Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25492-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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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.