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Reduced activity in the right inferior frontal gyrus in elderly APOE-E4 carriers during a verbal fluency task
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- Apolipoprotein-E4 (APOE-E4) is a major genetic risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The verbal fluency task (VFT), especially the subtask category fluency, has shown to provide a good discrimination between cognitively normal controls and subjects with AD. Interestingly, APOE-E4 seems to have no effect on the behavioral performance during a VFT in healthy elderly. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to reveal possible compensation mechanisms by investigating the effect of APOE-E4 on the hemodynamic response inApolipoprotein-E4 (APOE-E4) is a major genetic risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The verbal fluency task (VFT), especially the subtask category fluency, has shown to provide a good discrimination between cognitively normal controls and subjects with AD. Interestingly, APOE-E4 seems to have no effect on the behavioral performance during a VFT in healthy elderly. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to reveal possible compensation mechanisms by investigating the effect of APOE-E4 on the hemodynamic response in non-demented elderly during a VFT by using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). We compared performance and hemodynamic response of high risk APOE-E4/E4, -E3/E4 carriers with neutral APOE-E3/E3 non-demented subjects (N = 288; 70–77 years). No difference in performance was found. APOE-E4/E4, -E3/E4 carriers had a decreased hemodynamic response in the right inferior frontal junction (IFJ) with a corresponding higher response in the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) during category fluency. Performance was correlated with the hemodynamic response in the MFG. We assume a compensation of decreased IFJ brain activation by utilizing the MFG during category fluency and thus resulting in no behavioral differences between APOE-groups during the performance of a VFT.…
Author: | Andrea Katzorke, Julia B. M. Zeller, Laura D. Müller, Martin Lauer, Thomas Polak, Andreas Reif, Jürgen Deckert, Martin J. Herrmann |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-171892 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Medizinische Fakultät / Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience |
Year of Completion: | 2017 |
Volume: | 11 |
Article Number: | 46 |
Source: | Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2017) 11:46. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00046 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00046 |
Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28220068 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Tag: | Alzheimer's disease; apolipoprotein-E4; elderly; near-infrared spectroscopy; psychiatry; verbal fluency task |
Release Date: | 2021/02/05 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |