Lowe, AJ;
Paquola, C;
Vos de Wael, R;
Girn, M;
Lariviere, S;
Tavakol, S;
Caldairou, B;
... Bernhardt, BC; + view all
(2019)
Targeting age‐related differences in brain and cognition with multimodal imaging and connectome topography profiling.
Human Brain Mapping
, 40
(18)
pp. 5213-5230.
10.1002/hbm.24767.
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Abstract
Aging is characterized by accumulation of structural and metabolic changes in the brain. Recent studies suggest transmodal brain networks are especially sensitive to aging, which, we hypothesize, may be due to their apical position in the cortical hierarchy. Studying an open‐access healthy cohort (n = 102, age range = 30–89 years) with MRI and Aβ PET data, we estimated age‐related cortical thinning, hippocampal atrophy and Aβ deposition. In addition to carrying out surface‐based morphological and metabolic mapping experiments, we stratified effects along neocortical and hippocampal resting‐state functional connectome gradients derived from independent datasets. The cortical gradient depicts an axis of functional differentiation from sensory‐motor regions to transmodal regions, whereas the hippocampal gradient recapitulates its long‐axis. While age‐related thinning and increased Aβ deposition occurred across the entire cortical topography, increased Aβ deposition was especially pronounced toward higher‐order transmodal regions. Age‐related atrophy was greater toward the posterior end of the hippocampal long‐axis. No significant effect of age on Aβ deposition in the hippocampus was observed. Imaging markers correlated with behavioral measures of fluid intelligence and episodic memory in a topography‐specific manner, confirmed using both univariate as well as multivariate analyses. Our results strengthen existing evidence of structural and metabolic change in the aging brain and support the use of connectivity gradients as a compact framework to analyze and conceptualize brain‐based biomarkers of aging.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Targeting age‐related differences in brain and cognition with multimodal imaging and connectome topography profiling |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/hbm.24767 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24767 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | aging, amyloid, atrophy, cognition, hippocampus, neocortex |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10092261 |
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