Table 2.
Regions of significant difference in functional connectivity within the default mode network between CN, aMCI−, aMCI+, and AD.
Contrast | Brain region | BA | MNI coordinates |
Extent voxels (mm3) | Peak T value | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
X | Y | Z | |||||
CN > aMCI+ | L. lingual gyrus | 18 | −8 | −64 | 2 | 81 | 4.77 |
CN < aMCI+ | None | ||||||
CN > AD | R. precuneus | 7 | 6 | −76 | 36 | 228 | 5.21 |
L. posterior cingulate | 31 | −2 | −40 | 38 | 112 | 4.49 | |
CN < AD | None | ||||||
CN > aMCI− | None | ||||||
CN < aMCI− | L. precuneus | 31 | −20 | −70 | 16 | 76 | 4.77 |
R. superior parietal lobule | 7 | 22 | −68 | 58 | 69 | 4.82 | |
R. superior temporal gyrus | 22 | 56 | −50 | 14 | 28 | 3.53 | |
L. middle temporal gyrus | 39 | −48 | −72 | 18 | 21 | 4.02 | |
L. culmen | 0 | −50 | −2 | 18 | 3.79 | ||
aMCI+ < aMCI− | L. cuneus | 18 | −16 | −74 | 20 | 383 | 6.32 |
R. superior temporal gyrus | 22 | 54 | −48 | 14 | 51 | 5.75 | |
L. superior frontal gyrus | 10 | −6 | 64 | −6 | 47 | 3.67 | |
R. superior parietal lobule | 7 | 28 | −66 | 58 | 30 | 3.10 | |
R. inferior temporal gyrus | 21 | 58 | −8 | −18 | 23 | 4.56 | |
L. medial frontal gyrus | 10 | 0 | 64 | 2 | 17 | 3.27 | |
Culmen | 0 | −62 | −6 | 11 | 4.16 | ||
R. posterior cingulate | 29 | 4 | −42 | 16 | 10 | 3.99 | |
aMCI+ > aMCI− | None |
CN, cognitively normal healthy control; aMCI−, amnestic-type mild cognitive impairment PiB-negative; aMCI+, amnestic-type mild cognitive impairment PiB-positive; AD, Alzheimer’s disease; BA, Brodmann area.