bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/322131; this version posted May 15, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC 4.0 International license. 1/22 Functional connectivity alterations of the temporal lobe and hippocampus in semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease Simon Schwab1 , Soroosh Afyouni1 , Yan Chen 2, Zaizhu Han 3, Qihao Guo 3, omas Dierks 4, Lars-Olof Wahlund 5, and Matthias Grieder4 1 Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Nufield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 2 State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 3 Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 4 Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 5 Karolinska Institute, Department NVS, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Stockholm, Sweden Corresponding author: Matthias Grieder, PhD, Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry Bern, Bolligenstrasse 111, 3000 Bern 60, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 319328351; Fax: +41 319309961; E-mail:
[email protected] bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/322131; this version posted May 15, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC 4.0 International license. 2/22 Abstract e temporal lobe is a central core of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease and semantic dementia.