The Transitions Between Dynamic Micro-States Reveal Age-Related Functional Network Reorganization
Yuanyuan Chen1,2, Ya-Nan Liu2,3, Peng Zhou2,3
1College of Microelectronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Abstract:
Normal dynamic change in human brain occurs with age increasing, yet much remains unknown regarding how brain develops, matures, and ages. Functional connectivity analysis of the resting-state brain is a powerful method for revealing the intrinsic features of functional networks, and micro-states, which are the intrinsic patterns of functional connectivity in dynamic network courses, and are suggested to be more informative of brain functional changes. The aim of this study is to explore the age-related changes in these micro-states of dynamic functional network. Three healthy groups were included: the young (ages 21-32 years), the adult (age 41-54 years), and the old (age 60-86 years). Sliding window correlation method was used to construct the dynamic connectivity networks, and then the micro-states were individually identified with clustering analysis. The distribution of age-related connectivity variations in several intrinsic networks for each micro-state was analyzed then. The micro-states showed substantial age-related changes in the transitions between states but not in the dwelling time. Also there was no age-related reorganization observed within any micro-state. But there were reorganizations observed in the transition between them. These results suggested that the identified micro-states represented certain underlying connectivity patterns in functional brain system, which are similar to the intrinsic cognitive networks or resources. In addition, the dynamic transitions between these states were probable mechanisms of reorganization or compensation in functional brain networks with age increasing.
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