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Jamei F, Saleh Moghadam AR, Mazlom SR, Namazinia M, Asghari Nekah SM, Mohajer S. Effect of group play therapy as holistic geriatric interventional modality on feelings of loneliness among older people: A randomized control trial. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2024. [PMID: 39205512 DOI: 10.1111/ggi.14972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2023] [Revised: 07/27/2024] [Accepted: 08/11/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
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AIM Previous research has identified loneliness as a significant social stressor among the older adult population, and highlights the scarcity of empirical research on the efficacy of group play therapy as a method for addressing loneliness in this demographic. This study aimed to explore the impact of group play therapy on reducing feelings of loneliness among older individuals. METHODS A randomized clinical trial was carried out in 2018 on 60 older adult participants from two governmental health centers in Mashhad, Iran. The intervention group received adult-centered play therapy for 12 sessions over 6 weeks, with each session lasting 60 min. The therapy protocol combined traditional and modern games, structured into three stages: warm-up, working and closing. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) scale was used to measure feelings of loneliness at baseline and after the intervention. Data analysis was carried out using SPSS version 21. RESULTS There was a significant decrease in feelings of loneliness in the intervention group compared with the control group (P < 0.001). Additionally, a significant difference in feelings of loneliness was observed within the intervention group between baseline and follow up (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Group play therapy, involving a combination of traditional and modern games, can reduce feelings of loneliness among older adults. This method can promote healthy aging and improve mental health issues, such as loneliness, among older people. These findings can be utilized in healthcare centers and nursing homes for older adults. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2024; ••: ••-••.
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- Fateme Jamei
- Master of Geriatric Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Torbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran
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- Department of Education, Faculty of Educational and sciences Psychology, Ferdowsi University Of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Habich A, Garcia-Cabello E, Abbatantuono C, Gonzalez-Burgos L, Taurisano P, Dierks T, Barroso J, Ferreira D. The effect of cognitive reserve on the cognitive connectome in healthy ageing. GeroScience 2024:10.1007/s11357-024-01328-4. [PMID: 39210164 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-024-01328-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 08/23/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
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During ageing, different cognitive functions decline at different rates. Additionally, cognitive reserve may influence inter-individual variability in age-related cognitive decline. These complex relationships can be studied by constructing a so-called cognitive connectome and characterising it with advanced graph-theoretical network analyses. This study examined the effect of cognitive reserve on the cognitive connectome across age. A total of 334 cognitively healthy participants were stratified into early middle age (37-50 years; n = 110), late middle age (51-64 years; n = 106), and elderly (65-78 years; n = 118) groups. Within each age group, individuals were subdivided into high and low cognitive reserve. For each subgroup, a cognitive connectome was constructed based on correlations between 47 cognitive variables. Applying graph theory, different global network measures were compared between the groups. Graph-theoretical network analyses revealed that individuals with high cognitive reserve were characterized by a stable cognitive connectome across age groups. High cognitive reserve groups only differed in modularity. In contrast, individuals with low cognitive reserve showed a marked reconfiguration of cognitive connectomes across age groups with differences extending over a variety of network measures including network strength, global efficiency, modularity, and small-worldness. Our results suggest a stabilizing effect of cognitive reserve on the cognitive connectome. Gaining further insights into these findings and underlying mechanisms will contribute to our understanding of age-related cognitive decline and guide the development of strategies to preserve cognitive function in ageing.
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- Annegret Habich
- Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
- University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Facultad de Ciencias de La Salud, Universidad Fernando Pessoa Canarias, Las Palmas, Spain
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- Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodology, Faculty of Psychology, University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain
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- University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Facultad de Ciencias de La Salud, Universidad Fernando Pessoa Canarias, Las Palmas, Spain
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- Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Center for Alzheimer Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Facultad de Ciencias de La Salud, Universidad Fernando Pessoa Canarias, Las Palmas, Spain.
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Breton J, Foret JT, Hamlin AM, Ortega N, Clark AL. Health insurance coverage moderates the relationship between metabolic syndrome and baseline memory outcomes in Latino older adults. Clin Neuropsychol 2024:1-16. [PMID: 39158158 DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2024.2392303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2024] [Accepted: 08/10/2024] [Indexed: 08/20/2024]
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Objective: Latino adults are at increased risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and have lower rates of health insurance (HI) coverage. Although inadequate HI coverage and MetS have been independently linked to poor cognition, their potential interactive effects have not yet been examined. The present study explored whether HI moderated the association between MetS and cognition. We hypothesized that Latinos with MetS that did not have HI would demonstrate poorer cognition than those with HI, whereas there would be minimal differences in cognition across HI status in those without MetS. Methods: Cross-sectional data from 805 Latino older adults enrolled in the Health and Aging Brain Study-Health Disparities was utilized. Analysis of covariance adjusting for sociodemographics examined MetS x HI interactions on memory and attention/executive functions composites. Results: Results revealed a significant MetS x HI interaction on memory (F = 4.33, p = 0.037, ηp2 = .01); Latino adults with MetS and no HI coverage had worse memory performance than those with MetS who had HI coverage (p = 0.022, ηp2 = .01), whereas there was no significant difference in memory between HI coverage groups in those without MetS (p > .05, ηp2 = .002). No MetS x HI interaction was observed for the attention/executive functions composite (F = 0.29, p = 0.588, ηp2 < .001). Conclusion: Latino older adults with MetS that do not have HI coverage may be at risk for poorer memory outcomes. Increasing the accessibility of HI coverage may help reduce cognitive health disparities in Latino older adults with vascular health comorbidities.
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- Jordana Breton
- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Nyberg L. Longitudinal data are crucial for identifying superagers. AGING BRAIN 2024; 5:100118. [PMID: 38948445 PMCID: PMC11211231 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbas.2024.100118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/02/2024] Open
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- Lars Nyberg
- Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Medical and Translational Biology,Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Center for LifespanChanges in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Health, Education and Technology, Luleå Universityof Technology, Luleå, Sweden
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Batta I, Abrol A, Calhoun VD. Multimodal active subspace analysis for computing assessment oriented subspaces from neuroimaging data. J Neurosci Methods 2024; 406:110109. [PMID: 38494061 PMCID: PMC11100582 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2024.110109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2023] [Revised: 02/12/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
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BACKGROUND For successful biomarker discovery, it is essential to develop computational frameworks that summarize high-dimensional neuroimaging data in terms of involved sub-systems of the brain, while also revealing underlying heterogeneous functional and structural changes covarying with specific cognitive and biological traits. However, unsupervised decompositions do not inculcate clinical assessment information, while supervised approaches extract only individual feature importance, thereby impeding qualitative interpretation at the level of subspaces. NEW METHOD We present a novel framework to extract robust multimodal brain subspaces associated with changes in a given cognitive or biological trait. Our approach involves active subspace learning on the gradients of a trained machine learning model followed by clustering to extract and summarize the most salient and consistent subspaces associated with the target variable. RESULTS Through a rigorous cross-validation procedure on an Alzheimer's disease (AD) dataset, our framework successfully extracts multimodal subspaces specific to a given clinical assessment (e.g., memory and other cognitive skills), and also retains predictive performance in standard machine learning algorithms. We also show that the salient active subspace directions occur consistently across randomly sub-sampled repetitions of the analysis. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD(S) Compared to existing unsupervised decompositions based on principle component analysis, the subspace components in our framework retain higher predictive information. CONCLUSIONS As an important step towards biomarker discovery, our framework not only uncovers AD-related brain regions in the associated brain subspaces, but also enables automated identification of multiple underlying structural and functional sub-systems of the brain that collectively characterize changes in memory and proficiency in cognitive skills related to brain disorders like AD.
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- Ishaan Batta
- Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS): Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University, Atlanta, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
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- Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS): Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University, Atlanta, USA
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- Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS): Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Emory University, Atlanta, USA; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
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Ronat L, Rönnlund M, Adolfsson R, Hanganu A, Pudas S. Revised Temperament and Character Inventory factors predict neuropsychiatric symptoms and aging-related cognitive decline across 25 years. Front Aging Neurosci 2024; 16:1335336. [PMID: 38450380 PMCID: PMC10915205 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1335336] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024] Open
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Introduction Personality traits and neuropsychiatric symptoms such as neuroticism and depression share genetic overlap and have both been identified as risks factors for development of aging-related neurocognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD). This study aimed to examine revised personality factors derived from the Temperament and Character Inventory, previously shown to be associated with psychiatric disorders, as predictors of neuropsychiatric, cognitive, and brain trajectories of participants from a population-based aging study. Methods Mixed-effect linear regression analyses were conducted on data for the full sample (Nmax = 1,286), and a healthy subsample not converting to AD-dementia during 25-year follow-up (Nmax = 1,145), complemented with Cox proportional regression models to determine risk factors for conversion to clinical AD. Results Two personality factors, Closeness to Experience (CE: avoidance of new stimuli, high anxiety, pessimistic anticipation, low reward seeking) and Tendence to Liabilities (TL: inability to change, low autonomy, unaware of the value of their existence) were associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms, stress (CE), sleep disturbance (TL), as well as greater decline in memory, vocabulary and verbal fluency in the full sample. Higher CE was additionally associated with greater memory decline across 25 years in the healthy subsample, and faster right hippocampal volume reduction across 8 years in a neuroimaging subsample (N = 216). Most, but not all, personality-cognition associations persisted after controlling for diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Concerning risks for conversion to AD, higher age, and APOE-ε4, but none of the personality measures, were significant predictors. Conclusion The results indicate that personality traits associated with psychiatric symptoms predict accelerated age-related neurocognitive declines even in the absence of neurodegenerative disease. The attenuation of some personality effects on cognition after adjustment for health indicators suggests that those effects may be partly mediated by somatic health. Taken together, the results further emphasize the importance of personality traits in neurocognitive aging and underscore the need for an integrative (biopsychosocial) perspective of normal and pathological age-related cognitive decline.
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- Lucas Ronat
- Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Neuroimaging of Emotions Lab, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Neuroimaging of Emotions Lab, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Özalay Ö, Mediavilla T, Giacobbo BL, Pedersen R, Marcellino D, Orädd G, Rieckmann A, Sultan F. Longitudinal monitoring of the mouse brain reveals heterogenous network trajectories during aging. Commun Biol 2024; 7:210. [PMID: 38378942 PMCID: PMC10879497 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-05873-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024] Open
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The human aging brain is characterized by changes in network efficiency that are currently best captured through longitudinal resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI). These studies however are challenging due to the long human lifespan. Here we show that the mouse animal model with a much shorter lifespan allows us to follow the functional network organization over most of the animal's adult lifetime. We used a longitudinal study of the functional connectivity of different brain regions with rs-fMRI under anesthesia. Our analysis uncovers network modules similar to those reported in younger mice and in humans (i.e., prefrontal/default mode network (DMN), somatomotor and somatosensory networks). Statistical analysis reveals different patterns of network reorganization during aging. Female mice showed a pattern akin to human aging, with de-differentiation of the connectome, mainly due to increases in connectivity of the prefrontal/DMN cortical networks to other modules. Our male cohorts revealed heterogenous aging patterns with only one group confirming the de- differentiation, while the majority showed an increase in connectivity of the somatomotor cortex to the Nucleus accumbens. In summary, in line with human work, our analysis in mice supports the concept of de-differentiation in the aging mammalian brain and reveals additional trajectories in aging mice networks.
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- Özgün Özalay
- Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, 90 187, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, 90 187, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, 90 187, Umeå, Sweden
- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, 90 187, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, 90 187, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, 90 187, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, 90 187, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Radiation Physics, Umeå University, 90 187, Umeå, Sweden
- Institute for Psychology, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Neubiberg, Germany
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- Department of Medical and Translational Biology, Umeå University, 90 187, Umeå, Sweden.
