White Matter Changes in Patients with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Detected by Diffusion Tensor Imaging

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Jianghong ^a,b   Yin, Changhao ^c   Xia, Shugao ^d   Jia, Longfei ^e   Guo, Yanqin ^c   Zhao, Zhilian ^a   Li, Xiaobo ^d   Han, Ying ^a,b   Jia, Jianping ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c Hongqi Hospital of Mudanjiang Medical College   (China)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARIETAL LOBE; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AMNESIA; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE NET;

EID: 84875297174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059440     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Petersen RC, (2004) Mild cognitive impairment as a diagnostic entity. J Intern Med 256: 183-194.
2. Petersen RC, Doody R, Kurz A, Mohs RC, Morris JC, et al. (2001) Current concepts in mild cognitive impairment. Arch Neurol 58: 1985-1992.
3. Petersen RC, Smith GE, Waring SC, Ivnik RJ, Tangalos EG, et al. (1999) Mild cognitive impairment: clinical characterization and outcome. Arch Neurol 56: 303-308.
4. Knopman DS, Boeve BF, Petersen RC, (2003) Essentials of the proper diagnoses of mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and major subtypes of dementia. Mayo Clin Proc 78: 1290-1308.
5. Petersen RC, Morris JC (2005) Mild cognitive impairment as a clinical entity and treatment target. Arch Neurol 62: 1160-1163; discussion 1167.
6. Bennett DA, Schneider JA, Bienias JL, Evans DA, Wilson RS, (2005) Mild cognitive impairment is related to Alzheimer disease pathology and cerebral infarctions. Neurology 64: 834-841.
7. Jicha GA, Parisi JE, Dickson DW, Johnson K, Cha R, et al. (2006) Neuropathologic outcome of mild cognitive impairment following progression to clinical dementia. Arch Neurol 63: 674-681.
8. Mitchell AJ, Shiri-Feshki M, (2009) Rate of progression of mild cognitive impairment to dementia-meta-analysis of 41 robust inception cohort studies. Acta Psychiatr Scand 119: 252-265.
9. Le Bihan D, Turner R, Douek P, Patronas N, (1992) Diffusion MR imaging: clinical applications. AJR Am J Roentgenol 159: 591-599.
10. Basser PJ, Jones DK, (2002) Diffusion-tensor MRI: theory, experimental design and data analysis- a technical review. NMR Biomed 15: 456-467.
11. Beaulieu C, Does MD, Snyder RE, Allen PS, (1996) Changes in water diffusion due to Wallerian degeneration in peripheral nerve. Magn Reson Med 36: 627-631.
12. Mori S, Crain BJ, Chacko VP, van Zijl PC, (1999) Three-dimensional tracking of axonal projections in the brain by magnetic resonance imaging. Ann Neurol 45: 265-269.
13. Medina D, DeToledo-Morrell L, Urresta F, Gabrieli JD, Moseley M, et al. (2006) White matter changes in mild cognitive impairment and AD: A diffusion tensor imaging study. Neurobiol Aging 27: 663-672.
14. Fellgiebel A, Müller MJ, Wille P, Dellani PR, Scheurich A, et al. (2005) Color-coded diffusion-tensor-imaging of posterior cingulate fiber tracts in mild cognitive impairment. Neurobiol Aging 26: 1193-1198.
15. Stahl R, Dietrich O, Teipel SJ, Hampel H, Reiser MF, et al. (2007) White matter damage in Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment: assessment with diffusion-tensor MR imaging and parallel imaging techniques. Radiology 243: 483-492.
16. Rose SE, McMahon KL, Janke AL, O'Dowd B, de Zubicaray G, et al. (2006) Diffusion indices on magnetic resonance imaging and neuropsychological performance in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 77: 1122-1128.
17. Zhang Y, Schuff N, Jahng GH, Bayne W, Mori S, et al. (2007) Diffusion tensor imaging of cingulum fibers in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease. Neurology 68: 13-19.
18. Bozzali M, Falini A, Franceschi M, Cercignani M, Zuffi M, et al. (2002) White matter damage in Alzheimer's disease assessed in vivo using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 72: 742-746.
19. Duan JH, Wang HQ, Xu J, Lin X, Chen SQ, et al. (2006) White matter damage of patients with Alzheimer's disease correlated with the decreased cognitive function. Surg Radiol Anat 28: 150-156.
20. Naggara O, Oppenheim C, Rieu D, Raoux N, Rodrigo S, et al. (2006) Diffusion tensor imaging in early Alzheimer's disease. Psychiatry Res 146: 243-249.
21. Rose SE, Chen F, Chalk JB, Zelaya FO, Strugnell WE, et al. (2000) Loss of connectivity in Alzheimer's disease: an evaluation of white matter tract integrity with colour coded MR diffusion tensor imaging. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 69: 528-530.
