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ArticleBrain sciences2019

Estimation of Brain Functional Connectivity in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Laia Farràs-Permanyer, Núria Mancho-Fora, Marc Montalà-Flaquer, Esteve Gudayol-Ferré, Geisa Bearitz Gallardo-Moreno, Daniel Zarabozo-Hurtado, Erwin Villuendas-González, Maribel Peró-Cebollero, Joan Guàrdia-Olmos

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Article in Brain sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 authors.

Laia Farràs-PermanyerDepartament de Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa, Facultat de Psicologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08035 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2674-1101
Núria Mancho-ForaDepartament de Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa, Facultat de Psicologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08035 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8860-9544
Marc Montalà-FlaquerDepartament de Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa, Facultat de Psicologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08035 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3677-6620
Esteve Gudayol-FerréFacultad de Psicología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo, Morelia 58000, Mexico.
Geisa Bearitz Gallardo-MorenoInstituto de Neurociencias, Guadalajara, Jalisco 44130, Mexico.
Daniel Zarabozo-HurtadoCINDFA-Grupo Río, Guadalajara, Jalisco 44648, Mexico.
Erwin Villuendas-GonzálezFacultad de Psicología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo, Morelia 58000, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0001-9141-8514
Maribel Peró-CebolleroDepartament de Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa, Facultat de Psicologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08035 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8793-5284
Joan Guàrdia-OlmosDepartament de Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa, Facultat de Psicologia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08035 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4275-9184

Funding

Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad PSI2013-41400-P
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mild cognitive impairment is defined as greater cognitive decline than expected for a person at a particular age and is sometimes considered a stage between healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease or other dementia syndromes. It is known that functional connectivity patterns change in people with this diagnosis. We studied functional connectivity patterns and functional segregation in a resting-state fMRI paradigm comparing 10 MCI patients and 10 healthy controls matched by education level, age and sex. Ninety ROIs from the automated anatomical labeling (AAL) atlas were selected for functional connectivity analysis. A correlation matrix was created for each group, and a third matrix with the correlation coefficient differences between the two matrices was created. Functional segregation was analyzed with the 3-cycle method, which is novel in studies of this topic. Finally, cluster analyses were also performed. Our results showed that the two correlation matrices were visually similar but had many differences related to different cognitive functions. Differences were especially apparent in the anterior default mode network (DMN), while the visual resting-state network (RSN) showed no differences between groups. Differences in connectivity patterns in the anterior DMN should be studied more extensively to fully understand its role in the differentiation of healthy aging and an MCI diagnosis.

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agingfMRIfunctional connectivitymild cognitive impairment

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PMID31801260
PMCPMC6955819

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