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Isernia S, Blasi V, Baglio G, Cabinio M, Cecconi P, Rossetto F, Cazzoli M, Blasi F, Bruckmann C, Giunco F, Sorbi S, Clerici M, Baglio F. The key role of depression and supramarginal gyrus in frailty: a cross-sectional study. Front Aging Neurosci 2023; 15:1292417. [PMID: 38020757 PMCID: PMC10665836 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1292417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/26/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Background The age-related decrease in reserve and resistance to stressors is recognized as frailty, one of the most significant challenges identified in recent years. Despite a well-acknowledged association of frailty with cognitive impairment, depression, and gray matter morphology, no clear data are available regarding the nature of this relationship. This cross-sectional study aims to disentangle the role of the behavioral, neuropsychological, and neural components as predictors or moderators of frailty. Methods Ninety-six older adults (mean age = 75.49 ± 6.62) were consecutively enrolled and underwent a clinical and MRI (3 T) evaluation to assess frailty, physical activity, global cognitive level, depression, wellbeing, autonomy in daily living, cortical thickness, and subcortical volumes. Results Results showed a full mediation of depression on the link between cortical thickness and frailty, while the cognitive level showed no significant mediating role. In particular, left supramarginal thickness had a predicting role on depression, that in turn impacted frailty occurrence. Finally, handgrip weakness was an early key indicator of frailty in this study's cohort. Conclusion These data substantiate the role of depression in mediating the link between neural integrity of the supramarginal gyrus and frailty. In the complexity of frailty, handgrip weakness seems to be an early key indicator. These results are relevant for the design of rehabilitation interventions aimed at reversing the frail condition.
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- Sara Isernia
- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
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- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
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- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
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- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
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- Fondazione Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Milan, Italy
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- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
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- IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, Milan, Italy
- Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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O' Dowd A, Hirst R, Setti A, Kenny R, Newell F. Longitudinal grip strength is associated with susceptibility to the Sound Induced Flash Illusion in older adults. AGING BRAIN 2023; 3:100076. [PMID: 37287584 PMCID: PMC10241972 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Revised: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/09/2023] Open
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The precision of temporal multisensory integration is associated with specific aspects of physical functioning in ageing, including gait speed and incidents of falling. However, it is unknown if such an association exists between multisensory integration and grip strength, an important index of frailty and brain health and predictor of disease and mortality in older adults. Here, we investigated whether temporal multisensory integration is associated with longitudinal (eight-year) grip strength trajectories in a large sample of 2,061 older adults (mean age = 64.42 years, SD = 7.20; 52% female) drawn from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Grip strength (kg) for the dominant hand was assessed with a hand-held dynamometer across four testing waves. Longitudinal k-means clustering was applied to these data separately for sex (male, female) and age group (50-64, 65-74, 75+ years). At wave 3, older adults participated in the Sound Induced Flash Illusion (SIFI), a measure of the precision of temporal audio-visual integration, which included three audio-visual stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs): 70, 150 and 230 ms. Results showed that older adults with a relatively lower (i.e., weaker) grip strength were more susceptible to the SIFI at the longer SOAs compared to those with a relatively higher (i.e., stronger) grip strength (p <.001). These novel findings suggest that older adults with relatively weaker grip strength exhibit an expanded temporal binding window for audio-visual events, possibly reflecting a reduction in the integrity of the central nervous system.
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- A. O' Dowd
- School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland
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- The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Mercer Institute for Successful Ageing, St James. Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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Zúñiga RG, Davis JRC, Boyle R, De Looze C, Meaney JF, Whelan R, Kenny RA, Knight SP, Ortuño RR. Brain connectivity in frailty: Insights from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Neurobiol Aging 2023; 124:1-10. [PMID: 36680853 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Revised: 12/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Frailty in older adults is associated with greater risk of cognitive decline. Brain connectivity insights could help understand the association, but studies are lacking. We applied connectome-based predictive modeling to a 32-item self-reported Frailty Index (FI) using resting state functional MRI data from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. A total of 347 participants were included (48.9% male, mean age 68.2 years). From connectome-based predictive modeling, we obtained 204 edges that positively correlated with the FI and composed the "frailty network" characterised by connectivity of the visual network (right); and 188 edges that negatively correlated with the FI and formed the "robustness network" characterized by connectivity in the basal ganglia. Both networks' highest degree node was the caudate but with different patterns: from caudate to visual network in the frailty network; and to default mode network in the robustness network. The FI was correlated with walking speed but not with metrics of global cognition, reinforcing the matching between the FI and the brain connectivity pattern found (main predicted connectivity in basal ganglia).
