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Meng Y, Hu X, Bachevalier J, Zhang X. Decreased functional connectivity in dorsolateral prefrontal cortical networks in adult macaques with neonatal hippocampal lesions: Relations to visual working memory deficits. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2016; 134 Pt A:31-37. [PMID: 27063864 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2015] [Revised: 03/17/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2016] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Neonatal hippocampal lesions in monkeys impairs normal performance on both relational and working memory tasks, suggesting that the early lesions have impacted the normal development of prefrontal-hippocampal functional interactions necessary for normal performance on these tasks. Given that working memory processes engage distributed neuronal networks associated with the prefrontal cortex, it is critical to explore the integrity of distributed neural networks of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) following neonatal hippocampal lesions in monkeys. We used resting-state functional MRI to assess functional connectivity of dlPFC networks in monkeys with neonatal neurotoxic hippocampal lesion (Neo-Hibo, n=4) and sham-operated control animals (Neo-C, n=4). Significant differences in the patterns of dlPFC functional networks were found between Groups Neo-Hibo and Neo-C. The within-group maps and the between-group comparisons yielded a highly coherent picture showing altered interactions of core regions of the working memory network (medial prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex) as well as the dorsal (fundus of superior temporal area and superior temporal cortex) and ventral (V4 and infero-temporal cortex) visual processing areas in animals with Neo-Hibo lesions. Correlations between functional connectivity changes and working memory impairment in the same animals were found only between the dlPFC and visual cortical areas (V4 and infero-temporal cortex). Thus, the impact of the neonatal hippocampal lesions extends to multiple cortical areas interconnected with the dlPFC.
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- Yuguang Meng
- Yerkes Imaging Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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- Yerkes Imaging Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; Division of Neuropharmacology and Neurologic Diseases, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Altered functional connectivity density in major depressive disorder at rest. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2016; 266:239-48. [PMID: 26265034 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-015-0614-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2015] [Accepted: 06/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Major depressive disorder is characterized by abnormal brain connectivity at rest. Currently, most studies investigating resting-state activity rely on a priori restrictions on specific networks or seed regions, which may bias observations. We hence sought to elicit functional alterations in a hypothesis-free approach. We applied functional connectivity density (FCD) to identify abnormal connectivity for each voxel in the whole brain separately. Comparing resting-state fMRI in 21 MDD patients and 23 matched healthy controls, we identified atypical connections for regions exhibiting abnormal FCD and compared our results to those of an independent component analysis (ICA) on networks previously investigated in MDD. Patients showed reduced FCD in mid-cingulate cortex (MCC) and increased FCD in occipital cortex (OCC). These changes in global FCD were driven by abnormal local connectivity changes and reduced functional connectivity (FC) toward the left amygdala for MCC, and increased FC toward the right supplementary motor area for OCC. The altered connectivity was not reflected in ICA comparison of the salience and visual networks. Abnormal FC in MDD is present in cingulate and OCC in terms of global FCD. This converges with previous structural and metabolic findings; however, these particular changes in connectivity would not have been identified using canonical seed regions or networks. This implies the importance of FC measures in the investigation of brain pathophysiology in depression.
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Husain FT. Neural networks of tinnitus in humans: Elucidating severity and habituation. Hear Res 2016; 334:37-48. [DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2015.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2015] [Revised: 09/19/2015] [Accepted: 09/22/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Airan RD, Vogelstein JT, Pillai JJ, Caffo B, Pekar JJ, Sair HI. Factors affecting characterization and localization of interindividual differences in functional connectivity using MRI. Hum Brain Mapp 2016; 37:1986-97. [PMID: 27012314 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2015] [Revised: 02/08/2016] [Accepted: 02/10/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Much recent attention has been paid to quantifying anatomic and functional neuroimaging on the individual subject level. For optimal individual subject characterization, specific acquisition and analysis features need to be identified that maximize interindividual variability while concomitantly minimizing intra-subject variability. We delineate the effect of various acquisition parameters (length of acquisition, sampling frequency) and analysis methods (time course extraction, region of interest parcellation, and thresholding of connectivity-derived network graphs) on characterizing individual subject differentiation. We utilize a non-parametric statistical metric that quantifies the degree to which a parameter set allows this individual subject differentiation by both maximizing interindividual variance and minimizing intra-individual variance. We apply this metric to analysis of four publicly available test-retest resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) data sets. We find that for the question of maximizing individual differentiation, (i) for increasing sampling, there is a relative tradeoff between increased sampling frequency and increased acquisition time; (ii) for the sizes of the interrogated data sets, only 3-4 min of acquisition time was sufficient to maximally differentiate each subject with an algorithm that utilized no a priori information regarding subject identification; and (iii) brain regions that most contribute to this individual subject characterization lie in the default mode, attention, and executive control networks. These findings may guide optimal rs-fMRI experiment design and may elucidate the neural bases for subject-to-subject differences. Hum Brain Mapp 37:1986-1997, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Raag D Airan
- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.,Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.,F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland
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The Significance of the Default Mode Network (DMN) in Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Review. THE YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2016; 89:49-57. [PMID: 27505016 PMCID: PMC4797836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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The relationship of cortical structure and specific neuronal circuitry to global brain function, particularly its perturbations related to the development and progression of neuropathology, is an area of great interest in neurobehavioral science. Disruption of these neural networks can be associated with a wide range of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. Herein we review activity of the Default Mode Network (DMN) in neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Epilepsy (Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - TLE), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and mood disorders. We discuss the implications of DMN disruptions and their relationship to the neurocognitive model of each disease entity, the utility of DMN assessment in clinical evaluation, and the changes of the DMN following treatment.
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Glioblastoma Induces Vascular Dysregulation in Nonenhancing Peritumoral Regions in Humans. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2016; 206:1073-81. [PMID: 27007449 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.15.14529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Glioblastoma is an invasive primary brain malignancy that typically infiltrates the surrounding tissue with malignant cells. It disrupts cerebral blood flow through a variety of biomechanical and biochemical mechanisms. Thus, neuroimaging focused on identifying regions of vascular dysregulation may reveal a marker of tumor spread. The purpose of this study was to use blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI) to compare the temporal dynamics of the enhancing portion of a tumor with those of brain regions without apparent tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with pathologically proven glioblastoma underwent preoperative resting-state BOLD fMRI, T1-weighted contrast-enhanced MRI, and FLAIR MRI. The contralesional control hemisphere, contrast-enhancing tumor, and peritu-moral edema were segmented by use of structural images and were used to extract the time series of these respective regions. The parameter estimates (beta values) for the two regressors and resulting z-statistic images were used as a metric to compare the similarity of the tumor dynamics to those of other brain regions. RESULTS The time course of the contrast-enhancing tumor was significantly different from that of the rest of the brain (p < 0.05). Similarly, the control signal intensity was significantly different from the tumor signal intensity (p < 0.05). Notably, the temporal dynamics in the peritumoral edema, which did not contain enhancing tumor, were most similar to the those of enhancing tumor than to those of control regions. CONCLUSION The findings show that the disruption in vascular regulation induced by a glioblastoma can be detected with BOLD fMRI and that the spatial distribution of these disruptions is localized to the immediate vicinity of the tumor and peritumoral edema.
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Dai W, Varma G, Scheidegger R, Alsop DC. Quantifying fluctuations of resting state networks using arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2016; 36:463-73. [PMID: 26661226 PMCID: PMC4794099 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x15615339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2015] [Accepted: 06/15/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been widely used to investigate spontaneous low-frequency signal fluctuations across brain resting state networks. However, BOLD only provides relative measures of signal fluctuations. Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) MRI holds great potential for quantitative measurements of resting state network fluctuations. This study systematically quantified signal fluctuations of the large-scale resting state networks using ASL data from 20 healthy volunteers by separating them from global signal fluctuations and fluctuations caused by residual noise. Global ASL signal fluctuation was 7.59% ± 1.47% relative to the ASL baseline perfusion. Fluctuations of seven detected resting state networks vary from 2.96% ± 0.93% to 6.71% ± 2.35%. Fluctuations of networks and residual noise were 6.05% ± 1.18% and 6.78% ± 1.16% using 4-mm resolution ASL data applied with Gaussian smoothing kernel of 6mm. However, network fluctuations were reduced by 7.77% ± 1.56% while residual noise fluctuation was markedly reduced by 39.75% ± 2.90% when smoothing kernel of 12 mm was applied to the ASL data. Therefore, global and network fluctuations are the dominant structured noise sources in ASL data. Quantitative measurements of resting state networks may enable improved noise reduction and provide insights into the function of healthy and diseased brain.
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- Weiying Dai
- Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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Aiello M, Cavaliere C, Salvatore M. Hybrid PET/MR Imaging and Brain Connectivity. Front Neurosci 2016; 10:64. [PMID: 26973446 PMCID: PMC4771762 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2015] [Accepted: 02/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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In recent years, brain connectivity is gaining ever-increasing interest from the interdisciplinary research community. The study of brain connectivity is characterized by a multifaceted approach providing both structural and functional evidence of the relationship between cerebral regions at different scales. Although magnetic resonance (MR) is the most established imaging modality for investigating connectivity in vivo, the recent advent of hybrid positron emission tomography (PET)/MR scanners paved the way for more comprehensive investigation of brain organization and physiology. Due to the high sensitivity and biochemical specificity of radiotracers, combining MR with PET imaging may enrich our ability to investigate connectivity by introducing the concept of metabolic connectivity and cometomics and promoting new insights on the physiological and molecular bases underlying high-level neural organization. This review aims to describe and summarize the main methods of analysis of brain connectivity employed in MR imaging and nuclear medicine. Moreover, it will discuss practical aspects and state-of-the-art techniques for exploiting hybrid PET/MR imaging to investigate the relationship of physiological processes and brain connectivity.
