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Jensen DE, Ebmeier KP, Akbaraly T, Jansen MG, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Zsoldos E, Klein-Flügge MC, Suri S. The association of longitudinal diet and waist-to-hip ratio from midlife to old age with hippocampus connectivity and memory in old age: a cohort study. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.12.12.570778. [PMID: 38168259 PMCID: PMC10760001 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.12.570778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Epidemiological studies suggest lifestyle factors may reduce the risk of dementia. However, few studies have examined the association of diet and waist-to-hip ratio with hippocampus connectivity. In the Whitehall II Imaging Sub-study, we examined longitudinal changes in diet quality in 512 participants and waist-to-hip ratio in 665 participants. Diet quality was measured using the Alternative Health Eating Index-2010 assessed three times across 11 years between ages 48 and 60 years, and waist-to-hip ratio five times over 21 years between ages 48 and 68 years. Brain imaging and cognitive tests were performed at age 70±5 years. We measured white matter using diffusion tensor imaging and hippocampal functional connectivity using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. In addition to associations of diet and waist-to-hip ratio with brain imaging measures, we tested whether associations between diet, waist-to-hip ratio and cognitive performance were mediated by brain connectivity. We found better diet quality in midlife and improvements in diet over mid-to-late life were associated with higher hippocampal functional connectivity to the occipital lobe and cerebellum, and better white matter integrity as measured by higher fractional anisotropy and lower diffusivity. Higher waist-to-hip ratio in midlife was associated with higher mean and radial diffusivity and lower fractional anisotropy in several tracts including the inferior longitudinal fasciculus and cingulum. Associations between midlife waist-to-hip ratio, working memory and executive function were partially mediated by radial diffusivity. All associations were independent of age, sex, education, and physical activity. Our findings highlight the importance of maintaining a good diet and a healthy waist-to-hip ratio in midlife to maintain brain health in later life. Future interventional studies for the improvement of dietary and metabolic health should target midlife for the prevention of cognitive decline in old age.
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Demnitz N, Hulme OJ, Siebner HR, Kjaer M, Ebmeier KP, Boraxbekk CJ, Gillan CM. Characterising the covariance pattern between lifestyle factors and structural brain measures: a multivariable replication study of two independent ageing cohorts. Neurobiol Aging 2023; 131:115-123. [PMID: 37619515 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.07.023] [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: 02/09/2023] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Modifiable lifestyle factors have been shown to promote healthy brain ageing. However, studies have typically focused on a single factor at a time. Given that lifestyle factors do not occur in isolation, multivariable analyses provide a more realistic model of the lifestyle-brain relationship. Here, canonical correlation analyses (CCA) examined the relationship between nine lifestyle factors and seven MRI-derived indices of brain structure. The resulting covariance pattern was further explored with Bayesian regressions. CCA analyses were first conducted on a Danish cohort of older adults (n = 251) and then replicated in a British cohort (n = 668). In both cohorts, the latent factors of lifestyle and brain structure were positively correlated (UK: r = .37, p < 0.001; Denmark: r = .27, p < 0.001). In the cross-validation study, the correlation between lifestyle-brain latent factors was r = .10, p = 0.008. However, the pattern of associations differed between datasets. These findings suggest that baseline characterisation and tailoring towards the study sample may be beneficial for achieving targeted lifestyle interventions.
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- Naiara Demnitz
- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital-Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital-Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark; London Mathematical Laboratory, London, UK; Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital-Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark; Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital-Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen (ISMC), Copenhagen University Hospital-Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Center for Healthy Aging, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital-Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark; Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital-Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen (ISMC), Copenhagen University Hospital-Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Lindell AK. Do Left-Handed Older Adults Have Superior Visual Memories? Percept Mot Skills 2023; 130:1819-1833. [PMID: 37345753 PMCID: PMC10552343 DOI: 10.1177/00315125231185166] [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] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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On demanding visual memory tasks like the Rey Complex Figure Test and Recognition Trial (RCFT), left-handers often outperform right-handers and participants with mixed handedness. Left-handers' apparent visual memory superiority develops during late childhood and early adolescence and is established by young adulthood. Though many studies have examined RCFT performance in older adults and found that visual memory deteriorates with age, investigations of the relationship between handedness and visual memory abilities in older adults have been scarce. In the present study I sought to determine whether a left-handed RCFT performance advantage would be evident among older adults. I examined RCFT and handedness data from 800 older adults (Females = 152, Males = 648; M age = 69.86, SD = 5.18 years; range 60-85 years), who took part in prior research (Whitehall II Phase 11 sub-study). Among these participants, handedness predicted both immediate and delayed RCFT recall, with left-handers outperforming both mixed- and right-handers and with performance unrelated to gender. The absence of a left-handed advantage for copy accuracy suggests that the effects observed for recall do not stem from differences in participants' perceptual abilities and/or motor control. Instead, these data suggest that left-handers' superior performances stem from their advantage for visual memory. As visual memory predicts both motor learning capacity and motor skill retention in older adults, these results have potentially important implications for rehabilitation efficacy.
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- Annukka K. Lindell
- Department of Psychology, Counselling and Therapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Binnewies J, Nawijn L, Brandmaier AM, Baaré WFC, Boraxbekk CJ, Demnitz N, Drevon CA, Fjell AM, Lindenberger U, Madsen KS, Nyberg L, Topiwala A, Walhovd KB, Ebmeier KP, Penninx BWJH. Lifestyle-related risk factors and their cumulative associations with hippocampal and total grey matter volume across the adult lifespan: A pooled analysis in the European Lifebrain consortium. Brain Res Bull 2023; 200:110692. [PMID: 37336327 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2023.110692] [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: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND Lifestyle-related risk factors, such as obesity, physical inactivity, short sleep, smoking and alcohol use, have been associated with low hippocampal and total grey matter volumes (GMV). However, these risk factors have mostly been assessed as separate factors, leaving it unknown if variance explained by these factors is overlapping or additive. We investigated associations of five lifestyle-related factors separately and cumulatively with hippocampal and total GMV, pooled across eight European cohorts. METHODS We included 3838 participants aged 18-90 years from eight cohorts of the European Lifebrain consortium. Using individual person data, we performed cross-sectional meta-analyses on associations of presence of lifestyle-related risk factors separately (overweight/obesity, physical inactivity, short sleep, smoking, high alcohol use) as well as a cumulative unhealthy lifestyle score (counting the number of present lifestyle-related risk factors) with FreeSurfer-derived hippocampal volume and total GMV. Lifestyle-related risk factors were defined according to public health guidelines. RESULTS High alcohol use was associated with lower hippocampal volume (r = -0.10, p = 0.021), and overweight/obesity with lower total GMV (r = -0.09, p = 0.001). Other lifestyle-related risk factors were not significantly associated with hippocampal volume or GMV. The cumulative unhealthy lifestyle score was negatively associated with total GMV (r = -0.08, p = 0.001), but not hippocampal volume (r = -0.01, p = 0.625). CONCLUSIONS This large pooled study confirmed the negative association of some lifestyle-related risk factors with hippocampal volume and GMV, although with small effect sizes. Lifestyle factors should not be seen in isolation as there is evidence that having multiple unhealthy lifestyle factors is associated with a linear reduction in overall brain volume.
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- Julia Binnewies
- Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress program, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress program, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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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; Department of Psychology, MSB Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark; Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; 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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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Vitas Ltd. Oslo Science Park & Department of Nutrition, IMB, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway; Computational Radiology and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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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
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Nuffield Department of Population Health, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway; Computational Radiology and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Amsterdam UMC location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress program, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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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: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [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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Zhou Z, Li H, Srinivasan D, Abdulkadir A, Nasrallah IM, Wen J, Doshi J, Erus G, Mamourian E, Bryan NR, Wolk DA, Beason-Held L, Resnick SM, Satterthwaite TD, Davatzikos C, Shou H, Fan Y. Multiscale functional connectivity patterns of the aging brain learned from harmonized rsfMRI data of the multi-cohort iSTAGING study. Neuroimage 2023; 269:119911. [PMID: 36731813 PMCID: PMC9992322 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119911] [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: 10/14/2022] [Revised: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
Abstract
To learn multiscale functional connectivity patterns of the aging brain, we built a brain age prediction model of functional connectivity measures at seven scales on a large fMRI dataset, consisting of resting-state fMRI scans of 4186 individuals with a wide age range (22 to 97 years, with an average of 63) from five cohorts. We computed multiscale functional connectivity measures of individual subjects using a personalized functional network computational method, harmonized the functional connectivity measures of subjects from multiple datasets in order to build a functional brain age model, and finally evaluated how functional brain age gap correlated with cognitive measures of individual subjects. Our study has revealed that functional connectivity measures at multiple scales were more informative than those at any single scale for the brain age prediction, the data harmonization significantly improved the brain age prediction performance, and the data harmonization in the functional connectivity measures' tangent space worked better than in their original space. Moreover, brain age gap scores of individual subjects derived from the brain age prediction model were significantly correlated with clinical and cognitive measures. Overall, these results demonstrated that multiscale functional connectivity patterns learned from a large-scale multi-site rsfMRI dataset were informative for characterizing the aging brain and the derived brain age gap was associated with cognitive and clinical measures.
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- Zhen Zhou
- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Diagnostic Medicine, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78705, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Neurology and Penn Memory Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, 20892, USA
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- Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, 20892, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Penn Statistic in Imaging and Visualization Center, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Lifespan Informatics and Neuroimaging Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Brain Behavior Laboratory and Penn-CHOP Lifespan Brain Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Penn Statistic in Imaging and Visualization Center, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
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Binnewies J, Nawijn L, Brandmaier AM, Baaré WFC, Bartrés-Faz D, Drevon CA, Düzel S, Fjell AM, Han LKM, Knights E, Lindenberger U, Milaneschi Y, Mowinckel AM, Nyberg L, Plachti A, Madsen KS, Solé-Padullés C, Suri S, Walhovd KB, Zsoldos E, Ebmeier KP, Penninx BWJH. Associations of depression and regional brain structure across the adult lifespan: Pooled analyses of six population-based and two clinical cohort studies in the European Lifebrain consortium. Neuroimage Clin 2022; 36:103180. [PMID: 36088843 PMCID: PMC9467888 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103180] [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: 05/17/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Major depressive disorder has been associated with lower prefrontal thickness and hippocampal volume, but it is unknown whether this association also holds for depressive symptoms in the general population. We investigated associations of depressive symptoms and depression status with brain structures across population-based and patient-control cohorts, and explored whether these associations are similar over the lifespan and across sexes. METHODS We included 3,447 participants aged 18-89 years from six population-based and two clinical patient-control cohorts of the European Lifebrain consortium. Cross-sectional meta-analyses using individual person data were performed for associations of depressive symptoms and depression status with FreeSurfer-derived thickness of bilateral rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) and medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC), and hippocampal and total grey matter volume (GMV), separately for population-based and clinical cohorts. RESULTS Across patient-control cohorts, depressive symptoms and presence of mild-to-severe depression were associated with lower mOFC thickness (rsymptoms = -0.15/ rstatus = -0.22), rACC thickness (rsymptoms = -0.20/ rstatus = -0.25), hippocampal volume (rsymptoms = -0.13/ rstatus = 0.13) and total GMV (rsymptoms = -0.21/ rstatus = -0.25). Effect sizes were slightly larger for presence of moderate-to-severe depression. Associations were similar across age groups and sex. Across population-based cohorts, no associations between depression and brain structures were observed. CONCLUSIONS Fitting with previous meta-analyses, depressive symptoms and depression status were associated with lower mOFC, rACC thickness, and hippocampal and total grey matter volume in clinical patient-control cohorts, although effect sizes were small. The absence of consistent associations in population-based cohorts with mostly mild depressive symptoms, suggests that significantly lower thickness and volume of the studied brain structures are only detectable in clinical populations with more severe depressive symptoms.
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- Julia Binnewies
- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress Program, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress Program, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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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; Department of Psychology, MSB Medical School Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and 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, Spain
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- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo & Vitas Ltd, Oslo Science Park, Oslo, Norway
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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
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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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
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- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress Program, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, 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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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona and Institut de Neurociències, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Mood, Anxiety, Psychosis, Sleep & Stress Program, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Inter- and intra-individual variation in brain structural-cognition relationships in aging. Neuroimage 2022; 257:119254. [PMID: 35490915 PMCID: PMC9393406 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Revised: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 04/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The sources of inter- and intra-individual variability in age-related cognitive decline remain poorly understood. We examined the association between 20-year trajectories of cognitive decline and multimodal brain structure and morphology in older age. We used the Whitehall II Study, an extensively characterised cohort with 3T brain magnetic resonance images acquired at older age (mean age = 69.52 ± 4.9) and 5 repeated cognitive performance assessments between mid-life (mean age = 53.2 ±4.9 years) and late-life (mean age = 67.7 ± 4.9). Using non-negative matrix factorization, we identified 10 brain components integrating cortical thickness, surface area, fractional anisotropy, and mean and radial diffusivities. We observed two latent variables describing distinct brain-cognition associations. The first describes variations in 5 structural components associated with low mid-life performance across multiple cognitive domains, decline in reasoning, but maintenance of fluency abilities. The second describes variations in 6 structural components associated with low mid-life performance in fluency and memory, but retention of multiple abilities. Expression of latent variables predicts future cognition 3.2 years later (mean age = 70.87 ± 4.9). This data-driven approach highlights brain-cognition relationships wherein individuals degrees of cognitive decline and maintenance across diverse cognitive functions are both positively and negatively associated with markers of cortical structure.
