Katie Harris , Jessica Gong , Stephen MacMahon , Ying Xu , Sultana Shajahan , Stephen Harrap , Neil Poulter , Michel Marre , Pavel Hamet , Giuseppe Mancia , Craig Anderson , Mark Woodward , John Chalmers
{"title":"Effect of randomised blood pressure lowering treatment and intensive glucose control on dementia and cognitive decline according to baseline cognitive function and other subpopulations of individuals with type 2 diabetes: Results from the ADVANCE trial","authors":"Katie Harris , Jessica Gong , Stephen MacMahon , Ying Xu , Sultana Shajahan , Stephen Harrap , Neil Poulter , Michel Marre , Pavel Hamet , Giuseppe Mancia , Craig Anderson , Mark Woodward , John Chalmers","doi":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100372","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100372","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background and aims</h3><div>Accumulating evidence indicates that reducing high blood pressure (BP) prevents dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Furthermore, although diabetes is a risk factor for dementia and MCI, there is uncertainty of the effect of intensive glucose control on these endpoints. This study aimed to determine the effects of BP-lowering (vs placebo) and intensive glucose-lowering (vs standard control) treatments according to baseline cognition and other characteristics on dementia and cognitive decline (CD) in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>The Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron Modified Release Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial involved 11,140 individuals with T2DM. The effects of BP-lowering and intensive glucose-lowering treatments were explored in subgroups of baseline Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), categorised as cognitively normal (scores ≥28) and cognitive impairment (scores <28). The primary outcome was a composite of dementia/CD that accounted for the competing risk of death. Multinomial regression models, adjusted for common cardiovascular risk factors, were used to estimate odds ratios (OR) with 95 % confidence intervals (CI) of the effects of the treatments on dementia/CD. Homogeneity of effects by subgroups were evaluated using interaction terms in the models. A two-sided p value <0.05 was regarded as statistically significant.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>BP-lowering treatment (vs. placebo) was associated with a lower odds of dementia/CD in participants with cognitive impairment (OR 0.76, 95 % CI (0.59–0.99)) but not in those cognitively normal (OR 1.05, 95 % CI (0.92–1.21); p for interaction 0.03). Those with a history of cardio-renal-metabolic syndrome did not experience a benefit of active BP lowering treatment compared with placebo on dementia/CD. There were no further subgroup effects of BP-lowering treatment. The effect of intensive glucose lowering (vs standard control) on the odds of dementia/CD did not vary by baseline cognition subgroup. However, it did vary by level of blood glucose at baseline (<7.9 mmol/L OR 1.12, 95 % CI (0.96–1.30) vs ≥ 7.9 mmol/L 0.87 (0.75–1.00); p for interaction 0.02) and duration of T2DM (<10 years OR 0.92 (0.81–1.05) vs ≥10 years 1.16 (0.97–1.38); p for interaction 0.04).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>This study suggests greater effects of BP-lowering treatment in those with early loss of cognitive function than in those cognitively normal. There were also differential effects of intensive glucose-lowering on dementia and CD according to levels of blood glucose and duration of diabetes in people with T2DM.</div></div><div><h3>Clinical trial registration</h3><div>ADVANCE is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov: number NCT00145925</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72549,"journal":{"name":"Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100372"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11699603/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lina Jarutyte , Jan Petr , Nicholas Turner , Patrick G. Kehoe , Henk-Jan Mutsaerts , David L. Thomas
{"title":"Advantages and challenges of using arterial spin labelling MRI to monitor cerebral blood flow in multi-centre clinical trials of neurodegenerative disease: Experience from the RADAR study","authors":"Lina Jarutyte , Jan Petr , Nicholas Turner , Patrick G. Kehoe , Henk-Jan Mutsaerts , David L. Thomas","doi":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100376","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100376","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Arterial spin labelling (ASL) enables non-invasive quantification of regional brain perfusion using MRI. ASL was used in the Reducing Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease through Angiotensin TaRgeting (RADAR) multi-centre trial to pilot the assessment of the effects of the anti-hypertension drug losartan on cerebral blood flow (CBF). In the multi-centre setting, disparities in ASL implementation on scanners from different manufacturers lead to inherent differences in measured CBF and its associated parameters (e.g. spatial