Modular slowing of resting-state dynamic Functional Connectivity as a marker of cognitive dysfunction induced by sleep deprivation

Lombardo, D.; Casse-Perrot, C.; Ranjeva, J.-P.; Le Troter, A.; Guye, M.; Wirsich, J.; Payoux, P.; Bartres-Faz, D.; Bordet, R.; Richardson, J. C.; Felician, O.; Jirsa, V.; Blin, O.; Didic, M.; Battaglia, D.

doi:10.1101/2020.01.17.910810

bioRxiv · 10.1101/2020.01.17.910810

Modular slowing of resting-state dynamic Functional Connectivity as a marker of cognitive dysfunction induced by sleep deprivation

Lombardo, D.·Casse-Perrot, C.·Ranjeva, J.-P.·Le Troter, A.·Guye, M.·Wirsich, J.·Payoux, P.·Bartres-Faz, D.·Bordet, R.·Richardson, J. C.·Felician, O.·Jirsa, V.·Blin, O.·Didic, M.·Battaglia, D.

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Dynamic Functional Connectivity (dFC) in the resting state (rs) is considered as a correlate of cognitive processing. Describing dFC as a flow across morphing connectivity configurations, our notion of dFC speed quantifies the rate at which FC networks evolve in time. Here we probe the hypothesis that variations of rs dFC speed and cognitive performance are selectively interrelated within specific functional subnetworks. In particular, we focus on Sleep Deprivation (SD) as a reversible model of cognitive dysfunction. We found that whole-brain level (global) dFC speed significantly slows down after 24h of SD. However, the reduction in global dFC speed does not correlate with variations of cognitive performance in individual tasks, which are subtle and highly heterogeneous. On the contrary, we found strong correlations between performance variations in individual tasks -including Rapid Visual Processing (RVP, assessing sustained visual attention)- and dFC speed quantified at the level of functional subnetworks of interest. Providing a compromise between classic static FC (no time) and global dFC (no space), modular dFC speed analyses allow quantifying a different speed of dFC reconfiguration independently for sub-networks overseeing different tasks. Importantly, we found that RVP performance robustly correlates with the modular dFC speed of a characteristic frontoparietal module. HighlightsO_LISleep Deprivation (SD) slows down the random walk in FC space implemented by Dynamic Functional Connectivity (dFC) at rest. C_LIO_LIWhole-brain level slowing of dFC speed does not selectively correlate with fine and taskspecific changes in performance C_LIO_LIWe quantify dFC speed separately for different link-based modules coordinated by distinct regional "meta-hubs" C_LIO_LIModular dFC speed variations capture subtle and task-specific variations of cognitive performance induced by SD. C_LI Author summaryWe interpreted dynamic Functional Connectivity (dFC) as a random walk in the space of possible FC networks performed with a quantifiable "speed". Here, we analyze a fMRI dataset in which subjects are scanned and cognitively tested both before and after Sleep Deprivation (SD), used as a reversible model of cognitive dysfunction. While global dFC speed slows down after a sleepless night, it is not a sufficiently sensitive metric to correlate with fine and specific cognitive performance changes. To boost the capacity of dFC speed analyses to account for fine and specific cognitive decline, we introduce the notion of modular dFC speed. Capitalizing on an edge-centric measure of functional connectivity, which we call Meta-Connectivity, we isolate subgraphs of FC describing relatively independent random walks (dFC modules) and controlled by distinct "puppet masters" (meta-hubs). We then find that variations of the random walk speed of distinct dFC modules now selectively correlate with SD-induced variations of performance in the different tasks. This is in agreement with the fact that different subsystems - distributed but functionally distinct- oversee different tasks. The high sensitivity of modular dFC analyses bear promise of future applications to the early detection and longitudinal characterization of pathologies such as Alzheimers disease.

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Lombardo, D., Casse-Perrot, C., Ranjeva, J.-P., Le Troter, A., Guye, M., Wirsich, J., Payoux, P., Bartres-Faz, D., Bordet, R., Richardson, J. C., Felician, O., Jirsa, V., Blin, O., Didic, M., Battaglia, D.. 2020-01-18. Modular slowing of resting-state dynamic Functional Connectivity as a marker of cognitive dysfunction induced by sleep deprivation. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.17.910810

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