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Jansen MG, Griffanti L, Mackay CE, Anatürk M, Melazzini L, Lange AMGD, Filippini N, Zsoldos E, Wiegertjes K, Leeuw FED, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Ebmeier KP, Suri S. Association of cerebral small vessel disease burden with brain structure and cognitive and vascular risk trajectories in mid-to-late life. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2022; 42:600-612. [PMID: 34610763 PMCID: PMC8943617 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x211048411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
We characterize the associations of total cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) burden with brain structure, trajectories of vascular risk factors, and cognitive functions in mid-to-late life. Participants were 623 community-dwelling adults from the Whitehall II Imaging Sub-study with multi-modal MRI (mean age 69.96, SD = 5.18, 79% men). We used linear mixed-effects models to investigate associations of SVD burden with up to 25-year retrospective trajectories of vascular risk and cognitive performance. General linear modelling was used to investigate concurrent associations with grey matter (GM) density and white matter (WM) microstructure, and whether these associations were modified by cognitive status (Montreal Cognitive Asessment [MoCA] scores of < 26 vs. ≥ 26). Severe SVD burden in older age was associated with higher mean arterial pressure throughout midlife (β = 3.36, 95% CI [0.42-6.30]), and faster cognitive decline in letter fluency (β = -0.07, 95% CI [-0.13--0.01]), and verbal reasoning (β = -0.05, 95% CI [-0.11--0.001]). Moreover, SVD burden was related to lower GM volumes in 9.7% of total GM, and widespread WM microstructural decline (FWE-corrected p < 0.05). The latter association was most pronounced in individuals who demonstrated cognitive impairments on MoCA (MoCA < 26; F3,608 = 2.14, p = 0.007). These findings highlight the importance of managing midlife vascular health to preserve brain structure and cognitive function in old age.
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- Michelle G Jansen
- Donders Centre for Cognition, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.,Department of Neurology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, 6396University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (Oxford Centres for Functional MRI of the Brain & Human Brain Activity) University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, 6396University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (Oxford Centres for Functional MRI of the Brain & Human Brain Activity) University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, 6396University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, 4919University College London, University College London, London, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (Oxford Centres for Functional MRI of the Brain & Human Brain Activity) University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry, 6396University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Department of Psychology, 6305University of Oslo, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, 6396University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (Oxford Centres for Functional MRI of the Brain & Human Brain Activity) University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 4919University College London, University College London, London, UK.,INSERM, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurogenerative Diseases, Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 4919University College London, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, 6396University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, 6396University of Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (Oxford Centres for Functional MRI of the Brain & Human Brain Activity) University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Deep Attentive Spatio-Temporal Feature Learning for Automatic Resting-State fMRI Denoising. Neuroimage 2022; 254:119127. [PMID: 35337965 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is a non-invasive functional neuroimaging modality that has been widely used to investigate functional connectomes in the brain. Since noise and artifacts generated by non-neuronal physiological activities are predominant in raw rs-fMRI data, effective noise removal is one of the most important preprocessing steps prior to any subsequent analysis. For rs-fMRI denoising, a common trend is to decompose rs-fMRI data into multiple components and then regress out noise-related components. Therefore, various machine learning techniques have been used in such analyses with predefined procedures and manually engineered features. However, the lack of a universal definition of a noise-related source or artifact complicates manual feature engineering. Manual feature selection can result in the failure to capture unknown types of noise. Furthermore, the possibility that the hand-crafted features will only work for the broader population (e.g., healthy adults) but not for "outliers" (e.g., infants or subjects that belong to a disease cohort) is quite high. In practice, we have limited knowledge of which features should be extracted; thus, multi-classifier assembly must be implemented to improve performance, although this process is quite time-consuming. However, in real rs-fMRI applications, fast and accurate automatic identification of noise-related components on different datasets is critical. To solve this problem, we propose a novel, automatic, and end-to-end deep learning framework dedicated to noise-related component identification via a faster and more effective multi-layer feature extraction strategy that learns deeply embedded spatio-temporal features of the components. In this study, we achieved remarkable performance on various rs-fMRI datasets, including multiple adult rs-fMRI datasets from different rs-fMRI studies and an infant rs-fMRI dataset, which is quite heterogeneous and differs from that of adults. Our proposed framework also dramatically increases the noise detection speed owing to its inherent ability for deep learning (< 1s for single-component classification). It can be easily integrated into any preprocessing pipeline, even those that do not use standard procedures but depend on alternative toolboxes.
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Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Wang Y, Amlien IK, Mowinckel AM, Lindenberger U, Düzel S, Bartrés-Faz D, Ebmeier KP, Drevon CA, Baaré WFC, Ghisletta P, Johansen LB, Kievit RA, Henson RN, Madsen KS, Nyberg L, R Harris J, Solé-Padullés C, Pudas S, Sørensen Ø, Westerhausen R, Zsoldos E, Nawijn L, Lyngstad TH, Suri S, Penninx B, Rogeberg OJ, Brandmaier AM. Education and Income Show Heterogeneous Relationships to Lifespan Brain and Cognitive Differences Across European and US Cohorts. Cereb Cortex 2022; 32:839-854. [PMID: 34467389 PMCID: PMC8841563 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Higher socio-economic status (SES) has been proposed to have facilitating and protective effects on brain and cognition. We ask whether relationships between SES, brain volumes and cognitive ability differ across cohorts, by age and national origin. European and US cohorts covering the lifespan were studied (4-97 years, N = 500 000; 54 000 w/brain imaging). There was substantial heterogeneity across cohorts for all associations. Education was positively related to intracranial (ICV) and total gray matter (GM) volume. Income was related to ICV, but not GM. We did not observe reliable differences in associations as a function of age. SES was more strongly related to brain and cognition in US than European cohorts. Sample representativity varies, and this study cannot identify mechanisms underlying differences in associations across cohorts. Differences in neuroanatomical volumes partially explained SES-cognition relationships. SES was more strongly related to ICV than to GM, implying that SES-cognition relations in adulthood are less likely grounded in neuroprotective effects on GM volume in aging. The relatively stronger SES-ICV associations rather are compatible with SES-brain volume relationships being established early in life, as ICV stabilizes in childhood. The findings underscore that SES has no uniform association with, or impact on, brain and cognition.
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- Kristine B Walhovd
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo 0424, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo 0424, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14195, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin D-14195, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14195, Germany
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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, Barcelona 08036, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Vitas AS, Oslo 0349, Norway
- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Brig 3900, Switzerland
- Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Geneva, Geneva 1212, Switzerland
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research and Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research, Mental Health Centre Glostrup, Glostrup 2600, Denmark
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK
- Cognitive Neuroscience Department, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen 6500 GL, The Netherlands
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Radiography, Department of Technology, University College Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1799, Denmark
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Radiology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Division for Health Data and Digitalisation, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo 0213, Norway
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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, Barcelona 08036, Spain
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Radiology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1081 HJ, The Netherlands
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- Department of Sociology and Human Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 1081 HJ, The Netherlands
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin 14195, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin D-14195, Germany
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Zhou Z, Srinivasan D, Li H, Abdulkadir A, Shou H, Davatzikos C, Fan Y. Harmonization of multi-site functional connectivity measures in tangent space improves brain age prediction. PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE--THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING 2022; 12036:1203608. [PMID: 36845412 PMCID: PMC9951555 DOI: 10.1117/12.2611557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Brain age prediction based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data has the potential to serve as a biomarker for quantifying brain health. To predict the brain age based on fMRI data robustly and accurately, we curated a large dataset (n = 4259) of fMRI scans from seven different data acquisition sites and computed personalized functional connectivity measures at multiple scales from each subject's fMRI scan. Particularly, we computed personalized large-scale functional networks and generated functional connectivity measures at multiple scales to characterize each fMRI scan. To account for inter-site effects on the functional connectivity measures, we harmonized the functional connectivity measures in their tangent space and then built brain age prediction models on the harmonized functional connectivity measures. We compared the brain age prediction models with alternatives that were built on the functional connectivity measures computed at a single scale and harmonized using different strategies. Comparison results have demonstrated that the best brain age prediction performance was achieved by the prediction model built on the multi-scale functional connectivity measures that were harmonized in tangent space, indicating that multi-scale functional connectivity measures provided richer information than those computed at any single scales and the harmonization of functional connectivity measures in tangent space improved the brain age prediction.
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- Zhen Zhou
- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
- Department of Radiology, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
- Department of Radiology, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
- Department of Radiology, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
- Department of Radiology, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
- Penn Statistics in Imaging and Visualization Center, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
- Department of Radiology, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
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- Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics (CBICA), Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
- Department of Radiology, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104
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Grydeland H, Sederevičius D, Wang Y, Bartrés-Faz D, Bertram L, Dobricic V, Düzel S, Ebmeier KP, Lindenberger U, Nyberg L, Pudas S, Sexton CE, Solé-Padullés C, Sørensen Ø, Walhovd KB, Fjell AM. Self-reported sleep relates to microstructural hippocampal decline in ß-amyloid positive Adults beyond genetic risk. Sleep 2021; 44:zsab110. [PMID: 33912975 PMCID: PMC8598196 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsab110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2020] [Revised: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
Abstract
STUDY OBJECTIVES A critical role linking sleep with memory decay and β-amyloid (Aβ) accumulation, two markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology, may be played by hippocampal integrity. We tested the hypotheses that worse self-reported sleep relates to decline in memory and intra-hippocampal microstructure, including in the presence of Aβ. METHODS Two-hundred and forty-three cognitively healthy participants, aged 19-81 years, completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index once, and two diffusion tensor imaging sessions, on average 3 years apart, allowing measures of decline in intra-hippocampal microstructure as indexed by increased mean diffusivity. We measured memory decay at each imaging session using verbal delayed recall. One session of positron emission tomography, in 108 participants above 44 years of age, yielded 23 Aβ positive. Genotyping enabled control for APOE ε4 status, and polygenic scores for sleep and AD, respectively. RESULTS Worse global sleep quality and sleep efficiency related to more rapid reduction of hippocampal microstructure over time. Focusing on efficiency (the percentage of time in bed at night spent asleep), the relation was stronger in presence of Aβ accumulation, and hippocampal integrity decline mediated the relation with memory decay. The results were not explained by genetic risk for sleep efficiency or AD. CONCLUSIONS Worse sleep efficiency related to decline in hippocampal microstructure, especially in the presence of Aβ accumulation, and Aβ might link poor sleep and memory decay. As genetic risk did not account for the associations, poor sleep efficiency might constitute a risk marker for AD, although the driving causal mechanisms remain unknown.
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- Håkon Grydeland
- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), Institutes of Neurogenetics and Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), Institutes of Neurogenetics and Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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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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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Departament de Medicina, Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Research Group for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Bordin V, Bertani I, Mattioli I, Sundaresan V, McCarthy P, Suri S, Zsoldos E, Filippini N, Mahmood A, Melazzini L, Laganà MM, Zamboni G, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Ebmeier KP, Baselli G, Jenkinson M, Mackay CE, Duff EP, Griffanti L. Integrating large-scale neuroimaging research datasets: Harmonisation of white matter hyperintensity measurements across Whitehall and UK Biobank datasets. Neuroimage 2021; 237:118189. [PMID: 34022383 PMCID: PMC8285593 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Revised: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
We harmonised measures of WMHs across two studies on healthy ageing. Specific pre-processing strategies can increase comparability across studies. Modelling of biological differences is crucial to provide calibrated measures.
Large scale neuroimaging datasets present the possibility of providing normative distributions for a wide variety of neuroimaging markers, which would vastly improve the clinical utility of these measures. However, a major challenge is our current poor ability to integrate measures across different large-scale datasets, due to inconsistencies in imaging and non-imaging measures across the different protocols and populations. Here we explore the harmonisation of white matter hyperintensity (WMH) measures across two major studies of healthy elderly populations, the Whitehall II imaging sub-study and the UK Biobank. We identify pre-processing strategies that maximise the consistency across datasets and utilise multivariate regression to characterise study sample differences contributing to differences in WMH variations across studies. We also present a parser to harmonise WMH-relevant non-imaging variables across the two datasets. We show that we can provide highly calibrated WMH measures from these datasets with: (1) the inclusion of a number of specific standardised processing steps; and (2) appropriate modelling of sample differences through the alignment of demographic, cognitive and physiological variables. These results open up a wide range of applications for the study of WMHs and other neuroimaging markers across extensive databases of clinical data.
