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Prepare for the official start of the 2013 holiday shopping season with a little help from Tampa Bay Newspapers' annual Gift Guide.
Prepare for the official start of the 2013 holiday shopping season with a little help from Tampa Bay Newspapers' annual Gift Guide. The guide is filled with gift ideas and tips for finding something for everyone on your list this year without breaking the budget.
Hoiday Reader Recipe Contest
A delectable collection of tasty recipes poured into Tampa Bay Newspapers offices for this years Holiday Reader Recipe Contest. From the scrumptious smorgasbord of traditional treats, savory sides and enticing entrees, weve selected our favorites.
Winning first place and the $50 prize is a recipe from Tracy Masenthin of Clearwater for Macadamia Nut French Toast. This amped-up breakfast delicacy is soaked in an egg-and-orange-juice mixture for 8 hours, baked to perfection and topped with toasted macadamia nuts and syrup. Masenthin says she enjoys this lovely recipe every Christmas morning. We may join her in the tradition!
Coming in at second place for the $25 prize, is a Frozen Cranberry Dessert from Marcia Koutroumanis of Palm Harbor. We loved how the festive cranberry is transformed into a frozen treat with the help of cream cheese, whipped cream, pineapple and pecans. We think it would make a perfect finale to a warm, Florida holiday.
Finally, we were enticed by the simple novelty of the Spinach-Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms from Russell Case of Largo, taking the third-place $20 prize. This versatile and vegetarian-friendly dish will work as an hors doeuvres or a main dish, depending on your spread, and is prepared in less than 30 minutes.
Of course, the creativity and downright delicious expertise of our readers doesnt end there. Weve included 20 other recipes that got our mouths watering: Savory Sausage Cornbread Stuffing, Sweet and Sour Chanukah Brisket, Crabmeat Hors doeuvres, Sweet Potato Souffle, New England Shrimp Mozambique, Christmas Rhubarb Cake and Cannoli Cream Puffs, to name a few.
We challenge you to try adding a few of these picks to your holiday banquets.
to go to the Reader's Recipe section to see the complete list of this year's recipes from our talented readers, as well as the recipes submitted since 2004.
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Looking for an alternative to walking door to door for trick or treat? Here are some local choices for your little ghosts and goblins!
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A certain ex-boyfriend of mine (who shall remain nameless but was an excellent gift giver) presented me with one of my most treasured possessions on Christmas of 2003. It was The Peanuts Holiday Special Box Set. If you know me at all, you know that Snoopy is my all-time favorite character.
This Halloween, trade out your costume jewelry for the real thing. We are giving away a $300 jewelry gift certificate from a local jeweler for you to spend however you wish...
We got a chance to interview one of the "ghosts" from the The Ghost Walks, sponsored by Historic Newburgh Inc. If you ever see a bride at the corner of State Street and Jennings in front of the The Old Newburgh Bank it may be the ghost featured above. She became a newlywed and a widow in the same day when she discovered her husband with his throat slit on the top floor of the bank. Was it suicide or murder?
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Top 10 Candidates for NFL MVP
Matt Ryan Atlanta Falcons
At the halfway mark of the NFL season it is time to identify the front-runners for league Most Valuable Player. Who are the 10 MVP candidates leading the field right now?
With so many teams hovering around the .500 mark, this is one of the toughest years ever to come up with 10 worthy candidates. Some of them are obvious. Just look at the quarterbacks and you can find three or four. Others are hard to choose. Some players are having good years, despite their team's performance while others are because of it.
In any MVP voting players on winning teams get more votes than those who do not. Those with established credentials do also. The great Deacon Jones once said that he made All-Pro at the end of his career as much on reputation as production.
I hope to avoid this. I hope that my focus is on what has happened this season and not in years past. The easiest way to do this is become a coach watching film. Trust what I see on the screen and not statistics. If I think a player has had an MVP type season, then he should be on the list. If I don't think so then he should not. It's as simple as that.
This is simply a top 10 list of who I think should be in the running for MVP. There is far too much football left to choose one. Some may play better in the second half of the season. Some may play worse. Someone else may outplay them all. As with all things we will have to let it play out.
As for right now, here are the 10 men who I think lead the field for NFL MVP honors.
10. Ronde Barber Tampa Bay Buccaneers
This is a vote for the old man. Barber is still playing at age 37. Not only that, but he is having a productive season.
The one time corner now safety has intercepted three passes with one return for a touchdown. Barber has also registered one sack.
