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Altered Patterns of Functional Connectivity and Causal Connectivity in Salience Subnetwork of Subjective Cognitive Decline and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

The subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may last for decades prior to the onset of dementia and has been proposed as a risk population for development to amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD). Disruptions of functional connectivity and causal connectivity (CC) in the sa...

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Autores principales: Cai, Chunting, Huang, Chenxi, Yang, Chenhui, Lu, Haijie, Hong, Xin, Ren, Fujia, Hong, Dan, Ng, Eyk
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7189119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32390791
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00288
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author Cai, Chunting
Huang, Chenxi
Yang, Chenhui
Lu, Haijie
Hong, Xin
Ren, Fujia
Hong, Dan
Ng, Eyk
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Huang, Chenxi
Yang, Chenhui
Lu, Haijie
Hong, Xin
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description The subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may last for decades prior to the onset of dementia and has been proposed as a risk population for development to amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD). Disruptions of functional connectivity and causal connectivity (CC) in the salience network (SN) are generally perceived as prominent hallmarks of the preclinical AD. Nevertheless, the alterations in anterior SN (aSN), and posterior SN (pSN) remain unclear. Here, we hypothesized that both the functional connectivity (FC) and CC of the SN subnetworks, comprising aSN and pSN, were distinct disruptive in the SCD and aMCI. We utilized resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the altered FC and CC of the SN subnetworks in 28 healthy controls, 23 SCD subjects, and 29 aMCI subjects. In terms of altered patterns of FC in SN subnetworks, aSN connected to the whole brain was significantly increased in the left orbital superior frontal gyrus, left insula lobule, right caudate lobule, and left rolandic operculum gyrus (ROG), whereas decreased FC was found in the left cerebellum superior lobule and left middle temporal gyrus when compared with the HC group. Notably, no prominent statistical differences were obtained in pSN. For altered patterns of CC in SN subnetworks, compared to the HC group, the aberrant connections in aMCI group were separately involved in the right cerebellum inferior lobule (CIL), right supplementary motor area (SMA), and left ROG, whereas the SCD group exhibited more regions of aberrant connection, comprising the right superior parietal lobule, right CIL, left inferior parietal lobule, left post-central gyrus (PG), and right angular gyrus. Especially, SCD group showed increased CC in the right CIL and left PG, whereas the aMCI group showed decreased CC in the left pre-cuneus, corpus callosum, and right SMA when compared to the SCD group. Collectively, our results suggest that analyzing the altered FC and CC observed in SN subnetworks, served as impressible neuroimaging biomarkers, may supply novel insights for designing preclinical interventions in the preclinical stages of AD.
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spelling pubmed-71891192020-05-08 Altered Patterns of Functional Connectivity and Causal Connectivity in Salience Subnetwork of Subjective Cognitive Decline and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Cai, Chunting Huang, Chenxi Yang, Chenhui Lu, Haijie Hong, Xin Ren, Fujia Hong, Dan Ng, Eyk Front Neurosci Neuroscience The subjective cognitive decline (SCD) may last for decades prior to the onset of dementia and has been proposed as a risk population for development to amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD). Disruptions of functional connectivity and causal connectivity (CC) in the salience network (SN) are generally perceived as prominent hallmarks of the preclinical AD. Nevertheless, the alterations in anterior SN (aSN), and posterior SN (pSN) remain unclear. Here, we hypothesized that both the functional connectivity (FC) and CC of the SN subnetworks, comprising aSN and pSN, were distinct disruptive in the SCD and aMCI. We utilized resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the altered FC and CC of the SN subnetworks in 28 healthy controls, 23 SCD subjects, and 29 aMCI subjects. In terms of altered patterns of FC in SN subnetworks, aSN connected to the whole brain was significantly increased in the left orbital superior frontal gyrus, left insula lobule, right caudate lobule, and left rolandic operculum gyrus (ROG), whereas decreased FC was found in the left cerebellum superior lobule and left middle temporal gyrus when compared with the HC group. Notably, no prominent statistical differences were obtained in pSN. For altered patterns of CC in SN subnetworks, compared to the HC group, the aberrant connections in aMCI group were separately involved in the right cerebellum inferior lobule (CIL), right supplementary motor area (SMA), and left ROG, whereas the SCD group exhibited more regions of aberrant connection, comprising the right superior parietal lobule, right CIL, left inferior parietal lobule, left post-central gyrus (PG), and right angular gyrus. Especially, SCD group showed increased CC in the right CIL and left PG, whereas the aMCI group showed decreased CC in the left pre-cuneus, corpus callosum, and right SMA when compared to the SCD group. Collectively, our results suggest that analyzing the altered FC and CC observed in SN subnetworks, served as impressible neuroimaging biomarkers, may supply novel insights for designing preclinical interventions in the preclinical stages of AD. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7189119/ /pubmed/32390791 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00288 Text en Copyright © 2020 Cai, Huang, Yang, Lu, Hong, Ren, Hong and Ng. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Neuroscience
Cai, Chunting
Huang, Chenxi
Yang, Chenhui
Lu, Haijie
Hong, Xin
Ren, Fujia
Hong, Dan
Ng, Eyk
Altered Patterns of Functional Connectivity and Causal Connectivity in Salience Subnetwork of Subjective Cognitive Decline and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
title Altered Patterns of Functional Connectivity and Causal Connectivity in Salience Subnetwork of Subjective Cognitive Decline and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
title_full Altered Patterns of Functional Connectivity and Causal Connectivity in Salience Subnetwork of Subjective Cognitive Decline and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
title_fullStr Altered Patterns of Functional Connectivity and Causal Connectivity in Salience Subnetwork of Subjective Cognitive Decline and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
title_full_unstemmed Altered Patterns of Functional Connectivity and Causal Connectivity in Salience Subnetwork of Subjective Cognitive Decline and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
title_short Altered Patterns of Functional Connectivity and Causal Connectivity in Salience Subnetwork of Subjective Cognitive Decline and Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
title_sort altered patterns of functional connectivity and causal connectivity in salience subnetwork of subjective cognitive decline and amnestic mild cognitive impairment
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7189119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32390791
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00288
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