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Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease
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We detected and mapped a dynamically spreading wave of gray matter loss in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). The loss pattern was visualized in four dimensions as it spread over time from temporal and limbic cortices into frontal and occipital brain regions, sparing sensorimotor cortices. The shifting deficits were asymmetric (left hemisphere > right hemisphere) and correlated with progressively declining cognitive status ( p < 0.0006). Novel brain mapping methods allowed us to visualize dynamic patterns of atrophy in 52 high-resolution magnetic resonance image scans of 12 patients with AD (age 68.4 ± 1.9 years) and 14 elderly matched controls (age 71.4 ± 0.9 years) scanned longitudinally (two scans; interscan interval 2.1 ± 0.4 years). A cortical pattern matching technique encoded changes in brain shape and tissue distribution across subjects and time. Cortical atrophy occurred in a well defined sequence as the disease progressed, mirroring the sequence of neurofibrillary tangle accumulation observed in cross sections at autopsy. Advancing deficits were visualized as dynamic maps that change over time. Frontal regions, spared early in the disease, showed pervasive deficits later (>15% loss). The maps distinguished different phases of AD and differentiated AD from normal aging. Local gray matter loss rates (5.3 ± 2.3% per year in AD v 0.9 ± 0.9% per year in controls) were faster in the left hemisphere ( p < 0.029) than the right. Transient barriers to disease progression appeared at limbic/frontal boundaries. This degenerative sequence, observed in vivo as it developed, provides the first quantitative, dynamic visualization of cortical atrophic rates in normal elderly populations and in those with dementia.
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This longitudinal MRI study mapped a dynamically spreading wave of cortical gray matter loss in Alzheimer’s disease, from temporal/limbic regions into frontal and occipital cortex while sparing sensorimotor areas. Loss was asymmetric (left faster than right) and correlated with declining MMSE scores.
Key findings
- In 12 patients with AD versus 14 controls, AD showed significant gray matter deficits in bilateral temporal and parietal cortices (baseline permutation p < 0.00495 left, p < 0.0154 right; follow-up p < 0.00027 left, p < 0.00056 right), with deficits exceeding 15% in most affected regions and relative sparing of sensorimotor cortex (0–5% loss).
- Frontal cortex was initially only mildly affected (6–10% loss) but became severely affected later (>15% everywhere) as MMSE declined from 17.7 ± 1.9 to 12.9 ± 2.5 (mean change 5.5 ± 1.9; p < 0.00054); controls remained stable at MMSE 29.5 ± 0.3.
- Local gray matter loss rates were 5.03 ± 2.28% per year in AD versus 0.91 ± 0.92% per year in controls; left hemisphere loss was faster in AD by 0.79% per year (p < 0.04). Whole-brain atrophy was 5.22 ± 2.04% per year in AD versus 0.88 ± 0.15% per year in controls (p < 0.003 group difference).
- Lower MMSE scores were linked to greater gray matter deficits in temporal-parietal and limbic cortices, but not in sensorimotor cortex; correlation maps were significant by permutation (e.g., p < 0.0013 left, p < 0.0028 right when mean MMSE was 18).
Methods
- Longitudinal MRI study: 12 AD patients (six men, six women; mean age 68.4 ± 1.9 years at first scan) and 14 elderly controls (seven men, seven women; mean age 71.4 ± 0.9 years), each scanned twice. Methods report mean interscan intervals of 1.5 ± 0.3 years for AD and 2.6 ± 0.3 years for controls; the abstract reports an overall interscan interval of 2.1 ± 0.4 years.
- Image processing included bias correction, stereotaxic registration, tissue classification, 3D cortical surface extraction, and cortical pattern matching using 72 sulcal landmarks per brain (30 sulci traced per hemisphere). Gray matter density was measured as the proportion of gray matter within 15 mm of each cortical point.
- Statistical maps used pointwise multiple regression across the cortex and permutation testing (1 million permutations) with a primary threshold of p = 0.01 and corrected map-wise p values; left and right hemispheres were assessed separately.
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- Stated in the paper: only two time points per subject were used, forcing the assumption of linear loss during the interscan interval; future studies with multiple time points are needed to test whether AD accelerates or progresses nonlinearly.
- Evident from the text: the sample is small (12 AD patients and 14 controls), limiting generalizability and power for subgroup analyses.
- Evident from the text: reported interscan intervals differ between the abstract (2.1 ± 0.4 years overall) and the Methods (AD 1.5 ± 0.3 years; controls 2.6 ± 0.3 years), which may affect rate estimates.