Between his play on the field and leadership off of it, Barber is trying to help first year Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano turn things around. Tampa Bay's record is currently 3-4.
Others may not see the contributions that Barber is making, but I do.
9. Heath Miller Pittsburgh Steelers
Miller is having one of his best seasons with Pittsburgh. He may be second on the team in receptions behind Antonio Brown but one in every six that Miller catches is for a touchdown. Of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's 14 touchdown passes, almost half have gone to Miller.
The Steelers lead the league in converting third downs to first and Miller is one of the biggest reasons why?
With all of Pittsburgh's inconsistent play this season the one person they have been able to count on is Miller.
8. Andrew Luck Indianapolis Colts
This is not a misprint. If people could say that Peyton Manning was the MVP in 2011 and he never played a game why not give Luck some consideration? After all he has already led the Colts to two more wins than they had all of last season.
Rookies never win the MVP award. It is just unheard of. However, Luck has given Indianapolis a chance to win just about every game that he has played in. He led the Colts to victory over Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers. Luck has done all of this without his head coach Chuck Pagano who has missed most of the season due to leukemia.
If Luck can get Indianapolis into the playoffs I will certainly make a strong case for him as MVP.
7. Frank Gore San Francisco 49ers
Gore is the wheel that keeps the San Francisco offense going. He may not be the flashiest running back in the NFL, but besides Maurice-Jones Drew of the Jacksonville Jaguars is the most consistent. Without him, the 49ers offense would be in big trouble.
Gore is playing with injured ribs at the moment. This did not stop him from touching the ball 17 times against the Arizona Cardinals.
As the season goes on, Gore will become more important to San Francisco. He must become healthy if they want to make a run at the Super Bowl.
That is how valuable Gore is.
6. Julius Peppers Chicago Bears
Still one of the best defensive ends in the game at age 32. Peppers has helped lead the Bears to a 6-1 record with 5 1/2 sacks, one forced fumble and three fumble recoveries.
The Bears rank second in the league in points allowed per game. They are first in takeaway/giveaway at plus 12.
Peppers has as much to do with this as anyone.
5. Robert Griffin III Washington Redskins
Another rookie quarterback, Griffin III has been all that the Redskins hoped for and more. He is the best player on the team, period. It is a good thing, because Washington is not very good. With Griffin III they are 3-5. Without him, there is the possibility that they could be 0-8.
Griffin III has gotten it done on the ground and through the air. Going into Sunday's loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers he was completing around 70% of his passes.
The Redskins gave up three number one draft picks to get Griffin III. If they can build a team around him it will be worth it as his play has already shown.
4. Peyton Manning Denver Broncos
This is a no-brainer. With fears surrounding his health after coming back from neck surgery, Manning has done everything that the Broncos hoped for. He has played the quarterback position almost as well as before the injury. Along the way, Manning has led Denver to a 4-3 record and first place in the AFC West.
Manning has become a coach on the field just as he was with the Indianapolis Colts. Though there have been some growing pains with the offense, Manning has thrown 17 touchdown passes and only four interceptions. Three of the picks came in one game against the Atlanta Falcons.
Sure, the Broncos record is just a bit over .500, but this is no fault of Manning's.
He is back and almost at the top of his game.
This is remarkable after what Manning has been through.
3. Eli Manning New York Giants
You can't have one Manning without the other. Eli Manning has had every bit as good a season as Peyton if not better. A 6-2 record always trumps 4-3.
Unlike Peyton, Eli does not wow you with his stat line. All he does is come up with the big play when necessary and win games. The Giants have not been out of any game that they have played. The only blight on their record are two division losses to the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. The Giants got one of them back by beating Dallas this past Sunday.
In three of New York's victories, Manning brought them from behind in the fourth quarter to win.
He may not have hall of fame statistics, but the Giants always have a chance to win when Manning is on the field.
2. Matt Ryan Atlanta Falcons
You can not make an MVP candidate's list and leave the quarterback of an undefeated team off of it. Ryan and the Falcons are 7-0.
There is nothing else that needs to be said.
1. J.J. Watt Houston Texans
This man is having an unbelievable season. He is leading the league in sacks with 9 1/2. Watt also has two fumble recoveries. When he is not getting to the quarterback, Watt is sticking up a big paw and knocking passes down. He has 10 passes defensed which is unheard of for a defensive end.
