Cognitive reserve in granulin-related frontotemporal dementia: from preclinical to clinical stages.

Premi, Enrico, Gazzina, Stefano, Bozzali, Marco, Archetti, Silvana, Alberici, Antonella, Cercignani, Mara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4550-2456, Bianchetti, Angelo, Gasparotti, Roberto, Turla, Marinella, Caltagirone, Carlo, Padovani, Alessandro and Borroni, Barbara 2013. Cognitive reserve in granulin-related frontotemporal dementia: from preclinical to clinical stages. PLoS ONE 8 (9) , e74762. 10.1371/journal.pone.0074762

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Abstract

Objective Consistent with the cognitive reserve hypothesis, higher education and occupation attainments may help persons with neurodegenerative dementias to better withstand neuropathology before developing cognitive impairment. We tested here the cognitive reserve hypothesis in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), with or without pathogenetic granulin mutations (GRN+ and GRN-), and in presymptomatic GRN mutation carriers (aGRN+). Methods Education and occupation attainments were assessed and combined to define Reserve Index (RI) in 32 FTD patients, i.e. 12 GRN+ and 20 GRN-, and in 17 aGRN+. Changes in functional connectivity were estimated by resting state fMRI, focusing on the salience network (SN), executive network (EN) and bilateral frontoparietal networks (FPNs). Cognitive status was measured by FTD-modified Clinical Dementia Rating Scale. Results In FTD patients higher level of premorbid cognitive reserve was associated with reduced connectivity within the SN and the EN. EN was more involved in FTD patients without GRN mutations, while SN was more affected in GRN pathology. In aGRN+, cognitive reserve was associated with reduced SN. Conclusions This study suggests that cognitive reserve modulates functional connectivity in patients with FTD, even in monogenic disease. In GRN inherited FTD, cognitive reserve mechanisms operate even in presymptomatic to clinical stages.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
Publisher:	Public Library of Science
ISSN:	1932-6203
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 April 2021
Date of Acceptance:	8 February 2013
Last Modified:	10 May 2023 22:21
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139517

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