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Zhao K, Ding Y, Han Y, Fan Y, Alexander-Bloch AF, Han T, Jin D, Liu B, Lu J, Song C, Wang P, Wang D, Wang Q, Xu K, Yang H, Yao H, Zheng Y, Yu C, Zhou B, Zhang X, Zhou Y, Jiang T, Zhang X, Liu Y. Independent and reproducible hippocampal radiomic biomarkers for multisite Alzheimer's disease: diagnosis, longitudinal progress and biological basis. Sci Bull (Beijing) 2020; 65:1103-1113. [PMID: 36659162 DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2020.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2019] [Revised: 01/31/2020] [Accepted: 03/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Hippocampal morphological change is one of the main hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, whether hippocampal radiomic features are robust as predictors of progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to AD dementia and whether these features provide any neurobiological foundation remains unclear. The primary aim of this study was to verify whether hippocampal radiomic features can serve as robust magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers for AD. Multivariate classifier-based support vector machine (SVM) analysis provided individual-level predictions for distinguishing AD patients (n = 261) from normal controls (NCs; n = 231) with an accuracy of 88.21% and intersite cross-validation. Further analyses of a large, independent the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) dataset (n = 1228) reinforced these findings. In MCI groups, a systemic analysis demonstrated that the identified features were significantly associated with clinical features (e.g., apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype, polygenic risk scores, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Aβ, CSF Tau), and longitudinal changes in cognition ability; more importantly, the radiomic features had a consistently altered pattern with changes in the MMSE scores over 5 years of follow-up. These comprehensive results suggest that hippocampal radiomic features can serve as robust biomarkers for clinical application in AD/MCI, and further provide evidence for predicting whether an MCI subject would convert to AD based on the radiomics of the hippocampus. The results of this study are expected to have a substantial impact on the early diagnosis of AD/MCI.
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- Kun Zhao
- Brainnetome Center & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China; School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Ji'nan 250358, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Ji'nan 250358, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China; Center of Alzheimer's Disease, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing 100069, China; Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing 100053, China; National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Beijing 100053, China
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- Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Brainnetome Center & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Brainnetome Center & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China
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- Department of Neurology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji'nan 250012, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China; Department of Neurology, The Secondary Medical Center, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disease, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Radiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji'nan 250012, China
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- Department of Radiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji'nan 250012, China
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- Brainnetome Center & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Secondary Medical Center, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disease, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Ji'nan 250358, China
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- Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Secondary Medical Center, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disease, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China
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- Department of Neurology, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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- Brainnetome Center & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Secondary Medical Center, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disease, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
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- Brainnetome Center & National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
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Diagnostic Ability of Structural Transcranial Sonography in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease. Diagnostics (Basel) 2020; 10:diagnostics10070471. [PMID: 32664455 PMCID: PMC7400014 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics10070471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic ability of transcranial sonography (TCS) for the evaluation of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Standard neuropsychological evaluation, TCS and 1.5 T MRI were performed for 20 patients with AD and for 20 age- and sex-matched healthy controls in a prospective manner. Measurements of the size of the third ventricle and heights of the MTL (A) and the choroidal fissure (B) were performed twice on each side by two independent neurosonologists for all participants. On MRI, both conventional and volumetric analyses of the third ventricle and hippocampus were performed. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves analyses were applied. Height of the MTL on TCS had sensitivities of 73.7% (right)/63.2%(left) and specificities of 65% (right)/65–70% (left) Area under a curve (AUC) 75.4–77.2% (right), 60.4–67.8% (left)) for AD. A/B ratio on TCS had sensitivities of 73.7% (right)/57.9% (left) and specificities of 70.0% (right)/55.0% (left) (AUC 73.3% (right), 60.4% (left)) by the experienced neurosonologist, and sensitivities of 78.9% (right and left) and specificities of 60.0% (right)/65.0% (left) (AUC 77.8–80.0%) by the inexperienced neurosonologist for AD. On MRI, linear measurement of the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus height had sensitivities of 84.2% (right)/89.5% (left) and specificities of 80.0% (right)/85% (left) (AUC 86.1–92.9%) for AD. Hippocampal volume had sensitivities of 70% (right and left) and specificities of 75% (right)/80% (left) (AUC 77.5–78%) for AD. Atrophy of the right MTL in AD could be detected on TCS with a good diagnostic ability, however MRI performed better on the left.
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Wu X, Wu Y, Geng Z, Zhou S, Wei L, Ji GJ, Tian Y, Wang K. Asymmetric Differences in the Gray Matter Volume and Functional Connections of the Amygdala Are Associated With Clinical Manifestations of Alzheimer's Disease. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:602. [PMID: 32670008 PMCID: PMC7332559 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2020] [Accepted: 05/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Objective Asymmetry is a subtle but pervasive aspect of the human brain, which may be altered in several neuropsychiatric conditions. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have reported that cerebral structural asymmetries are altered in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but most of these studies were conducted at the region-of-interest level. At the functional level, there are few reports of resting-state functional asymmetries based on functional MRI. In this study, we investigated lateral differences in structural volumes and strengths of functional connectivity between individuals with AD and healthy controls (HCs) at the voxel level. Methods Forty-eight patients with AD and 32 matched HCs were assessed. An analysis of voxel-based morphometry (VBM) of gray matter volume was performed at the whole-brain level to explore anatomical cerebral asymmetries in AD. We then performed a seed-to-whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) analysis to reveal FC asymmetries in AD. An asymmetry index (AI) was used to measure these changes, and the relationship between the structural and functional AIs and the clinical symptoms of AD was explored. Results A VBM analysis revealed a rightward and a leftward lateralization in the amygdala and the thalamus, respectively, in patients with AD. FC between the amygdala and the precuneus showed a rightward lateralization in AD, which was the opposite of the lateralization in the HCs. The asymmetric changes in structure and function were associated with disease severity and functional impairment in AD. Conclusion Our study highlights the value of considering asymmetries in the amygdala and the thalamus in clinical evaluations and their relevance to clinical measures.
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- Xingqi Wu
- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China.,Department of Medical Psychology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China.,Department of Medical Psychology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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Hou M, de Chastelaine M, Jayakumar M, Donley BE, Rugg MD. Recollection-related hippocampal fMRI effects predict longitudinal memory change in healthy older adults. Neuropsychologia 2020; 146:107537. [PMID: 32569610 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 06/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Prior fMRI studies have reported relationships between memory-related activity in the hippocampus and in-scanner memory performance, but whether such activity is predictive of longitudinal memory change remains unclear. Here, we administered a neuropsychological test battery to a sample of cognitively healthy older adults on three occasions, the second and third sessions occurring one month and three years after the first session. Structural and functional MRI data were acquired between the first two sessions. The fMRI data were derived from an associative recognition procedure and allowed estimation of hippocampal effects associated with both successful associative encoding and successful associative recognition (recollection). Baseline memory performance and memory change were evaluated using memory component scores derived from a principal components analysis of the neuropsychological test scores. Across participants, right hippocampal encoding effects correlated significantly with baseline memory performance after controlling for chronological age. Additionally, both left and right hippocampal associative recognition effects correlated negatively with longitudinal memory decline after controlling for age, and the relationship with the left hippocampal effect remained after also controlling for left hippocampal volume. Thus, in cognitively healthy older adults, the magnitude of hippocampal recollection effects appears to be a robust predictor of future memory change.
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- Mingzhu Hou
- Center for Vital Longevity and School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA.
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- Center for Vital Longevity and School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA
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- Center for Vital Longevity and School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA
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- Center for Vital Longevity and School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA
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- Center for Vital Longevity and School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA; School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
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Sivera R, Capet N, Manera V, Fabre R, Lorenzi M, Delingette H, Pennec X, Ayache N, Robert P. Voxel-based assessments of treatment effects on longitudinal brain changes in the Multidomain Alzheimer Preventive Trial cohort. Neurobiol Aging 2020; 94:50-59. [PMID: 32574818 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2019] [Revised: 10/26/2019] [Accepted: 11/17/2019] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The Multidomain Alzheimer Preventive Trial was designed to assess the effect of omega-3 supplementation and multidomain intervention on cognitive decline of subjects with subjective memory complaint. In terms of cognitive testing, no significant effect was found. In this paper, we evaluate the effect of the interventions on the brain morphological changes. Subjects with magnetic resonance imaging acquisitions at baseline and at 36 months were included (N = 376). Morphological changes were characterized by volume measurements and nonlinear deformation. The multidomain intervention was associated with a significant effect on the 3-year brain morphological changes in the deformation-based approach. Differences were mainly located in the left periventricular area next to the temporoparietal junction. These changes were associated with better cognitive performance and mood/behavior stabilization. No effect of the omega-3 supplementation was observed. This result suggests a possible effect on cognition, not yet observable after 3 years. We argue that neuroimaging could help define whether early intervention strategies are effective to delay cognitive decline and dementia.
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- Raphaël Sivera
- Université Côte d'Azur, Inria Sophia Antipolis, Epione Research Project, Sophia Antipolis, France.
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nice, CMRR, Nice, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CoBTeK Lab, Nice, France; Association Innovation Alzheimer, Nice, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CoBTeK Lab, Nice, France; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nice, Département de Santé Publique, Nice, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, Inria Sophia Antipolis, Epione Research Project, Sophia Antipolis, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, Inria Sophia Antipolis, Epione Research Project, Sophia Antipolis, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, Inria Sophia Antipolis, Epione Research Project, Sophia Antipolis, France
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- Université Côte d'Azur, Inria Sophia Antipolis, Epione Research Project, Sophia Antipolis, France
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- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nice, CMRR, Nice, France; Université Côte d'Azur, CoBTeK Lab, Nice, France; Association Innovation Alzheimer, Nice, France
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Zajac L, Koo BB, Tripodis Y, Mian A, Steinberg E, Mez J, Alosco ML, Cervantes-Arslanian A, Stern R, Killiany R. Hippocampal Resting-State Functional Connectivity Patterns are More Closely Associated with Severity of Subjective Memory Decline than Whole Hippocampal and Subfield Volumes. Cereb Cortex Commun 2020; 1:tgaa019. [PMID: 32905008 PMCID: PMC7463163 DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgaa019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The goal of this study was to examine whether hippocampal volume or resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) patterns are associated with subjective memory decline (SMD) in cognitively normal aged adults. Magnetic resonance imaging data from 53 participants (mean age: 71.9 years) of the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center registry were used in this cross-sectional study. Separate analyses treating SMD as a binary and continuous variable were performed. Subfield volumes were generated using FreeSurfer v6.0, and rsFC strength between the head and body of the hippocampus and the rest of the brain was calculated. Decreased left whole hippocampal volume and weaker rsFC strength between the right body of the hippocampus and the default mode network (DMN) were found in SMD+. Cognitive Change Index score was not correlated with volumetric measures but was inversely correlated with rsFC strength between the right body of the hippocampus and 6 brain networks, including the DMN, task control, and attentional networks. These findings suggest that hippocampal rsFC patterns reflect the current state of SMD in cognitively normal adults and may reflect subtle memory changes that standard neuropsychological tests are unable to capture.