coefficient of variation (sCoV) of CBF, a proxy of arterial arrival times). In addition, differences in ASL acquisition parameter settings can also affect the measured quantitative perfusion values. In this study, we used data from the RADAR cohort as a case study to evaluate the site-dependent systematic differences of CBF and sCoV, and show that variations in the readout module (2D or 3D) and the post-labelling delay acquisition parameter introduced artifactual group differences. When accounting for this effect in data analysis, we show that it is still possible to combine ASL data across sites to observe the expected relationships between grey matter CBF and cognitive scores. In summary, ASL can provide useful information relating to CBF difference in multi-centre therapeutic trials, but care must be taken in data analysis to account for the inevitable inter-site differences in scanner type and acquisition protocol.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72549,"journal":{"name":"Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11773049/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143061234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The health and economic burden of brain disorders: Consequences for investment in diagnosis, treatment, prevention and R&D","authors":"Yunfei Li, Linus Jönsson","doi":"10.1016/j.cccb.2025.100377","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cccb.2025.100377","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Brain disorders are prevalent across all age groups but particularly in the elderly, highlighting the importance of preserving brain health in ageing populations. There have been few previous studies to address the complete scope of burden of brain disorders, including direct and indirect costs as well as intangible costs from morbidity and mortality. We seek to illustrate the full health and economic impact of brain disorders by leveraging data from previous large-scale epidemiological and health economic studies to estimate the total direct, indirect and intangible cost of brain disorders in 2019. Two alternative methods were used to estimate indirect costs: the human capital (HC) method (data from the CBDE2010 study), and the willingness-to-pay (WTP) per DALY method (data from GBD2019). Less than 10% of the costs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other dementias are incurred by the health care system, while Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is the costliest condition using the HC approach and stroke is the costliest condition due to the large number of life-years lost, followed by AD using the WTP approach. Using per-capita GDP as a proxy for WTP, the indirect costs were nearly four times higher compared to the conventional HC approach. We found that Indirect costs of brain disorders outweigh the direct costs for diagnosis, treatment and care even in high-income countries with advanced, universally accessible systems in Europe. There is likely underinvestment in R&D for brain disorders, and health care systems may lack sufficient incentives to invest in their treatment and prevention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72549,"journal":{"name":"Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100377"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11786689/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143082356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claire Seigworth , Isabelle Grassl , Dawn F. Wolfgram
{"title":"Measuring cerebrovascular reactivity in a hemodialysis cohort","authors":"Claire Seigworth , Isabelle Grassl , Dawn F. Wolfgram","doi":"10.1016/j.cccb.2025.100380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cccb.2025.100380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Introduction Cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) can inform about cerebral vascular health and provide prognostic information on risk cerebral ischemic injury. Use of transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) is a non-invasive and inexpensive method to measure CVR and often uses a stimulus of increase in arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO<sub>2</sub>). We evaluate re-breathing and breath-hold to measure CVR in a medically complex hemodialysis cohort who are at risk for cerebral hypoperfusion due to circulatory stress of hemodialysis.</div><div>Methods CVR was measured using both a 30 s breath-hold and a re-breathing period. We used percent change in mean flow velocity of the middle cerebral artery, measured with TCD over the change in end-tidal CO<sub>2</sub> to calculate CVR. Paired T-test was used to compare the parameters of CVR and Pearson correlation to evaluate relevant risk factors for lower CVR.</div><div>Results 16 participants completed both CVR measurements, with mean (SD) age of 64.2 (11.2) years. CVR measured from each technique was similar 3.4 (2.9) %/mmHg (breath-hold) vs 2.7 (1.6) %/mmHg, (re-breathing) <em>p</em> = 0.37. Older age and history of stroke were associated with lower CVR when measured with re-breathing but not with breath-hold technique.