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Université Paris Cité
  • University of Toronto
  • Child Mind Institute, Inc.
  • Medical University of Vienna
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • University College Dublin

Abstract

The incomplete-hippocampal-inversion (IHI), also known as malrotation, is an atypical anatomical pattern of the hippocampus, which has been reported in healthy subjects in different studies. However, extensive characterization of IHI in a large sample has not yet been performed. Furthermore, it is unclear whether IHI are restricted to the medial-temporal lobe or are associated with more extensive anatomical changes. Here, we studied the characteristics of IHI in a community-based sample of 2008 subjects of the IMAGEN database and their association with extra-hippocampal anatomical variations. The presence of IHI was assessed on T1-weighted anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using visual criteria. We assessed the association of IHI with other anatomical changes throughout the brain using automatic morphometry of cortical sulci. We found that IHI were much more frequent in the left hippocampus (left: 17%, right: 6%, χ2 - test, p < 10-28). Compared to subjects without IHI, subjects with IHI displayed morphological changes in several sulci located mainly in the limbic lobe. Our results demonstrate that IHI are a common left-sided phenomenon in normal subjects and that they are associated with morphological changes outside the medial temporal lobe.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number160
Pages (from-to)1-12
Number of pages12
JournalFrontiers in neuroanatomy
Volume9
Issue number12
Publication statusPublished - 22 Dec 2015
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-5398-5569/work/161890723

Keywords

Keywords

  • Anatomical variability, Brain development, Cortical sulci, Human hippocampus, IMAGEN database, Large database, Malrotation, MRI

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