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- Lauren Zajac
- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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Li Y, Fan H, Sun J, Ni M, Zhang L, Chen C, Hong X, Fang F, Zhang W, Ma P. Circular RNA expression profile of Alzheimer's disease and its clinical significance as biomarkers for the disease risk and progression. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2020; 123:105747. [PMID: 32315771 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2020.105747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Revised: 04/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate circular RNA (circRNA) expression profile via microarray, and further assess the potential of candidate circRNAs as biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS CircRNA expression profile in cerebrospinal fluid from 8 AD patients and 8 control (Ctrl) subjects was assessed by microarray. Subsequently, 10 candidate circRNAs from microarray were validated by reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) in cerebrospinal fluid from 80 AD patients and 40 Ctrl subjects. RESULTS By microarray, 112 circRNAs were upregulated and 51 circRNAs were downregulated in AD patients compared with Ctrl subjects, and these circRNAs were enriched in AD related pathways such as neurotrophin signaling pathway, natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity and cholinergic synapse. By RT-qPCR, circ-LPAR1, circ-AXL and circ-GPHN were increased, whereas circ-PCCA, circ-HAUS4, circ-KIF18B and circ-TTC39C were decreased in AD patients compared with Ctrl subjects, and these circRNAs were disclosed to predict AD risk by receiver operating characteristics curve analysis. Further forward-stepwise multivariate logistic regression revealed that circ-AXL, circ-GPHN, circ-ITPR3, circ-PCCA and cic-TTC39C were independent predictive factors for AD risk. Besides, in AD patients, circ-AXL and circ-GPHN negatively correlated, while circ-PCCA and circ-HAUS4 positively correlated with mini-mental state examination score; Circ-AXL negatively correlated, while circ-PCCA, circ-HAUS4 and circ-KIF18B positively correlated with Aβ42; Circ-AXL and circ-GPHN positively correlated, whereas circ-HAUS4 negatively correlated with t-tau; Circ-AXL positively correlated with p-tau. CONCLUSION Our study provides an overview of circRNA expression profile in AD, and identifies that circ-AXL, circ-GPHN and circ-PCCA hold clinical implications for guiding disease management in AD patients.
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- Yuanlong Li
- Department of Pharmacy, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Henan University, School of Clinical Medicine, Henan University, Zhengzhou, China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Science and Technology, School of Clinical Medicine, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Henan University, School of Clinical Medicine, Henan University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Henan University, School of Clinical Medicine, Henan University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Henan University, School of Clinical Medicine, Henan University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Henan University, School of Clinical Medicine, Henan University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Henan University, School of Clinical Medicine, Henan University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Henan University, School of Clinical Medicine, Henan University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China; Department of Pharmacy, People's Hospital of Henan University, School of Clinical Medicine, Henan University, Zhengzhou, China.
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Berron D, van Westen D, Ossenkoppele R, Strandberg O, Hansson O. Medial temporal lobe connectivity and its associations with cognition in early Alzheimer's disease. Brain 2020; 143:1233-1248. [PMID: 32252068 PMCID: PMC7174043 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awaa068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2019] [Revised: 01/15/2020] [Accepted: 01/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Human episodic memory critically depends on subregions of the medial temporal lobe, which are part of functional brain systems such as the anterior-temporal and the posterior-medial system. Here we analysed how Alzheimer's pathology affects functional connectivity within these systems. Data from 256 amyloid-β-negative cognitively unimpaired, 103 amyloid-β-positive cognitively unimpaired, and 83 amyloid-β-positive individuals with mild cognitive impairment were analysed. Amyloid-β and tau pathology were measured using the CSF amyloid-β42/40 ratio and phosphorylated tau, respectively. We found that amyloid-β-positive cognitively unimpaired individuals were mainly characterized by decreased functional connectivity between the medial temporal lobe and regions in the anterior-temporal system, most prominently between left perirhinal/entorhinal cortices and medial prefrontal cortex. Furthermore, correlation analysis in this group revealed decreasing functional connectivity between bilateral perirhinal/entorhinal cortices, anterior hippocampus and posterior-medial regions with increasing levels of phosphorylated tau. The amyloid-β-positive individuals with mild cognitive impairment mostly exhibited reduced connectivity between the medial temporal lobe and posterior-medial regions, predominantly between the anterior hippocampus and posterior cingulate cortex. In addition, they showed hyperconnectivity within the medial temporal lobe and its immediate proximity. Lower medial temporal-cortical functional connectivity networks resulting from the group comparisons of cognitively unimpaired individuals were associated with reduced memory performance and more rapid longitudinal memory decline as shown by linear mixed-effects regression analysis. Finally, we found that reduced medial temporal-cortical connectivity in mildly cognitively impaired individuals was related to reduced entorhinal thickness and white matter integrity of the parahippocampal cingulum and the fornix. No such relationships were found in cognitively unimpaired individuals. In conclusion, our findings show that the earliest changes in preclinical Alzheimer's disease might involve decreased connectivity within the anterior-temporal system, and early changes in connectivity might be related to memory impairment, but not to structural changes. With disease progression and increased tau pathology, medial temporal functional connectivity with posterior-medial regions seems to be increasingly impaired. In individuals with mild cognitive impairment, reduced functional connectivity is associated with structural brain changes as well as the emergence of locally increased connectivity patterns. Thus, functional connectivity between the medial temporal lobe and the anterior-temporal and posterior-medial system could serve as stage-specific functional markers in early Alzheimer's disease.
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- David Berron
- Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Diagnostic Radiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Image and Function, Skane University Hospital, Sweden
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- Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Malmö, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- Memory Clinic, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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Gu X, Zhao M, Han X, Liu L. Presenilin-1 mutation is associated with a hippocampus defect in alzheimer's disease: Meta-Analysis for neuroimaging research. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2020; 191:105679. [PMID: 32004985 DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2020.105679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 01/12/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Observational studies suggested an association of the Presenilin-1 (PSEN1) genotype with neuroimaging markers within Alzheimer's disease. However, whether the PSEN1 genotype and neuroimaging markers is a harbinger of Alzheimer's disease remains controversial. We aimed to examine the association of the PSEN1 mutation with neuroimaging markers in Alzheimer's disease: hippocampal volume, cerebral metabolism and brain amyloid deposition. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of 13 studies identified in Pubmed and Medline from 1997 to 2019 (n = 164). The pooled standard mean difference (SMD) was used to evaluate the association between the PSEN1 mutation and hippocampal volume and cerebral metabolism rate for glucose (CMRgl). A meta-analysis was also performed regarding the amyloid deposition between the PSEN1+ and PSEN1- groups. In order to accurately study whether PSEN1 independently was associated with changes in related image markers, sub-meta analyses was performed. The PSEN1 mutation was associated with a smaller hippocampal volume (pooled SMD: -3.3; 95 % CI: -5.36 to -1.24; p = 0.002) and decreased cerebral metabolism (pooled SMD: -1.73; 95 % CI: -2.7 to -0.76; p < 0.0001). Additionally, PSEN1 was associated with increased cerebral amyloid deposition as detected by a positron emission tomography tracer (pooled SMD: 4.58; 95 % CI: 1.37-7.8; p = 0.0005). PSEN1 was associated with a decreased hippocampal volume in MRI markers, cerebral glucose hypometabolism, and increased cerebral amyloid deposition. These associations may indicate the potential role of neuroimaging markers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
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- Xiaochun Gu
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Department of Radiology, Zhongda Hospital, Department of Histology Embryology, Medical School, Southeast University, 87#Dingjiaqiao Road, Nanjing 210009, China; Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases, Department of Histology Embryology, Medical School, Southeast University, 87 Dingjiaqiao Road, Nanjing, 210009, China; State Key Laboratory of Space Medicine Fundamentals and Application, Chinese Astronaut Research and Training Center, During Review Process, China.
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Department of Radiology, Zhongda Hospital, Department of Histology Embryology, Medical School, Southeast University, 87#Dingjiaqiao Road, Nanjing 210009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases, Department of Histology Embryology, Medical School, Southeast University, 87 Dingjiaqiao Road, Nanjing, 210009, China
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- Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Diseases, Department of Histology Embryology, Medical School, Southeast University, 87 Dingjiaqiao Road, Nanjing, 210009, China
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Broadhouse KM, Singh MF, Suo C, Gates N, Wen W, Brodaty H, Jain N, Wilson GC, Meiklejohn J, Singh N, Baune BT, Baker M, Foroughi N, Wang Y, Kochan N, Ashton K, Brown M, Li Z, Mavros Y, Sachdev PS, Valenzuela MJ. Hippocampal plasticity underpins long-term cognitive gains from resistance exercise in MCI. Neuroimage Clin 2020; 25:102182. [PMID: 31978826 PMCID: PMC6974789 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Revised: 01/13/2020] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Dementia affects 47 million individuals worldwide, and assuming the status quo is projected to rise to 150 million by 2050. Prevention of age-related cognitive impairment in older persons with lifestyle interventions continues to garner evidence but whether this can combat underlying neurodegeneration is unknown. The Study of Mental Activity and Resistance Training (SMART) trial has previously reported within-training findings; the aim of this study was to investigate the long-term neurostructural and cognitive impact of resistance exercise in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). For the first time we show that hippocampal subareas particularly susceptible to volume loss in Alzheimer's disease (AD) are protected by resistance exercise for up to one year after training. One hundred MCI participants were randomised to one of four training groups: (1) Combined high intensity progressive resistance and computerised cognitive training (PRT+CCT), (2) PRT+Sham CCT, (3) CCT+Sham PRT, (4) Sham physical+sham cognitive training (SHAM+SHAM). Physical, neuropsychological and MRI assessments were carried out at baseline, 6 months (directly after training) and 18 months from baseline (12 months after intervention cessation). Here we report neuro-structural and functional changes over the 18-month trial period and the association with global cognitive and executive function measures. PRT but not CCT or PRT+CCT led to global long-term cognitive improvements above SHAM intervention at 18-month follow-up. Furthermore, hippocampal subfields susceptible to atrophy in AD were protected by PRT revealing an elimination of long-term atrophy in the left subiculum, and attenuation of atrophy in left CA1 and dentate gyrus when compared to SHAM+SHAM (p = 0.023, p = 0.020 and p = 0.027). These neuroprotective effects mediated a significant portion of long-term cognitive benefits. By contrast, within-training posterior cingulate plasticity decayed after training cessation and was unrelated to long term cognitive benefits. Neither general physical activity levels nor fitness change over the 18-month period mediated hippocampal trajectory, demonstrating that enduring hippocampal subfield plasticity is not a simple reflection of post-training changes in fitness or physical activity participation. Notably, resting-state fMRI analysis revealed that both the hippocampus and posterior cingulate participate in a functional network that continued to be upregulated following intervention cessation. Multiple structural mechanisms may contribute to the long-term global cognitive benefit of resistance exercise, developing along different time courses but functionally linked. For the first time we show that 6 months of high intensity resistance exercise is capable of not only promoting better cognition in those with MCI, but also protecting AD-vulnerable hippocampal subfields from degeneration for at least 12 months post-intervention. These findings emphasise the therapeutic potential of resistance exercise; however, future work will need to establish just how long-lived these outcomes are and whether they are sufficient to delay dementia.
