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Hippocampal subfield volumes and pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease in 408 cognitively normal adults born in 1946.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The human hippocampus comprises a number of interconnected histologically and functionally distinct subfields, which may be differentially influenced by cerebral pathology. Automated techniques are now available that estimate hippocampal subfield volumes using in vivo structural MRI data. To date, research investigating the influence of cerebral ?-amyloid deposition-one of the earliest hypothesised changes in the pathophysiological continuum of Alzheimer's disease-on hippocampal subfield volumes in cognitively normal older individuals, has been limited.

Methods

Using cross-sectional data from 408 cognitively normal individuals born in mainland Britain (age range at time of assessment = 69.2-71.9 years) who underwent cognitive assessment, 18F-Florbetapir PET and structural MRI on the same 3 Tesla PET/MR unit (spatial resolution 1.1 x 1.1 x 1.1. mm), we investigated the influences of ?-amyloid status, age at scan, and global white matter hyperintensity volume on: CA1, CA2/3, CA4, dentate gyrus, presubiculum and subiculum volumes, adjusting for sex and total intracranial volume.

Results

Compared to ?-amyloid negative participants (n = 334), ?-amyloid positive participants (n = 74) had lower volume of the presubiculum (3.4% smaller, p = 0.012). Despite an age range at scanning of just 2.7 years, older age at time of scanning was associated with lower CA1 (p = 0.007), CA4 (p = 0.004), dentate gyrus (p = 0.002), and subiculum (p = 0.035) volumes. There was no evidence that white matter hyperintensity volume was associated with any subfield volumes.

Conclusion

These data provide evidence of differential associations in cognitively normal older adults between hippocampal subfield volumes and ?-amyloid deposition and, increasing age at time of scan. The relatively selective effect of lower presubiculum volume in the ?-amyloid positive group potentially suggest that the presubiculum may be an area of early and relatively specific volume loss in the pathophysiological continuum of Alzheimer's disease. Future work using higher resolution imaging will be key to exploring these findings further.

SUBMITTER: Parker TD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6797197 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Hippocampal subfield volumes and pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease in 408 cognitively normal adults born in 1946.

Parker Thomas D TD Cash David M DM Lane Christopher A S CAS Lu Kirsty K Malone Ian B IB Nicholas Jennifer M JM James Sarah-Naomi SN Keshavan Ashvini A Murray-Smith Heidi H Wong Andrew A Buchanan Sarah M SM Keuss Sarah E SE Sudre Carole H CH Modat Marc M Thomas David L DL Crutch Sebastian J SJ Richards Marcus M Fox Nick C NC Schott Jonathan M JM

PloS one 20191017 10

<h4>Background</h4>The human hippocampus comprises a number of interconnected histologically and functionally distinct subfields, which may be differentially influenced by cerebral pathology. Automated techniques are now available that estimate hippocampal subfield volumes using in vivo structural MRI data. To date, research investigating the influence of cerebral β-amyloid deposition-one of the earliest hypothesised changes in the pathophysiological continuum of Alzheimer's disease-on hippocamp ...[more]

PMID: 31622410

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Hippocampal subfield volumes and pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease in 408 cognitively normal adults born in 1946.

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Hippocampal subfield volumes and pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease in 408 cognitively normal adults born in 1946.

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