期刊
EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY
卷 126, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2019.110708
关键词
Pain; Age; Fluency; Cognition; Executive function; Brain structure; Gray matter
资金
- National Institute on Aging [K01AG048259/R01AG059809]
Musculoskeletal pain is a cause of disability in older individuals and is commonly associated with executive function deficits. In particular, verbal fluency deficits have been previously reported in older individuals with and without musculoskeletal pain, however, no studies have examined non-verbal fluency. The present study investigated non-verbal fluency performance in younger and older individuals and associations with clinical and experimental pain. The NEPAL study included older (n = 63) and younger (n = 28) individuals who completed demographic, and clinical pain assessments followed by a multi-modal QST battery. A subset of participants (older n = 39/63, younger n = 11/28) underwent a structural 3T MRI to extract cortical thickness and subcortical gray matter volumes. The Ruff Figural Fluency Test was administered to assess fluid/divergent thinking, ability to shift cognitive set, and planning strategies. Total Unique Designs drawn and Error Ratio assessed participants' ability to minimize repetition while maximizing unique productions. Adjusting for race and education, older participants with chronic pain had significantly lower Total Unique Designs (67.1 +/- 20.3) compared to older adults without chronic pain (78.8 +/- 15.9) and younger controls (93.8 +/- 20.3, p < 0.001). Within the older sample, those with chronic pain had a significantly greater Error Ratio (0.22 +/- 0.3) compared to those without chronic pain (0.09 +/- 0.06) and younger controls (0.05 +/- 0.05, p = 0.002). In older participants, greater Total Unique Design scores were significantly associated only with lower pressure pain sensitivity (r = 0.300, p = 0.031) while greater Error Ratio scores were significantly associated with greater thermal pain sensitivity (r = 0.304, p = 0.027). However, after accounting for sleep quality, clinical and experimental pain associations were eliminated. Across all participants, non-verbal fluency performance was associated with cortical thickness in frontal, parietal and temporal regions as well as several subcortical gray matter structures even after adjusting for multiple comparisons (p's < 0.001). Our findings suggest a pain-related deficit in nonverbal fluency beyond the established age-related decrements that may be dependent on sleep quality and was associated with specific patterns of gray matter structure.
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