I have always been biased towards defense, because the offense has all of the advantages. If I had to choose today, J.J. Watt would get my vote.
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Located in the heart of St. Helier, this hotel is within a 15-minute walk of Jersey Arts Centre and Jersey Museum. Elizabeth Castle and La Hougue Bie are also within 3 mi (5 km).
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When it comes to dating, Gabourey Sidibe has a pretty good idea what she wants in a guy.
"I like smart men," she tells PEOPLE at the Three16 Music Showcase in New York. "Smart men with grown up jobs who share my unusual sense of humor."
"People might be surprised to know I have a thing for nerds too," Sidibe, 27, says. "I am looking for someone who is so sweet, who offers to help me put on my shoes before an event."
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The weather was Wonderful. Warm to cool evening.. I wore Pants and a shortsleeved top. Make sure to wear flats...people forget the bowl is on a hillside. Walking up and down may be tiresome in heels..star this tip starred
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Bathrooms for our bench seating were behind and to the left. The line gets long, but moves fast. It also helps if the men are aware that their bathroom is just beyond the women's so they don't have to wait in the same line with us. This happened, but once they were informed and left the women's line, the line went even faster. :)
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We brought food, but we also had bench seating. It's doable, but just be conscious of the amount of space you are allotted, and that of your neigbors. There are benches and various other places on the way up where you can just park yourself to eat before getting to your seat, but you'll have to get there early.
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If you've ever been to the Hwd Bowl, you know parking can be a challenge. If you can take a shuttle, do that. We drove. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough cash for the $20 parking fee (forgot about the cash), but there's an ATM not too too far. The parking attendants directed us to a parking spot for ATM users, then, once paid, we were directed to the parking space. Not too bad. Well, I wasn't the one that had to go to the ATM, so it wasn't too bad for me. :)
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This opera company has greatly improved in the last few years and currently sponsors 4 apprentices. They perform outreach to the schools and work very hard to be good community members. I am very impressed with their talent and artistic merit.
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Winter 2014 Classes Start in January
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January 22, 2014 in Mesa (Wednesday evenings 6:00 - 7:30)
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January 25, 2014 in Mesa (Saturday mornings 10:00 - 11:30)
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Mesa WMCDC (School of Practical Philosophy)
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This 10-week course of philosophy offers an entirely practical approach to the study of philosophical principles that have transformed mankind's appreciation of its fundamental nature.
It draws from great eastern and western streams of understanding and introduces powerful principles in a way that can be immediately applied to the situations we all face.
Session 1: THE WISDOM WITHIN
What is Philosophy? Why study Philosophy?
Introduction to two very practical exercises in awareness.
Session 2: LEVELS OF AWARENESS
The wise live a life governed by principle.
How often and for how long are we awake?
Session 3: BEING AWAKE
How can we live more consciously and with greater purpose?
Observation and the spirit of inquiry.
Session 4: THE POWER OF ATTENTION
How can we increase the power of attention and realize our full potential?
What you give your attention to grows.
Session 5: THE POWER OF LISTENING
The difference between hearing and listening
Breaking habits of unnecessary speech.
Learning to listen.
Session 6: BEAUTY: A NEW WAY OF SEEING
When awareness and attention are open, how far can we see?
Where is Beauty? What is beauty itself?
A practical investigation based on Plato's Symposium
Session 7: WHO ME? A REMEDY FOR NEGATIVE FEELINGS
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What can be done about the negativity that limits our awareness and happiness?
Introduction to a time-tested remedy for negative feelings.
Session 8: SELF-KOWLEDGE: WHAT AM I?
How can we wake up more often during the day?
Am I this body? Mind? Heart? Is there more?
