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Tranfa M, Lorenzini L, Collij LE, Vállez García D, Ingala S, Pontillo G, Pieperhoff L, Maranzano A, Wolz R, Haller S, Blennow K, Frisoni G, Sudre CH, Chételat G, Ewers M, Payoux P, Waldman A, Martinez-Lage P, Schwarz AJ, Ritchie CW, Wardlaw JM, Gispert JD, Brunetti A, Mutsaerts HJMM, Wink AM, Barkhof F. Alzheimer's Disease and Small Vessel Disease Differentially Affect White Matter Microstructure. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2024. [PMID: 38757392 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.52071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD), the two most common causes of dementia, are characterized by white matter (WM) alterations diverging from the physiological changes occurring in healthy aging. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a valuable tool to quantify WM integrity non-invasively and identify the determinants of such alterations. Here, we investigated main effects and interactions of AD pathology, APOE-ε4, cSVD, and cardiovascular risk on spatial patterns of WM alterations in non-demented older adults. METHODS Within the prospective European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia study, we selected 606 participants (64.9 ± 7.2 years, 376 females) with baseline cerebrospinal fluid samples of amyloid β1-42 and p-Tau181 and MRI scans, including DTI scans. Longitudinal scans (mean follow-up time = 1.3 ± 0.5 years) were obtained in a subset (n = 223). WM integrity was assessed by extracting fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity in relevant tracts. To identify the determinants of WM disruption, we performed a multimodel inference to identify the best linear mixed-effects model for each tract. RESULTS AD pathology, APOE-ε4, cSVD burden, and cardiovascular risk were all associated with WM integrity within several tracts. While limbic tracts were mainly impacted by AD pathology and APOE-ε4, commissural, associative, and projection tract integrity was more related to cSVD burden and cardiovascular risk. AD pathology and cSVD did not show any significant interaction effect. INTERPRETATION Our results suggest that AD pathology and cSVD exert independent and spatially different effects on WM microstructure, supporting the role of DTI in disease monitoring and suggesting independent targets for preventive medicine approaches.
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- Mario Tranfa
- Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", Naples, Italy
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Brain Imaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Brain Imaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Clinical Memory Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Brain Imaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Brain Imaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Radiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Cerebriu A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Brain Imaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Laboratory of Neuroscience, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy
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- CIMC - Centre d'Imagerie Médicale de Cornavin, Geneva, Switzerland
- Department of Surgical Sciences, Radiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Radiology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
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- Laboratory Alzheimer's Neuroimaging & Epidemiology, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy
- University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC), University College London (UCL), London, UK
- MRC Unit for Lifelong Health & Ageing at UCL, University College London, London, UK
- School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, UK
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- Normandie Univ, Unicaen, Inserm, U1237, PhIND "Physiopathology and Imaging of Neurological Disorders", institut Blood-and-Brain @ Caen-Normandie, Cyceron, Université de Normandie, Caen, France
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- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Munich, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Toulouse University Hospital, Toulouse, France
- ToNIC, Toulouse NeuroImaging Center, University of Toulouse, Inserm, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Centro de Investigación y Terapias Avanzadas, Neurología, CITA-Alzheimer Foundation, San Sebastián, Spain
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- Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Edinburgh Dementia Prevention, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Outpatient Department 2, Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Brain Health Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
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- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- UK Dementia Research Institute Centre at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Center (BBRC), Pasqual Maragall Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain
- IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Brain Imaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Ghent Institute for Functional and Metabolic Imaging (GIfMI), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Brain Imaging, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Institute of Neurology and Healthcare Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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Chen J, Bayanagari VL, Chung S, Wang Y, Lui YW. Deep learning with diffusion MRI as in vivo microscope reveals sex-related differences in human white matter microstructure. Sci Rep 2024; 14:9835. [PMID: 38744901 PMCID: PMC11094063 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60340-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2023] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024] Open
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Biological sex is a crucial variable in neuroscience studies where sex differences have been documented across cognitive functions and neuropsychiatric disorders. While gross statistical differences have been previously documented in macroscopic brain structure such as cortical thickness or region size, less is understood about sex-related cellular-level microstructural differences which could provide insight into brain health and disease. Studying these microstructural differences between men and women paves the way for understanding brain disorders and diseases that manifest differently in different sexes. Diffusion MRI is an important in vivo, non-invasive methodology that provides a window into brain tissue microstructure. Our study develops multiple end-to-end classification models that accurately estimates the sex of a subject using volumetric diffusion MRI data and uses these models to identify white matter regions that differ the most between men and women. 471 male and 560 female healthy subjects (age range, 22-37 years) from the Human Connectome Project are included. Fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity and mean kurtosis are used to capture brain tissue microstructure characteristics. Diffusion parametric maps are registered to a standard template to reduce bias that can arise from macroscopic anatomical differences like brain size and contour. This study employ three major model architectures: 2D convolutional neural networks, 3D convolutional neural networks and Vision Transformer (with self-supervised pretraining). Our results show that all 3 models achieve high sex classification performance (test AUC 0.92-0.98) across all diffusion metrics indicating definitive differences in white matter tissue microstructure between males and females. We further use complementary model architectures to inform about the pattern of detected microstructural differences and the influence of short-range versus long-range interactions. Occlusion analysis together with Wilcoxon signed-rank test is used to determine which white matter regions contribute most to sex classification. The results indicate that sex-related differences manifest in both local features as well as global features / longer-distance interactions of tissue microstructure. Our highly consistent findings across models provides new insight supporting differences between male and female brain cellular-level tissue organization particularly in the central white matter.
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- Junbo Chen
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, 370 Jay Street, 9th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, 370 Jay Street, 9th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA
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- Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, 370 Jay Street, 9th Floor, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, USA
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- Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Razban RM, Antal BB, Dill KA, Mujica-Parodi LR. Brain signaling becomes less integrated and more segregated with age. bioRxiv 2024:2023.11.17.567376. [PMID: 38014139 PMCID: PMC10680817 DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.17.567376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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The integration-segregation framework is a popular first step to understand brain dynamics because it simplifies brain dynamics into two states based on global vs. local signaling patterns. However, there is no consensus for how to best define what the two states look like. Here, we map integration and segregation to order and disorder states from the Ising model in physics to calculate state probabilities, P int and P seg , from functional MRI data. We find that integration/segregation decreases/increases with age across three databases, and changes are consistent with weakened connection strength among regions rather than topological connectivity based on structural and diffusion MRI data.