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“The shifting deficits were asymmetric (left hemisphere Ͼ right hemisphere) and correlated with progressively declining cognitive status ( p Ͻ 0.0006).”
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“We detected and mapped a dynamically spreading wave of gray matter loss in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).”
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“Three disease stages were effectively mapped in this new, longitudinal sample.”
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“These broadly correspond to healthy aging and the transition from moderate to severe AD (with MMSE scores of 29, 18, and 13, respectively).”
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“Transient barriers to disease progression appeared at limbic/frontal boundaries.”
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“Patients with AD show minimal primary visual, sensorimotor, and frontal atrophy until late in the disease.”
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“Local gray matter loss rates (5.3 Ϯ 2.3% per year in AD v 0.9 Ϯ 0.9% per year in controls) were faster in the left hemisphere ( p Ͻ 0.029) than the right.”
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“During the study, subjects' cognitive status declined rapidly from an initial MMSE score of 17.7 Ϯ 1.9 to 12.9 Ϯ 2.5 (mean change 5.5 Ϯ 1.9 points; p Ͻ 0.00054, one-tailed t test; maximum score 30).”
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“A sharp division occurred in the loss maps (Fig. 6b, blue), with central and post-central gyri displaying minimal loss compared with the parietal association cortices immediately posterior to them.”
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“although both groups lost significant white matter over time ( p Ͻ 0.035).”
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“Even the healthy controls showed a trend for diffuse gray matter loss (Fig. 4a-d) ( p Ͻ 0.08) at an annual rate of 0.91 Ϯ 0.92% per year overall (left hemisphere 1.16 Ϯ 1.41% per year; right hemisphere 0.67 Ϯ 1.25% per year).”
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“Whole-brain atrophic rates (i.e., the loss rate for total cerebral volume) were found to discriminate patients and controls.”
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“In patients with AD, the left hemisphere lost gray matter faster than the right (0.79% per year faster) ( p Ͻ 0.04).”
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“We did not find a faster white matter loss rate in AD relative to controls ( p ϭ 0.41)”
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“A process of fast attrition occurs over the 1.5 years after the baseline scan.”
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“In AD, there was also an increase in asymmetry over time ( p Ͻ 0.028) in the overall quantity of gray matter (including deep nuclei as well as cortex).”
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“Because cortical gray matter maps discriminated patients from controls so strongly (with p Ͻ 0.005 initially and p Ͻ 0.0005 at follow-up; permutation tests)”
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“Both left and right hemisphere maps suggested that limbic regions are more intensely impaired than frontal cortices in AD.”
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“In patients with AD, a highly significant gray matter deficit was observed in a broad anatomical region encompassing bilateral temporal and parietal cortices (Fig. 6a)”
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“(1) Greatest impairment (Ͼ15%) was observed in the temporal/entorhinal regions and the parietal lobule, and, perhaps surprisingly, the adjacent occipital/visual cortices;”
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“Correlations were strongest in regions with greatest average loss (left cingulate and left temporal and parietal cortices) (Fig. 5d).”
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“and second, the sensory and motor territory is still comparatively spared (Fig. 6f, blue), despite the frontal spread of the deficits.”
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“In the deficit maps, some barriers to disease progression appear at architectonic boundaries.”
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“These correlations were observed in all brain regions in which there was significant loss (Fig. 5a-d), including the temporalparietal and limbic cortices.”
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“A frontal band (0 -5% loss) was sharply delimited (Fig. 8c) from the limbic and temporoparietal regions that showed severest deficits in AD (Ͼ15% loss).”
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“Figure 7 shows the average gray matter asymmetry in the controls, with a prominent sensorimotor region showing 15-20% less gray matter in the left hemisphere (Fig. 7a) compared with its counterpart on the right.”
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“the frontal deficits characteristic of late AD are not found until significant cognitive decline has occurred (bottom).”
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“The loss rate patterns were also more spatially diffuse than the deficit maps at baseline and follow-up (Figs. 5, 6).”
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“First, the frontal cortices, initially only mildly affected (with 6 -10% loss), are now severely affected (deficits exceeded 15% everywhere) (Fig. 6g)”
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“As expected, no correlations were found between gray matter differences in sensory and motor cortices and cognitive performance (Fig. 5b, blue, S/M ).”
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“A trend for faster gray matter loss in the left hemisphere was also observed in controls (0.50% per year faster; p Ͻ 0.057).”
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“Even then, some cortical regions were mostly intact (Fig. 8c, blue), specifically in the frontal and sensorimotor cortices.”
