| Title: | Brain-wide associations between white matter and age highlight the role of fornix microstructure in brain ageing |
| Journal: | Human Brain Mapping |
| Published: | 17 May 2023 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37195079/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26333 |
| URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/hbm.26333 |
Publication 11456
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Abstract
Unveiling the details of white matter (WM) maturation throughout ageing is a fundamental question for understanding the ageing brain. In an extensive comparison of brain age predictions and age-associations of WM features from different diffusion approaches, we analyzed UK Biobank diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) data across midlife and older age (N = 35,749, 44.6-82.8 years of age). Conventional and advanced dMRI approaches were consistent in predicting brain age. WM-age associations indicate a steady microstructure degeneration with increasing age from midlife to older ages. Brain age was estimated best when combining diffusion approaches, showing different aspects of WM contributing to brain age. Fornix was found as the central region for brain age predictions across diffusion approaches in complement to forceps minor as another important region. These regions exhibited a general pattern of positive associations with age for intra axonal water fractions, axial, radial diffusivities, and negative relationships with age for mean diffusivities, fractional anisotropy, kurtosis. We encourage the application of multiple dMRI approaches for detailed insights into WM, and the further investigation of fornix and forceps as potential biomarkers of brain age and ageing.</p>
9 Authors
- Max Korbmacher
- Ann Marie de Lange
- Dennis van der Meer
- Dani Beck
- Eli Eikefjord
- Arvid Lundervold
- Ole A. Andreassen
- Lars T. Westlye
- Ivan I. Maximov
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