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- Marco Aiello
- IRCCS SDN, Istituto Ricerca Diagnostica Nucleare Naples, Italy
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- IRCCS SDN, Istituto Ricerca Diagnostica Nucleare Naples, Italy
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- IRCCS SDN, Istituto Ricerca Diagnostica Nucleare Naples, Italy
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Petersen A, Müller HG. Fréchet integration and adaptive metric selection for interpretable covariances of multivariate functional data. Biometrika 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asv054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Dey AK, Stamenova V, Turner G, Black SE, Levine B. Pathoconnectomics of cognitive impairment in small vessel disease: A systematic review. Alzheimers Dement 2016; 12:831-45. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2015] [Revised: 10/21/2015] [Accepted: 01/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Ayan K. Dey
- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Science University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Rotman Research Institute Baycrest Hospital Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health York University Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Science University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Rotman Research Institute Baycrest Hospital Toronto Ontario Canada
- Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program Sunnybrook Research Institute Toronto Ontario Canada
- Division of Neurology Department of Medicine Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Toronto Ontario Canada
- L.C. Campbell Cognitive Neurology Research Unit Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Science University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Rotman Research Institute Baycrest Hospital Toronto Ontario Canada
- Department of Psychology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
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Inter-Strain Differences in Default Mode Network: A Resting State fMRI Study on Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat and Wistar Kyoto Rat. Sci Rep 2016; 6:21697. [PMID: 26898170 PMCID: PMC4761976 DOI: 10.1038/srep21697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 01/28/2016] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Genetic divergences among mammalian strains are presented phenotypically in various aspects of physical appearance such as body shape and facial features. Yet how genetic diversity is expressed in brain function still remains unclear. Functional connectivity has been shown to be a valuable approach in characterizing the relationship between brain functions and behaviors. Alterations in the brain default mode network (DMN) have been found in human neuropsychological disorders. In this study we selected the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and the Wistar Kyoto rat (WKY), two inbred rat strains with close genetic origins, to investigate variations in the DMN. Our results showed that the major DMN differences are the activities in hippocampal area and caudate putamen region. This may be correlated to the hyperactive behavior of the SHR strain. Advanced animal model studies on variations in the DMN may have potential to shed new light on translational medicine, especially with regard to neuropsychological disorders.
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Macey PM, Ogren JA, Kumar R, Harper RM. Functional Imaging of Autonomic Regulation: Methods and Key Findings. Front Neurosci 2016; 9:513. [PMID: 26858595 PMCID: PMC4726771 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2015] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Central nervous system processing of autonomic function involves a network of regions throughout the brain which can be visualized and measured with neuroimaging techniques, notably functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The development of fMRI procedures has both confirmed and extended earlier findings from animal models, and human stroke and lesion studies. Assessments with fMRI can elucidate interactions between different central sites in regulating normal autonomic patterning, and demonstrate how disturbed systems can interact to produce aberrant regulation during autonomic challenges. Understanding autonomic dysfunction in various illnesses reveals mechanisms that potentially lead to interventions in the impairments. The objectives here are to: (1) describe the fMRI neuroimaging methodology for assessment of autonomic neural control, (2) outline the widespread, lateralized distribution of function in autonomic sites in the normal brain which includes structures from the neocortex through the medulla and cerebellum, (3) illustrate the importance of the time course of neural changes when coordinating responses, and how those patterns are impacted in conditions of sleep-disordered breathing, and (4) highlight opportunities for future research studies with emerging methodologies. Methodological considerations specific to autonomic testing include timing of challenges relative to the underlying fMRI signal, spatial resolution sufficient to identify autonomic brainstem nuclei, blood pressure, and blood oxygenation influences on the fMRI signal, and the sustained timing, often measured in minutes of challenge periods and recovery. Key findings include the lateralized nature of autonomic organization, which is reminiscent of asymmetric motor, sensory, and language pathways. Testing brain function during autonomic challenges demonstrate closely-integrated timing of responses in connected brain areas during autonomic challenges, and the involvement with brain regions mediating postural and motoric actions, including respiration, and cardiac output. The study of pathological processes associated with autonomic disruption shows susceptibilities of different brain structures to altered timing of neural function, notably in sleep disordered breathing, such as obstructive sleep apnea and congenital central hypoventilation syndrome. The cerebellum, in particular, serves coordination roles for vestibular stimuli and blood pressure changes, and shows both injury and substantially altered timing of responses to pressor challenges in sleep-disordered breathing conditions. The insights into central autonomic processing provided by neuroimaging have assisted understanding of such regulation, and may lead to new treatment options for conditions with disrupted autonomic function.
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- Paul M Macey
- UCLA School of Nursing, University of California at Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA, USA; Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, University of California at Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California at Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Bioengineering, University of California at Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA, USA
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- Brain Research Institute, University of California at Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Neurobiology, University of California at Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA, USA
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Leuthardt EC, Allen M, Kamran M, Hawasli AH, Snyder AZ, Hacker CD, Mitchell TJ, Shimony JS. Resting-State Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent Functional MRI: A Paradigm Shift in Preoperative Brain Mapping. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 2016; 93:427-39. [PMID: 26784290 DOI: 10.1159/000442424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2015] [Accepted: 11/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Currently, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) facilitates a preoperative awareness of an association of an eloquent region with a tumor. This information gives the neurosurgeon helpful information that can aid in creating a surgical strategy. Typically, task-based fMRI has been employed to preoperatively localize speech and motor function. Task-based fMRI depends on the patient's ability to comply with the task paradigm, which often is impaired in the setting of a brain tumor. This problem is overcome by using resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) to localize function. rs-fMRI measures spontaneous fluctuations in the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal, representing the brain's functional organization. In a neurosurgical context, it allows noninvasive simultaneous assessment of multiple large-scale distributed networks. Compared with task-related fMRI, rs-fMRI provides more comprehensive information on the functional architecture of the brain and is applicable in settings where task-related fMRI may provide inadequate information or could not be performed. Taken together, rs-fMRI substantially expands the preoperative mapping capability in efficiency, effectiveness, and scope. In this article, a brief introduction into rs-fMRI processing methods is followed by a detailed discussion on the role rs-fMRI plays in presurgical planning.
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Qi R, Liu C, Ke J, Xu Q, Ye Y, Jia L, Wang F, Zhang LJ, Lu GM. Abnormal Amygdala Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Irritable Bowel Syndrome. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2016; 37:1139-45. [PMID: 26767708 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a4655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Functional neuroimaging studies in irritable bowel syndrome have revealed abnormalities in the corticolimbic regions, specifically, hyperactivity of the amygdala during visceral and somatic stimulation. This study investigated changes in the neural circuitry of the amygdala in patients with irritable bowel syndrome based on resting-state functional connectivity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Functional MR imaging data were acquired from 31 patients with irritable bowel syndrome and 32 healthy controls (matched for age, sex, and educational level) during rest, and the resting-state functional connectivity of bilateral amygdalae was compared. Multiple regression was performed to investigate the relationship between clinical indices of patients with irritable bowel syndrome and resting-state functional connectivity. RESULTS Compared with healthy controls, patients with irritable bowel syndrome had higher positive resting-state functional connectivity between the amygdala and insula, midbrain, parahippocampal gyrus, pre- and postcentral gyri, and supplementary motor area. The inclusion of anxiety and depression as covariates did not alter amygdala resting-state functional connectivity differences between the study groups. Multiple covariate regression results showed that the pain intensity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome positively correlated with resting-state functional connectivity between the amygdala and supplementary motor area, pre- and postcentral gyri, and insula, while the Irritable Bowel Syndrome-Symptom Severity Score positively correlated with resting-state functional connectivity between the amygdala and insula and midbrain. CONCLUSIONS Patients with irritable bowel syndrome showed disturbed amygdala resting-state functional connectivity with the corticolimbic regions, which could partly account for the enhanced emotional arousal and visceral information processing associated with irritable bowel syndrome.
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- R Qi
- From the Departments of Medical Imaging (R.Q., J.K., Q.X., L.J.Z., G.M.L.)
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- Gastroenterology (C.L., Y.Y., F.W.)
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- From the Departments of Medical Imaging (R.Q., J.K., Q.X., L.J.Z., G.M.L.)
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- From the Departments of Medical Imaging (R.Q., J.K., Q.X., L.J.Z., G.M.L.)
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- Gastroenterology (C.L., Y.Y., F.W.)
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- Emergency Medicine (L.J.), Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Gastroenterology (C.L., Y.Y., F.W.)
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- From the Departments of Medical Imaging (R.Q., J.K., Q.X., L.J.Z., G.M.L.)
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- From the Departments of Medical Imaging (R.Q., J.K., Q.X., L.J.Z., G.M.L.)
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Schouten TM, Koini M, de Vos F, Seiler S, van der Grond J, Lechner A, Hafkemeijer A, Möller C, Schmidt R, de Rooij M, Rombouts SARB. Combining anatomical, diffusion, and resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging for individual classification of mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2016; 11:46-51. [PMID: 26909327 PMCID: PMC4732186 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2015] [Revised: 11/27/2015] [Accepted: 01/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is sensitive to structural and functional changes in the brain caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD), and can therefore be used to help in diagnosing the disease. Improving classification of AD patients based on MRI scans might help to identify AD earlier in the disease's progress, which may be key in developing treatments for AD. In this study we used an elastic net classifier based on several measures derived from the MRI scans of mild to moderate AD patients (N = 77) from the prospective registry on dementia study and controls (N = 173) from the Austrian Stroke Prevention Family Study. We based our classification on measures from anatomical MRI, diffusion weighted MRI and resting state functional MRI. Our unimodal classification performance ranged from an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.760 (full correlations between functional networks) to 0.909 (grey matter density). When combining measures from multiple modalities in a stepwise manner, the classification performance improved to an AUC of 0.952. This optimal combination consisted of grey matter density, white matter density, fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity, and sparse partial correlations between functional networks. Classification performance for mild AD as well as moderate AD also improved when using this multimodal combination. We conclude that different MRI modalities provide complementary information for classifying AD. Moreover, combining multiple modalities can substantially improve classification performance over unimodal classification. We use machine learning classification to classify Alzheimer's disease. For classification we use anatomical MRI, diffusion MRI, and resting state fMRI. Grey matter density is most successful for single modality classification. Combining multiple modalities improves classification of Alzheimer's disease.
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- Tijn M Schouten
- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Department of Radiology, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, The Netherlands
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) maps the spatiotemporal distribution of neural activity in the brain under varying cognitive conditions. Since its inception in 1991, blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) fMRI has rapidly become a vital methodology in basic and applied neuroscience research. In the clinical realm, it has become an established tool for presurgical functional brain mapping. This chapter has three principal aims. First, we review key physiologic, biophysical, and methodologic principles that underlie BOLD fMRI, regardless of its particular area of application. These principles inform a nuanced interpretation of the BOLD fMRI signal, along with its neurophysiologic significance and pitfalls. Second, we illustrate the clinical application of task-based fMRI to presurgical motor, language, and memory mapping in patients with lesions near eloquent brain areas. Integration of BOLD fMRI and diffusion tensor white-matter tractography provides a road map for presurgical planning and intraoperative navigation that helps to maximize the extent of lesion resection while minimizing the risk of postoperative neurologic deficits. Finally, we highlight several basic principles of resting-state fMRI and its emerging translational clinical applications. Resting-state fMRI represents an important paradigm shift, focusing attention on functional connectivity within intrinsic cognitive networks.
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- Bradley R Buchbinder
- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Joo SH, Lim HK, Lee CU. Three Large-Scale Functional Brain Networks from Resting-State Functional MRI in Subjects with Different Levels of Cognitive Impairment. Psychiatry Investig 2016; 13:1-7. [PMID: 26766941 PMCID: PMC4701672 DOI: 10.4306/pi.2016.13.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2015] [Revised: 10/19/2015] [Accepted: 10/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Normal aging and to a greater degree degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), cause changes in the brain's structure and function. Degenerative changes in brain structure and decline in its function are associated with declines in cognitive ability. Early detection of AD is a key priority in dementia services and research. However, depending on the disease progression, neurodegenerative manifestations, such as cerebral atrophy, are detected late in course of AD. Functional changes in the brain may be an indirect indicator of trans-synaptic activity and they usually appear prior to structural changes in AD. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI) has recently been highlighted as a new technique for interrogating intrinsic functional connectivity networks. Among the majority of RS-fMRI studies, the default mode network (DMN), salience network (SN), and central executive network (CEN) gained particular focus because alterations to their functional connectivity were observed in subjects who had AD, who had mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or who were at high risk for AD. Herein, we present a review of the current research on changes in functional connectivity, as measured by RS-fMRI. We focus on the DMN, SN, and CEN to describe RS-fMRI results from three groups: normal healthy aging, MCI and AD.
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- Soo Hyun Joo
- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, St. Vincent's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Suwon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Guekht AB, Avedisova AC, Zaharova KV, Luzin RV, Rozovskaya RI, Gaskin VV. [Neuroimaging of functional abnormalities in apathy]. Zh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova 2016. [PMID: 28635717 DOI: 10.17116/jnevro20161163179-82] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Apathy is a common comorbid condition in neurologic and somatic disorders (Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, senile dementia, HIV) and a symptom of many psychiatric disorders. Neurophysiologic research in this area aims to examine the specific features to differentiate the apathy from main disorder. This paper reviews neuroimaging studies of functional abnormalities in apathy.
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- A B Guekht
- Solov'ev Research and Clinical Center for Neuropsychiatry, Moscow
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- Serbsky Federal Medical Research Center fof Psychiatry and Narcology, Moscow
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- Serbsky Federal Medical Research Center fof Psychiatry and Narcology, Moscow
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- Solov'ev Research and Clinical Center for Neuropsychiatry, Moscow
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- Solov'ev Research and Clinical Center for Neuropsychiatry, Moscow
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- Solov'ev Research and Clinical Center for Neuropsychiatry, Moscow
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Roder C, Charyasz-Leks E, Breitkopf M, Decker K, Ernemann U, Klose U, Tatagiba M, Bisdas S. Resting-state functional MRI in an intraoperative MRI setting: proof of feasibility and correlation to clinical outcome of patients. J Neurosurg 2016; 125:401-9. [PMID: 26722852 DOI: 10.3171/2015.7.jns15617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The authors' aim in this paper is to prove the feasibility of resting-state (RS) functional MRI (fMRI) in an intraoperative setting (iRS-fMRI) and to correlate findings with the clinical condition of patients pre- and postoperatively. METHODS Twelve patients underwent intraoperative MRI-guided resection of lesions in or directly adjacent to the central region and/or pyramidal tract. Intraoperative RS (iRS)-fMRI was performed pre- and intraoperatively and was correlated with patients' postoperative clinical condition, as well as with intraoperative monitoring results. Independent component analysis (ICA) was used to postprocess the RS-fMRI data concerning the sensorimotor networks, and the mean z-scores were statistically analyzed. RESULTS iRS-fMRI in anesthetized patients proved to be feasible and analysis revealed no significant differences in preoperative z-scores between the sensorimotor areas ipsi- and contralateral to the tumor. A significant decrease in z-score (p < 0.01) was seen in patients with new neurological deficits postoperatively. The intraoperative z-score in the hemisphere ipsilateral to the tumor had a significant negative correlation with the degree of paresis immediately after the operation (r = -0.67, p < 0.001) and on the day of discharge from the hospital (r = -0.65, p < 0.001). Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis demonstrated moderate prognostic value of the intraoperative z-score (area under the curve 0.84) for the paresis score at patient discharge. CONCLUSIONS The use of iRS-fMRI with ICA-based postprocessing and functional activity mapping is feasible and the results may correlate with clinical parameters, demonstrating a significant negative correlation between the intensity of the iRS-fMRI signal and the postoperative neurological changes.
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- Neuroradiology, and.,Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tübingen, and Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany; and
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- Neuroradiology, and.,Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom
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Ji B, Li Z, Li K, Li L, Langley J, Shen H, Nie S, Zhang R, Hu X. Dynamic thalamus parcellation from resting-state fMRI data. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 37:954-67. [PMID: 26706823 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2014] [Revised: 11/13/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The thalamus is a relay center between various subcortical brain areas and the cerebral cortex with delineation of its constituent nuclei being of particular interest in many applications. While previous studies have demonstrated efficacy of connectivity-based thalamus segmentation, they used approaches that do not consider the dynamic nature of thalamo-cortical interactions. In this study, we explicitly exploited the dynamic variation of thalamo-cortical connections to identify different states of functional connectivity and performed state-specific thalamus parcellation. With normalized spectral clustering successively applied in temporal and spatial domains, nine thalamo-cortical connectivity states were identified and the dynamic thalamus parcellation revealed finer thalamic structures with improved atlas correspondence. The present results extend our understanding of thalamo-cortical connectivity and provide a more comprehensive view of the thalamo-cortical interaction.
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- Bing Ji
- University of Shanghai for Science & Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China.,Biomedical Engineering, Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Biomedical Engineering, Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.,Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518060, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- Biomedical Engineering, Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.,Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia
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- Biomedical Engineering, Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
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- College of Mechatronics and Automation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, 410073, China
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- University of Shanghai for Science & Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China
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- University of Shanghai for Science & Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China
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- Biomedical Engineering, Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
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Goto M, Abe O, Miyati T, Yamasue H, Gomi T, Takeda T. Head Motion and Correction Methods in Resting-state Functional MRI. Magn Reson Med Sci 2015; 15:178-86. [PMID: 26701695 PMCID: PMC5600054 DOI: 10.2463/mrms.rev.2015-0060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI) is used to investigate brain functional connectivity at rest. However, noise from human physiological motion is an unresolved problem associated with this technique. Following the unexpected previous result that group differences in head motion between control and patient groups caused group differences in the resting-state network with RS-fMRI, we reviewed the effects of human physiological noise caused by subject motion, especially motion of the head, on functional connectivity at rest detected with RS-fMRI. The aim of the present study was to review head motion artifact with RS-fMRI, individual and patient population differences in head motion, and correction methods for head motion artifact with RS-fMRI. Numerous reports have described new methods [e.g., scrubbing, regional displacement interaction (RDI)] for motion correction on RS-fMRI, many of which have been successful in reducing this negative influence. However, the influence of head motion could not be entirely excluded by any of these published techniques. Therefore, in performing RS-fMRI studies, head motion of the participants should be quantified with measurement technique (e.g., framewise displacement). Development of a more effective correction method would improve the accuracy of RS-fMRI analysis.
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- Masami Goto
- School of Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University
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Sair HI, Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi N, Calhoun VD, Airan RD, Agarwal S, Intrapiromkul J, Choe AS, Gujar SK, Caffo B, Lindquist MA, Pillai JJ. Presurgical brain mapping of the language network in patients with brain tumors using resting-state fMRI: Comparison with task fMRI. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 37:913-23. [PMID: 26663615 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2015] [Revised: 11/16/2015] [Accepted: 11/23/2015] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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PURPOSE To compare language networks derived from resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) with task-fMRI in patients with brain tumors and investigate variables that affect rs-fMRI vs task-fMRI concordance. MATERIALS AND METHODS Independent component analysis (ICA) of rs-fMRI was performed with 20, 30, 40, and 50 target components (ICA20 to ICA50) and language networks identified for patients presenting for presurgical fMRI mapping between 1/1/2009 and 7/1/2015. 49 patients were analyzed fulfilling criteria for presence of brain tumors, no prior brain surgery, and adequate task-fMRI performance. Rs-vs-task-fMRI concordance was measured using Dice coefficients across varying fMRI thresholds before and after noise removal. Multi-thresholded Dice coefficient volume under the surface (DiceVUS) and maximum Dice coefficient (MaxDice) were calculated. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was performed to determine significance of DiceVUS and MaxDice between the four ICA order groups. Age, Sex, Handedness, Tumor Side, Tumor Size, WHO Grade, number of scrubbed volumes, image intensity root mean square (iRMS), and mean framewise displacement (FD) were used as predictors for VUS in a linear regression. RESULTS Artificial elevation of rs-fMRI vs task-fMRI concordance is seen at low thresholds due to noise. Noise-removed group-mean DiceVUS and MaxDice improved as ICA order increased, however ANOVA demonstrated no statistically significant difference between the four groups. Linear regression demonstrated an association between iRMS and DiceVUS for ICA30-50, and iRMS and MaxDice for ICA50. CONCLUSION Overall there is moderate group level rs-vs-task fMRI language network concordance, however substantial subject-level variability exists; iRMS may be used to determine reliability of rs-fMRI derived language networks.
