TY - GEN
T1 - Rich club network analysis shows distinct patterns of disruption in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
AU - Daianu, Madelaine
AU - Jahanshad, Neda
AU - Villalon-Reina, Julio E.
AU - Mendez, Mario F.
AU - Bartzokis, George
AU - Jimenez, Elvira E.
AU - Joshi, Aditi
AU - Barsuglia, Joseph
AU - Thompson, Paul M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-11182-7_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-11182-7_2
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84929466021
T3 - Mathematics and Visualization
SP - 13
EP - 22
BT - Computational Diffusion MRI - MICCAI Workshop 2014
A2 - Schneider, Torben
A2 - Reisert, Marco
A2 - O’Donnell, Lauren
A2 - Rathi, Yogesh
A2 - Nedjati-Gilani, Gemma
PB - Springer Berlin
T2 - MICCAI 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
Y2 - 18 September 2014 through 18 September 2014
ER -