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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025

Pulsatile Brain Motion as a Marker of Brain Aging and Dementia: Insights from 3D q-aMRI.

Itamar Terem, Kyan Younes, Skylar Weiss, Andrew Dreisbach, Hillary Vossler, Eryn Kwon, Daniel Cornfeld, Jet Wright, Paul Condron, Kathleen L Poston and 4 more

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Article in medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Itamar TeremElectrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6544-9138
Kyan YounesNeurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Skylar WeissNeurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Andrew DreisbachRadiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Hillary VosslerNeurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Eryn KwonMātai Medical Research Institute, Tairāwhiti-Gisborne, New Zealand.
Daniel CornfeldMātai Medical Research Institute, Tairāwhiti-Gisborne, New Zealand.
Jet WrightMātai Medical Research Institute, Tairāwhiti-Gisborne, New Zealand.
Paul CondronMātai Medical Research Institute, Tairāwhiti-Gisborne, New Zealand.
Kathleen L PostonNeurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Victor W HendersonNeurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Elizabeth C MorminoNeurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Samantha HoldsworthAuckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Kawin SetsompopRadiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.

Funding

Stanford Alzheimer's Disease Research CenterAdmin Supp: Developing iPSC models for AD and PDP30AG066515 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Victor Henderson · 2020 to 2026
$29.0M
MRI CORTICOGRAPHY: DEVELOPING NEXT GENERATION MICROSCALE HUMAN CORTEX MRI SCANNERU01EB025162 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI FEINBERG, DAVID ALAN, LIU, CHUNLEI · 2017 to 2021
$13.4M
Training and Dissemination CoreP41EB030006 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Susie Yi Huang, BRUCE R ROSEN · 2020 to 2026
$10.9M
Next generation in-vivo diffusion imaging at submillimeter resolutionR01MH116173 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Yogesh Rathi, Kawin Setsompop · 2018 to 2026
$6.2M
fMRI Technologies for Imaging at the Limit of Biological Spatiotemporal Resolution: Administrative SupplementR01EB019437 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI POLIMENI, JONATHAN RIZZO, SETSOMPOP, KAWIN · 2015 to 2024
$5.5M
Amplified MRI (aMRI): A novel way to investigate the pathophysiology of Chiari Malformation IR21NS111415 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KURT, MEHMET · 2019 to 2019
$438k
Neuroimaging and genetics of the glymphatic system in Alzheimer's diseaseK23AG090733 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Kyan Younes · 2025 to 2026
$332k
NIA NIH HHS K23 AG090733NIA NIH HHS P30 AG066515NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB030006NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB019437NIBIB NIH HHS U01 EB025162NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH116173NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS111415
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart-brain interactions, including cardiac-induced brain pulsatility, are thought to support brain homeostasis, yet their alteration with aging and neurodegeneration remains poorly understood. Here, we used three-dimensional quantitative amplified MRI (q-aMRI) to visualize and quantify cardiac-induced pulsatile brain motion across healthy individuals and those on the Alzheimer's and Lewy body disease spectra. Expert evaluations revealed consistent distinctions between normal and abnormal motion patterns, which were further characterized using strain-based biomechanical features. Principal component analysis identified interpretable signatures of abnormal motion that emerged predominantly after midlife and were closely linked to chronological age. Even after accounting for age, these biomechanical features differentiated individuals with clinical and biomarker evidence of neurodegenerative disease. Together, these findings suggest that q-aMRI-derived measures of cardiac-gated pulsatile brain motion may serve as imaging biomarkers of normal brain aging and dementia.

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3D q-aMRIBrain AgingDementiaPulsatile Brain Motion

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PMID41409662
PMCPMC12706606

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