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Lord A, Ehrlich S, Borchardt V, Geisler D, Seidel M, Huber S, Murr J, Walter M. Brain parcellation choice affects disease-related topology differences increasingly from global to local network levels. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2016; 249:12-19. [PMID: 27000302 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2016.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2015] [Revised: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Network-based analyses of deviant brain function have become extremely popular in psychiatric neuroimaging. Underpinning brain network analyses is the selection of appropriate regions of interest (ROIs). Although ROI selection is fundamental in network analysis, its impact on detecting disease effects remains unclear. We investigated the impact of parcellation choice when comparing results from different studies. We investigated the effects of anatomical (AAL) and literature-based (Dosenbach) parcellation schemes on comparability of group differences in 35 female patients with anorexia nervosa and 35 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Global and local network properties, including network-based statistics (NBS), were assessed on resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging data obtained at 3T. Parcellation schemes were comparably consistent on global network properties, while NBS and local metrics differed in location, but not metric type. Location of local metric alterations varied for AAL (parietal and cingulate cortices) versus Dosenbach (insula, thalamus) parcellation approaches. However, consistency was observed for the occipital cortex. Patient-specific global network properties can be robustly observed using different parcellation schemes, while graph metrics characterizing impairments of individual nodes vary considerably. Therefore, the impact of parcellation choice on specific group differences varies depending on the level of network organization.
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- Anton Lord
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Eating Disorder Research and Treatment Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany; MGH/MIT/HMS Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Eating Disorder Research and Treatment Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Eating Disorder Research and Treatment Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Eating Disorder Research and Treatment Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS), Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital C.G. Carus, Dresden, Germany.
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Balsters JH, Mantini D, Apps MAJ, Eickhoff SB, Wenderoth N. Connectivity-based parcellation increases network detection sensitivity in resting state fMRI: An investigation into the cingulate cortex in autism. Neuroimage Clin 2016; 11:494-507. [PMID: 27114898 PMCID: PMC4832089 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2015] [Revised: 03/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Although resting state fMRI (RS-fMRI) is increasingly used to generate biomarkers of psychiatric illnesses, analytical choices such as seed size and placement can lead to variable findings. Seed placement especially impacts on RS-fMRI studies of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), because individuals with ASD are known to possess more variable network topographies. Here, we present a novel pipeline for analysing RS-fMRI in ASD using the cingulate cortex as an exemplar anatomical region of interest. Rather than using seeds based on previous literature, or gross morphology, we used a combination of structural information, task-independent (RS-fMRI) and task-dependent functional connectivity (Meta-Analytic Connectivity Modeling) to partition the cingulate cortex into six subregions with unique connectivity fingerprints and diverse behavioural profiles. This parcellation was consistent between groups and highly replicable across individuals (up to 93% detection) suggesting that the organisation of cortico-cingulo connections is highly similar between groups. However, our results showed an age-related increase in connectivity between the anterior middle cingulate cortex and right lateral prefrontal cortex in ASD, whilst this connectivity decreased in controls. There was also a Group × Grey Matter (GM) interaction, showing increased connectivity between the anterior cingulate cortex and the rectal gyrus in concert with increasing rectal gyrus GM in controls. By comparing our approach to previously established methods we revealed that our approach improves network detection in both groups, and that the ability to detect group differences using 4 mm radius spheres varies greatly with seed placement. Using our multi-modal approach we find disrupted cortico-cingulo circuits that, based on task-dependent information, may contribute to ASD deficits in attention and social interaction. Moreover, we highlight how more sensitive approaches to RS-fMRI are crucial for establishing robust and reproducible connectivity-based biomarkers in psychiatric disorders.
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- Joshua H Balsters
- Neural Control of Movement Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Neural Control of Movement Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK; Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, Department of Kinesiology, KU Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Germany; Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Neural Control of Movement Laboratory, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, Department of Kinesiology, KU Leuven, Belgium
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Walter SA, Forsgren M, Lundengård K, Simon R, Torkildsen Nilsson M, Söderfeldt B, Lundberg P, Engström M. Positive Allosteric Modulator of GABA Lowers BOLD Responses in the Cingulate Cortex. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0148737. [PMID: 26930498 PMCID: PMC4773017 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2015] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Knowledge about the neural underpinnings of the negative blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) responses in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is still limited. We hypothesized that pharmacological GABAergic modulation attenuates BOLD responses, and that blood concentrations of a positive allosteric modulator of GABA correlate inversely with BOLD responses in the cingulate cortex. We investigated whether or not pure task-related negative BOLD responses were co-localized with pharmacologically modulated BOLD responses. Twenty healthy adults received either 5 mg diazepam or placebo in a double blind, randomized design. During fMRI the subjects performed a working memory task. Results showed that BOLD responses in the cingulate cortex were inversely correlated with diazepam blood concentrations; that is, the higher the blood diazepam concentration, the lower the BOLD response. This inverse correlation was most pronounced in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex and the anterior mid-cingulate cortex. For subjects with diazepam plasma concentration > 0.1 mg/L we observed negative BOLD responses with respect to fixation baseline. There was minor overlap between cingulate regions with task-related negative BOLD responses and regions where the BOLD responses were inversely correlated with diazepam concentration. We interpret that the inverse correlation between the BOLD response and diazepam was caused by GABA-related neural inhibition. Thus, this study supports the hypothesis that GABA attenuates BOLD responses in fMRI. The minimal overlap between task-related negative BOLD responses and responses attenuated by diazepam suggests that these responses might be caused by different mechanisms.
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- Susanna A. Walter
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Radiation Physics, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Radiology, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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Cytoarchitecture and probability maps of the human medial orbitofrontal cortex. Cortex 2016; 75:87-112. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2015] [Revised: 09/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/09/2015] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Winkelmann T, Thayer JF, Pohlack S, Nees F, Grimm O, Flor H. Structural brain correlates of heart rate variability in a healthy young adult population. Brain Struct Funct 2016; 222:1061-1068. [PMID: 26801184 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-016-1185-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2015] [Accepted: 01/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The high frequency component of heart rate variability (HRV) has reliably been shown to serve as an index of autonomic inhibitory control and is increasingly considered as a biomarker of adaptability and health. While several functional neuroimaging studies identified associations between regional cerebral blood flow and HRV, studies on structural brain correlates of HRV are scarce. We investigated whether interindividual differences in HRV are related to brain morphology in healthy humans. Thirty participants underwent HRV recording at rest subsequent to structural magnetic resonance imaging. Cortical reconstruction and subcortical volumetry were performed with the Freesurfer image analysis suite. The amount of resting HRV was positively correlated with the cortical thickness of an area within the right anterior midcingulate cortex (aMCC). Consistent with existing studies implicating forebrain regions in cardiac regulation, our findings show that the thickness of the right aMCC is associated with the degree of parasympathetic regulation of heart rate. Evidence for the neural correlates of interindividual differences in HRV may complement our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the association between HRV and self-regulatory capacity.
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- Tobias Winkelmann
- Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbia, OH, USA
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- Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159, Mannheim, Germany.
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Architectonic Mapping of the Human Brain beyond Brodmann. Neuron 2015; 88:1086-1107. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 266] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2014] [Revised: 10/13/2015] [Accepted: 11/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Goerlich-Dobre KS, Lamm C, Pripfl J, Habel U, Votinov M. The left amygdala: A shared substrate of alexithymia and empathy. Neuroimage 2015; 122:20-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2015] [Revised: 07/21/2015] [Accepted: 08/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Toth A, Lovadi E, Komoly S, Schwarcz A, Orsi G, Perlaki G, Bogner P, Sebok A, Kovacs N, Pal E, Janszky J. Cortical involvement during myotonia in myotonic dystrophy: an fMRI study. Acta Neurol Scand 2015; 132:65-72. [PMID: 25630356 DOI: 10.1111/ane.12360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a common adulthood muscular dystrophy, characterized by muscle wasting, myotonia, and multisystemic manifestations. The phenomenon of involuntary muscle contraction during myotonia offers a unique possibility of investigating brain motor functions. This study explores cortical involvement during grip myotonia in DM1. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixteen DM1 patients were enrolled in the study. Eight patients had apparent grip myotonia, while eight patients did not (control subjects). All patients underwent functional MRI grip task examination twice: prior a warm-up procedure (myotonia was elicited in patients with apparent grip myotonia) and after a warm-up procedure (myotonia was attenuated in patients with apparent grip myotonia). No myotonia was elicited during either examination in patients without apparent grip myotonia. Cerebral blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals were compared both between groups with and without apparent myotonia, and between pre- and post-warm-up sessions. RESULTS Significantly higher BOLD signal was found during myotonia phase in patients with apparent grip myotonia compared to corresponding non-myotonia phase of patients without apparent grip myotonia in the supplementary motor area and in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Significant differences in BOLD signal levels of very similar pattern were detected between prewarm-up session myotonia phase and post-warm-up session myotonia absent phase in the group of patients with apparent grip myotonia. CONCLUSION We showed that myotonia is related to cortical function in high-order motor control areas. This cortical involvement is most likely to represent action of inhibitory circuits intending motor termination.
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- Department of Neurology; University of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
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- Department of Neurology; University of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
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- Department of Neurology; University of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
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- Department of Neurosurgery; University of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
- MTA-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group; Pécs Hungary
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- MTA-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group; Pécs Hungary
- Diagnostic Center of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
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- MTA-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group; Pécs Hungary
- Diagnostic Center of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
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- Department of Neurosurgery; University of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
- Diagnostic Center of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
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- Department of Neurology; University of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
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- Department of Neurology; University of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
- MTA-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group; Pécs Hungary
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- Department of Neurology; University of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
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- Department of Neurology; University of Pécs; Pécs Hungary
- MTA-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group; Pécs Hungary
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Goerlich-Dobre KS, Votinov M, Habel U, Pripfl J, Lamm C. Neuroanatomical profiles of alexithymia dimensions and subtypes. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 36:3805-18. [PMID: 26094609 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2015] [Revised: 05/06/2015] [Accepted: 06/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Alexithymia, a major risk factor for a range of psychiatric and neurological disorders, has been recognized to comprise two dimensions, a cognitive dimension (difficulties identifying, analyzing, and verbalizing feelings) and an affective one (difficulties emotionalizing and fantasizing). Based on these dimensions, the existence of four distinct alexithymia subtypes has been proposed, but never empirically tested. In this study, 125 participants were assigned to four groups corresponding to the proposed alexithymia subtypes: Type I (impairment on both dimensions), Type II (impairment on the cognitive, but not the affective dimension), Type III (impairment on the affective, but not the cognitive dimension), and Lexithymics (no impairment on either dimension). By means of voxel-based morphometry, associations of the alexithymia dimensions and subtypes with gray and white matter volumes were analyzed. Type I and Type II alexithymia were characterized by gray matter volume reductions in the left amygdala and the thalamus. The cognitive dimension was further linked to volume reductions in the right amygdala, left posterior insula, precuneus, caudate, hippocampus, and parahippocampus. Type III alexithymia was marked by volume reduction in the MCC only, and the affective dimension was further characterized by larger sgACC volume. Moreover, individuals with the intermediate alexithymia Types II and III showed gray matter volume reductions in distinct regions, and had larger corpus callosum volumes compared to Lexithymics. These results substantiate the notion of a differential impact of the cognitive and affective alexithymia dimensions on brain morphology and provide evidence for separable neuroanatomical representations of the different alexithymia subtypes.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.,Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.,JARA - Translational Brain Medicine, Aachen & Jülich, NorthRhine-Westfalia, Germany
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- Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Vidal-Piñeiro D, Martín-Trias P, Falcón C, Bargalló N, Clemente IC, Valls-Solé J, Junqué C, Pascual-Leone A, Bartrés-Faz D. Neurochemical Modulation in Posteromedial Default-mode Network Cortex Induced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Brain Stimul 2015; 8:937-44. [PMID: 25981159 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2015.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2014] [Revised: 04/08/2015] [Accepted: 04/10/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The Default Mode Network (DMN) is severely compromised in several psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders where plasticity alterations are observed. Glutamate and GABA are the major excitatory and inhibitory brain neurotransmitters respectively and are strongly related to plasticity responses and large-scale network expression. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether regional Glx (Glutamate + Glutamine) and GABA could be modulated within the DMN after experimentally-controlled induction of plasticity and to study the effect of intrinsic connectivity over brain responses to stimulation. METHODS We applied individually-guided neuronavigated Theta Burst Stimulation (TBS) to the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) in-between two magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) acquisitions to 36 young subjects. A resting-state fMRI sequence was also acquired before stimulation. RESULTS After intermittent TBS, distal GABA increases in posteromedial DMN areas were observed. Instead, no significant changes were detected locally, in left IPL areas. Neurotransmitter modulation in posteromedial areas was related to baseline fMRI connectivity between this region and the TBS-targeted area. CONCLUSIONS The prediction of neurotransmitter modulation by connectivity highlights the relevance of connectivity patterns to understand brain responses to plasticity-inducing protocols. The ability to modulate GABA in a key core of the DMN by means of TBS may open new avenues to evaluate plasticity mechanisms in a key area for major neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions.
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- Dídac Vidal-Piñeiro
- Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain
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- Medical Imaging Group, University of Barcelona, CIBER-BBN, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain; Neuroradiology Section, Radiology Service, Centre de Diagnòstic per la Imatge, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain
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- EMG Unit, Neurology Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain
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- Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació Guttmann, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain.
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Reis GM, Fais RS, Prado WA. The antinociceptive effect of stimulating the retrosplenial cortex in the rat tail-flick test but not in the formalin test involves the rostral anterior cingulate cortex. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2015; 131:112-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2015.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2014] [Revised: 02/02/2015] [Accepted: 02/06/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Bédard ACV, Schulz KP, Krone B, Pedraza J, Duhoux S, Halperin JM, Newcorn JH. Neural mechanisms underlying the therapeutic actions of guanfacine treatment in youth with ADHD: a pilot fMRI study. Psychiatry Res 2015; 231:353-6. [PMID: 25659477 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2015.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2014] [Revised: 11/06/2014] [Accepted: 01/12/2015] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Twenty-five youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while performing a Go/No-go task before and after 6-8 weeks of randomized once-daily treatment with either the α₂A-adrenergic receptor agonist guanfacine or placebo. Clinical improvement was greater for guanfacine than placebo and was differentially associated with reduced activation for guanfacine compared with placebo in the right midcingulate cortex/supplementary motor area and the left posterior cingulate cortex.
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- Anne-Claude V Bédard
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Department of Psychology, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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Neuroplasticity underlying the comorbidity of pain and depression. Neural Plast 2015; 2015:504691. [PMID: 25810926 PMCID: PMC4355564 DOI: 10.1155/2015/504691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2014] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Acute pain induces depressed mood, and chronic pain is known to cause depression. Depression, meanwhile, can also adversely affect pain behaviors ranging from symptomology to treatment response. Pain and depression independently induce long-term plasticity in the central nervous system (CNS). Comorbid conditions, however, have distinct patterns of neural activation. We performed a review of the changes in neural circuitry and molecular signaling pathways that may underlie this complex relationship between pain and depression. We also discussed some of the current and future therapies that are based on this understanding of the CNS plasticity that occurs with pain and depression.
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Kim G, Jung S, Son H, Kim S, Choi J, Lee DH, Roh GS, Kang SS, Cho GJ, Choi WS, Kim HJ. The GABAB receptor associates with regulators of G-protein signaling 4 protein in the mouse prefrontal cortex and hypothalamus. BMB Rep 2015; 47:324-9. [PMID: 24286319 PMCID: PMC4163873 DOI: 10.5483/bmbrep.2014.47.6.162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2013] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Regulators of G-protein signaling (RGS) proteins regulate certain G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-mediated signaling pathways. The GABAB receptor (GABABR) is a GPCR that plays a role in the stress response. Previous studies indicate that acute immobilization stress (AIS) decreases RGS4 in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hypothalamus (HY) and suggest the possibility of a signal complex composed of RGS4 and GABABR. Therefore, in the present study, we tested whether RGS4 associates with GABABR in these brain regions. We found the co-localization of RGS4 and GABABR subtypes in the PFC and HY using double immunohistochemistry and confirmed a direct association between GABAB2R and RGS4 proteins using co-immunoprecipitation. Furthermore, we found that AIS decreased the amount of RGS4 bound to GABAB2R and the number of double-positive cells. These results indicate that GABABR forms a signal complex with RGS4 and suggests that RGS4 is a regulator of GABABR. [BMB Reports 2014; 47(6): 324-329]
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- Gyeongwha Kim
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Institute of Health Sciences, Medical Research Center for Neural Dysfunction, School of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-290, Korea
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Lambert C, Zrinzo L, Nagy Z, Lutti A, Hariz M, Foltynie T, Draganski B, Ashburner J, Frackowiak R. Do we need to revise the tripartite subdivision hypothesis of the human subthalamic nucleus (STN)? Response to Alkemade and Forstmann. Neuroimage 2015; 110:1-2. [PMID: 25620491 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2014] [Revised: 01/13/2015] [Accepted: 01/14/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Recently in this journal, Alkemade and Forstmann again challenged the evidence for a tripartite organisation to the subthalamic nucleus (STN) (Alkemade & Forstmann 2014). Additionally, they raised specific issues with the earlier published results using 3T MRI to perform in vivo diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) based segmentation of the STN (Lambert et al. 2012). Their comments reveal a common misconception related to the underlying methodologies used, which we clarify in this reply, in addition to highlighting how their current conclusions are synonymous with our original paper. The ongoing debate, instigated by the controversies surrounding STN parcellation, raises important implications for the assumptions and methodologies employed in mapping functional brain anatomy, both in vivo and ex vivo, and reveals a fundamental emergent problem with the current techniques. These issues are reviewed, and potential strategies that could be developed to manage them in the future are discussed further.