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- Valentina Bordin
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- INSERM U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseases, Université de Paris, Paris, France; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Anatürk M, Kaufmann T, Cole JH, Suri S, Griffanti L, Zsoldos E, Filippini N, Singh‐Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Westlye LT, Ebmeier KP, de Lange AG. Prediction of brain age and cognitive age: Quantifying brain and cognitive maintenance in aging. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:1626-1640. [PMID: 33314530 PMCID: PMC7978127 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2020] [Revised: 11/27/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The concept of brain maintenance refers to the preservation of brain integrity in older age, while cognitive reserve refers to the capacity to maintain cognition in the presence of neurodegeneration or aging-related brain changes. While both mechanisms are thought to contribute to individual differences in cognitive function among older adults, there is currently no "gold standard" for measuring these constructs. Using machine-learning methods, we estimated brain and cognitive age based on deviations from normative aging patterns in the Whitehall II MRI substudy cohort (N = 537, age range = 60.34-82.76), and tested the degree of correspondence between these constructs, as well as their associations with premorbid IQ, education, and lifestyle trajectories. In line with established literature highlighting IQ as a proxy for cognitive reserve, higher premorbid IQ was linked to lower cognitive age independent of brain age. No strong evidence was found for associations between brain or cognitive age and lifestyle trajectories from midlife to late life based on latent class growth analyses. However, post hoc analyses revealed a relationship between cumulative lifestyle measures and brain age independent of cognitive age. In conclusion, we present a novel approach to characterizing brain and cognitive maintenance in aging, which may be useful for future studies seeking to identify factors that contribute to brain preservation and cognitive reserve mechanisms in older age.
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- Melis Anatürk
- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative NeuroimagingUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- NORMENT, Institute of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Oslo, & Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University HospitalOsloNorway
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- Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer ScienceUniversity College LondonLondonUK
- Dementia Research Centre, Institute of NeurologyUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative NeuroimagingUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative NeuroimagingUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative NeuroimagingUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative NeuroimagingUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
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- Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseasesUniversité de Paris, INSERM U1153ParisFrance
- Department of Epidemiology and Public HealthUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public HealthUniversity College LondonLondonUK
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- NORMENT, Institute of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Oslo, & Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University HospitalOsloNorway
- Department of PsychologyUniversity of OsloOsloNorway
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
- NORMENT, Institute of Clinical MedicineUniversity of Oslo, & Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University HospitalOsloNorway
- Department of PsychologyUniversity of OsloOsloNorway
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Fjell AM, Sørensen Ø, Amlien IK, Bartrés-Faz D, Bros DM, Buchmann N, Demuth I, Drevon CA, Düzel S, Ebmeier KP, Idland AV, Kietzmann TC, Kievit R, Kühn S, Lindenberger U, Mowinckel AM, Nyberg L, Price D, Sexton CE, Solé-Padullés C, Pudas S, Sederevicius D, Suri S, Wagner G, Watne LO, Westerhausen R, Zsoldos E, Walhovd KB. Self-reported sleep relates to hippocampal atrophy across the adult lifespan: results from the Lifebrain consortium. Sleep 2021; 43:5628807. [PMID: 31738420 PMCID: PMC7215271 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsz280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Revised: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Objectives Poor sleep is associated with multiple age-related neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric conditions. The hippocampus plays a special role in sleep and sleep-dependent cognition, and accelerated hippocampal atrophy is typically seen with higher age. Hence, it is critical to establish how the relationship between sleep and hippocampal volume loss unfolds across the adult lifespan. Methods Self-reported sleep measures and MRI-derived hippocampal volumes were obtained from 3105 cognitively normal participants (18–90 years) from major European brain studies in the Lifebrain consortium. Hippocampal volume change was estimated from 5116 MRIs from 1299 participants for whom longitudinal MRIs were available, followed up to 11 years with a mean interval of 3.3 years. Cross-sectional analyses were repeated in a sample of 21,390 participants from the UK Biobank. Results No cross-sectional sleep—hippocampal volume relationships were found. However, worse sleep quality, efficiency, problems, and daytime tiredness were related to greater hippocampal volume loss over time, with high scorers showing 0.22% greater annual loss than low scorers. The relationship between sleep and hippocampal atrophy did not vary across age. Simulations showed that the observed longitudinal effects were too small to be detected as age-interactions in the cross-sectional analyses. Conclusions Worse self-reported sleep is associated with higher rates of hippocampal volume decline across the adult lifespan. This suggests that sleep is relevant to understand individual differences in hippocampal atrophy, but limited effect sizes call for cautious interpretation.
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- Anders M Fjell
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway
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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, Spain
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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, Spain
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- Department of Cardiology, Charité - University Medicine Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Germany
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- Vitas AS, Research Park, Gaustadalleen 21, 0349, Oslo and 6 University of Oslo, Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Medicine/University of Oslo, Norway
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway.,Oslo Delirium Research Group, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.,Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.,Global Brain Health Institute, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, CA.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK
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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, Spain
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- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK
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- Psychiatric Brain and Body Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Oslo Delirium Research Group, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Norway.,Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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Zitser J, Anatürk M, Zsoldos E, Mahmood A, Filippini N, Suri S, Leng Y, Yaffe K, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimaki M, Ebmeier K, Sexton C. Sleep duration over 28 years, cognition, gray matter volume, and white matter microstructure: a prospective cohort study. Sleep 2021; 43:5697049. [PMID: 31904084 PMCID: PMC7215267 DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsz290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Study Objectives To examine the association between sleep duration trajectories over 28 years and measures of cognition, gray matter volume, and white matter microstructure. We hypothesize that consistently meeting sleep guidelines that recommend at least 7 hours of sleep per night will be associated with better cognition, greater gray matter volumes, higher fractional anisotropy, and lower radial diffusivity values. Methods We studied 613 participants (age 42.3 ± 5.03 years at baseline) who self-reported sleep duration at five time points between 1985 and 2013, and who had cognitive testing and magnetic resonance imaging administered at a single timepoint between 2012 and 2016. We applied latent class growth analysis to estimate membership into trajectory groups based on self-reported sleep duration over time. Analysis of gray matter volumes was carried out using FSL Voxel-Based-Morphometry and white matter microstructure using Tract Based Spatial Statistics. We assessed group differences in cognitive and MRI outcomes using nonparametric permutation testing. Results Latent class growth analysis identified four trajectory groups, with an average sleep duration of 5.4 ± 0.2 hours (5%, N = 29), 6.2 ± 0.3 hours (37%, N = 228), 7.0 ± 0.2 hours (45%, N = 278), and 7.9 ± 0.3 hours (13%, N = 78). No differences in cognition, gray matter, and white matter measures were detected between groups. Conclusions Our null findings suggest that current sleep guidelines that recommend at least 7 hours of sleep per night may not be supported in relation to an association between sleep patterns and cognitive function or brain structure.
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- Jennifer Zitser
- Department of Neurology, Global Brain Health Institute, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA.,Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders Unit, Tel Aviv Sourazky Medical Center, Affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,FMRIB, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Global Brain Health Institute, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA.,Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA
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- Université de Paris, Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Paris, France.,Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Neurology, Global Brain Health Institute, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA.,Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Suri S, Bulte D, Chiesa ST, Ebmeier KP, Jezzard P, Rieger SW, Pitt JE, Griffanti L, Okell TW, Craig M, Chappell MA, Blockley NP, Kivimäki M, Singh-Manoux A, Khir AW, Hughes AD, Deanfield JE, Jensen DEA, Green SF, Sigutova V, Jansen MG, Zsoldos E, Mackay CE. Study Protocol: The Heart and Brain Study. Front Physiol 2021; 12:643725. [PMID: 33868011 PMCID: PMC8046163 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2021.643725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND It is well-established that what is good for the heart is good for the brain. Vascular factors such as hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol, and genetic factors such as the apolipoprotein E4 allele increase the risk of developing both cardiovascular disease and dementia. However, the mechanisms underlying the heart-brain association remain unclear. Recent evidence suggests that impairments in vascular phenotypes and cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) may play an important role in cognitive decline. The Heart and Brain Study combines state-of-the-art vascular ultrasound, cerebrovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cognitive testing in participants of the long-running Whitehall II Imaging cohort to examine these processes together. This paper describes the study protocol, data pre-processing and overarching objectives. METHODS AND DESIGN The 775 participants of the Whitehall II Imaging cohort, aged 65 years or older in 2019, have received clinical and vascular risk assessments at 5-year-intervals since 1985, as well as a 3T brain MRI scan and neuropsychological tests between 2012 and 2016 (Whitehall II Wave MRI-1). Approximately 25% of this cohort are selected for the Heart and Brain Study, which involves a single testing session at the University of Oxford (Wave MRI-2). Between 2019 and 2023, participants will undergo ultrasound scans of the ascending aorta and common carotid arteries, measures of central and peripheral blood pressure, and 3T MRI scans to measure CVR in response to 5% carbon dioxide in air, vessel-selective cerebral blood flow (CBF), and cerebrovascular lesions. The structural and diffusion MRI scans and neuropsychological battery conducted at Wave MRI-1 will also be repeated. Using this extensive life-course data, the Heart and Brain Study will examine how 30-year trajectories of vascular risk throughout midlife (40-70 years) affect vascular phenotypes, cerebrovascular health, longitudinal brain atrophy and cognitive decline at older ages. DISCUSSION The study will generate one of the most comprehensive datasets to examine the longitudinal determinants of the heart-brain association. It will evaluate novel physiological processes in order to describe the optimal window for managing vascular risk in order to delay cognitive decline. Ultimately, the Heart and Brain Study will inform strategies to identify at-risk individuals for targeted interventions to prevent or delay dementia.
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- Sana Suri
- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- FMRIB Centre, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- FMRIB Centre, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- FMRIB Centre, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- FMRIB Centre, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Radiological Sciences, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Paris, France
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- Mechanical Engineering, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurology, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Melazzini L, Mackay CE, Bordin V, Suri S, Zsoldos E, Filippini N, Mahmood A, Sundaresan V, Codari M, Duff E, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Ebmeier KP, Jenkinson M, Sardanelli F, Griffanti L. White matter hyperintensities classified according to intensity and spatial location reveal specific associations with cognitive performance. Neuroimage Clin 2021; 30:102616. [PMID: 33743476 PMCID: PMC7995650 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2020] [Revised: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) on T2-weighted images are radiological signs of cerebral small vessel disease. As their total volume is variably associated with cognition, a new approach that integrates multiple radiological criteria is warranted. Location may matter, as periventricular WMHs have been shown to be associated with cognitive impairments. WMHs that appear as hypointense in T1-weighted images (T1w) may also indicate the most severe component of WMHs. We developed an automatic method that sub-classifies WMHs into four categories (periventricular/deep and T1w-hypointense/nonT1w-hypointense) using MRI data from 684 community-dwelling older adults from the Whitehall II study. To test if location and intensity information can impact cognition, we derived two general linear models using either overall or subdivided volumes. Results showed that periventricular T1w-hypointense WMHs were significantly associated with poorer performance in the trail making A (p = 0.011), digit symbol (p = 0.028) and digit coding (p = 0.009) tests. We found no association between total WMH volume and cognition. These findings suggest that sub-classifying WMHs according to both location and intensity in T1w reveals specific associations with cognitive performance.
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- Luca Melazzini
- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- INSERM U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Université de Paris, Paris, France; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy; Department of Radiology, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Topiwala A, Suri S, Allan C, Zsoldos E, Filippini N, Sexton CE, Mahmood A, Singh-Manoux A, Mackay CE, Kivimäki M, Ebmeier KP. Subjective Cognitive Complaints Given in Questionnaire: Relationship With Brain Structure, Cognitive Performance and Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms in a 25-Year Retrospective Cohort Study. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2021; 29:217-226. [PMID: 32736919 PMCID: PMC8097240 DOI: 10.1016/j.jagp.2020.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2020] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Subjective cognitive complaints are common but it is unclear whether they indicate an underlying pathological process or reflect affective symptoms. METHOD 800 community-dwelling older adults were drawn from the Whitehall II cohort. Subjective cognitive complaint inquiry for memory and concentration, a range of neuropsychological tests and multimodal MRI were performed in 2012-2016. Subjective complaints were again elicited after 1 year. Group differences in grey and white matter, between those with and without subjective complaints, were assessed using voxel-based morphometry and tract-based spatial statistics, respectively. Mixed effects models assessed whether cognitive decline or depressive symptoms (over a 25-year period) were associated with later subjective complaints. Analyses were controlled for potential confounders and multiple comparisons. RESULTS Mean age of the sample at scanning was 69.8 years (±5.1, range: 60.3-84.6). Subjective memory complaints were common (41%) and predicted further similar complaints later (mean 1.4 ± 1.4 years). There were no group differences in grey matter density or white matter integrity. Subjective complaints were not cross-sectionally or longitudinally associated with objectively assessed cognition. However, those with subjective complaints reported higher depressive symptoms ("poor concentration": odds ratio = 1.12, 95% CI 1.07-1.18; "poor memory": odds ratio = 1.18, 1.12-1.24). CONCLUSIONS In our sample subjective complaints were consistent over time and reflected depressive symptoms but not markers of neurodegenerative brain damage or concurrent or future objective cognitive impairment. Clinicians assessing patients presenting with memory complaints should be vigilant for affective disorders. These results question the rationale for including subjective complaints in a spectrum with Mild Cognitive Impairment diagnostic criteria.
