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Mapping cognitive deficits in cancer patients after chemotherapy: An Activation Likelihood Estimation meta-analysis of task-related fMRI studies
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posted on 2022-04-02, 00:00 authored by Jacqueline Brooke SawardJacqueline Brooke Saward, Elizabeth Ellis, A L Cobden, Karen CaeyenberghsKaren CaeyenberghsAbstractRecent neuroimaging studies have reported alterations in brain activation during cognitive tasks in cancer patients who have undergone chemotherapy treatment. However, the location of these altered brain activation patterns after chemotherapy varies considerably across studies. The aim of the present meta-analysis was to quantitatively synthesise this body of evidence using Activation Likelihood Estimation to identify reliable regions of altered brain activation in cancer patients treated with chemotherapy, compared to healthy controls and no chemotherapy controls. Our systematic search identified 12 studies that adopted task-related fMRI on non-central nervous system cancer patients who received chemotherapy relative to controls. All studies were included in the analyses and were grouped into four contrasts. Cancer patients treated with chemotherapy showed reduced activation in the left superior parietal lobe/precuneus (family-wise error corrected p < .05) compared to no chemotherapy controls. No significant clusters were found in three of our contrasts. The majority of studies did not support an association between altered brain activation and cognitive performance after chemotherapy. Findings point towards a possible chemotherapy-induced alteration, which could inform targeted treatment strategies. With continued work in this field using homogenous task-related protocols and cancer populations, fMRI may be used as a biomarker of cognitive deficits in the future.
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Brain Imaging and BehaviorPagination
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SpringerLocation
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1931-7557eISSN
1931-7565Language
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