Mario H Flores-Torres,Xiaojing Peng,Sarah Jeanfavre,Clary Clish,Ying Wang,Marjorie L McCullough,Brian Healy,Michael A Schwarzschild,Kjetil Bjornevik,Alberto Ascherio
Franco J Ferrante,Daniel Escobar Grisales,María Fernanda López,Pamela Lopes da Cunha,Lucas Federico Sterpin,Jet M J Vonk,Pedro Chaná Cuevas,Claudio Estienne,Eugenia Hesse,Lucía Amoruso,Juan Rafael Orozco Arroyave,Adolfo M García
{"title":"Probabilistic Mapping of Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) Thalamotomy Targets in Essential Tremor and Tremor-Dominant Parkinson's Disease: Insights from a German Cohort.","authors":"Jonas Krauss,Neeraj Upadhyay,Veronika Purrer,Valeri Borger,Marcel Daamen,Hannah Weiland,Angelika Maurer,Carsten Schmeel,Alexander Radbruch,Markus Essler,Ullrich Wüllner,Henning Boecker","doi":"10.1002/mds.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mds.70003","url":null,"abstract":"Precise targeting in magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) is critical for effective tremor control in essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson's disease, as small deviations can reduce efficacy or cause side effects. In our cohort, sweetspots were identified at Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) coordinates x = -12.4, y = -17.5, z = -1.7 (ET) and x = -13.4, y = -19.8, z = -3.0 (TDPD).","PeriodicalId":213,"journal":{"name":"Movement Disorders","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144797091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on Schwarz et al. “EFNB3 Frameshift Variant in Weimaraner Dogs with a Condition Resembling a Congenital Mirror Movement Disorder”","authors":"Oriane Trouillard PhD, Quentin Welniarz PhD, Aurélie Méneret MD, PhD, Caroline Dubacq PhD, Emmanuel Roze MD, PhD","doi":"10.1002/mds.70001","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mds.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We read with great interest the recent publication reporting the study of Weimaraner dog siblings with a hopping gait,<span><sup>1</sup></span> that is, a loss of the left–right alternation of limb movements during locomotion. This phenotype was caused by a homozygous pathogenic variant in <i>EFNB3</i> encoding ephrin B3. In humans, lack of motor control lateralization results in mirror movements (MM). Therefore, the authors suggested that <i>EFNB3</i> could be a new candidate gene in patients with congenital mirror movements (CMM). To investigate a potential role of <i>EFNB3</i>, we analyzed exome sequencing data from 59 CMM index cases with no pathogenic variant in the known CMM causative genes. We did not identify any variants in the <i>EFNB3</i> gene. Thus, this gene does not appear to be involved in CMM.</p><p>This finding is not unexpected because a hopping gait is not equivalent to MM.<sup>2</sup> The hopping gait results from a dysfunction of the central pattern generators within the spinal cord. MMs are rather related to anatomical and functional abnormalities of supra-spinal structures, such as abnormal bilateral corticospinal tract (CST) projections to the spinal cord and/or abnormal interhemispheric interactions.<span><sup>2</sup></span> Several lines of evidence support this hypothesis. In mice, a hopping gait was associated with mutations in <i>Dcc</i>, the gene encoding a netrin-1 receptor<span><sup>3</sup></span> and <i>Epha4</i>, the gene encoding the ephrin-B3 receptor.<span><sup>4</sup></span> Both genes are involved in the guidance at the midline of the CST and commissural spinal neurons. In knock-out mice for <i>Dcc</i> or <i>Epha4</i>, both the CST and spinal circuitry are affected. It is thus difficult to disentangle the respective contribution of these structures to the hopping gait.<span><sup>3, 4</sup></span> Strikingly, conditional deletion of any of these two genes restricted to the spinal cord is sufficient to produce a hopping gait.<span><sup>4, 5</sup></span> Their respective deletion in the CST does not alter stereotypic locomotion.<span><sup>3, 4</sup></span> In particular, deletion of Epha4 within the neocortex results in aberrant bilateral CST projections to the spinal cord while the spinal circuitry is unaffected. These mutants have a normal stereotypic locomotion.<span><sup>4, 6</sup></span> By contrast, they have abnormal bilateral reaching behavior and a hopping gait specifically during adaptive locomotion that requires supra-spinal control,<span><sup>6</sup></span> a phenotype that reflects human MM. Last, mutations of the <i>Dmrt3</i> gene, encoding a transcription factor involved in the development of commissural spinal interneurons, are associated with the ability to produce alternated gait in horses.<span><sup>7</sup></span> <i>Dmrt3</i> mutations are present in horse breeds that are able to produce alternated gait at intermediate speeds, without transition to gallop, in which limb movements are symm","PeriodicalId":213,"journal":{"name":"Movement Disorders","volume":"40 9","pages":"2023-2024"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mds.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144792147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}