</div><div>Conclusions <em>Re</em>-breathing to increase pCO<sub>2</sub> and measure CVR is well-tolerated by a frail older medically complex patient population and may be a way to measure cerebrovascular health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72549,"journal":{"name":"Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100380"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143519720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where in the brain is human intelligence?✰","authors":"Lars Nyberg","doi":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We still know relatively little about how the human brain supports intelligence. I this personal view I argue that adopting the framework of neurocognitive component processes (NCP) might advance the current state of knowledge. Integration of information processing across distributed brain regions is proposed as a potential NCP, and some possible clinical implications of adopting the NCP framework are outlined.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72549,"journal":{"name":"Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100374"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11699295/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sijia Chen , Ye Zhu , Feihong Lin , Hanming Jiang , Haipeng Liu , Shan Li , Xuliang Huang , Yunchang Mo , Junlu Wang , Qinxue Dai
{"title":"Electroacupuncture protects against cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury via regulating P2×7R expression","authors":"Sijia Chen , Ye Zhu , Feihong Lin , Hanming Jiang , Haipeng Liu , Shan Li , Xuliang Huang , Yunchang Mo , Junlu Wang , Qinxue Dai","doi":"10.1016/j.cccb.2025.100379","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cccb.2025.100379","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Ischemic stroke is a serious clinical condition that is challenging to cure; therefore, slowing down the depletion of ATP is crucial to enhancing the tolerance of ischemic tissue through preconditioning. Electroacupuncture (EA) preconditioning induces tolerance to cerebral ischemia; however, the underlying mechanism remains unclear.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The P2×7 receptor (P2×7R) mediates the stimulation of microglial cells and is involved in the development of cerebral ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) damage. We hypothesized that the protective effect of EA preconditioning is associated with the downregulation of P2×7R expression.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We performed EA at the \"Baihui\" and \"Fengfu\" for 30 min before establishing a rat model of cerebral I/R induced based on the middle cerebral artery occlusion model (MCAO). MCAO rats were administered a ventricular injection of 2 '(3′)-O-(4-benzoyl) adenosine triphosphate (BzATP), a P2×7R agonist, 30 min before EA. Neurologic scoring, infarction volume, and expression of cytokines, Bcl-2 and Bax, Iba1, P2×7R, p38, and phosphorylated p38 (p-p38) in ischemia penumbra were detected 24 h after cerebral I/R.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>EA preconditioning ameliorated neurologic scoring, decreased infarction volume, and neuronal injury, and decreased cytokine release, while BzATP exacerbated cerebral I/R damage and inflammation events, unlike the favorable efficacy of EA. EA inhibited the expression of Iba-1, P2×7R, and p-p38/p38 in the ischemic penumbra, whereas BzATP reversed this effect.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>EA could induce cerebral tolerance to I/R damage by suppressing P2×7R expression and release of inflammatory factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72549,"journal":{"name":"Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100379"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143478643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arunima Kapoor , Shubir Dutt , Amy Nguyen , Trevor Lohman , Aimée Gaubert , John Paul M. Alitin , Isabel J Sible , Anisa Marshall , Fatemah Shenasa , Allison C Engstrom , David Robert Bradford , Kathleen Rodgers , Daniel A Nation
{"title":"Endothelial progenitor cells and cerebral small vessel disease in APOE4 carriers","authors":"Arunima Kapoor , Shubir Dutt , Amy Nguyen , Trevor Lohman , Aimée Gaubert , John Paul M. Alitin , Isabel J Sible , Anisa Marshall , Fatemah Shenasa , Allison C Engstrom , David Robert Bradford , Kathleen Rodgers , Daniel A Nation","doi":"10.1016/j.cccb.2025.100378","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cccb.2025.100378","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><em>APOE4</em> carriers at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease exhibit early cerebrovascular dysfunction, which may be triggered by endothelial dysfunction. Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) represent cell populations involved in promoting angiogenesis and facilitating vascular repair in response to injury. We examined whether elevated EPCs are associated with lower cerebral small vessel disease burden in <em>APOE4</em> carriers prior to cognitive decline. Independently living older adults (<em>N</em> = 109, mean age = 70.5 years; SD = 7.9; 34.9 % male) free of dementia or clinical stroke underwent brain MRI and venipuncture. Small vessel disease was determined using a validated scale. White matter hyperintensity (WMH) volume was determined using the lesion segmentation toolbox. PBMCs were cultured and EPCs were defined as number of colony forming units in vitro. Regression analysis revealed an association between average number of EPC colonies and lower small vessel disease load (<em>p</em> = .026) and WMH volume (<em>p</em> = .002), in <em>APOE4</em> carriers. Findings suggest that EPC colony count may indicate activation of mechanisms which protect cerebrovascular function in <em>APOE4</em> carriers prior to the development of cognitive decline.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72549,"journal":{"name":"Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100378"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143419271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ying Xu , G. Peggy McFall , Lina Rydén , Johan Skoog , Edward Chang , Lucette A. Cysique , Katie Harris , Sarah Kedwell , Mei Ling Lim , Kaarin J. Anstey , Craig S. Anderson , Roger A. Dixon , Ingmar Skoog , Phillip J. Tully , Ruth Peters
{"title":"Cumulative blood pressure load and cognitive decline in older adults: An observational analysis of two large cohorts","authors":"Ying Xu , G. Peggy McFall , Lina Rydén , Johan Skoog , Edward Chang , Lucette A. Cysique , Katie Harris , Sarah Kedwell , Mei Ling Lim , Kaarin J. Anstey , Craig S. Anderson , Roger A. Dixon , Ingmar Skoog , Phillip J. Tully , Ruth Peters","doi":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Cumulative blood pressure metrics may provide greater precision for measuring temporal risk exposure, especially in later life where data are mixed regarding associations of high blood pressure (BP) on cognitive function. We examined the relationship between greater cumulative exposure to high BP in later life and several domains of cognitive function.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Individual cognitive assessment scores and BP measurements in older adults (age ≥70 years) at baseline and over approximately 8 years of follow-up were available in the population-based Canadian Victoria Longitudinal Study (VLS) and Swedish Gothenburg H70 Birth Cohort Studies (H70). Linear mixed models were used to quantify associations between cumulative systolic and diastolic BP and change in cognitive scores.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Each additional 100mmHg increase in cumulative BP was related to greater decline in the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) List A, trials 1–5 total score over follow-up: -0.23 (95% confidence interval [CI] -0.32, -0.13) for systolic BP and -0.41 (95%CI -0.58, -0.23) for diastolic BP. Similarly increases cumulative systolic and diastolic BP were related to greater declines Digit Symbol Substitution Task (DSS) scores: -0.59 (95%CI -0.80, -0.38) and -1.04 (95% CI -1.40, -0.67), respectively. There were no associations of cumulative BP and temporal changes in general cognition, other measures of verbal episodic memory, or semantic fluency.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Higher cumulative BP is associated with greater declines in RAVLT measured immediate memory span and complex attention, information processing speed and visuospatial scanning in older adults, but the scale of change is small. Additional research is required to further define these relationships and identify opportunities for prevention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72549,"journal":{"name":"Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100375"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11730254/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142985722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dragos-Cristian Gruia , Sabia Combrie , William Trender , Peter Hellyer , Soma Banerjee , Joseph Kwan , Henrik Zetterberg , Adam Hampshire , Fatemeh Geranmayeh
{"title":"Introducing the IC3 study - Deep cognitive phenotyping of patients with cerebrovascular disease in relation to novel plasma and MRI brain biomarkers","authors":"Dragos-Cristian Gruia , Sabia Combrie , William Trender , Peter Hellyer , Soma Banerjee , Joseph Kwan , Henrik Zetterberg , Adam Hampshire , Fatemeh Geranmayeh","doi":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100328","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100328","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Cerebrovascular disease is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Identification and treatment of cognitive impairment following cerebrovascular disease (such as following stroke) remains a large unmet need. There is a growing need for in-depth scalable and cost-effective longitudinal assessment of cognitive function to better understand the range of factors that contribute to long-term cognitive outcomes after a vascular insult. To address this gap and to capitalise on the recent growth of telemedicine, we developed the IC3 online tool (Imperial College Comprehensive assessment for Cerebrovascular disease; <span><span>https://ic3study.co.uk/</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>) combined with MRI brain imaging and plasma biomarkers to identify novel multimodal predictors of recovery after stroke (Figure 1).