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Objective To investigate regional spontaneous brain activity in mild cognition impairment (MCI) patients with amnesic (aMCI) and non-amnesic (naMCI).Methods Twenty-five aMCI patients,21 naMCI patients and 15 normal controls (NC) underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging.The regional homogeneity (ReHo) map of the whole brain was obtained by calculating the similarity of each voxel with its nearest 26 voxel time series.The differences of ReHo map across the whole brain among three groups were compared.Results In aMCI group,ReHo values were lower in right frontal lobe and higher in left middle temporal gyrus and left cerebellum compared with NC (P＜0.05,Alphasim correction).In naMCI group,ReHo values were higher in anterior cingulate cortex and right middle frontal gyrus and lower in right parahippocampa gyrus,right middle temporal gyrus as well as right precuneus compared with NC (P＜0.05,Alphasim correction).Compared with naMCI,the ReHo values were significantly higher in left prefrontal gyrus,left middle temporal gyrus and lower in right cerebellum (P＜0.05,Alphasim correction).Conclusion There are differences in spontaneous brain activity of left prefrontal gyrus,left middle temporal gyrus and right cerebellum between aMCI and naMCI,which may be used to differentiate brain function between aMCI and naMCI patients.
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Objective To investigate the morphological changes of the head,body and tail of the hippocampus in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).Methods Totally 30 AD (AD group),30 mild cognition impairment (MCI) patients (MCI group) and 30 normal old persons (normal control group) underwent brain MR scan.Based on the MR images,the head,body and tail of the hippocampus were segmented and the volume was measured.The difference of the volume in total,head,body and tail of hippocampus in AD group,MCI group and normal control group were compared.The correlation between hippocampal volume and the scores of neurological assessment scale was analyzed.Results The left total,head,body and tail volume were greater than those of the right side in 3 groups (all P＜0.05).For the comparison of total volume of left and right sides among the 3 groups,AD group was less than normal control group (both P＜0.01) and MCI group (both P＜0.05),MCI group was less than normal control group (both P＜0.05).Compared with the normal control group,the head,body and tail volume of hippocampus of both sides were decreased in AD group (all P＜0.05) and the volume of left head,body and right head of hippocampus in MCI group were decreased (all P＜0.05).Both sides hippocampus's head and body volume of AD group were less than those of MCI group (both P＜0.05).The scores of minimum mental state examination (MMSE) were positively correlated with the total and the head,body,tail volume of bilateral hippocampus.Except volume of left tail,there were negative correlations between the scores of activities of daily living (ADL),clinical dementia rating (CDR) and the volume of total and head,body,tail of bilateral hippocampus,which were positively correlated with Montreal cognitive assessment (MoCA) score.Conclusion The volume of bilateral hippocampus was significantly reduced in AD patients.The head of hippocampal volume was significantly reduced and the body and tail was not obvious.
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0.05).P300 and amplitudes of the mismatch negativity(MMN) of group A were lower than that of group B.PL of MMN was obviously prolonged.By comparing PL of group A with thar of group B,there was obvious difference(P
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Objective To explore the change of glycogen synthase kinase-3(GSK-3) activity in lymphocytes in patients with mild cognition impairment(MCI).Methods The phosphorylation of GSK-3? at Ser 9 site and total level of GSK-3? in peripheral blood were measured by Western-blot in normal control group,one-year MCI group,two-year MCI group and three-year MCI group.Results The phosphorylation of GSK-3? at Ser 9 site were lower in 1-year MCI group,2-year MCI group and 3-year MCI group,compared with normal control group(all P0.05).Conclusion The activity of GSK-3 in lymphocytes in MCI patients is raised,which implies a subsidiary value of MCI diagnosis.