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- Rostam M Razban
- Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Dept. of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Program in Neuroscience, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Benavidez SM, Abaryan Z, Kim GS, Laltoo E, McCracken JT, Thompson PM, Lawrence KE. Sex Differences in the Brain's White Matter Microstructure during Development assessed using Advanced Diffusion MRI Models. bioRxiv 2024:2024.02.02.578712. [PMID: 38352346 PMCID: PMC10862784 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.02.578712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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Typical sex differences in white matter (WM) microstructure during development are incompletely understood. Here we evaluated sex differences in WM microstructure during typical brain development using a sample of neurotypical individuals across a wide developmental age (N=239, aged 5-22 years). We used the conventional diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI) model, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and two advanced dMRI models, the tensor distribution function (TDF) and neurite orientation dispersion density imaging (NODDI) to assess WM microstructure. WM microstructure exhibited significant, regionally consistent sex differences across the brain during typical development. Additionally, the TDF model was most sensitive in detecting sex differences. These findings highlight the importance of considering sex in neurodevelopmental research and underscore the value of the advanced TDF model.
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- Sebastian M Benavidez
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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Brett BL, Klein AP, Vazirnia P, Omidfar S, Guskiewicz KK, McCrea M, Meier T. White Matter Hyperintensities and Microstructural Alterations in Contact Sport Athletes from Adolescence to Early Midlife. J Neurotrauma 2024. [PMID: 38661548 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2023.0609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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Studies have demonstrated associations between cumulative concussion and repetitive head impact exposure (RHI) via contact sports with white matter (WM) alterations later in life. The course of WM changes associated with exposure earlier in the lifespan are unclear. This study investigated alterations in white matter (WM hyperintensity [WMH] volume and microstructural changes) associated with concussion and RHI exposure from adolescence to early midlife, as well as the interaction between exposure and age-cohort (i.e., adolescent/young adult compared to early midlife athlete cohorts) on WM outcomes. Participating football players included an adolescent/young adulthood cohort (n=82; Mage=18.41.7) and an early midlife cohort (37 former collegiate players approximately 15-years removed from sport; Mage=37.71.4). Years of football participation and number of prior concussions were exposures of interest. White matter outcomes included log-transformed manually segmented total WMH volume and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging metrics of microstructure/organization (isotropic volume fraction[Viso], intra-cellular volume fraction[Vic], and orientation dispersion[OD]). Regression models were fit to test effects of concussion history, years of football participation, and age-cohort by years of football participation with WM outcomes. Spearman's correlations assessed associations between significant WM metrics and measures of cognitive and psychological function. A significant age-cohort by years of participation effect was observed for whole brain white matter OD, B=-0.002, SE=0.001, p=0.001. The interaction was driven by a negative association between years of participation and OD within the younger cohort, B=-0.001, SE=0.0004, p=0.008, whereas a positive association between participation and OD in the early midlife cohort, B=0.001, SE=0.0003, p=0.039, was observed. Follow-up ROI analyses showed significant interaction effects for OD in the body of the corpus callosum, genu of the corpus callosum, cingulum, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, superior longitudinal fasciculus, posterior thalamic radiation (ps<0.05). Greater concussion history was significantly associated with greater Viso in the early midlife cohort, B=0.001, SE= 0.0002, p=0.010. Years of participation and concussion history were not associated with WMH volume, ps>0.05. Performance on a measure of executive function was significantly associated with years of participation, =.34, p=.04, and a trend was observed for OD, =.28, p=.09 in the early midlife cohort only. The global characterization of white matter changes associated with years of football participation were broadly similar and stable from adolescence through early midlife (i.e., microstructural alterations, but not macroscopic lesions). An inverse association between years of participation and orientation dispersion across age-cohorts may represent a process of initial recovery/reorganization proximal to sport, followed by later reduction of white matter coherence.
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- Benjamin L Brett
- Medical College of Wisconsin, 5506, Neurosurgery and Neurology, 8701 W Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226;
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, 5506, Radiology, 9200 West Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226;
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, 5506, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States;
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, 5506, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States;
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- University of North Carolina, Exercise and Sport Science, CB#8700, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599-8700;
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, Neurosurgery, Hub for Collaborative Medicine, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226;
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, Neurosurgery, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226;
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Wang P, Zhao H, Hao Z, Ma X, Wang S, Zhang H, Wu Q, Gao Y. Structural changes in corticospinal tract profiling via multishell diffusion models and their relation to overall survival in glioblastoma. Eur J Radiol 2024; 175:111477. [PMID: 38669755 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2024.111477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Revised: 02/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/21/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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PURPOSE Advanced MR fiber tracking imaging reflects fiber bundle invasion by glioblastoma, particularly of the corticospinal tract (CST), which is more susceptible as the largest downstream fiber tracts. We aimed to investigate whether CST features can predict the overall survival of glioblastoma. METHODS In this prospective secondary analysis, 40 participants (mean age, 58 years; 16 male) pathologically diagnosed with glioblastoma were enrolled. Diffusion spectrum MRI was used for CST reconstruction. Fifty morphological and diffusion indicators (DTI, DKI, NODDI, MAP and Q-space) were used to characterize the CST. Optimal parameters capturing fiber bundle damage were obtained through various grouping methods. Eventually, the correlation with overall survival was determined by the hazard ratios (HRs) from various Cox proportional hazard model combinations. RESULTS Only intracellular volume fraction (ICVF) and non-Gaussianity (NG) values on the affected tumor level were significant in all four groups or stratified comparisons (all P < .05). During the median follow-up 698 days, only the ICVF on the affected tumor level was independently associated with overall survival, even after adjusting for all classic prognostic factors (HR [95 % CI]: 0.611 [0.403, 0.927], P = .021). Moreover, stratification by the ICVF on the affected tumor level successfully predicted risk (P < .01) and improved the C-index of the multivariate model (from 0.695 to 0.736). CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates a relationship between NODDI-derived CST features, ICVF on the affected tumor level, and overall survival in glioblastoma. Independent of classical prognostic factors for glioblastoma, a lower ICVF on the affected tumor level might predict a lower overall survival.
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- Peng Wang
- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
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- MR Scientific Marketing, Siemens Healthineers, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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- MR Scientific Marketing, Siemens Healthineers, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China.
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China.
