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Leipold S, Abrams DA, Karraker S, Phillips JM, Menon V. Aberrant Emotional Prosody Circuitry Predicts Social Communication Impairments in Children With Autism. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2023; 8:531-541. [PMID: 36635147 PMCID: PMC10973204 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Revised: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Emotional prosody provides acoustical cues that reflect a communication partner's emotional state and is crucial for successful social interactions. Many children with autism have deficits in recognizing emotions from voices; however, the neural basis for these impairments is unknown. We examined brain circuit features underlying emotional prosody processing deficits and their relationship to clinical symptoms of autism. METHODS We used an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging task to measure neural activity and connectivity during processing of sad and happy emotional prosody and neutral speech in 22 children with autism and 21 matched control children (7-12 years old). We employed functional connectivity analyses to test competing theoretical accounts that attribute emotional prosody impairments to either sensory processing deficits in auditory cortex or theory of mind deficits instantiated in the temporoparietal junction (TPJ). RESULTS Children with autism showed specific behavioral impairments for recognizing emotions from voices. They also showed aberrant functional connectivity between voice-sensitive auditory cortex and the bilateral TPJ during emotional prosody processing. Neural activity in the bilateral TPJ during processing of both sad and happy emotional prosody stimuli was associated with social communication impairments in children with autism. In contrast, activity and decoding of emotional prosody in auditory cortex was comparable between autism and control groups and did not predict social communication impairments. CONCLUSIONS Our findings support a social-cognitive deficit model of autism by identifying a role for TPJ dysfunction during emotional prosody processing. Our study underscores the importance of tuning in to vocal-emotional cues for building social connections in children with autism.
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- Simon Leipold
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
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Kim J, De Asis‐Cruz J, Kapse K, Limperopoulos C. Systematic evaluation of head motion on resting-state functional connectivity MRI in the neonate. Hum Brain Mapp 2023; 44:1934-1948. [PMID: 36576333 PMCID: PMC9980896 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2022] [Revised: 11/18/2022] [Accepted: 12/01/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Reliability and robustness of resting state functional connectivity MRI (rs-fcMRI) relies, in part, on minimizing the influence of head motion on measured brain signals. The confounding effects of head motion on functional connectivity have been extensively studied in adults, but its impact on newborn brain connectivity remains unexplored. Here, using a large newborn data set consisting of 159 rs-fcMRI scans acquired in the Developing Brain Institute at Children's National Hospital and 416 scans from The Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP), we systematically investigated associations between head motion and rs-fcMRI. Head motion during the scan significantly affected connectivity at sensory-related networks and default mode networks, and at the whole brain scale; the direction of motion effects varied across the whole brain. Comparing high- versus low-head motion groups suggested that head motion can impact connectivity estimates across the whole brain. Censoring of high-motion volumes using frame-wise displacement significantly reduced the confounding effects of head motion on neonatal rs-fcMRI. Lastly, in the dHCP data set, we demonstrated similar persistent associations between head motion and network connectivity despite implementing a standard denoising strategy. Collectively, our results highlight the importance of using rigorous head motion correction in preprocessing neonatal rs-fcMRI to yield reliable estimates of brain activity.
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- Jung‐Hoon Kim
- Developing Brain Institute, Children's NationalWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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- Developing Brain Institute, Children's NationalWashingtonDistrict of ColumbiaUSA
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Leipold S, Abrams DA, Karraker S, Menon V. Neural decoding of emotional prosody in voice-sensitive auditory cortex predicts social communication abilities in children. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:709-728. [PMID: 35296892 PMCID: PMC9890475 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/12/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
During social interactions, speakers signal information about their emotional state through their voice, which is known as emotional prosody. Little is known regarding the precise brain systems underlying emotional prosody decoding in children and whether accurate neural decoding of these vocal cues is linked to social skills. Here, we address critical gaps in the developmental literature by investigating neural representations of prosody and their links to behavior in children. Multivariate pattern analysis revealed that representations in the bilateral middle and posterior superior temporal sulcus (STS) divisions of voice-sensitive auditory cortex decode emotional prosody information in children. Crucially, emotional prosody decoding in middle STS was correlated with standardized measures of social communication abilities; more accurate decoding of prosody stimuli in the STS was predictive of greater social communication abilities in children. Moreover, social communication abilities were specifically related to decoding sadness, highlighting the importance of tuning in to negative emotional vocal cues for strengthening social responsiveness and functioning. Findings bridge an important theoretical gap by showing that the ability of the voice-sensitive cortex to detect emotional cues in speech is predictive of a child's social skills, including the ability to relate and interact with others.