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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) is introducing a public awareness campaign to combat sexual harassment of customers while using the system.The first phase of the campaign includes an online portal for customers to report incidents to Metro Transit Police, along with improved data tracking of incidents. In addition, new customer awareness posters will soon be displayed in train stations and onboard buses and materials will be distributed across the system.The online reporting tool, located at wmata.com/harassment, allows someone who feels they were sexually harassed to report the incident directly to Metro Transit Police using a Web-based form. Information submitted through the Web portal is immediately transmitted to Metro Transit Police for follow-up action, and people who report incidents have the option of remaining anonymous. Metro has also established an email address to allow victims to send photo or video files to assist an investigation.The new posters, flyers and handouts, developed in English and Spanish, are intended to raise awareness about the issue of sexual harassment in public spaces and encourage victims to report incidents to police. The award-winning campaign was created by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (Boston T), who agreed to license the campaign materials to Metro at no cost."This purpose of this outreach is to let people know that it's not okay to sexually harass people on Metro," said Metro GM/CEO Richard Sarles. "We are encouraging anyone who may be harassed to report the incident to Metro Transit Police, and we appreciate the support of the advocacy groups in getting our message out into the communities we serve."To identify best practices and assist with implementation, Metro is working cooperatively with several local and national groups, including Collective Action for Safe Spaces; DC Rape Crisis Center; and Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. These efforts will continue in the months ahead."The changes that Metro is making to address public sexual harassment and assault is a testament to the hundreds of stories we received on our site," said Chai Shenoy, co-founder of Collective Action for Safe Spaces. "We see this partnership as a step in the right direction and a model for other transit agencies around the world to follow."Metro Transit Police are now tracking all reports of sexual harassment incidents — even those that do not rise to the level of a crime. The data will be used to identify trends and deploy officers as necessary and will be reported publicly to Metro's board of directors on a quarterly basis.An effort to enhance training for Metro frontline employees is also in development.
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Exclusive: In the U.S. system, the "supreme law" of the land is set by the Constitution and the federal government, though states, counties and cities have wide discretion over local matters. But problems arise when right-wingers start espousing the notion of "state sovereignty," says Robert Parry.
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When U.S. policymakers throw their weight around internationally, they may think their actions are justified – and perhaps in a narrow sense some are – but the U.S. also building up a reservoir of resentment and suspicion that hurts American interests in the long term, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains.
Inviting a Return to Jim Crow Racism
After the Civil War, Reconstruction tried to suppress white racism but was aborted prematurely leading to a near century of Jim Crow segregation in the South. Now, five right-wingers on the U.S. Supreme Court are contemplating a replay by stabbing at the heart of the Voting Rights Act, writes Lawrence Davidson.
Does John Brennan Know Morality?
Sen. Barbara Mikulski and other defenders of CIA Director-nominee John Brennan say they are reassured by his Jesuit education at Fordham that he must be well-grounded in moral philosophy. But two Fordham alumni, Scott McDonald and Ray McGovern, disagree in this open letter to Mikulski.
The NRA's War on America
The NRA's rejection of virtually all gun-safety proposals is not only a repudiation of common sense but a bare-knuckle assertion of right-wing power, money and propaganda over the desire of most Americans to better protect themselves and their kids from guns. It will take a determined electorate to prevail, says Beverly Bandler.
An Unheeded Warning on Iraq War
A decade ago, with neocons at the policy controls, the U.S. government was hell-bent on invading Iraq and few Washington power figures were brave enough to get in the way. A direct appeal to FBI Director Robert Mueller was one example of a warning falling on deaf ears, as ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley recalls.
Perverting the Constitution for Power
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The Catholic Church's Lost Hope
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Asking, Who Was Jesus?
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Bradley Manning's Uncommon Courage
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Korea prepares for price-driven smuggling surge
South Korea's customs office said Monday that it would crack down on tobacco smuggling ahead of a cigarette price hike that is expected to hit smokers from the start of next year, according to a story in The Korea Herald.
The government is set to raise tobacco prices by WON2,000 (US$1.78) per pack, or about 80 percent in respect of the average per-pack price.
The South Korea Customs Service (KCS) has said that it will strengthen its monitoring of shipments of duty-free cigarettes that could be routed back to the domestic market using fake documentation.
It has said that it will keep a close watch on those believed to be involved in tobacco smuggling and tourists suspected of purchasing more cigarettes than the government-imposed 10-pack ceiling for duty free.
And it said it will co-operate with police and the prosecution service to prevent the sale on the domestic market of duty-free cigarettes supplied to US soldiers stationed in Korea.
The KCS is concerned that the price hike could lead to a repeat of the surge in smuggling that occurred about a decade ago, when the most recent previous price increase came into force.
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Histologic studies show that the amygdala is affected by Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology, and its medial aspect is the most involved. We aimed to assess in vivo local structural differences in the amygdala of patients with AD using high-field MRI.
A total of 19 patients with AD (mean age 76, SD 6 years, mean Mini-Mental State Examination score [MMSE] 13, SD 4) and 19 healthy elderly controls (age 74, SD 5, MMSE 29, SD 1) were enrolled. The radial atrophy mapping technique was used to reconstruct the 3-dimensional surface of the amygdala. Maps of surface tissue loss in patients with AD vs controls were computed and statistically tested with permutation tests thresholded at p < 0.05, to correct for multiple comparisons. A digital atlas of the amygdalar nuclei was used to infer which nuclei were involved.