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- Kathryn M Broadhouse
- Nola Thompson Centre for Advanced Imaging, Sunshine Coast Mind and Neuroscience Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia; Regenerative Neuroscience Group, Brain and Mind Centre and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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- Physical Activity, Lifestyle, Ageing and Wellbeing Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia; Hebrew SeniorLife and Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Regenerative Neuroscience Group, Brain and Mind Centre and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; School of Psychological Sciences and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Regenerative Neuroscience Group, Brain and Mind Centre and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Physical Activity, Lifestyle, Ageing and Wellbeing Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia
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- Physical Activity, Lifestyle, Ageing and Wellbeing Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia
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- Physical Activity, Lifestyle, Ageing and Wellbeing Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia
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- Physical Activity, Lifestyle, Ageing and Wellbeing Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Physical Activity, Lifestyle, Ageing and Wellbeing Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia; School of Exercise Science, Australian Catholic University, Strathfield, NSW, Australia
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- Clinical and Rehabilitation Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia
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- Clinical and Rehabilitation Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia; Department of Medicine and the Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, QLD, Australia
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- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, QLD, Australia; King's College London National Institutes of Health Biomedical Research Centre, UK
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- Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, QLD, Australia
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- Physical Activity, Lifestyle, Ageing and Wellbeing Faculty Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Regenerative Neuroscience Group, Brain and Mind Centre and Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; School of Medical Sciences, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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Chen F, Bertelsen AB, Holm IE, Nyengaard JR, Rosenberg R, Dorph-Petersen KA. Hippocampal volume and cell number in depression, schizophrenia, and suicide subjects. Brain Res 2020; 1727:146546. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2019.146546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2019] [Revised: 09/29/2019] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Stadterman J, Belthoff K, Han Y, Kadesh AD, Yoncheva Y, Roy AK. A Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of a Western Diet on Hippocampal Volume in Children. Front Pediatr 2020; 8:58. [PMID: 32195211 PMCID: PMC7062798 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2020.00058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 02/06/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Introduction: Over the course of the 20th century, there has been a sharp increase in the consumption of saturated fat and refined sugars. This so-called "western diet" (WD) has been extensively linked to biological alterations and associated functional deficits in the hippocampus of animals. However, the effects of a WD on the human hippocampus are less well-characterized. This preliminary study aimed to extend prior animal work by investigating the effects of a WD on hippocampal volume in children. Methods: Twenty-one healthy children (ages 5-9) completed a structural T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging scan. Bilateral hippocampal volumes (as regions-of-interest) and bilateral amygdala volumes (as medial temporal lobe control regions-of-interest) were calculated. WD variables were derived from the parent-completed Youth/Adolescent Food Frequency Questionnaire. Specifically, variables were calculated as percent of daily calories consumed from sugars, fats, or a combination of these (WD). Results: While the relationships between overall WD consumption and bilateral hippocampal volumes were not significant, increased fat consumption was significantly related to decreased left hippocampal volume. Sugar consumption was not related to hippocampal size. Control region volumes were not related to any diet variables. Discussion: This study is the first to directly link diet-specifically fat consumption-to decreased left hippocampal volume in children. This extends previous work showing smaller left hippocampal volume related to obesity in pediatric samples. Though preliminary, findings represent an important step toward understanding the impact of diet on child brain development.
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- Jill Stadterman
- Pediatric Emotion Regulation Lab, Department of Psychology, Fordham University, The Bronx, NY, United States
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- Pediatric Emotion Regulation Lab, Department of Psychology, Fordham University, The Bronx, NY, United States
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- Pediatric Emotion Regulation Lab, Department of Psychology, Fordham University, The Bronx, NY, United States
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- Pediatric Emotion Regulation Lab, Department of Psychology, Fordham University, The Bronx, NY, United States
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, United States
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- Pediatric Emotion Regulation Lab, Department of Psychology, Fordham University, The Bronx, NY, United States.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, United States
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Carson N, Rosenbaum RS, Moscovitch M, Murphy KJ. Self-referential processing improves memory for narrative information in healthy aging and amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. Neuropsychologia 2019; 134:107179. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Revised: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Low A, Mak E, Malpetti M, Chouliaras L, Nicastro N, Su L, Holland N, Rittman T, Rodríguez PV, Passamonti L, Bevan-Jones WR, Jones PS, Rowe JB, O'Brien JT. Asymmetrical atrophy of thalamic subnuclei in Alzheimer's disease and amyloid-positive mild cognitive impairment is associated with key clinical features. ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA: DIAGNOSIS, ASSESSMENT & DISEASE MONITORING 2019; 11:690-699. [PMID: 31667328 PMCID: PMC6811895 DOI: 10.1016/j.dadm.2019.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Introduction Although widespread cortical asymmetries have been identified in Alzheimer's disease (AD), thalamic asymmetries and their relevance to clinical severity in AD remain unclear. Methods Lateralization indices were computed for individual thalamic subnuclei of 65 participants (33 healthy controls, 14 amyloid-positive patients with mild cognitive impairment, and 18 patients with AD dementia). We compared lateralization indices across diagnostic groups and correlated them with clinical measures. Results Although overall asymmetry of the thalamus did not differ between groups, greater leftward lateralization of atrophy in the ventral nuclei was demonstrated in AD, compared with controls and amyloid-positive mild cognitive impairment. Increased posterior ventrolateral and ventromedial nuclei asymmetry were associated with worse cognitive dysfunction, informant-reported neuropsychiatric symptoms, and functional ability. Discussion Leftward ventral thalamic atrophy was associated with disease severity in AD. Our findings suggest the clinically relevant involvement of thalamic nuclei in the pathophysiology of AD.
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- Audrey Low
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Hedges DW, Erickson LD, Kunzelman J, Brown BL, Gale SD. Association between exposure to air pollution and hippocampal volume in adults in the UK Biobank. Neurotoxicology 2019; 74:108-120. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2019.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2019] [Revised: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Ezzati A, Zammit AR, Lipton ML, Lipton RB. The relationship between hippocampal volume, chronic pain, and depressive symptoms in older adults. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2019; 289:10-12. [PMID: 31112826 PMCID: PMC6645699 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2019.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Revised: 05/12/2019] [Accepted: 05/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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We aimed to test the hypothesis that the effect of chronic pain on depressive symptoms is mediated through hippocampal volume (HV). Participants were 131 non-demented adults over the age of 70 years from the Einstein Aging Study. Smaller right and left HV were both associated with higher depressive symptoms, but only smaller right HV was associated with chronic pain. In mediation models, right HV was a significant mediator for the effect of chronic pain on depression. Our findings suggest presence of a shared brain substrates between chronic pain and depression as reflected by right HV.
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- Ali Ezzati
- Saul B. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467, USA; Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore medical center, Bronx, NY 10461 USA.
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- Saul B. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore medical center, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- The Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center and Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; The Department of Radiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467, USA; Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore medical center, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Saul B. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467, USA; Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore medical center, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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Using deep Siamese neural networks for detection of brain asymmetries associated with Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Magn Reson Imaging 2019; 64:190-199. [PMID: 31319126 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2019.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2019] [Revised: 07/01/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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In recent studies, neuroanatomical volume and shape asymmetries have been seen during the course of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and could potentially be used as preclinical imaging biomarkers for the prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and AD dementia. In this study, a deep learning framework utilizing Siamese neural networks trained on paired lateral inter-hemispheric regions is used to harness the discriminative power of whole-brain volumetric asymmetry. The method uses the MRICloud pipeline to yield low-dimensional volumetric features of pre-defined atlas brain structures, and a novel non-linear kernel trick to normalize these features to reduce batch effects across datasets and populations. By working with the low-dimensional features, Siamese networks were shown to yield comparable performance to studies that utilize whole-brain MR images, with the advantage of reduced complexity and computational time, while preserving the biological information density. Experimental results also show that Siamese networks perform better in certain metrics by explicitly encoding the asymmetry in brain volumes, compared to traditional prediction methods that do not use the asymmetry, on the ADNI and BIOCARD datasets.
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Li KX, Sun Q, Wei LL, Du GH, Huang X, Wang JK. ERα Gene Promoter Methylation in Cognitive Function and Quality of Life of Patients With Alzheimer Disease. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 2019; 32:221-228. [PMID: 30947592 DOI: 10.1177/0891988719835325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Alzheimer disease (AD) has been recognized as a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. This study aims to investigate the effects of estrogen receptor α (ERα) gene promoter methylation on the cognitive function and quality of life (QOL) of patients with AD. METHODS A total of 132 patients with AD and 135 healthy individuals were recruited for this study. The DNA in the peripheral blood was extracted and treated with bisulfite; then methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction and reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction were performed to determine the methylation status of ERα and ERα messenger RNA (mRNA) expression, respectively. Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), activities of daily living (ADL), and Quality of Life-Alzheimer Disease scale were employed to evaluate the cognitive functions, ADL, and QOL of the participants. RESULTS The methylation group showed a decrease in ERα mRNA expression. The MMSE and ADL scores were indicative of a worse cognitive function in the methylation group. The ERα promoter methylated patients showed a higher rate of abnormal ADL score, while patients in the nonmethylation group enjoyed a better QOL. CONCLUSIONS The ERα promoter methylation is related to impaired cognitive function and QOL of patients with AD by inhibiting ERα mRNA expression and transcription.
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- Kai-Xiu Li
- 1 Department of Geratology, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- 2 School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- 2 School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.,3 Center of Diabetes Mellitus, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- 4 Outpatient Department, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- 1 Department of Geratology, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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- 4 Outpatient Department, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, People's Republic of China
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Nobis L, Manohar SG, Smith SM, Alfaro-Almagro F, Jenkinson M, Mackay CE, Husain M. Hippocampal volume across age: Nomograms derived from over 19,700 people in UK Biobank. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2019; 23:101904. [PMID: 31254939 PMCID: PMC6603440 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Revised: 06/13/2019] [Accepted: 06/16/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Measurement of hippocampal volume has proven useful to diagnose and track progression in several brain disorders, most notably in Alzheimer's disease (AD). For example, an objective evaluation of a patient's hippocampal volume status may provide important information that can assist diagnosis or risk stratification of AD. However, clinicians and researchers require access to age-related normative percentiles to reliably categorise a patient's hippocampal volume as being pathologically small. Here we analysed effects of age, sex, and hemisphere on the hippocampus and neighbouring temporal lobe volumes, in 19,793 generally healthy participants in the UK Biobank. A key finding of the current study is a significant acceleration in the rate of hippocampal volume loss in middle age, more pronounced in females than in males. In this report, we provide normative values for hippocampal and total grey matter volume as a function of age for reference in clinical and research settings. These normative values may be used in combination with our online, automated percentile estimation tool to provide a rapid, objective evaluation of an individual's hippocampal volume status. The data provide a large-scale normative database to facilitate easy age-adjusted determination of where an individual hippocampal and temporal lobe volume lies within the normal distribution. Largest normative database for hippocampal volume across age to date. Hippocampal volume loss accelerates in middle age. Acceleration of hippocampal volume loss is more pronounced in women than in men. With the online tool the database provides a useful resource for research and clinical studies.