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- Simon Leipold
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Tomasi D, Volkow ND. Brain motion networks predict head motion during rest- and task-fMRI. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1096232. [PMID: 37113158 PMCID: PMC10126373 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1096232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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Introduction The capacity to stay still during scanning, which is necessary to avoid motion confounds while imaging, varies markedly between people. Methods Here we investigated the effect of head motion on functional connectivity using connectome-based predictive modeling (CPM) and publicly available brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from 414 individuals with low frame-to-frame motion (Δd < 0.18 mm). Leave-one-out was used for internal cross-validation of head motion prediction in 207 participants, and twofold cross-validation was used in an independent sample (n = 207). Results and Discussion Parametric testing, as well as CPM-based permutations for null hypothesis testing, revealed strong linear associations between observed and predicted values of head motion. Motion prediction accuracy was higher for task- than for rest-fMRI, and for absolute head motion (d) than for Δd. Denoising attenuated the predictability of head motion, but stricter framewise displacement threshold (FD = 0.2 mm) for motion censoring did not alter the accuracy of the predictions obtained with lenient censoring (FD = 0.5 mm). For rest-fMRI, prediction accuracy was lower for individuals with low motion (mean Δd < 0.02 mm; n = 200) than for those with moderate motion (Δd < 0.04 mm; n = 414). The cerebellum and default-mode network (DMN) regions that forecasted individual differences in d and Δd during six different tasks- and two rest-fMRI sessions were consistently prone to the deleterious effect of head motion. However, these findings generalized to a novel group of 1,422 individuals but not to simulated datasets without neurobiological contributions, suggesting that cerebellar and DMN connectivity could partially reflect functional signals pertaining to inhibitory motor control during fMRI.
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- Dardo Tomasi
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, United States
- *Correspondence: Dardo Tomasi,
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- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, United States
- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, MD, United States
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Chan MMY, Chan MC, Yeung MK, Wang SM, Liu D, Han YMY. Aberrant prefrontal functional connectivity during verbal fluency test is associated with reading comprehension deficits in autism spectrum disorder: An fNIRS study. Front Psychol 2022; 13:984777. [PMID: 36204740 PMCID: PMC9530129 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.984777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show marked difficulties in reading comprehension, a complex cognitive skill fundamental to successful daily functioning that is associated with core executive functions. However, the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying reading comprehension deficits in these children remain elusive. Twenty-one right-handed males with high-functioning ASD (mean age = 10.24 years) and 23 age-, IQ-, educational level-, sex- and handedness-matched typically developing (TD; mean age = 10.14 years) individuals underwent a reading comprehension test and the semantic verbal fluency test that tapped core executive functions underlying reading comprehension during concurrent prefrontal functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measurement. Participants’ information processing efficiency was also assessed. High-functioning ASD children exhibited general reading comprehension [main effect of group: F(1,40) = 7.58, p = 0.009], selective verbal fluency deficits [Group × category interaction: F(1,42) = 4.90, p = 0.032] and slower processing speed (t42 = 2.36, p = 0.023). Regarding the hemodynamics of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), although ASD individuals showed comparable patterns of PFC brain activation to their healthy counterparts, lower PFC intrahemispheric [main effect of group: F(1,42) = 11.36, p = 0.002] and interhemispheric [main effect of group: F(1,42) = 7.79, p = 0.008] functional connectivity were evident during the semantic verbal fluency test. At the whole-group level, poorer reading comprehension performance was associated with poorer performance in the semantic verbal fluency test (r42 = 0.508, p < 0.001). Moreover, poorer semantic verbal fluency test performance was associated with slower information processing speed (r42 = –0.312, p = 0.044), which is associated with reduced left medial PFC functional connectivity (r42 = –0.319, p = 0.040). Abnormal intrahemispheric and interhemispheric prefrontal hypoconnectivity is associated with deficits in executive processes essential for reading comprehension in ASD. Our study has provided important implications for the neuropsychological and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying reading comprehension deficits in ASD.
