Rich club network analysis shows distinct patterns of disruption in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease

Madelaine Daianu, Neda Jahanshad, Julio E. Villalon-Reina, Mario F. Mendez, George Bartzokis, Elvira E. Jimenez, Aditi Joshi, Joseph Barsuglia, Paul M. Thompson

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Abstract

Diffusion imaging and brain connectivity analyses can reveal the underlying organizational patterns of the human brain, described as complex networks of densely interlinked regions. Here, we analyzed 1.5-Tesla whole-brain diffusionweighted images from 64 participants—15 patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal (bvFTD) dementia, 19 with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease (EOAD), and 30 healthy elderly controls. Based on whole-brain tractography, we reconstructed structural brain connectivity networks to map connections between cortical regions. We examined how bvFTD and EOAD disrupt the weighted ‘rich club’—a network property where high-degree network nodes are more interconnected than expected by chance. bvFTD disrupts both the nodal and global organization of the network in both low- and high-degree regions of the brain. EOAD targets the global connectivity of the brain, mainly affecting the fiber density of high-degree (highly connected) regions that form the rich club network. These rich club analyses suggest distinct patterns of disruptions among different forms of dementia.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Diffusion MRI - MICCAI Workshop 2014
EditorsTorben Schneider, Marco Reisert, Lauren O’Donnell, Yogesh Rathi, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani
PublisherSpringer Berlin
Pages13-22
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9783319111810
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
EventMICCAI Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI, CDMRI 2014 held under the auspices of the 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2014 - Boston, United States
Duration: 18 Sep 201418 Sep 2014

Publication series

NameMathematics and Visualization
Volume39
ISSN (Print)1612-3786
ISSN (Electronic)2197-666X

Conference

ConferenceMICCAI Workshop on Computational Diffusion MRI, CDMRI 2014 held under the auspices of the 17th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period18/09/1418/09/14

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