Age-related changes in the default mode network are more advanced in Alzheimer disease
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- 18 October 2011
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 77 (16), 1524-1531
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0b013e318233b33d
Abstract
Objective: To investigate age-related default mode network (DMN) connectivity in a large cognitively normal elderly cohort and in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) compared with age-, gender-, and education-matched controls. Methods: We analyzed task-free–fMRI data with both independent component analysis and seed-based analysis to identify anterior and posterior DMNs. We investigated age-related changes in connectivity in a sample of 341 cognitively normal subjects. We then compared 28 patients with AD with 56 cognitively normal noncarriers of the APOE ϵ4 allele matched for age, education, and gender. Results: The anterior DMN shows age-associated increases and decreases in fontal lobe connectivity, whereas the posterior DMN shows mainly age-associated declines in connectivity throughout. Relative to matched cognitively normal controls, subjects with AD display an accelerated pattern of the age-associated changes described above, except that the declines in frontal lobe connectivity did not reach statistical significance. These changes survive atrophy correction and are correlated with cognitive performance. Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that the DMN abnormalities observed in patients with AD represent an accelerated aging pattern of connectivity compared with matched controls.Keywords
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