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- Christian Lambert
- Clinical Neuroscience, St George's University of London, London, UK.
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- Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK
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- Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research (SNS Lab), University Hospital Zürich, P.O. Box 146, Rämistrasse 100, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland; Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- LREN, Département des Neurosciences Cliniques, CHUV, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK
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- Unit of Functional Neurosurgery, University College London Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK
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- LREN, Département des Neurosciences Cliniques, CHUV, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
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- LREN, Département des Neurosciences Cliniques, CHUV, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Zilles K, Amunts K. Anatomical Basis for Functional Specialization. FMRI: FROM NUCLEAR SPINS TO BRAIN FUNCTIONS 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7591-1_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Kennis M, Rademaker AR, van Rooij SJ, Kahn RS, Geuze E. Resting state functional connectivity of the anterior cingulate cortex in veterans with and without post-traumatic stress disorder. Hum Brain Mapp 2015; 36:99-109. [PMID: 25137414 PMCID: PMC6869264 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2014] [Revised: 07/10/2014] [Accepted: 08/11/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is associated with structural and functional alterations in several brain areas, including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Here, we examine resting state functional connectivity of ACC subdivisions in PTSD, using a seed-based approach. Resting state magnetic resonance images were obtained from male veterans with (n = 31) and without (n = 25) PTSD, and healthy male civilian controls (n = 25). Veterans with and without PTSD (combat controls) had reduced functional connectivity compared to healthy controls between the caudal ACC and the precentral gyrus, and between the perigenual ACC and the superior medial gyrus and middle temporal gyrus. Combat controls had increased connectivity between the rostral ACC and precentral/middle frontal gyrus compared to PTSD patients and healthy civilian controls. The resting state functional connectivity differences in the perigenual ACC network reported here indicate that veterans differ from healthy controls, potentially due to military training, deployment, and/or trauma exposure. In addition, specific alterations in the combat controls may potentially be related to resilience. These results underline the importance of distinguishing trauma-exposed (combat) controls from healthy civilian controls when studying PTSD.
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- Mitzy Kennis
- Research Centre‐Military Mental Healthcare, Ministry of DefenceCXUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center UtrechtCXUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Research Centre‐Military Mental Healthcare, Ministry of DefenceCXUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center UtrechtCXUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Research Centre‐Military Mental Healthcare, Ministry of DefenceCXUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center UtrechtCXUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center UtrechtCXUtrechtThe Netherlands
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- Research Centre‐Military Mental Healthcare, Ministry of DefenceCXUtrechtThe Netherlands
- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center UtrechtCXUtrechtThe Netherlands
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He Q, Chen C, Dong Q, Xue G, Chen C, Lu ZL, Bechara A. Gray and white matter structures in the midcingulate cortex region contribute to body mass index in Chinese young adults. Brain Struct Funct 2015; 220:319-29. [PMID: 24146133 PMCID: PMC3995892 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0657-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2013] [Accepted: 10/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Overweight and obesity are rapidly becoming a central public health challenge around the world. Previous studies have suggested that elevated Body Mass Index (BMI) might be associated with structural changes in both gray and white matter, but this association is still not well understood. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between BMI and brain structure with a relatively large sample of young adults (N = 336) in a small age range (20 ± 1 years). Voxel-based morphometry results showed significant negative correlations between BMI and gray-matter volumes in the midcingulate cortex (MCC), left orbital frontal cortex, and left ventromedial prefrontal cortex. There was also a significant negative correlation between BMI and white matter integrity as indexed by fractional anisotropy in bilateral cingulum. Further tractography analysis showed a significant negative correlation between BMI and the number of fibers passing the MCC region. Regression analysis showed that gray matter and white matter in these regions both contributed to the variance of BMI. These results remained significant even when analysis was restricted to the subjects with normal weights. Finally, we found that decision-making ability (as assessed by the Iowa Gambling Task) mediated the association between the structure of the MCC (a region responsible for impulse control and decision making) and BMI. These results shed light on the structural neural basis of weight variations.
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- Qinghua He
- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China
- National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
- Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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- National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Brain Imaging, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
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Masocha W. Comprehensive analysis of the GABAergic system gene expression profile in the anterior cingulate cortex of mice with Paclitaxel-induced neuropathic pain. Gene Expr 2015; 16:145-53. [PMID: 25700370 PMCID: PMC8750099 DOI: 10.3727/105221615x14181438356337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The supraspinal pathophysiology of the painful neuropathy induced by paclitaxel, a chemotherapeutic agent, is not well understood. The γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurotransmitter system has been implicated in the pathogenesis of neuropathic pain. Gene expression of GABAergic system molecules was examined in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) of mice brains, by real-time PCR, during paclitaxel-induced neuropathic pain, because this area is involved in pain perception and modulation that might contribute to neuropathic pain. Paclitaxel treatment resulted in thermal hyperalgesia and in increased GABA transporter-1 (GAT-1) mRNA expression, but not that of other GABA transporters or GABA(A) ergic enzymes in the ACC compared to vehicle treatment. Among the 18 GABA(A) receptor subunits analyzed, only β2, β3, δ, and γ2 had increased mRNA levels, and for the receptor subunit, only GABA(B2) had increased mRNA levels in the ACC of paclitaxel-treated mice, whereas the rest of the GABA receptor subunits were not altered. The mRNA expression of GABAA receptor subunits α6, θ, π, ρ1, ρ2, and ρ3 were not detected in the ACC. In conclusion, these data show that during paclitaxel-induced neuropathic pain there is significant increase in GAT-1 expression in the ACC. GAT-1 is the main transporter of GABA from the synapse, and thus its increased expression possibly results in less GABA at the synapse and dysregulation of the GABAergic system. GAT-1 is a potential therapeutic target for managing paclitaxel-induced neuropathic pain.
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- Willias Masocha
- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait
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Resting state networks in major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Res 2014; 224:139-51. [PMID: 25456520 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2014] [Revised: 07/28/2014] [Accepted: 10/02/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) examines the spontaneous low frequency neural activity of the brain to reveal networks of correlated neural activity. A number of different methodologies, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, have been used to examine networks of neural activity that may be related to clinical presentation. Major depressive disorder (MDD) research has largely focused on the default mode network (DMN), which is most active at rest and may relate to negative rumination. However, other networks can be discerned in the resting state such as salience and affective and cognitive control networks, all of which may be relevant to MDD psychopathology. This article reviews the rapidly increasing literature on resting state networks. A number of state- and trait-dependent abnormalities have been reported in MDD in a wide variety of regions including the cerebellum, lingual gyrus, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), middle frontal gyrus (MFG), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), amygdala and insula. Current and chronic medication is often a potential confound. Few trials have examined the immediate or delayed effects of antidepressants on resting state networks. This article presents a novel approach to the analysis of drug effects, the identification of signatures of efficacy, and thus for drug development.
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Cieslik EC, Mueller VI, Eickhoff CR, Langner R, Eickhoff SB. Three key regions for supervisory attentional control: evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2014; 48:22-34. [PMID: 25446951 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 214] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2014] [Revised: 10/08/2014] [Accepted: 11/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The supervisory attentional system has been proposed to mediate non-routine, goal-oriented behaviour by guiding the selection and maintenance of the goal-relevant task schema. Here, we aimed to delineate the brain regions that mediate these high-level control processes via neuroimaging meta-analysis. In particular, we investigated the core neural correlates of a wide range of tasks requiring supervisory control for the suppression of a routine action in favour of another, non-routine one. Our sample comprised n=173 experiments employing go/no-go, stop-signal, Stroop or spatial interference tasks. Consistent convergence across all four paradigm classes was restricted to right anterior insula and inferior frontal junction, with anterior midcingulate cortex and pre-supplementary motor area being consistently involved in all but the go/no-go task. Taken together with lesion studies in patients, our findings suggest that the controlled activation and maintenance of adequate task schemata relies, across paradigms, on a right-dominant midcingulo-insular-inferior frontal core network. This also implies that the role of other prefrontal and parietal regions may be less domain-general than previously thought.
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- Edna C Cieslik
- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) Research Centre Jülich, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany.
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- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) Research Centre Jülich, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) Research Centre Jülich, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen, University, Pauwelsstraße 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) Research Centre Jülich, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) Research Centre Jülich, Leo-Brandt-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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Bzdok D, Heeger A, Langner R, Laird AR, Fox PT, Palomero-Gallagher N, Vogt BA, Zilles K, Eickhoff SB. Subspecialization in the human posterior medial cortex. Neuroimage 2014; 106:55-71. [PMID: 25462801 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2014] [Revised: 11/02/2014] [Accepted: 11/04/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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The posterior medial cortex (PMC) is particularly poorly understood. Its neural activity changes have been related to highly disparate mental processes. We therefore investigated PMC properties with a data-driven exploratory approach. First, we subdivided the PMC by whole-brain coactivation profiles. Second, functional connectivity of the ensuing PMC regions was compared by task-constrained meta-analytic coactivation mapping (MACM) and task-unconstrained resting-state correlations (RSFC). Third, PMC regions were functionally described by forward/reverse functional inference. A precuneal cluster was mostly connected to the intraparietal sulcus, frontal eye fields, and right temporo-parietal junction; associated with attention and motor tasks. A ventral posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) cluster was mostly connected to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and middle left inferior parietal cortex (IPC); associated with facial appraisal and language tasks. A dorsal PCC cluster was mostly connected to the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, anterior/posterior IPC, posterior midcingulate cortex, and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; associated with delay discounting. A cluster in the retrosplenial cortex was mostly connected to the anterior thalamus and hippocampus. Furthermore, all PMC clusters were congruently coupled with the default mode network according to task-unconstrained but not task-constrained connectivity. We thus identified distinct regions in the PMC and characterized their neural networks and functional implications.
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- Danilo Bzdok
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Cingulum NeuroSciences Institute and Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Walter M, Li S, Demenescu LR. Multistage drug effects of ketamine in the treatment of major depression. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2014; 264 Suppl 1:S55-65. [PMID: 25217177 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-014-0535-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2014] [Accepted: 09/02/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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A substantial number of patients diagnosed with major depression disorder show poor or no response to standard antidepressive drugs. Recent studies showed that ketamine promotes a rapid and sustained antidepressive effect in treatment-resistant depression. Importantly, after a single dose, such antidepressant action appears very fast, reaching maximum efficacy after 1-2 days before it slowly decays after 3-7 days. This temporal pattern is especially interesting since most effects are investigated following single, subanesthetic doses. This means that effects are observed at time points when the blood levels have long fallen below any active threshold. Mechanisms of action thus may be sought either in secondary or compensatory processes, which develop after acute systemic derangement or in molecular downstream mechanisms of action, which after initiation do not require the presence of active drug levels. We here review acute and delayed effects of subanesthetic ketamine infusion and discuss potential origins of antidepressant drug action. We will provide evidences that both acute effects on abnormal network configuration and delayed effects at the level of homeostatic synaptic plasticity may be necessary for antidepressant action. We further argue that such effects should be followed by a temporally well-defined exploitation of these transient changes by therapeutic processes, aiming at sustained changes of network configuration via psychotherapeutic or other methods.
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- Martin Walter
- Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory (CANLAB), Otto-von-Guericke-University, ZENIT, Leipziger Str. 44, 39120, Magdeburg, Germany,
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Ahlers E, Hahn E, Ta TMT, Goudarzi E, Dettling M, Neuhaus AH. Smoking improves divided attention in schizophrenia. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2014; 231:3871-7. [PMID: 24668036 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-014-3525-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2013] [Accepted: 02/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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RATIONALE Smoking is highly prevalent in schizophrenia, and there is evidence for beneficial effects on neurocognition. Smoking is therefore hypothesized a self-medication in schizophrenia. Although much effort is devoted to characterize those cognitive domains that potentially benefit from smoking, divided attention has not yet been investigated. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to analyze the interactional effects of diagnosis of schizophrenia and smoking history on divided attention. METHODS We investigated behavioral measures of divided attention in a sample of 48 schizophrenic patients and 48 controls (24 current smokers and non-smokers each) carefully matched for age, sex, education, verbal IQ, and smoking status with general linear models. RESULTS Most important within the scope of this study, significant interactions were found for valid reactions and errors of omission: Performance substantially increased in smoking schizophrenic patients, but not in controls. Further, these interactions were modified by sex, driven by female schizophrenic patients who showed a significant behavioral advantage of smokers over non-smokers, other than male schizophrenic patients or healthy controls who did not express this sex-specific pattern. CONCLUSIONS Results suggest a positive effect of smoking history on divided attention in schizophrenic patients. This study provides first evidence that the complex attention domain of divided attention is improved by smoking, which further substantiates the self-medication hypothesis of smoking in schizophrenia, although this has been shown mainly for sustained and selective attention. Gender-specific effects on cognition need to be further investigated.
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- Eike Ahlers
- Department of Psychiatry, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Eschenallee 3, 14050, Berlin, Germany,
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Procyk E, Wilson CRE, Stoll FM, Faraut MCM, Petrides M, Amiez C. Midcingulate Motor Map and Feedback Detection: Converging Data from Humans and Monkeys. Cereb Cortex 2014; 26:467-76. [PMID: 25217467 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The functional and anatomical organization of the cingulate cortex across primate species is the subject of considerable and often confusing debate. The functions attributed to the midcingulate cortex (MCC) embrace, among others, feedback processing, pain, salience, action-reward association, premotor functions, and conflict monitoring. This multiplicity of functional concepts suggests either unresolved separation of functional contributions or integration and convergence. We here provide evidence from recent experiments in humans and from a meta-analysis of monkey data that MCC feedback-related activity is generated in the rostral cingulate premotor area by specific body maps directly related to the modality of feedback. As such, we argue for an embodied mechanism for adaptation and exploration in MCC. We propose arguments and precise tools to resolve the origins of performance monitoring signals in the medial frontal cortex, and to progress on issues regarding homology between human and nonhuman primate cingulate cortex.
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- Emmanuel Procyk
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U846, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, 69500 Bron, France Université de Lyon, Lyon 1, Unité Mixte de Recherche S-846, 69003 Lyon, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U846, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, 69500 Bron, France Université de Lyon, Lyon 1, Unité Mixte de Recherche S-846, 69003 Lyon, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U846, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, 69500 Bron, France Université de Lyon, Lyon 1, Unité Mixte de Recherche S-846, 69003 Lyon, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U846, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, 69500 Bron, France Université de Lyon, Lyon 1, Unité Mixte de Recherche S-846, 69003 Lyon, France
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A2B4
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U846, Stem Cell and Brain Research Institute, 69500 Bron, France Université de Lyon, Lyon 1, Unité Mixte de Recherche S-846, 69003 Lyon, France
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Why are cortical GABA neurons relevant to internal focus in depression? A cross-level model linking cellular, biochemical and neural network findings. Mol Psychiatry 2014; 19:966-977. [PMID: 25048001 PMCID: PMC4169738 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2014.68] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2014] [Revised: 04/16/2014] [Accepted: 05/19/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Major depression is a complex and severe psychiatric disorder whose symptomatology encompasses a critical shift in awareness, especially in the balance from external to internal mental focus. This is reflected by unspecific somatic symptoms and the predominance of the own cognitions manifested in increased self-focus and rumination. We posit here that sufficient empirical data has accumulated to build a coherent biologic model that links these psychologic concepts and symptom dimensions to observed biochemical, cellular, regional and neural network deficits. Specifically, deficits in inhibitory γ-aminobutyric acid regulating excitatory cell input/output and local cell circuit processing of information in key brain regions may underlie the shift that is observed in depressed subjects in resting-state activities between the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. This regional dysbalance translates at the network level in a dysbalance between default-mode and executive networks, which psychopathologically surfaces as a shift in focus from external to internal mental content and associated symptoms. We focus here on primary evidence at each of those levels and on putative mechanistic links between those levels. Apart from its implications for neuropsychiatric disorders, our model provides for the first time a set of hypotheses for cross-level mechanisms of how internal and external mental contents may be constituted and balanced in healthy subjects, and thus also contributes to the neuroscientific debate on the neural correlates of consciousness.