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Fusi G, Giannì J, Borsa VM, Colautti L, Crepaldi M, Palmiero M, Garau F, Bonfiglio SN, Cao Y, Antonietti A, Penna MP, Rozzini L, Rusconi ML. Can Creativity and Cognitive Reserve Predict Psychological Well-Being in Older Adults? The Role of Divergent Thinking in Healthy Aging. Healthcare (Basel) 2024; 12:303. [PMID: 38338188 PMCID: PMC10855052 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare12030303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Revised: 01/20/2024] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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The maintenance of psychological well-being (PWB) in the older adult population is a pivotal goal for our rapidly aging society. PWB is a multicomponent construct that can be influenced by several factors in the lifespan. The beneficial role of divergent thinking (DT) and cognitive reserve (CR) in sustaining older subjects' PWB has been scarcely investigated so far. The present study aims to investigate the relationships between DT, CR, and PWB in a sample of 121 healthy older adults (61 females; M age: 73.39 ± 6.66 years; M education: 11.33 ± 4.81 years). The results highlight that better DT performance predicts higher CR, which mediates an indirect positive effect of DT on emotional competence, one of the PWB factors. It follows that DT and CR can be considered protective factors in aging, and their effects go beyond cognitive functioning, revealing a positive effect even on some PWB components. The practical implications regarding targeted health interventions for prevention in the older adult population to support well-being and promote healthy aging are discussed.
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- Giulia Fusi
- Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, 24129 Bergamo, Italy; (J.G.); (V.M.B.); (M.C.); (M.L.R.)
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- Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, 24129 Bergamo, Italy; (J.G.); (V.M.B.); (M.C.); (M.L.R.)
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- Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, 24129 Bergamo, Italy; (J.G.); (V.M.B.); (M.C.); (M.L.R.)
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- Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 20123 Milan, Italy; (L.C.); (A.A.)
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- Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, 24129 Bergamo, Italy; (J.G.); (V.M.B.); (M.C.); (M.L.R.)
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- Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy; (F.G.); (S.N.B.); (Y.C.); (M.P.P.)
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- Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy; (F.G.); (S.N.B.); (Y.C.); (M.P.P.)
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- Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy; (F.G.); (S.N.B.); (Y.C.); (M.P.P.)
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- Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, 20123 Milan, Italy; (L.C.); (A.A.)
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- Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, 09123 Cagliari, Italy; (F.G.); (S.N.B.); (Y.C.); (M.P.P.)
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, 25136 Brescia, Italy;
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- Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, 24129 Bergamo, Italy; (J.G.); (V.M.B.); (M.C.); (M.L.R.)
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Wang X, Huang CC, Tsai SJ, Lin CP, Cai Q. The aging trajectories of brain functional hierarchy and its impact on cognition across the adult lifespan. Front Aging Neurosci 2024; 16:1331574. [PMID: 38313436 PMCID: PMC10837851 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1331574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/06/2024] Open
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Introduction The hierarchical network architecture of the human brain, pivotal to cognition and behavior, can be explored via gradient analysis using restingstate functional MRI data. Although it has been employed to understand brain development and disorders, the impact of aging on this hierarchical architecture and its link to cognitive decline remains elusive. Methods This study utilized resting-state functional MRI data from 350 healthy adults (aged 20-85) to investigate the functional hierarchical network using connectome gradient analysis with a cross-age sliding window approach. Gradient-related metrics were estimated and correlated with age to evaluate trajectory of gradient changes across lifespan. Results The principal gradient (unimodal-to-transmodal) demonstrated a significant non-linear relationship with age, whereas the secondary gradient (visual-to-somatomotor) showed a simple linear decreasing pattern. Among the principal gradient, significant age-related changes were observed in the somatomotor, dorsal attention, limbic and default mode networks. The changes in the gradient scores of both the somatomotor and frontal-parietal networks were associated with greater working memory and visuospatial ability. Gender differences were found in global gradient metrics and gradient scores of somatomotor and default mode networks in the principal gradient, with no interaction with age effect. Discussion Our study delves into the aging trajectories of functional connectome gradient and its cognitive impact across the adult lifespan, providing insights for future research into the biological underpinnings of brain function and pathological models of atypical aging processes.
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- Xiao Wang
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (Ministry of Education), Institute of Brain and Education Innovation, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (Ministry of Education), Institute of Brain and Education Innovation, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Technology, Shanghai, China
- NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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- Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
- Division of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (Ministry of Education), Institute of Brain and Education Innovation, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Technology, Shanghai, China
- NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Getasew Hiruy E, Woldegiorgis Abate T, Animaw Temesgen W, Bantie B, Kassaw Yirga G, Nuru Muhamed A, Mitiku Shiferaw S, Misganaw Kebede W, Minwuyelet Yitayew F, Walelgn Dessalegn N. Cognitive Impairment and Associated Factors Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Bahir Dar City Referral Hospitals, 2021: Cross-Sectional Study. J Alzheimers Dis 2024; 100:45-52. [PMID: 38905040 DOI: 10.3233/jad-230245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/23/2024]
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Background Neurocognitive impairment, characterized by reduced performance in various cognitive domains, has been significantly linked with glycemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. Poorly controlled diabetes often results in decreased cognitive abilities, and a longer duration of the disease is associated with lower cognitive levels. Objective This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of cognitive impairment in adults with T2DM and identify related factors. Methods An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 421 adults with T2DM. A systematic random sampling was used to select study participants in two referral hospitals in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Standardized Mini-Mental State Examination tool was used. Binary logistic regression was used. Significance was declared at p value≤0.05 with 95% confidence interval. Results Over a quarter (27.6%) of participants were identified as cognitively impaired. Factors associated with lower cognitive status included older age, being single, lower education level, farming occupation, presence of comorbidity, and engagement in moderate physical activity. Conclusions In conclusion, the prevalence of cognitive impairment among T2DM patients is a growing concern. Several risk factors have been identified like age group, marital status, education level, occupation, presence of comorbidity, and moderate physical activities. The impact of cognitive impairment on the quality of life and functional abilities of T2DM patients should not be underestimated.
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- Endalk Getasew Hiruy
- Department of Adult Health Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia
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- Department of Adult Health Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
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- Department of Adult Health Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
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- Department of Adult Health Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia
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- Department of Adult Health Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia
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- Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Welkite University, Welkite, Ethiopia
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- Department of Adult Health Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia
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- Department of Adult Health Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia
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Luna MG, Pahlen S, Corley RP, Wadsworth SJ, Reynolds CA. Frailty and Processing Speed Performance at the Cusp of Midlife in CATSLife. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2023; 78:1834-1842. [PMID: 37480567 PMCID: PMC10645312 DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbad102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Indexed: 07/24/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES Frailty is not an end state of aging, but rather represents physiological vulnerability across multiple systems that unfolds across adulthood. However, examinations of frailty at the midlife transition, and how frailty may impact other age-sensitive traits, such as processing speed (PS), remain scarce. Our research aims were to examine frailty and frailty-speed associations before midlife, a ripe developmental period for healthy aging interventions. METHODS Using data from the Colorado Adoption/Twin Study of Lifespan behavioral development and cognitive aging (N = 1,215; Mage = 33.23 years; standard deviation = 4.98), we constructed 25-item (FI25) and 30-item (FI30) frailty indices. PS was measured using the Colorado Perceptual Speed task and WAIS-III Digit Symbol (DS) subtest. Multilevel models accounted for clustering among siblings and adjusted for sex, race, ethnicity, adoption status, educational attainment, and age. RESULTS Reliability of FI measures was apparent from strong intraclass correlations (ICCs) among identical twin siblings, although ICC patterns across all siblings suggested that FI variability may include nonadditive genetic contributions. Higher FI was associated with poorer PS performance but was significant for DS only (BFI25 = -1.17, p = .001, d = -0.12; BFI30 = -1.21, p = .001, d = -0.12). Furthermore, the negative frailty-DS association was moderated by age (BFI25×age = -0.14, p = .042; BFI30×age=-0.19, p = .008) where increasingly worse performance with higher frailty emerged at older ages. DISCUSSION Frailty is evident before midlife and associated with poorer PS, an association that magnifies with age. These findings help elucidate the interrelationship between indicators of frailty and cognitive performance for adults approaching midlife, an understudied period within life-span development.
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- Maria G Luna
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
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Li X, Salami A, Persson J. Hub architecture of the human structural connectome: Links to aging and processing speed. Neuroimage 2023; 278:120270. [PMID: 37423273 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2023] [Revised: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023] Open
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The human structural brain network, or connectome, has a rich-club organization with a small number of brain regions showing high network connectivity, called hubs. Hubs are centrally located in the network, energy costly, and critical for human cognition. Aging has been associated with changes in brain structure, function, and cognitive decline, such as processing speed. At a molecular level, the aging process is a progressive accumulation of oxidative damage, which leads to subsequent energy depletion in the neuron and causes cell death. However, it is still unclear how age affects hub connections in the human connectome. The current study aims to address this research gap by constructing structural connectome using fiber bundle capacity (FBC). FBC is derived from Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (CSD) modeling of white-matter fiber bundles, which represents the capacity of a fiber bundle to transfer information. Compared to the raw number of streamlines, FBC is less bias for quantifying connection strength within biological pathways. We found that hubs exhibit longer-distance connections and higher metabolic rates compared to peripheral brain regions, suggesting that hubs are biologically costly. Although the landscape of structural hubs was relatively age-invariant, there were wide-spread age effects on FBC in the connectome. Critically, these age effects were larger in connections within hub compared to peripheral brain connections. These findings were supported by both a cross-sectional sample with wide age-range (N = 137) and a longitudinal sample across 5 years (N = 83). Moreover, our results demonstrated that associations between FBC and processing speed were more concentrated in hub connections than chance level, and FBC in hub connections mediated the age-effects on processing speed. Overall, our findings indicate that structural connections of hubs, which demonstrate greater energy demands, are particular vulnerable to aging. The vulnerability may contribute to age-related impairments in processing speed among older adults.
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- Xin Li
- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden.
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- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden; Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden; Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden; Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
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- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University, Stockholm 171 65, Sweden; Center for Lifespan Developmental Research (LEADER), School of Behavioral, Social and Legal Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro 701 82, Sweden
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Collins JM, Bindoff AD, Roccati E, Alty JE, Vickers JC, King AE. Does serum neurofilament light help predict accelerated cognitive ageing in unimpaired older adults? Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1237284. [PMID: 37638317 PMCID: PMC10448959 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1237284] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023] Open
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Introduction Neurofilament light (NfL) is a blood biomarker of neurodegeneration. While serum NfL levels have been demonstrated to increase with normal ageing, the relationship between serum NfL levels and normal age-related changes in cognitive functions is less well understood. Methods The current study investigated whether cross-sectional serum NfL levels measured by single molecule array technology (Simoa®) mediated the effect of age on cognition, measured by a battery of neuropsychological tests administered biannually for 8 years, in a cohort of 174 unimpaired older adults (≥50 years) from the Tasmanian Healthy Brain Project. Mediation analysis was conducted using latent variables representing cognitive test performance on three cognitive domains - episodic memory, executive function, and language (vocabulary, comprehension, naming). Cognitive test scores for the three domains were estimated for each participant, coincident with blood collection in 2018 using linear Bayesian hierarchical models. Results Higher serum NfL levels were significantly positively associated with age (p < 0.001 for all domains). Cognitive test scores were significantly negatively associated with age across the domains of executive function (p < 0.001), episodic memory (p < 0.001) and language (p < 0.05). However, serum NfL levels did not significantly mediate the relationship between age and cognitive test scores across any of the domains. Discussion This study adds to the literature on the relationship between serum NfL levels and cognition in unimpaired older adults and suggests that serum NfL is not a pre-clinical biomarker of ensuing cognitive decline in unimpaired older adults.