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“Regions with a prominent 4 -5% annual loss included the right cingulate, temporal, and frontal cortices bilaterally (Fig. 4, bottom row).”
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“Linkages were also found between frontal gray matter reduction and lower MMSE scores, but only at the later time point, when frontal gray matter was in significant deficit (Fig. 5e).”
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“The left hemisphere was significantly more severely impaired than the right ( p Ͻ 0.029 for disease-specific asymmetry; corrected p Ͻ 0.0018 left hemisphere, p Ͻ 0.014 right hemisphere, for the effect of diagnosis at the initial scan on the medial wall; permutation tests).”
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“after a rapid decline in MMSE score from 17.7 Ϯ 1.9 to 12.9 Ϯ 2.5 ( p Ͻ 0.00054).”
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“Highly significant linkages were found relating lower cognitive scores to greater gray matter deficits (Fig. 5).”
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“(3) frontal regions, and in particular orbitofrontal regions (Fig. 8a), were comparatively spared (0 -5% loss) (Fig. 8a, blue).”
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“After a sharp drop in MMSE score from 18 to 13, most of the cortex was engulfed (Fig. 8, bottom) (corrected p Ͻ 0.00015 left hemisphere, corrected p Ͻ 0.00015 right hemisphere, for the effect”
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“In the left hemisphere, the entire medial cortex was in deficit at the first scan (Fig. 8b).”
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“Note the relative sparing of sensorimotor cortices at both disease stages (S/M ).”
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“Map-based measures showed vastly greater effect sizes than any measures based on volumes (e.g., p Ͻ 0.00027 at follow-up).”
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“Although severe temporal lobe loss ( T ) and parietal loss have already occurred at baseline (top) and subsequently continue (Fig.4), the frontal deficits characteristic of late AD are not found until significant cognitive decline has occurred (bottom).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Relation to previous work
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“They are significantly higher in AD and strongest in frontal and temporal regions ( g, h) at this stage of AD (as the MMSE score falls from 18 to 13).”
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“Profound loss engulfs the left medial wall (Ͼ15%; b, d).”
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“On the right, however, the deficits in temporoparietal and entorhinal territory ( a) spread forward into the cingulate 1.5 years later ( c), after a five point drop in average MMSE score.”
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“They are significantly higher in AD and strongest in frontal and temporal regions ( g, h) at this stage of AD (as the MMSE score falls from 18 to 13).”
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“The asymmetric loss of gray matter in AD (left hemisphere faster than right) compounds an existing asymmetry in the distribution of gray matter, observed here in healthy controls (a, b).”
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“A process of fast attrition occurs over the 1.5 years after the baseline scan.”
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“The asymmetric loss of gray matter in AD (left hemisphere faster than right) compounds an existing asymmetry in the distribution of gray matter, observed here in healthy controls (a, b).”
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“Linkages are detected most strongly in the left hemisphere medial temporoparietal zones ( d).”
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“Loss rates are Ͻ1% per year in controls.”
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“Variations in temporal, parietal, and ultimately frontal ( e) tissue are linked with cognitive status.”
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“which was not in significant deficit in late AD.”
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“Note the relative sparing of sensorimotor cortices at both disease stages (S/M ).”
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“Less gray matter is strongly correlated with worse cognitive performance, in all regions with prominent deficits.”
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“Although severe temporal lobe loss ( T ) and parietal loss have already occurred at baseline (top) and subsequently continue (Fig.4), the frontal deficits characteristic of late AD are not found until significant cognitive decline has occurred (bottom).”
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“AD and control samples consisted of subjects who were entirely different from the group of patients with AD and controls from whom data were reported in our previous cross-sectional study (Thompson et al., 2001b).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Subjects
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- Not checked yetcites Thompson et al., 2001b
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“This corresponds approximately to a transition from moderate to severe AD.”
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“The warped color images (Fig. 2d) from many subjects are averaged together pixel by pixel and decoded; it can be shown mathematically that this image averaging creates a crisp average cortical model with gyral features in their mean anatomic locations (Fig. 2f ) (Thompson and Toga, 1997;Thompson et al., 2000a,b).”