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Zilles K, Bacha-Trams M, Palomero-Gallagher N, Amunts K, Friederici AD. Common molecular basis of the sentence comprehension network revealed by neurotransmitter receptor fingerprints. Cortex 2014; 63:79-89. [PMID: 25243991 PMCID: PMC4317196 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2014] [Revised: 06/02/2014] [Accepted: 07/10/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The language network is a well-defined large-scale neural network of anatomically and functionally interacting cortical areas. The successful language process requires the transmission of information between these areas. Since neurotransmitter receptors are key molecules of information processing, we hypothesized that cortical areas which are part of the same functional language network may show highly similar multireceptor expression pattern ("receptor fingerprint"), whereas those that are not part of this network should have different fingerprints. Here we demonstrate that the relation between the densities of 15 different excitatory, inhibitory and modulatory receptors in eight language-related areas are highly similar and differ considerably from those of 18 other brain regions not directly involved in language processing. Thus, the fingerprints of all cortical areas underlying a large-scale cognitive domain such as language is a characteristic, functionally relevant feature of this network and an important prerequisite for the underlying neuronal processes of language functions.
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- Karl Zilles
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Juelich, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Hospital Aachen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Juelich, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neuropsychology, Leipzig, Germany.
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Juelich, Germany; C. & O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Department of Neuropsychology, Leipzig, Germany.
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Koelsch S, Skouras S. Functional centrality of amygdala, striatum and hypothalamus in a "small-world" network underlying joy: an fMRI study with music. Hum Brain Mapp 2014; 35:3485-98. [PMID: 25050430 PMCID: PMC6869778 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2013] [Revised: 09/18/2013] [Accepted: 09/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Current knowledge about small-world networks underlying emotions is sparse, and confined to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using resting-state paradigms. This fMRI study applied Eigenvector Centrality Mapping (ECM) and functional connectivity analysis to reveal neural small-world networks underlying joy and fear. Joy and fear were evoked using music, presented in 4-min blocks. Results show that the superficial amygdala (SF), laterobasal amygdala (LB), striatum, and hypothalamus function as computational hubs during joy. Out of these computational hubs, the amygdala nuclei showed the highest centrality values. The SF showed functional connectivity during joy with the mediodorsal thalamus (MD) and nucleus accumbens (Nac), suggesting that SF, MD, and Nac modulate approach behavior in response to positive social signals such as joyful music. The striatum was functionally connected during joy with the LB, as well as with premotor cortex, areas 1 and 7a, hippocampus, insula and cingulate cortex, showing that sensorimotor, attentional, and emotional processes converge in the striatum during music perception. The hypothalamus showed functional connectivity during joy with hippocampus and MD, suggesting that hypothalamic endocrine activity is modulated by hippocampal and thalamic activity during sustained periods of music-evoked emotion. Our study indicates high centrality of the amygdala nuclei groups within a functional network underlying joy, suggesting that these nuclei play a central role for the modulation of emotion-specific activity within this network.
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- Stefan Koelsch
- Department of Psychology and Cluster Languages of EmotionFreie UniversitätBerlinGermany
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- Department of Psychology and Cluster Languages of EmotionFreie UniversitätBerlinGermany
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Langner R, Rottschy C, Laird AR, Fox PT, Eickhoff SB. Meta-analytic connectivity modeling revisited: controlling for activation base rates. Neuroimage 2014; 99:559-70. [PMID: 24945668 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2014] [Revised: 05/24/2014] [Accepted: 06/04/2014] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Co-activation of distinct brain regions is a measure of functional interaction, or connectivity, between those regions. The co-activation pattern of a given region can be investigated using seed-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging data stored in databases such as BrainMap. This method reveals inter-regional functional connectivity by determining brain regions that are consistently co-activated with a given region of interest (the "seed") across a broad range of experiments. In current implementations of this meta-analytic connectivity modeling (MACM), significant spatial convergence (i.e. consistent co-activation) is distinguished from noise by comparing it against an unbiased null-distribution of random spatial associations between experiments according to which all gray-matter voxels have the same chance of convergence. As the a priori probability of finding activation in different voxels markedly differs across the brain, computing such a quasi-rectangular null-distribution renders the detection of significant convergence more likely in those voxels that are frequently activated. Here, we propose and test a modified MACM approach that takes this activation frequency bias into account. In this new specific co-activation likelihood estimation (SCALE) algorithm, a null-distribution is generated that reflects the base rate of reporting activation in any given voxel and thus equalizes the a priori chance of finding across-study convergence in each voxel of the brain. Using four exemplary seed regions (right visual area V4, left anterior insula, right intraparietal sulcus, and subgenual cingulum), our tests corroborated the enhanced specificity of the modified algorithm, indicating that SCALE may be especially useful for delineating distinct core networks of co-activation.
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- Robert Langner
- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience & Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Research Imaging Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center, and South Texas Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience & Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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The control of global brain dynamics: opposing actions of frontoparietal control and default mode networks on attention. J Neurosci 2014; 34:451-61. [PMID: 24403145 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1853-13.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Understanding how dynamic changes in brain activity control behavior is a major challenge of cognitive neuroscience. Here, we consider the brain as a complex dynamic system and define two measures of brain dynamics: the synchrony of brain activity, measured by the spatial coherence of the BOLD signal across regions of the brain; and metastability, which we define as the extent to which synchrony varies over time. We investigate the relationship among brain network activity, metastability, and cognitive state in humans, testing the hypothesis that global metastability is "tuned" by network interactions. We study the following two conditions: (1) an attentionally demanding choice reaction time task (CRT); and (2) an unconstrained "rest" state. Functional MRI demonstrated increased synchrony, and decreased metastability was associated with increased activity within the frontoparietal control/dorsal attention network (FPCN/DAN) activity and decreased default mode network (DMN) activity during the CRT compared with rest. Using a computational model of neural dynamics that is constrained by white matter structure to test whether simulated changes in FPCN/DAN and DMN activity produce similar effects, we demonstate that activation of the FPCN/DAN increases global synchrony and decreases metastability. DMN activation had the opposite effects. These results suggest that the balance of activity in the FPCN/DAN and DMN might control global metastability, providing a mechanistic explanation of how attentional state is shifted between an unfocused/exploratory mode characterized by high metastability, and a focused/constrained mode characterized by low metastability.
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Ullsperger M, Danielmeier C, Jocham G. Neurophysiology of performance monitoring and adaptive behavior. Physiol Rev 2014; 94:35-79. [PMID: 24382883 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00041.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 406] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Successful goal-directed behavior requires not only correct action selection, planning, and execution but also the ability to flexibly adapt behavior when performance problems occur or the environment changes. A prerequisite for determining the necessity, type, and magnitude of adjustments is to continuously monitor the course and outcome of one's actions. Feedback-control loops correcting deviations from intended states constitute a basic functional principle of adaptation at all levels of the nervous system. Here, we review the neurophysiology of evaluating action course and outcome with respect to their valence, i.e., reward and punishment, and initiating short- and long-term adaptations, learning, and decisions. Based on studies in humans and other mammals, we outline the physiological principles of performance monitoring and subsequent cognitive, motivational, autonomic, and behavioral adaptation and link them to the underlying neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, psychological theories, and computational models. We provide an overview of invasive and noninvasive systemic measures, such as electrophysiological, neuroimaging, and lesion data. We describe how a wide network of brain areas encompassing frontal cortices, basal ganglia, thalamus, and monoaminergic brain stem nuclei detects and evaluates deviations of actual from predicted states indicating changed action costs or outcomes. This information is used to learn and update stimulus and action values, guide action selection, and recruit adaptive mechanisms that compensate errors and optimize goal achievement.
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Altered emotion processing circuits during the anticipation of emotional stimuli in women with borderline personality disorder. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2014; 264:45-60. [PMID: 24100929 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-013-0444-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2013] [Accepted: 09/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with disturbed emotion processing, typically encompassing intense and fast emotional reactions toward affective stimuli. In this study, we were interested in whether emotional dysregulation in BPD occurs not only during the perception of emotional stimuli, but also during the anticipation of upcoming emotional pictures in the absence of concrete stimuli. Eighteen female patients with a diagnosis of BPD and 18 healthy control subjects anticipated cued visual stimuli with prior known emotional valence or prior unknown emotional content during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Brain activity during the anticipation of emotional stimuli was compared between both groups. When anticipating negative pictures, BPD patients demonstrated less signal change in the left dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and left middle cingulate cortex (MCC), and enhanced activations in the left pregenual ACC, left posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) as well as in left visual cortical areas including the lingual gyrus. During the anticipation of ambiguously announced stimuli, brain activity in BPD was also reduced in the left MCC extending into the medial and bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Results point out that deficient recruitment of brain areas related to cognitive-emotional interaction already during the anticipation phase may add to emotional dysregulation in BPD. Stronger activation of the PCC could correspond to an increased autobiographical reference in BPD. Moreover, increased preparatory visual activity during negative anticipation may contribute to hypersensitivity toward emotional cues in this disorder.