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- Raquel Gutiérrez Zúñiga
- Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
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- The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Discipline of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Discipline of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Centre for Advanced Medical Imaging (CAMI), St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Discipline of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA), St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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- Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Discipline of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Discipline of Medical Gerontology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA), St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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Wu L, Calhoun V. Joint connectivity matrix independent component analysis: Auto-linking of structural and functional connectivities. Hum Brain Mapp 2023; 44:1533-1547. [PMID: 36420833 PMCID: PMC9921228 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 09/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The study of human brain connectivity, including structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC), provides insights into the neurophysiological mechanism of brain function and its relationship to human behavior and cognition. Both types of connectivity measurements provide crucial yet complementary information. However, integrating these two modalities into a single framework remains a challenge, because of the differences in their quantitative interdependencies as well as their anatomical representations due to distinctive imaging mechanisms. In this study, we introduced a new method, joint connectivity matrix independent component analysis (cmICA), which provides a data-driven parcellation and automated-linking of SC and FC information simultaneously using a joint analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion-weighted MRI data. We showed that these two connectivity modalities produce common cortical segregation, though with various degrees of (dis)similarity. Moreover, we show conjoint FC networks and structural white matter tracts that directly link these cortical parcellations/sources, within one analysis. Overall, data-driven joint cmICA provides a new approach for integrating or fusing structural connectivity and FC systematically and conveniently, and provides an effective tool for connectivity-based multimodal data fusion in brain.
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- Lei Wu
- Tri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) Center, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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- Tri-Institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) Center, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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Depping MS, Köhler-Ipek L, Ullrich P, Hauer K, Wolf RC. [Late-life depression and frailty-Epidemiological, clinical and neurobiological associations]. DER NERVENARZT 2023; 94:234-239. [PMID: 36799956 PMCID: PMC9992046 DOI: 10.1007/s00115-023-01444-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Depression is the most common mental disorder in older adults and is influenced by age-related processes. Frailty is a well-established clinical expression of ageing that implies a state of increased vulnerability to stressor events as well as increased risks of disability, hospitalization and death. Neurobiological findings will disentangle the comorbidity of frailty and depression and may inform future management of depression in old age. OBJECTIVE This narrative review provides an overview of the comorbidity of late-life depression and frailty, with a focus on neuroscientific findings that are organized within the research domain criteria (RDoC) framework. RESULTS More than one third of old people with depression are affected by frailty, which results in more chronic depression and in poorer efficacy and tolerability of antidepressant medication. Depression and frailty share motivational and psychomotor characteristics, particularly apathy, decreased physical activity and fatigue. In patients with frailty, altered activity of the supplementary motor cortex is associated with motor performance deficits. Patients with late-life depression and apathy are characterized by abnormal structure and altered functional connectivity of the reward network and the salience network, along with altered functional connectivity of these networks with premotor brain areas. CONCLUSION Identifying frailty in older adults with depression is relevant for prognostic assessment and treatment. A better understanding of the neuronal mechanisms of comorbidity will provide potential targets for future personalized therapeutic interventions.
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- M S Depping
- Klinik für Allgemeine Psychiatrie, Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Voßstr. 4, 69115, Heidelberg, Deutschland.
