학술논문

Predicting brain age from functional connectivity in symptomatic and preclinical Alzheimer disease
Document Type
article
Author
Peter R. MillarPatrick H. LuckettBrian A. GordonTammie L.S. BenzingerSuzanne E. SchindlerAnne M. FaganCarlos CruchagaRandall J. BatemanRicardo AllegriMathias JuckerJae-Hong LeeHiroshi MoriStephen P SallowayIgor YakushevJohn C. MorrisBeau M. AncesSarah Adams, MSRicardo Allegri, PhDAki ArakiNicolas Barthelemy, PhDRandall Bateman, MDJacob Bechara, BSTammie Benzinger, MD, PhDSarah Berman, MD, PhDCourtney Bodge, PhDSusan Brandon, BSWilliam (Bill) Brooks, MBBS,MPHJared Brosch, MD, PhDJill Buck, BSNVirginia Buckles, PhDKathleen Carter, PhDLisa Cash, BFACharlie Chen, BAJasmeer Chhatwal, MD,PhDPatricio Chrem Mendez, MDJasmin Chua, BSHelena Chui, MDLaura Courtney, BSCarlos Cruchaga, PhDGregory S Day, MDChrismary DeLaCruz, BADarcy Denner, PhDAnna Diffenbacher, MSAylin Dincer, BSTamara Donahue, MSJane Douglas, MPhDuc Duong, BSNoelia Egido, BSBianca Esposito, BSAnne Fagan, PhDMarty Farlow, MDBecca Feldman, BS,BAColleen Fitzpatrick, MSShaney Flores, BSNick Fox, MDErin Franklin, MSNelly Joseph-Mathurin, PhDHisako Fujii, PhDSamantha Gardener, PhDBernardino Ghetti, MDAlison Goate, PhDSarah Goldberg, MS,LPC,NCCJill Goldman, MS,MPhil,CGCAlyssa Gonzalez, BSBrian Gordon, PhDSusanne Gräber-Sultan, PhDNeill Graff-Radford, MDMorgan Graham, BAJulia Gray, MSEmily Gremminger, BAMiguel Grilo, MDAlex GrovesChristian Haass, PhDLisa Häsler, MScJason Hassenstab, PhDCortaiga Hellm, BAElizabeth Herries, BALaura Hoechst-Swisher, MSAnna Hofmann, MDAnna HofmannDavid Holtzman, MDRuss Hornbeck, MSCS, MPMYakushev Igor, MDRyoko Ihara, MDTakeshi Ikeuchi, MDSnezana Ikonomovic, MDKenji Ishii, MDClifford Jack, MDGina Jerome, MSErik Johnson, MD, PHDMathias Jucker, PhDCeleste Karch, PhDStephan Käser, PHDKensaku Kasuga, MDSarah Keefe, BSWilliam Klunk, MD, PHDRobert Koeppe, PHDDeb Koudelis, MHS,RNElke Kuder-Buletta, RNChristoph Laske, PhDAllan Levey, MD, PHDJohannes Levin, MDYan Li, PHDOscar Lopez, MD, MDJacob Marsh, BARalph Martins, PhDNeal Scott Mason, PhDColin Masters, MDKwasi Mawuenyega, PhDAustin McCullough, PhD CandidateEric McDade, DOArlene Mejia, MDEstrella Morenas-Rodriguez, MD, PhDJohn Morris, MDJames Mountz, MDCath Mummery, PhDN eelesh Nadkarni, MD, PhDAkemi Nagamatsu, RNKatie Neimeyer, MSYoshiki Niimi, MDJames Noble, MDJoanne Norton, MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BCBrigitte NuscherUlricke ObermüllerAntoinette O'Connor, MRCPIRiddhi Patira, MDRichard Perrin, MD, PhDLingyan Ping, PhDOliver Preische, MDAlan Renton, PhDJohn Ringman, MDStephen Salloway, MDPeter Schofield, PhDMichio Senda, MD, PhDNicholas T Seyfried, D.PhilKristine Shady, BA, BSHiroyuki Shimada, MD, PhDWendy Sigurdson, RNJennifer Smith, PhDLori Smith, PA-CBeth Snitz, PhDHamid Sohrabi, PhDSochenda Stephens, BS, CCRPKevin Taddei, BSSarah Thompson, PA-CJonathan Vöglein, MDPeter Wang, PhDQing Wang, PhDElise Weamer, MPHChengjie Xiong, PhDJinbin Xu, PhDXiong Xu, BS, MS
Source
NeuroImage, Vol 256, Iss , Pp 119228- (2022)
Subject
Brain aging
Alzheimer disease
Resting-state functional connectivity
fMRI
Machine learning
Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
RC321-571
Language
English
ISSN
1095-9572
Abstract
“Brain-predicted age” quantifies apparent brain age compared to normative neuroimaging trajectories. Advanced brain-predicted age has been well established in symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD), but is underexplored in preclinical AD. Prior brain-predicted age studies have typically used structural MRI, but resting-state functional connectivity (FC) remains underexplored. Our model predicted age from FC in 391 cognitively normal, amyloid-negative controls (ages 18–89). We applied the trained model to 145 amyloid-negative, 151 preclinical AD, and 156 symptomatic AD participants to test group differences. The model accurately predicted age in the training set. FC-predicted brain age gaps (FC-BAG) were significantly older in symptomatic AD and significantly younger in preclinical AD compared to controls. There was minimal correspondence between networks predictive of age and AD. Elevated FC-BAG may reflect network disruption during symptomatic AD. Reduced FC-BAG in preclinical AD was opposite to the expected direction, and may reflect a biphasic response to preclinical AD pathology or may be driven by inconsistency between age-related vs. AD-related networks. Overall, FC-predicted brain age may be a sensitive AD biomarker.