期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 41, 期 42, 页码 8839-8847出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0990-21.2021
关键词
episodic memory; functional connectivity; hippocampus; medial parietal; retrosplenial; tau
资金
- National Institutes of Health [T32-NS095939, F31-AG062090, F32-AG057107, R01-AG062542, R01-AG034570]
- Rainwater Charitable Foundation
The study found that functional connectivity between the hippocampus and retrosplenial cortex is associated with tau pathology in the medial parietal lobe, potentially playing a key role in cognitive decline. On the other hand, connectivity between the entorhinal cortex and retrosplenial cortex is not related to tau pathology. Overall, stronger connectivity between the hippocampus and retrosplenial cortex is associated with medial parietal lobe tau pathology, and this interaction affects episodic memory performance.
The mechanisms underlying accumulation of Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related tau pathology outside of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) in older adults are unknown but crucial to understanding cognitive decline. A growing body of evidence from human and animal studies strongly implicates neural connectivity in the propagation of tau in humans, but the pathways of neocortical tau spread and its consequences for cognitive function are not well understood. Using resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and tau PET imaging from a sample of 97 male and female cognitively normal older adults, we examined MU structures involved in medial parietal tau accumulation and associations with memory function. Functional connectivity between hippocampus (HC) and retrosplenial cortex (RsC), a key region of the medial parietal lobe, was associated with tau in medial parietal lobe. By contrast, connectivity between entorhinal cortex (EC) and RsC did not correlate with medial parietal lobe tau. Further, greater hippocampal-retrosplenial (HC-RsC) connectivity was associated with a stronger correlation between MU and medial parietal lobe tau. Finally, an interaction between connectivity strength and medial parietal tau was associated with episodic memory performance, particularly in the visuospatial domain. This pattern of tau accumulation thus appears to reflect pathways of neural connectivity, and propagation of tau from EC to medial parietal lobe via the HC may represent a critical process in the evolution of cognitive dysfunction in aging and AD.
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