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Background: As a more common but easily neglected disorder, minimal depressive symptoms (MDS), it is unclear whether and why it increases the risk of cognitive progression in non-dementia elderly.
Methods: The Alzheimer's disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database was used to assign 1065 non-dementia elderly into normal control (n = 380) and MDS (n = 685) groups via the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS). Blood neutrophils, transcriptomics and metabolomics, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) proteomics, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data were analyzed.
Results: MDS was found to increase the risk of cognitive progression independently of multiple psychological symptoms. Increased levels of blood neutrophils were associated with cognitive progression in MDS, as supported by neutrophil-related pathways by transcriptomic enrichment analysis and multi-omics joint analysis. A disrupted frontolimbic circuit was associated with neutrophil activation in MDS.
Limitations: The heterogeneity of the sample limited the generalizability of results, and the lack of follow-up data limited the research on the mechanism of neutrophil activation influencing cognitive function in MDS.
Conclusions: Cognitive progression occurs as early as the MDS stage. And this phenomenon may attribute to the neutrophil activation and the related disrupted frontolimbic circuit.
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Schizophr Bull
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Department of Psychiatry, Central Laboratory, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China.
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Department of Neurology, NHO Nishiniigata Chuo Hospital, Niigata, Japan.
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Nat Aging
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Goizueta Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Clinical Alzheimer's disease is currently characterized by cerebral β-amyloidosis associated with cognitive impairment. However, most cases of Alzheimer's disease are associated with multiple neuropathologies at autopsy. The peripheral protein changes associated with these disease endophenotypes are poorly understood.
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Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Electronic address:
The effect of recurrent seizures on the gradual deterioration of the white matter structural network and the potential molecular mechanisms that underlie the baseline and longitudinal changes in network topology in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) remain unclear. Therefore, we used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) scans and neuropsychiatric assessments for 28 patients with unilateral TLE at baseline and follow-up, and for 28 healthy controls (HC). The topological properties of the structural network were calculated using graph theoretical analyses.
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