22. Sydykova D, Stahl R, Dietrich O, Ewers M, Reiser MF, et al. (2007) Fiber connections between the cerebral cortex and the corpus callosum in Alzheimer's disease: a diffusion tensor imaging and voxel-based morphometry study. Cereb Cortex 17: 2276-2282.
23. Cho H, Yang DW, Shon YM, Kim BS, Kim YI, et al. (2008) Abnormal integrity of corticocortical tracts in mild cognitive impairment: a diffusion tensor imaging study. J Korean Med Sci 23: 477-483.
24. Ding B, Chen KM, Ling HW, Zhang H, Chai WM, et al. (2008) Diffusion tensor imaging correlates with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in posterior cingulate region of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 25: 218-225.
25. Fellgiebel A, Schermuly I, Gerhard A, Keller I, Albrecht J, et al. (2008) Functional relevant loss of long association fibre tracts integrity in early Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychologia 46: 1698-1706.
26. Takahashi S, Yonezawa H, Takahashi J, Kudo M, Inoue T, et al. (2002) Selective reduction of diffusion anisotropy in white matter of Alzheimer disease brains measured by 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging. Neurosci Lett 332: 45-48.
27. Choi SJ, Lim KO, Monteiro I, Reisberg B, (2005) Diffusion tensor imaging of frontal white matter microstructure in early Alzheimer's disease: a preliminary study. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 18: 12-19.
28. Hughes CP, Berg L, Danziger WL, Coben LA, Martin RL, (1982) A new clinical scale for the staging of dementia. Br J Psychiatry 140: 566-572.
29. Morris JC, (1993) The Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR): current version and scoring rules. Neurology 43: 2412-2414.
30. Nasreddine ZS, Phillips NA, Bedirian V, Charbonneau S, Whitehead V, et al. (2005) The montreal cognitive assessment, MoCA: a brief screening tool for mild cognitive impairment. J Am Geriatr Soc. 53: 695-699.
31. Smith SM, Jenkinson M, Woolrich MW, Beckmann CF, Behrens TE, et al. (2004) Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL. Neuroimage 23 (Suppl 1): S208-219.
32. Jenkinson M, Bannister P, Brady M, Smith S, (2002) Improved optimization for the robust and accurate linear registration and motion correction of brain images. Neuroimage 17: 825-841.
33. Smith SM, (2002) Fast robust automated brain extraction. Hum Brain Mapp 17: 143-155.
34. Smith SM, Jenkinson M, Johansen-Berg H, Rueckert D, Nichols TE, et al. (2006) Tract-based spatial statistics: voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion data. Neuroimage 31: 1487-1505.
35. Hua K, Zhang J, Wakana S, Jiang H, Li X, et al. (2008) Tract probability maps in stereotaxic spaces: analyses of white matter anatomy and tract-specific quantification. Neuroimage 39: 336-347.
36. Thillainadesan S, Wen W, Zhuang L, Crawford J, Kochan N, et al. (2012) Changes in mild cognitive impairment and its subtypes as seen on diffusion tensor imaging. Int Psychogeriatr 24: 1483-1493.
37. Shim YS, Yoon B, Shon YM, Ahn KJ, Yang DW, (2008) Difference of the hippocampal and white matter microalterations in MCI patients according to the severity of subcortical vascular changes: neuropsychological correlates of diffusion tensor imaging. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 110: 552-5561.
38. Xie S, Xiao JX, Gong GL, Zang YF, Wang YH, et al. (2006) Voxel-based detection of white matter abnormalities in mild Alzheimer disease. Neurology 66: 1845-1849.
39. Whitwell JL, Petersen RC, Negash S, Weigand SD, Kantarci K, et al. (2007) Patterns of atrophy differ among specific subtypes of mild cognitive impairment. Arch Neurol 64: 1130-1138.
40. He J, Farias S, Martinez O, Reed B, Mungas D, et al. (2009) Differences in brain volume, hippocampal volume, cerebrovascular risk factors, and apolipoprotein E4 among mild cognitive impairment subtypes. Arch Neurol 66: 1393-1399.
41. van de Pol LA, Verhey F, Frisoni GB, Tsolaki M, Papapostolou P, et al. (2009) White matter hyperintensities and medial temporal lobe atrophy in clinical subtypes of mild cognitive impairment: the DESCRIPA study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 80: 1069-1074.
42. Han Y, Lui S, Kuang W, Lang Q, Zou L, et al. (2012) Anatomical and functional deficits in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. PLoS One 7: e28664.
43. Son SJ, Lee KS, Na DL, Seo SW, Kim CH, et al. (2011) The effect of anemia and white matter hyperintensities (WMH) on cognitive impairment in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Arch Gerontol Geriatr Nov 15. [Epub ahead of print].
44. Fouquet M, Desgranges B, La Joie R, Rivière D, Mangin JF, et al. (2012) Role of hippocampal CA1 atrophy in memory encoding deficits in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. Neuroimage 59: 3309-3315.
