Altered Dynamic Functional Connectivity in Subcortical Ischemic Vascular Disease With Cognitive Impairment

Copyright © 2021 Xu, Shang, Lu, Zhang, Yao, Long..

Subcortical ischemic vascular disease (SIVD) can cause cognitive impairment and affect the static functional connectivity of resting functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Numerous previous studies have demonstrated that functional connectivities (FCs) fluctuate dynamically over time. However, little is known about the impact of cognitive impairment on brain dynamic functional connectivity (DFC) in SIVD patients with MCI. In the present study, the DFC analysis method was applied to the resting functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data of 37 SIVD controls (SIVD-Control) without cognitive impairment, 34 SIVD patients with amnestic MCI (SIVD-aMCI) and 30 SIVD patients with nonamnestic MCI (SIVD-naMCI). The results indicated that the cognitive impairment of SIVD mainly reduced the mean dwell time of State 3 with overall strong positive connections. The reduction degree of SIVD-aMCI was larger than that of SIVD-naMCI. The memory/execution function impairment of SIVD also changed the relationship between the mean dwell time of State 3 and the behavioral performance of the memory/execution task from significant to non-significant correlation. Moreover, SIVD-aMCI showed significantly lower system segregation of FC states than SIVD-Control and SIVD-naMCI. The system segregation of State 5 with overall weak connections was significantly positive correlated with the memory performance. The results may suggest that the mean dwell time of State 3 and the system segregation of State 5 may be used as important neural measures of cognitive impairments of SIVD.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in aging neuroscience - 13(2021) vom: 20., Seite 758137

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xu, Yuanhang [VerfasserIn]
Shang, Huajie [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Junying [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Li [VerfasserIn]
Long, Zhiying [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Brain state
Dynamic functional connectivity
Journal Article
Mild cognitive impairment
Resting-state fMRI
Subcortical ischemic vascular disease

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Date Revised 28.12.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fnagi.2021.758137

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334917018