Background: We compared limbic structure volumes and graph theory parameters of the limbic covariance network between patients with transient global amnesia (TGA) and healthy controls, and between patients with single and recurrent TGA events.
Methods: We retrospectively enrolled 122 patients with TGA (single event, n = 107; recurrent events, n = 15) and 50 healthy controls who underwent three-dimensional T1-weighted MRI imaging of the brain. Volumetric analysis of the subcortical limbic structures, including the hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, mammillary body, hypothalamus, basal forebrain, septal nuclei, fornix, and nucleus accumbens, was performed. We examined the limbic covariance network using a graph theory.
Results: Limbic structure volumes did not differ between patients with TGA and healthy controls, and between patients with a single event and those with recurrent events. However, the radius of the limbic covariance network was significantly greater in patients with TGA than in healthy controls (6.595 vs. 4.564, p = 0.040). Furthermore, the radius, diameter, eccentricity, and characteristics path length were greater (4.066 vs. 2.000, p = 0.009; 7.062 vs. 3.645, p = 0.029; 5.633 vs. 2.774, p = 0.013; 3.373 vs. 1.688, p = 0.004; respectively), whereas the average strength, global efficiency, local efficiency, mean clustering coefficient, transitivity, and small-worldness index were lower (5.595 vs. 10.831, p = 0.004; 0.350 vs. 0.642, p = 0.002; 0.531 vs. 1.724, p = 0.004; 0.304 vs. 0.624, p = 0.006; 0.456 vs. 0.935, p = 0.003; 0.913 vs. 0.993, p = 0.017; respectively), in patients with recurrent events than in those with a single event.
Conclusion: The limbic covariance network shows significant alterations in patients with TGA, as well as differences between patients with recurrent events and those with a single event. These findings suggest that changes in the limbic covariance network could be related to the pathogenesis of TGA.
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