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@ARTICLE{Khan:903186,
author = {Khan, Ahmed Faraz and Adewale, Quadri and Baumeister,
Tobias R and Carbonell, Felix and Zilles, Karl and
Palomero-Gallagher, Nicola and Iturria-Medina, Yasser},
title = {{P}ersonalized brain models identify neurotransmitter
receptor changes in {A}lzheimer’s disease},
journal = {Brain},
volume = {145},
number = {5},
issn = {0006-8950},
address = {Oxford},
publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-04906},
pages = {1785–1804},
year = {2022},
abstract = {Alzheimer’s disease involves many neurobiological
alterations from molecular to macroscopic spatial scales,
but we currently lack integrative, mechanistic brain models
characterizing how factors across different biological
scales interact to cause clinical deterioration in a way
that is subject-specific or personalized. As important
signalling molecules and mediators of many neurobiological
interactions, neurotransmitter receptors are promising
candidates for identifying molecular mechanisms and drug
targets in Alzheimer's disease.We present a neurotransmitter
receptor-enriched multifactorial brain model, which
integrates spatial distribution patterns of 15
neurotransmitter receptors from post-mortem autoradiography
with multiple in vivo neuroimaging modalities (tau,
amyloid-β and glucose PET, and structural, functional and
arterial spin labelling MRI) in a personalized, generative,
whole-brain formulation.In a heterogeneous aged population
(n = 423, ADNI data), models with personalized
receptor-neuroimaging interactions showed a significant
improvement over neuroimaging-only models, explaining about
$70\%$ $(±20\%)$ of the variance in longitudinal changes to
the six neuroimaging modalities. In Alzheimer's disease
patients (n = 25, ADNI data), receptor-imaging interactions
explained up to $39.7\%$ (P < 0.003, family-wise
error-rate-corrected) of inter-individual variability in
cognitive deterioration, via an axis primarily affecting
executive function. Notably, based on their contribution to
the clinical severity in Alzheimer’s disease, we found
significant functional alterations to glutamatergic
interactions affecting tau accumulation and neural activity
dysfunction and GABAergic interactions concurrently
affecting neural activity dysfunction, amyloid and tau
distributions, as well as significant cholinergic receptor
effects on tau accumulation. Overall, GABAergic alterations
had the largest effect on cognitive impairment (particularly
executive function) in our Alzheimer’s disease cohort (n =
25). Furthermore, we demonstrate the clinical applicability
of this approach by characterizing subjects based on
individualized ‘fingerprints’ of receptor
alterations.This study introduces the first robust,
data-driven framework for integrating several
neurotransmitter receptors, multimodal neuroimaging and
clinical data in a flexible and interpretable brain model.
It enables further understanding of the mechanistic
neuropathological basis of neurodegenerative progression and
heterogeneity, and constitutes a promising step towards
implementing personalized, neurotransmitter-based
treatments.},
cin = {INM-1},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-1-20090406},
pnm = {5251 - Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability
(POF4-525) / HBP SGA3 - Human Brain Project Specific Grant
Agreement 3 (945539) / HBP SGA2 - Human Brain Project
Specific Grant Agreement 2 (785907)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5251 / G:(EU-Grant)945539 /
G:(EU-Grant)785907},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:34605898},
UT = {WOS:000788204200001},
doi = {10.1093/brain/awab375},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/903186},
}