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- Melody M. Y. Chan
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
- University Research Facility in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience (UBSN), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
- *Correspondence: Yvonne M. Y. Han,
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Rosberg A, Tuulari JJ, Kumpulainen V, Lukkarinen M, Pulli EP, Silver E, Copeland A, Saukko E, Saunavaara J, Lewis JD, Karlsson L, Karlsson H, Merisaari H. Test-retest reliability of diffusion tensor imaging scalars in 5-year-olds. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 43:4984-4994. [PMID: 36098477 PMCID: PMC9582361 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has provided great insights into the microstructural features of the developing brain. However, DTI images are prone to several artifacts and the reliability of DTI scalars is of paramount importance for interpreting and generalizing the findings of DTI studies, especially in the younger population. In this study, we investigated the intrascan test–retest repeatability of four DTI scalars: fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity (MD), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD) in 5‐year‐old children (N = 67) with two different data preprocessing approaches: a volume censoring pipeline and an outlier replacement pipeline. We applied a region of interest (ROI) and a voxelwise analysis after careful quality control, tensor fitting and tract‐based spatial statistics. The data had three subsets and each subset included 31, 32, or 33 directions thus a total of 96 unique uniformly distributed diffusion encoding directions per subject. The repeatability of DTI scalars was evaluated with intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC(3,1)) and the variability between test and retest subsets. The results of both pipelines yielded good to excellent (ICC(3,1) > 0.75) reliability for most of the ROIs and an overall low variability (<10%). In the voxelwise analysis, FA and RD had higher ICC(3,1) values compared to AD and MD and the variability remained low (<12%) across all scalars. Our results suggest high intrascan repeatability in pediatric DTI and lend confidence to the use of the data in future cross‐sectional and longitudinal studies.
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- Aylin Rosberg
- FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Radiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Turku Collegium for Science, Medicine and Technology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Radiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Medical Physics, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Centre for Population Health Research, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Centre for Population Health Research, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, Turku Brain and Mind Centre, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Radiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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Kraus D, Horowitz‐Kraus T. Functional MRI research involving healthy children: Ethics, safety and recommended procedures. Acta Paediatr 2022; 111:741-749. [PMID: 34986521 DOI: 10.1111/apa.16247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 11/26/2021] [Accepted: 01/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
AIM This specific review aims to expose clinicians, researchers and administrators in hospitals to the importance, procedures and safety of fMRI studies to promote the increased utilisation of such studies in different geographical places worldwide. The child's brain is developing rapidly, both structurally and functionally. These functional changes can only be detected using functional scans generated from an MRI machine and referred to as a functional MRI (fMRI). This method may be used clinically in complex medical and surgical conditions (e.g., epilepsy surgery), but these days are often used for research purposes. However, due to ethical and logistical considerations, fMRI in the paediatric population is not widely and equally used in different geographical places. CONCLUSIONS The benefits of using this method to define the functional changes occurring in the developing brain are discussed in this review, along with desensitisation methods recommended when working with this vulnerable population in research and even in a clinical setting.
