Table 2.
Distribution of cognitive dysfunctions, behavioral patterns, movement abnormalities, radiological characteristics, and genetic associations among ALD cases.
| Cognitive impairment | Behavioral changes | Movement disorders | Radiology | Genetic study | ||||
| Posterior predominant | 66.7% | Inappropriate laughter/smiling | 25% | Tics and stereotypies | 33.3% | Parieto-occipito-temporal WMH | 75% | Missense variations (exons 1, 7, and 9) |
| Anterior predominant | 22.2% | Anger/Aggression | 16.7% | Dystonia | 25% | |||
| Apathy | 16.7% | Ataxia | 16.7% | |||||
| Global | 11.1% | Hyperorality | 8.3% | |||||
| OCD | 8.3% | Frontal WMH | 16.7% | Nonsense variation (exon 10) | ||||
| ASD/ICD/Addictions | 8.3% | |||||||
| Paranoid delusions | 8.3% | |||||||
| Auditory/Visual hallucinations | 8.3% | |||||||
| WMH along CST | 8.3% | 3′ splice site variation (intron 7) | ||||||
| Cerebellar | 16.7% | Deletions (exon 1 and 10) | ||||||
| (Represents the initial pattern at presentation among CALD subjects) | (Represents patterns among all ALD subjects) | |||||||
OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder; ASD, autism spectrum disorder; ICD, impulse control disorder; WMH, white matter hyperintensity; CST, corticospinal tract.