机构:[1]Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China[2]Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA[3]Center of Alzheimer’s Disease, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing, China[4]Department of Neurology, XuanWu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China神经内科首都医科大学宣武医院
Aims: Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated both structural and functional abnormalities in widespread brain regions in patients with subcortical vascular mild cognitive impairment (svMCI). However, whether and how these changes alter functional brain network organization remains largely unknown. Methods: We recruited 21 patients with svMCI and 26 healthy control (HC) subjects who underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scans. Graph theory-based network analyses were used to investigate alterations in the topological organization of functional brain networks. Results: Compared with the HC individuals, the patients with svMCI showed disrupted global network topology with significantly increased path length and modularity. Modular structure was also impaired in the svMCI patients with a notable rearrangement of the executive control module, where the parietal regions were split out and grouped as a separate module. The svMCI patients also revealed deficits in the intra- and/or intermodule connectivity of several brain regions. Specifically, the within-module degree was decreased in the middle cingulate gyrus while it was increased in the left anterior insula, medial prefrontal cortex and cuneus. Additionally, increased intermodule connectivity was observed in the inferior and superior parietal gyrus, which was associated with worse cognitive performance in the svMCI patients. Conclusion: Together, our results indicate that svMCI patients exhibit dysregulation of the topological organization of functional brain networks, which has important implications for understanding the pathophysiological mechanism of svMCI.
基金:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC No. 81372700 and 31371007),
Special Fund for Scientific Research in the Public Interest (No. 201402008),
Scientific Research Foundation of Graduate School of Harbin Medical University
National Key Department of Neurology funded by Chinese Health and Family Planning Committee
第一作者机构:[1]Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
通讯作者:
通讯机构:[1]Department of Neurosurgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China[3]Center of Alzheimer’s Disease, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing, China[4]Department of Neurology, XuanWu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Li-Ye Yi ,Xia Liang ,Da-Ming Liu ,et al.Disrupted Topological Organization of Resting-State Functional Brain Network in Subcortical Vascular Mild Cognitive Impairment[J].CNS NEUROSCIENCE & THERAPEUTICS.2015,21(10):846-854.doi:10.1111/cns.12424.