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- Jessica M. Collins
- Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
- School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
- Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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Vanderlip CR, Asch PA, Reynolds JH, Glavis-Bloom C. Domain-Specific Cognitive Impairment Reflects Prefrontal Dysfunction in Aged Common Marmosets. eNeuro 2023; 10:ENEURO.0187-23.2023. [PMID: 37553239 PMCID: PMC10444537 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0187-23.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Revised: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 08/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Age-related cognitive impairment is not expressed uniformly across cognitive domains. Cognitive functions that rely on brain areas that undergo substantial neuroanatomical changes with age often show age-related impairment, whereas those that rely on brain areas with minimal age-related change typically do not. The common marmoset has grown in popularity as a model for neuroscience research, but robust cognitive phenotyping, particularly as a function of age and across multiple cognitive domains, is lacking. This presents a major limitation for the development and evaluation of the marmoset as a model of cognitive aging and leaves open the question of whether they exhibit age-related cognitive impairment that is restricted to some cognitive domains, as in humans. In this study, we characterized stimulus-reward association learning and cognitive flexibility in young adults to geriatric marmosets using a Simple Discrimination task and a Serial Reversal task, respectively. We found that aged marmosets show transient impairment in learning-to-learn but have conserved ability to form stimulus-reward associations. Furthermore, aged marmosets have impaired cognitive flexibility driven by susceptibility to proactive interference. As these impairments are in domains critically dependent on the prefrontal cortex, our findings support prefrontal cortical dysfunction as a prominent feature of neurocognitive aging. This work positions the marmoset as a key model for understanding the neural underpinnings of cognitive aging.
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- Casey R Vanderlip
- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
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Fjell AM, Sørensen Ø, Wang Y, Amlien IK, Baaré WFC, Bartrés-Faz D, Boraxbekk CJ, Brandmaier AM, Demuth I, Drevon CA, Ebmeier KP, Ghisletta P, Kievit R, Kühn S, Madsen KS, Nyberg L, Solé-Padullés C, Vidal-Piñeiro D, Wagner G, Watne LO, Walhovd KB. Is Short Sleep Bad for the Brain? Brain Structure and Cognitive Function in Short Sleepers. J Neurosci 2023; 43:5241-5250. [PMID: 37365003 PMCID: PMC10342221 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2330-22.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Revised: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Many sleep less than recommended without experiencing daytime sleepiness. According to prevailing views, short sleep increases risk of lower brain health and cognitive function. Chronic mild sleep deprivation could cause undetected sleep debt, negatively affecting cognitive function and brain health. However, it is possible that some have less sleep need and are more resistant to negative effects of sleep loss. We investigated this using a cross-sectional and longitudinal sample of 47,029 participants of both sexes (20-89 years) from the Lifebrain consortium, Human Connectome project (HCP) and UK Biobank (UKB), with measures of self-reported sleep, including 51,295 MRIs of the brain and cognitive tests. A total of 740 participants who reported to sleep <6 h did not experience daytime sleepiness or sleep problems/disturbances interfering with falling or staying asleep. These short sleepers showed significantly larger regional brain volumes than both short sleepers with daytime sleepiness and sleep problems (n = 1742) and participants sleeping the recommended 7-8 h (n = 3886). However, both groups of short sleepers showed slightly lower general cognitive function (GCA), 0.16 and 0.19 SDs, respectively. Analyses using accelerometer-estimated sleep duration confirmed the findings, and the associations remained after controlling for body mass index, depression symptoms, income, and education. The results suggest that some people can cope with less sleep without obvious negative associations with brain morphometry and that sleepiness and sleep problems may be more related to brain structural differences than duration. However, the slightly lower performance on tests of general cognitive abilities warrants closer examination in natural settings.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Short habitual sleep is prevalent, with unknown consequences for brain health and cognitive performance. Here, we show that daytime sleepiness and sleep problems are more strongly related to regional brain volumes than sleep duration. However, participants sleeping ≤6 h had slightly lower scores on tests of general cognitive function (GCA). This indicates that sleep need is individual and that sleep duration per se is very weakly if at all related brain health, while daytime sleepiness and sleep problems may show somewhat stronger associations. The association between habitual short sleep and lower scores on tests of general cognitive abilities must be further scrutinized in natural settings.
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- Anders M Fjell
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0373 Oslo, Norway
- Computational Radiology and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, 0424 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0373 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0373 Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0373 Oslo, Norway
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital-Amager and Hvidovre, 2650 Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital-Amager and Hvidovre, 2650 Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, 907 36 Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, 907 36 Umeå, Sweden
- Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen (ISMC), Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2020 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychology, MSB Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Biology of Aging working group, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
- Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10178 Berlin, Germany
- BCRT - Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Vitas AS, The Science Park, 0349 Oslo, Norway
- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of 0372 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
- UniDistance Suisse, 3900 Brig, Switzerland
- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital-Amager and Hvidovre, 2650 Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Radiography, Department of Technology, University College Copenhagen, 1799 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0373 Oslo, Norway
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, 907 36 Umeå, Sweden
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), 08036 Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0373 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Oslo Delirium Research Group, Oslo University Hospital, 0424 Oslo, Norway
- Department of Geriatric Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, 1478 Lørenskog, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Campus Ahus, University of Oslo, 1478, Lørenskog, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, 0373 Oslo, Norway
- Computational Radiology and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, 0424 Oslo, Norway
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Lövdén M, Pagin A, Bartrés-Faz D, Boraxbekk CJ, Brandmaier AM, Demnitz N, Drevon CA, Ebmeier KP, Fjell AM, Ghisletta P, Gorbach T, Lindenberger U, Plachti A, Walhovd KB, Nyberg L. No moderating influence of education on the association between changes in hippocampus volume and memory performance in aging. AGING BRAIN 2023; 4:100082. [PMID: 37457634 PMCID: PMC10338350 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2023] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Contemporary accounts of factors that may modify the risk for age-related neurocognitive disorders highlight education and its contribution to a cognitive reserve. By this view, individuals with higher educational attainment should show weaker associations between changes in brain and cognition than individuals with lower educational attainment. We tested this prediction in longitudinal data on hippocampus volume and episodic memory from 708 middle-aged and older individuals using local structural equation modeling. This technique does not require categorization of years of education and does not constrain the shape of relationships, thereby maximizing the chances of revealing an effect of education on the hippocampus-memory association. The results showed that the data were plausible under the assumption that there was no influence of education on the association between change in episodic memory and change in hippocampus volume. Restricting the sample to individuals with elevated genetic risk for dementia (APOE ε4 carriers) did not change these results. We conclude that the influence of education on changes in episodic memory and hippocampus volume is inconsistent with predictions by the cognitive reserve theory.
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- Martin Lövdén
- Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital – Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen (ISMC) and Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Psychology, MSB Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital – Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo & Vitas AS, Oslo Science Park, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, POB 1094, 0317 Oslo, Norway
- ComputationalRadiology and Artificial Intelligence, Division of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Norway
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital – Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, POB 1094, 0317 Oslo, Norway
- ComputationalRadiology and Artificial Intelligence, Division of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Norway
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Håglin S, Koch E, Schäfer Hackenhaar F, Nyberg L, Kauppi K. APOE ɛ4, but not polygenic Alzheimer's disease risk, is related to longitudinal decrease in hippocampal brain activity in non-demented individuals. Sci Rep 2023; 13:8433. [PMID: 37225733 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35316-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023] Open
Abstract
The hippocampus is affected early in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and altered hippocampal functioning influences normal cognitive aging. Here, we used task-based functional MRI to assess if the APOE ɛ4 allele or a polygenic risk score (PRS) for AD was linked to longitudinal changes in memory-related hippocampal activation in normal aging (baseline age 50-95, n = 292; n = 182 at 4 years follow-up, subsequently non-demented for at least 2 years). Mixed-models were used to predict level and change in hippocampal activation by APOE ɛ4 status and PRS based on gene variants previously linked to AD at p ≤ 1, p < 0.05, or p < 5e-8 (excluding APOE). APOE ɛ4 and PRSp<5e-8 significantly predicted AD risk in a larger sample from the same study population (n = 1542), while PRSp≤1 predicted memory decline. APOE ɛ4 was linked to decreased hippocampal activation over time, with the most prominent effect in the posterior hippocampi, while PRS was unrelated to hippocampal activation at all p-thresholds. These results suggests a link for APOE ɛ4, but not for AD genetics in general, on functional changes of the hippocampi in normal aging.
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- Sofia Håglin
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Division of Mental Health and Addiction, NORMENT, Centre for Mental Disorders Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden.
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden.
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Glavis-Bloom C, Vanderlip CR, Asch PA, Reynolds JH. Domain-specific cognitive impairment reflects prefrontal dysfunction in aged common marmosets. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.05.22.541766. [PMID: 37292989 PMCID: PMC10245905 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.22.541766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
Age-related cognitive impairment is not expressed uniformly across cognitive domains. Cognitive functions that rely on brain areas that undergo substantial neuroanatomical changes with age often show age-related impairment, while those that rely on brain areas with minimal age-related change typically do not. The common marmoset has grown in popularity as a model for neuroscience research, but robust cognitive phenotyping, particularly as a function of age and across multiple cognitive domains, is lacking. This presents a major limitation for the development and evaluation of the marmoset as a model of cognitive aging, and leaves open the question of whether they exhibit age-related cognitive impairment that is restricted to some cognitive domains, as in humans. In this study, we characterized stimulus-reward association learning and cognitive flexibility in young adults to geriatric marmosets using a Simple Discrimination and a Serial Reversal task, respectively. We found that aged marmosets show transient impairment in "learning-to-learn" but have conserved ability to form stimulus-reward associations. Furthermore, aged marmosets have impaired cognitive flexibility driven by susceptibility to proactive interference. Since these impairments are in domains critically dependent on the prefrontal cortex, our findings support prefrontal cortical dysfunction as a prominent feature of neurocognitive aging. This work positions the marmoset as a key model for understanding the neural underpinnings of cognitive aging. Significance Statement Aging is the greatest risk factor for neurodegenerative disease development, and understanding why is critical for the development of effective therapeutics. The common marmoset, a short-lived non-human primate with neuroanatomical similarity to humans, has gained traction for neuroscientific investigations. However, the lack of robust cognitive phenotyping, particularly as a function of age and across multiple cognitive domains limits their validity as a model for age-related cognitive impairment. We demonstrate that aging marmosets, like humans, have impairment that is specific to cognitive domains reliant on brain areas that undergo substantial neuroanatomical changes with age. This work validates the marmoset as a key model for understanding region-specific vulnerability to the aging process.