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Age-related decrease of functional connectivity additional to gray matter atrophy in a network for movement initiation. Brain Struct Funct 2014; 220:999-1012. [PMID: 24399178 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0696-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2013] [Accepted: 12/26/2013] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Healthy aging is accompanied by a decrease in cognitive and motor capacities. In a network associated with movement initiation, we investigated age-related changes of functional connectivity (FC) as well as regional atrophy in a sample of 232 healthy subjects (age range 18-85 years). To this end, voxel-based morphometry and whole-brain resting-state FC were analyzed for the supplementary motor area (SMA), anterior midcingulate cortex (aMCC) and bilateral striatum (Str). To assess the specificity of age-related effects, bilateral primary sensorimotor cortex (S1/M1) closely associated with motor execution was used as control seeds. All regions showed strong reduction of gray matter volume with age. Corrected for this regional atrophy, the FC analysis revealed an age × seed interaction for each of the bilateral Str nodes against S1/M1 with consistent age-related decrease in FC with bilateral caudate nucleus and anterior putamen. Specific age-dependent FC decline of SMA was found in bilateral central insula and the adjacent frontal operculum. aMCC showed exclusive age-related decoupling from the anterior cingulate motor area. The present study demonstrates network as well as node-specific age-dependent FC decline of the SMA and aMCC to highly integrative cortical areas involved in cognitive motor control. FC decrease in addition to gray matter atrophy within the Str may provide a substrate for the declining motor control in elderly. Finally, age-related FC changes in both the network for movement initiation as well as the network for motor execution are not explained by regional atrophy in the healthy aging brain.
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Liberg B, Klauser P, Harding IH, Adler M, Rahm C, Lundberg J, Masterman T, Wachtler C, Jonsson T, Kristoffersen-Wiberg M, Pantelis C, Wahlund B. Functional and structural alterations in the cingulate motor area relate to decreased fronto-striatal coupling in major depressive disorder with psychomotor disturbances. Front Psychiatry 2014; 5:176. [PMID: 25538633 PMCID: PMC4255491 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2014] [Accepted: 11/21/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Psychomotor disturbances are a classic feature of major depressive disorders. These can manifest as lack of facial expressions and decreased speech production, reduced body posture and mobility, and slowed voluntary movement. The neural correlates of psychomotor disturbances in depression are poorly understood but it has been suggested that outputs from the cingulate motor area (CMA) to striatal motor regions, including the putamen, could be involved. We used functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging to conduct a region-of-interest analysis to test the hypotheses that neural activation patterns related to motor production and gray matter volumes in the CMA would be different between depressed subjects displaying psychomotor disturbances (n = 13) and matched healthy controls (n = 13). In addition, we conducted a psychophysiological interaction analysis to assess the functional coupling related to self-paced finger-tapping between the caudal CMA and the posterior putamen in patients compared to controls. We found a cluster of increased neural activation, adjacent to a cluster of decreased gray matter volume in the caudal CMA in patients compared to controls. The functional coupling between the left caudal CMA and the left putamen during finger-tapping task performance was additionally decreased in patients compared to controls. In addition, the strength of the functional coupling between the left caudal CMA and the left putamen was negatively correlated with the severity of psychomotor disturbances in the patient group. In conclusion, we found converging evidence for involvement of the caudal CMA and putamen in the generation of psychomotor disturbances in depression.
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- Benny Liberg
- Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne , Melbourne, VIC , Australia ; Section of Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden ; Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Division of Medical Imaging and Technology, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne , Melbourne, VIC , Australia ; Monash Clinical and Imaging Neuroscience, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University , Clayton, VIC , Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne , Melbourne, VIC , Australia ; School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University , Melbourne, VIC , Australia
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- Section of Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne , Melbourne, VIC , Australia ; Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
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- Section of Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
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- Section of Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
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- Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne , Melbourne, VIC , Australia ; Centre for Family Medicine (CeFAM), Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Division of Medical Imaging and Technology, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden ; Department of Medical Physics, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge , Stockholm , Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Division of Medical Imaging and Technology, Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden ; Department of Radiology, Karolinska University Hospital , Stockholm , Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, The University of Melbourne , Melbourne, VIC , Australia
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- Department of Energy and Engineering, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Uppsala , Sweden
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Hensel L, Bzdok D, Müller VI, Zilles K, Eickhoff SB. Neural correlates of explicit social judgments on vocal stimuli. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 25:1152-62. [PMID: 24243619 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Functional neuroimaging research on the neural basis of social evaluation has traditionally focused on face perception paradigms. Thus, little is known about the neurobiology of social evaluation processes based on auditory cues, such as voices. To investigate the top-down effects of social trait judgments on voices, hemodynamic responses of 44 healthy participants were measured during social trait (trustworthiness [TR] and attractiveness [AT]), emotional (happiness, HA), and cognitive (age, AG) voice judgments. Relative to HA and AG judgments, TR and AT judgments both engaged the bilateral inferior parietal cortex (IPC; area PGa) and the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) extending into the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex. This dmPFC activation overlapped with previously reported areas specifically involved in social judgments on 'faces.' Moreover, social trait judgments were expected to share neural correlates with emotional HA and cognitive AG judgments. Comparison of effects pertaining to social, social-emotional, and social-cognitive appraisal processes revealed a dissociation of the left IPC into 3 functional subregions assigned to distinct cytoarchitectonic subdivisions. In total, the dmPFC is proposed to assume a central role in social attribution processes across sensory qualities. In social judgments on voices, IPC activity shifts from rostral processing of more emotional judgment facets to caudal processing of more cognitive judgment facets.
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- Lukas Hensel
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany JARA-BRAIN, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany C. and O. Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany JARA-BRAIN, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany JARA-BRAIN, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, Jülich, Germany
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Roski C, Caspers S, Langner R, Laird AR, Fox PT, Zilles K, Amunts K, Eickhoff SB. Adult age-dependent differences in resting-state connectivity within and between visual-attention and sensorimotor networks. Front Aging Neurosci 2013; 5:67. [PMID: 24194718 PMCID: PMC3810651 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2013] [Accepted: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Healthy aging is accompanied by structural and functional changes in the brain, among which a loss of neural specificity (i.e., dedifferentiation) is one of the most consistent findings. Little is known, however, about changes in interregional integration underlying a dedifferentiation across different functional systems. In a large sample (n = 399) of healthy adults aged from 18 to 85 years, we analyzed age-dependent differences in resting-state (RS) (task-independent) functional connectivity (FC) of a set of brain regions derived from a previous fMRI study. In that study, these regions had shown an age-related loss of activation specificity in visual-attention (superior parietal area 7A and dorsal premotor cortex) or sensorimotor (area OP4 of the parietal operculum) tasks. In addition to these dedifferentiated regions, the FC analysis of the present study included “task-general” regions associated with both attention and sensorimotor systems (rostral supplementary motor area and bilateral anterior insula) as defined via meta-analytical co-activation mapping. Within this network, we observed both selective increases and decreases in RS-FC with age. In line with regional activation changes reported previously, we found diminished anti-correlated FC for inter-system connections (i.e., between sensorimotor-related and visual attention-related regions). Our analysis also revealed reduced FC between system-specific and task-general regions, which might reflect age-related deficits in top-down control possibly leading to dedifferentiation of task-specific brain activity. Together, our results underpin the notion that RS-FC changes concur with regional activity changes in the healthy aging brain, presumably contributing jointly to age-related behavioral changes.
