Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative dementia, characterized by abnormal dynamic functional connectivity (DFC). Traditional DFC analysis, assuming linear brain dynamics, may neglect the complexity of the brain's nonlinear interactions. Energy landscape analysis offers a holistic, nonlinear perspective to investigate brain network attractor dynamics, which was applied to resting-state fMRI data for AD in this study.
Methods: This study utilized resting-state fMRI data from 60 individuals, comparing 30 Alzheimer's patients with 30 controls, from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Energy landscape analysis was applied to the data to characterize the aberrant brain network dynamics of AD patients.
Results: The AD group stayed in the co-activation state for less time than the healthy control (HC) group, and a positive correlation was identified between the transition frequency of the co-activation state and behavior performance. Furthermore, the AD group showed a higher occurrence frequency and transition frequency of the cognitive control state and sensory integration state than the HC group. The transition between the two states was positively correlated with behavior performance.
Conclusion: The results suggest that the co-activation state could be important to cognitive processing and that the AD group possibly raised cognitive ability by increasing the occurrence and transition between the impaired cognitive control and sensory integration states.
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