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Neurology ; 65(3): 404-11, 2005 Aug 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16087905

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OBJECTIVE: To use fMRI to investigate whether hippocampal and entorhinal activation during learning is altered in the earliest phase of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). METHODS: Three groups of older individuals were studied: 10 cognitively intact controls, 9 individuals at the mild end of the spectrum of MCI, and 10 patients with probable Alzheimer disease (AD). Subjects performed a face-name associative encoding task during fMRI scanning, and were tested for recognition of stimuli afterward. Data were analyzed using a functional-anatomic method in which medial temporal lobe (MTL) regions of interest were identified from each individual's structural MRI, and fMRI activation was quantified within each region. RESULTS: Significantly greater hippocampal activation was present in the MCI group compared to controls; there were no differences between these two groups in hippocampal or entorhinal volumes. In contrast, the AD group showed hippocampal and entorhinal hypoactivation and atrophy in comparison to controls. The subjects with MCI performed similarly to controls on the fMRI recognition memory task; patients with AD exhibited poorer performance. Across all 29 subjects, greater mean entorhinal activation was found in the subgroup of 13 carriers of the APOE epsilon4 allele than in the 16 noncarriers. CONCLUSIONS: The authors hypothesize that there is a phase of increased medial temporal lobe activation early in the course of prodromal Alzheimer disease followed by a subsequent decrease as the disease progresses.


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Envelhecimento/fisiologia , Doença de Alzheimer/fisiopatologia , Transtornos Cognitivos/fisiopatologia , Hipocampo/fisiopatologia , Idoso , Envelhecimento/psicologia , Doença de Alzheimer/diagnóstico , Doença de Alzheimer/psicologia , Apolipoproteínas E/genética , Transtornos Cognitivos/diagnóstico , Transtornos Cognitivos/psicologia , Feminino , Predisposição Genética para Doença/genética , Genótipo , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Transtornos da Memória/etiologia , Transtornos da Memória/fisiopatologia , Transtornos da Memória/psicologia , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Reconhecimento Visual de Modelos/fisiologia
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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry ; 74(1): 44-50, 2003 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12486265

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OBJECTIVE: To examine alterations in patterns of brain activation seen in normal aging and in mild Alzheimer's disease by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during an associative encoding task. METHODS: 10 young controls, 10 elderly controls, and seven patients with mild Alzheimer's disease were studied using fMRI during a face-name association encoding task. The fMRI paradigm used a block design with three conditions: novel face-name pairs, repeated face-name pairs, and visual fixation. RESULTS: The young and elderly controls differed primarily in the pattern of activation seen in prefrontal and parietal cortices: elderly controls showed significantly less activation in both superior and inferior prefrontal cortices but greater activation in parietal regions than younger controls during the encoding of novel face-name pairs. Compared with elderly controls, the Alzheimer patients showed significantly less activation in the hippocampal formation but greater activation in the medial parietal and posterior cingulate regions. CONCLUSIONS: The pattern of fMRI activation during the encoding of novel associations is differentially altered in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease compared with normal aging.


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Doença de Alzheimer/diagnóstico , Doença de Alzheimer/fisiopatologia , Associação , Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Envelhecimento/fisiologia , Aprendizagem por Associação , Encéfalo/patologia , Encéfalo/fisiologia , Mapeamento Encefálico , Feminino , Hipocampo/patologia , Hipocampo/fisiologia , Hipocampo/fisiopatologia , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética , Masculino , Transtornos da Memória/diagnóstico , Transtornos da Memória/etiologia , Transtornos da Memória/fisiopatologia , Estimulação Luminosa , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Valores de Referência
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