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Jacquens A, Delmotte PR, Gourbeix C, Farny N, Perret-Liaudet B, Hijazi D, Batisti V, Torkomian G, Cassereau D, Debarle C, Shotar E, Gellman C, Mathon B, Bayen E, Galanaud D, Perlbarg V, Puybasset L, Degos V. MRI volumetry and diffusion tensor imaging for diagnosis and follow-up of late post-traumatic injuries. Ann Phys Rehabil Med 2024; 67:101783. [PMID: 38147704 DOI: 10.1016/j.rehab.2023.101783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a major cause of acquired disability and can cause devastating and progressive post-traumatic encephalopathy. TBI is a dynamic condition that continues to evolve over time. A better understanding of the pathophysiology of these late lesions is important for the development of new therapeutic strategies. OBJECTIVES The primary objective was to compare the ability of fluid-attenuated reversion recovery (FLAIR) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers to identify participants with a Glasgow outcome scale extended (GOS-E) score of 7-8, up to 10 years after their original TBI. The secondary objective was to study the brain regionalization of DTI markers. Finally, we analyzed the evolution of late-developing brain lesions using repeated MRI images, also taken up to 10 years after the TBI. METHODS In this retrospective study, participants were included from a cohort of people hospitalized following a severe TBI. Following their discharge, they were followed-up and clinically assessed, including a DTI-MRI scan, between 2012 and 2016. We performed a cross-sectional analysis on 97 participants at a median (IQR) of 5 years (3-6) post-TBI, and a further post-TBI longitudinal analysis over 10 years on a subpopulation (n = 17) of the cohort. RESULTS Although the area under the curve (AUC) of FLAIR, fractional anisotropy (FA), and mean diffusivity (MD) were not significantly different, only the AUC of FA was statistically greater than 0.5. In addition, only the FA was correlated with clinical outcomes as assessed by GOS-E score (P<10-4). On the cross-sectional analysis, DTI markers allowed study post-TBI white matter lesions by region. In the longitudinal subpopulation analysis, the observed number of brain lesions increased for the first 5 years post-TBI, before stabilizing over the next 5 years. CONCLUSIONS This study has shown for the first time that post-TBI lesions can present in a two-phase evolution. These results must be confirmed in larger studies. French Data Protection Agency (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés; CNIL) study registration no: 1934708v0.
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- Alice Jacquens
- Sorbonne University, GRC 29, AP-HP, DMU DREAM, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France.
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- Sorbonne University, GRC 29, AP-HP, DMU DREAM, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne University, GRC 29, AP-HP, DMU DREAM, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne University, GRC 29, AP-HP, DMU DREAM, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne University, GRC 29, AP-HP, DMU DREAM, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne University, GRC 29, AP-HP, DMU DREAM, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne University, GRC 29, AP-HP, DMU DREAM, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne University, GRC 29, AP-HP, DMU DREAM, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Sorbonne Université, 15 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006, Paris, France; ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005, Paris, France
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- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, Centre Hospitalier Saint-Anne, 1 rue Cabanis, GHU Paris psychiatrie et neurosciences, 75014, Paris, France
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- Department of Interventional Neuroradiology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, Internal Medicine Residency Program, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, APHP - Sorbonne University, La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, Boulevard de L'Hôpital, 75651 Cedex 13, Paris, France
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- UGECAM-IdF, groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, service de médecine physique et de réadaptation, Paris France
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- Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Service de Neuroradiologie, 75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne University, GRC 29, AP-HP, DMU DREAM, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France; BRAINTALE SAS, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne University, GRC 29, AP-HP, DMU DREAM, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France
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Ge R, Yu Y, Qi YX, Fan YN, Chen S, Gao C, Haas SS, New F, Boomsma DI, Brodaty H, Brouwer RM, Buckner R, Caseras X, Crivello F, Crone EA, Erk S, Fisher SE, Franke B, Glahn DC, Dannlowski U, Grotegerd D, Gruber O, Hulshoff Pol HE, Schumann G, Tamnes CK, Walter H, Wierenga LM, Jahanshad N, Thompson PM, Frangou S. Normative modelling of brain morphometry across the lifespan with CentileBrain: algorithm benchmarking and model optimisation. Lancet Digit Health 2024; 6:e211-e221. [PMID: 38395541 PMCID: PMC10929064 DOI: 10.1016/s2589-7500(23)00250-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Revised: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
Abstract
The value of normative models in research and clinical practice relies on their robustness and a systematic comparison of different modelling algorithms and parameters; however, this has not been done to date. We aimed to identify the optimal approach for normative modelling of brain morphometric data through systematic empirical benchmarking, by quantifying the accuracy of different algorithms and identifying parameters that optimised model performance. We developed this framework with regional morphometric data from 37 407 healthy individuals (53% female and 47% male; aged 3-90 years) from 87 datasets from Europe, Australia, the USA, South Africa, and east Asia following a comparative evaluation of eight algorithms and multiple covariate combinations pertaining to image acquisition and quality, parcellation software versions, global neuroimaging measures, and longitudinal stability. The multivariate fractional polynomial regression (MFPR) emerged as the preferred algorithm, optimised with non-linear polynomials for age and linear effects of global measures as covariates. The MFPR models showed excellent accuracy across the lifespan and within distinct age-bins and longitudinal stability over a 2-year period. The performance of all MFPR models plateaued at sample sizes exceeding 3000 study participants. This model can inform about the biological and behavioural implications of deviations from typical age-related neuroanatomical changes and support future study designs. The model and scripts described here are freely available through CentileBrain.
