期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 24, 期 6, 页码 1422-1435出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs410
关键词
Alzheimer's disease; disconnection; distance; functional connectivity; weighted brain networks
资金
- National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973) [2011CB707800]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [60831004, 81270020, 30900476]
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin [11JCZDJC19300]
- Medical Research Council [G0001354B, G1000183B, G0001354] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0513-10051] Funding Source: researchfish
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is increasingly recognized as a disconnection syndrome, which leads to cognitive impairment due to the disruption of functional activity across large networks or systems of interconnected brain regions. We explored abnormal functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) resting-state dynamics, functional connectivity, and weighted functional networks, in a sample of patients with severe AD (N = 18) and age-matched healthy volunteers (N = 21). We found that patients had reduced amplitude and regional homogeneity of low-frequency fMRI oscillations, and reduced the strength of functional connectivity, in several regions previously described as components of the default mode network, for example, medial posterior parietal cortex and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex. In patients with severe AD, functional connectivity was particularly attenuated between regions that were separated by a greater physical distance; and loss of long distance connectivity was associated with less efficient global and nodal network topology. This profile of functional abnormality in severe AD was consistent with the results of a comparable analysis of data on 2 additional groups of patients with mild AD (N = 17) and amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI; N = 18). A greater degree of cognitive impairment, measured by the mini-mental state examination across all patient groups, was correlated with greater attenuation of functional connectivity, particularly over long connection distances, for example, between anterior and posterior components of the default mode network, and greater reduction of global and nodal network efficiency. These results indicate that neurodegenerative disruption of fMRI oscillations and connectivity in AD affects long-distance connections to hub nodes, with the consequent loss of network efficiency. This profile was evident also to a lesser degree in the patients with less severe cognitive impairment, indicating that the potential of resting-state fMRI measures as biomarkers or predictors of disease progression in AD.
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