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- Lisa Nobis
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Yao Z, Zou Y, Zheng W, Zhang Z, Li Y, Yu Y, Zhang Z, Fu Y, Shi J, Zhang W, Wu X, Hu B. Structural alterations of the brain preceded functional alterations in major depressive disorder patients: Evidence from multimodal connectivity. J Affect Disord 2019; 253:107-117. [PMID: 31035211 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.04.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Revised: 03/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Recent studies showed that major depressive disorder (MDD) has been involved in abnormal functional and structural connections in specific brain regions. However, comprehensive researches on MDD-related alterations in the topological organization of brain functional and structural networks are still limited. METHODS Functional network (FN) was constructed from resting-state functional MRI temporal series correlations and structural network (SN) was established by Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data in 58 MDD patients and 71 healthy controls (HC). The measurements of the network properties were calculated for two networks respectively. Correlations were conducted between altered network parameters and Hamilton depression scale (HAMD) score. Additionally, network resilient analysis were conducted on FN and SN. RESULTS The losses of small-worldness charateristics and the decline of nodal efficiency across FN and SN were found in MDD patients. Based on network-based statistic (NBS) approach, the decreased connections in MDD patients were mainly found in the superior occipital gyrus, superior temporal gyrus for FN and SN, while the increased connections were distributed in putamen, superior frontal gyrus only for SN. Compared with the FN, the SN showed less resilient to targeted or random node failure. Besides, altered edges in NBS and regions with decreased nodal efficiency were negatively associated with HAMD score in MDD patients. LIMITATIONS The samples size is small and most of the MDD patients take different antidepressant medications. CONCLUSIONS Alterations of SN in the brain of MDD patients preceded that of FN to some extent, and reorganization of the brain network was a mechanism which compensated for functional and structural alterations during disease progression.
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- Zhijun Yao
- School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730000, P.R. China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730000, P.R. China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R. China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730000, P.R. China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong Province, 250358, P.R. China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730000, P.R. China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730000, P.R. China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730000, P.R. China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730000, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730000, P.R. China
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- College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100000, P.R. China.
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 730000, P.R. China.
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Wolf D, Fischer FU, Fellgiebel A. A methodological approach to studying resilience mechanisms: demonstration of utility in age and Alzheimer's disease-related brain pathology. Brain Imaging Behav 2019; 13:162-171. [PMID: 29713998 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-018-9870-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The present work aims at providing a methodological approach for the investigation of resilience factors and mechanisms in normal aging, Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. By expanding and re-conceptualizing traditional regression approaches, we propose an approach that not only aims at identifying potential resilience factors but also allows for a differentiation between general and dynamic resilience factors in terms of their association with pathology. Dynamic resilience factors are characterized by an increasing relevance with increasing levels of pathology, while the relevance of general resilience factors is independent of the amount of pathology. Utility of the approach is demonstrated in age and AD-related brain pathology by investigating widely accepted resilience factors, including education and brain volume. Moreover, the approach is used to test hippocampal volume as potential resilience factor. Education and brain volume could be identified as general resilience factors against age and AD-related pathology. Beyond that, analyses highlighted that hippocampal volume may not only be disease target but also serve as a potential resilience factor in age and AD-related pathology, particularly at higher levels of tau-pathology (i.e. dynamic resilience factor). Given its unspecific and superordinate nature the approach is suitable for the investigation of a wide range of potential resilience factors in normal aging, AD and other neurodegenerative disorders. Consequently, it may find a wide application and thereby promote the comparability between studies.
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- Dominik Wolf
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Untere Zahlbacher Str. 8, 55131, Mainz, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Untere Zahlbacher Str. 8, 55131, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Mainz, Untere Zahlbacher Str. 8, 55131, Mainz, Germany
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Niemantsverdriet E, Ribbens A, Bastin C, Benoit F, Bergmans B, Bier JC, Bladt R, Claes L, De Deyn PP, Deryck O, Hanseeuw B, Ivanoiu A, Lemper JC, Mormont E, Picard G, Salmon E, Segers K, Sieben A, Smeets D, Struyfs H, Thiery E, Tournoy J, Triau E, Vanbinst AM, Versijpt J, Bjerke M, Engelborghs S. A Retrospective Belgian Multi-Center MRI Biomarker Study in Alzheimer's Disease (REMEMBER). J Alzheimers Dis 2019; 63:1509-1522. [PMID: 29782314 PMCID: PMC6004934 DOI: 10.3233/jad-171140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition/processing techniques assess brain volumes to explore neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Objective: We examined the clinical utility of MSmetrix and investigated if automated MRI volumes could discriminate between groups covering the AD continuum and could be used as a predictor for clinical progression. Methods: The Belgian Dementia Council initiated a retrospective, multi-center study and analyzed whole brain (WB), grey matter (GM), white matter (WM), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), cortical GM (CGM) volumes, and WM hyperintensities (WMH) using MSmetrix in the AD continuum. Baseline (n = 887) and follow-up (FU, n = 95) T1-weighted brain MRIs and time-linked neuropsychological data were available. Results: The cohort consisted of cognitively healthy controls (HC, n = 93), subjective cognitive decline (n = 102), mild cognitive impairment (MCI, n = 379), and AD dementia (n = 313). Baseline WB and GM volumes could accurately discriminate between clinical diagnostic groups and were significantly decreased with increasing cognitive impairment. MCI patients had a significantly larger change in WB, GM, and CGM volumes based on two MRIs (n = 95) compared to HC (FU>24months, p = 0.020). Linear regression models showed that baseline atrophy of WB, GM, CGM, and increased CSF volumes predicted cognitive impairment. Conclusion: WB and GM volumes extracted by MSmetrix could be used to define the clinical spectrum of AD accurately and along with CGM, they are able to predict cognitive impairment based on (decline in) MMSE scores. Therefore, MSmetrix can support clinicians in their diagnostic decisions, is able to detect clinical disease progression, and is of help to stratify populations for clinical trials.
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- Ellis Niemantsverdriet
- Reference Center for Biological Markers of Dementia (BIODEM), Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behavior, Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- GIGA Cyclotron Research Centre in vivo Imaging, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Geriatrics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Brugmann, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology and Center for Cognitive Disorders, AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende AV, Brugge, Belgium
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- Department of Radiology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology and Memory Clinic, Hospital Network Antwerp (ZNA) Middelheim and Hoge Beuken, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology and Center for Cognitive Disorders, AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende AV, Brugge, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc and Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (Brussels), Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc and Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (Brussels), Belgium
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- Department of Geriatrics, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.,Silva medical Scheutbos, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean (Brussels), Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Namur, Université catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium.,Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Neuroscience (IoNS), Louvain-la-Neuve (Brussels), Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Clinique Saint-Pierre, Ottignies, Belgium
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- GIGA Cyclotron Research Centre in vivo Imaging, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.,Department of Neurology, Memory Clinic, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Brugmann, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Reference Center for Biological Markers of Dementia (BIODEM), Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behavior, Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Geriatric Medicine and Memory Clinic, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Radiology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Reference Center for Biological Markers of Dementia (BIODEM), Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behavior, Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Reference Center for Biological Markers of Dementia (BIODEM), Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behavior, Institute Born-Bunge, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.,Department of Neurology and Memory Clinic, Hospital Network Antwerp (ZNA) Middelheim and Hoge Beuken, Antwerp, Belgium
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Wang P, Liu Y, Shen D. Flexible Locally Weighted Penalized Regression With Applications on Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative's Clinical Scores. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING 2019; 38:1398-1408. [PMID: 30530315 PMCID: PMC7388691 DOI: 10.1109/tmi.2018.2884943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In recent years, we have witnessed the explosion of large-scale data in various fields. Classical statistical methodologies, such as linear regression or generalized linear regression, often show inadequate performance on heterogeneous data because the key homogeneity assumption fails. In this paper, we present a flexible framework to handle heterogeneous populations that can be naturally grouped into several ordered subtypes. A local model technique utilizing ordinal class labels during the training stage is proposed. We define a new "progression score" that captures the progression of ordinal classes, and use a truncated Gaussian kernel to construct the weight function in a local regression framework. Furthermore, given the weights, we apply sparse shrinkage on the local fitting to handle high dimensionality. In this way, our local model is able to conduct variable selection on each query point. Numerical studies show the superiority of our proposed method over several existing ones. Our method is also applied to the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative data to make predictions on the longitudinal clinical scores based on different modalities of baseline brain image features.
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- Peiyao Wang
- Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Bartos A, Gregus D, Ibrahim I, Tintěra J. Brain volumes and their ratios in Alzheimer´s disease on magnetic resonance imaging segmented using Freesurfer 6.0. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2019; 287:70-74. [PMID: 31003044 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2019.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2018] [Revised: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 01/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Ratios between opposing volumes from brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide additional information to volumes in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Brain three-dimensional MPRAGE MRI at 3T were segmented into 44 regions using FreeSurfer v6 in 75 participants. The region's size in absolute volumes and relative proportions to the whole brain volume were compared between 39 AD patients and 36 age-, education- and sex-matched normal controls (NC). Volumes of the most atrophied parts were related to the opposing volumes of the most enlarged parts as ratios. The most atrophic structures in AD were both hippocampi. By contrast, the greatest enlargements in AD were inferior parts of both lateral ventricles. The best ratio for each side was the hippocampo-horn proportion calculated as ratio: the hippocampus / (the hippocampus + inferior lateral ventricle). Its optimal cut-off of 74% yielded sensitivity of 74% and specificity of 78% on the left and sensitivity of 74% and specificity of 78% on the right. The hippocampo-horn proportion is another measure to evaluate the degree of hippocampal atrophy on brain MRI in percentages. It has a potential to be simplified into a comparison of two-dimensional corresponding areas or a visual assessment.
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- Ales Bartos
- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, Klecany 250 67, Czechia; Charles University, Third Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Královské Vinohrady, Department of Neurology, AD Center, Šrobárova 50, 100 34 Prague 10, Czechia.
