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Middle Temporal Gyrus

The Middle Temporal Gyrus is a key region of the temporal lobe, known for its involvement in various cognitive functions.
This area plays a crucial role in language processing, memory, and social cognition.
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Thirty cases were included that were collected in two centers and the sampling of the blocks was carried out by two experienced neuropathologists (IA, TA). The cases were selected based on the Braak stage to which they were assigned by IA and TA after application of silver stain. The goal was to include all severities of the disease, that is, all the various stages of AD‐related neurofibrillary pathology. The samples were taken for the routine diagnostics and obtained within a 10‐year time span. The demographics of the subjects are given in Table 1. The selection of anatomical regions to be sampled was based on the requirements listed in current consensus criteria (NIA‐RI), and was also influenced by known general practice among neuropathologists. The specimens included were the samples from middle frontal gyrus, inferior parietal lobule, superior and middle temporal gyrus, occipital cortex including calcarine fissure, posterior hippocampus at the level of lateral geniculate nucleus and anterior hippocampus at the level of uncus. A total of eight sets of 7‐µm thick sections were produced from all six brain areas of the 30 cases.
Publication 2008
Body Regions Brain Calcarine Sulcus Diagnosis Lateral Geniculate Body Medial Frontal Gyrus Middle Temporal Gyrus Neuropathologist Occipital Lobe Parietal Lobule Seahorses Silver Stains

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Publication 2009
Gyrus, Anterior Cingulate Inferior Temporal Gyrus Medial Frontal Gyrus Middle Temporal Gyrus Occipitotemporal Gyrus, Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex Tissues
Diagnostic histologic methods were performed on standard blocks of tissue that were fixed in 4% buffered formaldehyde and then either dehydrated and embedded in paraffin or cryoprotected and cut on a freezing, sliding microtome. Paraffin sections from the olfactory bulb and tract, anterior medulla (two levels anterior to the obex), anterior and mid-pons, mid-amygdala with adjacent transentorhinal area, anterior cingulate gyrus (1–3 cm posterior to the coronal slice containing the genu of the corpus callosum), middle temporal gyrus (at the level of the lateral geniculate nucleus), middle frontal gyrus (4–5 cm posterior to the frontal pole), and inferior parietal lobule were stained immunohistochemically for α-synuclein using a polyclonal antibody raised against an α-synuclein peptide fragment phosphorylated at serine 129, after epitope exposure with proteinase K. The process leading to the choice of immunohistochemical method, as well as details of the method, have been described in a previous publication (7 (link)). The density of α-synuclein-immunoreactive Lewy bodies and neurites in each of the above-mentioned brain regions was scored, for more than 90% of slides, by a single observer (TGB), without knowledge of diagnosis, as none, sparse, moderate, frequent and very frequent, using the templates provided by the Dementia with Lewy Bodies Consortium (66 (link)). The remaining slides were scored by trainees under the instruction of the primary observer. For the substantia nigra (SN), LTS was estimated using the same scoring method but on thioflavine-S-stained thick (40 micron) sections due to the standard laboratory practice of sectioning the SN in this manner for unbiased morphometric analysis.
Publication 2009
Amygdaloid Body Brain Corpus Callosum Dementia Diagnosis Endopeptidase K Epitopes Formaldehyde Gyrus, Anterior Cingulate Histological Techniques Immunoglobulins Knee Lateral Geniculate Body Lewy Bodies Medial Frontal Gyrus Medulla Oblongata Microtomy Middle Temporal Gyrus Neurites Olfactory Bulb Paraffin Paraffin Embedding Parietal Lobule Peptide Fragments Pons Serine SNCA protein, human Substantia Nigra thioflavine Tissues
The goal of this work was to create a large dataset of consistently and accurately labeled cortices. To do so we adopted a modification of the DK protocol (Desikan et al., 2006 (link)). We modified the protocol for two reasons: (i) to make the region definitions as consistent and as unambiguous as possible, and (ii) to rely on region boundaries that are well suited to FreeSurfer’s classifier algorithm, such as sulcal fundi that are approximated by surface depth and curvature. This would make it easier for experienced raters to assess and edit automatically generated labels, and to minimize errors introduced by the automatic labeling algorithm. We also sought to retain major region divisions that are of interest to the neuroimaging community. In some cases, this necessitated the inclusion of anatomically variable sulci as boundary markers (such as subdivisions of the inferior frontal gyrus) or use of gyral crowns (such as the pericalarine cortex). Alternatively, common subdivisions of gyri that were not based on cortical surface curvature features (such as subdivisions of the cingulate gyrus and the middle frontal gyrus) were retained if the subdivision was wholly within the surface curvature features that defined the gyrus.
