Disrupted topological organization of the default mode network in mild cognitive impairment with subsyndromal depression : A graph theoretical analysis

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AIMS: Subsyndromal depression (SSD) is common in mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, the neural mechanisms underlying MCI with SSD (MCID) are unclear. The default mode network (DMN) is associated with cognitive processes and depressive symptoms. Therefore, we aimed to explore the topological organization of the DMN in patients with MCID.

METHODS: Forty-two MCID patients, 34 MCI patients without SSD (MCIND), and 36 matched healthy controls (HCs) were enrolled. The resting-state functional connectivity of the DMN of the participants was analyzed using a graph theoretical approach. Correlation analyses of network topological metrics, depressive symptoms, and cognitive function were conducted. Moreover, support vector machine (SVM) models were constructed based on topological metrics to distinguish MCID from MCIND. Finally, we used 10 repeats of 5-fold cross-validation for performance verification.

RESULTS: We found that the global efficiency and nodal efficiency of the left anterior medial prefrontal cortex (aMPFC) of the MCID group were significantly lower than the MCIND group. Moreover, small-worldness and global efficiency were negatively correlated with depressive symptoms in MCID, and the nodal efficiency of the left lateral temporal cortex and left aMPFC was positively correlated with cognitive function in MCID. In cross-validation, the SVM model had an accuracy of 0.83 [95% CI 0.79-0.87], a sensitivity of 0.88 [95% CI 0.86-0.90], a specificity of 0.75 [95% CI 0.72-0.78] and an area under the curve of 0.88 [95% CI 0.85-0.91].

CONCLUSIONS: The coexistence of MCI and SSD was associated with the greatest disrupted topological organization of the DMN. The network topological metrics could identify MCID and serve as biomarkers of different clinical phenotypic presentations of MCI.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

CNS neuroscience & therapeutics - 30(2024), 4 vom: 12. Apr., Seite e14547

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Du, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Nie, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jian-Ye [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Wen-Jing [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jing-Hua [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Shao-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jin-Hong [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xia [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Default mode network
Depression
Graph theory
Journal Article
Mild cognitive impairment
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Small‐worldness

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Date Completed 16.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/cns.14547

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365961930