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Default mode network activity and white matter integrity in healthy middle-aged ApoE4 carriers.
Patel, Krishna T.; Stevens, Michael C.; Pearlson, Godfrey D. et al.
2013In Brain Imaging and Behavior, 7 (1), p. 60-7
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Keywords :
Adult; Anxiety/genetics/psychology; Apolipoprotein E4/genetics; Brain/anatomy & histology; DNA/genetics; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Depression/genetics/psychology; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Female; Genotype; Heterozygote; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Intelligence Tests; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Middle Aged; Nerve Net/physiology; Neuropsychological Tests; Principal Component Analysis; Smoking/adverse effects; Wechsler Scales
Abstract :
[en] Alzheimer's disease (AD) is most commonly detected during old age, but the underlying neuropathologic changes likely appear decades earlier, especially among patients possessing genetic risk factors, such as the isoform E4 of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE4). In this study, we used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess default mode network (DMN) connectivity in 22 ApoE4 non-carriers and 14 matched ApoE4 carriers as well as white matter fractional anisotropy (FA) in 15 ApoE4 non-carriers and 11 demographically matched ApoE4 carriers. Cognitive tests were also administered. All of the participants were middle-aged adults. The analysis revealed no cognitive or white matter FA differences between carriers and non-carriers. However, in DMN regions previously implicated in AD, we did detect decreased functional connectivity. Our findings suggest that functional MRI abnormalities may be detectable well before cognitive decline or white matter changes among individuals at increased genetic risk for AD.
Disciplines :
Genetics & genetic processes
Anatomy (cytology, histology, embryology...) & physiology
Author, co-author :
Patel, Krishna T.
Stevens, Michael C.
Pearlson, Godfrey D.
Winkler, Anderson ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Form. doc. sc. bioméd. & pharma.
Hawkins, Keith A.
Skudlarski, Pawel
Bauer, Lance O.
Language :
English
Title :
Default mode network activity and white matter integrity in healthy middle-aged ApoE4 carriers.
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Brain Imaging and Behavior
ISSN :
1931-7557
eISSN :
1931-7565
Publisher :
Springer, New York, United States - New York
Volume :
7
Issue :
1
Pages :
60-7
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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