Neuropsychological Markers of Medial Perirhinal and Entorhinal Cortex Functioning are Impaired Twelve Years Preceding Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Dementia

Hirni, Daniela I.; Kivisaari, Sasa L.; Krumm, Sabine; Monsch, Andreas U.; Berres, Manfred; Oeksuez, Fatma; Reinhardt, Julia; Ulmer, Stephan; Kressig, Reto W.; Stippich, Christoph; Taylor, Kirsten I.

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“…Specifically, effect sizes for age differences in incorrect trials required to learn similar object discriminations in Experiment 1 (Cohen's d 5 1.34, 95% confidence interval (CI) 5 -22 to 20) and performance on Lure 2 (d 5 2.30, CI 5 -.56 to 5.16) and Lure 3 trials (d 5 1.98, CI 5 -.79 to 4.75) in Experiment 2 are greater than that observed for the age difference in performance on high-similarity spatial discriminations in our previously published study (d 5 .99, CI 5 .95-1.03) (Johnson et al, 2016). Critically, these findings are consistent with knowledge that lateral entorhinal and perirhinal cortices, which are more likely to contribute to visual and object discriminations, show earlier evidence of neuropathology with advanced age and progression to Alzheimer's disease (Braak & Braak, 1991;Braak, Braak, & Bohl, 1993;Hirni et al, 2016;Krumm et al, 2016;Khan et al, 2014).…”

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Rodent age‐related impairments in discriminating perceptually similar objects parallel those observed in humans

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The ability to accurately remember distinct episodes is supported by high-level sensory discrimination. Performance on mnemonic similarity tasks, which test high-level discrimination, declines with advancing age in humans and these deficits have been linked to altered activity in hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus. Lesion studies in animal models, however, point to the perirhinal cortex as a brain region critical for sensory discriminations that serve memory. Reconciliation of the contributions of different regions within the cortical-hippocampal circuit requires the development of a discrimination paradigm comparable to the human mnemonic similarity task that can be used in rodents. In the present experiments, young and aged rats were cross-characterized on a spatial water maze task and two variants of an object discrimination task: one in which rats incrementally learned which object of a pair was rewarded and different pairs varied in their similarity (Experiment 1), and a second in which rats were tested on their ability to discriminate a learned target object from multiple lure objects with an increasing degree of feature overlap (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, aged rats required more training than young to correctly discriminate between similar objects. Comparably, in Experiment 2, aged rats were impaired in discriminating a target object from lures when the pair shared more features. Discrimination deficits across experiments were correlated within individual aged rats, though, for the cohort tested, aged rats were not impaired overall in spatial learning and memory. This could suggest discrimination deficits emerging with age precede declines in spatial or episodic memory, an observation that has been made in humans. Findings of robust impairments in object discrimination abilities in the aged rats parallel results from human studies, supporting use of the developed tasks for mechanistic investigation of cortical-hippocampal circuit dysfunction in aging and disease.

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Rodent age‐related impairments in discriminating perceptually similar objects parallel those observed in humans

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“…Given prior findings of PRC dysfunction in animal models of aging (Burke et al, 2011(Burke et al, , 2014Ryan et al, 2012) and AD-related pathology in the region (Braak, Braak, and Bohl, 1993;Braak and Braak, 1995;Hirni et al, 2016;Jack et al, 1997), it is interesting and perhaps surprising that we found no evidence for age-related PRC dysfunction. One possibility is that mnemonic discrimination more uniquely drives age-related differences in alEC than PRC in the context of our task.…”

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“…Moreover, it will be important to distinguish simple agerelated changes from those that indicate a disease state. The entorhinal cortex (EC) is among the first and most profoundly affected regions in age-related pathologies, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) (Braak, Braak, and Bohl, 1993;Braak and Braak, 1995;Hirni et al, 2016;Jack et al, 1997). In particular, the EC, undergoes structural and functional alterations relating to AD (Burke et al, 2011(Burke et al, , 2014Ryan et al, 2012;Stranahan and Mattson, 2010), even in older preclinical humans (Khan et al, 2014).…”

