期刊
NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
卷 106, 期 -, 页码 103-118出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.05.002
关键词
Near-infrared spectroscopy; Cerebral pulsatility; Cortical thinning; Aging; Cognitive decline
资金
- Canadian Institute of Health Research [MOP-191272, IOP-271115]
The study revealed a significant association between cerebral pulsatility and cortical thickness in older adults, especially in the temporal and frontal regions perfused first by the internal carotid arteries. This suggests that higher brain pulsatility may be a potential risk factor contributing to cortical thinning in certain brain regions.
Aging is accompanied by global brain atrophy occurring unequally across the brain. Cortical thinning is seen with aging with a larger loss in the frontal and temporal subregions. We explored the link between regional cortical thickness and regional cerebral pulsatility. Sixty healthy individuals were divided into two age groups, young (aged 19-31) and older (aged 65-75) adults. Each participant underwent a near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) scan to index regional brain pulsatility from cerebral pulse-transit-time-to the peak-of-the-pulse (PTTp), an anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and a phase-contrast MRI (PC-MRI) scan to measure arterial and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pulsatility. In older adults, the greatest association between cerebral pulsatility and cortical thickness was found in superior and middle temporal and superior, middle and inferior frontal areas, which are the regions perfused first by the internal carotid arteries. This association dropped in the postcentral and superior parietal regions. These findings suggest higher brain pulsatility as a potential risk factor contributing to cortical thinning for some brain regions more than others. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ )
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