Neural compensation in older people with brain amyloid-beta deposition

作者:Elman Jeremy A*; Oh Hwamee; Madison Cindee M; Baker Suzanne L; Vogel Jacob W; Marks Shawn M; Crowley Sam; O'Neil James P; Jagust William J
来源:Nature Neuroscience, 2014, 17(10): 1316-1318.
DOI:10.1038/nn.3806

摘要

Recruitment of extra neural resources may allow people to maintain normal cognition despite amyloid-beta (A beta) plaques. Previous fMRI studies have reported such hyperactivation, but it is unclear whether increases represent compensation or aberrant overexcitation. We found that older adults with A beta deposition had reduced deactivations in task-negative regions, but increased activation in task-positive regions related to more detailed memory encoding. The association between higher activity and more detailed memories suggests that A beta-related hyperactivation is compensatory.

  • 出版日期2014-10