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- Dror Kraus
- Pediatric Neurology Institute Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel Tel Aviv University Petach‐Tiqua Israel
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- Educational Neuroimaging Group Faculty of Education in Science and Technology Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Haifa Israel
- Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore Maryland USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore Maryland USA
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Bayih SG, Jankiewicz M, Alhamud A, van der Kouwe AJW, Meintjes EM. Self-navigated prospective motion correction for 3D-EPI acquisition. Magn Reson Med 2022; 88:211-223. [PMID: 35344618 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Revised: 12/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE Although 3D EPI is more susceptible to motion artifacts than 2D EPI, it presents some benefits for functional MRI, including the absence of spin-history artifacts, greater potential for parallel imaging acceleration, and better functional sensitivity in high-resolution imaging. Here we present a self-navigated 3D-EPI sequence suitable for prospective motion-corrected functional MRI without additional hardware or pulses. METHODS For each volume acquisition, the first 24 of the 52 partitions being acquired are accumulated to a new feedback block that was added to the image reconstruction pipeline. After zero-filling the remaining partitions, the feedback block constructs a volumetric self-navigator (vSNav), co-registers it to the reference vSNav acquired during the first volume acquisition, and sends motion estimates to the sequence. The sequence then updates its FOV and acquires subsequent partitions with the adjusted FOV, until the next update is received. The sequence was validated without and with intentional motion in phantom and in vivo on a 3T Skyra. RESULTS For phantom scans, the FOV was updated 0.704 s after acquisition of the vSNav partitions, and for in vivo scans after 0.768 s. Both phantom and in vivo data demonstrated stable motion estimates in the absence of motion. For in vivo acquisitions, prospective head-pose estimates using the vSNav's and retrospective estimates with FLIRT (FMRIB's Linear Image Registration Tool) agreed to within 0.23 mm (< 10% of the slice thickness) and 0.14° in all directions. CONCLUSION Depending when motion occurs during a volume acquisition, the proposed method fully corrects the FOV and recovers image quality within one volume acquisition.
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- Samuel Getaneh Bayih
- Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.,Neuroscience Institute, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.,Cape Universities Body Imaging Center, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.,Cape Universities Body Imaging Center, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.,The Modern Pioneer Center and ArSMRM for MRI Training and Development, Tripoli, Libya
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- Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.,A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.,Neuroscience Institute, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.,Cape Universities Body Imaging Center, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Camacho MC, Williams EM, Balser D, Kamojjala R, Sekar N, Steinberger D, Yarlagadda S, Perlman SB, Barch DM. EmoCodes: a Standardized Coding System for Socio-emotional Content in Complex Video Stimuli. AFFECTIVE SCIENCE 2022; 3:168-181. [PMID: 36046099 PMCID: PMC9383008 DOI: 10.1007/s42761-021-00100-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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UNLABELLED Social information processing is vital for inferring emotional states in others, yet affective neuroscience has only begun to scratch the surface of how we represent emotional information in the brain. Most previous affective neuroscience work has used isolated stimuli such as static images of affective faces or scenes to probe affective processing. While this work has provided rich insight to the initial stages of emotion processing (encoding cues), activation to isolated stimuli provides limited insight into later phases of emotion processing such as interpretation of cues or interactions between cues and established cognitive schemas. Recent work has highlighted the potential value of using complex video stimuli to probe socio-emotional processing, highlighting the need to develop standardized video coding schemas as this exciting field expands. Toward that end, we present a standardized and open-source coding system for complex videos, two fully coded videos, and a video and code processing Python library. The EmoCodes manual coding system provides an externally validated and replicable system for coding complex cartoon stimuli, with future plans to validate the system for other video types. The emocodes Python library provides automated tools for extracting low-level features from video files as well as tools for summarizing and analyzing the manual codes for suitability of use in neuroimaging analysis. Materials can be freely accessed at https://emocodes.org/. These tools represent an important step toward replicable and standardized study of socio-emotional processing using complex video stimuli. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42761-021-00100-7.