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- Courtney Glavis-Bloom
- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037
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- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037
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- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037
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- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037
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Glavis-Bloom C, Vanderlip CR, Weiser Novak S, Kuwajima M, Kirk L, Harris KM, Manor U, Reynolds JH. Violation of the ultrastructural size principle in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex underlies working memory impairment in the aged common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Front Aging Neurosci 2023; 15:1146245. [PMID: 37122384 PMCID: PMC10132463 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2023.1146245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/02/2023] Open
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Morphology and function of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), and corresponding working memory performance, are affected early in the aging process, but nearly half of aged individuals are spared of working memory deficits. Translationally relevant model systems are critical for determining the neurobiological drivers of this variability. The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) is advantageous as a model for these investigations because, as a non-human primate, marmosets have a clearly defined dlPFC that enables measurement of prefrontal-dependent cognitive functions, and their short (∼10 year) lifespan facilitates longitudinal studies of aging. Previously, we characterized working memory capacity in a cohort of marmosets that collectively covered the lifespan, and found age-related working memory impairment. We also found a remarkable degree of heterogeneity in performance, similar to that found in humans. Here, we tested the hypothesis that changes to synaptic ultrastructure that affect synaptic efficacy stratify marmosets that age with cognitive impairment from those that age without cognitive impairment. We utilized electron microscopy to visualize synapses in the marmoset dlPFC and measured the sizes of boutons, presynaptic mitochondria, and synapses. We found that coordinated scaling of the sizes of synapses and mitochondria with their associated boutons is essential for intact working memory performance in aged marmosets. Further, lack of synaptic scaling, due to a remarkable failure of synaptic mitochondria to scale with presynaptic boutons, selectively underlies age-related working memory impairment. We posit that this decoupling results in mismatched energy supply and demand, leading to impaired synaptic transmission. We also found that aged marmosets have fewer synapses in dlPFC than young, though the severity of synapse loss did not predict whether aging occurred with or without cognitive impairment. This work identifies a novel mechanism of synapse dysfunction that stratifies marmosets that age with cognitive impairment from those that age without cognitive impairment. The process by which synaptic scaling is regulated is yet unknown and warrants future investigation.
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- Courtney Glavis-Bloom
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience, Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
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- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, La Jolla, CA, United States
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Koch E, Johnell K, Kauppi K. Longitudinal effects of using and discontinuing central nervous system medications on cognitive functioning. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2023; 32:446-454. [PMID: 36357173 DOI: 10.1002/pds.5569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Revised: 09/23/2022] [Accepted: 11/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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PURPOSE To investigate the longitudinal effect of using and discontinuing central nervous system (CNS) medications on cognitive performance. METHODS Using longitudinal cognitive data from population representative adults aged 25-100 years (N = 2188) from four test waves 5 years apart, we investigated both the link between use of CNS medications (opioids, anxiolytics, hypnotics and sedatives) on cognitive task performance (episodic memory, semantic memory, visuospatial ability) across 15 years, and the effect of discontinuing these medications in linear mixed effects models. RESULTS We found that opioid use was associated with decline in visuospatial ability whereas using anxiolytics, hypnotics and sedatives was not associated with cognitive decline over 15 years. A link between drug discontinuation and cognitive improvement was seen for opioids as well as for anxiolytics, hypnotics and sedatives. CONCLUSIONS Although our results may be confounded by subjacent conditions, they suggest that long-term use of CNS medications may have domain-specific negative effects on cognitive performance over time, whereas the discontinuation of these medications may partly reverse these effects. These results open up for future studies that address subjacent conditions on cognition to develop a more complete understanding of the cognitive effects of CNS medications.
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- Elise Koch
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Sweden
- NORMENT Centre, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Sweden
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Noroozian M, Kormi-Nouri R, Nyberg L, Persson J. Hippocampal and motor regions contribute to memory benefits after enacted encoding: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:3080-3097. [PMID: 35802485 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Revised: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The neurobiological underpinnings of action-related episodic memory and how enactment contributes to efficient memory encoding are not well understood. We examine whether individual differences in level (n = 338) and 5-year change (n = 248) in the ability to benefit from motor involvement during memory encoding are related to gray matter (GM) volume, white matter (WM) integrity, and dopamine-regulating genes in a population-based cohort (age range = 25-80 years). A latent profile analysis identified 2 groups with similar performance on verbal encoding but with marked differences in the ability to benefit from motor involvement during memory encoding. Impaired ability to benefit from enactment was paired with smaller HC, parahippocampal, and putamen volume along with lower WM microstructure in the fornix. Individuals with reduced ability to benefit from encoding enactment over 5 years were characterized by reduced HC and motor cortex GM volume along with reduced WM microstructure in several WM tracts. Moreover, the proportion of catechol-O-methyltransferase-Val-carriers differed significantly between classes identified from the latent-profile analysis. These results provide converging evidence that individuals with low or declining ability to benefit from motor involvement during memory encoding are characterized by low and reduced GM volume in regions critical for memory and motor functions along with altered WM microstructure.
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- Maryam Noroozian
- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, South Kargar Str., Tehran 13185/1741, Iran
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- School of Law, Psychology and Social Work, Örebro University, Fakultetsgatan 1, Örebro 702 81, Sweden
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Radiology, Umeå University, Universitetstorget 4, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Universitetstorget 4, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Universitetstorget 4, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
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- School of Law, Psychology and Social Work, Center for Lifespan Developmental Research (LEADER), Örebro University, Fakultetsgatan 1, Örebro 702 81, Sweden
- Aging Research Center (ARC), Stockholm University and Karolinska Institute, Tomtebodavägen 18A, Solna 171 65, Sweden
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Vints WA, Kušleikienė S, Sheoran S, Valatkevičienė K, Gleiznienė R, Himmelreich U, Pääsuke M, Česnaitienė VJ, Levin O, Verbunt J, Masiulis N. Body fat and components of sarcopenia relate to inflammation, brain volume and neurometabolism in older adults. Neurobiol Aging 2023; 127:1-11. [PMID: 37004309 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Obesity and sarcopenia are associated with cognitive impairments at older age. Current research suggests that blood biomarkers may mediate this body-brain crosstalk, altering neurometabolism and brain structure eventually resulting in cognitive performance changes. Seventy-four older adults (60-85 years old) underwent bio-impedance body composition analysis, handgrip strength measurements, 8-Foot Up-and-Go (8UG) test, Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), blood analysis of interleukin-6 (IL-6), kynurenine, and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), as well as brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS), estimating neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation. Normal fat% or overweight was associated with larger total gray matter volume compared to underweight or obesity in older adults and obesity was associated with higher N-acetylaspartate/Creatine levels in the sensorimotor and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Muscle strength, not muscle mass/physical performance, corresponded to lower kynurenine and higher N-acetylaspartate/Creatine levels in the dorsal posterior cingulate and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The inflammatory and neurotrophic blood biomarkers did not significantly mediate these body-brain associations. This study used a multimodal approach to comprehensively assess the proposed mechanism of body-brain crosstalk.
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No signs of neurodegenerative effects in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 copy number variant carriers in the UK Biobank. Transl Psychiatry 2023; 13:61. [PMID: 36807331 PMCID: PMC9938862 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-023-02358-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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The 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 copy number variant (CNV) is associated with altered brain morphology and risk for atypical development, including increased risk for schizophrenia and learning difficulties for the deletion. However, it is still unclear whether differences in brain morphology are associated with neurodevelopmental or neurodegenerative processes. This study derived morphological brain MRI measures in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 deletion (n = 124) and duplication carriers (n = 142), and matched deletion-controls (n = 496) and duplication-controls (n = 568) from the UK Biobank study to investigate the association with brain morphology and estimates of brain ageing. Further, we examined the ageing trajectory of age-affected measures (i.e., cortical thickness, surface area, subcortical volume, reaction time, hand grip strength, lung function, and blood pressure) in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 CNV carriers compared to non-carriers. In this ageing population, the results from the machine learning models showed that the estimated brain age gaps did not differ between the 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 CNV carriers and non-carriers, despite deletion carriers displaying thicker cortex and lower subcortical volume compared to the deletion-controls and duplication carriers, and lower surface area compared to the deletion-controls. Likewise, the 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 CNV carriers did not deviate from the ageing trajectory on any of the age-affected measures examined compared to non-carriers. Despite altered brain morphology in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 CNV carriers, the results did not show any clear signs of apparent altered ageing in brain structure, nor in motor, lung or heart function. The results do not indicate neurodegenerative effects in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 CNV carriers.
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Andersson J, Sundström A, Nordin M, Segersson D, Forsberg B, Adolfsson R, Oudin A. PM2.5 and Dementia in a Low Exposure Setting: The Influence of Odor Identification Ability and APOE. J Alzheimers Dis 2023; 92:679-689. [PMID: 36776047 PMCID: PMC10041445 DOI: 10.3233/jad-220469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Growing evidence show that long term exposure to air pollution increases the risk of dementia. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate associations between PM2.5 exposure and dementia in a low exposure area, and to investigate the role of olfaction and the APOE ɛ4 allele in these associations. METHODS Data were drawn from the Betula project, a longitudinal study on aging, memory, and dementia in Sweden. Odor identification ability was assessed using the Scandinavian Odor Identification Test (SOIT). Annual mean PM2.5 concentrations were obtained from a dispersion-model and matched at the participants' residential address. Proportional hazard regression was used to calculate hazard ratios. RESULTS Of 1,846 participants, 348 developed dementia during the 21-year follow-up period. The average annual mean PM2.5 exposure at baseline was 6.77μg/m3, which is 1.77μg/m3 above the WHO definition of clean air. In a fully adjusted model (adjusted for age, sex, APOE, SOIT, cardiovascular diseases and risk factors, and education) each 1μg/m3 difference in annual mean PM2.5-concentration was associated with a hazard ratio of 1.23 for dementia (95% CI: 1.01-1.50). Analyses stratified by APOE status (ɛ4 carriers versus non-carriers), and odor identification ability (high versus low), showed associations only for ɛ4 carriers, and for low performance on odor identification ability. CONCLUSION PM2.5 was associated with an increased risk of dementia in this low pollution setting. The associations between PM2.5 and dementia seemed stronger in APOE carriers and those with below average odor identification ability.
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- Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.,Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR), Umeå University, Sweden.,Department of Research and Development, Sundsvall Hospital, Sundsvall, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Norrköping, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.,Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Ticha Z, Georgi H, Schmand B, Heissler R, Kopecek M. Processing speed predicts SuperAging years later. BMC Psychol 2023; 11:34. [PMID: 36732871 PMCID: PMC9896833 DOI: 10.1186/s40359-023-01069-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND SuperAging is one of the current concepts related to elite, resilient or high-functioning cognitive aging. The main aim of our study was to find possible predictors of SuperAgers (SA). METHODS Community-dwelling older persons (N = 96) aged 80-101 years in 2018 were repeatedly tested (year 2012 and 2018). SA were defined based on their performance in 2018 as persons of 80+ years of age who recalled ≥ 9 words in the delayed recall of the Philadelphia Verbal Learning Test, and had a normal performance in non-memory tasks [the Boston Naming Test, the Trail Making Test Part B, and Category Fluency ("Animals")], which was defined as a score within or above one standard deviation from the age and education appropriate average. Three composite scores (CS; immediate memory, processing speed, and executive functions) were created from the performance in 2012, and analysed as possible predictors of SA status in 2018. RESULTS We identified 19 SA (15 females) and 77 nonSA (42 females), groups did not significantly differ in age, years of education, and sex. The logistic regression model (p = 0.028) revealed three predictors of SA from the baseline (year 2012), including processing speed (p = 0.006; CS-speed: the Prague Stroop Test-Dots and the Digit Symbol Substitution Test), sex (p = 0.015), and age (p = 0.045). CONCLUSIONS Thus, SA may be predicted based on the level of processing speed, which supports the hypothesis of the processing speed theory of healthy aging.