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- Anya Topiwala
- Department of Psychiatry (AT, SS, CA,EZ, NF, CES, AM, CEM, KPE), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Big Data Institute (AT), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Institute of Translational and Clinical Research, Newcastle University / Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford, UK,Global Brain Health Institute, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Université de Paris, INSERM U1153, Paris, France,Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London UK
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Dinsdale NK, Jenkinson M, Namburete AIL. Deep learning-based unlearning of dataset bias for MRI harmonisation and confound removal. Neuroimage 2021; 228:117689. [PMID: 33385551 PMCID: PMC7903160 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Increasingly large MRI neuroimaging datasets are becoming available, including many highly multi-site multi-scanner datasets. Combining the data from the different scanners is vital for increased statistical power; however, this leads to an increase in variance due to nonbiological factors such as the differences in acquisition protocols and hardware, which can mask signals of interest. We propose a deep learning based training scheme, inspired by domain adaptation techniques, which uses an iterative update approach to aim to create scanner-invariant features while simultaneously maintaining performance on the main task of interest, thus reducing the influence of scanner on network predictions. We demonstrate the framework for regression, classification and segmentation tasks with two different network architectures. We show that not only can the framework harmonise many-site datasets but it can also adapt to many data scenarios, including biased datasets and limited training labels. Finally, we show that the framework can be extended for the removal of other known confounds in addition to scanner. The overall framework is therefore flexible and should be applicable to a wide range of neuroimaging studies.
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- Nicola K Dinsdale
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK.
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK; Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), North Terrace, Adelaide, Australia
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
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Suri S, Chiesa ST, Zsoldos E, Mackay CE, Filippini N, Griffanti L, Mahmood A, Singh-Manoux A, Shipley MJ, Brunner EJ, Kivimäki M, Deanfield JE, Ebmeier KP. Associations between arterial stiffening and brain structure, perfusion, and cognition in the Whitehall II Imaging Sub-study: A retrospective cohort study. PLoS Med 2020; 17:e1003467. [PMID: 33373359 PMCID: PMC7771705 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Aortic stiffness is closely linked with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), but recent studies suggest that it is also a risk factor for cognitive decline and dementia. However, the brain changes underlying this risk are unclear. We examined whether aortic stiffening during a 4-year follow-up in mid-to-late life was associated with brain structure and cognition in the Whitehall II Imaging Sub-study. METHODS AND FINDINGS The Whitehall II Imaging cohort is a randomly selected subset of the ongoing Whitehall II Study, for which participants have received clinical follow-ups for 30 years, across 12 phases. Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) was measured in 2007-2009 (Phase 9) and at a 4-year follow-up in 2012-2013 (Phase 11). Between 2012 and 2016 (Imaging Phase), participants received a multimodal 3T brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan and cognitive tests. Participants were selected if they had no clinical diagnosis of dementia and no gross brain structural abnormalities. Voxel-based analyses were used to assess grey matter (GM) volume, white matter (WM) microstructure (fractional anisotropy (FA) and diffusivity), white matter lesions (WMLs), and cerebral blood flow (CBF). Cognitive outcomes were performance on verbal memory, semantic fluency, working memory, and executive function tests. Of 542 participants, 444 (81.9%) were men. The mean (SD) age was 63.9 (5.2) years at the baseline Phase 9 examination, 68.0 (5.2) at Phase 11, and 69.8 (5.2) at the Imaging Phase. Voxel-based analysis revealed that faster rates of aortic stiffening in mid-to-late life were associated with poor WM microstructure, viz. lower FA, higher mean, and radial diffusivity (RD) in 23.9%, 11.8%, and 22.2% of WM tracts, respectively, including the corpus callosum, corona radiata, superior longitudinal fasciculus, and corticospinal tracts. Similar voxel-wise associations were also observed with follow-up aortic stiffness. Moreover, lower mean global FA was associated with faster rates of aortic stiffening (B = -5.65, 95% CI -9.75, -1.54, Bonferroni-corrected p < 0.0125) and higher follow-up aortic stiffness (B = -1.12, 95% CI -1.95, -0.29, Bonferroni-corrected p < 0.0125). In a subset of 112 participants who received arterial spin labelling scans, faster aortic stiffening was also related to lower cerebral perfusion in 18.4% of GM, with associations surviving Bonferroni corrections in the frontal (B = -10.85, 95% CI -17.91, -3.79, p < 0.0125) and parietal lobes (B = -12.75, 95% CI -21.58, -3.91, p < 0.0125). No associations with GM volume or WMLs were observed. Further, higher baseline aortic stiffness was associated with poor semantic fluency (B = -0.47, 95% CI -0.76 to -0.18, Bonferroni-corrected p < 0.007) and verbal learning outcomes (B = -0.36, 95% CI -0.60 to -0.12, Bonferroni-corrected p < 0.007). As with all observational studies, it was not possible to infer causal associations. The generalisability of the findings may be limited by the gender imbalance, high educational attainment, survival bias, and lack of ethnic and socioeconomic diversity in this cohort. CONCLUSIONS Our findings indicate that faster rates of aortic stiffening in mid-to-late life were associated with poor brain WM microstructural integrity and reduced cerebral perfusion, likely due to increased transmission of pulsatile energy to the delicate cerebral microvasculature. Strategies to prevent arterial stiffening prior to this point may be required to offer cognitive benefit in older age. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03335696.
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- Sana Suri
- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseases, Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Demnitz N, Anatürk M, Allan CL, Filippini N, Griffanti L, Mackay CE, Mahmood A, Sexton CE, Suri S, Topiwala AG, Zsoldos E, Kivimäki M, Singh-Manoux A, Ebmeier KP. Association of trajectories of depressive symptoms with vascular risk, cognitive function and adverse brain outcomes: The Whitehall II MRI sub-study. J Psychiatr Res 2020; 131:85-93. [PMID: 32949819 PMCID: PMC8063684 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 09/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Trajectories of depressive symptoms over the lifespan vary between people, but it is unclear whether these differences exhibit distinct characteristics in brain structure and function. METHODS In order to compare indices of white matter microstructure and cognitive characteristics of groups with different trajectories of depressive symptoms, we examined 774 participants of the Whitehall II Imaging Sub-study, who had completed the depressive subscale of the General Health Questionnaire up to nine times over 25 years. Twenty-seven years after the first examination, participants underwent magnetic resonance imaging to characterize white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and microstructure and completed neuropsychological tests to assess cognition. Twenty-nine years after the first examination, participants completed a further cognitive screening test. OUTCOMES Using K-means cluster modelling, we identified five trajectory groups of depressive symptoms: consistently low scorers ("low"; n = 505, 62·5%), a subgroup with an early peak in depression scores ("early"; n = 123, 15·9%), intermediate scorers ("middle"; n = 89, 11·5%), a late symptom subgroup with an increase in symptoms towards the end of the follow-up period ("late"; n = 29, 3·7%), and consistently high scorers ("high"; n = 28, 3·6%). The late, but not the consistently high scorers, showed higher mean diffusivity, larger volumes of WMH and impaired executive function. In addition, the late subgroup had higher Framingham Stroke Risk scores throughout the follow-up period, indicating a higher load of vascular risk factors. INTERPRETATION Our findings suggest that tracking depressive symptoms in the community over time may be a useful tool to identify phenotypes that show different etiologies and cognitive and brain outcomes.
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- Naiara Demnitz
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Institute of Translational and Clinical Research, Newcastle University, and Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Cumbria, Northumberland UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (including Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain), University of Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (including Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain), University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (including Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain), University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (including Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain), University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (including Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain), University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (including Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain), University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK,Université de Paris, INSERM U1153, Paris, France
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Sørensen Ø, Walhovd KB, Fjell AM. A recipe for accurate estimation of lifespan brain trajectories, distinguishing longitudinal and cohort effects. Neuroimage 2020; 226:117596. [PMID: 33248257 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Revised: 10/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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We address the problem of estimating how different parts of the brain develop and change throughout the lifespan, and how these trajectories are affected by genetic and environmental factors. Estimation of these lifespan trajectories is statistically challenging, since their shapes are typically highly nonlinear, and although true change can only be quantified by longitudinal examinations, as follow-up intervals in neuroimaging studies typically cover less than 10% of the lifespan, use of cross-sectional information is necessary. Linear mixed models (LMMs) and structural equation models (SEMs) commonly used in longitudinal analysis rely on assumptions which are typically not met with lifespan data, in particular when the data consist of observations combined from multiple studies. While LMMs require a priori specification of a polynomial functional form, SEMs do not easily handle data with unstructured time intervals between measurements. Generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) offer an attractive alternative, and in this paper we propose various ways of formulating GAMMs for estimation of lifespan trajectories of 12 brain regions, using a large longitudinal dataset and realistic simulation experiments. We show that GAMMs are able to more accurately fit lifespan trajectories, distinguish longitudinal and cross-sectional effects, and estimate effects of genetic and environmental exposures. Finally, we discuss and contrast questions related to lifespan research which strictly require repeated measures data and questions which can be answered with a single measurement per participant, and in the latter case, which simplifying assumptions that need to be made. The examples are accompanied with R code, providing a tutorial for researchers interested in using GAMMs.
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- Øystein Sørensen
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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de Lange AMG, Anatürk M, Suri S, Kaufmann T, Cole JH, Griffanti L, Zsoldos E, Jensen DEA, Filippini N, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Westlye LT, Ebmeier KP. Multimodal brain-age prediction and cardiovascular risk: The Whitehall II MRI sub-study. Neuroimage 2020; 222:117292. [PMID: 32835819 PMCID: PMC8121758 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Revised: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Brain age is becoming a widely applied imaging-based biomarker of neural aging and potential proxy for brain integrity and health. We estimated multimodal and modality-specific brain age in the Whitehall II (WHII) MRI cohort using machine learning and imaging-derived measures of gray matter (GM) morphology, white matter microstructure (WM), and resting state functional connectivity (FC). The results showed that the prediction accuracy improved when multiple imaging modalities were included in the model (R2 = 0.30, 95% CI [0.24, 0.36]). The modality-specific GM and WM models showed similar performance (R2 = 0.22 [0.16, 0.27] and R2 = 0.24 [0.18, 0.30], respectively), while the FC model showed the lowest prediction accuracy (R2 = 0.002 [-0.005, 0.008]), indicating that the FC features were less related to chronological age compared to structural measures. Follow-up analyses showed that FC predictions were similarly low in a matched sub-sample from UK Biobank, and although FC predictions were consistently lower than GM predictions, the accuracy improved with increasing sample size and age range. Cardiovascular risk factors, including high blood pressure, alcohol intake, and stroke risk score, were each associated with brain aging in the WHII cohort. Blood pressure showed a stronger association with white matter compared to gray matter, while no differences in the associations of alcohol intake and stroke risk with these modalities were observed. In conclusion, machine-learning based brain age prediction can reduce the dimensionality of neuroimaging data to provide meaningful biomarkers of individual brain aging. However, model performance depends on study-specific characteristics including sample size and age range, which may cause discrepancies in findings across studies.
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- Ann-Marie G de Lange
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; NORMENT, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, & Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- NORMENT, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, & Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Medical Image Computing, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK; Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Universit de Paris, INSERM U1153, Paris France; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; NORMENT, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, & Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Chiesa ST, Masi S, Shipley MJ, Ellins EA, Fraser AG, Hughes AD, Patel RS, Khir AW, Halcox JP, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimaki M, Celermajer DS, Deanfield JE. Carotid artery wave intensity in mid- to late-life predicts cognitive decline: the Whitehall II study. Eur Heart J 2020; 40:2300-2309. [PMID: 30957863 PMCID: PMC6642727 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Revised: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
AIMS Excessive arterial pulsatility may contribute to cognitive decline and risk of dementia via damage to the fragile cerebral microcirculation. We hypothesized that the intensity of downstream-travelling pulsatile waves measured by wave intensity analysis in the common carotid artery during mid- to late-life would be associated with subsequent cognitive decline. METHODS AND RESULTS Duplex Doppler ultrasound was used to calculate peak forward-travelling compression wave intensity (FCWI) within the common carotid artery in 3191 individuals [mean ± standard deviation (SD), age = 61 ± 6 years; 75% male] assessed as part of the Whitehall II study in 2003-05. Serial measures of cognitive function were taken between 2002-04 and 2015-16. The relationship between FCWI and cognitive decline was adjusted for sociodemographic variables, genetic and health-related risk factors, and health behaviours. Mean (SD) 10-year change in standardized global cognitive score was -0.39 (0.18). Higher FCWI at baseline was associated with accelerated cognitive decline during follow-up [difference in 10-year change of global cognitive score per 1 SD higher FCWI = -0.02 (95% confidence interval -0.04 to -0.00); P = 0.03]. This association was largely driven by cognitive changes in individuals with the highest FCWI [Q4 vs. Q1-Q3 = -0.05 (-0.09 to -0.01), P = 0.01], equivalent to an age effect of 1.9 years. Compared to other participants, this group was ∼50% more likely to exhibit cognitive decline (defined as the top 15% most rapid reductions in cognitive function during follow-up) even after adjustments for multiple potential confounding factors [odds ratio 1.49 (1.17-1.88)]. CONCLUSION Elevated carotid artery wave intensity in mid- to late-life predicts faster cognitive decline in long-term follow-up independent of other cardiovascular risk factors.
