@inproceedings{bbdfc5c12fb341758393786dcc9e9e9c,
title = "Alzheimer's disease disrupts rich club organization in brain connectivity networks",
abstract = "Diffusion imaging and brain connectivity analyses can monitor white matter deterioration, revealing how neural pathways break down in aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we tested how AD disrupts the 'rich club' effect - a network property found in the normal brain - where high-degree nodes in the connectivity network are more heavily interconnected with each other than expected by chance. We analyzed 3-Tesla whole-brain diffusion-weighted images (DWI) from 66 subjects (22 AD/44 normal elderly). We performed whole-brain tractography based on the orientation distribution functions. Connectivity matrices were compiled, representing the proportion of detected fibers interconnecting 68 cortical regions. As expected, AD patients had a lower nodal degree (average number of connections) in cortical regions implicated in the disease. Unexpectedly, the normalized rich club coefficient was higher in AD. AD disrupts cortical networks by removing connections; when these networks are thresholded, organizational properties are disrupted leading to additional new biomarkers of AD.",
author = "Madelaine Daianu and Dennis, {Emily L.} and Neda Jahanshad and Nir, {Talia M.} and Toga, {Arthur W.} and Jack, {Clifford R.} and Weiner, {Michael W.} and Thompson, {Paul M.}",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556463",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781467364546",
series = "Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging",
pages = "266--269",
booktitle = "ISBI 2013 - 2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging",
note = "2013 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2013 ; Conference date: 07-04-2013 Through 11-04-2013",
}