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ArticleImaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2025

Predicting risk of impending cognitive decline in asymptomatic individuals with early Alzheimer's disease: Insights from cortical diffusion MRI.

Devon K Overson, Trong-Kha Truong, Jeffrey R Petrella, David J Madden, Yixin Ma, Kim G Johnson, Andy J Liu, Richard J O'Brien, Heather E Whitson, Allen W Song

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Devon K OversonBrain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Trong-Kha TruongBrain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2699-1554
Jeffrey R PetrellaBrain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
David J MaddenBrain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Yixin MaBrain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Kim G JohnsonDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States.
Andy J LiuDepartment of Neurology, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Richard J O'BrienDepartment of Neurology, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Heather E WhitsonDuke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Allen W SongBrain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.

Funding

Research Education Component CoreP30AG072958 · NIA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Heather E. Whitson · 2021 to 2026
$24.1M
A High-Performance 3T MRI Scanner for Brain ImagingS10OD028544 · OD · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SONG, ALLEN W · 2021 to 2021
$1.8M
Next-generation high-resolution diffusion MRI resolving cortical columns and layers in vivoR01EB028644 · NIBIB · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SONG, ALLEN W, TRUONG, TRONG-KHA · 2019 to 2019
$736k
A Compute Cluster for Brain Imaging and AnalysisS10OD021480 · OD · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI SONG, ALLEN W · 2016 to 2016
$568k
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072958NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB028644NIH HHS S10 OD021480NIH HHS S10 OD028544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) can start at the microstructural level years before cognitive symptoms; yet, it has been difficult to definitively detect these early changes to plan effective treatments. Using a cortical column-based analysis of high-resolution diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data, we aim to identify early microstructural neurodegeneration in the gray matter across different cortical depths and regions. We compared four groups of participants across a spectrum of cognitive decline (n = 60): cognitively normal amyloid-negative (normal controls), cognitively normal amyloid-positive (stage-1 AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and AD dementia. Our results showed progressive increases in radial diffusivity across these groups in cortical regions associated with AD, and our analysis in individual asymptomatic stage-1 AD participants was able to differentiate such diffusivity increases to predict risk of impending cognitive decline in 2 participants who had cognitive decline and MCI diagnosis at their follow-up clinical examination and 11 participants who did not.

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Alzheimer’s diseasecognitive declinecortical columnsdiffusion MRIgray mattermicrostructural neurodegeneration

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PMID41306598
PMCPMC12645123

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