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Apathy and Executive Function in Healthy Elderly—Resting State fMRI Study

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Title
Apathy and Executive Function in Healthy Elderly—Resting State fMRI Study
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Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, May 2017
DOI 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00124
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Toshikazu Kawagoe, Keiichi Onoda, Shuhei Yamaguchi

Abstract

Apathy is a quantitative reduction in goal-directed behaviors, having three subtypes. Despite executive deterioration in healthy aging, researchers have not investigated the "cognitive-deficit" subtype of apathy in healthy populations, which would result from executive dysfunction. We hypothesized that a relationship between apathy and executive function (EF) would be found in healthy older adults, accompanied with neural deterioration with functional dysconnectivity between the striatum and frontal region as suggested by previous studies. A total of 100 healthy adults in a health examination system database were analyzed. The present study indicates that apathy is substantially associated with executive deterioration, which can be partially ascribed to decreased functional connectivity between the frontal and ventral striatum. Despite some limitations, our findings may contribute to research on healthy psychological aging.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 68 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 16%
Researcher 10 15%
Student > Master 8 12%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 18 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 22 32%
Neuroscience 13 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 19 28%
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