% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @MISC{Liebscher:269438, author = {Liebscher, Maxie and Dell Orco, Andrea and Doll-Lee, Johanna and Bürger, Katharina and Dechent, Peter and Ewers, Michael and Fließbach, Klaus and Glanz, Wenzel and Hetzer, Stefan and Janowitz, Daniel and Kilimann, Ingo and Laske, Christoph and Lüsebrink, Falk and Munk, Matthias and Perneczky, Robert and Peters, Oliver and Preis, Lukas and Priller, Josef and Rauchmann, Boris Stephan and Rostamzadeh, Ayda and Roy, Nina and Scheffler, Katja and Schneider, Anja and Schott, Björn and Spottke, Annika and Spruth, Eike Jakob and Teipel, Stefan and Wiltfang, Jens and Jessen, Frank and Düzel, Emrah and Wagner, Michael and Röske, Sandra and Wirth, Miranka}, title = {{D}ataset: {D}escriptive data of the matched sample (n = 130).}, publisher = {PLOS ONE}, reportid = {DZNE-2024-00535}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Background: Participation in multimodal leisure activities, such as playing a musical instrument, may be protective against brain aging and dementia in older adults (OA). Potential neuroprotective correlates underlying musical activity remain unclear.Objective: This cross-sectional study investigated the association between lifetime musical activity and resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) in three higher-order brain networks: the Default Mode, Fronto-Parietal, and Salience networks.Methods: We assessed 130 cognitively unimpaired participants (≥ 60 years) from the baseline cohort of the DZNE-Longitudinal Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Study (DELCODE) study. Lifetime musical activity was operationalized by the self-reported participation in musical instrument playing across early, middle, and late life stages using the Lifetime of Experiences Questionnaire (LEQ). Participants who reported musical activity during all life stages (n = 65) were compared to controls who were matched on demographic and reserve characteristics (including education, intelligence, socioeconomic status, self-reported physical activity, age, and sex) and never played a musical instrument (n = 65) in local (seed-to-voxel) and global (within-network and between-network) RSFC patterns using pre-specified network seeds.Results: Older participants with lifetime musical activity showed significantly higher local RSFC between the medial prefrontal cortex (Default Mode Network seed) and temporal as well as frontal regions, namely the right temporal pole and the right precentral gyrus extending into the superior frontal gyrus, compared to matched controls. There were no significant group differences in global RSFC within or between the three networks.Conclusion: We show that playing a musical instrument during life relates to higher RSFC of the medial prefrontal cortex with distant brain regions involved in higher-order cognitive and motor processes. Preserved or enhanced functional connectivity could potentially contribute to better brain health and resilience in OA with a history in musical activity.Trial registration: German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS00007966, 04/05/2015).}, cin = {AG Wirth / Clinical Research (Munich) / AG Teipel / AG Düzel / Patient Studies Bonn / AG Gasser / AG Dichgans / AG Peters / AG Schneider / AG Spottke / AG Endres / AG Priller / AG Simons / AG Fischer / AG Jessen / AG Wiltfang}, cid = {I:(DE-2719)1710011 / I:(DE-2719)1111015 / I:(DE-2719)1510100 / I:(DE-2719)5000006 / I:(DE-2719)1011101 / I:(DE-2719)1210000 / I:(DE-2719)5000022 / I:(DE-2719)5000000 / I:(DE-2719)1011305 / I:(DE-2719)1011103 / I:(DE-2719)1811005 / I:(DE-2719)5000007 / I:(DE-2719)1110008 / I:(DE-2719)1410002 / I:(DE-2719)1011102 / I:(DE-2719)1410006}, pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353) / 352 - Disease Mechanisms (POF4-352)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-352}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)32}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0299939.t001}, url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/269438}, }