Influence of cerebrovascular disease on brain networks in prodromal and clinical Alzheimer's disease.

ABSTRACT: Network-sensitive neuroimaging methods have been used to characterize large-scale brain network degeneration in Alzheimer's disease and its prodrome. However, few studies have investigated the combined effect of Alzheimer's disease and cerebrovascular disease on brain network degeneration. Our study sought to examine the intrinsic functional connectivity and structural covariance network changes in 235 prodromal and clinical Alzheimer's disease patients with and without cerebrovascular disease. We focused particularly on two higher-order cognitive networks-the default mode network and the executive control network. We found divergent functional connectivity and structural covariance patterns in Alzheimer's disease patients with and without cerebrovascular disease. Alzheimer's disease patie

SUBMITTER: Chong JSX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5841199 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature