期刊
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
卷 89, 期 3, 页码 849-863出版社
IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-220197
关键词
Alzheimer's disease; brain reserve; cognitive reserve; mild cognitive impairment; quantitative magnetic resonance; imaging (qMRI); white matter tracts
资金
- National Institute on Aging (NIA) [K25AG050759]
- Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
- NIA [K25AG050759, R21AG064263, R21AG073973]
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) [R61MH119289, R21MH123873]
This study investigated the impact of education and occupation on white matter tracts in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and healthy elders. The results showed that higher levels of education and occupation were associated with worse white matter pathology in aMCI patients, but with better white matter properties in healthy elders.
Background: Cognitive reserve (CR) has been postulated to contribute to the variation observed between neuropathology and clinical outcomes in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Objective: We investigated the effect of an education-occupation derived CR proxy on biological properties of white matter tracts in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and healthy elders (HC). Methods: Educational attainment and occupational complexity ratings (complexity with data, people, and things) from thirtyfive patients with aMCI and twenty-eight HC were used to generate composite CR scores. Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) and multi-shell diffusion MRI were used to extract macromolecular tissue volume (MTV) across major white matter tracts. Results: We observed significant differences in the association between CR and white matter tract MTV in aMCI versus HC when age, gender, intracranial volume, and memory ability were held constant. Particularly, in aMCI, higher CR was associated withworse tract pathology (lower MTV) in the left and right dorsal cingulum, callosum forceps major, right inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, and right superior longitudinal fasciculus (SLF) tracts. Conversely higher CR was associated with higher MTV in the right parahippocampal cingulum and left SLF in HC. Conclusion: Our results support compensatory CR mechanisms in aMCI and neuroprotective mechanisms in HC and suggest differential roles for CR on white matter macromolecular properties in healthy elders versus prodromal AD patients.
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