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Relationship between apathy and diffusion tensor imaging metrics of the brain in Alzheimer's disease

Ota, Miho, Sato, Noriko, Nakata, Yasuhiro, Arima, Kunimasa, Uno, Masatake·2012·International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Alzheimer's disease (AD) research has largely concentrated on the study of cognitive decline, but the associated behavioral and neuropsychiatric symptoms are of equal importance in the clinical profile of the disease. Apathy is the most common neuropsychiatric manifestation in AD. Clinical, multimodal neuroimaging studies and pathologic studies of apathy in AD have suggested an association with frontal dysfunction but without a definitive localization. In this study, we examined the association between apathy and white matter integrity using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). METHODS: Twenty-one AD patients underwent DTI and neuropsychiatric and cognitive assessments. All fractional anisotropy (FA) maps were normalized to the standard space, and the association between the apathy scale and DTI metrics were evaluated voxel basically. RESULTS: Statistical parametric mapping analysis showed that there were statistically negative correlations between the apathy scale and FA values in the right anterior cingulate, right thalamus, and bilateral parietal regions using age, Mini-Mental State Examination score and sex as nuisance variables. CONCLUSIONS: Apathy in AD is associated with impaired white matter integrity in the anterior cingulate and medial thalamus. These results reinforce the confluence of evidence from other investigational modalities in implicating limbic dysfunction and related neuronal circuits in the neurobiology of apathy in AD.

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  • Apathy in Alzheimer's disease is associated with decreased anterior cingulate cortex white matter integrity by diffusion tensor imaging.

    “Similarly apathy is associated with decreased perfusion in ACC (Benoit et al., 2004; Lanctôt et al., 2007; Robert et al., 2006), decreased ACC white matter integrity by DTI (Hahn et al., 2013; Kim et al., 2011; Ota et al., 2012) and increased amyloid burden in right ACC (Mori et al., 2014).”

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Authors
Ota, M., Sato, N., Nakata, Y., Arima, K., & Uno, M.
Affiliations
National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (JP)
Corresponding author
Ota, Miho
Venue
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2011-08-24
Volume
27
Issue
7
Pages
722-726
ISSN
  • 0885-6230 (ISSN-L)
  • 1099-1166
OpenAlex
W1570035252
Cited by
58
References
34
Citations by year
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FWCI
2.42
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Keywords
apathy, Alzheimer's disease, neuropsychiatric symptoms, white matter integrity, fractional anisotropy, anterior cingulate cortex, thalamus, parietal cortex, diffusion tensor imaging
MeSH terms
Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alzheimer Disease, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Anisotropy, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Apathy

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