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ABSTRACT: Background
Yoga may be an ideal early intervention for those with modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD) development.Objective
To examine the effects of Kundalini yoga (KY) training versus memory enhancement training (MET) on the resting-state connectivity of hippocampal subregions in women with subjective memory decline and cardiovascular risk factors for AD.Methods
Participants comprised women with subjective memory decline and cardiovascular risk factors who participated in a parent randomized controlled trial (NCT03503669) of 12-weeks of KY versus MET and completed pre- and post-intervention resting-state magnetic resonance imaging scans (yoga: n = 11, age = 61.45±6.58 years; MET: n = 11, age = 64.55±6.41 years). Group differences in parcellated (Cole-anticevic atlas) hippocampal connectivity changes (post- minus pre-intervention) were evaluated by partial least squares analysis, controlling for age. Correlations between hippocampal connectivity and perceived stress and frequency of forgetting (assessed by questionnaires) were also evaluated.Results
A left anterior hippocampal subregion assigned to the default mode network (DMN) in the Cole-anticevic atlas showed greater increases in connectivity with largely ventral visual stream regions with KY than with MET (p < 0.001), which showed associations with lower stress (p < 0.05). Several posterior hippocampal subregions assigned to sensory-based networks in the Cole-anticevic atlas showed greater increases in connectivity with regions largely in the DMN and frontoparietal network with MET than with KY (p < 0.001), which showed associations with lower frequency of forgetting (p < 0.05).Conclusion
KY training may better target stress-related hippocampal connectivity, whereas MET may better target hippocampal sensory-integration supporting better memory reliability, in women with subjective memory decline and cardiovascular risk factors.
SUBMITTER: Kilpatrick LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10578221 | biostudies-literature | 2023
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kilpatrick Lisa A LA Siddarth Prabha P Krause-Sorio Beatrix B Milillo Michaela M MM Aguilar-Faustino Yesenia Y Ercoli Linda L Narr Katherine L KL Khalsa Dharma S DS Lavretsky Helen H
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 20230101 1
<h4>Background</h4>Yoga may be an ideal early intervention for those with modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD) development.<h4>Objective</h4>To examine the effects of Kundalini yoga (KY) training versus memory enhancement training (MET) on the resting-state connectivity of hippocampal subregions in women with subjective memory decline and cardiovascular risk factors for AD.<h4>Methods</h4>Participants comprised women with subjective memory decline and cardiovascular risk factors ...[more]