The Pathoconnectivity Profile of Alzheimer's Disease: A Morphometric Coalteration Network Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Gray matter alterations are typical features of brain disorders. However, they do not impact on the brain randomly. Indeed, it has been suggested that neuropathological processes can selectively affect certain assemblies of neurons, which typically are at the center of crucial functional networks. Because of their topological centrality, these areas form a core set that is more likely to be affected by neuropathological processes. In order to identify and study the pattern formed by brain alterations in patients' with Alzheimer's disease (AD), we devised an innovative meta-analytic method for analyzing voxel-based morphometry data. This methodology enabled us to discover that in AD gray matter alterations do not occur randomly across the brain but, on the contrary, follow identifiab

SUBMITTER: Manuello J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5810291 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature