Brainstem Dysfunction in Healthy Aging.

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S G Mueller, A M Muller

Abstract

The brainstem controls sub-cortical and cortical activity and influences the processing of incoming information. The goal of this study was to characterize age related alterations of brainstem-brain interactions during different brain states detected by dynamic analysis of task-free fMRI. 79 young (20-40 years) and 51 older adults (55-80 years) were studied. Internal brainstem structures were segmented using a new multi-contrast segmentation approach. Brain and brainstem gray matter segmentations were warped onto a population template. The ICV-corrected Jacobian determinants were converted into z-score maps and the means from 420 cortical/subcortical/brainstem rois extracted. The fMRI was preprocessed in SPM12/Conn18 and the BOLD signal from 420 cortical/subcortical/brainstem rois extracted. A dynamic task-free analysis approach based on hierarchical cluster analysis was used to identify 15 brain states that were characterized using graph analysis (strength, diversity, modularity). Kruskal-Wallis tests and Spearman correlations were used for statistical analysis. One brain state (cluster 21) occurred more often in older adults (p=0.008). It was characterized by a lower mean modular strength and brainstem-cortical strength in ol...Continue Reading

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