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ArticleNeuroImage. Clinical2018

Differentiation of Alzheimer's disease based on local and global parameters in personalized Virtual Brain models.

J Zimmermann, A Perry, M Breakspear, M Schirner, P Sachdev, W Wen, N A Kochan, M Mapstone, P Ritter, A R McIntosh and 1 more

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Article in NeuroImage. Clinical, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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62citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 105 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

J ZimmermannBaycrest Health Sciences, Rotman Research Institute, 3560 Bathurst St, Toronto, Ontario M6A 2E1, Canada. Electronic address: jzimmermann@research.baycrest.org.
A PerryCentre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Program of Mental Health Research, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia; Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
M BreakspearProgram of Mental Health Research, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia; Metro North Mental Health Service, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Herston, QLD 4029, Australia.
M SchirnerCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Dept. of Neurology, Chariteplatz 1, Berlin 13353, Germany; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany.
P SachdevCentre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
W WenCentre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
N A KochanCentre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
M MapstoneUC Irvine Health School of Medicine, Irvine Hall, 1001 Health Sciences Road, Irvine, CA 92697-3950, USA.
P RitterCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Dept. of Neurology, Chariteplatz 1, Berlin 13353, Germany; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany.
A R McIntoshBaycrest Health Sciences, Rotman Research Institute, 3560 Bathurst St, Toronto, Ontario M6A 2E1, Canada.
A SolodkinUC Irvine Health School of Medicine, Irvine Hall, 1001 Health Sciences Road, Irvine, CA 92697-3950, USA.
UNSW Sydney · AUBaycrest Hospital · CAUC Irvine Health · USBernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin · DECharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEQIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute · AU

Funding

European Research Council 683049
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is marked by cognitive dysfunction emerging from neuropathological processes impacting brain function. AD affects brain dynamics at the local level, such as changes in the balance of inhibitory and excitatory neuronal populations, as well as long-range changes to the global network. Individual differences in these changes as they relate to behaviour are poorly understood. Here, we use a multi-scale neurophysiological model, "The Virtual Brain (TVB)", based on empirical multi-modal neuroimaging data, to study how local and global dynamics correlate with individual differences in cognition. In particular, we modeled individual resting-state functional activity of 124 individuals across the behavioural spectrum from healthy aging, to amnesic Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), to AD. The model parameters required to accurately simulate empirical functional brain imaging data correlated significantly with cognition, and exceeded the predictive capacity of empirical connectomes.

Indexed as

AgingAlzheimer DiseaseAmnesiaBrainCognitionCognitive DysfunctionConnectomeDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleModels, Neurological

Identifiers

PMID30035018
PMCPMC6051478
OpenAlexW2950603596

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