Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.09.15.298331v1?rss=1 Authors: Frau-Pascual, A., Augustinak, J., Varadarajan, D., Yendiki, A., Salat, D. H., Fischl, B., Aganj, I. Abstract: Structural brain connectivity has been shown to be sensitive to the changes that the brain undergoes during Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression. In this work, we use our recently proposed structural connectivity quantification measure derived from diffusion MRI, which accounts for both direct and indirect pathways, to quantify brain connectivity in dementia. We analyze data from the ADNI-2 and OASIS-3 datasets to derive relevant information for the study of the changes that the brain undergoes in AD. We also compare these datasets to the HCP dataset, as a reference. Our analysis shows expected trends of mean conductance with respect to age and cognitive scores, significant age prediction values in aging data, and regional effects centered among subcortical regions, and cingulate and temporal cortices. Results indicate that the conductance measure has prediction potential, especially for age, that age and cognitive scores largely overlap, and that this measure could be used to study effects such as anti-correlation in structural connections. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info