Accelerated functional brain aging in pre-clinical familial Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease has been associated with increased structural brain aging. Here the authors describe a model that predicts brain aging from resting state functional connectivity data, and demonstrate this is accelerated in individuals with pre-clinical familial Alzheimer’s disease.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Julie Gonneaud, Alex T. Baria, Alexa Pichet Binette, Brian A. Gordon, Jasmeer P. Chhatwal, Carlos Cruchaga, Mathias Jucker, Johannes Levin, Stephen Salloway, Martin Farlow, Serge Gauthier, Tammie L. S. Benzinger, John C. Morris, Randall J. Bateman, John C. S. Breitner, Judes Poirier, Etienne Vachon-Presseau, Sylvia Villeneuve, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) Study Group, Pre-symptomatic Evaluation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease (PREVENT-AD) Research Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25492-9