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- Scott T Chiesa
- National Centre for Cardiovascular Preventions and Outcomes, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, 1 St. Martin's Le Grand, London, UK
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- National Centre for Cardiovascular Preventions and Outcomes, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, 1 St. Martin's Le Grand, London, UK.,Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Universitá di Pisa, Building 8, S. Chiara Hospital, Via Roma 67, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, UK
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- Institute of Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, UK
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- School of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK.,Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Population Science and Experimental Medicine, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, 69-75 Chenies Mews, London, UK.,Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, 33 Bedford Place, London, UK
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- National Centre for Cardiovascular Preventions and Outcomes, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, 1 St. Martin's Le Grand, London, UK.,Department of Cardiology, Bart's Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, W Smithfield, London, UK
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- Biomedical Engineering Research Theme, Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, UK
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- Institute of Life Science, Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, UK.,Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris, 10 Avenue de Verdun, Paris, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, 1-19 Torrington Place, London, UK
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- National Centre for Cardiovascular Preventions and Outcomes, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, 1 St. Martin's Le Grand, London, UK
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Sørensen Ø, Brandmaier AM, Macià D, Ebmeier K, Ghisletta P, Kievit RA, Mowinckel AM, Walhovd KB, Westerhausen R, Fjell A. Meta-analysis of generalized additive models in neuroimaging studies. Neuroimage 2020; 224:117416. [PMID: 33017652 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2020] [Revised: 09/23/2020] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Analyzing data from multiple neuroimaging studies has great potential in terms of increasing statistical power, enabling detection of effects of smaller magnitude than would be possible when analyzing each study separately and also allowing to systematically investigate between-study differences. Restrictions due to privacy or proprietary data as well as more practical concerns can make it hard to share neuroimaging datasets, such that analyzing all data in a common location might be impractical or impossible. Meta-analytic methods provide a way to overcome this issue, by combining aggregated quantities like model parameters or risk ratios. Most meta-analytic tools focus on parametric statistical models, and methods for meta-analyzing semi-parametric models like generalized additive models have not been well developed. Parametric models are often not appropriate in neuroimaging, where for instance age-brain relationships may take forms that are difficult to accurately describe using such models. In this paper we introduce meta-GAM, a method for meta-analysis of generalized additive models which does not require individual participant data, and hence is suitable for increasing statistical power while upholding privacy and other regulatory concerns. We extend previous works by enabling the analysis of multiple model terms as well as multivariate smooth functions. In addition, we show how meta-analytic p-values can be computed for smooth terms. The proposed methods are shown to perform well in simulation experiments, and are demonstrated in a real data analysis on hippocampal volume and self-reported sleep quality data from the Lifebrain consortium. We argue that application of meta-GAM is especially beneficial in lifespan neuroscience and imaging genetics. The methods are implemented in an accompanying R package metagam, which is also demonstrated.
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- Øystein Sørensen
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Pb. 1094 Blindern, Oslo 0317, Norway.
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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
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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, Spain
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Distance University Institute, Switzerland; Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Pb. 1094 Blindern, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Pb. 1094 Blindern, Oslo 0317, Norway; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Pb. 1094 Blindern, Oslo 0317, Norway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Pb. 1094 Blindern, Oslo 0317, Norway; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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Anatürk M, Suri S, Zsoldos E, Filippini N, Mahmood A, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Mackay CE, Ebmeier KP, Sexton CE. Associations Between Longitudinal Trajectories of Cognitive and Social Activities and Brain Health in Old Age. JAMA Netw Open 2020; 3:e2013793. [PMID: 32816032 PMCID: PMC7441365 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.13793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Importance Prior neuroimaging studies have found that late-life participation in cognitive (eg, reading) and social (eg, visiting friends and family) leisure activities are associated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers of the aging brain, but little is known about the neural and cognitive correlates of changes in leisure activities during the life span. Objectives To examine trajectories of cognitive and social activities from midlife to late life and evaluate whether these trajectories are associated with brain structure, functional connectivity, and cognition. Design, Setting, and Participants This prospective cohort included participants enrolled in the Whitehall II study and its MRI substudy based in the UK. Participants provided information on their leisure activities at 5 times during calendar years 1997 to 1999, 2002 to 2004, 2006, 2007 to 2009, and 2011 to 2013 and underwent MRI and cognitive battery testing from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2016. Data analysis was performed from October 7, 2017, to July 15, 2019. Main Outcome and Measures Growth curve models and latent class growth analysis were used to identify longitudinal trajectories of cognitive and social activities. Multiple linear regression was used to evaluate associations between activity trajectories and gray matter, white matter microstructure, functional connectivity, and cognition. Results A total of 574 individuals (468 [81.5%] men; mean [SD] age, 69.9 [4.9] years; median Montreal Cognitive Assessment score, 28 [interquartile range, 26-28]) were included in the present analysis. During a mean (SD) of 15 (4.2) years, cognitive and social activity levels increased during midlife before reaching a plateau in late life. Both baseline (global cognition: unstandardized β [SE], 0.955 [0.285], uncorrected P = .001; executive function: β [SE], 1.831 [0.499], uncorrected P < .001; memory: β [SE], 1.394 [0.550], uncorrected P = .01; processing speed: β [SE], 1.514 [0.528], uncorrected P = .004) and change (global cognition: β [SE], -1.382 [0.492], uncorrected P = .005, executive function: β [SE], -2.219 [0.865], uncorrected P = .01; memory: β [SE], -2.355 [0.948], uncorrected P = .01) in cognitive activities were associated with multiple domains of cognition as well as global gray matter volume (β [SE], -0.910 [0.388], uncorrected P = .02). Baseline (β [SE], 1.695 [0.525], uncorrected P = .001) and change (β [SE], 2.542 [1.026], uncorrected P = .01) in social activities were associated only with executive function, in addition to voxelwise measures of functional connectivity that involved sensorimotor (quadratic change in social activities: number of voxels, 306; P = 0.01) and temporoparietal (linear change in social activities: number of voxels, 16; P = .02) networks. Otherwise, no voxelwise associations were found with gray matter, white matter, or resting-state functional connectivity. False discovery rate corrections for multiple comparisons suggested that the association between cognitive activity levels and executive function was robust (β [SE], 1.831 [0.499], false discovery rate P < .001). Conclusions and Relevance The findings suggest that a life course approach may delineate the association between leisure activities and cognitive and brain health and that interventions aimed at improving and maintaining cognitive engagement may be valuable for the cognitive health of community-dwelling older adults.
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- Melis Anatürk
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Oxford, UK
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Oxford, UK
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Oxford, UK
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
- Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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Zsoldos E, Mahmood A, Filippini N, Suri S, Heise V, Griffanti L, Mackay CE, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Ebmeier KP. Association of midlife stroke risk with structural brain integrity and memory performance at older ages: a longitudinal cohort study. Brain Commun 2020; 2:fcaa026. [PMID: 32954286 PMCID: PMC7491431 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaa026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Revised: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Cardiovascular health in midlife is an established risk factor for cognitive function later in life. Knowing mechanisms of this association may allow preventative steps to be taken to preserve brain health and cognitive performance in older age. In this study, we investigated the association of the Framingham stroke-risk score, a validated multifactorial predictor of 10-year risk of stroke, with brain measures and cognitive performance in stroke-free individuals. We used a large (N = 800) longitudinal cohort of community-dwelling adults of the Whitehall II imaging sub-study with no obvious structural brain abnormalities, who had Framingham stroke risk measured five times between 1991 and 2013 and MRI measures of structural integrity, and cognitive function performed between 2012 and 2016 [baseline mean age 47.9 (5.2) years, range 39.7–62.7 years; MRI mean age 69.81 (5.2) years, range 60.3–84.6 years; 80.6% men]. Unadjusted linear associations were assessed between the Framingham stroke-risk score in each wave and voxelwise grey matter density, fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity at follow-up. These analyses were repeated including socio-demographic confounders as well as stroke risk in previous waves to examine the effect of residual risk acquired between waves. Finally, we used structural equation modelling to assess whether stroke risk negatively affects cognitive performance via specific brain measures. Higher unadjusted stroke risk measured at each of the five waves over 20 years prior to the MRI scan was associated with lower voxelwise grey and white matter measures. After adjusting for socio-demographic variables, higher stroke risk from 1991 to 2009 was associated with lower grey matter volume in the medial temporal lobe. Higher stroke risk from 1997 to 2013 was associated with lower fractional anisotropy along the corpus callosum. In addition, higher stroke risk from 2012 to 2013, sequentially adjusted for risk measured in 1991–94, 1997–98 and 2002–04 (i.e. ‘residual risks’ acquired from the time of these examinations onwards), was associated with widespread lower fractional anisotropy, and lower grey matter volume in sub-neocortical structures. Structural equation modelling suggested that such reductions in brain integrity were associated with cognitive impairment. These findings highlight the importance of considering cerebrovascular health in midlife as important for brain integrity and cognitive function later in life (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03335696).
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- Enikő Zsoldos
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK.,Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Big Data Institute, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK.,Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK.,INSERM, U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseases, Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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Demnitz N, Topiwala A, Zsoldos E, Stagg CJ, Emir UE, Johansen-Berg H, Ebmeier KP, Sexton CE. Alcohol consumption is associated with reduced creatine levels in the hippocampus of older adults. Psychiatry Res 2020; 295:111019. [PMID: 31785452 PMCID: PMC6961205 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2019.111019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2019] [Revised: 11/15/2019] [Accepted: 11/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Besides its well established susceptibility to ageing, the hippocampus has also been shown to be affected by alcohol consumption. Proton spectroscopy (1H-MRS) of the hippocampus, particularly at high-field 7T MRI, may further our understanding of these associations. Here, we aimed to examine how hippocampal metabolites varied with age and alcohol consumption. Hippocampal metabolite spectra were acquired in 37 older adults using 7T 1H-MRS, from which we determined the absolute concentration of N-acetylaspartate (NAA), creatine, choline, myo-inositol, glutamate and glutamine. Thirty participants (mean age = 70.4 ± 4.7 years) also had self-reported data on weekly alcohol consumption. Total choline inversely correlated with age, although this did not survive multiple comparisons correction. Crucially, adults with a higher weekly alcohol consumption had significantly lower levels of creatine, suggesting a deficit in their hippocampal metabolism. These findings add to an increasing body of evidence linking alcohol to hippocampal function.
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- Naiara Demnitz
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Global Brain Health Institute, Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Westerhausen R, Nyberg L, Ebmeier KP, Lindenberger U, Bartrés-Faz D, Baaré WF, Siebner HR, Henson R, Drevon CA, Strømstad Knudsen GP, Ljøsne IB, Penninx BW, Ghisletta P, Rogeberg O, Tyler L, Bertram L. Healthy minds 0–100 years: Optimising the use of European brain imaging cohorts (“Lifebrain”). Eur Psychiatry 2020; 50:47-56. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2017] [Revised: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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AbstractThe main objective of “Lifebrain” is to identify the determinants of brain, cognitive and mental (BCM) health at different stages of life. By integrating, harmonising and enriching major European neuroimaging studies across the life span, we will merge fine-grained BCM health measures of more than 5000 individuals. Longitudinal brain imaging, genetic and health data are available for a major part, as well as cognitive and mental health measures for the broader cohorts, exceeding 27,000 examinations in total. By linking these data to other databases and biobanks, including birth registries, national and regional archives, and by enriching them with a new online data collection and novel measures, we will address the risk factors and protective factors of BCM health. We will identify pathways through which risk and protective factors work and their moderators. Exploiting existing European infrastructures and initiatives, we hope to make major conceptual, methodological and analytical contributions towards large integrative cohorts and their efficient exploitation. We will thus provide novel information on BCM health maintenance, as well as the onset and course of BCM disorders. This will lay a foundation for earlier diagnosis of brain disorders, aberrant development and decline of BCM health, and translate into future preventive and therapeutic strategies. Aiming to improve clinical practice and public health we will work with stakeholders and health authorities, and thus provide the evidence base for prevention and intervention.