<figure><img></figure><figure><img></figure></p><p><strong>Figure 1:</strong> Study Timeline.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>The IC3 platform is a web-based digital technology, designed to detect both domain-general and domain-specific cognitive deficits prevalent in cerebrovascular disease (Figure 2). Demographic, socio-economic, and neuropsychiatric information is collected alongside 22 short, computerised cognitive tests, with minimal input from a health professional, at 0-, 3-, 6-, and 12-months post- stroke. These are related to structural and functional brain MRI and plasma biomarkers (such as plasma brain-derived tau, neurofilament light, glial fibrillary acidic protein and amyloid entities).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>We present IC3 assessment results from N>5000 older adults. We outline the cognitive performance of a modest sample of patients with stroke against a gender-, age- and education- matched control sample. Furthermore, we present an overview of our validation studies which examine the battery's specificity and sensitivity, and test-retest reliability. Finally, as the assessment has been designed to be self-administered remotely, we also present validation against face-to-face supervised delivery of the battery and discuss the effect of several technical confounds affecting a patient's performance (such as device type, operating system, and motoric impairments).</p></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><p>The IC3 tool is the first assessment to offer a an in-depth relatively unsupervised cognitive phenotyping of patients with cerebrovascular disease, facilitating scalable and cost-efficient longitudinal monitoring of cognition in this group. The assessment fares very well against various validation methods, making it an attractive tool for understanding the mechanisms of recovery in relation to novel brain and plasma biomarkers in a plethora of cerebrovascular disorders.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72549,"journal":{"name":"Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100328"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666245024001296/pdfft?md5=a246292685f15352bb5de6fee2b8d1e5&pid=1-s2.0-S2666245024001296-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142121611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of Post-stroke Cognitive Impairment Using Machine Learning Approach","authors":"Minwoo Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100286","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cccb.2024.100286","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI) occurs in up to 50% of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Thus, the prediction of cognitive outcomes in AIS may be useful for treatment decisions. This PSCI cohort study aimed to determine the applicability of a machine learning approach for predicting PSCI after stroke.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>This retrospective study used a prospective PSCI cohort of patients with AIS. Demographic features, clinical characteristics, and brain imaging variables previously known to be associated with PSCI were included in the analysis. The primary outcome was PSCI at 3–6 months, defined as an adjusted z-score of less than -2.0 standard deviation in at least one of the four cognitive domains (memory, executive/frontal, visuospatial, and language), using the Korean version of the Vascular Cognitive Impairment Harmonization Standards neuropsychological protocol (VCIHS-NP). We developed four machine learning models (logistic regression, support vector machine, extreme gradient boost, and artificial neural network) and compared their accuracies for outcome variables.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>A total of 1047 patients (mean age 65.7±11.9; male 61.5%) with AIS were included in this study. The area under the curve for the extreme gradient boost and the artificial neural network was the highest (0.7919 and 0.7365, respectively) among the four models for predicting PSCI according to the VCIHS-NP definition. The most important features for predicting PSCI include the presence of cortical infarcts, mesial temporal lobe atrophy, initial stroke severity, stroke history, and strategic lesion infarcts.</p></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><p>Our findings indicate that machine-learning algorithms, particularly the extreme gradient boost and the artificial neural network models, can best predict cognitive outcomes after ischemic stroke.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":72549,"journal":{"name":"Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666245024000874/pdfft?md5=fd3582808b3d37d8edb6167163dfac28&pid=1-s2.0-S2666245024000874-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142122049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}