1. Differential neural structures, intrinsic functional connectivity, and episodic memory in subjective cognitive decline and healthy controls
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Karl J. Langen, Juraj Kukolja, Boris von Reutern, Heidi I.L. Jacobs, Oezguer A. Onur, Kim Dillen, Nils Nellessen, Gereon R. Fink, Nils Richter, RS: MHeNs - R1 - Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, and Psychiatrie & Neuropsychologie
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Aging ,EVENT-RELATED FMRI ,Hippocampus ,Executive Function ,0302 clinical medicine ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,Cognitive decline ,Episodic memory ,RESTING-STATE FMRI ,Default mode network ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,General Neuroscience ,Middle Aged ,Executive functions ,Healthy Volunteers ,Temporal Lobe ,Frontoparietal control network ,ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE ,PROCESSING SPEED ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Default-mode network ,Medial temporal lobe ,Female ,Parahippocampal gyrus ,MRI ,congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,Memory, Episodic ,03 medical and health sciences ,medicine ,Humans ,Cognitive Dysfunction ,ddc:610 ,ENTORHINAL CORTEX ,OLDER-ADULTS ,Aged ,INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS ,business.industry ,INCREASED AMYGDALA ,Voxel-based morphometry ,030104 developmental biology ,Superior frontal gyrus ,Neurology (clinical) ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,Functional magnetic resonance imaging ,business ,HUMAN CEREBRAL-CORTEX ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Developmental Biology - Abstract
The neural correlates of subjective cognitive decline (SCD; i.e., without objectifiable deficit) remain to be elucidated. Possible causes of SCD include early neurodegeneration related to Alzheimer's disease or functional and structural changes related to sub-clinical depression. We investigated the relationship between episodic memory performance or memory complaints and structural or functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures in participants with SCD ( n = 18) but without psychiatric disorders and healthy controls ( n = 31). In SCD, memory complaints were not associated with memory performance but with sub-clinical depression and executive functions. SCD-associated memory complaints correlated with higher amygdala and parahippocampal gyrus (specifically subiculum) gray matter density. In controls, but not in SCD, mesiotemporal gray matter density and superior frontal gyrus functional connectivity predicted memory performance. In contrast, in SCD, only a trend toward a correlation between memory performance and gray matter density in the parietooccipital lobes was observed. In our memory-clinic sample of SCD, we did not observe incipient neurodegeneration (limited to structural and functional MRI) but rather sub-clinical depression underlying subjective cognitive complaints. (c) 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- 2021