Molecular, Structural, and Functional Characterization of Alzheimer's Disease: Evidence for a Relationship between Default Activity, Amyloid, and Memory

Table 4.

Summary of effects across modalities

Region Default Amyloid Metab Atrophy RSE
Medial temporal + − − + −
Prefrontal + + −/+ −/+ −
Lateral temporal + + + + −
Retrosplenial/precuneus + + + + +
Lateral parietal + + + + +a
  • Default, Presence in PET default network; Amyloid, presence in amyloid imaging measured by PIB; Metab, present as hypometabolism; Atrophy, presence in longitudinally estimated atrophy; RSE, presence in fMRI measured retrieval success effect; −, minimal or no effect; +, robust effect; −/+, minimal effect early in disease progression, robust effect later in progression.

  • ↵ a Lateralized (left > right).

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