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- Christian Roski
- Research Center Jülich, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1, INM-2) Jülich, Germany
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Vogt BA, Hof PR, Zilles K, Vogt LJ, Herold C, Palomero-Gallagher N. Cingulate area 32 homologies in mouse, rat, macaque and human: Cytoarchitecture and receptor architecture. J Comp Neurol 2013; 521:4189-204. [DOI: 10.1002/cne.23409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2013] [Revised: 05/01/2013] [Accepted: 06/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Brent A. Vogt
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology; Boston University School of Medicine; Boston Massachusetts 02118
- Cingulum Neurosciences Institute; Manlius New York 13104
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1); Research Centre Jülich; 52425 Jülich Germany
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- Fishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute; Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; New York New York 10029
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1); Research Centre Jülich; 52425 Jülich Germany
- JARA-BRAIN; Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance; 52425 Jülich Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics; RWTH Aachen University; 52074 Aachen Germany
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology; Boston University School of Medicine; Boston Massachusetts 02118
- Cingulum Neurosciences Institute; Manlius New York 13104
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- C. & O. Vogt Institute of Brain Research; Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf; 40225 Düsseldorf Germany
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- Cingulum Neurosciences Institute; Manlius New York 13104
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1); Research Centre Jülich; 52425 Jülich Germany
- JARA-BRAIN; Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance; 52425 Jülich Germany
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Systematic regional variations of GABA, glutamine, and glutamate concentrations follow receptor fingerprints of human cingulate cortex. J Neurosci 2013; 33:12698-704. [PMID: 23904606 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1758-13.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) of glutamatergic or GABAergic measures in anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) was found altered in psychiatric disorders and predictive of interindividual variations of functional responses in healthy populations. Several ACC subregions have been parcellated into receptor-architectonically different portions with heterogeneous fingerprints for excitatory and inhibitory receptors. Similarly, these subregions overlap with functionally distinct regions showing opposed signal changes toward stimulation or resting conditions. We therefore investigated whether receptor-architectonical and functional segregation of the cingulate cortex in humans was also reflected in its local concentrations of glutamate (Glu), glutamine (Gln), and GABA. To accomplish a multiregion estimation of all three metabolites in one robust and reliable session, we used an optimized 7T-stimulated echo-acquisition mode method with variable-rate selective excitation pulses. Our results demonstrated that, ensuring high data retest reliability, four cingulate subregions discerning e.g., pregenual ACC (pgACC) from anterior mid-cingulate cortex showed different metabolite concentrations and ratios reflective of regionally specific inhibition/excitation balance. These findings could be controlled for potential influences of local gray matter variations or MRS voxel-placement deviations. Pregenual ACC was found to have significantly higher GABA and Glu concentrations than other regions. This pattern was not paralleled by Gln concentrations, which for both absolute and relative values showed a rostrocaudal gradient with highest values in pgACC. Increased excitatory Glu and inhibitory GABA in pgACC were shown to follow a regional segregation agreeing with recently shown receptor-architectonic GABAB receptor distribution in ACC, whereas Gln distribution followed a pattern of AMPA receptors.
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Shenhav A, Botvinick MM, Cohen JD. The expected value of control: an integrative theory of anterior cingulate cortex function. Neuron 2013; 79:217-40. [PMID: 23889930 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1265] [Impact Index Per Article: 115.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/11/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) has a near-ubiquitous presence in the neuroscience of cognitive control. It has been implicated in a diversity of functions, from reward processing and performance monitoring to the execution of control and action selection. Here, we propose that this diversity can be understood in terms of a single underlying function: allocation of control based on an evaluation of the expected value of control (EVC). We present a normative model of EVC that integrates three critical factors: the expected payoff from a controlled process, the amount of control that must be invested to achieve that payoff, and the cost in terms of cognitive effort. We propose that dACC integrates this information, using it to determine whether, where and how much control to allocate. We then consider how the EVC model can explain the diverse array of findings concerning dACC function.
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- Amitai Shenhav
- Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
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Caspers J, Palomero-Gallagher N, Caspers S, Schleicher A, Amunts K, Zilles K. Receptor architecture of visual areas in the face and word-form recognition region of the posterior fusiform gyrus. Brain Struct Funct 2013; 220:205-19. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0646-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2013] [Accepted: 09/26/2013] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Hoffstaedter F, Grefkes C, Caspers S, Roski C, Palomero-Gallagher N, Laird AR, Fox PT, Eickhoff SB. The role of anterior midcingulate cortex in cognitive motor control: evidence from functional connectivity analyses. Hum Brain Mapp 2013; 35:2741-53. [PMID: 24115159 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2013] [Revised: 06/04/2013] [Accepted: 07/01/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The rostral cingulate cortex has been associated with a multitude of cognitive control functions. Recent neuroimaging data suggest that the anterior midcingulate cortex (aMCC) has a key role for cognitive aspects of movement generation, i.e., intentional motor control. We here tested the functional connectivity of this area using two complementary approaches: (1) resting-state connectivity of the aMCC based on fMRI scans obtained in 100 subjects, and (2) functional connectivity in the context of explicit task conditions using meta-analytic connectivity modeling (MACM) over 656 imaging experiment. Both approaches revealed a convergent functional network architecture of the aMCC with prefrontal, premotor and parietal cortices as well as anterior insula, area 44/45, cerebellum and dorsal striatum. To specifically test the role of the aMCC's task-based functional connectivity in cognitive motor control, separate MACM analyses were conducted over "cognitive" and "action" related experimental paradigms. Both analyses confirmed the same task-based connectivity pattern of the aMCC. While the "cognition" domain showed higher convergence of activity in supramodal association areas in prefrontal cortex and anterior insula, "action" related experiments yielded higher convergence in somatosensory and premotor areas. Secondly, to probe the functional specificity of the aMCC's convergent functional connectivity, it was compared with a neural network of intentional movement initiation. This exemplary comparison confirmed the involvement of the state independent FC network of the aMCC in the intentional generation of movements. In summary, the different experiments of the present study suggest that the aMCC constitute a key region in the network realizing intentional motor control.
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- Felix Hoffstaedter
- Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Germany; Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Torta DME, Costa T, Duca S, Fox PT, Cauda F. Parcellation of the cingulate cortex at rest and during tasks: a meta-analytic clustering and experimental study. Front Hum Neurosci 2013; 7:275. [PMID: 23785324 PMCID: PMC3682391 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2013] [Accepted: 05/27/2013] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Anatomical, morphological, and histological data have consistently shown that the cingulate cortex can be divided into four main regions. However, less is known about parcellations of the cingulate cortex when involved in active tasks. Here, we aimed at comparing how the pattern of clusterization of the cingulate cortex changes across different levels of task complexity. We parcellated the cingulate cortex using the results of a meta-analytic study and of three experimental studies. The experimental studies, which included two active tasks and a resting state protocol, were used to control the results obtained with the meta-analytic parcellation. We explored the meta-analytic parcellation by applying a meta-analytic clustering (MaC) to papers retrieved from the BrainMap database. The MaC is a meta-analytic connectivity driven parcellation technique recently developed by our group which allowed us to parcellate the cingulate cortex on the basis of its pattern of co-activations during active tasks. The MaC results indicated that the cingulate cortex can be parcellated into three clusters. These clusters covered different percentages of the cingulate parenchyma and had a different density of foci, with the first cluster being more densely connected. The control experiments showed different clusterization results, suggesting that the co-activations of the cingulate cortex are highly dependent on the task that is tested. Our results highlight the importance of the cingulate cortex as a hub, which modifies its pattern of co-activations depending on the task requests and on the level of task complexity. The neurobiological meaning of these results is discussed.
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- Diana M E Torta
- Department of Psychology, Università di Torino Torino, Italy ; CCS fMRI-Brain Connectivity and Complex Systems Unit, Koelliker Hospital Torino, Italy
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Tuominen L, Nummenmaa L, Keltikangas-Järvinen L, Raitakari O, Hietala J. Mapping neurotransmitter networks with PET: an example on serotonin and opioid systems. Hum Brain Mapp 2013; 35:1875-84. [PMID: 23671038 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2012] [Revised: 01/16/2013] [Accepted: 02/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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All functions of the human brain are consequences of altered activity of specific neural pathways and neurotransmitter systems. Although the knowledge of "system level" connectivity in the brain is increasing rapidly, we lack "molecular level" information on brain networks and connectivity patterns. We introduce novel voxel-based positron emission tomography (PET) methods for studying internal neurotransmitter network structure and intercorrelations of different neurotransmitter systems in the human brain. We chose serotonin transporter and μ-opioid receptor for this analysis because of their functional interaction at the cellular level and similar regional distribution in the brain. Twenty-one healthy subjects underwent two consecutive PET scans using [(11)C]MADAM, a serotonin transporter tracer, and [(11)C]carfentanil, a μ-opioid receptor tracer. First, voxel-by-voxel "intracorrelations" (hub and seed analyses) were used to study the internal structure of opioid and serotonin systems. Second, voxel-level opioid-serotonin intercorrelations (between neurotransmitters) were computed. Regional μ-opioid receptor binding potentials were uniformly correlated throughout the brain. However, our analyses revealed nonuniformity in the serotonin transporter intracorrelations and identified a highly connected local network (midbrain-striatum-thalamus-amygdala). Regionally specific intercorrelations between the opioid and serotonin tracers were found in anteromedial thalamus, amygdala, anterior cingulate cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and left parietal cortex, i.e., in areas relevant for several neuropsychiatric disorders, especially affective disorders. This methodology enables in vivo mapping of connectivity patterns within and between neurotransmitter systems. Quantification of functional neurotransmitter balances may be a useful approach in etiological studies of neuropsychiatric disorders and also in drug development as a biomarker-based rationale for targeted modulation of neurotransmitter networks.