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- M. Catalina Camacho
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, 4444 Forest Park Drive, MO 63110 St. Louis, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
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Maheshwari M, Deshmukh T, Leuthardt EC, Shimony JS. Task-based and Resting State Functional MRI in Children. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 2021; 29:527-541. [PMID: 34717843 DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2021.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Functional MR imaging (MRI) is a valuable tool for presurgical planning and is well established in adult patients. The use of task-based fMRI is increasing in pediatric populations because it provides similar benefits for pre-surgical planning in children. This article reviews special adaptations that are required for successful applications of task-based fMRI in children, especially in the motor and language systems. The more recently introduced method of resting state fMRI is reviewed and its relative advantages and disadvantages discussed. Common pitfalls and other systems and networks that may be of interest in special circumstances also are reviewed.
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- Mohit Maheshwari
- Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Wisconsin, MS - 721, 9000 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Children's Wisconsin, MS - 721, 9000 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Washington University, 4525 Scott Avenue Campus Box 8131, St Louis, MO 63141, USA
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- Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, 4525 Scott Avenue Campus Box 8131, St Louis, MO 63141, USA
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Ware AL, Shukla A, Guo S, Onicas A, Geeraert BL, Goodyear BG, Yeates KO, Lebel C. Participant factors that contribute to magnetic resonance imaging motion artifacts in children with mild traumatic brain injury or orthopedic injury. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 16:991-1002. [PMID: 34694520 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-021-00582-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
Abstract
Motion can compromise image quality and confound results, especially in pediatric research. This study evaluated qualitative and quantitative approaches to motion artifacts detection and correction, and whether motion artifacts relate to injury history, age, or sex in children with mild traumatic brain injury or orthopedic injury relative to typically developing children. The concordance between qualitative and quantitative motion ratings was also examined. Children aged 8-16 years with mild traumatic brain injury (n = 141) or orthopedic injury (n = 73) were recruited from the emergency department and completed an MRI scan roughly 2 weeks post-injury. Typically developing children (n = 41) completed a single MRI scan. T1- and diffusion-weighted images were visually inspected and rated for motion artifacts by trained examiners. Quantitative estimates of motion artifacts were derived from FreeSurfer and FSL. Age (younger > older) and sex (boys > girls) were significantly associated with motion artifacts on both T1- and diffusion-weighted images. Children with mild traumatic brain or orthopedic injury had significantly more motion-corrupted diffusion-weighted volumes than typically developing children, but mild traumatic brain injury and orthopedic injury groups did not differ from each other. The exclusion of motion-corrupted volumes did not significantly change diffusion tensor imaging metrics. Results indicate that automated quantitative estimates of motion artifacts, which are less labour-intensive than manual methods, are appropriate. Results have implications for the reliability of structural MRI research and highlight the importance of considering motion artifacts in studies of pediatric mild traumatic brain injury.
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- Ashley L Ware
- Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada. .,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. .,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. .,Department of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada.,IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Seaman Family MR Research Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Simhal AK, Filho JOA, Segura P, Cloud J, Petkova E, Gallagher R, Castellanos FX, Colcombe S, Milham MP, Di Martino A. Predicting multiscan MRI outcomes in children with neurodevelopmental conditions following MRI simulator training. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2021; 52:101009. [PMID: 34649041 PMCID: PMC8517836 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2021] [Revised: 08/16/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Pediatric brain imaging holds significant promise for understanding neurodevelopment. However, the requirement to remain still inside a noisy, enclosed scanner remains a challenge. Verbal or visual descriptions of the process, and/or practice in MRI simulators are the norm in preparing children. Yet, the factors predictive of successfully obtaining neuroimaging data remain unclear. We examined data from 250 children (6–12 years, 197 males) with autism and/or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Children completed systematic MRI simulator training aimed to habituate to the scanner environment and minimize head motion. An MRI session comprised multiple structural, resting-state, task and diffusion scans. Of the 201 children passing simulator training and attempting scanning, nearly all (94%) successfully completed the first structural scan in the sequence, and 88% also completed the following functional scan. The number of successful scans decreased as the sequence progressed. Multivariate analyses revealed that age was the strongest predictor of successful scans in the session, with younger children having lower success rates. After age, sensorimotor atypicalities contributed most to prediction. Results provide insights on factors to consider in designing pediatric brain imaging protocols.
