期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 20, 期 7, 页码 1685-1695出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp232
关键词
Alzheimer's disease; basal forebrain; cerebral aging; cholinergic system; mild cognitive impairment
资金
- European Union [043309]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [SAF2008-3300]
- Regional Ministry of Innovation, Science and Enterprise, Junta de Andalucia [CTS-4604]
- National Institute of Health [NS023945]
Neuropathological studies suggest that the basal forebrain cholinergic system (BFCS) is affected in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but there is no in vivo evidence of early damage to this system in subjects at high risk of developing AD. Here, we found that mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients exhibited significant volume reduction of the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NbM) using recently developed probabilistic maps of the BFCS space. In addition, volumes of different magnocellular compartments varied significantly with regional gray matter atrophy in regions known to be affected by AD and were found to correlate with cognitive decline in MCI patients. Bilateral reductions of the horizontal nucleus of the diagonal band of Broca (Ch3) and frontal lobe (medial frontal, orbital, subcallosal gyrus, anterior cingulate, and middle frontal gyrus) were significantly associated with a global decline in cognitive status, whereas volume reduction of the posterior compartment of Ch4 (NbM) and temporal lobe (including hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, and amygdala) were associated with impaired delayed recall in MCI patients. These findings establish, for the first time, a link between degeneration of specific cholinergic compartments of the BFCS and cognitive-related deficits in subjects at high risk of developing AD.
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