基于连接组学的模型预测老年人的注意力控制。
Connectome-based models predict attentional control in aging adults.
机构信息
Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, USA.
Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA.
出版信息
Neuroimage. 2019 Feb 1;186:1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.074. Epub 2018 Oct 28.
There are well-characterized age-related differences in behavioral and neural responses to tasks of attentional control. However, there is also increasing recognition of individual variability in the process of neurocognitive aging. Using connectome-based predictive modeling, a method for predicting individual-level behaviors from whole-brain functional connectivity, a sustained attention connectome-based prediction model (saCPM) has been derived in young adults. The saCPM consists of two large-scale functional networks: a high-attention network whose strength predicts better attention and a low-attention network whose strength predicts worse attention. Here we examined the generalizability of the saCPM for predicting inhibitory control in an aging sample. Forty-two healthy young adults (n = 21, ages 18-30) and older adults (n = 21, ages 60-80) performed a modified Stroop task, on which older adults exhibited poorer performance, indexed by higher reaction time cost between incongruent and congruent trials. The saCPM generalized to predict reaction time cost across age groups, but did not account for age-related differences in performance. Exploratory analyses were conducted to characterize the effects of age on functional connectivity and behavior. We identified subnetworks of the saCPM that exhibited age-related differences in strength. The strength of two low-attention subnetworks, consisting of frontoparietal, medial frontal, default mode, and motor nodes that were more strongly connected in older adults, mediated the effect of age group on performance. These results support the saCPM's ability to capture attention-related patterns reflected in each individual's functional connectivity signature across both task context and age. However, older and younger adults exhibit functional connectivity differences within components of the saCPM networks, and it is these connections that better account for age-related deficits in attentional control.
在注意力控制任务的行为和神经反应方面,存在着特征明显的与年龄相关的差异。然而,人们也越来越认识到神经认知老化过程中的个体差异。使用基于连接组的预测模型,这是一种从全脑功能连接预测个体水平行为的方法,已经在年轻成年人中得出了一个持续注意力基于连接组的预测模型(saCPM)。saCPM 由两个大规模的功能网络组成:一个高注意力网络,其强度可以预测更好的注意力;一个低注意力网络,其强度可以预测更差的注意力。在这里,我们检验了 saCPM 在老化样本中预测抑制控制的泛化能力。42 名健康的年轻成年人(n=21,年龄 18-30 岁)和老年人(n=21,年龄 60-80 岁)进行了一项修改后的 Stroop 任务,老年人在该任务中表现出较差的表现,表现在不一致和一致试验之间的反应时成本更高。saCPM 可以推广到预测年龄组之间的反应时成本,但不能解释与年龄相关的表现差异。进行了探索性分析以描述年龄对功能连接和行为的影响。我们确定了 saCPM 的子网络,这些子网络在强度上存在与年龄相关的差异。两个低注意力子网的强度存在差异,这些子网由额顶叶、内侧额、默认模式和运动节点组成,在老年人中连接更强,这解释了年龄组对表现的影响。这些结果支持 saCPM 能够捕捉到与注意力相关的模式,这些模式反映了每个个体在任务背景和年龄方面的功能连接特征。然而,老年人和年轻人在 saCPM 网络的组成部分中表现出功能连接差异,而正是这些连接更好地解释了注意力控制与年龄相关的缺陷。