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Functional Imbalance of Anterolateral Entorhinal Cortex and Hippocampal Dentate/CA3 Underlies Age-Related Object Pattern Separation Deficits

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The entorhinal cortex (EC) is among the earliest brain areas to deteriorate in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the extent to which functional properties of the EC are altered in the aging brain, even in the absence of clinical symptoms, is not understood. Recent human fMRI studies have identified a functional dissociation within the EC, similar to what is found in rodents. Here, we used high-resolution fMRI to identify a specific hypoactivity in the anterolateral EC (alEC) commensurate with major behavioral deficits on an object pattern separation task in asymptomatic older adults. Only subtle deficits were found in a comparable spatial condition, with no associated differences in posteromedial EC between young and older adults. We additionally linked this condition to dentate/CA3 hyperactivity, and the ratio of activity between the regions was associated with object mnemonic discrimination impairment. These results provide novel evidence of alEC-dentate/CA3 circuit dysfunction in cognitively normal aged humans. eTOC BlurbReagh et al. identify a novel mechanistic pathway for the decline in pattern separation of object stimuli observed with aging -a network dysregulation characterized by hypoactivity in the anterolateral entorhinal cortex and hyperactivity in the dentate and CA3 subregions of the hippocampus. This novel biomarker yields a potential tool for assessing the neural basis of agerelated memory decline. †

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“…These changes can occur early in disease progression, especially in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) [1, 2], in some cases even before diagnosis [3, 4]. Animal models of these diseases are important for translational medicine, including development and testing of new drug and behavioral treatments [5, 6, 7, 8].…”

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Vocalization development in common marmosets for neurodegenerative translational modeling

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Hoffman

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Objectives In order to facilitate the study of vocalizations in emerging genetic common marmoset models of neurodegenerative disorders, we aimed to analyze call type changes across age in a translational research environment. We hypothesized that acoustic parameters of vocalizations would change with age, reflecting growth of the vocal apparatus and a maturation of control needed to make adult-like calls. Methods Nineteen developing common marmosets were longitudinally video- and audio-recorded between the ages of 1–149 days in a naturalistic setting without any vocalization elicitation protocol. Vocalizations were coded for call type (cry, tsik, trill, phee, and trill-phee) and analyzed for duration (sec), minimum & maximum frequency (Hz), and bandwidth (Hz). Mixed model linear regressions were performed to assess the effects of age on call parameters listed above for each call type. Results Cries decreased in duration (p=0.038), maximum frequency (p=0.047), and bandwidth (p=0.023) with age. Tsik calls decreased in duration (p=0.002) and increased in minimum frequency (p=0.004) and maximum frequency (p=0.005) with age. Trill calls increased in duration (p=0.003), and trillphee bandwidth (p=0.031) decreased with age. Discussion Our results demonstrate that development of common marmoset vocalizations is call type-dependent and that changes in acoustic parameters can be detected without complex vocalization elicitation paradigms or specialized audio recording equipment. Thus, we demonstrate the feasibility of a naturalistic protocol to collect and objectively analyze marmoset vocalizations longitudinally. This approach may be useful for studying vocal communication deficits in genetic models of neurodegenerative disorders.

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Neuropsychological Markers of Medial Perirhinal and Entorhinal Cortex Functioning are Impaired Twelve Years Preceding Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Dementia

Cited by 29 publications

References 43 publications

Rodent age‐related impairments in discriminating perceptually similar objects parallel those observed in humans

Rodent age‐related impairments in discriminating perceptually similar objects parallel those observed in humans

Functional Imbalance of Anterolateral Entorhinal Cortex and Hippocampal Dentate/CA3 Underlies Age-Related Object Pattern Separation Deficits

Vocalization development in common marmosets for neurodegenerative translational modeling

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