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- Haris I Sair
- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- The Mind Research Network, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Ke J, Qi R, Liu C, Xu Q, Wang F, Zhang L, Lu G. Abnormal regional homogeneity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: A resting-state functional MRI study. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2015; 27:1796-803. [PMID: 26403620 DOI: 10.1111/nmo.12692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2015] [Accepted: 08/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Task-related brain imaging research has implicated abnormal central processing of visceral sensation in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). However, how brain function of IBS patients is altered during resting-state remains to be determined. We investigated spontaneous brain activity of patients with IBS using regional homogeneity (ReHo) analysis in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). METHODS Thirty-one patients with diarrhea-predominant IBS and 32 age- and sex- matched healthy controls underwent clinical assessments and rs-fMRI scanning. ReHo maps were acquired by calculating the Kendall's coefficient of concordance and compared between the IBS group and the control group. The effects of psychological disturbance on group differences were assessed by including anxiety and depression levels as covariates in the statistical analyses. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between ReHo values and disease duration, symptom severity, and pain intensity. KEY RESULTS Compared with controls, IBS patients showed increased ReHo in the postcentral gyrus and thalamus and decreased ReHo in the anterior cingulate cortex and prefrontal cortex. The inclusion of anxiety and depression as covariates did not alter ReHo differences between the two groups. Furthermore, significant correlations were found between clinical indices and ReHo values in some brain regions in the IBS group. CONCLUSIONS & INFERENCES IBS patients have abnormal local synchronization of spontaneous brain activity in regions involved in visceral afferent processing, emotional arousal, and cognitive modulation. Combining rs-fMRI and ReHo analysis seems to be a valuable approach to investigate the neural basis of IBS.
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- J Ke
- Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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Song X, Panych LP, Chen NK. Data-Driven and Predefined ROI-Based Quantification of Long-Term Resting-State fMRI Reproducibility. Brain Connect 2015; 6:136-51. [PMID: 26456172 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2015.0349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a promising tool for neuroscience and clinical studies. However, there exist significant variations in strength and spatial extent of resting-state functional connectivity over repeated sessions in a single or multiple subjects with identical experimental conditions. Reproducibility studies have been conducted for resting-state fMRI where the reproducibility was usually evaluated in predefined regions-of-interest (ROIs). It was possible that reproducibility measures strongly depended on the ROI definition. In this work, this issue was investigated by comparing data-driven and predefined ROI-based quantification of reproducibility. In the data-driven analysis, the reproducibility was quantified using functionally connected voxels detected by a support vector machine (SVM)-based technique. In the predefined ROI-based analysis, all voxels in the predefined ROIs were included when estimating the reproducibility. Experimental results show that (1) a moderate to substantial within-subject reproducibility and a reasonable between-subject reproducibility can be obtained using functionally connected voxels identified by the SVM-based technique; (2) in the predefined ROI-based analysis, an increase in ROI size does not always result in higher reproducibility measures; (3) ROI pairs with high connectivity strength have a higher chance to exhibit high reproducibility; (4) ROI pairs with high reproducibility do not necessarily have high connectivity strength; (5) the reproducibility measured from the identified functionally connected voxels is generally higher than that measured from all voxels in predefined ROIs with typical sizes. The findings (2) and (5) suggest that conventional ROI-based analyses would underestimate the resting-state fMRI reproducibility.
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- Xiaomu Song
- 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Widener University , Chester, Pennsylvania
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- 2 Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital , Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- 3 Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center , Durham, North Carolina
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Hart MG, Ypma RJF, Romero-Garcia R, Price SJ, Suckling J. Graph theory analysis of complex brain networks: new concepts in brain mapping applied to neurosurgery. J Neurosurg 2015; 124:1665-78. [PMID: 26544769 DOI: 10.3171/2015.4.jns142683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Neuroanatomy has entered a new era, culminating in the search for the connectome, otherwise known as the brain's wiring diagram. While this approach has led to landmark discoveries in neuroscience, potential neurosurgical applications and collaborations have been lagging. In this article, the authors describe the ideas and concepts behind the connectome and its analysis with graph theory. Following this they then describe how to form a connectome using resting state functional MRI data as an example. Next they highlight selected insights into healthy brain function that have been derived from connectome analysis and illustrate how studies into normal development, cognitive function, and the effects of synthetic lesioning can be relevant to neurosurgery. Finally, they provide a précis of early applications of the connectome and related techniques to traumatic brain injury, functional neurosurgery, and neurooncology.
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- Michael G Hart
- Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, and.,Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital; and
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- Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, and.,Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital; and
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Figley TD, Bhullar N, Courtney SM, Figley CR. Probabilistic atlases of default mode, executive control and salience network white matter tracts: an fMRI-guided diffusion tensor imaging and tractography study. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:585. [PMID: 26578930 PMCID: PMC4630538 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a powerful MRI technique that can be used to estimate both the microstructural integrity and the trajectories of white matter pathways throughout the central nervous system. This fiber tracking (aka, "tractography") approach is often carried out using anatomically-defined seed points to identify white matter tracts that pass through one or more structures, but can also be performed using functionally-defined regions of interest (ROIs) that have been determined using functional MRI (fMRI) or other methods. In this study, we performed fMRI-guided DTI tractography between all of the previously defined nodes within each of six common resting-state brain networks, including the: dorsal Default Mode Network (dDMN), ventral Default Mode Network (vDMN), left Executive Control Network (lECN), right Executive Control Network (rECN), anterior Salience Network (aSN), and posterior Salience Network (pSN). By normalizing the data from 32 healthy control subjects to a standard template-using high-dimensional, non-linear warping methods-we were able to create probabilistic white matter atlases for each tract in stereotaxic coordinates. By investigating all 198 ROI-to-ROI combinations within the aforementioned resting-state networks (for a total of 6336 independent DTI tractography analyses), the resulting probabilistic atlases represent a comprehensive cohort of functionally-defined white matter regions that can be used in future brain imaging studies to: (1) ascribe DTI or other white matter changes to particular functional brain networks, and (2) compliment resting state fMRI or other functional connectivity analyses.
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- Teresa D Figley
- Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada ; Division of Diagnostic Imaging, Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg, MB, Canada ; Neuroscience Research Program, Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada ; Division of Diagnostic Imaging, Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg, MB, Canada ; Neuroscience Research Program, Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA ; Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA ; F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada ; Division of Diagnostic Imaging, Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg, MB, Canada ; Neuroscience Research Program, Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine Winnipeg, MB, Canada ; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA ; Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Cognitive correlates of frontoparietal network connectivity 'at rest' in individuals with differential risk for psychotic disorder. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2015; 25:1922-32. [PMID: 26411531 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2015.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2015] [Revised: 06/14/2015] [Accepted: 08/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Altered frontoparietal network functional connectivity (FPN-fc) has been associated with neurocognitive dysfunction in individuals with (risk for) psychotic disorder. Cannabis use is associated with cognitive and FPN-fc alterations in healthy individuals, but it is not known whether cannabis exposure moderates the FPN-fc-cognition association. We studied FPN-fc in relation to psychosis risk, as well as the moderating effects of psychosis risk and cannabis use on the association between FPN-fc and (social) cognition. This was done by collecting resting-state fMRI scans and (social) cognitive test results from 63 patients with psychotic disorder, 73 unaffected siblings and 59 controls. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) seed-based correlation analyses were used to estimate FPN-fc group differences. Additionally, group×FPN-fc and cannabis×FPN-fc interactions in models of cognition were assessed with regression models. Results showed that DLPFC-fc with the left precuneus, right inferior parietal lobule, right middle temporal gyrus (MTG), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) regions and right insula was decreased in patients compared to controls. Siblings had reduced DLPFC-fc with the right MTG, left middle frontal gyrus, right superior frontal gyrus, IFG regions, and right insula compared to controls, with an intermediate position between patients and controls for DLPFC-IFG/MTG and insula-fc. There were no significant FPN-fc×group or FPN-fc×cannabis interactions in models of cognition. Reduced DLPFC-insula-fc was associated with worse social cognition in the total sample. In conclusion, besides patient- and sibling-specific FPN-fc alterations, there was evidence for trait-related alterations. FPN-fc-cognition associations were not conditional on familial liability or cannabis use. Lower FPN-fc was associated with lower emotion processing in the total group.
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Leutgeb V, Wabnegger A, Leitner M, Zussner T, Scharmüller W, Klug D, Schienle A. Altered cerebellar-amygdala connectivity in violent offenders: A resting-state fMRI study. Neurosci Lett 2015; 610:160-4. [PMID: 26523791 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2015.10.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2015] [Revised: 10/05/2015] [Accepted: 10/24/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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It has repeatedly been reported, that there are differences in grey matter volume (GMV) between violent offenders and non-violent controls. However, it remains unclear, if structural brain abnormalities influence resting-state functional connectivity (RS-fc) between brain regions. Therefore, in the present investigation, 31 male high-risk violent prisoners were compared to 30 non-criminal controls with respect to RS-fc between brain areas. Seed regions for resting-state analysis were selected based on GMV differences between the two groups. Overall, inmates had more GMV in the cerebellum than controls and revealed higher RS-fc between the cerebellum and the amygdala. In contrast, controls relative to prisoners showed higher RS-fc between the cerebellum and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). In addition, controls showed more GMV in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Inmates relative to controls had higher RS-fc within the DLPFC. Results are discussed with respect to cerebellar contributions to a brain network underlying moral behavior and violence. Enhanced cerebellar-amygdala connectivity in violent offenders might reflect alterations in the processing of moral emotions. Heightened functional connectivity between cerebellar hemispheres and the OFC in controls could be a correlate of enhanced emotion regulation capacities. Higher functional intra-DLPFC connectivity in violent offenders might represent an effort to regulate emotions.