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- Zuzana Ticha
- grid.445531.20000 0004 0485 9760Prague College of Psychosocial Studies, Hekrova 805, 149 00 Prague 11, Háje, Czech Republic
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- grid.445531.20000 0004 0485 9760Prague College of Psychosocial Studies, Hekrova 805, 149 00 Prague 11, Háje, Czech Republic
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- grid.7177.60000000084992262Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- grid.447902.cNational Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic
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- grid.447902.cNational Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic ,grid.4491.80000 0004 1937 116XDepartment of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Aung HL, Siefried KJ, Gates TM, Brew BJ, Mao L, Carr A, Cysique LA. Meaningful cognitive decline is uncommon in virally suppressed HIV, but sustained impairment, subtle decline and abnormal cognitive aging are not. EClinicalMedicine 2023; 56:101792. [PMID: 36618901 PMCID: PMC9813694 DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2022] [Revised: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Background High antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage and viral suppression among people with HIV (PWH) in Australia provide a unique context to study individual cognitive trajectories, cognitive aging and factors associated with longitudinal cognitive function during chronic and stable HIV disease. Methods Participants from the Predictors of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy study (n = 457, recruited between September 2013 and November 2015, median age = 52 years, and all with HIV RNA <50 copies mL) completed a cognitive assessment with CogState Computerized Battery (CCB) at baseline, Month-12, and Month-24. Demographics, psycho-social and socioeconomic factors, healthcare seeking behaviors, HIV disease characteristics and comorbidities were assessed. The CCB data were corrected for age, sex and practice effect and averaged into a global z-score (GZS). Cognitive impairment was defined with the global deficit score method (GDS>0.5). Meaningful cognitive change was statistically defined (decline or improvement versus stability, i.e., 90% CI, that is p < 0.05, 2-tailed) using a novel evidence-based change score: the linear mixed-effect regression (LMER)-based GZS change score. A separate LMER model with a top-down variable selection approach identified the independent effects of age and other demographic, HIV disease characteristics, socioeconomic and health-related factors on the demographically corrected GZS. The combined definitions of change and cross-sectional impairment enabled the identification of cognitive trajectories. Findings At Month-12 and Month-24, 6% and 7% showed meaningful cognitive decline and 4% and 3% improved respectively. Only 1% showed sustained decline. Incident impairment due to subtle cognitive decline (i.e., below the threshold of meaningful cognitive decline) was 31% and 25% at Month-12 and Month-24, while 14% showed sustained impairment (i.e., cognitively impaired at all study visits). Older age (≥50 years) and time interaction was associated with lower demographically corrected GZS (β = -0.31, p < 0.001). Having a regular relationship, excellent English proficiency, and perceived stigma (avoidance) were associated with higher GZS (all p < 0.05). Relying on government subsidy, severe depression, and lower belief in ART necessity and higher concerns were associated with lower GZS (all p < 0.05). No HIV disease characteristics had a significant effect. Interpretations Meaningful cognitive decline was not different from normal expectation in chronic stable HIV disease. Despite this, subtle cognitive decline, sustained cognitive impairment, and greater than normative-age cognitive aging were evident. Funding Funding for the PAART study was provided in part by unrestricted educational grants from Gilead Sciences (www.gilead.com) (Grant Number: IN-AU-264- 0131), the Balnaves Foundation (www.balnavesfoundation.com), the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (Australia) (www.dhs.vic.gov.au/home), Western Australia Health (www.health.wa.gov.au), the ACT Ministry of Health (Australia) (www.health.act.gov.au), and in-kind support from the Queensland Department of Health (Australia) (www.health.qld.gov.au), and NHMRC Partnership grant APP1058474 (PI: Carr, Andrew).
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- Htein Linn Aung
- St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Australia
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- St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
- Immunology and HIV Unit, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
- The National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs, Sydney, Australia
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- St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
- Departments of Neurology and HIV Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Australia
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- St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Australia
- Departments of Neurology and HIV Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
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- St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
- Immunology and HIV Unit, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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- St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
- Departments of Neurology and HIV Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Australia
- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Schäfer Hackenhaar F, Josefsson M, Nordin Adolfsson A, Landfors M, Kauppi K, Porter T, Milicic L, Laws SM, Hultdin M, Adolfsson R, Degerman S, Pudas S. Sixteen-Year Longitudinal Evaluation of Blood-Based DNA Methylation Biomarkers for Early Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease. J Alzheimers Dis 2023; 94:1443-1464. [PMID: 37393498 PMCID: PMC10473121 DOI: 10.3233/jad-230039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND DNA methylation (DNAm), an epigenetic mark reflecting both inherited and environmental influences, has shown promise for Alzheimer's disease (AD) prediction. OBJECTIVE Testing long-term predictive ability (>15 years) of existing DNAm-based epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) measures and identifying novel early blood-based DNAm AD-prediction biomarkers. METHODS EAA measures calculated from Illumina EPIC data from blood were tested with linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) in a longitudinal case-control sample (50 late-onset AD cases; 51 matched controls) with prospective data up to 16 years before clinical onset, and post-onset follow-up. Novel DNAm biomarkers were generated with epigenome-wide LMMs, and Sparse Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis applied at pre- (10-16 years), and post-AD-onset time-points. RESULTS EAA did not differentiate cases from controls during the follow-up time (p > 0.05). Three new DNA biomarkers showed in-sample predictive ability on average 8 years pre-onset, after adjustment for age, sex, and white blood cell proportions (p-values: 0.022-<0.00001). Our longitudinally-derived panel replicated nominally (p = 0.012) in an external cohort (n = 146 cases, 324 controls). However, its effect size and discriminatory accuracy were limited compared to APOEɛ4-carriership (OR = 1.38 per 1 SD DNAm score increase versus OR = 13.58 for ɛ4-allele carriage; AUCs = 77.2% versus 87.0%). Literature review showed low overlap (n = 4) across 3275 AD-associated CpGs from 8 published studies, and no overlap with our identified CpGs.
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- Fernanda Schäfer Hackenhaar
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Statistics, USBE, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Center for Ageing and Demographic Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Precision Health, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia
- Collaborative Genomics and Translation Group, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia
- Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia
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- Centre for Precision Health, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia
- Collaborative Genomics and Translation Group, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia
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- Centre for Precision Health, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia
- Collaborative Genomics and Translation Group, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia
- Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Pathology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Nyberg L, Andersson M, Lundquist A. Longitudinal change-change associations of cognition with cortical thickness and surface area. AGING BRAIN 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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Yang Y, Chen Y, Yang C, Chen K, Li X, Zhang Z. Contributions of early-life cognitive reserve and late-life leisure activity to successful and pathological cognitive aging. BMC Geriatr 2022; 22:831. [PMID: 36319960 PMCID: PMC9628084 DOI: 10.1186/s12877-022-03530-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The identification of factors that specifically influence pathological and successful cognitive aging is a prerequisite for implementing disease prevention and promoting successful aging. However, multi-domain behavioral factors that characterize the difference between successful and pathological cognitive aging are not clear yet. METHODS A group of community-dwelling older adults (N = 1347, aged 70-88 years) in Beijing was recruited in this cross-sectional study, and a sub-cohort was further divided into successful cognitive aging (SCA, N = 154), mild cognitive impairment (MCI, N = 256), and cognitively normal control (CNC, N = 173) groups. Analyses of variance, regression models with the Shapley value algorithm, and structural equation model (SEM) analyses were conducted to determine specific influencing factors and to evaluate their relative importance and interacting relationships in altering cognitive performance. RESULTS We found that abundant early-life cognitive reserve (ECR, including the level of education and occupational attainment) and reduced late-life leisure activity (LLA, including mental, physical, and social activities) were distinct characteristics of SCA and MCI, respectively. The level of education, age, mental activity, and occupational attainment were the top four important factors that explained 31.6% of cognitive variability. By SEM analyses, we firstly found that LLA partially mediated the relationship between ECR and cognition; and further multi-group SEM analyses showed ECR played a more direct role in the SCA group than in the MCI group: in the SCA group, only the direct effect of ECR on cognition was significant, and in the MCI group, direct effects between ECR, LLA and cognition were all significant. CONCLUSIONS Results of this large-sample community-based study suggest it is important for older adults to have an abundant ECR for SCA, and to keep a high level of LLA to prevent cognitive impairment. This study clarifies the important rankings of behavioral characteristics of cognitive aging, and the relationship that ECR has a long-lasting effect on LLA and finally on cognition, providing efficient guidance for older adults to improve their cognitive function and new evidence to explain the heterogeneity of cognitive aging.
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- Yiru Yang
- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, No.19, Xinjiekouwai Street, Beijing, 100875 China ,grid.27255.370000 0004 1761 1174School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250012 Shandong China ,grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964Beijing Aging Brain Rejuvenation Initiative (BABRI) Centre, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, No.19, Xinjiekouwai Street, Beijing, 100875 China ,grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964Beijing Aging Brain Rejuvenation Initiative (BABRI) Centre, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, No.19, Xinjiekouwai Street, Beijing, 100875 China ,grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964Beijing Aging Brain Rejuvenation Initiative (BABRI) Centre, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China ,grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964Beijing Aging Brain Rejuvenation Initiative (BABRI) Centre, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China ,grid.418204.b0000 0004 0406 4925Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, Phoenix, AZ 85006 USA
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, No.19, Xinjiekouwai Street, Beijing, 100875 China ,grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964Beijing Aging Brain Rejuvenation Initiative (BABRI) Centre, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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- grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, No.19, Xinjiekouwai Street, Beijing, 100875 China ,grid.20513.350000 0004 1789 9964Beijing Aging Brain Rejuvenation Initiative (BABRI) Centre, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875 China
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Walhovd KB, Nyberg L, Lindenberger U, Amlien IK, Sørensen Ø, Wang Y, Mowinckel AM, Kievit RA, Ebmeier KP, Bartrés-Faz D, Kühn S, Boraxbekk CJ, Ghisletta P, Madsen KS, Baaré WFC, Zsoldos E, Magnussen F, Vidal-Piñeiro D, Penninx B, Fjell AM. Brain aging differs with cognitive ability regardless of education. Sci Rep 2022; 12:13886. [PMID: 35974034 PMCID: PMC9381768 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-17727-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Accepted: 07/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Higher general cognitive ability (GCA) is associated with lower risk of neurodegenerative disorders, but neural mechanisms are unknown. GCA could be associated with more cortical tissue, from young age, i.e. brain reserve, or less cortical atrophy in adulthood, i.e. brain maintenance. Controlling for education, we investigated the relative association of GCA with reserve and maintenance of cortical volume, -area and -thickness through the adult lifespan, using multiple longitudinal cognitively healthy brain imaging cohorts (n = 3327, 7002 MRI scans, baseline age 20-88 years, followed-up for up to 11 years). There were widespread positive relationships between GCA and cortical characteristics (level-level associations). In select regions, higher baseline GCA was associated with less atrophy over time (level-change associations). Relationships remained when controlling for polygenic scores for both GCA and education. Our findings suggest that higher GCA is associated with cortical volumes by both brain reserve and -maintenance mechanisms through the adult lifespan.
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- Kristine B Walhovd
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Blindern, POB1094, 0317, Oslo, Norway.