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- Klinik für Allgemeine Psychiatrie, Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Voßstr. 4, 69115, Heidelberg, Deutschland
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- Geriatrisches Zentrum an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg, Agaplesion Bethanien Krankenhaus Heidelberg, Rohrbacher Str. 149, 69126, Heidelberg, Deutschland
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- Geriatrisches Zentrum an der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität Heidelberg, Agaplesion Bethanien Krankenhaus Heidelberg, Rohrbacher Str. 149, 69126, Heidelberg, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Allgemeine Psychiatrie, Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Voßstr. 4, 69115, Heidelberg, Deutschland
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Lammers-Lietz F, Zacharias N, Mörgeli R, Spies CD, Winterer G. Functional Connectivity of the Supplementary and Presupplementary Motor Areas in Postoperative Transition Between Stages of Frailty. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2022; 77:2464-2473. [PMID: 35040961 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glac012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Frailty is a multietiological geriatric syndrome of run-down physical reserves with high vulnerability to stressors. Transitions between physical robustness and frailty often occur in the context of medical interventions. Studies suggest that neurological disorders contribute to faster progression of frailty. In a previous cross-sectional study we found altered functional connectivity of supplementary motor area (SMA) in (pre)frail compared to robust patients. We analyzed functional connectivity of the SMA and presupplementary motor area (pre-SMA) in patients with postoperative transitions between physical robustness and stages of frailty. METHODS We investigated 120 cognitively healthy patients (49.2% robust, 47.5% prefrail, 3.3% frail, 37.5% female, median age 71 [65-87] years) undergoing elective surgery from the BioCog project, a multicentric prospective cohort study on postoperative delirium and cognitive dysfunction. Assessments took place 14 days before and 3 months after surgery, comprising assessments of a modified frailty phenotype according to Fried and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging at 3 T. The associations between functional connectivity of the SMA and pre-SMA networks, preoperative frailty stages, and postoperative transitions were examined using mixed linear effects models. RESULTS Nineteen patients showed physical improvement after surgery, 24 patients progressed to (pre)frailty and in 77 patients no transition was observed. At follow-up, 57 (47.5%) patients were robust, 52 (43.3%) prefrail, and 11 (9.2%) frail. Lower functional connectivity in the pre-SMA network was associated with more unfavorable postoperative transition types. An exploratory analysis suggested that the association was restricted to patients who were prefrail at baseline. There was no association of transition type with SMA functional connectivity in the primary analysis. In an exploratory analysis, transition from prefrailty to robustness was associated with higher functional connectivity and progression in robust patients was associated with higher SMA network segregation. CONCLUSIONS Our findings implicate that dysfunctions of cortical networks involved in higher cognitive control of motion are associated with postoperative transitions between frailty stages. The pre-SMA may be a target for neurofeedback or brain stimulation in approaches to prevent frailty. Clinical Trials Registration Number: NCT02265263.
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- Florian Lammers-Lietz
- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.,Pharmaimage Biomarker Solutions GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.,Pharmaimage Biomarker Solutions GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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Frailty and functional brain connectivity (FBC) in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI): baseline results from the SYNERGIC Trial. GeroScience 2022; 45:1033-1048. [PMID: 36539590 PMCID: PMC9767804 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-022-00702-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Functional brain connectivity (FBC), or areas that are anatomically separate but temporally synchronized in their activation, represent a sensitive biomarker for monitoring dementia progression. It is unclear whether frailty is associated with FBC in those at higher risk of progression to dementia (e.g., mild cognitive impairment -MCI-) and if sex plays a role. We used baseline data from the SYNERGIC trial, including participants with MCI that received brain MRI. In this cross-sectional analyses (n = 100), we measured frailty using a deficit accumulation frailty index. Using the CONN toolbox, we assessed FBC of networks and regions of interest across the entire connectome. We used Pearson's correlation to investigate the relationship between FBC and frailty index in the full sample and by sex. We also divided the full sample and each sex into tertiles based upon their frailty index score and then assessed between-tertile differences in FBC. The full sample (cluster: size = 291 p-FDR < 0.05) and males (cluster: size = 993 and 451 p-FDR < 0.01) demonstrated that increasing (stronger) connectivity between the right hippocampus and clusters in the temporal gyrus was positively correlated with increasing (worse) frailty. Males also demonstrated between-tertile differences in right hippocampus connectivity to clusters in the lateral occipital cortex (cluster: size = 289 p-FDR < 0.05). Regardless of frailty status, females demonstrated stronger within-network connectivity of the Default-Mode (p = 0.024). Our results suggest that increasing (worse) frailty was associated with increasing (stronger) connectivity between regions not typically linked, which may reflect a compensation tactic by the plastic brain. Furthermore, the relationship between the two variables appears to differ by sex. Our results may help elucidate why specific individuals progress to a dementia syndrome. NCT02808676. https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02808676.
