机构:[1]Department of Radiology, Dongfang Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China,[2]Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China,神经内科首都医科大学宣武医院[3]Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China,放射科首都医科大学宣武医院[4]Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. Previous studies have found disrupted resting state functional connectivities (rsFCs) in various brain networks in the AD patients. However, few studies have focused on the rsFCs of the cerebellum and its sub-regions in the AD patients. In this study, we collected resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) data including 32 AD patients and 38 healthy controls (HCs). We selected two cognitive-related subregions of the cerebellum as seed region and mapped the whole-brain rsFCs for each subregion. We identified several distinct rsFC patterns of the two cognitive-related cerebellar subregions: default-mode network (DMN), frontoparietal network (FPN), visual network (VN) and sensorimotor network (SMN). Compared with the controls, the AD patients showed disrupted rsFCs in several different networks (DMN, VN and SMN), predicting the impairment of the functional integration in the cerebellum. Notably, these abnormal rsFCs of the two cerebellar subregions were closely associated with cognitive performance. Collectively, we demonstrated the distinct rsFCs patterns of cerebellar sub-regions with various functional networks, which were differentially impaired in the AD patients.
基金:
the National Natural Scientific Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 81370037, 81571648 and 81471649).
第一作者机构:[1]Department of Radiology, Dongfang Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China,
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通讯机构:[1]Department of Radiology, Dongfang Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China,[3]Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China,[4]Beijing Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Weimin Zheng,Xingyun Liu,Haiqing Song,et al.Altered Functional Connectivity of Cognitive-Related Cerebellar Subregions in Alzheimer's Disease[J].FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE.2017,9(MAY):143.doi:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00143.
APA:
Weimin Zheng,Xingyun Liu,Haiqing Song,Kuncheng Li&Zhiqun Wang.(2017).Altered Functional Connectivity of Cognitive-Related Cerebellar Subregions in Alzheimer's Disease.FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE,9,(MAY)
MLA:
Weimin Zheng,et al."Altered Functional Connectivity of Cognitive-Related Cerebellar Subregions in Alzheimer's Disease".FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE 9..MAY(2017):143