The DKT protocol has 31 cortical regions per hemisphere, one less than the DK protocol. We have also created a variant of the DKT protocol with 25 cortical regions per hemisphere to combine regions that are subdivisions of a larger gyral formation and whose divisions are not based on sulcal landmarks or are formed by sulci that are highly variable. The regions we combined include subdivisions of the cingulate gyrus, the middle frontal gyrus, and the inferior frontal gyrus. Since fewer regions means larger regions that lead to higher overlap measures when registering images to each other, note that comparisons should be made using the same labeling protocol. We refer to these two variants as the DKT31 and DKT25 cortical labeling protocols.
Figure 1 shows cortical regions in the DKT labeling protocol. We retained the coloring scheme and naming conventions of Desikan et al. (2006 (link)) for ease of comparison. The Appendix contains detailed definitions of the regions but we summarize modifications to the original DK protocol in Table 2. Table 3 lists the names and abbreviations for the bounding sulci used by the DKT protocol; the locations of these sulci are demonstrated in Figure 2. Three regions were eliminated from the original DK protocol: the frontal and temporal poles and the banks of the superior temporal sulcus. The poles were eliminated because their boundaries were comprised primarily of segments that “jumped” across gyri rather than along sulci. By redistributing these regions to surrounding gyri we have increased the portion of region boundaries that along similar curvature values, that is, along sulci and gyri rather than across them, which improves automatic labeling and the reliability of manual edits. The banks of the superior temporal sulcus region was eliminated because its anterior and posterior definitions were unclear and it spanned a major sulcus.
Additional, more minor, modifications took the form of establishing distinct sulcal boundaries when they approximated a boundary in the original protocol that was not clearly defined. For instance, the lateral boundary of the middle temporal gyrus anterior to the inferior frontal sulcus was defined explicitly as the lateral H-shaped orbital sulcus and the frontomarginal sulcus more anteriorly. Similarly, the boundary between the superior parietal and the lateral occipital regions was assigned to the medial segment of the transverse occipital sulcus. Other examples include establishing the rhinal sulcus and the temporal incisure as the lateral and anterior borders of the entorhinal cortex, and adding the first segment of the caudal superior temporal sulcus (Petrides, 2011 ) as part of the posterior border of the supramarginal gyrus. Several popular atlases informed these modifications, including Ono et al. (1990 ), Damasio (2005 ), Duvernoy (1999 ), and Mai et al. (2008 ). The recent sulcus and gyrus atlas from Petrides (2011 ) proved particularly useful because of its exhaustive catalog of small but common sulci.