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“Specific atrophic patterns differentiate AD from frontotemporal, semantic, and Lewy body dementias (O'Brien et al., 2001;Studholme et al., 2001).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Introduction
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“Given the large anatomic variability in some cortical regions, high-dimensional elastic matching of cortical patterns (Thompson et al., 2000a(Thompson et al., ,b, 2001a) was used to associate measures of gray matter density from homologous cortical regions first across time and then also across subjects (Fig. 3).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Cortical pattern matching
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“Cortical atrophy occurred in a well defined sequence as the disease progressed, mirroring the sequence of neurofibrillary tangle accumulation observed in cross sections at autopsy.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Abstract
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“The point of this procedure is that the computational matching of sulci avoids destructive cancellation of features (Fischl et al., 1999).”
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“A total suprathreshold area statistic was chosen rather than a measure of cluster extent or peak height (Friston et al., 1996) to sensitize the permutation test to the detection of subtle but diffuse effects that occur over large (and possibly disconnected) regions of cortex.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping gray matter loss
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- Not checked yetcites Friston et al., 1996
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“Before symptom onset in AD, and also in those at genetic risk, gray matter loss is detectable in the anterior hippocampal/amygdala region (Lehtovirta et al., 2000;Reiman et al., 2001).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Introduction
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“It also provides the first detailed, three-dimensional (3D) quantitative maps of cortical gray matter and whole brain changes over time in any disease.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Introduction
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“This degenerative sequence, observed in vivo as it developed, provides the first quantitative, dynamic visualization of cortical atrophic rates in normal elderly populations and in those with dementia.”
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“Confounding effects of cross-subject anatomical variance are greatly reduced, thereby empowering detection of disease effects.”
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“This threshold ( p ϭ 0.01) was chosen a priori on the basis of our previous work in an independent, crosssectional sample (Thompson et al., 2001b) to optimize detection of broad, diffuse effects.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping gray matter loss
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“When the deficit data are visualized in 4D, a dynamic, spreading wave of loss is observed.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Discussion
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“This indicates faster left hemisphere cortical degeneration in AD, at least during the time interval observed in this study.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Loss rate asymmetries
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“Decreased metabolic activity is found in temporal and parietal lobes and in the posterior cingulate cortices (Mazziotta et al., 1992;Mega et al., 1997).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Metabolism
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“Deficits and rates of change were coupled with declining cognitive status and quantified by MMSE scores.”
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“Gray matter atrophy observed with MRI may also be attributable to a combination of processes other than, or in addition to, neuronal loss, including cell shrinkage, reduced dendritic extent, and synaptic loss (for review, see McEwen, 1997;Uylings and de Brabander, 2002).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Pathology
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- Not checked yetcites McEwen, 1997
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“(3) some phylogenetically older brain systems are spared late in the disease (e.g., sensorimotor cortices).”
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“This pattern is consistent with the hypothesis that AD pathology spreads centrifugally from limbic/paralimbic to higher-order association cortices (Mesulam, 2000).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Medial wall effects
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“In the right hemisphere, sharp boundaries appeared in the deficit patterns at the cingulate/frontal border on the medial wall (Fig. 8c), indicating differential susceptibility, at least transiently, in mild to moderate AD.”
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“These maps support the idea that structure/cognition effects are regionally specific in AD, at least initially (Fig. 5b).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Cognitive correlates
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“The deficit sequence also matches the trajectory of NFT distribution observed postmortem in patients with increasing dementia severity at death (Braak andBraak, 1991, 1997).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Pathology
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“The vulnerability of neocortical association areas may relate to their degree of functional connectivity with limbic structures, in which pathology begins (Arriagada, 1992).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Differential susceptibility
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- Not checked yetcites Arriagada, 1992
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“Later cell loss in association areas may result from cortical remodeling attributable to impaired input activity in limbic-paralimbic neurons that innervate them.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Differential susceptibility
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“The anterior and ventromedial temporal lobes may be especially susceptible to AD pathology.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Differential susceptibility
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“In summary, the leading edge of the region with significant deficits spreads somewhat centrifugally (from medial temporal/limbic to frontal regions).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping rates of loss
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“The spread of NFT pathology (Hof and Morrison, 1994;Morrison and Hof, 2002) may originate in limbic regions because of their high levels of baseline plasticity.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Differential susceptibility
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- Not checked yetcites Hof and Morrison, 1994
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“Increased power may result from restricting the search space for disease effects to the cortical sheet.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Detection power
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“A limitation of our current study is our use of only two time points per subject, which forces us to assume linear loss during the interscan interval.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Relation to previous work
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“The asymmetric loss of gray matter in AD (left hemisphere faster than right) compounds an existing asymmetry in the distribution of gray matter, observed here in healthy controls (a, b).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Relation to previous work
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“In summary, the dynamic maps presented here suggest that dynamic structural changes in AD, mapped in living patients, are congruent with earlier cross-sectional metabolic and pathologic changes.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Relation to previous work
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“The profound deficits observed here further support the focus on temporal lobe as a site of early and progressive change in AD (Murphy et al., 1993;Kaye et al., 1997;Jack et al., 1998;Laakso et al., 2000).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Relation to previous work
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“The loss pattern was visualized in four dimensions as it spread over time from temporal and limbic cortices into frontal and occipital brain regions, sparing sensorimotor cortices.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Abstract
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“Frontal regions, spared early in the disease, showed pervasive deficits later (Ͼ15% loss).”