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- Verena Leutgeb
- Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, BioTechMedGraz, Universitätsplatz 2/DG, 8010 Graz, Austria.
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- Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, BioTechMedGraz, Universitätsplatz 2/DG, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Graz-Karlau State Correctional Facility, Herrgottwiesgasse 50, 8200 Graz, Austria
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- Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, BioTechMedGraz, Universitätsplatz 2/DG, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, BioTechMedGraz, Universitätsplatz 2/DG, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Graz-Karlau State Correctional Facility, Herrgottwiesgasse 50, 8200 Graz, Austria
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- Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, BioTechMedGraz, Universitätsplatz 2/DG, 8010 Graz, Austria
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San Emeterio Nateras O, Yu F, Muir ER, Bazan C, Franklin CG, Li W, Li J, Lancaster JL, Duong TQ. Intrinsic Resting-State Functional Connectivity in the Human Spinal Cord at 3.0 T. Radiology 2015; 279:262-8. [PMID: 26505923 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2015150768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE To apply resting-state functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to map functional connectivity of the human spinal cord. MATERIALS AND METHODS Studies were performed in nine self-declared healthy volunteers with informed consent and institutional review board approval. Resting-state functional MR imaging was performed to map functional connectivity of the human cervical spinal cord from C1 to C4 at 1 × 1 × 3-mm resolution with a 3.0-T clinical MR imaging unit. Independent component analysis (ICA) was performed to derive resting-state functional MR imaging z-score maps rendered on two-dimensional and three-dimensional images. Seed-based analysis was performed for cross validation with ICA networks by using Pearson correlation. RESULTS Reproducibility analysis of resting-state functional MR imaging maps from four repeated trials in a single participant yielded a mean z score of 6 ± 1 (P < .0001). The centroid coordinates across the four trials deviated by 2 in-plane voxels ± 2 mm (standard deviation) and up to one adjacent image section ± 3 mm. ICA of group resting-state functional MR imaging data revealed prominent functional connectivity patterns within the spinal cord gray matter. There were statistically significant (z score > 3, P < .001) bilateral, unilateral, and intersegmental correlations in the ventral horns, dorsal horns, and central spinal cord gray matter. Three-dimensional surface rendering provided visualization of these components along the length of the spinal cord. Seed-based analysis showed that many ICA components exhibited strong and significant (P < .05) correlations, corroborating the ICA results. Resting-state functional MR imaging connectivity networks are qualitatively consistent with known neuroanatomic and functional structures in the spinal cord. CONCLUSION Resting-state functional MR imaging of the human cervical spinal cord with a 3.0-T clinical MR imaging unit and standard MR imaging protocols and hardware reveals prominent functional connectivity patterns within the spinal cord gray matter, consistent with known functional and anatomic layouts of the spinal cord.
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- Oscar San Emeterio Nateras
- From the Research Imaging Institute (O.S.E.N., E.R.M., C.G.F., W.L., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), Department of Radiology (O.S.E.N., C.B., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), and Department of Ophthalmology (E.R.M., W.L., T.Q.D.), University of Texas Health Science Center, 8403 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229; and Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, Tex (O.S.E.N., T.Q.D.)
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- From the Research Imaging Institute (O.S.E.N., E.R.M., C.G.F., W.L., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), Department of Radiology (O.S.E.N., C.B., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), and Department of Ophthalmology (E.R.M., W.L., T.Q.D.), University of Texas Health Science Center, 8403 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229; and Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, Tex (O.S.E.N., T.Q.D.)
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- From the Research Imaging Institute (O.S.E.N., E.R.M., C.G.F., W.L., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), Department of Radiology (O.S.E.N., C.B., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), and Department of Ophthalmology (E.R.M., W.L., T.Q.D.), University of Texas Health Science Center, 8403 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229; and Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, Tex (O.S.E.N., T.Q.D.)
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- From the Research Imaging Institute (O.S.E.N., E.R.M., C.G.F., W.L., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), Department of Radiology (O.S.E.N., C.B., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), and Department of Ophthalmology (E.R.M., W.L., T.Q.D.), University of Texas Health Science Center, 8403 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229; and Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, Tex (O.S.E.N., T.Q.D.)
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- From the Research Imaging Institute (O.S.E.N., E.R.M., C.G.F., W.L., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), Department of Radiology (O.S.E.N., C.B., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), and Department of Ophthalmology (E.R.M., W.L., T.Q.D.), University of Texas Health Science Center, 8403 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229; and Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, Tex (O.S.E.N., T.Q.D.)
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- From the Research Imaging Institute (O.S.E.N., E.R.M., C.G.F., W.L., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), Department of Radiology (O.S.E.N., C.B., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), and Department of Ophthalmology (E.R.M., W.L., T.Q.D.), University of Texas Health Science Center, 8403 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229; and Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, Tex (O.S.E.N., T.Q.D.)
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- From the Research Imaging Institute (O.S.E.N., E.R.M., C.G.F., W.L., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), Department of Radiology (O.S.E.N., C.B., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), and Department of Ophthalmology (E.R.M., W.L., T.Q.D.), University of Texas Health Science Center, 8403 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229; and Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, Tex (O.S.E.N., T.Q.D.)
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- From the Research Imaging Institute (O.S.E.N., E.R.M., C.G.F., W.L., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), Department of Radiology (O.S.E.N., C.B., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), and Department of Ophthalmology (E.R.M., W.L., T.Q.D.), University of Texas Health Science Center, 8403 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229; and Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, Tex (O.S.E.N., T.Q.D.)
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- From the Research Imaging Institute (O.S.E.N., E.R.M., C.G.F., W.L., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), Department of Radiology (O.S.E.N., C.B., J.L., J.L.L., T.Q.D.), and Department of Ophthalmology (E.R.M., W.L., T.Q.D.), University of Texas Health Science Center, 8403 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78229; and Graduate School in Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, Tex (O.S.E.N., T.Q.D.)
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Ding Z, Xu R, Bailey SK, Wu TL, Morgan VL, Cutting LE, Anderson AW, Gore JC. Visualizing functional pathways in the human brain using correlation tensors and magnetic resonance imaging. Magn Reson Imaging 2015; 34:8-17. [PMID: 26477562 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2015.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2015] [Accepted: 10/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging usually detects changes in blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signals from T2*-sensitive acquisitions, and is most effective in detecting activity in brain cortex which is irrigated by rich vasculature to meet high metabolic demands. We recently demonstrated that MRI signals from T2*-sensitive acquisitions in a resting state exhibit structure-specific temporal correlations along white matter tracts. In this report we validate our preliminary findings and introduce spatio-temporal functional correlation tensors to characterize the directional preferences of temporal correlations in MRI signals acquired at rest. The results bear a remarkable similarity to data obtained by diffusion tensor imaging but without any diffusion-encoding gradients. Just as in gray matter, temporal correlations in resting state signals may reflect intrinsic synchronizations of neural activity in white matter. Here we demonstrate that functional correlation tensors are able to visualize long range white matter tracts as well as short range sub-cortical fibers imaged at rest, and that evoked functional activities alter these structures and enhance the visualization of relevant neural circuitry. Furthermore, we explore the biophysical mechanisms underlying these phenomena by comparing pulse sequences, which suggest that white matter signal variations are consistent with hemodynamic (BOLD) changes associated with neural activity. These results suggest new ways to evaluate MRI signal changes within white matter.
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- Zhaohua Ding
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Chemical and Physical Biology Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232.
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- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232
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- Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232
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- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232
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- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232
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- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Chemical and Physical Biology Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232; Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232
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Roś BP, Bijma F, de Gunst MC, de Munck JC. A three domain covariance framework for EEG/MEG data. Neuroimage 2015; 119:305-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2014] [Revised: 05/27/2015] [Accepted: 06/04/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Schneider FC, Pailler M, Faillenot I, Vassal F, Guyotat J, Barral FG, Boutet C. Presurgical Assessment of the Sensorimotor Cortex Using Resting-State fMRI. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2015; 37:101-7. [PMID: 26381564 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a4472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Accepted: 05/29/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The functional characterization of the motor cortex is an important issue in the presurgical evaluation of brain lesions. fMRI noninvasively identifies motor areas while patients are asked to move different body parts. This task-based approach has some drawbacks in clinical settings: long scanning times and exclusion of patients with severe functional or neurologic disabilities and children. Resting-state fMRI can avoid these difficulties because patients do not perform any goal-directed tasks. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nineteen patients with diverse brain pathologies were prospectively evaluated by using task-based and resting-state fMRI to localize sensorimotor function. Independent component analyses were performed to generate spatial independent components reflecting functional brain networks or noise. Three radiologists identified the motor components and 3 portions of the motor cortex corresponding to the hand, foot, and face representations. Selected motor independent components were compared with task-based fMRI activation maps resulting from movements of the corresponding body parts. RESULTS The motor cortex was successfully and consistently identified by using resting-state fMRI by the 3 radiologists for all patients. When they subdivided the motor cortex into 3 segments, the sensitivities of resting-state and task-based fMRI were comparable. Moreover, we report a good spatial correspondence with the task-based fMRI activity estimates. CONCLUSIONS Resting-state fMRI can reliably image sensorimotor function in a clinical preoperative routine. It is a promising opportunity for presurgical localization of sensorimotor function and has the potential to benefit a large number of patients affected by a wide range of pathologies.