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, Klecany 250 67, Czechia; Charles University, Third Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Královské Vinohrady, Department of Neurology, AD Center, Šrobárova 50, 100 34 Prague 10, Czechia
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- National Institute of Mental Health, Topolová 748, Klecany 250 67, Czechia; Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Czechia
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Carmichael O, Newton R. Brain MRI findings related to Alzheimer's disease in older African American adults. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2019; 165:3-23. [PMID: 31481168 DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2019.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Although a substantial body of research has identified brain MRI measures as important markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk, progression, and treatment response, most of that research has been performed in non-Hispanic white American populations, leading to questions about the utility of the brain MRI measures among individuals of other races or ethnicities. African American individuals in particular are under-represented in AD research, and may exhibit differences in prevalence of AD risk factors, prevalence of AD, incidence of AD, the clinical course of cognitive decline, and AD neuropathology, each of which could influence the utility of brain MRI markers. Unfortunately, while current evidence suggests that African Americans exhibit poorer brain health late in life based on brain MRI measurements, several other aspects of brain MRI markers in this population are unclear, including trajectories of brain MRI markers leading up to old age, relationships between traditional brain health risk factors and brain MRI findings, and the status of brain MRI markers as correlates of cognitive impairment. This unclear state of affairs highlights the urgency of future research in which large numbers of older African American adults contribute longitudinal brain MRI measurements concurrent with clinical, cognitive, and molecular biomarker measurements, ideally in the context of AD preventive or therapeutic trials.
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- Owen Carmichael
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, United States.
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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Zhu H, Shi F, Wang L, Hung SC, Chen MH, Wang S, Lin W, Shen D. Dilated Dense U-Net for Infant Hippocampus Subfield Segmentation. Front Neuroinform 2019; 13:30. [PMID: 31068797 PMCID: PMC6491864 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2019.00030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Accurate and automatic segmentation of infant hippocampal subfields from magnetic resonance (MR) images is an important step for studying memory related infant neurological diseases. However, existing hippocampal subfield segmentation methods were generally designed based on adult subjects, and would compromise performance when applied to infant subjects due to insufficient tissue contrast and fast changing structural patterns of early hippocampal development. In this paper, we propose a new fully convolutional network (FCN) for infant hippocampal subfield segmentation by embedding the dilated dense network in the U-net, namely DUnet. The embedded dilated dense network can generate multi-scale features while keeping high spatial resolution, which is useful in fusing the low-level features in the contracting path with the high-level features in the expanding path. To further improve the performance, we group every pair of convolutional layers with one residual connection in the DUnet, and obtain the Residual DUnet (ResDUnet). Experimental results show that our proposed DUnet and ResDUnet improve the average Dice coefficient by 2.1 and 2.5% for infant hippocampal subfield segmentation, respectively, when compared with the classic 3D U-net. The results also demonstrate that our methods outperform other state-of-the-art methods.
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- Hancan Zhu
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
- School of Mathematics Physics and Information, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, China
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- Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
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Dong Q, Zhang W, Wu J, Li B, Schron EH, McMahon T, Shi J, Gutman BA, Chen K, Baxter LC, Thompson PM, Reiman EM, Caselli RJ, Wang Y. Applying surface-based hippocampal morphometry to study APOE-E4 allele dose effects in cognitively unimpaired subjects. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2019; 22:101744. [PMID: 30852398 PMCID: PMC6411498 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2018] [Revised: 02/02/2019] [Accepted: 03/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Apolipoprotein E (APOE) e4 is the major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). The dose-dependent impact of this allele on hippocampal volumes has been documented, but its influence on general hippocampal morphology in cognitively unimpaired individuals is still elusive. Capitalizing on the study of a large number of cognitively unimpaired late middle aged and older adults with two, one and no APOE-e4 alleles, the current study aims to characterize the ability of our automated surface-based hippocampal morphometry algorithm to distinguish between these three levels of genetic risk for AD and demonstrate its superiority to a commonly used hippocampal volume measurement. We examined the APOE-e4 dose effect on cross-sectional hippocampal morphology analysis in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) database of 117 cognitively unimpaired subjects aged between 50 and 85 years (mean = 57.4, SD = 6.3), including 36 heterozygotes (e3/e4), 37 homozygotes (e4/e4) and 44 non-carriers (e3/e3). The proposed automated framework includes hippocampal surface segmentation and reconstruction, higher-order hippocampal surface correspondence computation, and hippocampal surface deformation analysis with multivariate statistics. In our experiments, the surface-based method identified APOE-e4 dose effects on the left hippocampal morphology. Compared to the widely-used hippocampal volume measure, our hippocampal morphometry statistics showed greater statistical power by distinguishing cognitively unimpaired subjects with two, one, and no APOE-e4 alleles. Our findings mirrored previous studies showing that APOE-e4 has a dose effect on the acceleration of brain structure deformities. The results indicated that the proposed surface-based hippocampal morphometry measure is a potential preclinical AD imaging biomarker for cognitively unimpaired individuals. Applied surface-based hippocampal morphometry on cognitively unimpaired subjects. Our study identified APOE-e4 dose effects on cognitively unimpaired subjects. Surface-based hippocampal morphometry outperformed the hippocampal volume measure. Surface-based hippocampal morphometry may be a potential preclinical AD biomarker.
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- Qunxi Dong
- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Armour College of Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Human Brain Imaging Laboratory, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
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Ardekani BA, Hadid SA, Blessing E, Bachman AH. Sexual Dimorphism and Hemispheric Asymmetry of Hippocampal Volumetric Integrity in Normal Aging and Alzheimer Disease. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2019; 40:276-282. [PMID: 30655257 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a5943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2018] [Accepted: 12/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Asymmetric atrophy of the hippocampus is an important clinical finding in normal aging and Alzheimer disease. In this study, we investigate the associations between the magnitude and asymmetry of hippocampal volumetric integrity and age, sex, and dementia severity. MATERIALS AND METHODS We have recently developed a rapid fully automatic algorithm to measure the hippocampal parenchymal fraction, an index of hippocampal volumetric integrity on structural MR imaging of the brain. We applied this algorithm to measure the hippocampal parenchymal fraction bilaterally on 775 MR imaging volumes scanned from 198 volunteers in a publicly available data base. All subjects were right-handed and older than 60 years of age. Subjects were categorized as cognitively healthy (n = 98), with mild cognitive impairment (n = 70), or with mild/moderate Alzheimer disease (n = 30). We used linear mixed-effects models to analyze the hippocampal parenchymal fraction and its asymmetry with respect to age, sex, dementia severity, and intracranial volume. RESULTS After controlling for age, sex, and intracranial volume, we found that the magnitude of the hippocampal parenchymal fraction decreased and its asymmetry increased significantly with dementia severity. Also, hippocampal parenchymal fraction asymmetry was significantly higher in men after controlling for all other variables, but there was no sex effect on hippocampal parenchymal fraction magnitude. The magnitude of the hippocampal parenchymal fraction decreased and its asymmetry increased significantly with age in subjects who were cognitively healthy, but associations with age were different in nature in the mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease groups. CONCLUSIONS Hippocampal atrophy progresses asymmetrically with age in cognitively healthy subjects. Hippocampal parenchymal fraction asymmetry is significantly higher in men than women and in mild cognitive impairment/Alzheimer disease relative to cognitively healthy individuals.
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- B A Ardekani
- From Center for Brain Imaging and Neuromodulation, The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (B.A.A., S.A.H., A.H.B.), Orangeburg, New York
- Department of Psychiatry (B.A.A., E.B.), New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- From Center for Brain Imaging and Neuromodulation, The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (B.A.A., S.A.H., A.H.B.), Orangeburg, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry (B.A.A., E.B.), New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
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- From Center for Brain Imaging and Neuromodulation, The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research (B.A.A., S.A.H., A.H.B.), Orangeburg, New York
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Lin SY, Lin CP, Hsieh TJ, Lin CF, Chen SH, Chao YP, Chen YS, Hsu CC, Kuo LW. Multiparametric graph theoretical analysis reveals altered structural and functional network topology in Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimage Clin 2019; 22:101680. [PMID: 30710870 PMCID: PMC6357901 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2018] [Revised: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 01/20/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD), an irreversible neurodegenerative disease, is the most common type of dementia in elderly people. This present study incorporated multiple structural and functional connectivity metrics into a graph theoretical analysis framework and investigated alterations in brain network topology in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD. By using this multiparametric analysis, we expected different connectivity metrics may reflect additional or complementary information regarding the topological changes in brain networks in MCI or AD. In our study, a total of 73 subjects participated in this study and underwent the magnetic resonance imaging scans. For the structural network, we compared commonly used connectivity metrics, including fractional anisotropy and normalized streamline count, with multiple diffusivity-based metrics. We compared Pearson correlation and covariance by investigating their sensitivities to functional network topology. Significant disruption of structural network topology in MCI and AD was found predominantly in regions within the limbic system, prefrontal and occipital regions, in addition to widespread alterations of local efficiency. At a global scale, our results showed that the disruption of the structural network was consistent across different edge definitions and global network metrics from the MCI to AD stages. Significant changes in connectivity and tract-specific diffusivity were also found in several limbic connections. Our findings suggest that tract-specific metrics (e.g., fractional anisotropy and diffusivity) provide more sensitive and interpretable measurements than does metrics based on streamline count. Besides, the use of inversed radial diffusivity provided additional information for understanding alterations in network topology caused by AD progression and its possible origins. Use of this proposed multiparametric network analysis framework may facilitate early MCI diagnosis and AD prevention.
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- Shih-Yen Lin
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan; Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan; Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Tóth E, Faragó P, Király A, Szabó N, Veréb D, Kocsis K, Kincses B, Sandi D, Bencsik K, Vécsei L, Kincses ZT. The Contribution of Various MRI Parameters to Clinical and Cognitive Disability in Multiple Sclerosis. Front Neurol 2019; 9:1172. [PMID: 30728801 PMCID: PMC6351478 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.01172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Next to the disseminated clinical symptoms, cognitive dysfunctions are common features of multiple sclerosis (MS). Over the recent years several different MRI measures became available representing the various features of the pathology, but the contribution to various clinical and cognitive functions is not yet fully understood. In this multiparametric MRI study we set out to identify the set of parameters that best predict the clinical and cognitive disability in MS. High resolution T1 weighted structural and high angular resolution diffusion MRI images were measured in 53 patients with relapsing remitting MS and 53 healthy controls. Clinical disability was inflicted by EDSS and cognitive functions were evaluated with the BICAMS tests. The contribution of lesion load, partial brain, white matter, gray matter and subcortical volumes as well as the diffusion parameters in the area of the lesions and the normal appearing white matter were examined by model free, partial least square (PLS) approach. Significance of the predictors was tested with Variable Importance in the Projection (VIP) score and 1 was used for threshold of significance. The PLS analysis indicated that the axial diffusivity of the NAWM contributed the most to the clinical disability (VIP score: 1.979). For the visuo-spatial working memory the most critical contributor was the size of the bilateral hippocampi (VIP scores: 1.183 and 1.2 left and right respectively). For the verbal memory the best predictors were the size of the right hippocampus (VIP score: 1.972), lesion load (VIP score: 1.274) and the partial brain volume (VIP score: 1.119). In case of the information processing speed the most significant contribution was from the diffusion parameters (fractional anisotropy, mean and radial diffusivity, VIP scores: 1.615, 1.321 respectively) of the normal appearing white matter. Our results indicate that various MRI measurable factors of MS pathology contribute differently to clinical and cognitive disability. These results point out the importance of the volumetry of the subcortical structures and the diffusion measures of the white matter in understanding the disability progression.