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- Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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- Department of Population Health, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA; Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA; Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA
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Korucuoglu O, Harms MP, Kennedy JT, Golosheykin S, Astafiev SV, Barch DM, Anokhin AP. Adolescent Decision-Making Under Risk: Neural Correlates and Sex Differences. Cereb Cortex 2021; 30:2690-2706. [PMID: 31828300 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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An increased propensity for risk taking is a hallmark of adolescent behavior with significant health and social consequences. Here, we elucidated cortical and subcortical regions associated with risky and risk-averse decisions and outcome evaluation using the Balloon Analog Risk Task in a large sample of adolescents (n = 256, 56% female, age 14 ± 0.6), including the level of risk as a parametric modulator. We also identified sex differences in neural activity. Risky decisions engaged regions that are parts of the salience, dorsal attention, and frontoparietal networks, but only the insula was sensitive to increasing risks in parametric analyses. During risk-averse decisions, the same networks covaried with parametric levels of risk. The dorsal striatum was engaged by both risky and risk-averse decisions, but was not sensitive to escalating risk. Negative-outcome processing showed greater activations than positive-outcome processing. Insula, lateral orbitofrontal cortex, middle, rostral, and superior frontal areas, rostral and caudal anterior cingulate cortex were activated only by negative outcomes, with a subset of regions associated with negative outcomes showing greater activation in females. Taken together, these results suggest that safe decisions are predicted by more accurate neural representation of increasing risk levels, whereas reward-related processes play a relatively minor role.
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- Ozlem Korucuoglu
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.,Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Backhausen LL, Herting MM, Tamnes CK, Vetter NC. Best Practices in Structural Neuroimaging of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Neuropsychol Rev 2021; 32:400-418. [PMID: 33893904 PMCID: PMC9090677 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-021-09496-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) offers immense potential for increasing our understanding of how anatomical brain development relates to clinical symptoms and functioning in neurodevelopmental disorders. Clinical developmental sMRI may help identify neurobiological risk factors or markers that may ultimately assist in diagnosis and treatment. However, researchers and clinicians aiming to conduct sMRI studies of neurodevelopmental disorders face several methodological challenges. This review offers hands-on guidelines for clinical developmental sMRI. First, we present brain morphometry metrics and review evidence on typical developmental trajectories throughout adolescence, together with atypical trajectories in selected neurodevelopmental disorders. Next, we discuss challenges and good scientific practices in study design, image acquisition and analysis, and recent options to implement quality control. Finally, we discuss choices related to statistical analysis and interpretation of results. We call for greater completeness and transparency in the reporting of methods to advance understanding of structural brain alterations in neurodevelopmental disorders.
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- Lea L. Backhausen
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine of the Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine of the Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Lin Z, Tam F, Churchill NW, Schweizer TA, Graham SJ. Tablet Technology for Writing and Drawing during Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Review. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21020401. [PMID: 33430023 PMCID: PMC7826671 DOI: 10.3390/s21020401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Revised: 12/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a powerful modality to study brain activity. To approximate naturalistic writing and drawing behaviours inside the scanner, many fMRI-compatible tablet technologies have been developed. The digitizing feature of the tablets also allows examination of behavioural kinematics with greater detail than using paper. With enhanced ecological validity, tablet devices have advanced the fields of neuropsychological tests, neurosurgery, and neurolinguistics. Specifically, tablet devices have been used to adopt many traditional paper-based writing and drawing neuropsychological tests for fMRI. In functional neurosurgery, tablet technologies have enabled intra-operative brain mapping during awake craniotomy in brain tumour patients, as well as quantitative tremor assessment for treatment outcome monitoring. Tablet devices also play an important role in identifying the neural correlates of writing in the healthy and diseased brain. The fMRI-compatible tablets provide an excellent platform to support naturalistic motor responses and examine detailed behavioural kinematics.
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- Zhongmin Lin
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada;
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- Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada;
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- Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON M5B 1T8, Canada; (N.W.C.); (T.A.S.)
