The impact of aging on the subregions of the fusiform gyrus in healthy older adults.

Journal of Neuroscience Research
Mahima ShahEileen Luders

Abstract

The fusiform gyrus is known to decrease in size with increasing age. However, reported findings are inconsistent and existing studies differ in terms of the cohorts examined and/or the methods applied. Here, we analyzed age-related links in four distinct subregions of the fusiform gyrus through integrating imaging-based intensity information with microscopically defined cytoarchitectonic probabilities. In addition to age effects we investigated sex effects as well as age-by-sex interactions in a relatively large sample of 468 healthy subjects (272 females/196 males) covering a broad age range (42-97 years). We observed significant negative correlations between age and all four subregions of the fusiform gyrus indicating volume decreases over time, albeit with subregion-specific trajectories. Additionally, we observed significant negative quadratic associations with age for some subregions, suggesting an accelerating volume loss over time. These findings may serve as a frame of reference for future cross-sectional as well as longitudinal studies, not only for normative samples but also potentially for clinical conditions that present with abnormal atrophy of the fusiform gyrus. We did not detect any significant sex differences o...Continue Reading

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