Impaired white matter (WM) integrity is common in Alzheimer's disease (AD), in addition to gray matter degeneration. While fMRI has been widely used in understanding the disease-associated changes, results so far have omitted the WM even though WM activation has repeatedly been reported in healthy younger adults in recent fMRI studies. Here we applied three tasks targeting interhemispheric transfer at 3.0T to extend the WM fMRI research to clinical applications in AD-dementia. The study detected fMRI activation in the corpus callosal WM in 87% individuals with early AD and normal cognitive aging (NC), and a difference between AD and NC.
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