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- Lauri Tuominen
- Turku PET Centre, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; Department of Psychiatry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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Poeppl TB, Langguth B, Laird AR, Eickhoff SB. The functional neuroanatomy of male psychosexual and physiosexual arousal: a quantitative meta-analysis. Hum Brain Mapp 2013; 35:1404-21. [PMID: 23674246 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2012] [Revised: 11/28/2012] [Accepted: 01/03/2013] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Reproductive behavior is mandatory for conservation of species and mediated by a state of sexual arousal (SA), involving both complex mental processes and bodily reactions. An early neurobehavioral model of SA proposes cognitive, emotional, motivational, and autonomic components. In a comprehensive quantitative meta-analysis on previous neuroimaging findings, we provide here evidence for distinct brain networks underlying psychosexual and physiosexual arousal. Psychosexual (i.e., mental sexual) arousal recruits brain areas crucial for cognitive evaluation, top-down modulation of attention and exteroceptive sensory processing, relevance detection and affective evaluation, as well as regions implicated in the representation of urges and in triggering autonomic processes. In contrast, physiosexual (i.e., physiological sexual) arousal is mediated by regions responsible for regulation and monitoring of initiated autonomic processes and emotions and for somatosensory processing. These circuits are interconnected by subcortical structures (putamen and claustrum) that provide exchange of sensorimotor information and crossmodal processing between and within the networks. Brain deactivations may imply attenuation of introspective processes and social cognition, but be necessary to release intrinsic inhibition of SA.
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- Timm B Poeppl
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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Lissek S, Vallana GS, Güntürkün O, Dinse H, Tegenthoff M. Brain activation in motor sequence learning is related to the level of native cortical excitability. PLoS One 2013; 8:e61863. [PMID: 23613956 PMCID: PMC3628854 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2012] [Accepted: 03/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cortical excitability may be subject to changes through training and learning. Motor training can increase cortical excitability in motor cortex, and facilitation of motor cortical excitability has been shown to be positively correlated with improvements in performance in simple motor tasks. Thus cortical excitability may tentatively be considered as a marker of learning and use-dependent plasticity. Previous studies focused on changes in cortical excitability brought about by learning processes, however, the relation between native levels of cortical excitability on the one hand and brain activation and behavioral parameters on the other is as yet unknown. In the present study we investigated the role of differential native motor cortical excitability for learning a motor sequencing task with regard to post-training changes in excitability, behavioral performance and involvement of brain regions. Our motor task required our participants to reproduce and improvise over a pre-learned motor sequence. Over both task conditions, participants with low cortical excitability (CElo) showed significantly higher BOLD activation in task-relevant brain regions than participants with high cortical excitability (CEhi). In contrast, CElo and CEhi groups did not exhibit differences in percentage of correct responses and improvisation level. Moreover, cortical excitability did not change significantly after learning and training in either group, with the exception of a significant decrease in facilitatory excitability in the CEhi group. The present data suggest that the native, unmanipulated level of cortical excitability is related to brain activation intensity, but not to performance quality. The higher BOLD mean signal intensity during the motor task might reflect a compensatory mechanism in CElo participants.
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- Silke Lissek
- Department of Neurology, BG-Kliniken Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
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Glutamate concentration in the medial prefrontal cortex predicts resting-state cortical-subcortical functional connectivity in humans. PLoS One 2013; 8:e60312. [PMID: 23573246 PMCID: PMC3616113 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2012] [Accepted: 02/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Communication between cortical and subcortical regions is integral to a wide range of psychological processes and has been implicated in a number of psychiatric conditions. Studies in animals have provided insight into the biochemical and connectivity processes underlying such communication. However, to date no experiments that link these factors in humans in vivo have been carried out. To investigate the role of glutamate in individual differences in communication between the cortex--specifically the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)--and subcortical regions in humans, a combination of resting-state fMRI, DTI and MRS was performed. The subcortical target regions were the nucleus accumbens (NAc), dorsomedial thalamus (DMT), and periaqueductal grey (PAG). It was found that functional connectivity between the mPFC and each of the NAc and DMT was positively correlated with mPFC glutamate concentrations, whilst functional connectivity between the mPFC and PAG was negatively correlated with glutamate concentration. The correlations involving mPFC glutamate and FC between the mPFC and each of the DMT and PAG were mirrored by correlations with structural connectivity, providing evidence that the glutamatergic relationship may, in part, be due to direct connectivity. These results are in agreement with existing results from animal studies and may have relevance for MDD and schizophrenia.
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A systematic review of brain frontal lobe parcellation techniques in magnetic resonance imaging. Brain Struct Funct 2013; 219:1-22. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0527-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2012] [Accepted: 02/14/2013] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Wig GS, Laumann TO, Cohen AL, Power JD, Nelson SM, Glasser MF, Miezin FM, Snyder AZ, Schlaggar BL, Petersen SE. Parcellating an individual subject's cortical and subcortical brain structures using snowball sampling of resting-state correlations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 24:2036-54. [PMID: 23476025 PMCID: PMC4089380 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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We describe methods for parcellating an individual subject's cortical and subcortical brain structures using resting-state functional correlations (RSFCs). Inspired by approaches from social network analysis, we first describe the application of snowball sampling on RSFC data (RSFC-Snowballing) to identify the centers of cortical areas, subdivisions of subcortical nuclei, and the cerebellum. RSFC-Snowballing parcellation is then compared with parcellation derived from identifying locations where RSFC maps exhibit abrupt transitions (RSFC-Boundary Mapping). RSFC-Snowballing and RSFC-Boundary Mapping largely complement one another, but also provide unique parcellation information; together, the methods identify independent entities with distinct functional correlations across many cortical and subcortical locations in the brain. RSFC parcellation is relatively reliable within a subject scanned across multiple days, and while the locations of many area centers and boundaries appear to exhibit considerable overlap across subjects, there is also cross-subject variability-reinforcing the motivation to parcellate brains at the level of individuals. Finally, examination of a large meta-analysis of task-evoked functional magnetic resonance imaging data reveals that area centers defined by task-evoked activity exhibit correspondence with area centers defined by RSFC-Snowballing. This observation provides important evidence for the ability of RSFC to parcellate broad expanses of an individual's brain into functionally meaningful units.
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- Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA and
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- Department of Neurology, Department of Radiology, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA and Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Agostini A, Benuzzi F, Filippini N, Bertani A, Scarcelli A, Farinelli V, Marchetta C, Calabrese C, Rizzello F, Gionchetti P, Ercolani M, Campieri M, Nichelli P. New insights into the brain involvement in patients with Crohn's disease: a voxel-based morphometry study. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2013; 25:147-e82. [PMID: 22998431 DOI: 10.1111/nmo.12017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic intestinal disorder characterized by overproduction of inflammatory cytokines and recurrent abdominal pain. Recently, brain morphological abnormalities in the pain matrix were found in patients with chronic pain disorders including irritable bowel syndrome. To investigate potential structural brain changes associated with CD, we used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Furthermore, we tested whether in patients gray matter (GM) volumes correlated with disease duration. METHODS Eighteen CD patients in remission and 18 healthy controls underwent structural MRI. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) is a fully automated technique allowing identification of regional differences in the amount of GM enabling an objective analysis of the whole brain between groups of subjects. VBM was used for comparisons and correlation analysis. KEY RESULTS With respect to controls, CD patients exhibited decreased GM volumes in portion of the frontal cortex and in the anterior midcingulate cortex. Disease duration was negatively correlated with GM volumes of several brain regions including neocortical and limbic areas. CONCLUSIONS & INFERENCES Crohn's disease is associated with brain morphological changes in cortical and subcortical structures involved in nociception, emotional, and cognitive processes. Our findings provide new insight into the brain involvement in chronic inflammatory bowel disorders.
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- A Agostini
- Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Artigas F. Serotonin receptors involved in antidepressant effects. Pharmacol Ther 2013; 137:119-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2012.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2012] [Accepted: 09/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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