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Publication 2012
Conferences Cortex, Cerebral Crowns Entorhinal Area Frontal Sulcus Gyrus Cinguli Inferior Frontal Gyrus Medial Frontal Gyrus Middle Temporal Gyrus Occipital Lobe Occipital Sulcus Supramarginal Gyrus Temporal Lobe Temporal Sulcus
All brains were examined in the Division of Neuropathology of the Johns Hopkins University. After weighing and external examination, the right hemi-brain is cut in 1-cm coronal slabs and a standard set of tissue blocks is removed for overnight fixation in 4% paraformaldehyde or snap freezing. The remaining coronal slabs are frozen on prechilled aluminum plates and then maintained at −80°C. The left hemi-brain is fixed in 10% buffered formaldehyde for at least 2 weeks and then cut coronally. For diagnostic purposes, tissue blocks are dissected from middle frontal gyrus, superior and middle temporal gyri, inferior parietal cortex, occipital cortex, cingulate gyrus, hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, amygdala, thalamus, basal ganglia, midbrain, pons, medulla, and cerebellum (Table 1). For diagnostic purposes, tissue blocks are processed and embedded in paraffin, cut at 10 μm, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Selected sections are silver-stained with the Hirano method [9 (link)] and immunostained for α-synuclein (BD Transduction Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA; dilution, 1:500) and phosphorylated tau (anti-phosphorylated tau, paired helical filament 1 clone; a gift of Dr. P. Davies, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; dilution, 1:100). In selected brains, we prepare fixed tissue sections for stereology. Presently, we are obtaining a set of large tissue blocks containing the entire temporal lobe including hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, and a set from the brainstem and lower diencephalon containing the entire substantia nigra and locus coeruleus.
The severity of neuritic plaques is assigned a semi-quantitative and age-adjusted score (0, A, B, or C) according to CERAD [10 (link)], and the distribution of neurofibrillary tangles is assigned a stage score (0–VI) according to Braak [11 (link)] (Table 1). Although immunostains for tau (PHF1) and the amyloid peptide Aβ (6E10, Signet Laboratories) are performed, all Braak and CER-AD staging is based on silver stains. The assessment of Lewy body diseases, specifically idiopathic PD and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), is conducted on both H&E and α-synuclein stained tissue sections. For diagnosis of PD we follow the criteria of the London Brain Bank [12 (link)] and for DLB the criteria of the DLB consortium [13 (link)].
Publication 2009
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Using 833 brain tissue samples in the GEO database were analyzed, including 537 AD brain tissue samples and 296 control samples. The expression profiles of the GSE125583, GSE118553, GSE5281, GSE122063, and GSE157239 were download from the GEO database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) (Barrett et al., 2013 (link)). GSE125583 included 219 AD and 70 controls of fusiform gyrus tissue samples, which were obtained based on the GPL16791 platform (Srinivasan et al., 2020 (link)). GSE118553 included 167 AD and 100 controls of the cerebellum, entorhinal cortex, frontal cortex, and temporal cortex tissue samples, which were obtained based on the GPL10558 platform (Patel et al., 2019 (link)). Of these, 134 asymptomatic AD patients were excluded. GSE5281 obtained 87 AD and 74 control brain tissue samples of the following brain regions: the entorhinal cortex, hippocampus, medial temporal gyrus, superior frontal gyrus, posterior cingulate cortex, primary visual cortex, and middle temporal gyrus, based on the GPL570 platform (Liang et al., 2007 (link); Readhead et al., 2018 (link)). GSE122063 was obtained using the GPL16699 platform and included the frontal and temporal cortices from 56 AD and 44 healthy brain tissue samples, while 36 vascular dementia samples were excluded (McKay et al., 2019 (link)). The temporal cortex of eight AD patients and eight controls were obtained from GSE157239, based on the GPL21572 platform.
The expression profile of GSE125583 was normalized using the “Variance Stabilizing Transformation” function of the DESeq2 package. The expression profile of GSE118553 was normalized by “lumiExpresso” function of the Lumi package. The expression profiles of GSE5281 and GSE157239 were normalized using the “RMA” function of Affy package. Moreover, expression profile of GSE122063 was normalized using the limma package.
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Publication 2023
Brain Cerebellum Dementia, Vascular Entorhinal Area Lobe, Frontal Middle Temporal Gyrus Occipitotemporal Gyrus, Lateral Patients Posterior Cingulate Cortex Seahorses Striate Cortex Superior Frontal Gyrus Temporal Gyrus Temporal Lobe Tissues
Seed-based functional connectivity analysis was used to construct the resting-state cortical visual system. We selected 6 mm radius spheres centered at the right middle occipital gyrus (MNI space: 39 −88 10) [25 (link)], which served as the seed region. The mean time series of the right middle occipital gyrus was computed for each subject as the reference time course for the cortical visual system. Pearson’s cross-correlation analysis was applied to determine the relationship between the seed time course and the time course of all brain voxels, and Fisher’s z-transformation was applied to enhance the normality of the correlation coefficients. This resulted in the generation of a functional connectivity map for each subject. To build the cortical visual system, a one-sample t-test was performed to identify the brain regions that displayed a positive correlation with the right middle occipital gyrus in all subjects.