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Blindern, POB1094, 0317, Oslo, Norway
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Blindern, POB1094, 0317, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Blindern, POB1094, 0317, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Blindern, POB1094, 0317, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Blindern, POB1094, 0317, Oslo, Norway
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, The Netherlands, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences & Institute of Neurosciences, Universitat de Barcelona, and Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Clinic and Policlinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen (ISMC) and Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland
- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Radiography, Department of Technology, University College Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Welcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Blindern, POB1094, 0317, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Blindern, POB1094, 0317, Oslo, Norway
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- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Blindern, POB1094, 0317, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Batta I, Abrol A, Calhoun VD, the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. SVR-based Multimodal Active Subspace Analysis for the Brain using Neuroimaging Data.. [DOI: 10.1101/2022.07.28.501879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/27/2023]
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ABSTRACTUnderstanding the patterns of changes in brain function and structure due to various disorders and diseases is of utmost importance. There have been numerous efforts toward successful biomarker discovery for complex brain disorders by evaluating neuroimaging datasets with novel analytical frameworks. However, due to the multi-faceted nature of the disorders involving a wide and overlapping range of symptoms as well as complex changes in structural and functional brain networks, it is increasingly important to devise computational frameworks that can consider the underlying patterns of heterogeneous changes with specific target assessments, at the same time producing a summarizing output from the high-dimensional neuroimaging data. While various machine learning approaches focus on diagnostic prediction, many learning frameworks analyze important features at the level of brain regions involved in prediction using supervised methods. Unsupervised learning methods have also been utilized to break down the neuroimaging features into lower dimensional components. However, most learning frameworks either do not consider the target assessment information while extracting brain subspaces, or can extract only higher dimensional importance associations as an ordered list of involved features, making manual interpretation at the level of subspaces difficult. We present a novel multimodal active subspace learning framework to understand various subspaces within the brain that are associated with changes in particular biological and cognitive traits. For a given cognitive or biological trait, our framework performs a decomposition of the feature importances to extract robust multimodal subspaces that define the most significant change in the given trait. Through a rigorous cross-validation procedure on an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dataset, we show that our framework can extract subspaces covering both functional and structural modalities, which are specific to a given clinical assessment (like memory and other cognitive skills) and also retain predictive performance in standard machine learning algorithms. We show that our framework not only uncovers AD-related brain regions (e.g., hippocampus, entorhinal cortex) in the associated brain subspaces, but also enables an automated identification of multiple underlying structural and functional sub-systems of the brain that collectively characterize changes in memory and cognitive skill proficiency related to brain disorders like AD.
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Dinneen E, Grierson J, Almeida-Magana R, Clow R, Haider A, Allen C, Heffernan-Ho D, Freeman A, Briggs T, Nathan S, Mallett S, Brew-Graves C, Muirhead N, Williams NR, Pizzo E, Persad R, Aning J, Johnson L, Oxley J, Oakley N, Morgan S, Tahir F, Ahmad I, Dutto L, Salmond JM, Kelkar A, Kelly J, Shaw G. NeuroSAFE PROOF: study protocol for a single-blinded, IDEAL stage 3, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial of NeuroSAFE robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy versus standard robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy in men with localized prostate cancer. Trials 2022; 23:584. [PMID: 35869497 PMCID: PMC9306247 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-022-06421-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 05/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Robotic radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a first-line curative treatment option for localized prostate cancer. Postoperative erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence are common associated adverse side effects that can negatively impact patients' quality of life. Preserving the lateral neurovascular bundles (NS) during RARP improves functional outcomes. However, selecting men for NS may be difficult when there is concern about incurring in positive surgical margin (PSM) which in turn risks adverse oncological outcomes. The NeuroSAFE technique (intra-operative frozen section examination of the neurovascular structure adjacent prostate margin) can provide real-time pathological consult to promote optimal NS whilst avoiding PSM. METHODS NeuroSAFE PROOF is a single-blinded, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial (RCT) in which men are randomly allocated 1:1 to either NeuroSAFE RARP or standard RARP. Men electing for RARP as primary treatment, who are continent and have good baseline erectile function (EF), defined by International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-5) score > 21, are eligible. NS in the intervention arm is guided by the NeuroSAFE technique. NS in the standard arm is based on standard of care, i.e. a pre-operative image-based planning meeting, patient-specific clinical information, and digital rectal examination. The primary outcome is assessment of EF at 12 months. The primary endpoint is the proportion of men who achieve IIEF-5 score ≥ 21. A sample size of 404 was calculated to give a power of 90% to detect a difference of 14% between groups based on a feasibility study. Oncological outcomes are continuously monitored by an independent Data Monitoring Committee. Key secondary outcomes include urinary continence at 3 months assessed by the international consultation on incontinence questionnaire, rate of biochemical recurrence, EF recovery at 24 months, and difference in quality of life. DISCUSSION NeuroSAFE PROOF is the first RCT of intra-operative frozen section during radical prostatectomy in the world. It is properly powered to evaluate a difference in the recovery of EF for men undergoing RARP assessed by patient-reported outcome measures. It will provide evidence to guide the use of the NeuroSAFE technique around the world. TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT03317990 (23 October 2017). Regional Ethics Committee; reference 17/LO/1978.
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- Eoin Dinneen
- Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK.
- University College Hospital London, Department of Urology, Westmoreland Street Hospital, 6-18 Westmoreland Street, W1G 8PH, London, UK.
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- Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK
- University College Hospital London, Department of Urology, Westmoreland Street Hospital, 6-18 Westmoreland Street, W1G 8PH, London, UK
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- Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK
- University College Hospital London, Department of Urology, Westmoreland Street Hospital, 6-18 Westmoreland Street, W1G 8PH, London, UK
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- University College Hospital London, Department of Histopathology, 235 Euston Road, Bristol, NW1 2BU, UK
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- University College Hospital London, Department of Urology, Westmoreland Street Hospital, 6-18 Westmoreland Street, W1G 8PH, London, UK
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- University College Hospital London, Department of Urology, Westmoreland Street Hospital, 6-18 Westmoreland Street, W1G 8PH, London, UK
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- University College Hospital London, Department of Histopathology, 235 Euston Road, Bristol, NW1 2BU, UK
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- University College Hospital London, Department of Urology, Westmoreland Street Hospital, 6-18 Westmoreland Street, W1G 8PH, London, UK
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- University College Hospital London, Department of Urology, Westmoreland Street Hospital, 6-18 Westmoreland Street, W1G 8PH, London, UK
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- Division of Medicine, University College London, Charles Bell House, 43-45 Foley Street, Sheffield, W1W 7JN, UK
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- Division of Medicine, University College London, Charles Bell House, 43-45 Foley Street, Sheffield, W1W 7JN, UK
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- Division of Medicine, University College London, Charles Bell House, 43-45 Foley Street, Sheffield, W1W 7JN, UK
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- Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, Glasgow, WC1E 7HB, UK
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- North Bristol Hospitals Trust, Department of Urology, Southmead Hospital, Southmead Lane, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, BS10 5NB, UK
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- North Bristol Hospitals Trust, Department of Urology, Southmead Hospital, Southmead Lane, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, BS10 5NB, UK
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- North Bristol Hospitals Trust, Department of Urology, Southmead Hospital, Southmead Lane, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, BS10 5NB, UK
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- North Bristol Hospitals Trust, Department of Histopathology, Southmead Hospital, Southmead Lane, Westbury-on-Trym, BS10 5NB, Bristol, UK
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- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Department of Urology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, S10 2JF, UK
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- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Department of Histopathology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, S10 2JF, UK
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- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Department of Histopathology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, S10 2JF, UK
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- Glasgow & Clyde NHS Trust, Department of Urology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow, UK
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- Glasgow & Clyde NHS Trust, Department of Urology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow, UK
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- Glasgow & Clude NHS Trust, Department of Histopathology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow, UK
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- University College Hospital London, Department of Urology, Westmoreland Street Hospital, 6-18 Westmoreland Street, W1G 8PH, London, UK
- Barking Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals Trust, Rom Valley Way, Romford, RM7 0AG, UK
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- Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK
- University College Hospital London, Department of Urology, Westmoreland Street Hospital, 6-18 Westmoreland Street, W1G 8PH, London, UK
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- Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK
- University College Hospital London, Department of Urology, Westmoreland Street Hospital, 6-18 Westmoreland Street, W1G 8PH, London, UK
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Lopatko Lindman K, Lockman-Lundgren J, Weidung B, Olsson J, Elgh F, Lövheim H. Long-term time trends in reactivated herpes simplex infections and treatment in Sweden. BMC Infect Dis 2022; 22:547. [PMID: 35705911 PMCID: PMC9199307 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-022-07525-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Background Our aim was to describe the annual prevalence of herpes simplex virus (HSV) reactivation in relation to solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation and antiviral drug use in the Swedish adult population. Methods The study comprised 2879 anti-HSV-1 immunoglobulin (Ig) G positive subjects from five different cohorts who had donated serum from 1988 to 2010. The sera were analyzed for anti-HSV IgM using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Associations between the presence of anti-HSV IgM antibodies, the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele and the serum sampling year were assessed by logistic regression. Seasonality of anti-HSV IgM was evaluated in a UV radiation model. Data of antiviral drugs for the entire Swedish population were compiled from two different nationwide databases: the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register and the Swedish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry. Results Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses indicated that the prevalence of anti-HSV IgM antibodies declined between 1988 and 2010 (odds ratio [OR] = 0.912, p < .001), while the total annual use of antiviral drugs in Sweden gradually increased from 1984 to 2017. Higher UV radiation was associated with higher prevalence of anti-HSV IgM antibodies (OR = 1.071, p = .043). Conclusion The declining time trend of HSV reactivation in a Swedish cohort coincides with a steady increase of antiviral drug use in the Swedish general population. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12879-022-07525-w.
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- Karin Lopatko Lindman
- Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geriatric Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
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- Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geriatric Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geriatric Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.,Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Geriatric Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geriatric Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.,Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Olfactory distortions in the general population. Sci Rep 2022; 12:9776. [PMID: 35697904 PMCID: PMC9191403 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-13201-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Parosmia, distorted smell sensations, is a common consequence of respiratory virus infections. The phenomenon is not well understood in terms of its impact and long-term outcomes. We examined self-reported experiences of parosmia in a population-based sample from the Betula study that was conducted in Umeå in northern Sweden (baseline data collected in 1998–2000). We used a baseline sample of 2168 individuals aged 35–90 years and with no cognitive impairment at baseline. We investigated the prevalence of parosmia experiences and, using regression analyses, its relationship to other olfactory and cognitive variables and quality of life. Benefitting from the longitudinal study design, we also assessed the persistence of parosmia over 5 and 10 years prospectively. Parosmia experiences were prevalent in 4.8% of the population and it often co-occurred with phantosmia (“olfactory hallucinations”), but was not associated with lower self-rated overall quality of life or poor performance on olfactory or cognitive tests. For some individuals, parosmia was retained 5 years (17.0%) or even 10 years later (10.3%). Thus, parosmia experiences are commonly reported in the population, and can be persistent for some individuals, but might be mostly benign in nature. Our work complements research on clinical-level parosmia, which is typically more severe, and recent parosmia reports during the COVID-19 pandemic, where long-term outcomes are still unknown.
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Nordin K, Gorbach T, Pedersen R, Panes Lundmark V, Johansson J, Andersson M, McNulty C, Riklund K, Wåhlin A, Papenberg G, Kalpouzos G, Bäckman L, Salami A. DyNAMiC: A prospective longitudinal study of dopamine and brain connectomes: A new window into cognitive aging. J Neurosci Res 2022; 100:1296-1320. [PMID: 35293013 PMCID: PMC9313590 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.25039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 02/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Concomitant exploration of structural, functional, and neurochemical brain mechanisms underlying age-related cognitive decline is crucial in promoting healthy aging. Here, we present the DopamiNe, Age, connectoMe, and Cognition (DyNAMiC) project, a multimodal, prospective 5-year longitudinal study spanning the adult human lifespan. DyNAMiC examines age-related changes in the brain's structural and functional connectome in relation to changes in dopamine D1 receptor availability (D1DR), and their associations to cognitive decline. Critically, due to the complete lack of longitudinal D1DR data, the true trajectory of one of the most age-sensitive dopamine systems remains unknown. The first DyNAMiC wave included 180 healthy participants (20-80 years). Brain imaging included magnetic resonance imaging assessing brain structure (white matter, gray matter, iron), perfusion, and function (during rest and task), and positron emission tomography (PET) with the [11 C]SCH23390 radioligand. A subsample (n = 20, >65 years) was additionally scanned with [11 C]raclopride PET measuring D2DR. Age-related variation was evident for multiple modalities, such as D1DR; D2DR, and performance across the domains of episodic memory, working memory, and perceptual speed. Initial analyses demonstrated an inverted u-shaped association between D1DR and resting-state functional connectivity across cortical network nodes, such that regions with intermediate D1DR levels showed the highest levels of nodal strength. Evident within each age group, this is the first observation of such an association across the adult lifespan, suggesting that emergent functional architecture depends on underlying D1DR systems. Taken together, DyNAMiC is the largest D1DR study worldwide, and will enable a comprehensive examination of brain mechanisms underlying age-related cognitive decline.
