Left frontal cortex connectivity underlies cognitive reserve in prodromal Alzheimer disease. Franzmeier, N., Duering, M., Weiner, M., Dichgans, M., Ewers, M., & Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging, I. Neurology, 88(11):1054–1061, March, 2017.
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OBJECTIVE: To test whether higher global functional connectivity of the left frontal cortex (LFC) in Alzheimer disease (AD) is associated with more years of education (a proxy of cognitive reserve [CR]) and mitigates the association between AD-related fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET hypometabolism and episodic memory. METHODS: Forty-four amyloid-PET-positive patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI-Abeta+) and 24 amyloid-PET-negative healthy controls (HC) were included. Voxel-based linear regression analyses were used to test the association between years of education and FDG-PET in MCI-Abeta+, controlled for episodic memory performance. Global LFC (gLFC) connectivity was computed through seed-based resting-state fMRI correlations between the LFC (seed) and each voxel in the gray matter. In linear regression analyses, education as a predictor of gLFC connectivity and the interaction of gLFC connectivity x FDG-PET hypometabolism on episodic memory were tested. RESULTS: FDG-PET metabolism in the precuneus was reduced in MCI-Abeta+ compared to HC (p = 0.028), with stronger reductions observed in MCI-Abeta+ with more years of education (p = 0.006). In MCI-Abeta+, higher gLFC connectivity was associated with more years of education (p = 0.021). At higher levels of gLFC connectivity, the association between precuneus FDG-PET hypometabolism and lower memory performance was attenuated (p = 0.027). CONCLUSIONS: Higher gLFC connectivity is a functional substrate of CR that helps to maintain episodic memory relatively well in the face of emerging FDG-PET hypometabolism in early-stage AD.
@article{franzmeier_left_2017-1,
	title = {Left frontal cortex connectivity underlies cognitive reserve in prodromal {Alzheimer} disease},
	volume = {88},
	issn = {1526-632X (Electronic) 0028-3878 (Linking)},
	doi = {10.1212/WNL.0000000000003711},
	abstract = {OBJECTIVE: To test whether higher global functional connectivity of the left frontal cortex (LFC) in Alzheimer disease (AD) is associated with more years of education (a proxy of cognitive reserve [CR]) and mitigates the association between AD-related fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET hypometabolism and episodic memory. METHODS: Forty-four amyloid-PET-positive patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI-Abeta+) and 24 amyloid-PET-negative healthy controls (HC) were included. Voxel-based linear regression analyses were used to test the association between years of education and FDG-PET in MCI-Abeta+, controlled for episodic memory performance. Global LFC (gLFC) connectivity was computed through seed-based resting-state fMRI correlations between the LFC (seed) and each voxel in the gray matter. In linear regression analyses, education as a predictor of gLFC connectivity and the interaction of gLFC connectivity x FDG-PET hypometabolism on episodic memory were tested. RESULTS: FDG-PET metabolism in the precuneus was reduced in MCI-Abeta+ compared to HC (p = 0.028), with stronger reductions observed in MCI-Abeta+ with more years of education (p = 0.006). In MCI-Abeta+, higher gLFC connectivity was associated with more years of education (p = 0.021). At higher levels of gLFC connectivity, the association between precuneus FDG-PET hypometabolism and lower memory performance was attenuated (p = 0.027). CONCLUSIONS: Higher gLFC connectivity is a functional substrate of CR that helps to maintain episodic memory relatively well in the face of emerging FDG-PET hypometabolism in early-stage AD.},
	number = {11},
	journal = {Neurology},
	author = {Franzmeier, N. and Duering, M. and Weiner, M. and Dichgans, M. and Ewers, M. and Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging, Initiative},
	month = mar,
	year = {2017},
	pmcid = {PMC5384837},
	pmid = {28188306},
	keywords = {Female, Humans, Male, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nerve Net/*pathology, Oxygen/blood, Neuropsychological Tests, Cognition Disorders/*etiology, Functional Laterality, Functional Laterality/*physiology, Alzheimer Disease/*complications/diagnostic imaging/*pathology, Chi-Square Distribution, Cognitive Reserve/*physiology, Epilepsy/diagnostic imaging/etiology, Fluorodeoxyglucose F18/metabolism, Frontal Lobe/diagnostic imaging/pathology, Positron-Emission Tomography, Prodromal Symptoms, Fluorodeoxyglucose F18, Cognition Disorders, Alzheimer Disease, Epilepsy, Frontal Lobe, Nerve Net, Cognitive Reserve, Oxygen},
	pages = {1054--1061},
}

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