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Abstract #0663

Deformation-based morphometry reveals lower brain tissue volume in autopsy confirmed limbic age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE)

Mahir Tazwar1, Arnold M Evia2, Abdur Raquib Ridwan2, David A Bennett2, Julie A Schneider2, and Konstantinos Arfanakis1,2
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Other Neurodegeneration, Aging, LATE-NC, TDP-43, Neuropathology, Aging, Postmortem MRI

Motivation: The association of limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathological change (LATE-NC) with brain morphometry has not been thoroughly investigated.

Goal(s): To investigate gray and white matter morphometric abnormalities in LATE-NC in a large number of community-based older adults.

Approach: This study combined deformation-based morphometry (DBM) in ex-vivo brain MRI and detailed neuropathological data on the same community-based older adults (N=897), and investigated the association of LATE-NC with brain morphometric characteristics using voxel-wise linear regression models.

Results: LATE-NC was associated with lower volume in gray and white matter areas of temporal and frontal lobes and basal ganglia, consistent with the known pathological distribution of LATE-NC.

Impact: The pattern of morphometric abnormality in LATE-NC that was generated in the present work may potentially be used in combination with other imaging and clinical information towards the development of a marker of this devastating neuropathology.

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