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- Kristin Nordin
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)Umeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Department of Integrative Medical BiologyUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular MedicineUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Present address:
Aging Research CenterKarolinska Institutet & Stockholm UniversityStockholm11330Sweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)Umeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Department of Integrative Medical BiologyUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular MedicineUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Umeå School of Business, Economics and StatisticsUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)Umeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Department of Integrative Medical BiologyUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular MedicineUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)Umeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Department of Integrative Medical BiologyUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)Umeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular MedicineUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Department of Radiation SciencesUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)Umeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Department of Integrative Medical BiologyUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)Umeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Department of Integrative Medical BiologyUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular MedicineUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)Umeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Department of Radiation SciencesUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)Umeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Department of Radiation SciencesUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
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- Aging Research CenterKarolinska Institutet & Stockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
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- Aging Research CenterKarolinska Institutet & Stockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
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- Aging Research CenterKarolinska Institutet & Stockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)Umeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Department of Integrative Medical BiologyUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular MedicineUmeå UniversityUmeåSweden
- Aging Research CenterKarolinska Institutet & Stockholm UniversityStockholmSweden
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Lilja-Lund O, Nyberg L, Maripuu M, Laurell K. Dual-Task Performance in Older Adults With and Without Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:904194. [PMID: 35707704 PMCID: PMC9190777 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.904194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Two of the main features of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) are disturbed gait and cognition. These features are typically investigated separately, but here we combined walking with a cognitive task to investigate if older adults with iNPH were more susceptible to dual-task interference on walking than those without iNPH. In total, 95 individuals from the general population participated in our study. Of these, 20 were classified as Possible iNPH (median [interquartile range, IQR] 80 years [75–82.5]) and 75 as Unlikely iNPH (74 years [72–78]). Conversation, 10-m walking, semantic and phonemic verbal fluency were performed either combined or independently. “Stopping walking while talking” was noted. Pairwise comparisons and multiple logistic regression analyses were used. We found that the Possible iNPH group was older, stopped walking more frequently during the conversation, and had a slower single-task pace. The dual-task pace was slower for both groups. Only single-task walking pace could predict Possible iNPH when adjusted for age. We could establish a dual-task cost on gait performance in this sample of older adults from the general population, but the cost was not exclusive for individuals with Possible iNPH. To further assess the value of dual-task testing in iNPH, including observations of stopping walking while talking, a study of a clinical iNPH material with more severe symptoms would be valuable.
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- Otto Lilja-Lund
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Neuroscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- *Correspondence: Otto Lilja-Lund,
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Radiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Psychiatry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Neurology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Farnsworth von Cederwald B, Josefsson M, Wåhlin A, Nyberg L, Karalija N. Association of Cardiovascular Risk Trajectory With Cognitive Decline and Incident Dementia. Neurology 2022; 98:e2013-e2022. [PMID: 35444051 PMCID: PMC9162045 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000200255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Cardiovascular risk factors have a recently established association with cognitive decline and dementia, yet most studies examine this association through cross-sectional data, precluding an understanding of the longitudinal dynamics of such risk. The current study aims to explore how the ongoing trajectory of cardiovascular risk affects subsequent dementia and memory decline risk. We hypothesize that an accelerated, long-term accumulation of cardiovascular risk, as determined by the Framingham Risk Score (FRS), will be more detrimental to cognitive and dementia state outcomes than a stable cardiovascular risk. METHODS We assessed an initially healthy, community-dwelling sample recruited from the prospective cohort Betula study. Cardiovascular disease risk, as assessed by the FRS, episodic memory performance, and dementia status were measured at each 5-year time point (T) across 20 to 25 years. Analysis was performed with bayesian additive regression tree, a semiparametric machine-learning method, applied herein as a multistate survival analysis method. RESULTS Of the 1,244 participants, cardiovascular risk increased moderately over time in 60% of sample, with observations of an accelerated increase in 18% of individuals and minimal change in 22% of individuals. An accelerated, as opposed to a stable, cardiovascular risk trajectory predicted an increased risk of developing Alzheimer disease dementia (average risk ratio [RR] 3.3-5.7, 95% CI 2.6-17.5 at T2, 1.9-6.7 at T5) or vascular dementia (average RR 3.3-4.1, 95% CI 1.1-16.6 at T2, 1.5-7.6 at T5) and was associated with an increased risk of memory decline (average RR 1.4-1.2, 95% CI 1-1.9 at T2, 1-1.5 at T5). A stable cardiovascular risk trajectory appeared to partially mitigate Alzheimer disease dementia risk for APOE ε4 carriers. DISCUSSION The findings of the current study show that the longitudinal, cumulative trajectory of cardiovascular risk is predictive of dementia risk and associated with the emergence of memory decline. As a result, clinical practice may benefit from directing interventions at individuals with accelerating cardiovascular risk.
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- Bryn Farnsworth von Cederwald
- From the Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (B.F.v.C., M.J., A.W., L.N., N.K.), Department of Integrative Medical Biology (B.F.v.C., L.N.), Center for Demographic and Aging Research (M.J.), Department of Statistics (M.J.), Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, and Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology (L.N., N.K.) and Radiation Physics (A.W.), Umeå University, Sweden
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- From the Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (B.F.v.C., M.J., A.W., L.N., N.K.), Department of Integrative Medical Biology (B.F.v.C., L.N.), Center for Demographic and Aging Research (M.J.), Department of Statistics (M.J.), Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, and Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology (L.N., N.K.) and Radiation Physics (A.W.), Umeå University, Sweden
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- From the Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (B.F.v.C., M.J., A.W., L.N., N.K.), Department of Integrative Medical Biology (B.F.v.C., L.N.), Center for Demographic and Aging Research (M.J.), Department of Statistics (M.J.), Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, and Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology (L.N., N.K.) and Radiation Physics (A.W.), Umeå University, Sweden
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- From the Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (B.F.v.C., M.J., A.W., L.N., N.K.), Department of Integrative Medical Biology (B.F.v.C., L.N.), Center for Demographic and Aging Research (M.J.), Department of Statistics (M.J.), Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, and Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology (L.N., N.K.) and Radiation Physics (A.W.), Umeå University, Sweden
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- From the Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (B.F.v.C., M.J., A.W., L.N., N.K.), Department of Integrative Medical Biology (B.F.v.C., L.N.), Center for Demographic and Aging Research (M.J.), Department of Statistics (M.J.), Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics, and Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology (L.N., N.K.) and Radiation Physics (A.W.), Umeå University, Sweden
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Gustavsson J, Papenberg G, Falahati F, Laukka EJ, Kalpouzos G. Contributions of the Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Val158Met Polymorphism to Changes in Brain Iron Across Adulthood and Their Relationships to Working Memory. Front Hum Neurosci 2022; 16:838228. [PMID: 35571998 PMCID: PMC9091601 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.838228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Ageing is associated with excessive free brain iron, which may induce oxidative stress and neuroinflammation, likely causing cognitive deficits. Lack of dopamine may be a factor behind the increase of iron with advancing age, as it has an important role in cellular iron homoeostasis. We investigated the effect of COMT Val 158 Met (rs4680), a polymorphism crucial for dopamine degradation and proxy for endogenous dopamine, on iron accumulation and working memory in a longitudinal lifespan sample (n = 208, age 20–79 at baseline, mean follow-up time = 2.75 years) using structural equation modelling. Approximation of iron content was assessed using quantitative susceptibility mapping in striatum and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Iron accumulated in both striatum and DLPFC during the follow-up period. Greater iron accumulation in DLPFC was associated with more deleterious change in working memory. Older (age 50–79) Val homozygotes (with presumably lower endogenous dopamine) accumulated more iron than older Met carriers in both striatum and DLPFC, no such differences were observed among younger adults (age 20–49). In conclusion, individual differences in genetic predisposition related to low dopamine levels increase iron accumulation, which in turn may trigger deleterious change in working memory. Future studies are needed to better understand how dopamine may modulate iron accumulation across the human lifespan.
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- Jonatan Gustavsson
- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- *Correspondence: Jonatan Gustavsson,
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- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Stockholm Gerontology Research Center, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Grégoria Kalpouzos,
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Weigel R, Schilling L, Krauss JK. The pathophysiology of chronic subdural hematoma revisited: emphasis on aging processes as key factor. GeroScience 2022; 44:1353-1371. [DOI: 10.1007/s11357-022-00570-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Andersson P, Li X, Persson J. The association between control of interference and white-matter integrity: A cross-sectional and longitudinal investigation. Neurobiol Aging 2022; 114:49-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Revised: 02/26/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Koch E, Nyberg L, Lundquist A, Kauppi K. Polygenic Risk for Schizophrenia Has Sex-Specific Effects on Brain Activity during Memory Processing in Healthy Individuals. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13030412. [PMID: 35327966 PMCID: PMC8950000 DOI: 10.3390/genes13030412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Revised: 02/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Genetic risk for schizophrenia has a negative impact on memory and other cognitive abilities in unaffected individuals, and it was recently shown that this effect is specific to males. Using functional MRI, we investigated the effect of a polygenic risk score (PRS) for schizophrenia on brain activation during working memory and episodic memory in 351 unaffected participants (167 males and 184 females, 25–95 years), and specifically tested if any effect of PRS on brain activation is sex-specific. Schizophrenia PRS was significantly associated with decreased brain activation in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) during working-memory manipulation and in the bilateral superior parietal lobule (SPL) during episodic-memory encoding and retrieval. A significant interaction effect between sex and PRS was seen in the bilateral SPL during episodic-memory encoding and retrieval, and sex-stratified analyses showed that the effect of PRS on SPL activation was male-specific. These results confirm previous findings of DLPFC inefficiency in schizophrenia, and highlight the SPL as another important genetic intermediate phenotype of the disease. The observed sex differences suggest that the previously shown male-specific effect of schizophrenia PRS on cognition translates into an additional corresponding effect on brain functioning.
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- Elise Koch
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; (L.N.); (K.K.)
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +46-90-786-50-00
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; (L.N.); (K.K.)
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden;
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden;
- Department of Statistics, School of Business, Economics and Statistics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; (L.N.); (K.K.)
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden;
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Nobels väg 12A, 171 65 Solna, Sweden
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Recently, Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) stressed that around 75% of people living with dementia globally are still not receiving a diagnosis. In this commentary, I reflect on how efforts towards better cognitive assessments, particularly of memory, can be aligned and harmonized to contribute to such needs. I highlight some barriers that ongoing collaborations and trials are facing and their potential drivers. I suggest some strategies that can help overcome them and in so doing, integrate research agendas. We need to ignite the debate towards strategies that can help level the playfield to tackle Alzheimer's disease with true global solutions.
