PMID- 36313014 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20221102 IS - 1663-4365 (Print) IS - 1663-4365 (Electronic) IS - 1663-4365 (Linking) VI - 14 DP - 2022 TI - Altered functional association and couplings: Effective diagnostic neuromarkers for Alzheimer's disease. PG - 1009632 LID - 10.3389/fnagi.2022.1009632 [doi] LID - 1009632 AB - Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder causing dementia in the elderly population. Functional disconnection of brain is considered to be the main cause of AD. In this study, we applied a newly developed association (Asso) mapping approach to directly quantify the functional disconnections and to explore the diagnostic effects for AD with resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 36 AD patients and 42 age-, gender-, and education-matched healthy controls (HC). We found that AD patients showed decreased Asso in left dorsoanterior insula (INS) while increased functional connections of INS with right medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and left posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). The changed Asso and functional connections were closely associated with cognitive performances. In addition, the reduced Asso and increased functional connections could serve as effective neuromarkers to distinguish AD patients from HC. Our research provided new evidence for functional disconnections in AD and demonstrated that functional disconnections between cognition-memory networks may be potential early biomarkers for AD. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Zhao, Chen, Ding, Liu and Wu. FAU - Zhao, Chongyi AU - Zhao C AD - Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China. AD - Department of Gynecology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China. FAU - Chen, Meiling AU - Chen M AD - Department of Clinical Psychology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China. FAU - Ding, Zhiyong AU - Ding Z AD - Department of Medical Imaging, Qujing Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Qujing, China. FAU - Liu, Chunyan AU - Liu C AD - Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. AD - Beijing Key Laboratory of Neuromodulation, Beijing, China. FAU - Wu, Xiaomei AU - Wu X AD - Department of Gynecology, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20221013 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Aging Neurosci JT - Frontiers in aging neuroscience JID - 101525824 PMC - PMC9606803 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Alzheimer's disease OT - association mapping OT - biomarker OT - disconnection OT - functional connectivity COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/11/01 06:00 MHDA- 2022/11/01 06:01 PMCR- 2022/01/01 CRDT- 2022/10/31 04:49 PHST- 2022/08/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/09/05 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/10/31 04:49 [entrez] PHST- 2022/11/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/11/01 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fnagi.2022.1009632 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Aging Neurosci. 2022 Oct 13;14:1009632. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.1009632. eCollection 2022.