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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2024

Defining Overlooked Structures Reveals New Associations between the Cortex and Cognition in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease.

Samira A Maboudian, Ethan H Willbrand, Joseph P Kelly, William J Jagust, Kevin S Weiner, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Samira A MaboudianHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720 smaboudian@berkeley.edu.
Ethan H WillbrandSchool of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53726.ORCID 0000-0003-4625-5642
Joseph P KellyDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
William J JagustHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720.ORCID 0000-0002-4458-113X
Kevin S WeinerHelen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720.ORCID 0000-0002-8734-5049
Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
University of California, Berkeley · USLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative - SupplementU01AG024904 · NIA · NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE RES &EDUC · PI WEINER, MICHAEL W · 2004 to 2015
$121.0M
Integrated Training For Physician-ScientistsT32GM140935 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Anna Huttenlocher, Jeniel E Nett · 2021 to 2026
$6.5M
Neuroscience Training Program at UC BerkeleyT32NS095939 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI BATEUP, HELEN S. · 2016 to 2025
$6.3M
CIHRNIA NIH HHS U01 AG024904NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM140935NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS095939
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent work suggests that indentations of the cerebral cortex, or sulci, may be uniquely vulnerable to atrophy in aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and that the posteromedial cortex (PMC) is particularly vulnerable to atrophy and pathology accumulation. However, these studies did not consider small, shallow, and variable tertiary sulci that are located in association cortices and are often associated with human-specific aspects of cognition. Here, we manually defined 4,362 PMC sulci in 432 hemispheres in 216 human participants (50.5% female) and found that these smaller putative tertiary sulci showed more age- and AD-related thinning than larger, more consistent sulci, with the strongest effects for two newly uncovered sulci. A model-based approach relating sulcal morphology to cognition identified that a subset of these sulci was most associated with memory and executive function scores in older adults. These findings lend support to the retrogenesis hypothesis linking brain development and aging and provide new neuroanatomical targets for future studies of aging and AD.

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Alzheimer DiseaseAgedAgingAtrophyCerebral CortexCognitionFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleagingAlzheimer's diseaseneuroanatomyneuroimagingtertiary sulci

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PMID38383497
PMCPMC11026365
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