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- Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON M5B 1T8, Canada; (N.W.C.); (T.A.S.)
- Division of Neurosurgery, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7, Canada;
- Physical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada;
- Correspondence:
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Yang L, Wu B, Fan L, Huang S, Vigotsky AD, Baliki MN, Yan Z, Apkarian AV, Huang L. Dissimilarity of functional connectivity uncovers the influence of participant's motion in functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 42:713-723. [PMID: 33079467 PMCID: PMC7814752 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2020] [Revised: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Head motion is a major confounding factor impairing the quality of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. In particular, head motion can reduce analytical efficiency, and its effects are still present even after preprocessing. To examine the validity of motion removal and to evaluate the remaining effects of motion on the quality of the preprocessed fMRI data, a new metric of group quality control (QC), dissimilarity of functional connectivity, is introduced. Here, we investigate the association between head motion, represented by mean framewise displacement, and dissimilarity of functional connectivity by applying four preprocessing methods in two independent resting‐state fMRI datasets: one consisting of healthy participants (N = 167) scanned in a 3T GE‐Discovery 750 with longer TR (2.5 s), and the other of chronic back pain patients (N = 143) in a 3T Siemens Magnetom Prisma scanner with shorter TR (0.555 s). We found that dissimilarity of functional connectivity uncovers the influence of participant's motion, and this relationship is independent of population, scanner, and preprocessing method. The association between motion and dissimilarity of functional connectivity, and how the removal of high‐motion participants affects this association, is a new strategy for group‐level QC following preprocessing.
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- Lili Yang
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Information, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Statistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Department of Physical Management and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,Center for Translational Pain Research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Snytte J, Elshiekh A, Subramaniapillai S, Manning L, Pasvanis S, Devenyi GA, Olsen RK, Rajah MN. The ratio of posterior–anterior medial temporal lobe volumes predicts source memory performance in healthy young adults. Hippocampus 2020; 30:1209-1227. [DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2019] [Revised: 07/02/2020] [Accepted: 07/10/2020] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Jamie Snytte
- Integrated Program in Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada
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- Integrated Program in Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada
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- Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Massachusetts USA
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre Douglas Mental Health University Institute Montreal Quebec Canada
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre Douglas Mental Health University Institute Montreal Quebec Canada
- Department of Psychiatry McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada
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- Department of Psychology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada
- Rotman Research Institute Baycrest Health Sciences Toronto Ontario Canada
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- Cerebral Imaging Centre Douglas Mental Health University Institute Montreal Quebec Canada
- Department of Psychiatry McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada
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Anand M, Diekfuss JA, Slutsky-Ganesh AB, Bonnette S, Grooms DR, Myer GD. Graphical interface for automated management of motion artifact within fMRI acquisitions: INFOBAR. SOFTWAREX 2020; 12:100598. [PMID: 33447655 PMCID: PMC7806167 DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2020.100598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
Abstract
Independent Component Analysis-based Automatic Removal of Motion Artifacts (ICA-AROMA; Pruim et al., 2015) is a robust approach to remove brain activity related to head motion within functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) datasets. However, ICA-AROMA requires command line implementation and customized code to batch process large datasets. We developed a cross-platform, open-source graphical user Interface for Batch processing fMRI datasets using ICA-AROMA (INFOBAR). INFOBAR allows a user to search directories, identify appropriate datasets, and batch execute ICA-AROMA. INFOBAR also has additional data processing options and visualization features to support all researchers interested in mitigating head motion artifact in post-processing using ICA-AROMA.