Both amygdalar volumes were significantly smaller in patients with AD (right 1,508 mm3, SD 418; left 1,646, SD 419) than controls (right 2,129 mm3, SD 316; left 2,077, SD 376; p < 0.002). In the dorsomedial part, significant local tissue loss (20%–30%) was mapped in the medial and central nuclei. Ventrally, the lateral nucleus (La) and the basolateral ventral medial nucleus (BLVM) were also involved (20%–30% loss).
We found in vivo local structural differences in the amygdala of patients with AD. The nuclei involved have known connections to the hippocampus (BLVM, La) and olfactory system (medial nucleus) and with cholinergic pathways (central nucleus). This pattern is consistent with the known pathophysiology of neural systems affected by AD.
Declarative memory is the main cognitive function affected by Alzheimer disease (AD). While the role of the hippocampus and hippocampal pathology in AD are widely known, the role of the amygdala is much less studied. The amygdala plays a key role in enhancing explicit memory both for pleasant and unpleasant emotional stimuli, by modulating of the encoding and consolidation processes.1 It also has abundant neural connections with the hippocampus.2 The amygdala is also among the brain structures where tau deposition occurs in the earliest stages of Alzheimer pathology,3,4 with more marked tau and Aβ deposition in the medial than lateral nuclei.5
Amygdalar volumetric studies using MRI techniques repeatedly find differences in patients with AD relative to healthy controls.6,–8 However, none has focused on mapping local structural changes in the amygdala, although the amygdala is known to be made of a heterogeneous group of nuclei. These nuclei have inputs from and outputs to different brain regions subserving a number of specific functions.
As so few studies focus on the involvement of amygdalar nuclei in AD, in vivo studies on local structural differences may help to elucidate their contribution to the symptoms of the disease.
The objective of this study was to assess in vivo the local structural differences of the amygdala in patients with AD compared to controls using the radial atrophy mapping technique on high-field (3 T) MRI.
Subjects were 19 patients with moderate to severe probable AD, diagnosed according to National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke–Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (NINCDS-ADRDA) criteria,9 and 19 elderly healthy volunteers. Patients and controls were recruited in the context of a pharmacologic fMRI study of memantine.10,11 Patients were selected from those seen at the IRCCS Centro S. Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, in Brescia, Italy. Patients with Clinical Dementia Rating of 2 or greater were included. Exclusion criteria were as follows: history of TIA or stroke, head trauma, alcohol or substance abuse, corticosteroid therapy, recent weight loss, or a modified Hachinski ischemic scale score greater than 4.12 Standardized history taking, behavioral and functional assessment, and physical and neurologic examination were carried out for all participants. The original case report form of the clinical assessment is available at http://www.centroalzheimer.it/public/Protocollo_MEM_T0.doc (in Italian). Moreover, a comprehensive neuropsychological battery appropriate for patients' cognitive impairment severity was administered with cognitive tests for nonverbal reasoning (Raven Colored Progressive Matrices), language comprehension (Token Test), verbal fluency (Letter and Semantic Fluency), short- and long-term memory (Digit and Spatial Span; Story Recall; Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Recall), constructional abilities (Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure Copy), attention, and executive functions (Trail Making Test).13 Global cognitive function was assessed with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).14
The participant or his or her primary caregiver provided written informed consent, after discussion of the risks and benefits of participating. No compensation was provided. The study was approved by the local ethics committee.
Three-dimensional high-resolution T1-weighted MRI scans were acquired on a 3.0-T Siemens Allegra scanner at the Neuroradiology Unit of the Ospedale Maggiore Borgo Trento, Verona, Italy, with a standard head coil. Scans were acquired with a gradient echo 3-dimensional technique with the following acquisition protocol: repetition time = 2,300 msec, echo time = 3.93 msec, inversion time = 1,100 msec, flip angle = 12°, gap = 50%, voxel = 1 × 1 × 1 mm, acquisition matrix = 256 × 256, slice thickness = 1 mm, total number of slices = 160, acquisition time 8′37″.