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- F C Schneider
- From the Departments of Radiology (F.C.S., M.P., F.-G.B., C.B.) Thrombosis Research Group EA 3065 (F.C.S., F.-G.B., C.B.)
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- From the Departments of Radiology (F.C.S., M.P., F.-G.B., C.B.)
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- Neurology (I.F.) Central Integration of Pain Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1028 (I.F.), Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France
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- Neurosurgery (F.V.), University Hospital of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France Image-Guided Clinical Neurosciences and Connectomics EA 7282 (F.V.), Auvergne University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery (J.G.), Hospices Civils de Lyon, Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France
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- From the Departments of Radiology (F.C.S., M.P., F.-G.B., C.B.) Thrombosis Research Group EA 3065 (F.C.S., F.-G.B., C.B.)
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- From the Departments of Radiology (F.C.S., M.P., F.-G.B., C.B.) Thrombosis Research Group EA 3065 (F.C.S., F.-G.B., C.B.)
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Edelman BJ, Johnson N, Sohrabpour A, Tong S, Thakor N, He B. Systems Neuroengineering: Understanding and Interacting with the Brain. ENGINEERING (BEIJING, CHINA) 2015; 1:292-308. [PMID: 34336364 PMCID: PMC8323844 DOI: 10.15302/j-eng-2015078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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In this paper, we review the current state-of-the-art techniques used for understanding the inner workings of the brain at a systems level. The neural activity that governs our everyday lives involves an intricate coordination of many processes that can be attributed to a variety of brain regions. On the surface, many of these functions can appear to be controlled by specific anatomical structures; however, in reality, numerous dynamic networks within the brain contribute to its function through an interconnected web of neuronal and synaptic pathways. The brain, in its healthy or pathological state, can therefore be best understood by taking a systems-level approach. While numerous neuroengineering technologies exist, we focus here on three major thrusts in the field of systems neuroengineering: neuroimaging, neural interfacing, and neuromodulation. Neuroimaging enables us to delineate the structural and functional organization of the brain, which is key in understanding how the neural system functions in both normal and disease states. Based on such knowledge, devices can be used either to communicate with the neural system, as in neural interface systems, or to modulate brain activity, as in neuromodulation systems. The consideration of these three fields is key to the development and application of neuro-devices. Feedback-based neuro-devices require the ability to sense neural activity (via a neuroimaging modality) through a neural interface (invasive or noninvasive) and ultimately to select a set of stimulation parameters in order to alter neural function via a neuromodulation modality. Systems neuroengineering refers to the use of engineering tools and technologies to image, decode, and modulate the brain in order to comprehend its functions and to repair its dysfunction. Interactions between these fields will help to shape the future of systems neuroengineering-to develop neurotechniques for enhancing the understanding of whole-brain function and dysfunction, and the management of neurological and mental disorders.
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- Bradley J. Edelman
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
- SINAPSE Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
- Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Chen JE, Glover GH. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Methods. Neuropsychol Rev 2015; 25:289-313. [PMID: 26248581 PMCID: PMC4565730 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-015-9294-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2015] [Accepted: 07/28/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Since its inception in 1992, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become an indispensible tool for studying cognition in both the healthy and dysfunctional brain. FMRI monitors changes in the oxygenation of brain tissue resulting from altered metabolism consequent to a task-based evoked neural response or from spontaneous fluctuations in neural activity in the absence of conscious mentation (the "resting state"). Task-based studies have revealed neural correlates of a large number of important cognitive processes, while fMRI studies performed in the resting state have demonstrated brain-wide networks that result from brain regions with synchronized, apparently spontaneous activity. In this article, we review the methods used to acquire and analyze fMRI signals.
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- Jingyuan E Chen
- Department of Radiology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA,
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Wu Y, Ji GJ, Li K, Jin Z, Liu YL, Zeng YW, Fang F. Interhemispheric Connectivity in Drug-Naive Benign Childhood Epilepsy With Centrotemporal Spikes: Combining Function and Diffusion MRI. Medicine (Baltimore) 2015; 94:e1550. [PMID: 26376406 PMCID: PMC4635820 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000001550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Decreased intelligence quotients (IQ) have been consistently reported in drug-naive benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BECTS). We aimed to identify the neurophysiological basis of IQ deficits by studying interhemispheric and anatomical functional connectivity in BECTS patients. Resting-state functional and structural magnetic resonance images were acquired in 32 children with BECTS and 25 healthy controls. The IQ was estimated using Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children China-Revised. The functional connectivity between bilateral homotopic voxels was calculated and compared between groups. Homotopic regions showing abnormal functional connectivity in patients were adopted as regions of interest for analysis by diffusion-tensor imaging tractography. The fractional anisotropy, fiber length, and fiber number were compared between groups. Abnormal homotopic connectivities were correlated with IQ in BECTS patients. Compared with control subjects, patients showed decreased IQ, and decreased voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) in the bilateral frontal lobule and cerebellum. The performance and full scale IQ significantly increased with the VMHC strength of the middle frontal gyrus (MFG) in controls but not in BECTS patients. A significant negative correlation was observed between VMHC in the premotor cortex and disease duration. Microstructural features within white matter tracts connecting functionally abnormal regions did not reveal any differences between groups. This study provides preliminary evidence for the disrupted functional cooperation between hemispheres in children with BECTS. The findings suggest that the hyposynchrony between the bilateral MFG may be involved in the decreased IQ of BECTS patients.
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- Yun Wu
- From Department of Neurology, Beijing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China (YW, FF), Laboratory of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Medical Psychology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China (GJJ), Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders and the Affiliated Hospital, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China (GJJ), Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China (GJJ), fMRI Center, The 306 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Beijing, China (KL, ZJ, YLL, YWZ)
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Wei X, Shen H, Ren J, Liu W, Yang R, Liu J, Wu H, Xu X, Lai L, Hu J, Pan X, Jiang X. Alteration of spontaneous neuronal activity in young adults with non-clinical depressive symptoms. Psychiatry Res 2015; 233:36-42. [PMID: 26004037 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2015.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2014] [Revised: 09/26/2014] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Non-clinical depressive symptoms (nCDSs) are highly prevalent in young adults and may be associated with the risk of developing full-fledged depressive disorders. However, the neural basis underlying nCDSs remains unknown. To explore the alteration of spontaneous brain activity in individuals with nCDSs compared with healthy controls (HCs), we investigated resting-state brain activity using the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF) in subjects with nCDSs (n=17) and HCs (n=20). All subjects were drawn from a sample of 1105 college students participating in a survey assessing depressive symptoms. We determined that nCDSs can lead to reduced ALFF in the right ventral lateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and to increased ALFF in the left fusiform, left posterior cerebellum, right cuneus, left inferior parietal lobule, right supramarginal gyrus and bilateral precuneus. In addition, with respect to Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores and ALFF values in subjects with nCDSs, a positive correlation was discovered in the right DLPFC, while a negative correlation was identified in left posterior cerebellum and bilateral precuneus after correction. These results indicate that nCDSs are characterized by altered spontaneous activity in several important functional regions. We suggest that altered ALFFs in the right DLPFC, left posterior cerebellum and bilateral precuneus may be biomarkers that are related to the pathophysiology of nCDSs in young adults.
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- Xinhua Wei
- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Guangzhou First Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, Guangdong, China.
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- Department of Neuroradiology, Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100050, China.
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Guangzhou First Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, Guangdong, China.
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- Faculty of Health Management, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, China.
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Guangzhou First Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, Guangdong, China.
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410011, Hunan, China.
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Guangzhou First Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, Guangdong, China.
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Guangzhou First Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, Guangdong, China.
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Guangzhou First Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, Guangdong, China.
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- Department of Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, United States.
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- Department of Neurology, the Affiliated Guangzhou First Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, Guangdong, China.
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- Department of Radiology, the Affiliated Guangzhou First Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510180, Guangdong, China.
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Agarwal S, Sair HI, Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi N, Airan R, Pillai JJ. Neurovascular uncoupling in resting state fMRI demonstrated in patients with primary brain gliomas. J Magn Reson Imaging 2015. [PMID: 26201672 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.25012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND To demonstrate that the problem of brain tumor-related neurovascular uncoupling (NVU) is a significant issue with respect to resting state blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (rsfMRI) similar to task-based BOLD fMRI, in which signal detectability can be compromised by breakdown of normal neurovascular coupling. METHODS We evaluated seven de novo brain tumor patients who underwent resting state fMRI as part of comprehensive clinical fMRI exams at 3 Tesla. For each of the seven patients who demonstrated evidence of NVU on task-based motor fMRI, we performed both an independent component analysis (ICA) and an atlas-based parcellation-based seed correlation analysis (SCA) of the resting state fMRI data. For each patient, ipsilesional (IL) and contralesional (CL) regions of interest (ROIs) comprising primary motor and somatosensory cortices were used to evaluate BOLD signal changes on Z score maps derived from both ICA and SCA analysis for evidence of NVU. A subsequent two-tailed t-test was performed to determine whether statistically significant differences between the two sides were present that were consistent with NVU. RESULTS In seven patients, overall decreased BOLD signal (based on suprathreshold voxels in ICA and SCA-derived Z-score maps) was noted in IL compared with CL ROIs (P < 0.01), consistent with NVU. CONCLUSION We have demonstrated that NVU can result in false negative BOLD signal changes on rsfMRI comparable to previously published findings on standard motor task-based fMRI.
