Brain network correlates of affective symptoms in aMCI

Affective symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, and apathy) are the most prevalent subsyndrome of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in preclinical dementia, such as amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), and remain a challenge to understand and treat. The distressing nature of these symptoms and co...

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Main Authors: Parnika P. Saxena, Adam Turnbull, Daniel Kim, Barbara Sommer, F. Vankee Lin
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-01-01
Series:Aging Brain
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589958924000227
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Adam Turnbull
Daniel Kim
Barbara Sommer
F. Vankee Lin
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description Affective symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, and apathy) are the most prevalent subsyndrome of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in preclinical dementia, such as amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), and remain a challenge to understand and treat. The distressing nature of these symptoms and complexity of their concurrence and interaction necessitates improved understanding of their underlying neural correlates. We analyzed the relationships between functional brain topology (i.e., the way the brain’s functional network is organized to allow efficient communication between regions) and affective symptoms in aMCI using cross-sectional and longitudinal methods. The analyses demonstrated that increased clustering coefficient (CC) was related to lower baseline and greater decreases in affective symptoms, while higher participation coefficient (PC) was correlated with more severe baseline affective symptoms. These findings suggest that the brain losing the capacity to form segregated functional units may be related to prevalence and severity of affective symptoms seen in aMCI.
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spelling doaj-art-b6d685e4095e4ce0996510c7f96618312024-12-08T06:11:55ZengElsevierAging Brain2589-95892024-01-016100126Brain network correlates of affective symptoms in aMCIParnika P. Saxena0Adam Turnbull1Daniel Kim2Barbara Sommer3F. Vankee Lin4Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, USACorresponding author.; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, USADepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, USADepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, USADepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, USAAffective symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety, and apathy) are the most prevalent subsyndrome of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) in preclinical dementia, such as amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), and remain a challenge to understand and treat. The distressing nature of these symptoms and complexity of their concurrence and interaction necessitates improved understanding of their underlying neural correlates. We analyzed the relationships between functional brain topology (i.e., the way the brain’s functional network is organized to allow efficient communication between regions) and affective symptoms in aMCI using cross-sectional and longitudinal methods. The analyses demonstrated that increased clustering coefficient (CC) was related to lower baseline and greater decreases in affective symptoms, while higher participation coefficient (PC) was correlated with more severe baseline affective symptoms. These findings suggest that the brain losing the capacity to form segregated functional units may be related to prevalence and severity of affective symptoms seen in aMCI.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589958924000227
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