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Yang, Liu, Yan, Yan, Wang, Yonghao, Hu, Xiaochen, Lu, Jie, Chan, Piu, Yang, Tianyi and Han, Ying (2018). Gradual Disturbances of the Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (ALFF) and Fractional ALFF in Alzheimer Spectrum. Front. Neurosci., 12. LAUSANNE: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA. ISSN 1662-453X

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Abstract

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative disease in which the brain undergoes alterations for decades before symptoms become obvious. Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) have self-complain of persistent decline in cognitive function especially in memory but perform normally on standard neuropsychological tests. SCD with the presence of AD pathology is the transitional stage 2 of Alzheimer's continuum, earlier than the prodromal stage, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which seems to be the best target to research AD. In this study, we aimed to detect the transformational patterns of the intrinsic brain activity as the disease burden got heavy. Method: In this study, we enrolled 44 SCD, 55 amnestic MCI (aMCI), 47 AD dementia (d-AD) patients and 57 normal controls (NC) in total. A machine learning classification was utilized to detect identification accuracies between groups by using ALFF, fALFF, and fusing ALFF with fALFF features. Then, we measured the amplitude of the low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) and fractional ALFF (fALFF) levels in three frequency bands (classic: 0.01-0.1 Hz; slow-5: 0.01-0.027 Hz; and slow-4: 0.027-0.073 Hz) and compared alterations in patients with NC. Results: In the machine learning verification, the identification accuracy of SCD, aMCI, d-AD from NC was higher when fused ALFF and fALFF features (76.44, 81.94, and 91.83%, respectively) than only using ALFF or fALFF features. Several brain regions showed significant differences in ALFF/fALFF within these bands among four groups: brain regions presented decreasing trend of values, including the Cingulum_Mid_R (aal), bilateral inferior cerebellum lobe, bilateral precuneus, and the Cingulum_Ant_R (aal); increasing trend of values were detected in the Hippocampus_L (aal), Frontal_Mid_Orb_R (aal), Frontal_Sup_R (aal) and Paracentral_Lobule_R (aal) as disease progressed. The normalized ALFF/fALFF values of these features were significantly correlated with the neuropsychological test scores. Conclusion: This study revealed gradual disturbances in intrinsic brain activity as the disease progressed: the normal objective performance in SCD may be dependent on compensation; as disease advanced, the cognitive function gradually impaired and decompensated in aMCI, severer in d-AD. Our results indicated that the ALFF and fALFF may help detect the underlying pathological mechanism in AD continuum.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Yang, Liu UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Yan, Yan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Wang, Yonghao UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hu, Xiaochen UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Lu, Jie UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Chan, Piu UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Yang, Tianyi UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Han, Ying UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-161812
DOI:	10.3389/fnins.2018.00975
Journal or Publication Title:	Front. Neurosci.
Volume:	12
Date:	2018
Publisher:	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
Place of Publication:	LAUSANNE
ISSN:	1662-453X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; SUBJECTIVE MEMORY COMPLAINTS; RESTING-STATE FMRI; BRAIN ACTIVITY; ASSOCIATION WORKGROUPS; DIAGNOSTIC GUIDELINES; HIPPOCAMPAL ATROPHY; NATIONAL INSTITUTE; HUMAN CEREBELLUM; DEFAULT NETWORK Multiple languages Neurosciences Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/16181