Avtor/Urednik     Pink, Anna; Przybelski, Scott A.; Krell-Roesch, Janina; Stokin, Gorazd Bernard; Roberts, Rosebud O.; Mielke, Michelle M.; Knopman, David S.; Jack, Clifford R.; Petersen, Ronald C.; Geda, Yonas E.
Naslov     Cortical thickness and depressive symptoms in cognitively normal individuals
Tip     članek
Vol. in št.     Letnik 58, št. 4
Leto izdaje     2017
Obseg     str. 1273-1281
ISSN     1387-2877 - Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     Altered cortical thickness has been observed in aging and various neurodegenerative disorders. Furthermore, reduced hippocampal volume has been reported in late-life depression. Even mild depressive symptoms are common in the elderly. However, little is known about the structural MRI measures of depressive symptoms in normal cognitive aging. Thus we sought to examine the association between depressive symptoms with cortical thickness and hippocampal volume as measured by brain MRI among community-dwelling participants. We conducted a cross-sectional study derived from the ongoing population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, involving cognitively normal participants (N = 1,507) ageds70 years. We observed that depressive symptoms were associated with lower global cortical thickness and lower thickness in specific prefrontal and temporal cortical regions, labeled by FreeSurfer software, version 5.3. As expected, the strength of correlation was very small, given that participants were community-dwelling with only mild depressive symptoms. We did not observe associations between hippocampal volume and depressive symptoms. These findings may provide insight into the structural correlates of mild depressive symptoms in elderly participants.
Proste vsebinske oznake     aging
depressive symptoms
magnetic resonance imaging
staranje
simptomi depresije
slikanje z magnetno resonanco