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“Local gray matter loss rates (5.3 Ϯ 2.3% per year in AD v 0.9 Ϯ 0.9% per year in controls) were faster in the left hemisphere ( p Ͻ 0.029) than the right.”
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“During the study, the control subjects' cognitive status remained stable.”
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“Their MMSE score was 29.5 Ϯ 0.3 at both baseline and follow-up, with no change.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Subjects
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“The maps distinguished different phases of AD and differentiated AD from normal aging.”
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“Statistical maps were generated indicating locally the degree to which gray matter loss rates were statistically linked with diagnosis and cognitive performance (MMSE scores) (Fig. 5).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping gray matter loss
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“The white matter loss rate in AD (3.30Ϯ 2.06% per year; left hemisphere 3.20 Ϯ 2.91% per year, right hemisphere 3.40 Ϯ 3.03% per year) was comparable with that in controls (2.72 Ϯ 1.44% per year; left hemisphere 2.91 Ϯ 2.09% per year, right hemisphere 2.52 Ϯ 2.07%/year), and no asymmetries were detected ( p Ͼ 0.1).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Whole-brain atrophic rates
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“In AD, the left hemisphere had 2.4% (Ϯ2.0%) less gray matter overall than the right at baseline, and 3.5% (Ϯ2.0%) less gray matter at follow-up.”
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“In patients with AD, the left hemisphere lost volume at 5.86 Ϯ 8.60% per year, compared with 0.99 Ϯ 0.59% in controls ( p Ͻ 0.019 for significant loss in controls, p Ͻ 0.023 for group difference)”
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“Here, gray matter maps, at a single time point, better discriminated AD ( p Ͻ 0.00027 at follow-up) than longitudinal loss rates for total cerebral volume ( p Ͻ 0.003) and rates of overall gray matter loss ( p Ͻ 0.04).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Detection power
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“whereas with AD the right hemisphere lost volume at 4.57 Ϯ 5.61% per year, compared with 0.88 Ϯ 0.46% in controls ( p Ͻ 0.0083 for significant loss in controls, p Ͻ 0.0095 for group difference; all tests one-tailed).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Whole-brain atrophic rates
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“Here, control subjects show an average 15-20% less gray matter in sensorimotor regions ( a), which is highly significant ( c).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Dynamic, four-dimensional maps
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“When rates of change were considered, MMSE decline over time was highly significant in AD ( p Ͻ 0.00054), whereas no changes were detected in the controls (mean change, 0.0; p Ͼ 0.05).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Cognitive correlates
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“These disease effects were found in multiple regressions that controlled for age and gender (although effects of these covariates were not significant; overall multiple r ϭ 0.48; p Ͻ 0.006).”
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“Again, the cortex exhibits substantial gray matter loss, with deficits intensifying still further in the most severely affected regions (Fig. 6e,f ) (using permutation tests for an effect of diagnosis; p Ͻ 0.00027 left hemisphere, p Ͻ 0.00056 right hemisphere).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping average gray matter deficits in AD
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“Both controls ( p Ͻ 0.0069) (Fig. 7c,d) and patients ( p Ͻ 0.0091) had significantly less cortical gray matter in the left hemisphere.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Loss rate asymmetries
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“The transit of deficits from temporoparietal into frontal cortices is dramatic and so is the sparing of sensorimotor areas.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Dynamic, four-dimensional maps
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“A trend for faster left hemisphere loss also was observed for cerebral volume ( p Ͻ 0.055), in line with the significantly faster gray matter loss rate mapped in the left hemisphere.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Whole-brain atrophic rates
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“Patients with AD lost significant gray matter ( p Ͻ 0.05 for overall annual loss of gray matter) (Fig. 4e-h) and at a significantly more rapid rate than controls ( p Ͻ 0.042), with a total gray matter loss rate of 5.03 Ϯ 2.28% per year (left hemisphere 5.43 Ϯ 3.29% per year; right hemisphere 4.64 Ϯ 3.31% per year).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping rates of loss
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“(2) the cingulate/paralimbic belts (10 to 15% loss) were significantly but less severely affected (Fig. 8a, yellow);”
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“Overall cerebral volume loss rates were significantly faster in AD than in controls, with a loss rate of 5.22 Ϯ 2.04% per year in AD ( p Ͻ 2.3 ϫ 10 Ϫ5 ), compared with 0.88 Ϯ 0.15% per year in controls ( p Ͻ 0.013 for significant loss in controls, p Ͻ 0.003 for group difference; both hemispheres pooled).”