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- Shruti Agarwal
- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Cholinergic and serotonergic modulations differentially affect large-scale functional networks in the mouse brain. Brain Struct Funct 2015. [PMID: 26195064 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-015-1087-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Resting-state functional MRI (rsfMRI) is a widely implemented technique used to investigate large-scale topology in the human brain during health and disease. Studies in mice provide additional advantages, including the possibility to flexibly modulate the brain by pharmacological or genetic manipulations in combination with high-throughput functional connectivity (FC) investigations. Pharmacological modulations that target specific neurotransmitter systems, partly mimicking the effect of pathological events, could allow discriminating the effect of specific systems on functional network disruptions. The current study investigated the effect of cholinergic and serotonergic antagonists on large-scale brain networks in mice. The cholinergic system is involved in cognitive functions and is impaired in, e.g., Alzheimer's disease, while the serotonergic system is involved in emotional and introspective functions and is impaired in, e.g., Alzheimer's disease, depression and autism. Specific interest goes to the default-mode-network (DMN), which is studied extensively in humans and is affected in many neurological disorders. The results show that both cholinergic and serotonergic antagonists impaired the mouse DMN-like network similarly, except that cholinergic modulation additionally affected the retrosplenial cortex. This suggests that both neurotransmitter systems are involved in maintaining integrity of FC within the DMN-like network in mice. Cholinergic and serotonergic modulations also affected other functional networks, however, serotonergic modulation impaired the frontal and thalamus networks more extensively. In conclusion, this study demonstrates the utility of pharmacological rsfMRI in animal models to provide insights into the role of specific neurotransmitter systems on functional networks in neurological disorders.
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Altered Resting-State Connectivity within Executive Networks after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0130483. [PMID: 26172281 PMCID: PMC4501762 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2015] [Accepted: 05/19/2015] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) is associated with significant mortality rates, and most survivors experience significant cognitive deficits across multiple domains, including executive function. It is critical to determine the neural basis for executive deficits in aSAH, in order to better understand and improve patient outcomes. This study is the first examination of resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in a group of aSAH patients, used to characterize changes in functional connectivity of the frontoparietal network. We scanned 14 aSAH patients and 14 healthy controls, and divided patients into “impaired” and “unimpaired” groups based on a composite executive function score. Impaired patients exhibited significantly lower quality of life and neuropsychological impairment relative to controls, across multiple domains. Seed-based functional connectivity analysis demonstrated that unimpaired patients were not significantly different from controls, but impaired patients had increased frontoparietal connectivity. Patients evidenced increased frontoparietal connectivity as a function of decreased executive function and decreased mood (i.e. quality of life). In addition, T1 morphometric analysis demonstrated that these changes are not attributable to local cortical atrophy among aSAH patients. These results establish significant, reliable changes in the endogenous brain dynamics of aSAH patients, that are related to cognitive and mood outcomes.
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Holper L, Scholkmann F, Seifritz E. Time-frequency dynamics of the sum of intra- and extracerebral hemodynamic functional connectivity during resting-state and respiratory challenges assessed by multimodal functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Neuroimage 2015; 120:481-92. [PMID: 26169319 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2015] [Revised: 06/29/2015] [Accepted: 07/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Monitoring respiratory processes is important for evaluating neuroimaging data, given their influence on time-frequency dynamics of intra- and extracerebral hemodynamics. Here we investigated the time-frequency dynamics of the sum of intra- and extracerebral hemodynamic functional connectivity states during hypo- and hypercapnia by using three different respiratory challenge tasks (i.e., hyperventilation, breath-holding, and rebreathing) compared to resting-state. The sum of intra- and extracerebral hemodynamic responses were assessed using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) within two regions of interest (i.e., the dorsolateral and the medial prefrontal cortex). Time-frequency fNIRS analysis was performed based on wavelet transform coherence to quantify functional connectivity in terms of positive and negative phase-coupling within each region of interest. Physiological measures were assessed in the form of partial end-tidal carbon dioxide, heart rate, arterial tissue oxygen saturation, and respiration rate. We found that the three respiration challenges modulated time-frequency dynamics differently with respect to resting-state: 1) Hyperventilation and breath-holding exhibited inverse patterns of positive and negative phase-coupling. 2) In contrast, rebreathing had no significant effect. 3) Low-frequency oscillations contributed to a greater extent to time-frequency dynamics compared to high-frequency oscillations. The results highlight that there exist distinct differences in time-frequency dynamics of the sum of intra- and extracerebral functional connectivity not only between hypo- (hyperventilation) and hypercapnia but also between different states of hypercapnia (breath-holding versus rebreathing). This suggests that a multimodal assessment of intra-/extracerebral and systemic physiological changes during respiratory challenges compared to resting-state may have potential use in the differentiation between physiological and pathological respiratory behavior accompanied by the psycho-physiological state of a human.
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- L Holper
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, Division of Neonatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Frauenklinikstrasse 10, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
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Metabolic connectivity as index of verbal working memory. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2015; 35:1122-6. [PMID: 25785830 PMCID: PMC4640275 DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2015.40] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2014] [Revised: 01/20/2015] [Accepted: 02/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Positron emission tomography (PET) data are commonly analyzed in terms of regional intensity, while covariant information is not taken into account. Here, we searched for network correlates of healthy cognitive function in resting state PET data. PET with [(18)F]-fluorodeoxyglucose and a test of verbal working memory (WM) were administered to 35 young healthy adults. Metabolic connectivity was modeled at a group level using sparse inverse covariance estimation. Among 13 WM-relevant Brodmann areas (BAs), 6 appeared to be robustly connected. Connectivity within this network was significantly stronger in subjects with above-median WM performance. In respect to regional intensity, i.e., metabolism, no difference between groups was found. The results encourage examination of covariant patterns in FDG-PET data from non-neurodegenerative populations.
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Singh S, Kumar M, Modi S, Kaur P, Shankar LR, Khushu S. Alterations of Functional Connectivity Among Resting-State Networks in Hypothyroidism. J Neuroendocrinol 2015; 27:609-15. [PMID: 25855375 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2014] [Revised: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 04/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hypothyroidism affects brain functioning as suggested by various neuroimaging studies. The primary focus of the present study was to examine whether hypothyroidism would impact connectivity among resting-state networks (RSNs) using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI). Twenty-two patients with hypothyroidism and 22 healthy controls were recruited and scanned using rsfMRI. The data were analysed using independent component analysis and a dual regression approach that was applied on five RSNs that were identified using fsl software (http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk). Hypothyroid patients showed significantly decreased functional connectivity in the regions of the right frontoparietal network (frontal pole), the medial visual network (lateral occipital gyrus, precuneus cortex and cuneus) and the motor network (precentral gyrus, postcentral gyrus, precuneus cortex, paracingulate gyrus, cingulate gyrus and supramarginal gyrus) compared to healthy controls. The reduced functional connectivity in the right frontoparietal network, the medial visual network and the motor network suggests neurocognitive alterations in hypothyroid patients in the corresponding functions. However, the study would be further continued to investigate the effects of thyroxine treatment and correlation with neurocognitive scores. The findings of the present study provide further interesting insights into our understanding of the action of thyroid hormone on the adult human brain.
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- S Singh
- NMR Research Centre, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Timarpur, Delhi, India
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- NMR Research Centre, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Timarpur, Delhi, India
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- NMR Research Centre, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Timarpur, Delhi, India
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- NMR Research Centre, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Timarpur, Delhi, India
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- Thyroid Research Centre, Timarpur, Delhi, India
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- NMR Research Centre, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Timarpur, Delhi, India
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Córdova-Palomera A, Tornador C, Falcón C, Bargalló N, Nenadic I, Deco G, Fañanás L. Altered amygdalar resting-state connectivity in depression is explained by both genes and environment. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 36:3761-76. [PMID: 26096943 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2015] [Revised: 05/05/2015] [Accepted: 06/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Recent findings indicate that alterations of the amygdalar resting-state fMRI connectivity play an important role in the etiology of depression. While both depression and resting-state brain activity are shaped by genes and environment, the relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors mediating the relationship between amygdalar resting-state connectivity and depression remain largely unexplored. Likewise, novel neuroimaging research indicates that different mathematical representations of resting-state fMRI activity patterns are able to embed distinct information relevant to brain health and disease. The present study analyzed the influence of genes and environment on amygdalar resting-state fMRI connectivity, in relation to depression risk. High-resolution resting-state fMRI scans were analyzed to estimate functional connectivity patterns in a sample of 48 twins (24 monozygotic pairs) informative for depressive psychopathology (6 concordant, 8 discordant and 10 healthy control pairs). A graph-theoretical framework was employed to construct brain networks using two methods: (i) the conventional approach of filtered BOLD fMRI time-series and (ii) analytic components of this fMRI activity. Results using both methods indicate that depression risk is increased by environmental factors altering amygdalar connectivity. When analyzing the analytic components of the BOLD fMRI time-series, genetic factors altering the amygdala neural activity at rest show an important contribution to depression risk. Overall, these findings show that both genes and environment modify different patterns the amygdala resting-state connectivity to increase depression risk. The genetic relationship between amygdalar connectivity and depression may be better elicited by examining analytic components of the brain resting-state BOLD fMRI signals.
