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@PHDTHESIS{Plachti:889994,
author = {Plachti, Anna},
title = {{M}ultimodal {M}apping of the {H}ippocampus across the
lifespan and in dementia},
school = {HHU Düsseldorf},
type = {Dissertation},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-00588},
pages = {174},
year = {2020},
note = {Dissertation, HHU Düsseldorf, 2020},
abstract = {The hippocampus is associated with behaviors such as memory
and navigation, and is one ofthe first brain regions to be
affected in diseases such as Alzheimer's dementia,
depression andanxiety disorders. Patients who have undergone
hippocampal resection experience greatdifficulties in
everyday life and suffer from anterograde and retrograde
amnesia.Understanding how the hippocampus is organized and
what behaviors are associated with it,is therefore of utmost
importance. The mapping of the hippocampus, i.e. the
description of itsorganization, has so far been limited to
the cellular level. However, a description of
theorganization of the hippocampus at the level of
large-scale networks is missing, which may bemore important
for drawing conclusions about behavior than the cellular
organization.With the use of imaging techniques and the
method of "Connectivity-Based Parcellation", it ispossible
to create in-vivo maps of the hippocampus across a large
number of participants. Themethod of Connectivity-Based
Parcellation divides the hippocampus into subregions
thatdiffer particularly strongly in their connectivity
profiles and display therefore a specificdifferentiation
pattern. The present work thus aimed at mapping the
hippocampus on the basisof functional connectivity and
structural covariance. Functional connectivity was
eithercalculated meta-analytically across tasks of published
functional studies or measured underresting state conditions
with the magnetic resonance tomography. Structural
covariance is arelatively new measure that estimates the
co-variation in grey matter intensities acrossindividuals
and thus maps co-plasticity and co-atrophy as brain regions
grow or degeneratetogether.In addition to mapping the
hippocampus, I was also strongly interested in
investigatingwhether differentiation patterns within the
hippocampus change over the course of life and indementia
and whether they can be distinguished from each other.
Therefore changes inhippocampal organization based on
alterations in structural covariance networks were
studied.The investigations were carried out on hundreds of
functional and structural imaging datafrom open accessible
databases. In contrast to the cytoarchitectonic
organization, theorganization of the hippocampus based on
functional connectivity showed a differentiationalong the
anterior-posterior axis with a subdivision into an anterior,
middle and posteriorsubregion. In contrast, the organization
based on structural covariance showed a
mediallateraldifferentiation into an anterior, medial and
lateral subregion similar to thedifferentiation into cornu
ammonis and subiculum.8Age-related changes were mainly found
in the posterior region of the hippocampus, where thelateral
subregion decreased. However, the hippocampal
differentiation pattern in dementiaclosely resembled a
functional division along the anterior-posterior axis, as
the lateralsubregion extended strongly in the medial
direction and covered almost the entirehippocampal body.
These changes were interpreted as a possible indication that
in dementiafunctional networks are particularly affected by
the spread of pathogens such asneurofibrillary tangles and
amyloid beta plaques and have therefore a long-term effect
on theco-atrophy of the hippocampus.To understand in which
behaviors the hippocampus is involved, I characterized both
thesubregions and the associated networks behaviorally using
databases that archive thousandsof activation studies. The
results suggested that the anterior hippocampus is more
involved inself-centric information processing and the
posterior hippocampus more involved in
worldcentericinformation processing. In addition, it can be
assumed that based on the networks ofstructural covariance,
the medial subregion has something to do with visual-motor
processing.The present work therefore showed that the
hippocampus has both an anterior-posterior and
amedial-lateral organization, depending on the type of
networks, whether functional orstructural. Structural
networks are not stable over the lifespan but change with
age anddementia mirroring different underlying processes.},
cin = {INM-7},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-7-20090406},
pnm = {572 - (Dys-)function and Plasticity (POF3-572)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-572},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/889994},
}