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Publication 2023
Brain Cortex, Cerebral Middle Temporal Gyrus Occipital Gyrus Radius Semen Analysis Visual Cortex
To determine whether the differentially expressed genes in the iPSC-derived neurons capture molecular processes that occur specifically in primary tauopathies or that represent more general pathways associated with neurodegeneration, we analyzed gene expression in human brains with primary tauopathy (e.g., MAPT mutation carriers and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)), secondary tauopathy (e.g., Alzheimer disease (AD)), and FTLD with TDP-43 pathology (FTLD-TDP). Primary tauopathy datasets included: i) middle temporal gyrus from MAPT IVS10 + 16 mutation carriers (2 samples) and healthy controls (3 samples); ii) insular cortex from MAPT R406W carriers (2 samples) and healthy controls (2 samples) (Jiang et al., 2018 (link)); and iii) Temporal cortex from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) brains (82 samples) and healthy control brains (76 samples; syn6090813) (Allen et al., 2015 (link); Allen et al., 2016 (link)). Secondary tauopathy datasets included temporal cortex from AD brains (84 samples) and healthy controls (76 samples) (Allen et al., 2015 (link); Allen et al., 2016 (link)). To determine whether gene expression changes in iPSC-neuron models reflect a more general impact on neurodegenerative pathways, we examined gene expression profiles isolated from tissue of FTLD-TDP caused by rare mutations the GRN, C9ORF72 expansions, or from sporadic cases (Knight ADRC)(Li et al., 2018 (link); Dube et al., 2019 (link); Wani et al., 2021 (link)): i) parietal lobe from GRN mutation carriers (5 samples), ii) C9ORF72 expansion carriers (5 samples), iii) sporadic cases (8 samples), and (iv) healthy controls (16 samples). Differential gene expression analyses comparing controls and disease diagnosed brains were performed using gene expression measures and including as covariates sex, age-at-death, RNA integrity number (RIN), and brain tissue source.
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Publication 2023
Alzheimer's Disease Brain Frontotemporal Dementia Gene Expression Gene Expression Profiling Genes Homo sapiens Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Insula of Reil MAPT protein, human Middle Temporal Gyrus Mutation Nerve Degeneration Neurons Parietal Lobe Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Tauopathies Temporal Lobe Tissues
Cellular level transcriptomic data from the middle temporal gyrus (MTG) of female and male aged volunteers on the AD spectrum were downloaded from the Seattle Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Cell Atlas (SEA-AD) and was accessed in December 2022 from https://registry.opendata.aws/allen-sea-ad-atlas. Study data were generated from postmortem brain tissue obtained from the MTG of 84 aged individuals spanning the full spectrum of AD severity (preMCI, MCI, mild-moderate severe AD) and 5 neurotypical aged adult cognitively intact individuals.
Publication Preprint 2023
Adult Aged Autopsy Brain Brain Diseases Cells Females Gene Expression Profiling Males Middle Temporal Gyrus Tissues Voluntary Workers
Neuropathological samples with TDP-43 pathology were taken from the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research (CNDR) Brain Bank at the University of Pennsylvania, for which the tissue preparation, staining and immunohistochemistry procedures have been described previously24 (link). Both sporadic cases and mutation carriers were included (see Table 1, S2). For each brain, up to 21 regions were sampled comprising the amygdala, hippocampal dentate gyrus, hippocampal cornu ammonis (CA)/subiculum, entorhinal cortex, anterior cingulate, superior/middle temporal gyrus, middle frontal gyrus, angular gyrus, occipital cortex, thalamus, globus pallidus, caudate/putamen, substantia nigra, midbrain, locus coeruleus, upper pons, cerebellum, medulla, orbitofrontal cortex, motor cortex and spinal cord (cervical spinal cord α-motoneurons in lamina 9) (Figure S1). Each region was assigned a score according to a semi-quantitative rating scale based on the extent of TDP-43 inclusions, where 0 = non-detectable, 0.5 = sparse, 1 = mild, 2 = moderate, and 3 = severe. The reliability of these scores was verified by independent expert neuropathologists. All individuals with any evidence of TDP-43 pathology in the brain were included in this study.
