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St-Onge F, Chapleau M, Breitner JCS, Villeneuve S, Pichet Binette A. Tau accumulation and its spatial progression across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum. Brain Commun 2024; 6:fcae031. [PMID: 38410618 PMCID: PMC10896475 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
Abstract
The accumulation of tau abnormality in sporadic Alzheimer's disease is believed typically to follow neuropathologically defined Braak staging. Recent in-vivo PET evidence challenges this belief, however, as accumulation patterns for tau appear heterogeneous among individuals with varying clinical expressions of Alzheimer's disease. We, therefore, sought a better understanding of the spatial distribution of tau in the preclinical and clinical phases of sporadic Alzheimer's disease and its association with cognitive decline. Longitudinal tau-PET data (1370 scans) from 832 participants (463 cognitively unimpaired, 277 with mild cognitive impairment and 92 with Alzheimer's disease dementia) were obtained from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Among these, we defined thresholds of abnormal tau deposition in 70 brain regions from the Desikan atlas, and for each group of regions characteristic of Braak staging. We summed each scan's number of regions with abnormal tau deposition to form a spatial extent index. We then examined patterns of tau pathology cross-sectionally and longitudinally and assessed their heterogeneity. Finally, we compared our spatial extent index of tau uptake with a temporal meta-region of interest-a commonly used proxy of tau burden-assessing their association with cognitive scores and clinical progression. More than 80% of amyloid-beta positive participants across diagnostic groups followed typical Braak staging, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Within each Braak stage, however, the pattern of abnormality demonstrated significant heterogeneity such that the overlap of abnormal regions across participants averaged less than 50%, particularly in persons with mild cognitive impairment. Accumulation of tau progressed more rapidly among cognitively unimpaired and participants with mild cognitive impairment (1.2 newly abnormal regions per year) compared to participants with Alzheimer's disease dementia (less than 1 newly abnormal region per year). Comparing the association of tau pathology and cognitive performance our spatial extent index was superior to the temporal meta-region of interest for identifying associations with memory in cognitively unimpaired individuals and explained more variance for measures of executive function in patients with mild cognitive impairments and Alzheimer's disease dementia. Thus, while participants broadly followed Braak stages, significant individual regional heterogeneity of tau binding was observed at each clinical stage. Progression of the spatial extent of tau pathology appears to be fastest in cognitively unimpaired and persons with mild cognitive impairment. Exploring the spatial distribution of tau deposits throughout the entire brain may uncover further pathological variations and their correlation with cognitive impairments.
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Affiliation(s)
- Frédéric St-Onge
- Integrated Program in Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
- Research Center of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, QC H4H 1R3, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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- Research Center of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, QC H4H 1R3, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1Y2, Canada
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- Research Center of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, QC H4H 1R3, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 1Y2, Canada
- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Clinical Memory Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Malmö 205 02, Sweden
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Liu H, Ma Z, Wei L, Chen Z, Peng Y, Jiao Z, Bai H, Jing B. A radiomics-based brain network in T1 images: construction, attributes, and applications. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae016. [PMID: 38300184 PMCID: PMC10839838 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2023] [Revised: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
Abstract
T1 image is a widely collected imaging sequence in various neuroimaging datasets, but it is rarely used to construct an individual-level brain network. In this study, a novel individualized radiomics-based structural similarity network was proposed from T1 images. In detail, it used voxel-based morphometry to obtain the preprocessed gray matter images, and radiomic features were then extracted on each region of interest in Brainnetome atlas, and an individualized radiomics-based structural similarity network was finally built using the correlational values of radiomic features between any pair of regions of interest. After that, the network characteristics of individualized radiomics-based structural similarity network were assessed, including graph theory attributes, test-retest reliability, and individual identification ability (fingerprinting). At last, two representative applications for individualized radiomics-based structural similarity network, namely mild cognitive impairment subtype discrimination and fluid intelligence prediction, were exemplified and compared with some other networks on large open-source datasets. The results revealed that the individualized radiomics-based structural similarity network displays remarkable network characteristics and exhibits advantageous performances in mild cognitive impairment subtype discrimination and fluid intelligence prediction. In summary, the individualized radiomics-based structural similarity network provides a distinctive, reliable, and informative individualized structural brain network, which can be combined with other networks such as resting-state functional connectivity for various phenotypic and clinical applications.
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- Han Liu
- Department of Radiology, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, No. 56, Nanlishilu Road, Xicheng District, Beijing 100045, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, No. 10, Xitoutiao Youanmenwai, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China
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- Department of Radiology, Henan Cancer Hospital, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University, 127 Dongming Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, Henan 450008, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, No. 10, Xitoutiao Youanmenwai, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, No. 10, Xitoutiao Youanmenwai, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, Xinjiekouwai Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, No. 10, Xitoutiao Youanmenwai, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, No. 56, Nanlishilu Road, Xicheng District, Beijing 100045, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Brown University, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Fundamental Research on Biomechanics in Clinical Application, School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, No. 10, Xitoutiao Youanmenwai, Fengtai District, Beijing 100069, China
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Shida AF, Massett RJ, Imms P, Vegesna RV, Amgalan A, Irimia A. Significant Acceleration of Regional Brain Aging and Atrophy After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2023; 78:1328-1338. [PMID: 36879433 PMCID: PMC10395568 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glad079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2022] [Indexed: 03/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Brain regions' rates of age-related volumetric change after traumatic brain injury (TBI) are unknown. Here, we quantify these rates cross-sectionally in 113 persons with recent mild TBI (mTBI), whom we compare against 3 418 healthy controls (HCs). Regional gray matter (GM) volumes were extracted from magnetic resonance images. Linear regression yielded regional brain ages and the annualized average rates of regional GM volume loss. These results were compared across groups after accounting for sex and intracranial volume. In HCs, the steepest rates of volume loss were recorded in the nucleus accumbens, amygdala, and lateral orbital sulcus. In mTBI, approximately 80% of GM structures had significantly steeper rates of annual volume loss than in HCs. The largest group differences involved the short gyri of the insula and both the long gyrus and central sulcus of the insula. No significant sex differences were found in the mTBI group, regional brain ages being the oldest in prefrontal and temporal structures. Thus, mTBI involves significantly steeper regional GM loss rates than in HCs, reflecting older-than-expected regional brain ages.
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- Alexander F Shida
- Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Corwin D. Denney Research Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Department of Quantitative & Computational Biology, Dana and David Dornsife College of Arts & Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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