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How synchrony and metastable network dynamics are affected in fast and slow timescales with aging: Implication for Cognition

Priyanka Chakraborty, Shubham Kumar, Amit Naskar, Arpan Banerjee, View ORCID ProfileDipanjan Roy
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.29.470424
Priyanka Chakraborty
1Cognitive Brain Dynamics Lab National Brain Research Centre NH-8 Manesar Haryana-122 052, India
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Shubham Kumar
1Cognitive Brain Dynamics Lab National Brain Research Centre NH-8 Manesar Haryana-122 052, India
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Amit Naskar
1Cognitive Brain Dynamics Lab National Brain Research Centre NH-8 Manesar Haryana-122 052, India
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Arpan Banerjee
1Cognitive Brain Dynamics Lab National Brain Research Centre NH-8 Manesar Haryana-122 052, India
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Dipanjan Roy
2School of AIDE, Center for Brain Research and Applications, IIT Jodhpur NH 62, Surpura Bypass Rd, Karwar, Rajasthan 342037, India
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Abstract

Both healthy and pathological aging exhibits gradual deterioration of structure but in-terestingly in healthy aging adults often maintains a high level of cognitive performance in a variety of cognitively demanding task till late age. What are the relevant network measures that could possibly track these dynamic changes which may be critically relevant for maintenance of cognitive functions through lifespan and how does these measures affected by the specific alterations in underlying anatomical connectivity till day remains an open question. In this work, we propose that whole-brain computational models are required to test the hypothesis that aging affects the brain network dynamics through two highly relevant network measures synchrony and metastability. Since aging entails complex processes involving multiple timescales we test the additional hypothesis that whether these two network measures remain invariant or exhibit different behavior in the fast and slow timescales respectively. The altered global synchrony and metastability with aging can be related to shifts in the dynamic working point of the system based on biophysical parameters e.g., time delay, and inter-areal coupling constrained by the underlying structural connectivity matrix.Using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data, we estimate structural connectivity (SC) of individual group of participants and obtain network level synchrony, metastability indexing network dynamics from resting state functional MRI data for both young and elderly participants in the age range of 18-89 years. Subsequently, we simulate a whole-brain Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators with appropriate conduction delay and interareal coupling strength to test the hypothesis of shifting of dynamic working point with age-associated alteration in network dynamics in both neural and ultraslow BOLD signal time scales. Specifically, we investigate the age-associated difference in metastable brain dynamics across large-scale neurocognitive brain networks e.g., salience network (SN), default mode network (DMN), and central executive network (CEN) to test spatio-temporal changes in default to executive coupling hypothesis with age. Interestingly, we find that the metastability of the SN increases substantially with age, whereas the metastability of the CEN and DMN networks do not substantially vary with age suggesting a clear role of conduction delay and global coupling in mediating altered dynamics in these networks. Moreover, our finding suggests that the metastability changes from slow to fast timescales confirming previous findings that variability of brain signals relates differently in slower and faster time scales with aging. However, synchrony remains invariant network measure across timescales and agnostic to the filtering of fast signals. Finally, we demonstrate both numerically and analytically longrange anatomical connections as oppose to shot-range or mid-range connection alterations is responsible for the overall neural difference in large-scale brain network dynamics captured by the network measure metastability. In summary, we propose a theoretical framework providing a systematic account of tracking age-associated variability and synchrony at multiple time scales across lifespan which may pave the way for developing dynamical theories of cognitive aging.

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How synchrony and metastable network dynamics are affected in fast and slow timescales with aging: Implication for Cognition
Priyanka Chakraborty, Shubham Kumar, Amit Naskar, Arpan Banerjee, Dipanjan Roy
bioRxiv 2021.11.29.470424; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.29.470424
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How synchrony and metastable network dynamics are affected in fast and slow timescales with aging: Implication for Cognition
Priyanka Chakraborty, Shubham Kumar, Amit Naskar, Arpan Banerjee, Dipanjan Roy
bioRxiv 2021.11.29.470424; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.29.470424

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