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“MMSE scores were lower in the AD group than in controls both initially ( p Ͻ 2.85 ϫ 10 Ϫ7 ) and after 1.5 years ( p Ͻ 2.6 ϫ 10 Ϫ8 ).”
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“The most significant impairments occurred in temporal and parietal regions (Fig. 6a, red), where deficits exceeded 15% (Fig. 6c).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping average gray matter deficits in AD
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“Most left hemisphere regions showed a Ͼ15% deficit relative to healthy controls (Fig. 8b), consistent with our earlier cross-sectional studies in an independent sample (Thompson et al., 2001b).”
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“Primary sensory and motor cortices were comparatively spared in the disease (with a 0 -5% deficit on average in the central and postcentral gyri (Fig. 6b, S/M).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping average gray matter deficits in AD
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“Occipital regions are also atrophic in this study; changes are not always detected in metabolic or perfusion studies of AD, in which visual cortices often serve as a control region in PET or single photon emission computed tomography imaging studies (Jagust et al., 1996).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Metabolism
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“Here, control subjects show an average 15-20% less gray matter in sensorimotor regions ( a), which is highly significant ( c).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Relation to previous work
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“Although severe temporal lobe loss ( T ) and parietal loss have already occurred at baseline (top) and subsequently continue (Fig.4), the frontal deficits characteristic of late AD are not found until significant cognitive decline has occurred (bottom).”
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“As expected, no linkages are found with sensorimotor gray matter variation ( b), which was not in significant deficit in late AD.”
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“Note the prominent division between limbic and frontal zones, with different degrees of impairment ( c).”
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“One advantage of cortical matching is that it localizes deficits relative to gyral landmarks; it also averages data from corresponding gyri, which would be impossible if data were mapped only linearly into stereotaxic space.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Cortical pattern matching
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“An image analyst (K.M.H.) who was blind to subject diagnosis, gender, and age traced each of 30 sulci in each hemisphere on the surface rendering of each subject's brain (13 on the medial surface, 17 on the lateral surface).”
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“All patients were reassessed at intervals of 3-6 months with a full clinical evaluation, and their cognitive status was evaluated using the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) (Folstein et al., 1975).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Subjects
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- Not checked yetcites Folstein et al., 1975
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“Recently, we used dynamic brain mapping to uncover the trajectory of cortical change as schizophrenia develops in the teenage brain (Thompson et al., 2001d) and as normal adolescents lose gray matter (Sowell et al., 2001).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Thompson et al., 2001d
- Not checked yetcites Sowell et al., 2001
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“These patients were diagnosed with AD using criteria listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2000), and they had a typical clinical presentation.”
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“They also fulfilled the standards for probable AD according to criteria established by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (McKhann et al., 1984).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Subjects
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- Not checked yetcites American Psychiatric Association, 2000
- Not checked yetcites McKhann et al., 1984
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“This protocol is available on the internet (Hayashi et al., 2002) and has known inter-rater and intrarater reliability, as reported previously (Sowell et al., 2001).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Cortical pattern matching
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- Not checked yetcites Hayashi et al., 2002
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“These deposits are composed of hyperphosphorylated tau-protein (Hulstaert et al., 1999).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Hulstaert et al., 1999 source
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“we established a primary threshold of p ϭ 0.01 for all significance maps and measured the total area of the cortex with statistics more significant, at a voxel level, than this threshold”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping gray matter loss
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- Not checked yetcites Sowell et al., 2001
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“Exclusion criteria for the two groups included the presence of white matter lesions on T2-weighted MRI scans, preexisting psychiatric illness or head injury, and history of substance abuse or depression as measured by the Geriatric Depression Scale (Yesavage, 1988).”