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Sabia S, Fayosse A, Dumurgier J, Schnitzler A, Empana JP, Ebmeier KP, Dugravot A, Kivimäki M, Singh-Manoux A. Association of ideal cardiovascular health at age 50 with incidence of dementia: 25 year follow-up of Whitehall II cohort study. BMJ 2019; 366:l4414. [PMID: 31391187 PMCID: PMC6664261 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l4414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To examine the association between the Life Simple 7 cardiovascular health score at age 50 and incidence of dementia. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Civil service departments in London (Whitehall II study; study inception 1985-88). PARTICIPANTS 7899 participants with data on the cardiovascular health score at age 50. EXPOSURES The cardiovascular health score included four behavioural (smoking, diet, physical activity, body mass index) and three biological (fasting glucose, blood cholesterol, blood pressure) metrics, coded on a three point scale (0, 1, 2). The cardiovascular health score was the sum of seven metrics (score range 0-14) and was categorised into poor (scores 0-6), intermediate (7-11), and optimal (12-14) cardiovascular health. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Incident dementia, identified through linkage to hospital, mental health services, and mortality registers until 2017. RESULTS 347 incident cases of dementia were recorded over a median follow-up of 24.7 years. Compared with an incidence rate of dementia of 3.2 (95% confidence interval 2.5 to 4.0) per 1000 person years among the group with poor cardiovascular health, the absolute rate differences per 1000 person years were -1.5 (95% confidence interval -2.3 to -0.7) for the group with intermediate cardiovascular health and -1.9 (-2.8 to -1.1) for the group with optimal cardiovascular health. Higher cardiovascular health score was associated with a lower risk of dementia (hazard ratio 0.89 (0.85 to 0.95) per 1 point increment in the cardiovascular health score). Similar associations with dementia were observed for the behavioural and biological subscales (hazard ratios per 1 point increment in the subscores 0.87 (0.81 to 0.93) and 0.91 (0.83 to 1.00), respectively). The association between cardiovascular health at age 50 and dementia was also seen in people who remained free of cardiovascular disease over the follow-up (hazard ratio 0.89 (0.84 to 0.95) per 1 point increment in the cardiovascular health score). CONCLUSION Adherence to the Life Simple 7 ideal cardiovascular health recommendations in midlife was associated with a lower risk of dementia later in life.
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- Séverine Sabia
- Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseases, Université de Paris, 75010 Paris, France
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseases, Université de Paris, 75010 Paris, France
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- Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseases, Université de Paris, 75010 Paris, France
- Cognitive Neurology Center, Lariboisière - Fernand Widal Hospital, AP-HP, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseases, Université de Paris, 75010 Paris, France
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- Inserm, U970, Integrative Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease, Paris Descartes University, Paris, France
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- Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseases, Université de Paris, 75010 Paris, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
- Helsinki Institute of Life Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative diseases, Université de Paris, 75010 Paris, France
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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Suri S, Topiwala A, Chappell MA, Okell TW, Zsoldos E, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Mackay CE, Ebmeier KP. Association of Midlife Cardiovascular Risk Profiles With Cerebral Perfusion at Older Ages. JAMA Netw Open 2019; 2:e195776. [PMID: 31225888 PMCID: PMC6593638 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.5776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Importance Poor cardiovascular health is an established risk factor for dementia, but little is known about its association with brain physiology in older adults. Objective To examine the association of cardiovascular risk factors, measured repeatedly during a 20-year period, with cerebral perfusion at older ages. Design, Setting, and Participants In this longitudinal cohort study, individuals were selected from the Whitehall II Imaging Substudy. Participants were included if they had no clinical diagnosis of dementia, had no gross brain structural abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging scans, and had received pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging. Cardiovascular risk was measured at 5-year intervals across 5 phases from September 1991 to October 2013. Arterial spin labeling scans were acquired between April 2014 and December 2014. Data analysis was performed from June 2016 to September 2018. Exposures Framingham Risk Score (FRS) for cardiovascular disease, comprising age, sex, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level, total cholesterol level, systolic blood pressure, use of antihypertensive medications, cigarette smoking, and diabetes, was assessed at 5 visits. Main Outcomes and Measures Cerebral blood flow (CBF; in milliliters per 100 g of tissue per minute) was quantified with pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging. Results Of 116 adult participants, 99 (85.3%) were men. At the first examination, mean (SD) age was 47.1 (5.0) years; at the last examination, mean (SD) age was 67.4 (4.9) years. Mean (SD) age at MRI scan was 69.3 (5.0) years. Log-FRS increased with time (B = 0.058; 95% CI, 0.044 to 0.072; P < .001). Higher cumulative FRS over the 20-year period (measured as the integral of the rate of change of log-FRS) was associated with lower gray matter CBF (B = -0.513; 95% CI -0.802 to -0.224; P < .001) after adjustment for age, sex, education, socioeconomic status, cognitive status, arterial transit time, use of statins, and weekly alcohol consumption. Voxelwise analyses revealed that this association was significant in 39.6% of gray matter regions, including the posterior cingulate, precuneus, lateral parietal cortex, occipital cortex, hippocampi, and parahippocampal gyrus. The strength of the association of higher log-FRS with lower CBF decreased progressively from the first examination (R2 = 0.253; B = -10.816; 99% CI -18.375 to -3.257; P < .001) to the last (R2 = 0.188; B = -7.139; 99% CI -14.861 to 0.582; P = .02), such that the most recent FRS measurement at mean (SD) age 67.4 (4.9) years was not significantly associated with CBF with a Bonferroni-corrected P < .01 . Conclusions and Relevance Cardiovascular risk in midlife was significantly associated with lower gray matter perfusion at older ages, but this association was not significant for cardiovascular risk in later life. This finding could inform the timing of cardiovascular interventions so as to be optimally effective.
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- Sana Suri
- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Inserm U1153, Epidemiology of Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Large-scale intrinsic connectivity is consistent across varying task demands. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0213861. [PMID: 30970031 PMCID: PMC6457563 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2018] [Accepted: 03/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Measuring whole-brain functional connectivity patterns based on task-free (‘resting-state’) spontaneous fluctuations in the functional MRI (fMRI) signal is a standard approach to probing habitual brain states, independent of task-specific context. This view is supported by spatial correspondence between task- and rest-derived connectivity networks. Yet, it remains unclear whether intrinsic connectivity observed in a resting-state acquisition is persistent during task. Here, we sought to determine how changes in ongoing brain activation, elicited by task performance, impact the integrity of whole-brain functional connectivity patterns (commonly termed ‘resting state networks’). We employed a ‘steady-states’ paradigm, in which participants continuously executed a specific task (without baseline periods). Participants underwent separate task-based (visual, motor and visuomotor) or task-free (resting) steady-state scans, each performed over a 5-minute period. This unique design allowed us to apply a set of traditional resting-state analyses to various task-states. In addition, a classical fMRI block-design was employed to identify individualized brain activation patterns for each task, allowing us to characterize how differing activation patterns across the steady-states impact whole-brain intrinsic connectivity patterns. By examining correlations across segregated brain regions (nodes) and the whole brain (using independent component analysis) using standard resting-state functional connectivity (FC) analysis, we show that the whole-brain network architecture characteristic of the resting-state is comparable across different steady-task states, despite striking inter-task changes in brain activation (signal amplitude). Changes in functional connectivity were detected locally, within the active networks. But to identify these local changes, the contributions of different FC networks to the global intrinsic connectivity pattern had to be isolated. Together, we show that intrinsic connectivity underlying the canonical resting-state networks is relatively stable even when participants are engaged in different tasks and is not limited to the resting-state.
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Boscolo Galazzo I, Storti SF, Barnes A, De Blasi B, De Vita E, Koepp M, Duncan JS, Groves A, Pizzini FB, Menegaz G, Fraioli F. Arterial Spin Labeling Reveals Disrupted Brain Networks and Functional Connectivity in Drug-Resistant Temporal Epilepsy. Front Neuroinform 2019; 12:101. [PMID: 30894811 PMCID: PMC6414423 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2018.00101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 12/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Resting-state networks (RSNs) and functional connectivity (FC) have been increasingly exploited for mapping brain activity and identifying abnormalities in pathologies, including epilepsy. The majority of studies currently available are based on blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) contrast in combination with either independent component analysis (ICA) or pairwise region of interest (ROI) correlations. Despite its success, this approach has several shortcomings as BOLD is only an indirect and non-quantitative measure of brain activity. Conversely, promising results have recently been achieved by arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI, primarily developed to quantify brain perfusion. However, the wide application of ASL-based FC has been hampered by its complexity and relatively low robustness to noise, leaving several aspects of this approach still largely unexplored. In this study, we firstly aimed at evaluating the effect of noise reduction on spatio-temporal ASL analyses and quantifying the impact of two ad-hoc processing pipelines (basic and advanced) on connectivity measures. Once the optimal strategy had been defined, we investigated the applicability of ASL for connectivity mapping in patients with drug-resistant temporal epilepsy vs. controls (10 per group), aiming at revealing between-group voxel-wise differences in each RSN and ROI-wise FC changes. We first found ASL was able to identify the main network (DMN) along with all the others generally detected with BOLD but never previously reported from ASL. For all RSNs, ICA-based denoising (advanced pipeline) allowed to increase their similarity with the corresponding BOLD template. ASL-based RSNs were visibly consistent with literature findings; however, group differences could be identified in the structure of some networks. Indeed, statistics revealed areas of significant FC decrease in patients within different RSNs, such as DMN and cerebellum (CER), while significant increases were found in some cases, such as the visual networks. Finally, the ROI-based analyses identified several inter-hemispheric dysfunctional links (controls > patients) mainly between areas belonging to the DMN, right-left thalamus and right-left temporal lobe. Conversely, fewer connections, predominantly intra-hemispheric, showed the opposite pattern (controls < patients). All these elements provide novel insights into the pathological modulations characterizing a "network disease" as epilepsy, shading light on the importance of perfusion-based approaches for identifying the disrupted areas and communications between brain regions.
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- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medical Physics, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's Health Partners, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Topiwala A, Suri S, Allan C, Valkanova V, Filippini N, Sexton CE, Heise V, Zsoldos E, Mahmood A, Singh-Manoux A, Mackay CE, Kivimäki M, Ebmeier KP. Predicting cognitive resilience from midlife lifestyle and multi-modal MRI: A 30-year prospective cohort study. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0211273. [PMID: 30779761 PMCID: PMC6380585 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND There is significant heterogeneity in the clinical expression of structural brain abnormalities, including Alzheimer's disease biomarkers. Some individuals preserve their memory despite the presence of risk factors or pathological brain changes, indicating resilience. We aimed to test whether resilient individuals could be distinguished from those who develop cognitive impairment, using sociodemographic variables and neuroimaging. METHODS We included 550 older adults participating in the Whitehall II study with longitudinal data, cognitive test results, and multi-modal MRI. Hippocampal atrophy was defined as Scheltens Scores >0. Resilient individuals (n = 184) were defined by high cognitive performance despite hippocampal atrophy (HA). Non-resilient participants (n = 133) were defined by low cognitive performance (≥1.5 standard deviations (S.D.) below the group mean) in the presence of HA. Dynamic and static exposures were evaluated for their ability to predict later resilience status using multivariable logistic regression. In a brain-wide analysis we tested for group differences in the integrity of white matter (structural connectivity) and resting-state networks (functional connectivity). FINDINGS Younger age (OR: 0.87, 95% CI: 0.83 to 0.92, p<0.001), higher premorbid FSIQ (OR: 1.06, 95% CI: 1.03 to 1.10, p<0.0001) and social class (OR 1 vs. 3: 4.99, 95% CI: 1.30 to 19.16, p = 0.02, OR 2 vs. 3: 8.43, 95% CI: 1.80 to 39.45, p = 0.007) were independently associated with resilience. Resilient individuals could be differentiated from non-resilient participants by higher fractional anisotropy (FA), and less association between anterior and posterior resting state networks. Higher FA had a significantly more positive effect on cognitive performance in participants with HA, compared to those without. CONCLUSIONS Resilient individuals could be distinguished from those who developed impairments on the basis of sociodemographic characteristics, brain structural and functional connectivity, but not midlife lifestyles. There was a synergistic deleterious effect of hippocampal atrophy and poor white matter integrity on cognitive performance. Exploiting and supporting neural correlates of resilience could offer a fresh approach to postpone or avoid the appearance of clinical symptoms.
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- Anya Topiwala
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, Villejuif, France
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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James SN, Lane CA, Parker TD, Lu K, Collins JD, Murray-Smith H, Byford M, Wong A, Keshavan A, Buchanan S, Keuss SE, Kuh D, Fox NC, Schott JM, Richards M. Using a birth cohort to study brain health and preclinical dementia: recruitment and participation rates in Insight 46. BMC Res Notes 2018; 11:885. [PMID: 30545411 PMCID: PMC6293512 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-018-3995-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Identifying and recruiting people with early pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's disease to neuroimaging research studies is increasingly important. The extent to which results of these studies can be generalised depends on the recruitment and representativeness of the participants involved. We now report the recruitment and participation patterns from a neuroscience sub-study of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, "Insight 46". This study aimed to recruit 500 participants for extensive clinical and neuropsychological testing, and neuroimaging. We investigate how sociodemographic factors, health conditions and health-related behaviours predict participation at different levels of recruitment. RESULTS We met our target recruitment (n = 502). Higher educational attainment and non-manual socio-economic position (SEP) were consistent predictors of recruitment. Health-related variables were also predictive at every level of recruitment; in particular higher cognition, not smoking and better self-rating health. Sex and APOE-e4 status were not predictors of participation at any level. Whilst recruitment targets were met, individuals with lower SEP, lower cognition, and more health problems are under-represented in Insight 46. Understanding the factors that influence recruitment are important when interpreting results; for Insight 46 it is likely that health-related outcomes and life course risks will under-estimate those seen in the general population.
