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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 106, Issue 17, Pages 7209-7214Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811879106
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hippocampus; memory; neuroimaging; resting connectivity
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- Gordon Small Charitable Trust
- TJ Crow Psychosis Trust
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D001935/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G9409634] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G9409634] Funding Source: UKRI
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The APOE epsilon 4 allele is a risk factor for late-life pathological changes that is also associated with anatomical and functional brain changes in middle-aged and elderly healthy subjects. We investigated structural and functional effects of the APOE polymorphism in 18 young healthy APOE epsilon 4-carriers and 18 matched noncarriers (age range: 20-35 years). Brain activity was studied both at rest and during an encoding memory paradigm using blood oxygen level-dependent fMRI. Resting fMRI revealed increased default mode network'' (involving retrosplenial, medial temporal, and medial-prefrontal cortical areas) coactivation in epsilon 4-carriers relative to noncarriers. The encoding task produced greater hippocampal activation in epsilon 4-carriers relative to noncarriers. Neither result could be explained by differences in memory performance, brain morphology, or resting cerebral blood flow. The APOE epsilon 4 allele modulates brain function decades before any clinical or neurophysiological expression of neurodegenerative processes.
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