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Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies of Older Adults: A Shrinking Brain
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Age-related loss of brain tissue has been inferred from cross-sectional neuroimaging studies, but direct measurements of gray and white matter changes from longitudinal studies are lacking. We quantified longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of 92 nondemented older adults (age 59-85 years at baseline) in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging to determine the rates and regional distribution of gray and white matter tissue loss in older adults. Using images from baseline, 2 year, and 4 year follow-up, we found significant age changes in gray (p < 0.001) and white (p < 0.001) volumes even in a subgroup of 24 very healthy elderly. Annual rates of tissue loss were 5.4 +/- 0.3, 2.4 +/- 0.4, and 3.1 +/- 0.4 cm3 per year for total brain, gray, and white volumes, respectively, and ventricles increased by 1.4 +/- 0.1 cm3 per year (3.7, 1.3, 2.4, and 1.2 cm3, respectively, in very healthy). Frontal and parietal, compared with temporal and occipital, lobar regions showed greater decline. Gray matter loss was most pronounced for orbital and inferior frontal, cingulate, insular, inferior parietal, and to a lesser extent mesial temporal regions, whereas white matter changes were widespread. In this first study of gray and white matter volume changes, we demonstrate significant longitudinal tissue loss for both gray and white matter even in very healthy older adults. These data provide essential information on the rate and regional pattern of age-associated changes against which pathology can be evaluated and suggest slower rates of brain atrophy in individuals who remain medically and cognitively healthy.
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“The magnitudes of longitudinal changes in the lobar regions were not significantly influenced by age and sex.”
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“analysis of lobar regions and voxel-based comparisons of local changes revealed regional patterns of vulnerability to agerelated tissue loss.”
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“Although the magnitude of decline in brain volume appears relatively consistent across subjects, there is a tendency for greater V-CSF increases in individuals with larger baseline volumes.”
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“Annual rates of tissue loss were 5.4 Ϯ 0.3, 2.4 Ϯ 0.4, and 3.1 Ϯ 0.4 cm 3 per year for total brain, gray, and white volumes, respectively, and ventricles increased by 1.4 Ϯ 0.1 cm 3 per year (3.7, 1.3, 2.4, and 1.2 cm 3 , respectively, in very healthy).”
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“As indicated by the significant effects of time, longitudinal brain changes reached statistical significance for all regions examined.”
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“Cross-sectional effects of age and sex on brain and ventricular volumes were consistent with our previous report of baseline and 1 year follow-up assessments (Resnick et al., 2000).”
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“our observations of modest longitudinal volume loss in mesial temporal structures is contrary to their report of relative preservation of tissue in these regions.”
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“Although there was a trend for greater longitudinal tissue loss in white compared with gray matter, this difference was not statistically significant.”
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“There appears to be a lateralized pattern to the gray matter volume loss, with greater change for the right compared with left hemisphere in many regions.”
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“Annual rates of tissue loss were 5.4 Ϯ 0.3, 2.4 Ϯ 0.4, and 3.1 Ϯ 0.4 cm 3 per year for total brain, gray, and white volumes, respectively, and ventricles increased by 1.4 Ϯ 0.1 cm 3 per year (3.7, 1.3, 2.4, and 1.2 cm 3 , respectively, in very healthy).”
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“Longitudinal changes remained significant excluding the four individuals with mild cognitive impairment and for the analyses based on 24 individuals free of medical problems and even very mild cognitive change.”
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“In the presence of this interaction, the main effect of time for V-CSF did not reach significance, although significant longitudinal increases were evident when the interaction was omitted from the model.”
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“These scatterplots show declines in brain volumes and increases in V-CSF for the majority of individuals.”
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“Although there is some asymmetry in the white matter tissue loss, this asymmetry appears limited to the temporal lobe, with greater loss of left than right temporal white matter.”
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“The right greater than left asymmetry is most pronounced in inferior frontal and anterior temporal regions, but shows a reversed pattern in the inferior parietal region.”
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“Voxel-based analyses of local regions provided complementary information and indicated that cingulate, insular, orbital, and inferior frontal cortex, and, to a lesser extent, mesial temporal regions showed longitudinal changes in gray matter.”
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“Gray matter volume loss in the insula (right Ͼ left; inferior and coronal views), orbital frontal cortex (inferior and sagittal views), and cingulate cortex (sagittal and coronal views) are highlighted.”
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“Gray matter loss was most pronounced for orbital and inferior frontal, cingulate, insular, inferior parietal, and to a lesser extent mesial temporal regions, whereas white matter changes were widespread.”
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“MANOVA restricted to the very healthy subsample showed significant longitudinal changes that did not differ as a function of tissue type or lobar brain region.”
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“we found significant age changes in gray ( p Ͻ 0.001) and white ( p Ͻ 0.001) volumes even in a subgroup of 24 very healthy elderly.”
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“Rates of tissue loss were similar in men and women and in older and younger adults.”
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“we found significant age changes in gray ( p Ͻ 0.001) and white ( p Ͻ 0.001) volumes even in a subgroup of 24 very healthy elderly.”
