ArticleBMC medical imaging2025
MRI study on hippocampal subfield volume loss and abnormal functional connectivity in patients with diabetic retinopathy.
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- Progressive modeling of multiscale hippocampal subfield structural representation improves the prediction performance of mild cognitive impairment in type 2 diabetes.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
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backgroundThis study aimed to investigate the characteristics of gray matter volume loss in hippocampal subfields and alterations in whole-brain functional connectivity among patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR), and to examine the correlations between these neural changes and neuropsychological scale scores as well as clinical indicators.
methodsStructural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, along with neurocognitive assessments, were acquired from 32 patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR) and 38 age- and sex-matched healthy controls using a Siemens 3.0T MRI scanner. Hippocampal subfield volumes were segmented and extracted using the Anatomy toolbox and Restplus (v1.25) within the MATLAB R2022a environment. Subregions demonstrating significant volumetric alterations were identified through subsequent between-group comparisons and defined as regions of interest (ROIs) for seed-based whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) analysis. The relationships between gray matter volume, functional connectivity values, neuropsychological test scores, and clinical indices were investigated using partial correlation analysis.
resultsCompared to healthy controls, patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR) exhibited significantly reduced bilateral entorhinal cortex (EC) volumes and increased volume in bilateral dentate gyrus (DG) (P < 0.05, FDR-corrected). Using these volume-altered subregions as regions of interest (ROIs), seed-based functional connectivity (FC) analysis revealed significantly increased FC strength between the left EC and the left caudate nucleus, alongside significantly decreased FC strength between the right DG and the right middle occipital gyrus (GRF correction: voxel-level p < 0.001, cluster-level p < 0.05, two-tailed). Furthermore, partial correlation analyses demonstrated significant positive correlations between the FC strength of the right hippocampal DG subfield and the right middle occipital gyrus, and scores on both the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) (r = 0.560, p = 0.001) and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) (r = 0.541, p = 0.002).
conclusionsPatients with diabetic retinopathy (DR) demonstrate structural alterations in hippocampal subfields and widespread functional dysconnectivity across the brain. Notably, the strength of functional connectivity between the hippocampus and the visual cortex was significantly and positively correlated with cognitive function. This study provides neuroimaging evidence supporting the mechanisms underlying central nervous system complications in DR, suggesting that hippocampal subfield volumes and specific functional connectivity patterns hold potential as neuroimaging biomarkers for early intervention.
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