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- Eszter Tóth
- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.,MTA-SZTE Neuroscience Research Group, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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- Department of Neurology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.,Department of Radiology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Centre, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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Shah P, Bassett DS, Wisse LEM, Detre JA, Stein JM, Yushkevich PA, Shinohara RT, Elliott MA, Das SR, Davis KA. Structural and functional asymmetry of medial temporal subregions in unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy: A 7T MRI study. Hum Brain Mapp 2019; 40:2390-2398. [PMID: 30666753 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2018] [Accepted: 01/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is a common neurological disorder affecting the hippocampus and surrounding medial temporal lobe (MTL). Although prior studies have analyzed whole-brain network distortions in TLE patients, the functional network architecture of the MTL at the subregion level has not been examined. In this study, we utilized high-resolution 7T T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and resting-state BOLD-fMRI to characterize volumetric asymmetry and functional network asymmetry of MTL subregions in unilateral medically refractory TLE patients and healthy controls. We subdivided the TLE group into mesial temporal sclerosis patients (TLE-MTS) and MRI-negative nonlesional patients (TLE-NL). Using an automated multi-atlas segmentation pipeline, we delineated 10 MTL subregions per hemisphere for each subject. We found significantly different patterns of volumetric asymmetry between the two groups, with TLE-MTS exhibiting volumetric asymmetry corresponding to decreased volumes ipsilaterally in all hippocampal subfields, and TLE-NL exhibiting no significant volumetric asymmetries other than a mild decrease in whole-hippocampal volume ipsilaterally. We also found significantly different patterns of functional network asymmetry in the CA1 subfield and whole hippocampus, with TLE-NL patients exhibiting asymmetry corresponding to increased connectivity ipsilaterally and TLE-MTS patients exhibiting asymmetry corresponding to decreased connectivity ipsilaterally. Our findings provide initial evidence that functional neuroimaging-based network properties within the MTL can distinguish between TLE subtypes. High-resolution MRI has potential to improve localization of underlying brain network disruptions in TLE patients who are candidates for surgical resection.
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- Preya Shah
- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Center for Functional Neuroimaging, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Penn Image Computing and Science Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Neuroimaging in dementia. Clinical–radiological correlation. RADIOLOGIA 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.rxeng.2018.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Humphreys KL, King LS, Sacchet MD, Camacho MC, Colich NL, Ordaz SJ, Ho TC, Gotlib IH. Evidence for a sensitive period in the effects of early life stress on hippocampal volume. Dev Sci 2018; 22:e12775. [PMID: 30471167 DOI: 10.1111/desc.12775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2017] [Revised: 10/28/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Exposure to stress has been causally linked to changes in hippocampal volume (HV). Given that the hippocampus undergoes rapid changes in the first years of life, stressful experiences during this period may be particularly important in understanding individual differences in the development of the hippocampus. One hundred seventy-eight early adolescents (ages 9-13 years; 43% male) were interviewed regarding exposure to and age of onset of experiences of stress; the severity of each stressful event was rated by an objective panel. All participants underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging, from which HVs were automatically segmented. Without considering the age of onset for stressful experiences, there was a small but statistically significant negative association of stress severity with bilateral HV. When considering the age of onset, there was a moderate and significant negative association between stress severity during early childhood (through 5 years of age) and HV; there was no association between stress severity during later childhood (age 6 years and older) and HV. We provide evidence of a sensitive period through 5 years of age for the effects of life stress on HV in adolescence. It will be important in future research to elucidate how reduced HV stemming from early life stress may contribute to stress-related health outcomes.
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Parker TD, Slattery CF, Yong KXX, Nicholas JM, Paterson RW, Foulkes AJM, Malone IB, Thomas DL, Cash DM, Crutch SJ, Fox NC, Schott JM. Differences in hippocampal subfield volume are seen in phenotypic variants of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimage Clin 2018; 21:101632. [PMID: 30558867 PMCID: PMC6411912 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.101632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2018] [Revised: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 12/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The most common presentation of early onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD - defined as symptom onset <65 years) is with progressive episodic memory impairment - amnestic or typical Alzheimer's disease (tAD). However, EOAD is notable for its phenotypic heterogeneity, with posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) - characterised by prominent higher-order visual processing deficits and relative sparing of episodic memory - the second most common canonical phenotype. The hippocampus, which comprises a number of interconnected anatomically and functionally distinct subfields, is centrally involved in Alzheimer's disease and is a crucial mediator of episodic memory. The extent to which volumes of individual hippocampal subfields differ between different phenotypes in EOAD is unclear. The aim of this analysis was to investigate the hypothesis that patients with a PCA phenotype will exhibit differences in specific hippocampal subfield volumes compared to tAD. We studied 63 participants with volumetric T1-weighted MRI performed on the same 3T scanner: 39 EOAD patients [27 with tAD and 12 with PCA] and 24 age-matched controls. Volumetric estimates of the following hippocampal subfields for each participant were obtained using Freesurfer version 6.0: CA1, CA2/3, CA4, presubiculum, subiculum, hippocampal tail, parasubiculum, the molecular and granule cell layers of the dentate gryus (GCMLDG), the molecular layer, and the hippocampal amygdala transition area (HATA). Linear regression analyses comparing mean hippocampal subfield volumes between groups, adjusting for age, sex and head size, were performed. Using a Bonferonni-corrected p-value of p < 0.0025, compared to controls, tAD was associated with atrophy in all hippocampal regions, except the parasubiculum. In PCA patients compared to controls, the strongest evidence for volume loss was in the left presubiclum, right subiculum, right GCMLDG, right molecular layer and the right HATA. Compared to PCA, patients with tAD had strong evidence for smaller volumes in left CA1 and left hippocampal tail. In conclusion, these data provide evidence that hippocampal subfield volumes differ in different phenotypes of EOAD.
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- Thomas D Parker
- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK.
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK; Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK
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- Neuroradiological Academic Unit, Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; Leonard Wolfson Experimental Neurology Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK
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McMaster M, Kim S, Clare L, Torres SJ, D'Este C, Anstey KJ. Body, Brain, Life for Cognitive Decline (BBL-CD): protocol for a multidomain dementia risk reduction randomized controlled trial for subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment. Clin Interv Aging 2018; 13:2397-2406. [PMID: 30538436 PMCID: PMC6254686 DOI: 10.2147/cia.s182046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Background With no cure for dementia and the number of people living with the condition predicted to rapidly rise, there is an urgent need for dementia risk reduction and prevention interventions. Modifiable lifestyle risk factors have been identified as playing a major role in the development of dementia; hence, interventions addressing these risk factors represent a significant opportunity to reduce the number of people developing dementia. Relatively few interventions have been trialed in older participants with cognitive decline (secondary prevention). Objectives This study evaluates the efficacy and feasibility of a multidomain lifestyle risk reduction intervention for people with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Methods This study is an 8-week, two-arm, single-blind, randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a lifestyle modification program to reduce dementia risk. The active control group receives the following four online educational modules: dementia literacy and lifestyle risk, Mediterranean diet (MeDi), cognitive engagement and physical activity. The intervention group also completes the same educational modules but receives additional practical components including sessions with a dietitian, online brain training and sessions with an exercise physiologist to assist with lifestyle modification. Results Primary outcome measures are cognition (The Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive-Plus [ADAS-Cog-Plus]) and a composite lifestyle risk factor score for Alzheimer’s disease (Australian National University – Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Index [ANU-ADRI]). Secondary outcome measures are motivation to change lifestyle (Motivation to Change Lifestyle and Health Behaviour for Dementia Risk Reduction [MCLHB-DRR]) and health-related quality of life (36-item Short Form Health Survey [SF-36]). Feasibility will be determined through adherence to diet (Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener [MEDAS] and Australian Recommended Food Score [ARFS]), cognitive engagement (BrainHQ-derived statistics) and physical activity interventions (physical activity calendars). Outcomes are measured at baseline, immediately post-intervention and at 3- and 6-month follow-up by researchers blind to group allocation. Discussion If successful and feasible, secondary prevention lifestyle interventions could provide a targeted, cost-effective way to reduce the number of people with cognitive decline going on to develop Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias.
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- Mitchell McMaster
- Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia,
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- Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia,
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- Centre for Research in Ageing and Cognitive Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, .,Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia.,School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Akbaraly T, Sexton C, Zsoldos E, Mahmood A, Filippini N, Kerleau C, Verdier JM, Virtanen M, Gabelle A, Ebmeier KP, Kivimaki M. Association of Long-Term Diet Quality with Hippocampal Volume: Longitudinal Cohort Study. Am J Med 2018; 131:1372-1381.e4. [PMID: 30056104 PMCID: PMC6237674 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Revised: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Diet quality is associated with brain aging outcomes. However, few studies have explored in humans the brain structures potentially affected by long-term diet quality. We examined whether cumulative average of the Alternative Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI-2010) score during adult life (an 11-year exposure period) is associated with hippocampal volume. METHODS Analyses were based on data from 459 participants of the Whitehall II imaging sub-study (mean age [standard deviation] (SD) = 59.6 [5.3] years in 2002-2004, 19.2% women). Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging examination was performed at the end of follow-up (2015-2016). Structural images were acquired using a high-resolution 3-dimensional T1-weighted sequence and processed with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain Software Library (FSL) tools. An automated model-based segmentation and registration tool was applied to extract hippocampal volumes. RESULTS Higher AHEI-2010 cumulative average score (reflecting long-term healthy diet quality) was associated with a larger total hippocampal volume. For each 1 SD (SD = 8.7 points) increment in AHEI-2010 score, an increase of 92.5 mm3 (standard error = 42.0 mm3) in total hippocampal volume was observed. This association was independent of sociodemographic factors, smoking habits, physical activity, cardiometabolic health factors, cognitive impairment, and depressive symptoms, and was more pronounced in the left hippocampus than in the right hippocampus. Of the AHEI-2010 components, no or light alcohol consumption was independently associated with larger hippocampal volume. CONCLUSIONS Higher long-term AHEI-2010 scores were associated with larger hippocampal volume. Accounting for the importance of hippocampal structures in several neuropsychiatric diseases, our findings reaffirm the need to consider adherence to healthy dietary recommendation in multi-interventional programs to promote healthy brain aging.
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- Tasnime Akbaraly
- MMDN, University of Montpellier, EPHE, INSERM U1198, PSL Research University, Montpellier, France; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK; Department of Psychiatry & Autism Resources Centre, Hospital and University Research Center of Montpellier, France.
