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Neuroimage Clin ; 4: 604-14, 2014.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24936411

RESUMO

Some cognitively healthy individuals develop brain amyloid accumulation, suggestive of incipient Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the effect of amyloid on other potentially informative imaging modalities, such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), in characterizing brain changes in preclinical AD requires further exploration. In this study, a sample (N = 139, mean age 60.6, range 46 to 71) from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention (WRAP), a cohort enriched for AD risk factors, was recruited for a multimodal imaging investigation that included DTI and [C-11]Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB) positron emission tomography (PET). Participants were grouped as amyloid positive (Aß+), amyloid indeterminate (Aßi), or amyloid negative (Aß-) based on the amount and pattern of amyloid deposition. Regional voxel-wise analyses of four DTI metrics, fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), axial diffusivity (Da), and radial diffusivity (Dr), were performed based on amyloid grouping. Three regions of interest (ROIs), the cingulum adjacent to the corpus callosum, hippocampal cingulum, and lateral fornix, were selected based on their involvement in the early stages of AD. Voxel-wise analysis revealed higher FA among Aß+ compared to Aß- in all three ROIs and in Aßi compared to Aß- in the cingulum adjacent to the corpus callosum. Follow-up exploratory whole-brain analyses were consistent with the ROI findings, revealing multiple regions where higher FA was associated with greater amyloid. Lower fronto-lateral gray matter MD was associated with higher amyloid burden. Further investigation showed a negative correlation between MD and PiB signal, suggesting that Aß accumulation impairs diffusion. Interestingly, these findings in a largely presymptomatic sample are in contradistinction to relationships reported in the literature in symptomatic disease stages of Mild Cognitive Impairment and AD, which usually show higher MD and lower FA. Together with analyses showing that cognitive function in these participants is not associated with any of the four DTI metrics, the present results suggest an early relationship between PiB and DTI, which may be a meaningful indicator of the initiating or compensatory mechanisms of AD prior to cognitive decline.


Assuntos
Doença de Alzheimer/patologia , Peptídeos beta-Amiloides/metabolismo , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Encéfalo/patologia , Imagem Multimodal/métodos , Substância Branca/patologia , Idoso , Doença de Alzheimer/metabolismo , Imagem de Tensor de Difusão/métodos , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Imagem Molecular/métodos , Tomografia por Emissão de Pósitrons/métodos , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Sensibilidade e Especificidade
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J Int Neuropsychol Soc ; 20(4): 422-33, 2014 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24621494

RESUMO

The relative influence of amyloid burden, neuronal structure and function, and prior cognitive performance on prospective memory decline among asymptomatic late middle-aged individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) is currently unknown. We investigated this using longitudinal cognitive data from 122 middle-aged adults (21 "Decliners" and 101 "Stables") enrolled in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention who underwent multimodality neuroimaging [11C-Pittsburgh Compound B (PiB), 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), and structural/functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)] 5.7 ± 1.4 years (range = 2.9-8.9) after their baseline cognitive assessment. Covariate-adjusted regression analyses revealed that the only imaging measure that significantly distinguished Decliners from Stables (p = .027) was a Neuronal Function composite derived from FDG and fMRI. In contrast, several cognitive measures, especially those that tap episodic memory, significantly distinguished the groups (p's<.05). Complementary receiver operating characteristic curve analyses identified the Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised (BVMT-R) Total (.82 ± .05, p < .001), the BVMT-R Delayed Recall (.73 ± .06, p = .001), and the Reading subtest from the Wide-Range Achievement Test-III (.72 ± .06, p = .002) as the top three measures that best discriminated the groups. These findings suggest that early memory test performance might serve a more clinically pivotal role in forecasting future cognitive course than is currently presumed.


Assuntos
Doença de Alzheimer/complicações , Doença de Alzheimer/patologia , Amiloide/metabolismo , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Encéfalo/patologia , Transtornos Cognitivos/etiologia , Adulto , Idoso , Doença de Alzheimer/genética , Análise de Variância , Apolipoproteína E4/genética , Encéfalo/irrigação sanguínea , Encéfalo/diagnóstico por imagem , Feminino , Humanos , Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador , Estudos Longitudinais , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Neuroimagem , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Oxigênio/sangue , Curva ROC , Cintilografia , Estudos Retrospectivos , Fatores de Risco
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