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- Ruiyang Ge
- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Netherlands Twin Register, Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
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- Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle-Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS UMR 5293, Bordeaux, France
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- Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Departments of Human Genetics, Psychiatry and Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine, Institute for Science and Technology of Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; PONS Centre, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, CCM, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Brain and Development Research Center, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
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Burzynska AZ, Anderson C, Arciniegas DB, Calhoun V, Choi IY, Mendez Colmenares A, Kramer AF, Li K, Lee J, Lee P, Thomas ML. Correlates of axonal content in healthy adult span: Age, sex, myelin, and metabolic health. Cereb Circ Cogn Behav 2024; 6:100203. [PMID: 38292016 PMCID: PMC10827486 DOI: 10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2023] [Revised: 01/10/2024] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 02/01/2024]
Abstract
As the emerging treatments that target grey matter pathology in Alzheimer's Disease have limited effectiveness, there is a critical need to identify new neural targets for treatments. White matter's (WM) metabolic vulnerability makes it a promising candidate for new interventions. This study examined the age and sex differences in estimates of axonal content, as well the associations of with highly prevalent modifiable health risk factors such as metabolic syndrome and adiposity. We estimated intra-axonal volume fraction (ICVF) using the Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI) in a sample of 89 cognitively and neurologically healthy adults (20-79 years). We showed that ICVF correlated positively with age and estimates of myelin content. The ICVF was also lower in women than men, across all ages, which difference was accounted for by intracranial volume. Finally, we found no association of metabolic risk or adiposity scores with the current estimates of ICVF. In addition, the previously observed adiposity-myelin associations (Burzynska et al., 2023) were independent of ICVF. Although our findings confirm the vulnerability of axons to aging, they suggest that metabolic dysfunction may selectively affect myelin content, at least in cognitively and neurologically healthy adults with low metabolic risk, and when using the specific MRI techniques. Future studies need to revisit our findings using larger samples and different MRI approaches, and identify modifiable factors that accelerate axonal deterioration as well as mechanisms linking peripheral metabolism with the health of myelin.
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- Agnieszka Z Burzynska
- The BRAiN lab, Department of Human Development and Family Studies/Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Marcus Institute for Brain Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Department of Radiology, Hoglund Biomedical Imaging Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- The BRAiN lab, Department of Human Development and Family Studies/Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois, IL, USA
- Center for Cognitive & Brain Health, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Health and Exercise Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Hoglund Biomedical Imaging Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Ge R, Yu Y, Qi YX, Fan YV, Chen S, Gao C, Haas SS, Modabbernia A, New F, Agartz I, Asherson P, Ayesa-Arriola R, Banaj N, Banaschewski T, Baumeister S, Bertolino A, Boomsma DI, Borgwardt S, Bourque J, Brandeis D, Breier A, Brodaty H, Brouwer RM, Buckner R, Buitelaar JK, Cannon DM, Caseras X, Cervenka S, Conrod PJ, Crespo-Facorro B, Crivello F, Crone EA, de Haan L, de Zubicaray GI, Di Giorgio A, Erk S, Fisher SE, Franke B, Frodl T, Glahn DC, Grotegerd D, Gruber O, Gruner P, Gur RE, Gur RC, Harrison BJ, Hatton SN, Hickie I, Howells FM, Pol HEH, Huyser C, Jernigan TL, Jiang J, Joska JA, Kahn RS, Kalnin AJ, Kochan NA, Koops S, Kuntsi J, Lagopoulos J, Lazaro L, Lebedeva IS, Lochner C, Martin NG, Mazoyer B, McDonald BC, McDonald C, McMahon KL, Nakao T, Nyberg L, Piras F, Portella MJ, Qiu J, Roffman JL, Sachdev PS, Sanford N, Satterthwaite TD, Saykin AJ, Schumann G, Sellgren CM, Sim K, Smoller JW, Soares J, Sommer IE, Spalletta G, Stein DJ, Tamnes CK, Thomopolous SI, Tomyshev AS, Tordesillas-Gutiérrez D, Trollor JN, van ’t Ent D, van den Heuvel OA, van Erp TGM, van Haren NEM, Vecchio D, Veltman DJ, Walter H, Wang Y, Weber B, Wei D, Wen W, Westlye LT, Wierenga LM, Williams SCR, Wright MJ, Medland S, Wu MJ, Yu K, Jahanshad N, Thompson PM, Frangou S. Normative Modeling of Brain Morphometry Across the Lifespan Using CentileBrain: Algorithm Benchmarking and Model Optimization. bioRxiv 2023:2023.01.30.523509. [PMID: 38076938 PMCID: PMC10705253 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.30.523509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2023]
Abstract
We present an empirically benchmarked framework for sex-specific normative modeling of brain morphometry that can inform about the biological and behavioral significance of deviations from typical age-related neuroanatomical changes and support future study designs. This framework was developed using regional morphometric data from 37,407 healthy individuals (53% female; aged 3-90 years) following a comparative evaluation of eight algorithms and multiple covariate combinations pertaining to image acquisition and quality, parcellation software versions, global neuroimaging measures, and longitudinal stability. The Multivariate Factorial Polynomial Regression (MFPR) emerged as the preferred algorithm optimized using nonlinear polynomials for age and linear effects of global measures as covariates. The MFPR models showed excellent accuracy across the lifespan and within distinct age-bins, and longitudinal stability over a 2-year period. The performance of all MFPR models plateaued at sample sizes exceeding 3,000 study participants. The model and scripts described here are freely available through CentileBrain (https://centilebrain.org/).