Images were reoriented along the AC-PC line, all voxels below the cerebellum were removed with MRIcro (http://www.sph.sc.edu/comd/rorden/mricro.html), and the origin of the spatial coordinates was manually set to the anterior commissure. Images were normalized with the Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM2) software (www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm) to a customized template created from the scans of all patients and all controls with a linear (12 parameter) transformation to preserve local shape differences in anatomy across subjects, so that they could be quantified in standardized space.
The amygdalae were manually segmented on the reoriented and normalized images by a single tracer (E.C.), blind to diagnosis and blind to the aim of the study, on contiguous coronal 1.0-mm-thick sections following a standardized and validated protocol15 and using an interactive software program developed at the Laboratory of NeuroImaging of the University of California at Los Angeles (http://www.loni.ucla.edu/ICBM/ICBM_ResSoftware.html#seg3).
The amygdala is located in the superior medial part of the temporal lobe, partly superior and anterior to the hippocampus. In the coronal plane, the starting point for amygdala segmentation was at the level where it is separated from the entorhinal cortex by the intrarhinal sulcus, or tentorial indentation, which forms a marked indent at the site of the inferior border of the amygdala. The amygdalostriatal transition area located between the lateral amygdalar nucleus and the ventral putamen was taken as the posterior-lateral border. The posterior end of the amygdala was defined as the point where gray matter started to appear superior to the alveus and laterally to the hippocampus. If the alveus was not visible, the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle was used as a border.15 Normalized amygdalar volumes were obtained from the tracings on spatially normalized images, and retained for statistical analyses. Intraclass correlation coefficients for the amygdala were 0.87 for intrarater and 0.83 for interrater reliability.
Three-dimensional parametric surface mesh models were generated from the manually segmented amygdala tracings.16 Each amygdala contour was separated into dorsal and ventral components and reparametrized by normalizing the spatial frequency of surface points between and within slices. A medial curve was automatically defined as the 3-dimensional curve traced out by the centroid of the amygdalar boundary in each image slice. For each boundary point, the radial 3-dimensional distance from the surface points to the medial curve of the amygdala was measured automatically and defined as the radial size. Shorter radial distances were used as an index of amygdala contraction.16 This procedure allows us to perform statistical comparisons between groups at corresponding surface locations.
The reconstruction of the anatomic amygdalar nuclei was based on the localization of the right amygdalar nuclei in histologic sections from a human atlas17 (figure 1A). The contour of each nucleus was outlined in a digital 3-dimensional template and their boundaries were projected onto the surface of the 3-dimensional mesh model obtained with the radial atrophy mapping technique (figure 1B).
The group of patients was compared to the controls. The percent difference in mean radial distances between patient and control groups (and the associated p value describing the significance of group differences) were plotted onto the model surface at each point of the amygdala using a color code to produce statistical maps.
Corrected p values were computed for the overall maps of the left and right amygdala using a permutation testing approach. Permutation methods measure the distribution of features in statistical maps that would be observed by accident if the subjects were randomly assigned to groups.16 The proportion of the amygdala surface with p values lower than 0.05 was stored and compared to the distribution of this suprathreshold area that arose by chance when the diagnostic group labeling of the data was repeatedly scrambled. By comparing the suprathreshold area to that seen by chance in null data, this provides an appropriate overall p value for the observed effects that is corrected for multiple spatial comparisons. Due to the significant difference in education level between cases and controls, Pearson correlation analysis between amygdalar morphology and educational level was performed in the control group in order to evaluate whether any effect of education on amygdalar morphology interfered with the effect of diagnosis.
Differences in sociodemographic, clinical, and neuropsychological features between groups were assessed using an analysis of variance for continuous variables and Fisher exact test for dichotomous variables. Amygdalar volumetric differences between groups were assessed by a one-way analysis of covariance, using sex and education as covariates in the model. The sensitivity of amygdalar volume to detect AD cases was computed based on a fixed specificity of 95%. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software version 12.0.
All patients were under AChEI treatment (donepezil, rivastigmine, or galantamine) and one out of the 19 patients was also treated with antidepressants (trazodone). None of the controls was taking any of those medications. Normalized amygdalar volumes displayed 21% (left) and 29% (right) lower volumes in patients with AD compared to healthy elderly controls (table 1). We found significant differences between groups in all neuropsychological domains. No difference was found in depressive symptoms (table 2).
Figure 1 shows that at any age, amygdalar volumes tended to be lower in patients with AD than in controls. Separation was better to the right, where 12/19 patients with AD were below the 95% confidence limits of the control distribution (sensitivity and specificity of 63% and 95%), while overlap was more substantial for the left amygdala (sensitivity and specificity of 36% and 95%).
