[en] [en] BACKGROUND: Alterations of intrinsic networks from resting state fMRI (rs-fMRI) have been suggested as functional biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
OBJECTIVE: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of multicenter rs-fMRI for prodromal and preclinical stages of AD.
METHODS: We determined rs-fMRI functional connectivity based on Pearson's correlation coefficients and amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation in people with subjective cognitive decline, people with mild cognitive impairment, and people with AD dementia compared with healthy controls. We used data of 247 participants of the prospective DELCODE study, a longitudinal multicenter observational study, imposing a unified fMRI acquisition protocol across sites. We determined cross-validated discrimination accuracy based on penalized logistic regression to account for multicollinearity of predictors.
RESULTS: Resting state functional connectivity reached significant cross-validated group discrimination only for the comparison of AD dementia cases with healthy controls, but not for the other diagnostic groups. AD dementia cases showed alterations in a large range of intrinsic resting state networks, including the default mode and salience networks, but also executive and language networks. When groups were stratified according to their CSF amyloid status that was available in a subset of cases, diagnostic accuracy was increased for amyloid positive mild cognitive impairment cases compared with amyloid negative controls, but still inferior to the accuracy of hippocampus volume.
CONCLUSION: Even when following a strictly harmonized data acquisition protocol and rigorous scan quality control, widely used connectivity measures of multicenter rs-fMRI do not reach levels of diagnostic accuracy sufficient for a useful biomarker in prodromal stages of AD.
Disciplines :
Neurology
Author, co-author :
Teipel, Stefan J; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock, Germany
Metzger, Coraline D; Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research (IKND), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany ; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
Brosseron, Frederic; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany ; Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Psychiatry, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Buerger, Katharina; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Munich, Germany ; Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
Brueggen, Katharina; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock, Germany
Catak, Cihan; Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
Diesing, Dominik; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Dobisch, Laura; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
Fliebach, Klaus; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany ; Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Psychiatry, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Franke, Christiana; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany
HENEKA, Michael ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany ; Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Psychiatry, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Kilimann, Ingo; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock, Germany
Kofler, Barbara; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany ; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Menne, Felix; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany
Peters, Oliver; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany
Polcher, Alexandra; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany
Priller, Josef; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany
Schneider, Anja; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany ; Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Psychiatry, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Spottke, Annika; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany ; Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Spruth, Eike J; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin, Germany
Thelen, Manuela; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany ; Department of Psychiatry, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Thyrian, René J; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Greifswald, Germany
Wagner, Michael; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany ; Department for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Geriatric Psychiatry, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Düzel, Emrah; Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research (IKND), Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany
Jessen, Frank; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany ; Department of Psychiatry, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Dyrba, Martin; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Rostock, Germany
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