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- Aldo Córdova-Palomera
- Unidad de Antropología, Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Biología and Instituto de Biomedicina (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Image Core facility, the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomedicina y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain.,Medical Image Core facility, the Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Diagnóstico por Imagen, Hospital Clínico, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Unidad de Antropología, Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Biología and Instituto de Biomedicina (IBUB), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Madrid, Spain
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Kornfeld S, Delgado Rodríguez JA, Everts R, Kaelin-Lang A, Wiest R, Weisstanner C, Mordasini P, Steinlin M, Grunt S. Cortical reorganisation of cerebral networks after childhood stroke: impact on outcome. BMC Neurol 2015; 15:90. [PMID: 26058895 PMCID: PMC4466862 DOI: 10.1186/s12883-015-0309-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Recovery after arterial ischaemic stroke is known to largely depend on the plastic properties of the brain. The present study examines changes in the network topography of the developing brain after stroke. Effects of brain damage are best assessed by examining entire networks rather than single sites of structural lesions. Relating these changes to post-stroke neuropsychological variables and motor abilities will improve understanding of functional plasticity after stroke. Inclusion of healthy controls will provide additional insight into children's normal brain development. Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging is a valid approach to topographically investigate the reorganisation of functional networks after a brain lesion. Transcranial magnetic stimulation provides complementary output information. This study will investigate functional reorganisation after paediatric arterial ischaemic stroke by means of resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation in a cross-sectional plus longitudinal study design. The general aim of this study is to better understand neuroplasticity of the developing brain after stroke in order to develop more efficacious therapy and to improve the post-stroke functional outcome. METHODS The cross-sectional part of the study will investigate the functional cerebral networks of 35 children with chronic arterial ischaemic stroke (time of the lesion >2 years). In the longitudinal part, 15 children with acute arterial ischaemic stroke (shortly after the acute phase of the stroke) will be included and investigations will be performed 3 times within the subsequent 9 months. We will also recruit 50 healthy controls, matched for age and sex. The neuroimaging and neurophysiological data will be correlated with neuropsychological and neurological variables. DISCUSSION This study is the first to combine resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation in a paediatric population diagnosed with arterial ischaemic stroke. Thus, this study has the potential to uniquely contribute to the understanding of neuronal plasticity in the brains of healthy children and those with acute or chronic brain injury. It is expected that the results will lead to the development of optimal interventions after arterial ischaemic stroke.
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- Salome Kornfeld
- Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation, Children's University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. .,Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation, Children's University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. .,Graduate School for Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation, Children's University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. .,Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation, Children's University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. .,Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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- Division of Neuropaediatrics, Development and Rehabilitation, Children's University Hospital, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.
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Su L, An J, Ma Q, Qiu S, Hu D. Influence of Resting-State Network on Lateralization of Functional Connectivity in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2015; 36:1479-87. [PMID: 26021622 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a4346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2014] [Accepted: 01/25/2015] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although most studies on epilepsy have focused on the epileptogenic zone, epilepsy is a system-level disease characterized by aberrant neuronal synchronization among groups of neurons. Increasingly, studies have indicated that mesial temporal lobe epilepsy may be a network-level disease; however, few investigations have examined resting-state functional connectivity of the entire brain, particularly in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal sclerosis. This study primarily investigated whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity abnormality in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and right hippocampal sclerosis during the interictal period. MATERIALS AND METHODS We investigated resting-state functional connectivity of 21 patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with right hippocampal sclerosis and 21 neurologically healthy controls. A multivariate pattern analysis was used to identify the functional connections that most clearly differentiated patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with right hippocampal sclerosis from controls. RESULTS Discriminative analysis of functional connections indicated that the patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with right hippocampal sclerosis exhibited decreased resting-state functional connectivity within the right hemisphere and increased resting-state functional connectivity within the left hemisphere. Resting-state network analysis suggested that the internetwork connections typically obey the hemispheric lateralization trend and most of the functional connections that disturb the lateralization trend are the intranetwork ones. CONCLUSIONS The current findings suggest that weakening of the resting-state functional connectivity associated with the right hemisphere appears to strengthen resting-state functional connectivity on the contralateral side, which may be related to the seizure-induced damage and underlying compensatory mechanisms. Resting-state network-based analysis indicated that the compensatory mechanism among different resting-state networks may disturb the hemispheric lateralization.
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- L Su
- From the College of Mechatronics and Automation (L.S., Q.M., D.H.), National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China Department of Information Engineering (L.S.), Officers College of Chinese Armed Police Force, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging (J.A., S.Q.), First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- From the College of Mechatronics and Automation (L.S., Q.M., D.H.), National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging (J.A., S.Q.), First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- From the College of Mechatronics and Automation (L.S., Q.M., D.H.), National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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van Duijvenvoorde ACK, Achterberg M, Braams BR, Peters S, Crone EA. Testing a dual-systems model of adolescent brain development using resting-state connectivity analyses. Neuroimage 2015; 124:409-420. [PMID: 25969399 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2014] [Revised: 03/24/2015] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The current study aimed to test a dual-systems model of adolescent brain development by studying changes in intrinsic functional connectivity within and across networks typically associated with cognitive-control and affective-motivational processes. To this end, resting-state and task-related fMRI data were collected of 269 participants (ages 8-25). Resting-state analyses focused on seeds derived from task-related neural activation in the same participants: the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) from a cognitive rule-learning paradigm and the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) from a reward-paradigm. Whole-brain seed-based resting-state analyses showed an age-related increase in dlPFC connectivity with the caudate and thalamus, and an age-related decrease in connectivity with the (pre)motor cortex. nAcc connectivity showed a strengthening of connectivity with the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and subcortical structures such as the hippocampus, and a specific age-related decrease in connectivity with the ventral medial PFC (vmPFC). Behavioral measures from both functional paradigms correlated with resting-state connectivity strength with their respective seed. That is, age-related change in learning performance was mediated by connectivity between the dlPFC and thalamus, and age-related change in winning pleasure was mediated by connectivity between the nAcc and vmPFC. These patterns indicate (i) strengthening of connectivity between regions that support control and learning, (ii) more independent functioning of regions that support motor and control networks, and (iii) more independent functioning of regions that support motivation and valuation networks with age. These results are interpreted vis-à-vis a dual-systems model of adolescent brain development.
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- A C K van Duijvenvoorde
- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, and The Netherlands Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, and The Netherlands Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, and The Netherlands Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, and The Netherlands Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, and The Netherlands Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC), Leiden, The Netherlands
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Mabray MC, Barajas RF, Cha S. Modern brain tumor imaging. Brain Tumor Res Treat 2015; 3:8-23. [PMID: 25977902 PMCID: PMC4426283 DOI: 10.14791/btrt.2015.3.1.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2015] [Revised: 03/17/2015] [Accepted: 03/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The imaging and clinical management of patients with brain tumor continue to evolve over time and now heavily rely on physiologic imaging in addition to high-resolution structural imaging. Imaging remains a powerful noninvasive tool to positively impact the management of patients with brain tumor. This article provides an overview of the current state-of-the art clinical brain tumor imaging. In this review, we discuss general magnetic resonance (MR) imaging methods and their application to the diagnosis of, treatment planning and navigation, and disease monitoring in patients with brain tumor. We review the strengths, limitations, and pitfalls of structural imaging, diffusion-weighted imaging techniques, MR spectroscopy, perfusion imaging, positron emission tomography/MR, and functional imaging. Overall this review provides a basis for understudying the role of modern imaging in the care of brain tumor patients.
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- Marc C Mabray
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Goveas J, O'Dwyer L, Mascalchi M, Cosottini M, Diciotti S, De Santis S, Passamonti L, Tessa C, Toschi N, Giannelli M. Diffusion-MRI in neurodegenerative disorders. Magn Reson Imaging 2015; 33:853-76. [PMID: 25917917 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2015.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2014] [Revised: 04/18/2015] [Accepted: 04/19/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The ability to image the whole brain through ever more subtle and specific methods/contrasts has come to play a key role in understanding the basis of brain abnormalities in several diseases. In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), "diffusion" (i.e. the random, thermally-induced displacements of water molecules over time) represents an extraordinarily sensitive contrast mechanism, and the exquisite structural detail it affords has proven useful in a vast number of clinical as well as research applications. Since diffusion-MRI is a truly quantitative imaging technique, the indices it provides can serve as potential imaging biomarkers which could allow early detection of pathological alterations as well as tracking and possibly predicting subtle changes in follow-up examinations and clinical trials. Accordingly, diffusion-MRI has proven useful in obtaining information to better understand the microstructural changes and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying various neurodegenerative disorders. In this review article, we summarize and explore the main applications, findings, perspectives as well as challenges and future research of diffusion-MRI in various neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's disease and degenerative ataxias.
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- Joseph Goveas
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, and Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; Quantitative and Functional Neuroradiology Research Program at Meyer Children and Careggi Hospitals of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Translational Research and New Surgical and Medical Technologies, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Unit of Neuroradiology, Pisa University Hospital "Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana", Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi", University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Institute of Bioimaging and Molecular Physiology, National Research Council, Catanzaro, Italy; Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Radiology, "Versilia" Hospital, AUSL 12 Viareggio, Lido di Camaiore, Italy
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- Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Medical Physics Section, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy; Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Unit of Medical Physics, Pisa University Hospital "Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana", Pisa, Italy.
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Khazaee A, Ebrahimzadeh A, Babajani-Feremi A. Identifying patients with Alzheimer's disease using resting-state fMRI and graph theory. Clin Neurophysiol 2015; 126:2132-41. [PMID: 25907414 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.02.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2014] [Revised: 01/26/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2015] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Study of brain network on the basis of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has provided promising results to investigate changes in connectivity among different brain regions because of diseases. Graph theory can efficiently characterize different aspects of the brain network by calculating measures of integration and segregation. METHOD In this study, we combine graph theoretical approaches with advanced machine learning methods to study functional brain network alteration in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Support vector machine (SVM) was used to explore the ability of graph measures in diagnosis of AD. We applied our method on the resting-state fMRI data of twenty patients with AD and twenty age and gender matched healthy subjects. The data were preprocessed and each subject's graph was constructed by parcellation of the whole brain into 90 distinct regions using the automated anatomical labeling (AAL) atlas. The graph measures were then calculated and used as the discriminating features. Extracted network-based features were fed to different feature selection algorithms to choose most significant features. In addition to the machine learning approach, statistical analysis was performed on connectivity matrices to find altered connectivity patterns in patients with AD. RESULTS Using the selected features, we were able to accurately classify patients with AD from healthy subjects with accuracy of 100%. CONCLUSION Results of this study show that pattern recognition and graph of brain network, on the basis of the resting state fMRI data, can efficiently assist in the diagnosis of AD. SIGNIFICANCE Classification based on the resting-state fMRI can be used as a non-invasive and automatic tool to diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
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- Ali Khazaee
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Babol University of Technology, Iran.
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Babol University of Technology, Iran
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA; Neuroscience Institute, Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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