ArticleNeurology2023
Apathy in Patients With Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: A Multimodal Neuroimaging Study.
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- Apathy linked to higher amyloid burden and cognitive deterioration in Parkinson's disease.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2025Observational
- Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: A Significant but Overlooked Association.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Apathy in Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Clinical Characteristics, Neurobiological Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Strategies.Behavioural neurology · 2025Review
- Anti-Amyloid Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease: Considering the Role of Depression.Neuro-degenerative diseases · 2025Article
- Meso-cortical pathway damage in cognition, apathy and gait in cerebral small vessel disease.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Neuropsychiatric symptoms and lifelong mental activities in cerebral amyloid angiopathy - a cross-sectional study.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2024Article
- Neuropsychiatric symptoms with focus on apathy and irritability in sporadic and hereditary cerebral amyloid angiopathy.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2024Article
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objectiveTo analyze the prevalence and associated clinical characteristics of apathy in sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy and investigate whether apathy was associated with disease burden and disconnections of key structures in the reward circuit through a structural and functional multimodal neuroimaging approach.
methodsThirty-seven participants with probable sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy without symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage or dementia (mean age, 73.3 ± 7.2 years, % male = 59.5%) underwent a detailed neuropsychological evaluation, including measures of apathy and depression, and a multimodal MR neuroimaging study. A multiple linear regression analysis was used to assess the association of apathy with conventional small vessel disease neuroimaging markers. A voxel-based morphometry with a small volume correction within regions previously associated with apathy and a whole-brain tract-based spatial statistics were performed to identify differences in the gray matter and white matter between the apathetic and nonapathetic groups. Gray matter regions significantly associated with apathy were further evaluated for their functional alterations as seeds in the seed-based resting-state functional connectivity analysis. Potential confounders, namely, age, sex, and measures of depression, were entered as covariates in all analyses.
resultsA higher composite small vessel disease marker score (CAA-SVD) was associated with a higher degree of apathy (standardized coefficient = 1.35 (0.07-2.62), adjusted R DISCUSSION: Our findings revealed the orbitofrontal cortex as a key region in the reward circuit associated with apathy in sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy, independent from depression. Apathy was shown to be associated with a higher CAA-SVD score and an extensive disruption of white matter tracts, which suggested that a higher burden of CAA pathology and the disruption in large-scale white matter networks may underlie manifestations of apathy.
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