Altered white matter functional pathways in Alzheimer’s disease

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2024

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with functional disruption in gray matter (GM) and structural damage to white matter (WM), but the relationship to functional signal in WM is unknown. We performed the functional connectivity (FC) and graph theory analysis to investigate abnormalities of WM and GM functional networks and corpus callosum among different stages of AD from a publicly available dataset. Compared to the controls, AD group showed significantly decreased FC between the deep WM functional network (WM-FN) and the splenium of corpus callosum, between the sensorimotor/occipital WM-FN and GM visual network, but increased FC between the deep WM-FN and the GM sensorimotor network. In the clinical groups, the global assortativity, modular interaction between occipital WM-FN and visual network, nodal betweenness centrality, degree centrality, and nodal clustering coefficient in WM- and GM-FNs were reduced. However, modular interaction between deep WM-FN and sensorimotor network, and participation coefficients of deep WM-FN and splenium of corpus callosum were increased. These findings revealed the abnormal integration of functional networks in different stages of AD from a novel WM-FNs perspective. The abnormalities of WM functional pathways connect downward to the corpus callosum and upward to the GM are correlated with AD.

Identifier

85186947090 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Cerebral Cortex

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad505

e-ISSN

14602199

ISSN

10473211

PubMed ID

38436465

Issue

3

Volume

34

Grant

2022ZD0208500

Fund Ref

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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