Frontostriatal white matter connectivity: age differences and associations with cognition and BOLD modulation

NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

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Article

Webb, Christina E.¹  Hoagey, David A.¹  Rodrigue, Karen M.¹  Kennedy, Kristen M.¹ 

[1] Univ Texas Dallas, Ctr Vital Longev, Sch Behav & Brain Sci, Dallas, TX 75235 USA

关键词: Aging;    Frontostriatal;    White matter connectivity;    BOLD;    Executive function;    Cognitive aging;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.05.014

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Despite the importance of cortico-striatal circuits to cognition, investigation of age effects on the structural circuitry connecting these regions is limited. The current study examined age effects on frontostriatal white matter connectivity, and identified associations with both executive function per-formance and dynamic modulation of blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) activation to task difficulty in a lifespan sample of 169 healthy humans aged 20-94 years. Greater frontostriatal diffusivity was associated with poorer executive function and this negative association strengthened with increasing age. Whole-brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analyses additionally indicated an as-sociation between frontostriatal mean diffusivity and BOLD modulation to difficulty selectively in the striatum across 2 independent fMRI tasks. This association was moderated by age, such that younger -and middle-aged individuals showed reduced dynamic range of difficulty modulation as a function of increasing frontostriatal diffusivity. Together these results demonstrate the importance of age-related degradation of frontostriatal circuitry on executive functioning across the lifespan, and highlight the need to capture brain changes occurring in early-to middle-adulthood. (C) y2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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