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Siejka TP, Srikanth VK, Hubbard RE, Moran C, Beare R, Wood AG, Collyer TA, Gujjari S, Phan TG, Callisaya ML. Frailty is associated with cognitive decline independent of cerebral small vessel disease and brain atrophy. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2022; 77:1819-1826. [PMID: 35363862 PMCID: PMC9434440 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glac078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Background To examine the effect of frailty on cognitive decline independent of cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) and brain atrophy, and whether associations between neuropathology and cognition differed depending on frailty status. Methods The Tasmanian Study of Cognition and Gait was a population-based longitudinal cohort study with data collected at 3 phases from 2005 to 2012. Participants aged 60–85 were randomly selected from the electoral roll. Various data were used to operationalize a 36-item frailty index (FI) at baseline. Brain MRI was undertaken to obtain baseline measures of neuropathology. A neuropsychological battery was used to assess cognition at each time point. Generalized linear mixed models were used to examine the effect of frailty and MRI measures on cognition over time. The associations between MRI measures and cognition were explored after stratifying the sample by baseline frailty status. All analyses were adjusted for age, sex, and education. Results A total of 385 participants were included at baseline. The mean age was 72.5 years (standard deviation [SD] 7.0), 44% were female (n = 171). In fully adjusted linear mixed models, frailty (FI × time β −0.001, 95% confidence interval [CI] −0.003, −0.001, p = .03) was associated with decline in global cognition, independent of brain atrophy, and cSVD. The association between cSVD and global cognition was significant only in those with low levels of frailty (p = .03). Conclusion These findings suggest that frailty is an important factor in early cognitive dysfunction, and measuring frailty may prove useful to help identify future risk of cognitive decline.
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- Peninsula Clinical School, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Peninsula Clinical School, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Peninsula Clinical School, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Clinical Sciences, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Clinical Sciences, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,School of Life and Health Sciences & Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, United Kingdom.,School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Melbourne Burwood Campus, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Peninsula Clinical School, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Peninsula Clinical School, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Peninsula Clinical School, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Suárez-Méndez I, Walter S, López-Sanz D, Pasquín N, Bernabé R, Castillo Gallo E, Valdés M, Del Pozo F, Maestú F, Rodríguez-Mañas L. Ongoing Oscillatory Electrophysiological Alterations in Frail Older Adults: A MEG Study. Front Aging Neurosci 2021; 13:609043. [PMID: 33679373 PMCID: PMC7935553 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2021.609043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objective: The role of the central nervous system in the pathophysiology of frailty is controversial. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to search for abnormalities in the ongoing oscillatory neural activity of frail individuals without global cognitive impairment. Methods: Fifty four older (≥70 years) and cognitively healthy (Mini-Mental State Examination ≥24) participants were classified as robust (0 criterion, n = 34) or frail (≥ 3 criteria, n = 20) following Fried's phenotype. Memory, language, attention, and executive function were assessed through well-validated neuropsychological tests. Every participant underwent a resting-state MEG and a T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging scan. We performed MEG power spectral analyses to compare the electrophysiological profiles of frail and robust individuals. We used an ensemble learner to investigate the ability of MEG spectral power to discriminate frail from robust participants. Results: We identified increased relative power in the frail group in the mu (p < 0.05) and sensorimotor (p < 0.05) frequencies across right sensorimotor, posterior parietal, and frontal regions. The ensemble learner discriminated frail from robust participants [area under the curve = 0.73 (95% CI = 0.49–0.98)]. Frail individuals performed significantly worse in the Trail Making Test, Digit Span Test (forward), Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure, and Semantic Fluency Test. Interpretation: Frail individuals without global cognitive impairment showed ongoing oscillatory alterations within brain regions associated with aspects of motor control, jointly to failures in executive function. Our results suggest that some physical manifestations of frailty might partly arise from failures in central structures relevant to sensorimotor and executive processing.
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- Isabel Suárez-Méndez
- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Complutense University of Madrid - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain.,Department of Structure of Matter, Thermal Physics and Electronics, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain.,Department of Experimental Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain
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- Foundation for Biomedical Research, University Hospital of Getafe, Getafe, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERFES), Spain.,Department of Medicine and Public Health, Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Complutense University of Madrid - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain.,Department of Psychobiology and Methodology in Behavioral Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain
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- Foundation for Biomedical Research, University Hospital of Getafe, Getafe, Spain
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- Foundation for Biomedical Research, University Hospital of Getafe, Getafe, Spain
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- Foundation for Biomedical Research, University Hospital of Getafe, Getafe, Spain.,Geriatric Service, University Hospital of Getafe, Getafe, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Complutense University of Madrid - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Complutense University of Madrid - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain.,Department of Experimental Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Spain
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- Foundation for Biomedical Research, University Hospital of Getafe, Getafe, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERFES), Spain.,Geriatric Service, University Hospital of Getafe, Getafe, Spain
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