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- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK
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- Neurobiology of Ageing Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
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- Neurobiology of Ageing Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
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- Neurobiology of Ageing Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
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- MMDN, University of Montpellier, EPHE, INSERM U1198, PSL Research University, Montpellier, France
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- MMDN, University of Montpellier, EPHE, INSERM U1198, PSL Research University, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden
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- Memory Resources and Research Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, Department of Neurology, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier, University of Montpellier, INSERM U1183, France
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- Neurobiology of Ageing Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
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Álvarez-Linera Prado J, Jiménez-Huete A. Neuroimaging in dementia. Clinical-radiological correlation. RADIOLOGIA 2018; 61:66-81. [PMID: 30482502 DOI: 10.1016/j.rx.2018.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2017] [Revised: 07/19/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Dementia is a syndrome characterised by chronic, multi-domain, acquired cognitive impairment that causes significant functional limitations. MRI is the standard imaging study for these cases, since it enables detection of the atrophy patterns of the various neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal degeneration, Lewy body dementia), the vascular lesions associated with vascular dementia, and various potentially reversible diseases (for example, tumours, hydrocephaly) or diseases that require special management measures (for example, prion diseases). In certain cases other imaging methods can be used, such as CT, functional MRI, HMPAO SPECT or dopaminergic markers and FDG PET, amyloid markers or dopaminergic markers. The indications for these methods have not yet been clearly established, and therefore should be used in multidisciplinary dementia units.
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- Departamento de Neurología, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid, España
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Uribe C, Segura B, Baggio HC, Campabadal A, Abos A, Compta Y, Marti MJ, Valldeoriola F, Bargallo N, Junque C. Differential Progression of Regional Hippocampal Atrophy in Aging and Parkinson's Disease. Front Aging Neurosci 2018; 10:325. [PMID: 30364338 PMCID: PMC6193198 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2018.00325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2018] [Accepted: 09/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Hippocampal subfields have different vulnerability to the degenerative processes related to aging, amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but the temporal evolution in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is unknown. The purposes of the current work are to describe regional hippocampal changes over time in a sample of PD patients classified according to their baseline cognitive status and to relate these changes to verbal memory loss. T1-weighted images and verbal memory assessment were obtained at two separate time points (3.8 ± 0.4 years apart) from 28 PD with normal cognition (PD-NC), 16 PD with MCI (PD-MCI) and 21 healthy controls (HCs). FreeSurfer 6.0 automated pipeline was used to segment the hippocampus into 12 bilateral subregions. Memory functions were measured with Rey’s Auditory Verbal learning test (RAVLT). We found significant reductions in cornu ammonis 1 (CA1) over time in controls as well as in PD subgroups. Right whole-hippocampal volumes showed time effects in both PD groups but not in controls. PD-NC patients also displayed time effects in the left hippocampal tail and right parasubiculum. Regression analyses showed that specific hippocampal subfield volumes at time 1 predicted almost 60% of the variability in RAVLT delayed-recall score decline. Changes in several hippocampal subregions also showed predictive value for memory loss. In conclusion, CA1 changes in PD were similar to those that occur in normal aging, but PD patients also had more decline in both anterior and posterior hippocampal segments with a more pronounced atrophy of the right hemisphere. Hippocampal segments are better predictors of changes in memory performance than whole-hippocampal volumes.
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- Carme Uribe
- Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Medicine, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Medicine, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Medicine, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Medicine, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Medicine, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Unit, Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centre de Diagnòstic per la Imatge, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Psychology Unit, Department of Medicine, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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Navigating Genetic Influences on the Topography of Alzheimer's Disease. Biol Psychiatry 2018; 84:476-477. [PMID: 30176991 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2018] [Revised: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Aslaksen PM, Bystad MK, Ørbo MC, Vangberg TR. The relation of hippocampal subfield volumes to verbal episodic memory measured by the California Verbal Learning Test II in healthy adults. Behav Brain Res 2018; 351:131-137. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Feng F, Wang P, Zhao K, Zhou B, Yao H, Meng Q, Wang L, Zhang Z, Ding Y, Wang L, An N, Zhang X, Liu Y. Radiomic Features of Hippocampal Subregions in Alzheimer's Disease and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. Front Aging Neurosci 2018; 10:290. [PMID: 30319396 PMCID: PMC6167420 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2018.00290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Accepted: 09/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by progressive dementia, especially in episodic memory, and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is associated with a high risk of developing AD. Hippocampal atrophy/shape changes are believed to be the most robust magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers for AD and aMCI. Radiomics, a method of texture analysis, can quantitatively examine a large set of features and has previously been successfully applied to evaluate imaging biomarkers for AD. To test whether radiomic features in the hippocampus can be employed for early classification of AD and aMCI, 1692 features from the caudal and head parts of the bilateral hippocampus were extracted from 38 AD patients, 33 aMCI patients and 45 normal controls (NCs). One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that 111 features exhibited statistically significant group differences (P < 0.01, Bonferroni corrected). Among these features, 98 were significantly correlated with Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores in AD and aMCI subjects (P < 0.01). The support vector machine (SVM) model demonstrated that radiomic features allowed us to distinguish AD from NC with an accuracy of 86.75% (specificity = 88.89% and sensitivity = 84.21%) and an area under curve (AUC) of 0.93. In conclusion, these findings provide evidence showing that radiomic features are beneficial in detecting early cognitive decline, and SVM classification analysis provides encouraging evidence for using hippocampal radiomic features as a potential biomarker for clinical applications in AD.
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- Feng Feng
- Department of Neurology, Nanlou Division, Chinese PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China
- Department of Neurology, The General Hospital of the PLA Rocket Force, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanlou Division, Chinese PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China
- Department of Neurology, Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, Tianjin, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanlou Division, Chinese PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanlou Division, Chinese PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, The General Hospital of the PLA Rocket Force, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanlou Division, Chinese PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China
- Hainan Branch of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Sanya, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanlou Division, Chinese PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Nanlou Division, Chinese PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Brainnetome Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
- National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Al-Amin M, Bradford D, Sullivan RKP, Kurniawan ND, Moon Y, Han SH, Zalesky A, Burne THJ. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with reduced hippocampal volume and disrupted structural connectivity in patients with mild cognitive impairment. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 40:394-406. [PMID: 30251770 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Revised: 08/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Vitamin D deficiency may exacerbate adverse neurocognitive outcomes in the progression of diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and other dementias. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is prodromal for these neurocognitive disorders and neuroimaging studies suggest that, in the elderly, this cognitive impairment is associated with a reduction in hippocampal volume and white matter structural integrity. To test whether vitamin D is associated with neuroanatomical correlates of MCI, we analyzed an existing structural and diffusion MRI dataset of elderly patients with MCI. Based on serum 25-OHD levels, patients were categorized into serum 25-OHD deficient (<12 ng/mL, n = 27) or not-deficient (>12 ng/mL, n = 29). Freesurfer 6.0 was used to parcellate the whole brain into 164 structures and segment the hippocampal subfields. Whole-brain structural connectomes were generated using probabilistic tractography with MRtrix. The network-based statistic (NBS) was used to identify subnetworks of connections that significantly differed between the groups. We found a significant reduction in total hippocampal volume in the serum 25-OHD deficient group especially in the CA1, molecular layer, dentate gyrus, and fimbria. We observed a connection deficit in 13 regions with the right hippocampus at the center of the disrupted network. Our results demonstrate that low vitamin D is associated with reduced volumes of hippocampal subfields and connection deficits in elderly people with MCI, which may exacerbate neurocognitive outcomes. Longitudinal studies are now required to determine if vitamin D can serve as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease and if intervention can prevent the progression from MCI to major cognitive disorders.
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- Mamun Al-Amin
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.,Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Neurology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre and Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.,Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Wacol, Australia
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Invitto S, Piraino G, Ciccarese V, Carmillo L, Caggiula M, Trianni G, Nicolardi G, Di Nuovo S, Balconi M. Potential Role of OERP as Early Marker of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Front Aging Neurosci 2018; 10:272. [PMID: 30271339 PMCID: PMC6146232 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2018.00272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2018] [Accepted: 08/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Olfactory impairment is present in up to 90% of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is present in certain cases of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a transient phase between normal aging and dementia. Subjects affected by MCI have a higher risk of developing dementia compared to the general population, and studies have found that olfactory deficits could be an indicator of whether such a conversion might happen. Following these assumptions, aim of this study was to investigate olfactory perception in MCI patients. We recruited 12 MCI subjects (mean age 70 ± 6.7 years) through the Alzheimer Assessment Unit (UVA Unite) of ASL Lecce (Italy), and 12 healthy geriatric volunteers (HS) as the control group (mean age 64 ± 6.0 years), all of whom were first evaluated via a panel of neuropsychological tests. Subjects were asked to perform an olfactory recognition task involving two scents: rose and eucalyptus, administrated in the context of an oddball task during EEG recordings. Olfactory event-related potential (OERP) components N1 and Late Positive Potential (LPC) were then analyzed as measures of the sensorial and perceptive aspects of the olfactory response, respectively. It was determined that, in the MCI group, both the N1 and LPC components were significantly different compared to those of the HS group during the execution of the oddball task. In particular, the N1 amplitude, was reduced, while the LPC amplitude was increased, indicating that a degree of perceptive compensation can occur when sensorial function is impaired. Further, a correlation analysis, involving OERP components and neuropsychological battery scores, indicated that impairment of olfactory perception may share common pathways with impairments of the spatial system and long-term memory processing.
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- Sara Invitto
- Human Anatomy and Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
- Microelectronics and Microsystems, Unite of National Research Council, Lecce, Italy
- Laboratory of InterDisciplinary Research Applied to Medicine, Lecce, Italy
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- Laboratory of InterDisciplinary Research Applied to Medicine, Lecce, Italy
- Istituto Santa Chiara, Lecce, Italy
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- Laboratory of InterDisciplinary Research Applied to Medicine, Lecce, Italy
- Neurology Unite, Vito Fazzi Hospital, Lecce, Italy
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- Human Anatomy and Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
- Laboratory of InterDisciplinary Research Applied to Medicine, Lecce, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
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Intrauterine growth restriction and development of the hippocampus: implications for learning and memory in children and adolescents. THE LANCET CHILD & ADOLESCENT HEALTH 2018; 2:755-764. [PMID: 30236384 DOI: 10.1016/s2352-4642(18)30245-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2018] [Revised: 07/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is often the result of compromised placental function and suboptimal uteroplacental blood flow. Children born with IUGR have impaired cognitive functioning and specific memory deficits, indicating long-lasting impairments in hippocampal functioning; indeed, hippocampal volume is reduced in infants with IUGR. Animal studies have provided valuable insight into the nature of deficits in hippocampal-dependent functions observed in children born with IUGR; outcomes of experimental IUGR reveal reduced neuron numbers and morphological alterations in the cornu ammonis fields 1 and 3 and dentate gyrus subregions of the hippocampus. However, whether such early and ongoing structural changes in the hippocampus could account for deficits in spatial memory reported in adolescent rats with IUGR is yet to be established. Understanding the association between hippocampal structural and functional alterations in IUGR will aid in the development of interventions to minimise the effect of IUGR on the hippocampus and long-term cognitive outcomes.