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- Not checked yetcites Yesavage, 1988
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“The inter-rater and intra-rater reliability of this protocol, and its robustness to changes in image acquisition parameters, have been described previously (Sowell et al., 1999).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Tissue maps
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- Not checked yetcites Sowell et al., 1999
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“Landmarks were defined according to a detailed anatomical protocol (Steinmetz et al., 1990;Leonard, 1996;Sowell et al., 2001;Hayashi et al., 2002) based on the Atlas of the Cerebral Sulci (Ono et al., 1990).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Cortical pattern matching
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- Not checked yetcites Steinmetz et al., 1990
- Not checked yetcites Leonard, 1996
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“The approach models and controls for gyral pattern variations across subjects, and it visualizes average maps of cortical change in a population and encodes its variance and any group differences.”
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“Despite the selection of a low significance threshold at the voxel level to define clusters, the overall p value for the map still controls for type I error, because the threshold to define significant clusters is the same in the real and in the null simulations from which the permutation distribution is drawn.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping gray matter loss
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“The previous study suggested that large areas of cortex would be diffusely affected at a voxel-wise significance level stronger than 0.01.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping gray matter loss
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- Not checked yetcites Thompson et al., 2001b
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“This fraction provides an overall significance value for the map (corrected for multiple comparisons) (Nichols and Holmes, 2002).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping gray matter loss
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- Not checked yetcites Nichols and Holmes, 2002
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“We preferred this process over using an analytical null distribution to avoid assuming that the smoothness tensor of the residuals of the statistical model were stationary across the cortical surface.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping gray matter loss
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“Temporoparietal association cortices and the medial temporal lobe are severely atrophied in AD (De-Carli, 2000), with the entorhinal cortex and hippocampus the earliest and most severely affected (Janke et al., 2001;Thompson et al., 2001b).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites De-Carli, 2000
- Not checked yetcites Janke et al., 2001
- Not checked yetcites Thompson et al., 2001b
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“To quantify local gray matter, we used a measure termed gray matter density, which has been used in many previous studies to compare the spatial distribution of gray matter across subjects (Wright et al., 1995;Bullmore et al., 1999;Sowell et al., 1999;Ashburner and Friston, 2000;Mummery et al., 2000;Rombouts et al., 2000;Baron et al., 2001;Good et al., 2001;Thompson et al., 2001a,b).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Cortical pattern matching
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- Not checked yetcites Wright et al., 1995
- Not checked yetcites Bullmore et al., 1999
- Not checked yetcites Sowell et al., 1999
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“We used permutation here to avoid making assumptions about the spatial covariance of the residuals (Nichols and Holmes, 2002) and to avoid complex corrections for data localized on surfaces [for a discussion of this issue, see Thompson et al. (2000a,b)].”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping gray matter loss
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- Not checked yetcites Nichols and Holmes, 2002
- Not checked yetcites Thompson et al., 2000a,b
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“Braak and Braak (1997) noted at autopsy that NFT distribution was initially restricted to entorhinal cortices, spreading to higher-order temporoparietal association cortices, then to frontal, and ultimately, to primary sensory and visual areas (Delacourte et al., 1999;Price and Morris, 1999).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Braak and Braak (1997)
- Not checked yetcites Delacourte et al., 1999 source
- Not checked yetcites Price and Morris, 1999
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“Maps identifying these linkages were computed pointwise across the cortex and assessed statistically by permutation.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping gray matter loss
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“An image analysis technique known as cortical pattern matching was used to better localize disease effects on cortical anatomy over time and to increase the power to detect systematic changes.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Cortical pattern matching
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“Patients and controls were scanned identically with the same scanning protocol over time.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > MRI scanning
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“Microvascular changes may therefore contribute to changing cortical metabolism and neocortical atrophy in AD, because these changes progress in a similar sequence.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Metabolism
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“(2) the left hemisphere degenerates faster than the right, and this asymmetric loss rate increases the existing asymmetry in cortical gray matter (LϽR) found in healthy elderly subjects;”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Discussion
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“The left hemisphere was engulfed fastest, with the right after a similar sequence after a time lag.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Discussion
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“The resulting in vivo maps differentiate AD from normal aging and visualize atrophic patterns associated with specific disease stages.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Discussion