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- Ruiyang Ge
- Djavad Mowafagian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Djavad Mowafagian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Djavad Mowafagian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Djavad Mowafagian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Djavad Mowafagian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Djavad Mowafagian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Center, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, Valdecilla Biomedical Research Institute (IDIVAL), Santander, Spain
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Translational Psychiatry Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMC Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Medical Sciences, Psychiatry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry and Addiction, Université de Montréal, CHU Ste Justine, Montréal, Canada
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- University Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Seville, Spain; Department of Psychiatry, University of Seville, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), Seville, Spain
- Mental Health Research Networking Center (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- School of Psychology & Counselling, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- University Clinics and Clinics for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tommy Fuss Center for Neuropsychiatric Disease Research Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne & Melbourne Health, Melbourne, Australia
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- Center for Multimodal Imaging and Genetics, University of California San Diego, La jolla, California, USA
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- Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMC Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centre/De Bascule, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Center for Human Development, Departments of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology, University of California, San Diego, USA
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Center, King's College London, London, UK
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- Sunshine Coast Mind and Neuroscience - Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- SA MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- School of Clinical Sciences, Centre for Biomedical Technologies, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
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- Mental Health Research Networking Center (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu iSant Pau, Institutd' Investigació Biomèdica SantPau, Universitat Autònomade Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, PR China
- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, PR China
- Southwest University Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Djavad Mowafagian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King's College London, London, UK; Institute for Science and Technology of Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China; Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS), Charite Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, CCM, Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet & Stockholm Health Care Services, Region Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Mental Health, Singapore
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- Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- University of Texas Health Harris County Psychiatric Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- SA MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Genetics Center, Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck USC School of Medicine, Marina del Rey, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, Valdecilla Biomedical Research Institute (IDIVAL), Santander, Spain; Advanced Computing and e-Science, Instituto de Física de Cantabria (UC-CSIC), Santander, Spain
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Anatomy & Neurosciences, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatry, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Institute for Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research, University of Bonn Germany, Bonn, Germany; University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, Southwest University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, PR China
- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, PR China
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Djavad Mowafagian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Genetics Center, Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck USC School of Medicine, Marina del Rey, California, USA
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- Genetics Center, Stevens Institute for Neuroimaging and Informatics, Keck USC School of Medicine, Marina del Rey, California, USA
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- Djavad Mowafagian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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Saito Y, Kamagata K, Andica C, Maikusa N, Uchida W, Takabayashi K, Yoshida S, Hagiwara A, Fujita S, Akashi T, Wada A, Irie R, Shimoji K, Hori M, Kamiya K, Koike S, Hayashi T, Aoki S. Traveling Subject-Informed Harmonization Increases Reliability of Brain Diffusion Tensor and Neurite Mapping. Aging Dis 2023:AD.2023.1020. [PMID: 38029401 DOI: 10.14336/ad.2023.1020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) of brain has helped elucidate the microstructural changes of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Inconsistency between MRI models has hampered clinical application of dMRI-based metrics. Using harmonized dMRI data of 300 scans from 69 traveling subjects (TS) scanning the same individuals at multiple conditions with 13 MRI models and 2 protocols, the widely-used metrics such as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) were evaluated before and after harmonization with a combined association test (ComBat) or TS-based general linear model (TS-GLM). Results showed that both ComBat and TS-GLM significantly reduced the effects of the MRI site, model, and protocol for diffusion metrics while maintaining the intersubject biological effects. The harmonization power of TS-GLM based on TS data model is more powerful than that of ComBat. In conclusion, our research demonstrated that although ComBat and TS-GLM harmonization approaches were effective at reducing the scanner effects of the site, model, and protocol for DTI and NODDI metrics in WM, they exhibited high retainability of biological effects. Therefore, we suggest that, after harmonizing DTI and NODDI metrics, a multisite study with large cohorts can accurately detect small pathological changes by retaining pathological effects.
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- Yuya Saito
- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
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- Faculty of Health Data Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan
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- Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, Graduate School of Art and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
- Department of Radiological Sciences, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
- Faculty of Health Data Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Toho University Omori Medical Center, Tokyo Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Toho University Omori Medical Center, Tokyo Japan
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- Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, Graduate School of Art and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Brain Connectomics Imaging, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan
- Department of Brain Connectomics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
- Faculty of Health Data Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan
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Schilling KG, Chad JA, Chamberland M, Nozais V, Rheault F, Archer D, Li M, Gao Y, Cai L, Del'Acqua F, Newton A, Moyer D, Gore JC, Lebel C, Landman BA. White matter tract microstructure, macrostructure, and associated cortical gray matter morphology across the lifespan. bioRxiv 2023:2023.09.25.559330. [PMID: 37808645 PMCID: PMC10557619 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.25.559330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Characterizing how, when and where the human brain changes across the lifespan is fundamental to our understanding of developmental processes of childhood and adolescence, degenerative processes of aging, and divergence from normal patterns in disease and disorders. We aimed to provide detailed descriptions of white matter pathways across the lifespan by thoroughly characterizing white matter microstructure, white matter macrostructure, and morphology of the cortex associated with white matter pathways. We analyzed 4 large, high-quality, publicly-available datasets comprising 2789 total imaging sessions, and participants ranging from 0 to 100 years old, using advanced tractography and diffusion modeling. We first find that all microstructural, macrostructural, and cortical features of white matter bundles show unique lifespan trajectories, with rates and timing of development and degradation that vary across pathways - describing differences between types of pathways and locations in the brain, and developmental milestones of maturation of each feature. Second, we show cross-sectional relationships between different features that may help elucidate biological changes occurring during different stages of the lifespan. Third, we show unique trajectories of age-associations across features. Finally, we find that age associations during development are strongly related to those during aging. Overall, this study reports normative data for several features of white matter pathways of the human brain that will be useful for studying normal and abnormal white matter development and degeneration.
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- Kurt G Schilling
- Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Medical Imaging and Neuroinformatic (MINi) Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
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- Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- NatbrainLab, Department of Forensics and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, King's College London, London UK
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- Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI), Calgary, AB, Canada
- Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Alsameen MH, Gong Z, Qian W, Kiely M, Triebswetter C, Bergeron CM, Cortina LE, Faulkner ME, Laporte JP, Bouhrara M. C-NODDI: a constrained NODDI model for axonal density and orientation determinations in cerebral white matter. Front Neurol 2023; 14:1205426. [PMID: 37602266 PMCID: PMC10435293 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1205426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023] Open
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Purpose Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) provides measures of neurite density and dispersion through computation of the neurite density index (NDI) and the orientation dispersion index (ODI). However, NODDI overestimates the cerebrospinal fluid water fraction in white matter (WM) and provides physiologically unrealistic high NDI values. Furthermore, derived NDI values are echo-time (TE)-dependent. In this work, we propose a modification of NODDI, named constrained NODDI (C-NODDI), for NDI and ODI mapping in WM. Methods Using NODDI and C-NODDI, we investigated age-related alterations in WM in a cohort of 58 cognitively unimpaired adults. Further, NDI values derived using NODDI or C-NODDI were correlated with the neurofilament light chain (NfL) concentration levels, a plasma biomarker of axonal degeneration. Finally, we investigated the TE dependence of NODDI or C-NODDI derived NDI and ODI. Results ODI derived values using both approaches were virtually identical, exhibiting constant trends with age. Further, our results indicated a quadratic relationship between NDI and age suggesting that axonal maturation continues until middle age followed by a decrease. This quadratic association was notably significant in several WM regions using C-NODDI, while limited to a few regions using NODDI. Further, C-NODDI-NDI values exhibited a stronger correlation with NfL concentration levels as compared to NODDI-NDI, with lower NDI values corresponding to higher levels of NfL. Finally, we confirmed the previous finding that NDI estimation using NODDI was dependent on TE, while NDI derived values using C-NODDI exhibited lower sensitivity to TE in WM. Conclusion C-NODDI provides a complementary method to NODDI for determination of NDI in white matter.
