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John Breitner

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bioRxiv2016

Multiresolution functional brain parcellation in an elderly population with no or mild cognitive impairment

We present group brain parcellations for clusters generated from resting-state functional magnetic resonance images for 99 cognitively normal elderly persons and 129 patients with mild cognitive impairment, pooled from four independent datasets. The brain parcellations have been registered to both symmetric and asymmetric MNI brain templates and generated using a method called bootstrap analysis of stable clusters (BASC, Bellec et al., 2010). Eight resolutions of clusters were selected using a data-driven method called MSTEPS (Bellec, 2013). We present two variants of these parcellations. One variant contains bihemisphereic parcels (4, 6, 12, 22, 33, 65, 111, and 208 total parcels across eight resolutions). The second variant contains spatially connected regions of interest (ROIs) that span only one hemisphere (10, 17, 30, 51, 77, 199, and 322 total ROIs across eight resolutions). We also present maps illustrating functional connectivity differences between patients and controls for four regions of interest (superior medial frontal cortex, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, striatum, middle temporal lobe). The brain parcels and associated statistical maps have been publicly released as 3D volumes, available in .mnc and .nii file formats on figshare (http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1480461) and on Neurovault (http://neurovault.org/collections/1003/). This dataset was generated as part of the following study: Tam A, Dansereau C, Badhwar A, Orban P, Belleville S, Chertkow H, Dagher A, Hanganu A, Monchi O, Rosa-Neto P, Shmuel A, Wang S, Breitner J, Bellec P for the Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (2015) Common Effects of Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment on Resting-State Connectivity Across Four Independent Studies. Front. Aging Neurosci. 7:242. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00242 Finally, the code used to generate this dataset is available on Github (https://github.com/SIMEXP/mcinet).\n\n\nO_TABLECAPTIONSpecifications Table\n\nC_TABLECAPTION[Table 1]

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bioRxiv2015

Consistent inter-protocol differences in resting-state functional connectomes between normal aging and mild cognitive impairment

Resting-state functional connectivity is a promising biomarker for Alzheimers disease. However, previous resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in Alzheimers disease and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have shown limited reproducibility as they have had small sample sizes and substantial variation in study protocol. We sought to identify functional brain networks and connections that could consistently discriminate normal aging from MCI despite variations in scanner manufacturer, imaging protocol, and diagnostic procedure. We therefore pooled four independent datasets, including 112 healthy controls and 143 patients with MCI, systematically testing multiple brain connections for consistent differences. The largest effects associated with MCI involved the ventromedial and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, striatum, and middle temporal lobe. Compared with controls, patients with MCI exhibited significantly decreased connectivity within the frontal lobe, between frontal and temporal areas, and between regions of the cortico-striatal-thalamic loop. Despite the heterogeneity of methods among the four datasets, we identified robust MCI-related connectivity changes that appear to be promising candidate biomarkers for Alzheimers disease.

Neuroscience↗