45. Satio Y, Murayama S, (2007) Neuropathology of mild cognitive impairment. Neuropathology 27: 578-584.
46. Xie YF, Macdonald JF, Jackson MF, (2010) TRPM2, calcium and neurodegenerative diseases. Int J Physiol Pathophysiol Pharmacol 2: 95-103.
47. Xie YF, Belrose JC, Lei G, Tymianski M, Mori Y, et al. (2011) Dependence of NMDA/GSK-3β mediated metaplasticity on TRPM2 channels at hippocampal CA3-CA1 synapses. Mol Brain 4: 44.
48. Bai F, Zhang Z, Watson DR, Yu H, Shi Y, et al. (2009a) Abnormal white matter independent of hippocampal atrophy in amnestic type mild cognitive impairment. Neurosci Lett 462: 147-151.
49. Teipel SJ, Pogarell O, Meindl T, Dietrich O, Sydykova D, et al. (2009) Regional networks underlying interhemispheric connectivity: an EEG and DTI study in healthy ageing and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Hum Brain Mapp 30: 2098-2119.
50. Jak AJ, Houston WS, Nagel BJ, Corey-Bloom J, Bondi MW, (2007) Differential cross-sectional and longitudinal impact of APOE genotype on hippocampal volumes in nondemented older adults. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 23: 382-389.
51. Rogalski EJ, Murphy CM, deToledo-Morrell L, Shah RC, Moseley ME, et al. (2009) Changes in parahippocampal white matter integrity in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Behav Neurol 21: 51-61.
52. Ward A, Arrighi HM, Michels S, Cedarbaum JM, (2012) Mild cognitive impairment: disparity of incidence and prevalence estimates. Alzheimers Dement 8: 14-21.
53. Delano-Wood L, Stricker NH, Sorg SF, Nation DA, Jak AJ, et al. (2012) Posterior cingulum white matter disruption and its associations with verbal memory and stroke risk in mild cognitive impairment. J Alzheimers Dis. 29: 589-603.
54. Ringman JM, O'Neill J, Geschwind D, Medina L, Apostolova LG, et al. (2007) Diffusion tensor imaging in preclinical and presymptomatic carriers of familial Alzheimer's disease mutations. Brain 130: 1767-1776.
55. Kinney HC, Brody BA, Kloman AS, Gilles FH, (1988) Sequence of central nervous system myelination in human infancy. II. Patterns of myelination in autopsied infants. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 47: 217-234.
56. Di Paola M, Spalletta G, Caltagirone C, (2010) In vivo structural neuroanatomy of corpus callosum in Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment using different MRI techniques: a review. J Alzheimers Dis 20(1): 67-95.
57. Agosta F, Pievani M, Sala S, Geroldi C, Galluzzi S, et al. (2011) White matter damage in Alzheimer disease and its relationship to gray matter atrophy. Radiology 258: 853-863.
58. Bai F, Zhang Z, Watson DR, Yu H, Shi Y, et al. (2009b) Abnormal integrity of association fiber tracts in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. J Neurol Sci 278: 102-106.
59. Preti MG, Baglio F, Laganà MM, Griffanti L, Nemni R, et al. (2012) Assessing corpus callosum changes in Alzheimer's disease: comparison betweentract-based spatial statistics and atlas-based tractography. Plos One 7(4): e35856.
60. Di Paola M, Di Iulio F, Cherubini A, Blundo C, Casini AR, et al. (2010) When, where, and how the corpus callosum changes in MCI and AD: a multimodal MRI study. Neurology 74(14): 1136-1142.
61. Sperling RA, Dickerson BC, Pihlajamaki M, Vannini P, LaViolette PS, et al. (2010) Functional alterations in memory networks in early Alzheimer's disease. Neuromolecular Med 12: 27-43.
62. Chen K, Iribarren P, Hu J, Chen J, Gong W, et al. (2006) Activation of Toll-like receptor 2 on microglia promotes cell uptake of Alzheimer disease-associated amyloid beta peptide. J Biol Chem 281: 3651-3659.
63. Tahara K, Kim HD, Jin JJ, Maxwell JA, Li L, et al. (2006) Role of toll-like receptor signalling in Abeta uptake and clearance. Brain 129: 3006-3019.
64. Mielke MM, Okonkwo OC, Oishi K, Mori S, Tighe S, et al. (2012) Fornix integrity and hippocampal volume predict memory decline and progression to Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 8: 105-113.
65. Cacciari C, Moraschi M, Di Paola M, Cherubini A, Orfei MD, et al. (2010) White matter microstructure and apathy level in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. J Alzheimers Dis 20: 501-507.
66. Chua TC, Wen W, Chen X, Kochan N, Slavin MJ, et al. (2009) Diffusion tensor imaging of the posterior cingulate is a useful biomarker of mild cognitive impairment. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 17: 602-613.
67. Lu J, Li D, Li F, Zhou A, Wanf F, et al. (2011) Montreal cognitive assessment in detecting cognitive impairment in Chinese elderly individuals: a population-based study. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 24: 184-190.