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- Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
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Villalon-Reina JE, Nir TM, Nourollahimoghadam E, Dhinagar N, Jahanshad N, Thompson PM, Henriques RN. Evaluating Fiber Orientation Dispersion Measures Computed From Single-Shell Diffusion MRI. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2023; 2023:1-6. [PMID: 38083769 DOI: 10.1109/embc40787.2023.10340067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Fiber orientation dispersion is one of the fundamental features that can be estimated from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) of the brain. Several approaches have been proposed to estimate dispersion from single- and multi-shell dMRI acquisitions. Here, we derive solutions to bring these proposed methods to a standard orientation dispersion index (ODI) with the goal of making them comparable across different dMRI acquisitions. To illustrate the utility of the measures in studying brain aging, we further examined the age-dependent trajectory of the different single- and multi-shell ODI estimates in the white matter across the lifespan.Clinical Relevance- This work computes metrics of brain microstructure that can be adapted for large neuroimaging initiatives that aim to study the brain's development and aging, and to identify deviations that may serve as biomarkers of brain disease.
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Korbmacher M, Gurholt TP, de Lange AMG, van der Meer D, Beck D, Eikefjord E, Lundervold A, Andreassen OA, Westlye LT, Maximov II. Bio-psycho-social factors' associations with brain age: a large-scale UK Biobank diffusion study of 35,749 participants. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1117732. [PMID: 37359862 PMCID: PMC10288151 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1117732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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Brain age refers to age predicted by brain features. Brain age has previously been associated with various health and disease outcomes and suggested as a potential biomarker of general health. Few previous studies have systematically assessed brain age variability derived from single and multi-shell diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data. Here, we present multivariate models of brain age derived from various diffusion approaches and how they relate to bio-psycho-social variables within the domains of sociodemographic, cognitive, life-satisfaction, as well as health and lifestyle factors in midlife to old age (N = 35,749, 44.6-82.8 years of age). Bio-psycho-social factors could uniquely explain a small proportion of the brain age variance, in a similar pattern across diffusion approaches: cognitive scores, life satisfaction, health and lifestyle factors adding to the variance explained, but not socio-demographics. Consistent brain age associations across models were found for waist-to-hip ratio, diabetes, hypertension, smoking, matrix puzzles solving, and job and health satisfaction and perception. Furthermore, we found large variability in sex and ethnicity group differences in brain age. Our results show that brain age cannot be sufficiently explained by bio-psycho-social variables alone. However, the observed associations suggest to adjust for sex, ethnicity, cognitive factors, as well as health and lifestyle factors, and to observe bio-psycho-social factor interactions' influence on brain age in future studies.
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- Max Korbmacher
- Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorder Research (NORMENT), Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Center (MMIV), Bergen, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorder Research (NORMENT), Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorder Research (NORMENT), Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- LREN, Centre for Research in Neurosciences, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorder Research (NORMENT), Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorder Research (NORMENT), Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
- Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Center (MMIV), Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
- Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Center (MMIV), Bergen, Norway
- Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorder Research (NORMENT), Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorder Research (NORMENT), Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorder Research (NORMENT), Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Warner W, Palombo M, Cruz R, Callaghan R, Shemesh N, Jones DK, Dell'Acqua F, Ianus A, Drobnjak I. Temporal Diffusion Ratio (TDR) for imaging restricted diffusion: Optimisation and pre-clinical demonstration. Neuroimage 2023; 269:119930. [PMID: 36750150 PMCID: PMC7615244 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Revised: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Temporal Diffusion Ratio (TDR) is a recently proposed dMRI technique (Dell'Acqua et al., proc. ISMRM 2019) which provides contrast between areas with restricted diffusion and areas either without restricted diffusion or with length scales too small for characterisation. Hence, it has a potential for informing on pore sizes, in particular the presence of large axon diameters or other cellular structures. TDR employs the signal from two dMRI acquisitions obtained with the same, large, b-value but with different diffusion gradient waveforms. TDR is advantageous as it employs standard acquisition sequences, does not make any assumptions on the underlying tissue structure and does not require any model fitting, avoiding issues related to model degeneracy. This work for the first time introduces and optimises the TDR method in simulation for a range of different tissues and scanner constraints and validates it in a pre-clinical demonstration. We consider both substrates containing cylinders and spherical structures, representing cell soma in tissue. Our results show that contrasting an acquisition with short gradient duration, short diffusion time and high gradient strength with an acquisition with long gradient duration, long diffusion time and low gradient strength, maximises the TDR contrast for a wide range of pore configurations. Additionally, in the presence of Rician noise, computing TDR from a subset (50% or fewer) of the acquired diffusion gradients rather than the entire shell as proposed originally further improves the contrast. In the last part of the work the results are demonstrated experimentally on rat spinal cord. In line with simulations, the experimental data shows that optimised TDR improves the contrast compared to non-optimised TDR. Furthermore, we find a strong correlation between TDR and histology measurements of axon diameter. In conclusion, we find that TDR has great potential and is a very promising alternative (or potentially complement) to model-based approaches for informing on pore sizes and restricted diffusion in general.
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- William Warner
- Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC), Computer Science Department, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Champalimaud Research, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Champalimaud Research, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- NatBrainLab, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Champalimaud Research, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC), Computer Science Department, University College London, United Kingdom.
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Bouhrara M, Avram AV, Kiely M, Trivedi A, Benjamini D. Adult lifespan maturation and degeneration patterns in gray and white matter: A mean apparent propagator (MAP) MRI study. Neurobiol Aging 2023; 124:104-116. [PMID: 36641369 PMCID: PMC9985137 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2022.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2022] [Revised: 12/24/2022] [Accepted: 12/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The relationship between brain microstructure and aging has been the subject of intense study, with diffusion MRI perhaps the most effective modality for elucidating these associations. Here, we used the mean apparent propagator (MAP)-MRI framework, which is suitable to characterize complex microstructure, to investigate age-related cerebral differences in a cohort of cognitively unimpaired participants and compared the results to those derived using diffusion tensor imaging. We studied MAP-MRI metrics, among them the non-Gaussianity (NG) and propagator anisotropy (PA), and established an opposing pattern in white matter of higher NG alongside lower PA among older adults, likely indicative of axonal degradation. In gray matter, however, these two indices were consistent with one another, and exhibited regional pattern heterogeneity compared to other microstructural parameters, which could indicate fewer neuronal projections across cortical layers along with an increased glial concentration. In addition, we report regional variations in the magnitude of age-related microstructural differences consistent with the posterior-anterior shift in aging paradigm. These results encourage further investigations in cognitive impairments and neurodegeneration.