The surface-based modeling analysis showed bilateral tissue loss with a major involvement of the right amygdala, consistent with the volumetric findings. Tissue reduction was mapped mainly to the medial amygdalar aspect and the lateral nucleus (La) (figure 2). Dorsally, the medial nucleus (Me), which extends from the posterior-dorsal medial part to the anterior-dorsal medial part of the amygdala, showed 20% to 30% tissue loss, bilaterally. The central nucleus (Ce) displayed 20%–30% tissue loss mainly to the right. The anterior and posterior cortical nuclei and anterior amygdaloid area were also involved, predominantly to the right, with around 20% tissue loss (p < 0.01).
Ventrally, the La showed 20%–30% tissue loss bilaterally, but mainly in the right amygdala, and the basolateral ventromedial nucleus (BLVM) was also involved, showing a 20% tissue loss (p < 0.01). The permutation test was highly significant (figure 2, p < 0.01), indicating that the pattern of deficits in the maps was very unlikely to have occurred by chance. Educational level was not associated with amygdalar morphology in healthy elderly and AD (p > 0.05 on permutation test).
This study explored the pattern of amygdalar atrophy in AD. Comparing the volume of the amygdala between groups, using sex and education as covariates, we found that this structure shows significant atrophy in patients with AD. Global atrophy of 25%, observed in our patients with AD, falls within the range of alterations detected previously from in vivo MRI6,18 and from postmortem neuropathologic studies,19,20 where 14%–60% lower amygdalar volume was found. This proportion of atrophy is somewhat lower than that of other regions involved in AD, such as the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, which showed a range of atrophy from 30% to 40%.10,21
Pathologic studies of Alzheimer brains have showed remarkable deposition of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the amygdala3 with a regional selective distribution in the medial part, both dorsally (Me, Ce, cortical and anterior amygdaloid area) and ventrally (BLVM).4 Previous studies have also showed Lewy bodies in the amygdala of AD22,23 without a clear pattern of deposition in specific nuclei. Our results are in agreement with neuropathologic studies, but we also found significant atrophy in the right lateral nucleus. Only one other in vivo study has investigated the regional shape abnormalities in the amygdala of patients with AD24 showing local surface inward deformation in the basolateral complex area, consistent with our findings.
In our sample, the Me and to a lesser extent the anterior cortical (Aco) and posterior cortical (Pco) nuclei were significantly atrophic. Neuropathologic studies in patients with AD show a different pattern: the medial nucleus is much less affected than the cortical nuclei.25 These nuclei project and receive efferents from the olfactory bulb (Aco), olfactory cortex (Me), and accessory olfactory bulb (Pco).26,27 Therefore, seeing as hyposmia is a sign of AD,28 we believe that the structural changes found in Me, Aco, and Pco may relate to the involvement of this olfactory network.
The central nucleus, affected by significant tau deposition,29 is an important output region27,30 with key connections to different modulatory circuits, including the lateral division of the capsular cholinergic pathway.31 This finding reflects the known deficit in acetylcholine pathways that characterizes AD.
Ventrally, the La and BLVM nuclei were primarily involved. The La nucleus is relatively spared from tau deposition in AD, while the BLVM nucleus is more affected.4 The La nucleus emits widespread intra-amygdalar connections, including projections to the basal and central nuclei.27,32,33 Moreover, the La and the BLVM are the main amygdalar nuclei that project and receive information respectively from entorhinal cortex34 and hippocampal regions (CA1–CA3 fields, subiculum, and parasubiculum),35 known to be atrophic in patients with AD.36,37 Each of the outputs from the lateral or basolateral-ventral-medial nuclei provides a slightly different representation of the sensory stimulus to the hippocampal formation.4 Therefore, the atrophy in the La and the BLVM nuclei can explain memory deficits in the encoding of stimuli (pleasant and unpleasant) during learning of explicit memories in patients with AD.38
The amygdalar atrophy has been previously found in other neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and vascular dementia.8,39 Future studies comparing the amygdalar atrophy in different kinds of dementias are needed. This will help to understand if the amygdalar pattern of damage may distinguish not only AD from controls but also AD from other dementias.