Three data subsets – those with FTLD-TDP, ALS and LATE-NC – were extracted for disease progression modelling (Table 1, S2). The inclusion criteria for the FTLD-TDP and ALS subsets were a primary neuropathological diagnosis of FTLD-TDP9 (link),25 (link) and ALS12 (link), respectively. Four ALS patients with a diagnosis of “ALS - Other”, which includes ALS without TDP-43 proteinopathy, and one ALS patient with a diagnosis of “ALS - Dementia” were excluded from this study. The inclusion criterion for the LATE-NC subset was a secondary or tertiary neuropathological diagnosis of LATE-NC1 (link), with (LATE-AD+) or without (LATE-AD-) a primary neuropathological diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathologic change26 (link). A secondary neuropathological diagnosis of LATE-AD+ was made if individuals showed a primary diagnosis of AD (using NIA-AA criteria), did not have a secondary diagnosis of FTLD or ALS, and also had evidence of TDP-4316 (link). The criteria for a neuropathological diagnosis of LATE-AD- were the absence of another TDP-43 neuropathological diagnosis (i.e. ALS, FTLD-TDP, or corticobasal degeneration), a TDP-43 score of 1 or more in the amygdala, and a TDP-43 score of less than 1 in the medulla (a region with near 100% sampling rate across diagnoses). These inclusion criteria were the sole criteria for inclusion in the study. In particular, we included individuals regardless of their TDP-type (A-E), and mutation carriers (e.g. GRN, C9orf72) and ALS-FTD cases were included. In total there were 126 individuals with FTLD-TDP, 141 with ALS and 304 with LATE-NC that were included in the SuStaIn modelling (Table 1, S2).
Age at death and estimated age at symptom onset were recorded for all individuals. Note that age of symptom onset refers to the age that primary symptoms were reported to manifest, which may or may not be symptoms directly related to TDP-43 neuropathology. Disease duration was calculated as the difference between age at symptom onset and age at death. Sex and interval between death and postmortem examination was also recorded for all patients. APOE genotype (ALS: 99%; FTLD-TDP: 100%; LATE-NC: 98%) and Braak tau stage (ALS: 95%; FTLD-TDP: 99%; LATE-NC: 97%) was also recorded for nearly all individuals using methods that have been previously described24 (link). TDP-43 type was also available for FTLD-TDP patients using published criteria9 (link). TDP-43 type was missing for two FTLD-TDP patients.
Publication Preprint 2023
Alzheimer's Disease Amygdaloid Body Angular Gyrus Apolipoproteins E Autopsy Brain Brain Diseases Cerebellum Corticobasal Degeneration Dementia Diagnosis Disease Progression Entorhinal Area Frontotemporal Dementia Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Genotype Globus Pallidus Gyrus, Anterior Cingulate Hippocampus Proper Immunohistochemistry Inclusion Bodies Locus Coeruleus Medial Frontal Gyrus Medulla Oblongata Mesencephalon Middle Temporal Gyrus Motor Cortex Motor Neurons Mutation Neostriatum Neuropathologist Occipital Lobe Orbitofrontal Cortex Parahippocampal Gyrus Patients Pons protein TDP-43, human Spinal Cord Spinal Cords, Cervical Subiculum Substantia Nigra Superior Temporal Gyrus TDP-43 Proteinopathies Thalamus Tissues

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