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Sarica A, Vasta R, Novellino F, Vaccaro MG, Cerasa A, Quattrone A. MRI Asymmetry Index of Hippocampal Subfields Increases Through the Continuum From the Mild Cognitive Impairment to the Alzheimer's Disease. Front Neurosci 2018; 12:576. [PMID: 30186103 PMCID: PMC6111896 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Objective: It is well-known that the hippocampus presents significant asymmetry in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and that difference in volumes between left and right exists and varies with disease progression. However, few works investigated whether the asymmetry degree of subfields of hippocampus changes through the continuum from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) to AD. Thus, aim of the present work was to evaluate the Asymmetry Index (AI) of hippocampal substructures as possible MRI biomarkers of Dementia. Moreover, we aimed to assess whether the subfields presented peculiar differences between left and right hemispheres. We also investigated the relationship between the asymmetry magnitude in hippocampal subfields and the decline of verbal memory as assessed by Rey's auditory verbal learning test (RAVLT). Methods: Four-hundred subjects were selected from ADNI, equally divided into healthy controls (HC), AD, stable MCI (sMCI), and progressive MCI (pMCI). The structural baseline T1s were processed with FreeSurfer 6.0 and volumes of whole hippocampus (WH) and 12 subfields were extracted. The AI was calculated as: (|Left-Right|/(Left+Right))*100. ANCOVA was used for evaluating AI differences between diagnoses, while paired t-test was applied for assessing changes between left and right volumes, separately for each group. Partial correlation was performed for exploring relationship between RAVLT summary scores (Immediate, Learning, Forgetting, Percent Forgetting) and hippocampal substructures AI. The statistical threshold was Bonferroni corrected p < 0.05/13 = 0.0038. Results: We found a general trend of increased degree of asymmetry with increasing severity of diagnosis. Indeed, AD presented the higher magnitude of asymmetry compared with HC, sMCI and pMCI, in the WH (AI mean 5.13 ± 4.29 SD) and in each of its twelve subfields. Moreover, we found in AD a significant negative correlation (r = -0.33, p = 0.00065) between the AI of parasubiculum (mean 12.70 ± 9.59 SD) and the RAVLT Learning score (mean 1.70 ± 1.62 SD). Conclusions: Our findings showed that hippocampal subfields AI varies differently among the four groups HC, sMCI, pMCI, and AD. Moreover, we found-for the first time-that hippocampal substructures had different sub-patterns of lateralization compared with the whole hippocampus. Importantly, the severity in learning rate was correlated with pathological high degree of asymmetry in parasubiculum of AD patients.
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- Alessia Sarica
- Neuroscience Centre, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Neuroscience Centre, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Neuroimaging Research Unit, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Neuroimaging Research Unit, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council, Catanzaro, Italy
- S. Anna Institute and Research in Advanced Neurorehabilitation, Crotone, Italy
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- Neuroscience Centre, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy
- Neuroimaging Research Unit, Institute of Molecular Bioimaging and Physiology, National Research Council, Catanzaro, Italy
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Weise CM, Chen K, Chen Y, Kuang X, Savage CR, Reiman EM. Left lateralized cerebral glucose metabolism declines in amyloid-β positive persons with mild cognitive impairment. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2018; 20:286-296. [PMID: 30101060 PMCID: PMC6084012 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Revised: 07/10/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Background Previous publications indicate that Alzheimer's Disease (AD) related cortical atrophy may develop in asymmetric patterns, with accentuation of the left hemisphere. Since fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) measurements of the regional cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (rCMRgl) provide a sensitive and specific marker of neurodegenerative disease progression, we sought to investigate the longitudinal pattern of rCMRgl in amyloid-positive persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia, hypothesizing asymmetric declines of cerebral glucose metabolism. Methods Using florbetapir PET and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) measures to define amyloid-β (Aβ) positivity, 40 Aβ negative (Aβ-) cognitively unimpaired controls (CU; 76 ± 5y), 76 Aβ positive (Aβ+) persons with MCI (76 ± 7y) and 51 Aβ + persons with probable AD dementia (75 ± 7y) from the AD Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) were included in this study with baseline and 2-year follow-up FDG PET scans. The degree of lateralization of longitudinal rCMRgl declines in subjects with Aβ + MCI and AD in comparison with Aβ- CU were statistically quantified via bootstrapped lateralization indices [(LI); range − 1 (right) to 1 (left)]. Results Compared to Aβ- CU, Aβ + MCI patients showed marked left hemispheric lateralization (LI: 0.78). In contrast, modest right hemispheric lateralization (LI: −0.33) of rCMRgl declines was found in Aβ + persons with probable AD dementia. Additional comparisons of Aβ + groups (i.e. MCI and probable AD dementia) consequently indicated right hemispheric lateralization (LI: −0.79) of stronger rCMRgl declines in dementia stages of AD. For all comparisons, voxel-based analyses confirmed significant (pFWE<0.05) declines of rCMRgl within AD-typical brain regions. Analyses of cognitive data yielded predominant decline of memory functions in both MCI and dementia stages of AD. Conclusions These data indicate that in early stages, AD may be characterized by a more lateralized pattern of left hemispheric rCMRgl declines. However, metabolic differences between hemispheres appear to diminish with further progression of the disease. Lateralized cerebral glucose metabolism declines in Alzheimer's Disease. Early stages show strong left-hemispheric lateralization. Advanced stages show weak right-hemispheric lateralization.
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- Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Banner Alzheimer's Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA; School of Mathematics and Statistics (KC), Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center (EMR), Arizona State University, USA; Department of Neurology, College of Medicine - Phoenix (KC), Department of Psychiatry (EMR), University of Arizona, USA; Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Banner-Arizona State University, Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center, BioDesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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Lane EM, Hohman TJ, Jefferson AL. Insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2 interactions with Alzheimer's disease biomarkers. Brain Imaging Behav 2018; 11:1779-1786. [PMID: 27817134 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-016-9636-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Plasma levels of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2 (IGFBP-2) have been associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and brain atrophy. Some evidence suggests a potential synergistic effect of IGFBP-2 and AD neuropathology on neurodegeneration, while other evidence suggests the effect of IGFBP-2 on neurodegeneration is independent of AD neuropathology. Therefore, the current study investigated the interaction between plasma IGFBP-2 and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers of AD neuropathology on hippocampal volume and cognitive function. AD Neuroimaging Initiative data were accessed (n = 354, 75 ± 7 years, 38 % female), including plasma IGFBP-2, CSF total tau, CSF Aβ-42, MRI-quantified hippocampal volume, and neuropsychological performances. Mixed effects regression models evaluated the interaction between IGFBP-2 and AD biomarkers on hippocampal volume and neuropsychological performance, adjusting for age, sex, education, APOE ε4 status, and cognitive diagnosis. A baseline interaction between IGFBP-2 and CSF Aβ-42 was observed in relation to left (t(305) = -6.37, p = 0.002) and right hippocampal volume (t(305) = -7.74, p = 0.001). In both cases, higher IGFBP-2 levels were associated with smaller hippocampal volumes but only among amyloid negative individuals. The observed interaction suggests IGFBP-2 drives neurodegeneration through a separate pathway independent of AD neuropathology.
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- Elizabeth M Lane
- Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1207 17th Avenue South, Suite 204, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA
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- Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1207 17th Avenue South, Suite 204, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA
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- Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1207 17th Avenue South, Suite 204, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA.
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Fraser MA, Shaw ME, Anstey KJ, Cherbuin N. Longitudinal Assessment of Hippocampal Atrophy in Midlife and Early Old Age: Contrasting Manual Tracing and Semi-automated Segmentation (FreeSurfer). Brain Topogr 2018; 31:949-962. [PMID: 29974288 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-018-0659-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2018] [Accepted: 06/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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It is important to have accurate estimates of normal age-related brain structure changes and to understand how the choice of measurement technique may bias those estimates. We compared longitudinal change in hippocampal volume, laterality and atrophy measured by manual tracing and FreeSurfer (version 5.3) in middle age (n = 244, 47.2[1.4] years) and older age (n = 199, 67.0[1.4] years) individuals over 8 years. The proportion of overlap (Dice coefficient) between the segmented hippocampi was calculated and we hypothesised that the proportion of overlap would be higher for older individuals as a consequence of higher atrophy. Hippocampal volumes produced by FreeSurfer were larger than manually traced volumes. Both methods produced a left less than right volume laterality difference. Over time this laterality difference increased for manual tracing and decreased for FreeSurfer leading to laterality differences in left and right estimated atrophy rates. The overlap proportion between methods was not significantly different for older individuals, but was greater for the right hippocampus. Estimated middle age annualised atrophy rates were - 0.39(1.0) left, 0.07(1.01) right, - 0.17(0.88) total for manual tracing and - 0.15(0.69) left, - 0.20(0.63) right, - 0.18(0.57) total for FreeSurfer. Older age atrophy rates were - 0.43(1.32) left, - 0.15(1.41) right, - 0.30 (1.23) total for manual tracing and - 0.34(0.79) left, - 0.68(0.78) right, - 0.51(0.65) total for FreeSurfer. FreeSurfer reliably segments the hippocampus producing atrophy rates that are comparable to manual tracing with some biases that need to be considered in study design. FreeSurfer is suited for use in large longitudinal studies where it is not cost effective to use manual tracing.
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- Mark A Fraser
- Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Australian National University, Florey, Building 54, Mills Road, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
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- College of Engineering & Computer Science, Australian National University, Brian Anderson Building 115, 115 North Road, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Australian National University, Florey, Building 54, Mills Road, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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- Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing, Australian National University, Florey, Building 54, Mills Road, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
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Velichkovsky BM, Krotkova OA, Kotov AA, Orlov VA, Verkhlyutov VM, Ushakov VL, Sharaev MG. Consciousness in a multilevel architecture: Evidence from the right side of the brain. Conscious Cogn 2018; 64:227-239. [PMID: 29903632 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Revised: 06/02/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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By taking into account Bruce Bridgeman's interest in an evolutionary framing of human cognition, we examine effective (cause-and-effect) connectivity among cortical structures related to different parts of the triune phylogenetic stratification: archicortex, paleocortex and neocortex. Using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 25 healthy subjects and spectral Dynamic Causal Modeling, we report interactions among 10 symmetrical left and right brain areas. Our results testify to general rightward and top-down biases in excitatory interactions of these structures during resting state, when self-related contemplation prevails over more objectified conceptual thinking. The right hippocampus is the only structure that shows bottom-up excitatory influences extending to the frontopolar cortex. The right ventrolateral cortex also plays a prominent role as it interacts with the majority of nodes within and between evolutionary distinct brain subdivisions. These results suggest the existence of several levels of cognitive-affective organization in the human brain and their profound lateralization.
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- Boris M Velichkovsky
- National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia; M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia; Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia; Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany.
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- National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia; Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of the Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the RAS, Moscow, Russia
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- National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", Moscow, Russia; National Nuclear Research University "MEPhI", Moscow, Russia
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Moscow Region, Russia
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