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- Mustapha Bouhrara
- Magnetic Resonance Physics of Aging and Dementia Unit, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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- Section on Quantitative Imaging and Tissue Sciences,Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA,Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Magnetic Resonance Physics of Aging and Dementia Unit, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Multiscale Imaging and Integrative Biophysics Unit, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Multiscale Imaging and Integrative Biophysics Unit, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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David S, Brown LL, Heemskerk AM, Aron E, Leemans A, Aron A. Sensory processing sensitivity and axonal microarchitecture: identifying brain structural characteristics for behavior. Brain Struct Funct 2022; 227:2769-2785. [PMID: 36151482 PMCID: PMC9618477 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-022-02571-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Previous research using functional MRI identified brain regions associated with sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), a proposed normal phenotype trait. To further validate SPS, to characterize it anatomically, and to test the usefulness in psychology of methodologies that assess axonal properties, the present study correlated SPS proxy questionnaire scores (adjusted for neuroticism) with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures. Participants (n = 408) from the Human Connectome Project were studied. Voxelwise analysis showed that mean- and radial diffusivity correlated positively with SPS scores in the right and left subcallosal and anterior-ventral cingulum bundle, and the right forceps minor of the corpus callosum, all frontal cortex areas generally underlying emotion, motivation, and cognition. Further analyses showed correlations throughout medial frontal cortical regions in the right and left ventromedial prefrontal cortex, including the superior longitudinal fasciculus, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, uncinate, and arcuate fasciculus. Fractional anisotropy was negatively correlated with SPS scores in white matter (WM) of the right premotor/motor/somatosensory/supramarginal gyrus regions. Region of interest (ROI) analysis showed small effect sizes (- 0.165 to 0.148) in WM of the precuneus and inferior frontal gyrus. Other ROI effects were found in the dorsal-, ventral visual pathways and primary auditory cortex. The results reveal that in a large group of participants, axonal microarchitectural differences can be identified with SPS traits that are subtle and in the range of typical behavior. The results suggest that the heightened sensory processing in people who show that SPS may be influenced by the microstructure of WM in specific cortical regions. Although previous fMRI studies had identified most of these areas, the DTI results put a new focus on brain areas related to attention and cognitive flexibility, empathy, emotion, and first levels of sensory processing, as in primary auditory cortex. Psychological trait characterization may benefit from DTI methodology by identifying influential brain systems for traits.
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- Szabolcs David
- Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Wu P, Huang C, Shi B, Jin A. Comparison of region-of-interest delineation methods for diffusion tensor imaging in patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2022; 23:677. [PMID: 35840941 PMCID: PMC9284815 DOI: 10.1186/s12891-022-05639-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background Diffusion tensor imaging is a promising technique for determining the responsible lesion of cervical radiculopathy, but the selection and delineation of the region of interest (ROI) affect the results. This study explored the impact of different ROI sketching methods on the repeatability and consistency of DTI measurement values in patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR). Methods This retrospective study included CSR patients who underwent DTI imaging. The images were analyzed independently by two radiologists. Four delineation methods were used: freehand method, maximum roundness, quadrilateral method, and multi-point averaging method. They re-examined the images 6 weeks later. The intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to investigate the consistency between the two measurements and the reproducibility between two radiologists. Results Forty-two CSR patients were included in this study. The distribution of the compressed nerve roots was five C4, eight C5, sixteen C6, eleven C7, and two C8. No differences were found among the four methods in fractional anisotropy (FA) or apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), irrespective of radiologists (all P>0.05). Similar results were observed between the first and second measurements (all P>0.05), but some significant differences were observed for radiologist 2 for the four-small rounds method (P=0.033). The freehand and single largest circle methods were the two methods with the highest ICC between the two measurements and the two radiologists (all ICC >0.90). Conclusion The freehand and single largest circle methods were the most consistent methods for delineating DTI ROI in patients with CSR.
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- Penghuan Wu
- Shaoguan First People's Hospital, Affiliated Shaoguan First People's Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Spinal Surgery, Orthopedics Center, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Spinal Surgery, Orthopedics Center, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
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Schilling KG, Archer D, Yeh FC, Rheault F, Cai LY, Hansen C, Yang Q, Ramdass K, Shafer AT, Resnick SM, Pechman KR, Gifford KA, Hohman TJ, Jefferson A, Anderson AW, Kang H, Landman BA. Aging and white matter microstructure and macrostructure: a longitudinal multi-site diffusion MRI study of 1218 participants. Brain Struct Funct 2022. [PMID: 35604444 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-022-02503-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Quantifying the microstructural and macrostructural geometrical features of the human brain's connections is necessary for understanding normal aging and disease. Here, we examine brain white matter diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data from one cross-sectional and two longitudinal data sets totaling in 1218 subjects and 2459 sessions of people aged 50-97 years. Data was drawn from well-established cohorts, including the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging data set, Cambridge Centre for Ageing Neuroscience data set, and the Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project. Quantifying 4 microstructural features and, for the first time, 11 macrostructure-based features of volume, area, and length across 120 white matter pathways, we apply linear mixed effect modeling to investigate changes in pathway-specific features over time, and document large age associations within white matter. Conventional diffusion tensor microstructure indices are the most age-sensitive measures, with positive age associations for diffusivities and negative age associations with anisotropies, with similar patterns observed across all pathways. Similarly, pathway shape measures also change with age, with negative age associations for most length, surface area, and volume-based features. A particularly novel finding of this study is that while trends were homogeneous throughout the brain for microstructure features, macrostructural features demonstrated heterogeneity across pathways, whereby several projection, thalamic, and commissural tracts exhibited more decline with age compared to association and limbic tracts. The findings from this large-scale study provide a comprehensive overview of the age-related decline in white matter and demonstrate that macrostructural features may be more sensitive to heterogeneous white matter decline. Therefore, leveraging macrostructural features may be useful for studying aging and could facilitate comparisons in a variety of diseases or abnormal conditions.