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- Mario A Parra
- School of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Tucker-Drob EM, de la Fuente J, Köhncke Y, Brandmaier AM, Nyberg L, Lindenberger U. A strong dependency between changes in fluid and crystallized abilities in human cognitive aging. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabj2422. [PMID: 35108051 PMCID: PMC8809681 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj2422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Theories of adult cognitive development classically distinguish between fluid abilities, which require effortful processing at the time of assessment, and crystallized abilities, which require the retrieval and application of knowledge. On average, fluid abilities decline throughout adulthood, whereas crystallized abilities show gains into old age. These diverging age trends, along with marked individual differences in rates of change, have led to the proposition that individuals might compensate for fluid declines with crystallized gains. Here, using data from two large longitudinal studies, we show that rates of change are strongly correlated across fluid and crystallized abilities. Hence, individuals showing greater losses in fluid abilities tend to show smaller gains, or even losses, in crystallized abilities. This observed commonality between fluid and crystallized changes places constraints on theories of compensation and directs attention toward domain-general drivers of adult cognitive decline and maintenance.
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- Elliot M. Tucker-Drob
- Department of Psychology, Center on Aging and Population Sciences, and Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center on Aging and Population Sciences, and Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany and London, UK
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- Departments of Radiation Sciences and Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany and London, UK
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Johansson J, Wåhlin A, Lundquist A, Brandmaier AM, Lindenberger U, Nyberg L. Model of brain maintenance reveals specific change-change association between medial-temporal lobe integrity and episodic memory. AGING BRAIN 2022; 2:100027. [PMID: 36908884 PMCID: PMC9999442 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbas.2021.100027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 12/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Brain maintenance has been identified as a major determinant of successful memory aging. However, the extent to which brain maintenance in support of successful memory aging is specific to memory-related brain regions or forms part of a brain-wide phenomenon is unresolved. Here, we used longitudinal brain-wide gray matter MRI volumes in 262 healthy participants aged 55 to 80 years at baseline to investigate separable dimensions of brain atrophy, and explored the links of these dimensions to different dimensions of cognitive change. We statistically adjusted for common causes of change in both brain and cognition to reveal a potentially unique signature of brain maintenance related to successful memory aging. Critically, medial temporal lobe (MTL)/hippocampal change and episodic memory change were characterized by unique, residual variance beyond general factors of change in brain and cognition, and a reliable association between these two residualized variables was established (r = 0.36, p < 0.01). The present study is the first to provide solid evidence for a specific association between changes in (MTL)/hippocampus and episodic memory in normal human aging. We conclude that hippocampus-specific brain maintenance relates to the specific preservation of episodic memory in old age, in line with the notion that brain maintenance operates at both general and domain-specific levels.
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- Jarkko Johansson
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden.,Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden.,Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden.,Department of Statistics, USBE, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin Germany and London, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin Germany and London, UK
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Diagnostic Radiology, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden.,Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden.,Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, S-90187 Umeå, Sweden.,Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Aarts E, Akkerman A, Altgassen M, Bartels R, Beckers D, Bevelander K, Bijleveld E, Blaney Davidson E, Boleij A, Bralten J, Cillessen T, Claassen J, Cools R, Cornelissen I, Dresler M, Eijsvogels T, Faber M, Fernández G, Figner B, Fritsche M, Füllbrunn S, Gayet S, van Gelder MMHJ, van Gerven M, Geurts S, Greven CU, Groefsema M, Haak K, Hagoort P, Hartman Y, van der Heijden B, Hermans E, Heuvelmans V, Hintz F, den Hollander J, Hulsman AM, Idesis S, Jaeger M, Janse E, Janzing J, Kessels RPC, Karremans JC, de Kleijn W, Klein M, Klumpers F, Kohn N, Korzilius H, Krahmer B, de Lange F, van Leeuwen J, Liu H, Luijten M, Manders P, Manevska K, Marques JP, Matthews J, McQueen JM, Medendorp P, Melis R, Meyer A, Oosterman J, Overbeek L, Peelen M, Popma J, Postma G, Roelofs K, van Rossenberg YGT, Schaap G, Scheepers P, Selen L, Starren M, Swinkels DW, Tendolkar I, Thijssen D, Timmerman H, Tutunji R, Tuladhar A, Veling H, Verhagen M, Verkroost J, Vink J, Vriezekolk V, Vrijsen J, Vyrastekova J, van der Wal S, Willems R, Willemsen A. Protocol of the Healthy Brain Study: An accessible resource for understanding the human brain and how it dynamically and individually operates in its bio-social context. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0260952. [PMID: 34965252 PMCID: PMC8716054 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 11/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The endeavor to understand the human brain has seen more progress in the last few decades than in the previous two millennia. Still, our understanding of how the human brain relates to behavior in the real world and how this link is modulated by biological, social, and environmental factors is limited. To address this, we designed the Healthy Brain Study (HBS), an interdisciplinary, longitudinal, cohort study based on multidimensional, dynamic assessments in both the laboratory and the real world. Here, we describe the rationale and design of the currently ongoing HBS. The HBS is examining a population-based sample of 1,000 healthy participants (age 30–39) who are thoroughly studied across an entire year. Data are collected through cognitive, affective, behavioral, and physiological testing, neuroimaging, bio-sampling, questionnaires, ecological momentary assessment, and real-world assessments using wearable devices. These data will become an accessible resource for the scientific community enabling the next step in understanding the human brain and how it dynamically and individually operates in its bio-social context. An access procedure to the collected data and bio-samples is in place and published on https://www.healthybrainstudy.nl/en/data-and-methods/access. Trail registration:https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/7955.
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- Healthy Brain Study consortium
- Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- * E-mail:
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- School of Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Interdisciplinary Hub for Security, Privacy and Data Governance, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Stenling A, Eriksson Sörman D, Lindwall M, Machado L. Bidirectional within- and between-person relations between physical activity and cognitive function. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2021; 77:704-709. [PMID: 34940838 PMCID: PMC8974340 DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbab234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To examine bidirectional within- and between-person relations between physical activity and cognitive function across 15 years. METHODS Participants (N = 1722, age range 40-85 years, 55% women) were drawn from the Betula prospective cohort study. We included four waves of data. Bivariate latent curve models with structured residuals were estimated to examine bidirectional within- and between-person relations between physical activity and cognitive function (episodic memory recall, verbal fluency, visuospatial ability). RESULTS We observed no statistically significant bidirectional within-person relations over time. Higher levels of physical activity at baseline were related to less decline in episodic memory recall. Positive occasion-specific within- and between-person relations were observed, with the most consistent being between physical activity and episodic memory recall. DISCUSSION The lack of bidirectional within-person relations indicate that shorter time lags may be needed to capture time-ordered within-person relations. The link between higher physical activity at baseline and less decline in episodic memory recall over time may indicate a protective effect of physical activity on episodic memory recall.
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- Andreas Stenling
- Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.,Department of Sport Science and Physical Education, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
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- Department of Psychology & AgeCap, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.,The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychology and Brain Health Research Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.,Brain Research New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand
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Salami A, Adolfsson R, Andersson M, Blennow K, Lundquist A, Adolfsson AN, Schöll M, Zetterberg H, Nyberg L. Association of APOE ɛ4 and Plasma p-tau181 with Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease and Longitudinal Change in Hippocampus Function. J Alzheimers Dis 2021; 85:1309-1320. [PMID: 34924376 PMCID: PMC8925119 DOI: 10.3233/jad-210673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Background: The Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ɛ4 allele has been linked to increased tau phosphorylation and tangle formation. APOE ɛ4 carriers with elevated tau might be at the higher risk for AD progression. Previous studies showed that tau pathology begins early in areas of the medial temporal lobe. Similarly, APOE ɛ4 carriers showed altered hippocampal functional integrity. However, it remains unknown whether elevated tau accumulation on hippocampal functional changes would be more pronounced for APOE ɛ4 carriers. Objective: We related ɛ4 carriage to levels of plasma phosphorylated tau (p-tau181) up to 15 years prior to AD onset. Furthermore, elevated p-tau181 was explored in relation to longitudinal changes in hippocampal function and connectivity. Methods: Longitudinal population-based study. Plasma p-tau181 was analyzed in 142 clinically defined Alzheimer’s disease (AD) cases and 126 controls. The longitudinal analysis involved 87 non-demented individuals with two waves of plasma samples and three waves of functional magnetic resonance imaging during rest and memory encoding. Results: Increased p-tau181 was observed for both ɛ4 carriers and non-carriers close to AD, but exclusively for ɛ4 carriers in the early preclinical groups (7- and 13-years pre-AD). In ɛ4 carriers, longitudinal p-tau181 increase was paralleled by elevated local hippocampal connectivity at rest and subsequent reduction of hippocampus encoding-related activity. Conclusion: Our findings support an association of APOE ɛ4 and p-tau181 with preclinical AD and hippocampus functioning.
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- Alireza Salami
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine (WCMM), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden
- Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Statistics, USBE Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Mölndal, Sweden
- Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
- Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK
- UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Miller ML, Ghisletta P, Jacobs BS, Dahle CL, Raz N. Changes in cerebral arterial pulsatility and hippocampal volume: a transcranial doppler ultrasonography study. Neurobiol Aging 2021; 108:110-121. [PMID: 34555677 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Revised: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The physiological mechanisms of age-related cognitive decline remain unclear, in no small part due to the lack of longitudinal studies. Extant longitudinal studies focused on gross neuroanatomy and diffusion properties of the brain. We present herein a longitudinal analysis of changes in arterial pulsatility - a proxy for arterial stiffness - in two major cerebral arteries, middle cerebral and vertebral. We found that pulsatility increased in some participants over a relatively short period and these increases were associated with hippocampal shrinkage. Higher baseline pulsatility was associated with lower scores on a test of fluid intelligence at follow-up. This is the first longitudinal evidence of an association between increase in cerebral arterial stiffness over time and regional shrinkage.
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- Université de Genève, FPSE, Genève GE, Switzerland; UniMail, Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, Genève GE, Switzerland; UniDistance Suisse, Brig VS, Switzerland
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- Wright State University, Department of Internal Medicine and Neurology, Dayton, Ohio
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- Wayne State University, Institute of Gerontology, Detroit, Michigan
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- Wayne State University, Institute of Gerontology, Detroit, Michigan; Wayne State University, Department of Psychology, Detroit, Michigan; Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
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Sörman DE, Stenling A, Sundström A, Rönnlund M, Vega-Mendoza M, Hansson P, Ljungberg JK. Occupational cognitive complexity and episodic memory in old age. INTELLIGENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2021.101598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Sex-specific effects of polygenic risk for schizophrenia on lifespan cognitive functioning in healthy individuals. Transl Psychiatry 2021; 11:520. [PMID: 34635642 PMCID: PMC8505489 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-021-01649-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Polygenic risk for schizophrenia has been associated with lower cognitive ability and age-related cognitive change in healthy individuals. Despite well-established neuropsychological sex differences in schizophrenia patients, genetic studies on sex differences in schizophrenia in relation to cognitive phenotypes are scarce. Here, we investigated whether the effect of a polygenic risk score (PRS) for schizophrenia on childhood, midlife, and late-life cognitive function in healthy individuals is modified by sex, and if PRS is linked to accelerated cognitive decline. Using a longitudinal data set from healthy individuals aged 25-100 years (N = 1459) spanning a 25-year period, we found that PRS was associated with lower cognitive ability (episodic memory, semantic memory, visuospatial ability), but not with accelerated cognitive decline. A significant interaction effect between sex and PRS was seen on cognitive task performance, and sex-stratified analyses showed that the effect of PRS was male-specific. In a sub-sample, we observed a male-specific effect of the PRS on school performance at age 12 (N = 496). Our findings of sex-specific effects of schizophrenia genetics on cognitive functioning across the lifespan indicate that the effects of underlying disease genetics on cognitive functioning is dependent on biological processes that differ between the sexes.
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