Oxtoby, NP;
Garbarino, S;
Firth, NC;
Warren, JD;
Schott, JM;
Alexander, DC;
(2017)
Data-Driven Sequence of Changes to Anatomical Brain Connectivity in Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease.
Frontiers in Neurology
, 8
, Article 580. 10.3389/fneur.2017.00580.
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Abstract
Model-based investigations of transneuronal spreading mechanisms in neurodegenerative diseases relate the pattern of pathology severity to the brain’s connectivity matrix, which reveals information about how pathology propagates through the connectivity network. Such network models typically use networks based on functional or structural connectivity in young and healthy individuals, and only end-stage patterns of pathology, thereby ignoring/excluding the effects of normal aging and disease progression. Here, we examine the sequence of changes in the elderly brain’s anatomical connectivity over the course of a neurodegenerative disease. We do this in a data-driven manner that is not dependent upon clinical disease stage, by using event-based disease progression modeling. Using data from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative dataset, we sequence the progressive decline of anatomical connectivity, as quantified by graph-theory metrics, in the Alzheimer’s disease brain. Ours is the first single model to contribute to understanding all three of the nature, the location, and the sequence of changes to anatomical connectivity in the human brain due to Alzheimer’s disease. Our experimental results reveal new insights into Alzheimer’s disease: that degeneration of anatomical connectivity in the brain may be a viable, even early, biomarker and should be considered when studying such neurodegenerative diseases.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Data-Driven Sequence of Changes to Anatomical Brain Connectivity in Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fneur.2017.00580 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2017.00580 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Clinical Neurology, Neurosciences, Neurosciences & Neurology, brain connectivity analysis, data-driven, Alzheimer's disease, disease progression modeling, graph theory analysis, computational model, MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, NETWORK DIFFUSION-MODEL, NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE, SPHERICAL-DECONVOLUTION, DENSITY-FUNCTION, STREAMLINES TRACTOGRAPHY, WHITE-MATTER, MRI DATA, PROGRESSION, DEMENTIA |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Neurodegenerative Diseases UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10038683 |
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