Androgen deprivation therapy and cognitive decline-associations with brain connectomes, endocrine status, and risk genotypes.

Our results indicate that PC patients undergoing ADT may evidence CD, and that COMT Met homozygotes may be at increased risk of CD. The results did not reveal changes in brain connectomes or testosterone levels as underlying mechanisms. More research evaluating the role of ADT-related disruption of the dynamics of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis is needed.