Elucidating functional connectivity differences amongst older adults with mild cognitive impairment, subjective cognitive decline or normal cognition
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Abstract
Reduced ability of the salience network (SN) to control switching between the central executive and default mode network (DMN) is linked to deterioration of cognitive functioning in normal aging, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD dementia (He et al., 2014). In the current study, we compared functional connectivity between SN and the anterior DMN amongst older adults with subjective cognitive decline (SCD), MCI, and normal cognition (NC). Participants were 72 older adults [39 females, mean age=71.5] who were classified as either NC (n=26), SCD (n=29), or MCI (n=17). Participants underwent a 6-minute resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging using gradient-echo EPI BOLD at 3T (TR=2000ms, TE=30ms). Seed-based analysis using CONN with an anterior cingulate cortex (ACC; [0, 22,35]) seed, a key node in the SN, was conducted to assess functional connectivity between the SN and the anterior DMN within each group. Groups did not differ in age, years of education, or sex distribution [F(2,69)=0.415, p=0.66; F(2,69)=2.20, p=0.12; X² (2, N=72)=1.89, p=0.39, respectively]. Significant functional connectivity was found between ACC and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in SCD and MCI groups (T(28)=2.39, p-FDR=0.04; T(16)=2.89, p-FDR=0.02, respectively) but not in the NC group. These findings show support for increased functional connectivity in SCD and MCI between SN and anterior DMN compared to NC. This finding is consistent with evidence of increased functional connectivity between the posterior DMN and mPFC in individuals with MCI and AD, an alteration that is believed to be a compensatory response to decreased functional connectivity between the posterior DMN and other brain regions such as the medial temporal lobe, responsible for memory formation and processing.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
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