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- Sarah-Naomi James
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, UK
- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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- Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
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Griffanti L, Stratmann P, Rolinski M, Filippini N, Zsoldos E, Mahmood A, Zamboni G, Douaud G, Klein JC, Kivimäki M, Singh-Manoux A, Hu MT, Ebmeier KP, Mackay CE. Exploring variability in basal ganglia connectivity with functional MRI in healthy aging. Brain Imaging Behav 2018; 12:1822-1827. [PMID: 29442271 PMCID: PMC6302142 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-018-9824-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Changes in functional connectivity (FC) measured using resting state fMRI within the basal ganglia network (BGN) have been observed in pathologies with altered neurotransmitter systems and conditions involving motor control and dopaminergic processes. However, less is known about non-disease factors affecting FC in the BGN. The aim of this study was to examine associations of FC within the BGN with dopaminergic processes in healthy older adults. We explored the relationship between FC in the BGN and variables related to demographics, impulsive behavior, self-paced tasks, mood, and motor correlates in 486 participants in the Whitehall-II imaging sub-study using both region-of-interest- and voxel-based approaches. Age was the only correlate of FC in the BGN that was consistently significant with both analyses. The observed adverse effect of aging on FC may relate to alterations of the dopaminergic system, but no unique dopamine-related function seemed to have a link with FC beyond those detectable in and linearly correlated with healthy aging.
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- Ludovica Griffanti
- Centre for the functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Informatics, Germany and Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Technical University of Munich, Wessling, Germany
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- Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), Oxford, UK
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Centre for the functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Centre for the functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Centre for the functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Centre for the functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), Oxford, UK
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
- INSERM, U 1018, Hôpital Paul-Brousse, Villejuif, France
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- Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), Oxford, UK
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC), Oxford, UK.
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
- Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK.
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Akbaraly T, Sexton C, Zsoldos E, Mahmood A, Filippini N, Kerleau C, Verdier JM, Virtanen M, Gabelle A, Ebmeier KP, Kivimaki M. Association of Long-Term Diet Quality with Hippocampal Volume: Longitudinal Cohort Study. Am J Med 2018; 131:1372-1381.e4. [PMID: 30056104 PMCID: PMC6237674 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Revised: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Diet quality is associated with brain aging outcomes. However, few studies have explored in humans the brain structures potentially affected by long-term diet quality. We examined whether cumulative average of the Alternative Healthy Eating Index 2010 (AHEI-2010) score during adult life (an 11-year exposure period) is associated with hippocampal volume. METHODS Analyses were based on data from 459 participants of the Whitehall II imaging sub-study (mean age [standard deviation] (SD) = 59.6 [5.3] years in 2002-2004, 19.2% women). Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging examination was performed at the end of follow-up (2015-2016). Structural images were acquired using a high-resolution 3-dimensional T1-weighted sequence and processed with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain Software Library (FSL) tools. An automated model-based segmentation and registration tool was applied to extract hippocampal volumes. RESULTS Higher AHEI-2010 cumulative average score (reflecting long-term healthy diet quality) was associated with a larger total hippocampal volume. For each 1 SD (SD = 8.7 points) increment in AHEI-2010 score, an increase of 92.5 mm3 (standard error = 42.0 mm3) in total hippocampal volume was observed. This association was independent of sociodemographic factors, smoking habits, physical activity, cardiometabolic health factors, cognitive impairment, and depressive symptoms, and was more pronounced in the left hippocampus than in the right hippocampus. Of the AHEI-2010 components, no or light alcohol consumption was independently associated with larger hippocampal volume. CONCLUSIONS Higher long-term AHEI-2010 scores were associated with larger hippocampal volume. Accounting for the importance of hippocampal structures in several neuropsychiatric diseases, our findings reaffirm the need to consider adherence to healthy dietary recommendation in multi-interventional programs to promote healthy brain aging.
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- Tasnime Akbaraly
- MMDN, University of Montpellier, EPHE, INSERM U1198, PSL Research University, Montpellier, France; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK; Department of Psychiatry & Autism Resources Centre, Hospital and University Research Center of Montpellier, France.
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- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK
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- Neurobiology of Ageing Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
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- Neurobiology of Ageing Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
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- Neurobiology of Ageing Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
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- MMDN, University of Montpellier, EPHE, INSERM U1198, PSL Research University, Montpellier, France
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- MMDN, University of Montpellier, EPHE, INSERM U1198, PSL Research University, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden
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- Memory Resources and Research Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, Department of Neurology, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier, University of Montpellier, INSERM U1183, France
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- Neurobiology of Ageing Group, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
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Bastiani M, Cottaar M, Fitzgibbon SP, Suri S, Alfaro-Almagro F, Sotiropoulos SN, Jbabdi S, Andersson JLR. Automated quality control for within and between studies diffusion MRI data using a non-parametric framework for movement and distortion correction. Neuroimage 2018; 184:801-812. [PMID: 30267859 PMCID: PMC6264528 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.09.073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Revised: 09/21/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Diffusion MRI data can be affected by hardware and subject-related artefacts that can adversely affect downstream analyses. Therefore, automated quality control (QC) is of great importance, especially in large population studies where visual QC is not practical. In this work, we introduce an automated diffusion MRI QC framework for single subject and group studies. The QC is based on a comprehensive, non-parametric approach for movement and distortion correction: FSL EDDY, which allows us to extract a rich set of QC metrics that are both sensitive and specific to different types of artefacts. Two different tools are presented: QUAD (QUality Assessment for DMRI), for single subject QC and SQUAD (Study-wise QUality Assessment for DMRI), which is designed to enable group QC and facilitate cross-studies harmonisation efforts. Two tools to automatically perform QC of diffusion MRI data. Automated generation of single subject reports for visual inspection and database. Group databases and reports allow to compare subjects within and between studies. Categorical and continuous variables can be used to update the reports.
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- Matteo Bastiani
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging - Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, UK; Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK.
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging - Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging - Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK; Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging - Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), University of Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging - Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging - Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, UK; Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging - Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging - Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford, UK
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Valkanova V, Esser P, Demnitz N, Sexton CE, Zsoldos E, Mahmood A, Griffanti L, Kivimäki M, Singh-Manoux A, Dawes H, Ebmeier KP. Association between gait and cognition in an elderly population based sample. Gait Posture 2018; 65:240-245. [PMID: 30558938 PMCID: PMC6109203 DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2018.07.178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2017] [Revised: 06/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/27/2018] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Gait is thought to have a cognitive component, but the current evidence in healthy elderly is mixed. We studied the association between multiple gait and cognitive measures in a cohort of older people. METHODS One hundred and seventy-eight cognitively healthy participants from the Whitehall II Imaging Sub-study had a detailed clinical and neuropsychological assessment, as well as an MRI scan. Spatiotemporal and variability gait measures were derived from two 10 m walks at self-selected speed. We did a linear regression analysis, entering potential confounders with backwards elimination of variables with p ≥ 0.1. The remaining variables were then entered into a second regression before doing a stepwise analysis of cognitive measures, entering variables with p < 0.05 and removing those with p ≥ 0.1. RESULTS Amongst absolute gait measures, only greater stride length was associated with better performance on the Trail Making Test A (p = 0.023) and the Boston Naming Test (p = 0.042). The stride time variability was associated with performance on the Trail Making Test A (p = 0.031). Age was associated with poorer walking speed (p = 0.014) and stride time (p = 0.011), female sex with shorter stride time (p = 0.000) and shorter double stance (p = 0.005). Length of full-time education was associated with faster walking speed (p = 0.012) and shorter stride time (p = 0.045), and a history of muscular-skeletal disease with slower walking speed (p = 0.01) and shorter stride length (p = 0.015). Interestingly, volume of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) on FLAIR MRI images did not contribute independently to any of the gait measures (p > 0.05). CONCLUSIONS No strong relationship between gait and non-motor cognition was observed in a cognitively healthy, high functioning sample of elderly. Nevertheless, we found some relationships with spatial, but not temporal gait which warrant further investigation. WMH made no independent contributionto gait.
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- Vyara Valkanova
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom.
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- Movement Science Group, Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom; FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom; FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, U1018, Villejuif, France; Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Movement Science Group, Oxford Brookes University, OX3 0BP, United Kingdom; FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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Chouliaras L, Pishva E, Haapakoski R, Zsoldos E, Mahmood A, Filippini N, Burrage J, Mill J, Kivimäki M, Lunnon K, Ebmeier KP. Peripheral DNA methylation, cognitive decline and brain aging: pilot findings from the Whitehall II imaging study. Epigenomics 2018; 10:585-595. [PMID: 29692214 PMCID: PMC6021930 DOI: 10.2217/epi-2017-0132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Aim: The present study investigated the link between peripheral DNA methylation (DNAm), cognitive impairment and brain aging. Methods: We tested the association between blood genome-wide DNAm profiles using the Illumina 450K arrays, cognitive dysfunction and brain MRI measures in selected participants of the Whitehall II imaging sub-study. Results: Eight differentially methylated regions were associated with cognitive impairment. Accelerated aging based on the Hannum epigenetic clock was associated with mean diffusivity and global fractional anisotropy. We also identified modules of co-methylated loci associated with white matter hyperintensities. These co-methylation modules were enriched among pathways relevant to β-amyloid processing and glutamatergic signaling. Conclusion: Our data support the notion that blood DNAm changes may have utility as a biomarker for cognitive dysfunction and brain aging.
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- Leonidas Chouliaras
- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Current: Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- University of Exeter Medical School, RILD, University of Exeter, Barrack Road, Exeter, UK.,Department of Psychiatry & Neuropsychology, School for Mental Health & Neuroscience (MHeNS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.,Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- University of Exeter Medical School, RILD, University of Exeter, Barrack Road, Exeter, UK
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- University of Exeter Medical School, RILD, University of Exeter, Barrack Road, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, London, UK.,Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Exeter Medical School, RILD, University of Exeter, Barrack Road, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Allostatic load as a predictor of grey matter volume and white matter integrity in old age: The Whitehall II MRI study. Sci Rep 2018; 8:6411. [PMID: 29686319 PMCID: PMC5913085 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-24398-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2017] [Accepted: 03/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The allostatic load index quantifies the cumulative multisystem physiological response to chronic everyday stress, and includes cardiovascular, metabolic and inflammatory measures. Despite its central role in the stress response, research of the effect of allostatic load on the ageing brain has been limited. We investigated the relation of mid-life allostatic load index and multifactorial predictors of stroke (Framingham stroke risk) and diabetes (metabolic syndrome) with voxelwise structural grey and white matter brain integrity measures in the ageing Whitehall II cohort (N = 349, mean age = 69.6 (SD 5.2) years, N (male) = 281 (80.5%), mean follow-up before scan = 21.4 (SD 0.82) years). Higher levels of all three markers were significantly associated with lower grey matter density. Only higher Framingham stroke risk was significantly associated with lower white matter integrity (low fractional anisotropy and high mean diffusivity). Our findings provide some empirical support for the concept of allostatic load, linking the effect of everyday stress on the body with features of the ageing human brain.
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Walhovd KB, Fjell AM, Westerhausen R, Nyberg L, Ebmeier KP, Lindenberger U, Bartrés-Faz D, Baaré WFC, Siebner HR, Henson R, Drevon CA, Knudsen GP, Budin-Ljøsne I, Penninx BWJH, Ghisletta P, Rogeberg O, Tyler L, Bertram L. Healthy minds from 0-100 years: Optimising the use of European brain imaging cohorts ("Lifebrain"). Eur Psychiatry 2017; 47:76-87. [PMID: 29127911 DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2017] [Revised: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The main objective of "Lifebrain" is to identify the determinants of brain, cognitive and mental (BCM) health at different stages of life. By integrating, harmonising and enriching major European neuroimaging studies across the life span, we will merge fine-grained BCM health measures of more than 5,000 individuals. Longitudinal brain imaging, genetic and health data are available for a major part, as well as cognitive and mental health measures for the broader cohorts, exceeding 27,000 examinations in total. By linking these data to other databases and biobanks, including birth registries, national and regional archives, and by enriching them with a new online data collection and novel measures, we will address the risk factors and protective factors of BCM health. We will identify pathways through which risk and protective factors work and their moderators. Exploiting existing European infrastructures and initiatives, we hope to make major conceptual, methodological and analytical contributions towards large integrative cohorts and their efficient exploitation. We will thus provide novel information on BCM health maintenance, as well as the onset and course of BCM disorders. This will lay a foundation for earlier diagnosis of brain disorders, aberrant development and decline of BCM health, and translate into future preventive and therapeutic strategies. Aiming to improve clinical practice and public health we will work with stakeholders and health authorities, and thus provide the evidence base for prevention and intervention.
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- K B Walhovd
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo Centre for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (UiO), Harald Schelderups Hus, Forskningsveien 3A, N-0373 Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo Centre for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (UiO), Harald Schelderups Hus, Forskningsveien 3A, N-0373 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo Centre for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (UiO), Harald Schelderups Hus, Forskningsveien 3A, N-0373 Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Functional Brain Imaging (Umeå), Umeå Universitet, SE-90187 Umeå, Sweden.
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- Department of Psychiatry (UOXF), University of Oxford Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, OX37JX Oxford, UK.