Some caveats should be noted. First, the sample is small and a replication of the findings in a larger group is needed. A larger sample size will help to better understand whether this measure may consistently distinguish controls from patients with AD. Second, diagnosis of our patients with AD was made clinically and lacked neuropathologic confirmation. Because of low specificity of the NINCDS-ADRDA criteria for AD, we could not exclude co-occurrence of neurodegenerative conditions other than AD.
Third, our mapping of the local tissue differences to neuroanatomic regions is indirect, based on 3-dimensional reconstruction of the amygdala, suggesting that our inferences about the atrophy of specific nuclei may be insufficiently accurate and need at a minimum to be confirmed in independent studies. So far, no in vivo imaging technique has been able to directly segment the amygdalar nuclei, due to their complex organization and relatively small size. Finally, the 3-dimensional atlas that we used is derived from a single healthy subject,17 which therefore does not take into account the normal or pathologic intersubject morphologic variability.
Statistical analysis was conducted by Enrica Cavedo.
E. Cavedo, Dr. Boccardi, R. Ganzola, E. Canu, and Dr. Beltramello report no disclosures. Dr. Caltagirone has served on scientific advisory boards for Wyeth and Novartis and has received research support from the Italian Ministry of Health RF97. Dr. Thompson serves on editorial advisory boards for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Human Brain Mapping, Medical Image Analysis, Cerebral Cortex, Current Medical Imaging Reviews, Inverse Problems and Imaging, and Translational Neuroscience; and receives research support from the NIH. Dr. Frisoni reports no disclosures.
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Oil Trains To Pass Through DT Minneapolis, Western Twin Cities SuburbsA million gallons of oil from North Dakota will soon be on more trains going through the Twin Cities via the western suburbs. The oil trains are being re-routed past Target Field and across the Mississippi River at Nicollet Island.
All Walks Of Life Set To Run In Twin Cities MarathonThousands of runners are getting ready for the "most beautiful urban marathon in America." The Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon starts Sunday morning. The course takes runners from the U.S. Bank Stadium site in downtown Minneapolis to the State Capitol in St. Paul.
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Walk To End Alzheimer's Turns Downtown Minneapolis PurpleSome 10,000 people took part in this year's Walk to End Alzheimer's at Target Field. Teams raised more than $1 million, the most of the 600 walks held across the country.
Hennepin Co. Att'y Speaks Out About Downtown Gun ViolenceAfter a weekend of crime in the heart of the Minneapolis tourism district, the Hennepin County Attorney is speaking out. On Wednesday, Mike Freeman told the Minneapolis City Council's public safety committee gun violence is a very real thing in downtown.
4 Things To Know: 2nd GOP Debate, Downtown Mpls. Violence & MoreFrom the second major GOP debate tonight to authorities addressing downtown Minneapolis violence, here are the four stories to know for Wednesday, Sept. 16.
After Major Shooting Incident Downtown, Mpls. Officials Push For ChangeCity officials are searching for ways to stop the violence after six people were shot in downtown Minneapolis. The shooting happened during bar closing time early Saturday morning. Despite a heavy police presence, at least two gunman opened fire on 5th Street between First and Hennepin Avenues.
2 Construction Projects To Affect Traffic In Downtown MinneapolisA few construction projects are expected to have an impact on traffic patterns in downtown Minneapolis. City officials said that the two projects beginning on Monday would lead to closures on Portland and Park Avenues.
Bar Close Gunfight Injures 6 In Downtown MinneapolisPolice say three people are in custody after as many as six people were shot in downtown Minneapolis early Saturday morning. Officers were called to the incident at about 2:30 a.m. on 5th Street between 1st and Hennepin Avenues.
Construction Taking A Toll On Nicollet Mall BusinessesConstruction crews are a constant sight along the mall. Right now the focus is near 10th and Nicollet. The work has closed popular summer restaurant patios, and slowed business for others.
Work Continues On Large Mural Honoring Bob Dylan In MinneapolisArtists in downtown Minneapolis continue their work on an impressive mural of Bob Dylan. We checked in Sunday night to get an updated look. It's a 60-foot tall, 150-foot wide work in progress at the corner of Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue.
First Avenue Mainroom To Reopen After Partial Ceiling CollapseIconic Twin Cities music venue First Avenue will reopen Friday night after a 30-by-30-foot portion of its ceiling collapsed during a concert, injuring five people. The venue has been closed since Aug. 12, and it has taken the work of hundreds to get the place back in order.


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Texas officer fatally shoots knife-wielding suspect
Video captures the fatal shooting of a suspect holding a knife after officers deploy a TASER multiple times.
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