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“Annual rates of tissue loss were 5.4 Ϯ 0.3, 2.4 Ϯ 0.4, and 3.1 Ϯ 0.4 cm 3 per year for total brain, gray, and white volumes, respectively, and ventricles increased by 1.4 Ϯ 0.1 cm 3 per year (3.7, 1.3, 2.4, and 1.2 cm 3 , respectively, in very healthy).”
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“The magnitude of brain tissue loss was somewhat reduced in the very healthy elderly, but these individuals still showed significant volume change.”
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“All values are significant at p Ͻ 0.001 except gray (NS) and white (p Ͻ 0.05) in the healthy group.Note that the nonsignificant trend for gray matter tissue loss in the healthy subgroup is significant in the more sensitive mixed-effects regression analysis (see Results).”
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“Our sample is composed of relatively healthy individuals, and they have shown, on average, little cognitive change over this initial 4 year interval.”
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“Inspection of Figure 1, top and bottom, indicates that, against a background of highly stable measurement, longitudinal decreases in brain tissue volume and increases in V-CSF occur across almost all individuals in this age range.”
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“Against a background of highly stable measurement, brain volumes decrease and ventricular volumes increase over the 4 year interval.”
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“with changes over the 4-year interval of 21.6 and 5.6 cm 3 , respectively.”
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“Bottom, Views of the right and left hemispheres highlight tissue loss in inferior frontal, insular, and posterior temporal regions (right Ͼ left) and the inferior parietal (left Ͼ right) region.”
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“All measurements were highly stable over both 2 and 4 year intervals, with test-retest correlations ranging from 0.94 to 0.99.”
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“These data provide essential information on the rate and regional pattern of age-associated changes against which pathology can be evaluated”
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“Stabilities over 1 year for these measures are all Ͼ0.95.”
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“Differences in age distributions for the two samples may account in part for these discrepancies.”
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“Quantitative analysis of MR volumes is accomplished using a semi-automated approach, with demonstrated validity and high reliability (Goldszal et al., 1998).”
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- Not checked yetcites Goldszal et al., 1998
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“the magnitude and age at which sex differences appear remain unclear.”
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- Not checked yetcites Kaye et al., 1992
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“There have been few longitudinal neuroimaging studies, and none have examined global and regional changes in both gray and white matter using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).”
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“There is already substantial evidence that loss of mesial temporal lobe tissue, particularly in hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, is associated with memory impairment and the development of Alzheimer's disease (Convit et al., 1997;Petersen et al., 2000).”
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- Not checked yetcites Convit et al., 1997
- Not checked yetcites Petersen et al., 2000
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“the uniformity of our findings across individuals argues against this interpretation unless all are in a preclinical stage of dementia.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The observed brain tissue loss is not entirely attributable to preclinical dementia in all participants.
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“Registration errors limit our ability to detect change in voxel-based analyses, and these difficulties will be most pronounced in regions of high cortical variability.”
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“Initial pathology appears in the basal neocortex, including perirhinal and orbital cortex, and next spreads into adjacent neocortical association areas and the hippocampal formation, followed finally by its appearance in primary neocortical areas.”
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- Not checked yetcites Braak and Braak (1997)
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“our findings from in vivo MRI studies can help direct more focused neuropathological studies of specific brain regions.”
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The 92 BLSA participants are representative of nondemented older adults aged 59–85, so the estimated rates and regional patterns generalize to that population.
“This report provides the first evidence of substantial longitudinal declines in both gray and white matter brain volumes in older adults ranging in age from 59 to 85 years at baseline.”
“this community-dwelling sample of older adults shows an average loss of 5.4 cm 3 of brain volume and increase of 1.4 cm 3 in ventricular volume each year.”
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The observed 4-year longitudinal changes reflect aging rather than secular or cohort effects.
“rates of brain changes can only be determined from longitudinal investigations.”
“we found significant age changes in gray ( p Ͻ 0.001) and white ( p Ͻ 0.001) volumes even in a subgroup of 24 very healthy elderly.”
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The observed brain tissue loss is not entirely attributable to preclinical dementia in all participants.
“Although some argue that any tissue loss reflects pathological changes associated with preclinical dementia rather than normal aging, the uniformity of our findings across individuals argues against this interpretation unless all are in a preclinical stage of dementia.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Resnick, S. M., Pham, D. L., Kraut, M. A., Zonderman, A. B., & Davatzikos, C.
- Affiliations
- National Institute on Aging (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2003-04-15
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 3295-3301
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6742337
- OpenAlex
- W1929729372
- Semantic Scholar
- bfeb3d16a48b60458c19697495bc7dd17277f1e3
- Cited by
- 1,425
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
- 2026: 24 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 66 · 2021: 90 · 2020: 77 · 2019: 72 · 2018: 79 · 2017: 68 · 2016: 71 · 2015: 65 · 2014: 79 · 2013: 68 · 2012: 72
- FWCI
- 19.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- brain atrophy, gray matter loss, white matter loss, brain volume changes, aging, older adults, ventriculomegaly, healthy older adults, Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Ventricles, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Reference Values, Regression Analysis, Sex Factors, Baltimore
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