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Lehrer S, Rheinstein PH. The Association Between Selenium, Selenoprotein P (SEPP1), Fluid Intelligence, and Exercise in the UK Biobank Cohort. Cureus 2022; 14:e25353. [PMID: 35651983 PMCID: PMC9134928 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.25353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In the mouse hippocampus, exercise boosts neurogenesis. Increased levels of the selenium transport protein selenoprotein P (SEPP1) in the serum of exercised animals may contribute to the impact of exercise. SEPP1 is a protein that aids in the delivery of selenium to the brain. The effect of exercise on mouse brain precursor cell proliferation was diminished when SEPP1 or its receptor were genetically depleted. Selenium supplementation in the diet had the same effect as exercise in reducing some of the cognitive impairments associated with aging. METHODS In the current analysis, we sought to determine the association of selenium, the SEPP1 gene, fluid intelligence, and exercise in the UK Biobank Cohort. We analyzed SEPP1 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs7579, a single nucleotide variation (SNV), position chr5:42800706, C > T, minor allele frequency T = 0.281. Its consequence is a 3'- UTR variant. The 3'-UTR contains regulatory regions that post-transcriptionally influence gene expression and is responsible for selenoprotein synthesis. SNP rs7579 has been implicated in multiple forms of cancer. The univariate general linear model of SPSS (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY) was used to rule out the effects of age, years of education, and vigorous activity on fluid intelligence score, with fluid intelligence score as the dependent variable, rs7579 genotype, and selenium supplements as fixed factors, and age, years of education, and vigorous activity as covariates. RESULTS The effect of rs7579 genotype on fluid intelligence score was insignificant (p = 0.702). The effect of selenium supplements on fluid intelligence score was insignificant (p = 0.107). The interaction of rs7579 genotype and selenium supplements was insignificant (p = 0.911) and unrelated to the significant effects of age (p < 0.001), years of education (p < 0.001), and vigorous activity (p < 0.001) on fluid intelligence score. Conclusion: Our multivariate analysis of SEPP1 genotype, selenium supplement use, and fluid intelligence scores is consistent with the negligible effect selenium supplements seem to have on cognition. Selenium is found in nuts, dairy products, and grains. These foods can provide sufficient selenium for health. Selenium supplements are not recommended.
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Affiliation(s)
- Steven Lehrer
- Radiation Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA
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Lehrer S, Rheinstein PH. Marijuana and Myocardial Infarction in the UK Biobank Cohort. Cureus 2022; 14:e22054. [PMID: 35165641 PMCID: PMC8826760 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.22054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Porat S, Sibilia F, Yoon J, Shi Y, Dahl MJ, Werkle-Bergner M, Düzel S, Bodammer N, Lindenberger U, Kühn S, Mather M. Age Differences in Diffusivity in the Locus Coeruleus and its Ascending Noradrenergic Tract. Neuroimage 2022; 251:119022. [PMID: 35192943 PMCID: PMC9183949 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2021] [Revised: 02/16/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The noradrenergic locus coeruleus (LC) is a small brainstem nucleus that promotes arousal and attention. Recent studies have examined the microstructural properties of the LC using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and found unexpected age-related differences in fractional anisotropy - a measure of white matter integrity. Here, we used two datasets (Berlin Aging Study-II, N = 301, the Leipzig Study for Mind-Body-Emotion Interactions, N = 220), to replicate published findings and expand them by investigating diffusivity in the LC’s ascending noradrenergic bundle. In younger adults, LC fractional anisotropy was significantly lower, compared to older adults. However, in the LC’s ascending noradrenergic bundle, we observed significantly higher fractional anisotropy in younger adults, relative to older adults. These findings indicate that diffusivity in the LC versus the ascending noradrenergic bundle are both susceptible to structural changes in aging that have opposing effects on fractional anisotropy.
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Kraguljac NV, Guerreri M, Strickland MJ, Zhang H. Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging in Psychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Literature Review and a Technical Note. Biol Psychiatry Glob Open Sci 2023; 3:10-21. [PMID: 36712566 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2021.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2021] [Revised: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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While major psychiatric disorders lack signature diagnostic neuropathologies akin to dementias, classic postmortem studies have established microstructural involvement, i.e., cellular changes in neurons and glia, as a key pathophysiological finding. Advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques allow mapping of cellular tissue architecture and microstructural abnormalities in vivo, which holds promise for advancing our understanding of the pathophysiology underlying psychiatric disorders. Here, we performed a systematic review of case-control studies using neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) to assess brain microstructure in psychiatric disorders and a selective review of technical considerations in NODDI. Of the 584 potentially relevant articles, 18 studies met the criteria to be included in this systematic review. We found a general theme of abnormal gray and white matter microstructure across the diagnostic spectrum. We also noted significant variability in patterns of neurite density and fiber orientation within and across diagnostic groups, as well as associations between brain microstructure and phenotypical variables. NODDI has been successfully used to detect subtle microstructure abnormalities in patients with psychiatric disorders. Given that NODDI indices may provide a more direct link to pathophysiological processes, this method may not only contribute to advancing our mechanistic understanding of disease processes, it may also be well positioned for next-generation biomarker development studies.
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Lehrer S, Rheinstein PH, Schmeidler J. A Component or Multiple Components of Bleeding Gums May Ameliorate Both Glaucoma and Alzheimer’s Disease. Cureus 2022; 14:e21004. [PMID: 35028240 PMCID: PMC8747976 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.21004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Background: Although clinical studies have shown an increased prevalence of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a population-based epidemiologic study from Denmark found no increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease in patients with glaucoma, and other studies have failed to demonstrate a link. However, a possible relationship between POAG and AD might manifest in their association with oral pathology. Dental caries, periodontal disease, stomatitis, and the related inflammatory burden increase AD risk, while oral pathology and the oral microbiome correlate with POAG vulnerability. To further examine the relationship, we analyzed POAG, AD, and oral disease in the UK Biobank (UKBB) cohort. Methods: Our analysis included all subjects with POAG and AD. POAG diagnosis was ascertained using the 10th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), H40.11. AD diagnosis was ascertained using the 10th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10), G30. Oral cavity, ulceration, stomatitis, periodontitis, teeth, and dental problems were in UKBB data field 6149. Results: A “yes” answer to a question about bleeding gums is associated with a greater proportional POAG reduction (24.2%) than a “yes” answer to having none of the six listed problems (6.3%). Similarly, bleeding gums were associated with a greater proportional AD reduction (46.2% versus 16.9%). Logistic regression controlling for age and sex showed that bleeding gums (no/yes) were negatively associated with AD (odds ratio (OR) = 0.713, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.521-0.976, p = 0.035). Age-weighted least-squares linear regression showed that the lower corneal-compensated intraocular pressure (IOP) in the left eye was associated with bleeding gums (unstandardized regression coefficient = -0.174, p < 0.001), controlling for type 2 diabetes and past smoking. Conclusion: It is difficult to predict what component or components of periodontal inflammation might be ameliorating POAG and AD. Prostaglandin is a possibility. Identification of the component or components could lead to new treatments for POAG and AD. Further studies are warranted.
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