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Yaojing Chen1, Zhen Liu1, Ailin Wang1
1State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China; BABRI Centre, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China.
Aims:
Episodic memory depends on the maintenance of an intact default mode network (DMN), and is one of the earliest cognitive domains to become impaired in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Therefore, exploring the alterations in task-related DMN deactivation and functional connectivity that affect episodic memory in T2DM will help to enhance our understanding of the allocation patterns underlying memory function in T2DM.
Methods:
The current study assessed changes in DMN activation and architecture during the encoding of a functional magnetic resonance imaging task in 39 patients with T2DM and 41 healthy controls which were recruited from local communities in Beijing, China.
Results:
We found that patients with T2DM and intact episodic memory performance exhibited reduced deactivation in the right precuneus and the middle temporal gyrus during the episodic memory task. Furthermore, an anterior-posterior disconnection phenotype and altered topological configuration of the DMN were observed in patients with T2DM using graph-theoretical approaches. Correlation analysis showed that altered deactivation during the episodic memory task was closely related to connectivity dysfunction and topological properties in the DMN.
Conclusions:
Our findings demonstrate that the maintenance of memory in patients with T2DM involves reduced deactivation and impaired anterior-posterior connections in the DMN during encoding.
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