Cerebral arterial pulsatility is linked to hippocampal microvascular function and episodic memory in healthy older adults

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  • Tomas Vikner
    Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • Anders Eklund
    Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • Nina Karalija
    Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • Jan Malm
    Department of Clinical Science, Neurosciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • Katrine Riklund
    Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • Ulman Lindenberger
    Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
  • Lars Bäckman
    Ageing Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Lars Nyberg
    Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
  • Anders Wåhlin
    Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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<jats:p> Microvascular damage in the hippocampus is emerging as a central cause of cognitive decline and dementia in aging. This could be a consequence of age-related decreases in vascular elasticity, exposing hippocampal capillaries to excessive cardiac-related pulsatile flow that disrupts the blood-brain barrier and the neurovascular unit. Previous studies have found altered intracranial hemodynamics in cognitive impairment and dementia, as well as negative associations between pulsatility and hippocampal volume. However, evidence linking features of the cerebral arterial flow waveform to hippocampal function is lacking. We used a high-resolution 4D flow MRI approach to estimate global representations of the time-resolved flow waveform in distal cortical arteries and in proximal arteries feeding the brain in healthy older adults. Waveform-based clustering revealed a group of individuals featuring steep systolic onset and high amplitude that had poorer hippocampus-sensitive episodic memory (p = 0.003), lower whole-brain perfusion (p = 0.001), and weaker microvascular low-frequency oscillations in the hippocampus (p = 0.035) and parahippocampal gyrus (p = 0.005), potentially indicating compromised neurovascular unit integrity. Our findings suggest that aberrant hemodynamic forces contribute to cerebral microvascular and hippocampal dysfunction in aging. </jats:p>

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