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“Consistent with the deficit maps observed here, NFT accumulation is minimal in sensory and motor cortices, but it occurs preferentially in entorhinal pyramidal cells, the limbic periallocortex (layers II/IV), the hippocampus/amygdala and subiculum, the basal forebrain cholinergic systems, and subsequently, in temporoparietal and frontal association cortices (layers III/V) (Pearson et al., 1985;Arn”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Pathology
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- Not checked yetcites Pearson et al., 1985
- Not checked yetcites Arnold et al., 1991
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“When the components of this gray matter asymmetry are factored apart, the loss process in AD therefore occurs first at an asymmetric rate (left faster than right), and second, on top of a prevailing gray matter asymmetry (left less than right) observed in AD and even in healthy elderly subjects.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Loss rate asymmetries
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“(1) the overall deficit pattern spreads through the brain in a temporal-frontalsensorimotor sequence, with a time lag in the right hemisphere;”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Discussion
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“Regionally selective atrophy was found in distinct disease phases, with initial sparing of frontal and then only sensorimotor cortices.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Discussion
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“A limitation of our current study is our use of only two time points per subject, which forces us to”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Relation to previous work
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“The overall strategy described here also provides quantitative and visual criteria to assess genetic effects on brain structure (Thompson et al., 2001a;Thompson and Toga, 2002) and to map drug effects in clinical trials.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Relation to previous work
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- Not checked yetcites Thompson et al., 2001a
- Not checked yetcites Thompson and Toga, 2002
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“Regionally significant effects are coded red and assessed by permutation, which corrects for multiple comparisons.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Relation to previous work
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“Comparisons are made after adjusting for both cortical pattern differences across subjects and gyral pattern asymmetries, using cortical pattern matching (Fig.2).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Relation to previous work
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MRI-visible gross atrophy reflects the neuronal loss caused by AD pathology.
“The result-ing neuronal loss is observable as gross atrophy with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).”
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In early AD, neurofibrillary tangles accumulate inside neurons.
“In early AD, intraneuronal filamentous deposits, or neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), accumulate within neurons.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Gray matter loss is linear during the interval between scans.
“which forces us to assume linear loss during the interscan interval.”
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“Landmarks were defined according to a detailed anatomical protocol. This protocol is available on the Internet (www.loni.ucla.edu/∼khayashi/Public/medial_surface) and has known inter- and intrarater reliability as reported (25).”
From Dynamic mapping of human cortical development during childhood through early adulthood (2004) · cites this paper as [25]
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“An image-analysis technique known as cortical pattern matching (25–27) was used to better localize cortical differences over time and increase the power to detect systematic changes (25).”
From Dynamic mapping of human cortical development during childhood through early adulthood (2004) · cites this paper as [25]
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“During the study, subjects' cognitive status declined rapidly from an initial MMSE score of 17.7 Ϯ 1.9 to 12.9 Ϯ 2.5 (mean change 5.5 Ϯ 1.9 points; p Ͻ 0.00054, one-tailed t test; maximum score 30).”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Subjects
Reported 5.5 · recomputed 4.8
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§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Abstract
“Local gray matter loss rates (5.3 Ϯ 2.3% per year in AD v 0.9 Ϯ 0.9% per year in controls)”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Mapping rates of loss
“with a total gray matter loss rate of 5.03 Ϯ 2.28% per year”
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§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Loss rate asymmetries
“These maps were created by subtracting the gray matter map in the left hemisphere from that on the right, in each individual, before averaging data from corresponding cortical regions across subjects.”
§ Dynamics of Gray Matter Loss in Alzheimer's Disease > Dynamic, four-dimensional maps
“These maps are computed by comparing the average gray matter maps on the left and the right and taking their ratio (L/R).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Thompson, P. M., Hayashi, K. M., de Zubicaray, G., Janke, A. L., Rose, S. E., Semple, J., Herman, D., Hong, M. S., Dittmer, S. S., Doddrell, D. M., & Toga, A. W.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2003-02-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 994-1005
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6741905
- OpenAlex
- W2153996202
- Semantic Scholar
- 94eefd2472c56940cfc76a607cbc8eb4edc4e793
- Cited by
- 1,132
- References
- 105
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- FWCI
- 27.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- GlaxoSmithKline
- National Institute of Mental Health (P01MH052176, P01 MH52176)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- U.S. National Library of Medicine (LM 05639, R01LM005639, R01 LM05639)
- National Center for Research Resources (LM05639, P41RR013642, (M01 RR00865), RR 13642, RR00865, M01RR000865, P41 RR13642)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease, cortical atrophy, gray matter loss, atrophy progression, hemispheric lateralization, temporal lobe, limbic cortex, frontal cortex, occipital cortex, neurofibrillary tangles, cognitive decline, normal aging, dementia
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aging, Alzheimer Disease, Atrophy, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cognition Disorders, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Longitudinal Studies, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neuropsychological Tests, Reference Values, Time, Disease Progression, Internet
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