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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 556-570Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.09.011
Keywords
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI); Alzheimer's disease (AD); Electroencephalography (EEG); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Gray matter density (GMD)
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- Italian Ministry of Health [GR-2008-1143090]
- Italian Ministry of University and Technological Research [Pon04a2_C-MIUR D.D. 626/Ric e 703/Ric, prot. 2010SH7H3F]
- Diagnostic Enhancement of Confidence by an International Distributed Environment (DECIDE
- FP7 ICT infrastructure)
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Occipital sources of resting-state electroencephalographic (EEG) alpha rhythms are abnormal, at the group level, in patients with amnesic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we evaluated the hypothesis that amplitude of these occipital sources is related to neuro-degeneration in occipital lobe as measured by magnetic resonance imaging. Resting-state eyes-closed EEG rhythms were recorded in 45 healthy elderly (Nold), 100 MCI, and 90 AD subjects. Neuro-degeneration of occipital lobe was indexed by weighted averages of gray matter density, estimated from structural MRIs. EEG rhythms of interest were alpha 1 (8-10.5 Hz) and alpha 2 (10.5-13 Hz). EEG cortical sources were estimated by low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography. Results showed a positive correlation between occipital gray matter density and amplitude of occipital alpha 1 sources in Nold, MCI, and AD subjects as a whole group (r = 0.3, p = 0.000004, N = 235). Furthermore, there was a positive correlation between the amplitude of occipital alpha 1 sources and cognitive status as revealed by Mini Mental State Examination score across all subjects (r = 0.38, p = 0.000001, N = 235). Finally, amplitude of occipital alpha 1 sources allowed a moderate classification of individual Nold and AD subjects (sensitivity: 87.8%; specificity: 66.7%; area under the receiver operating characteristic curve: 0.81). These results suggest that the amplitude of occipital sources of resting- state alpha rhythms is related to AD neurodegeneration in occipital lobe along pathologic aging. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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