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- The study aimed to compare the structural brain connections (connectome) among patients with normal cognition, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease, and to see how these connections relate to amyloid levels in the brain.
- Data from 102 patients in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI 2) included brain scans and PET imaging, which were analyzed to assess changes in brain connectivity associated with different cognitive states.
- Results showed that as cognitive impairment progressed from normal cognition to Alzheimer’s disease, there was a significant decrease in various connectivity metrics, and higher amyloid levels were linked to lower connectivity across affected brain regions.
Article Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate differences in the structural connectome among patients with normal cognition (NC), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and Alzheimer disease (AD) and to determine associations between the structural connectome and cortical amyloid deposition.
Materials And Methods: Patients enrolled in a multicenter biomarker study (Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative [ADNI] 2) who had both baseline diffusion-tensor (DT) and florbetapir positron emission tomography (PET) data at the time of data analyses in November 2012 were studied. All institutions received institutional review board approval. There were 102 patients in ADNI 2 who met criteria for analysis. Patients' T1-weighted images were automatically parcellated into cortical regions of interest. Standardized uptake value ratio (SUVr) was calculated from florbetapir PET images for composite cortical regions (frontal, cingulate, parietal, and temporal). Structural connectome graphs were created from DT images, and connectome topology was analyzed in each region by using graph theoretical metrics. Analysis of variance of structural connectome metrics and florbetapir SUVr across diagnostic group was performed. Linear mixed-effects models were fit to analyze the effect of florbetapir SUVr on structural connectome metrics.
Results: Diagnostic group (NC, MCI, or AD) was associated with changes in weighted structural connectome metrics, with decreases from the NC group to the MCI group to the AD group shown for (a) strength in the bilateral frontal, right parietal, and bilateral temporal regions (P < .05); (b) weighted local efficiency in the left temporal region (P < .05); and (c) weighted clustering coefficient in the bilateral frontal and left temporal regions (P < .05). Increased cortical florbetapir SUVr was associated with decreases in weighted structural connectome metrics; namely, strength (P = .00001), weighted local efficiency (P = .00001), and weighted clustering coefficient (P = .0006), independent of brain region. For every 0.1-unit increase in florbetapir SUVr, there was a 14% decrease in strength, an 11% decrease in weighted local efficiency, and a 9% decrease in weighted clustering coefficient, regardless of the analyzed cortical region or, in the case of weighted local efficiency and clustering coefficient, diagnostic group.
Conclusion: Increased amyloid burden, as measured with florbetapir PET imaging, is related to changes in the topology of the large-scale cortical network architecture of the brain, as measured with graph theoretical metrics of DTI tractography, even in the preclinical stages of AD. Online supplemental material is available for this article.
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