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- Centre for Lifespan Psychology (MPIB), Max-Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
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- Facultat de Medicina, Campus Clínic, C/. Casanova, University of Barcelona Brain Stimulation Lab (UB), 143, Ala Nord, 5a planta, S-08036 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Region Hovedstaden (RegionH), Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Section 714, Kettegard Allé 30, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark.
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- Region Hovedstaden (RegionH), Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Section 714, Kettegard Allé 30, DK-2650 Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Science Unit (MRC), University of Cambridge, 15, Chaucer Road, CB2 7EF Cambridge, UK.
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- Vitas AS (Analytical Services), Gaustadalléen 21, N-0349 Oslo, Norway.
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health Oslo (NIPH), PO Box 4404 Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway.
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health Oslo (NIPH), PO Box 4404 Nydalen, N-0403 Oslo, Norway
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- VU University Medical Centre (VUmc), PO Box 7057, NL-1007 Amsterdam, MB, USA.
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- Research Group: Methodology and Data Analysis, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva (UNIGE), Sandrine Amstutz, Uni Mail, 4(e) étage, boulevard du Pont-d'Arve 40, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland; Swiss Distance Learning University, Überlandstrasse 12, Postfach 689 CH-3900 Brig, Switzerland.
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- Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research (Frisch), Gaustadalleen 21, N-0349 Oslo, Norway.
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- University of Cambridge Department of Psychology (UCAM), Downing Street, CB2 3EB Cambridge, UK.
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- University of Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA-UzL), University of Lübeck, Maria-Goeppert-Str. 1 (MFC1), 23562 D-Lübeck, Germany.
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Heise V, Zsoldos E, Suri S, Sexton C, Topiwala A, Filippini N, Mahmood A, Allan CL, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Mackay CE, Ebmeier KP. Uncoupling protein 2 haplotype does not affect human brain structure and function in a sample of community-dwelling older adults. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0181392. [PMID: 28771482 PMCID: PMC5542610 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0181392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2017] [Accepted: 06/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) is a mitochondrial membrane protein that plays a role in uncoupling electron transport from adenosine triphosphate (ATP) formation. Polymorphisms of the UCP2 gene in humans affect protein expression and function and have been linked to survival into old age. Since UCP2 is expressed in several brain regions, we investigated in this study whether UCP2 polymorphisms might 1) affect occurrence of neurodegenerative or mental health disorders and 2) affect measures of brain structure and function. We used structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), diffusion-weighted MRI and resting-state functional MRI in the neuroimaging sub-study of the Whitehall II cohort. Data from 536 individuals aged 60 to 83 years were analyzed. No association of UCP2 polymorphisms with the occurrence of neurodegenerative disorders or grey and white matter structure or resting-state functional connectivity was observed. However, there was a significant effect on occurrence of mood disorders in men with the minor alleles of -866G>A (rs659366) and Ala55Val (rs660339)) being associated with increasing odds of lifetime occurrence of mood disorders in a dose dependent manner. This result was not accompanied by effects of UCP2 polymorphisms on brain structure and function, which might either indicate that the sample investigated here was too small and underpowered to find any significant effects, or that potential effects of UCP2 polymorphisms on the brain are too subtle to be picked up by any of the neuroimaging measures used.
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- Verena Heise
- OHBA, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- OHBA, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- OHBA, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, Hôpital Paul Brousse, INSERM, U1018, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- OHBA, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Distinct resting-state functional connections associated with episodic and visuospatial memory in older adults. Neuroimage 2017; 159:122-130. [PMID: 28756237 PMCID: PMC5678287 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.07.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2017] [Revised: 07/14/2017] [Accepted: 07/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Episodic and spatial memory are commonly impaired in ageing and Alzheimer's disease. Volumetric and task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies suggest a preferential involvement of the medial temporal lobe (MTL), particularly the hippocampus, in episodic and spatial memory processing. The present study examined how these two memory types were related in terms of their associated resting-state functional architecture. 3T multiband resting state fMRI scans from 497 participants (60–82 years old) of the cross-sectional Whitehall II Imaging sub-study were analysed using an unbiased, data-driven network-modelling technique (FSLNets). Factor analysis was performed on the cognitive battery; the Hopkins Verbal Learning test and Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure test factors were used to assess verbal and visuospatial memory respectively. We present a map of the macroscopic functional connectome for the Whitehall II Imaging sub-study, comprising 58 functionally distinct nodes clustered into five major resting-state networks. Within this map we identified distinct functional connections associated with verbal and visuospatial memory. Functional anticorrelation between the hippocampal formation and the frontal pole was significantly associated with better verbal memory in an age-dependent manner. In contrast, hippocampus–motor and parietal–motor functional connections were associated with visuospatial memory independently of age. These relationships were not driven by grey matter volume and were unique to the respective memory domain. Our findings provide new insights into current models of brain-behaviour interactions, and suggest that while both episodic and visuospatial memory engage MTL nodes of the default mode network, the two memory domains differ in terms of the associated functional connections between the MTL and other resting-state brain networks. Episodic and visuospatial memory engaged a common medial temporal lobe substrate at rest. However, the resting-state functional connections of the MTL differed based on the memory demand. Visuospatial memory was associated with hippocampal-parietal and motorparietal interaction. Verbal memory was associated with hippocampus-frontal pole anticorrelation. Findings provide novel insights into resting-state brain-behaviour interactions in older adults.
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Sexton CE, Zsoldos E, Filippini N, Griffanti L, Winkler A, Mahmood A, Allan CL, Topiwala A, Kyle SD, Spiegelhalder K, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimaki M, Mackay CE, Johansen-Berg H, Ebmeier KP. Associations between self-reported sleep quality and white matter in community-dwelling older adults: A prospective cohort study. Hum Brain Mapp 2017; 38:5465-5473. [PMID: 28745016 PMCID: PMC5655937 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Revised: 06/23/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Both sleep disturbances and decline in white matter microstructure are commonly observed in ageing populations, as well as in age‐related psychiatric and neurological illnesses. A relationship between sleep and white matter microstructure may underlie such relationships, but few imaging studies have directly examined this hypothesis. In a study of 448 community‐dwelling members of the Whitehall II Imaging Sub‐Study aged between 60 and 82 years (90 female, mean age 69.2 ± 5.1 years), we used the magnetic resonance imaging technique diffusion tensor imaging to examine the relationship between self‐reported sleep quality and white matter microstructure. Poor sleep quality at the time of the diffusion tensor imaging scan was associated with reduced global fractional anisotropy and increased global axial diffusivity and radial diffusivity values, with small effect sizes. Voxel‐wise analysis showed that widespread frontal‐subcortical tracts, encompassing regions previously reported as altered in insomnia, were affected. Radial diffusivity findings remained significant after additional correction for demographics, general cognition, health, and lifestyle measures. No significant differences in general cognitive function, executive function, memory, or processing speed were detected between good and poor sleep quality groups. The number of times participants reported poor sleep quality over five time‐points spanning a 16‐year period was not associated with white matter measures. In conclusion, these data demonstrate that current sleep quality is linked to white matter microstructure. Small effect sizes may limit the extent to which poor sleep is a promising modifiable factor that may maintain, or even improve, white matter microstructure in ageing. Hum Brain Mapp 38:5465–5473, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Claire E Sexton
- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- INSERM, U1018, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Topiwala A, Allan CL, Valkanova V, Zsoldos E, Filippini N, Sexton C, Mahmood A, Fooks P, Singh-Manoux A, Mackay CE, Kivimäki M, Ebmeier KP. Moderate alcohol consumption as risk factor for adverse brain outcomes and cognitive decline: longitudinal cohort study. BMJ 2017; 357:j2353. [PMID: 28588063 PMCID: PMC5460586 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j2353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Objectives To investigate whether moderate alcohol consumption has a favourable or adverse association or no association with brain structure and function.Design Observational cohort study with weekly alcohol intake and cognitive performance measured repeatedly over 30 years (1985-2015). Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was performed at study endpoint (2012-15).Setting Community dwelling adults enrolled in the Whitehall II cohort based in the UK (the Whitehall II imaging substudy).Participants 550 men and women with mean age 43.0 (SD 5.4) at study baseline, none were "alcohol dependent" according to the CAGE screening questionnaire, and all safe to undergo MRI of the brain at follow-up. Twenty three were excluded because of incomplete or poor quality imaging data or gross structural abnormality (such as a brain cyst) or incomplete alcohol use, sociodemographic, health, or cognitive data.Main outcome measures Structural brain measures included hippocampal atrophy, grey matter density, and white matter microstructure. Functional measures included cognitive decline over the study and cross sectional cognitive performance at the time of scanning.Results Higher alcohol consumption over the 30 year follow-up was associated with increased odds of hippocampal atrophy in a dose dependent fashion. While those consuming over 30 units a week were at the highest risk compared with abstainers (odds ratio 5.8, 95% confidence interval 1.8 to 18.6; P≤0.001), even those drinking moderately (14-21 units/week) had three times the odds of right sided hippocampal atrophy (3.4, 1.4 to 8.1; P=0.007). There was no protective effect of light drinking (1-<7 units/week) over abstinence. Higher alcohol use was also associated with differences in corpus callosum microstructure and faster decline in lexical fluency. No association was found with cross sectional cognitive performance or longitudinal changes in semantic fluency or word recall.Conclusions Alcohol consumption, even at moderate levels, is associated with adverse brain outcomes including hippocampal atrophy. These results support the recent reduction in alcohol guidance in the UK and question the current limits recommended in the US.
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- Anya Topiwala
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
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Demnitz N, Zsoldos E, Mahmood A, Mackay CE, Kivimäki M, Singh-Manoux A, Dawes H, Johansen-Berg H, Ebmeier KP, Sexton CE. Associations between Mobility, Cognition, and Brain Structure in Healthy Older Adults. Front Aging Neurosci 2017; 9:155. [PMID: 28588477 PMCID: PMC5440513 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Accepted: 05/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Mobility limitations lead to a cascade of adverse events in old age, yet the neural and cognitive correlates of mobility performance in older adults remain poorly understood. In a sample of 387 adults (mean age 69.0 ± 5.1 years), we tested the relationship between mobility measures, cognitive assessments, and MRI markers of brain structure. Mobility was assessed in 2007-2009, using gait, balance and chair-stands tests. In 2012-2015, cognitive testing assessed executive function, memory and processing-speed; gray matter volumes (GMV) were examined using voxel-based morphometry, and white matter microstructure was assessed using tract-based spatial statistics of fractional anisotropy, axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD). All mobility measures were positively associated with processing-speed. Faster walking speed was also correlated with higher executive function, while memory was not associated with any mobility measure. Increased GMV within the cerebellum, basal ganglia, post-central gyrus, and superior parietal lobe was associated with better mobility. In addition, better performance on the chair-stands test was correlated with decreased RD and AD. Overall, our results indicate that, even in non-clinical populations, mobility measures can be sensitive to sub-clinical variance in cognition and brain structures.
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- Naiara Demnitz
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford HospitalOxford, United Kingdom.,Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of OxfordJohn Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford HospitalOxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford HospitalOxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College LondonLondon, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College LondonLondon, United Kingdom
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College LondonLondon, United Kingdom
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- Oxford Institute of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Research, Oxford Brookes UniversityOxford, United Kingdom
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- Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of OxfordJohn Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford HospitalOxford, United Kingdom
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- Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of OxfordJohn Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Suri S, Emir U, Stagg CJ, Near J, Mekle R, Schubert F, Zsoldos E, Mahmood A, Singh-Manoux A, Kivimäki M, Ebmeier KP, Mackay CE, Filippini N. Effect of age and the APOE gene on metabolite concentrations in the posterior cingulate cortex. Neuroimage 2017; 152:509-516. [PMID: 28323160 PMCID: PMC5440729 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) has provided valuable information about the neurochemical profile of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, its clinical utility has been limited in part by the lack of consistent information on how metabolite concentrations vary in the normal aging brain and in carriers of apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4, an established risk gene for AD. We quantified metabolites within an 8cm3 voxel within the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)/precuneus in 30 younger (20-40 years) and 151 cognitively healthy older individuals (60-85 years). All 1H-MRS scans were performed at 3T using the short-echo SPECIAL sequence and analyzed with LCModel. The effect of APOE was assessed in a sub-set of 130 volunteers. Older participants had significantly higher myo-inositol and creatine, and significantly lower glutathione and glutamate than younger participants. There was no significant effect of APOE or an interaction between APOE and age on the metabolite profile. Our data suggest that creatine, a commonly used reference metabolite in 1H-MRS studies, does not remain stable across adulthood within this region and therefore may not be a suitable reference in studies involving a broad age-range. Increases in creatine and myo-inositol may reflect age-related glial proliferation; decreases in glutamate and glutathione suggest a decline in synaptic and antioxidant efficiency. Our findings inform longitudinal clinical studies by characterizing age-related metabolite changes in a non-clinical sample.
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- Sana Suri
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom.
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- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
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- Douglas Mental Health University Institute and Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada H4H 1R3
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Berlin, Germany; Center for Stroke Research, Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, INSERM, U1018 Villejuif, France
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
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