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- Manish Anand
- The SPORT Center, Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- The SPORT Center, Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Emory Sport Performance and Research Center, Flowery Branch, GA, USA
- Department of Orthopaedics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- The SPORT Center, Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Ohio Musculoskeletal & Neurological Institute, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
- Division of Athletic Training, School of Applied Health Sciences and Wellness, College of Health Sciences & Professions, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
- Division of Physical Therapy, School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences, College of Health Sciences & Professions, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
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- The SPORT Center, Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Department of Pediatrics and Orthopaedic Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention, Waltham, MA, USA
- Emory Sports Medicine Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Emory Sport Performance and Research Center, Flowery Branch, GA, USA
- Department of Orthopaedics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Farah R, Greenwood P, Dudley J, Hutton J, Ammerman RT, Phelan K, Holland S, Horowitz-Kraus T. Maternal depression is associated with altered functional connectivity between neural circuits related to visual, auditory, and cognitive processing during stories listening in preschoolers. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN FUNCTIONS : BBF 2020; 16:5. [PMID: 32340619 PMCID: PMC7187503 DOI: 10.1186/s12993-020-00167-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Accepted: 04/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Maternal depression can influence the early activity of a mother reading stories to a young child, as depressed mothers are less likely to read to their children. Here, maternal depression association to neurobiological circuitry of narrative comprehension, visualization, and executive functions during stories listening was examined in 21 4-year-old girls and their mothers. Maternal depression scores were collected from the mothers, and functional MRI during stories listening was collected from the children. RESULTS Increased maternal depression was related to decreased functional connectivity between visualization and auditory regions and increased connectivity between the right visual cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the children. CONCLUSIONS This study highlights the need to monitor maternal depression and provide interventions to ensure positive linguistic outcomes in children.
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- Rola Farah
- Educational Neuroimaging Center, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- The Permanente Medical Group, San Rafael Pediatrics, San Rafael, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Educational Neuroimaging Center, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
- Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229-3039, USA.
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Kolodny T, Schallmo MP, Gerdts J, Edden RAE, Bernier RA, Murray SO. Concentrations of Cortical GABA and Glutamate in Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Res 2020; 13:1111-1129. [PMID: 32297709 DOI: 10.1002/aur.2300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
The balance of excitation and inhibition in neural circuits is hypothesized to be increased in autism spectrum disorder, possibly mediated by altered signaling of the inhibitory neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), yet empirical evidence in humans is inconsistent. We used edited magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to quantify signals associated with both GABA and the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate in multiple regions of the sensory and sensorimotor cortex, including primary visual, auditory, and motor areas in adult individuals with autism and in neurotypical controls. Despite the strong a priori hypothesis of reduced GABA in autism spectrum disorder, we found no group differences in neurometabolite concentrations in any of the examined regions and no correlations of MRS measure with psychophysical visual sensitivity or autism symptomatology. We demonstrate high data quality that is comparable across groups, with a relatively large sample of well-characterized participants, and use Bayesian statistics to corroborate the lack of any group differences. We conclude that levels of GABA and Glx (glutamate, glutamine, and glutathione) in the sensory and sensorimotor cortex, as measured with MRS at 3T, are comparable in adults with autism and neurotypical individuals. Autism Res 2020, 13: 1111-1129. © 2020 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. LAY SUMMARY: γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate are the main inhibitory and excitatory neurotransmitters in the human brain, respectively, and their balanced interaction is necessary for neural function. Previous research suggests that the GABA and glutamate systems might be altered in autism. In this study, we used magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure concentrations of these neurotransmitters in the sensory areas in the brains of young adults with autism. In contradiction to the common hypothesis of reduced GABA in autism, we demonstrate that concentrations of both GABA and glutamate, in all the brain regions examined, are comparable in individuals with autism and in neurotypical adults. © 2020 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Tamar Kolodny
- Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Association between diffusivity measures and language and cognitive-control abilities from early toddler’s age to childhood. Brain Struct Funct 2020; 225:1103-1122. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-020-02062-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Accepted: 03/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Guerin JB, Greiner HM, Mangano FT, Leach JL. Functional MRI in Children: Current Clinical Applications. Semin Pediatr Neurol 2020; 33:100800. [PMID: 32331615 DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2020.100800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
Functional magnetic resonance imaging has become a critical research tool for evaluating brain function during active tasks and resting states. This has improved our understanding of developmental trajectories in children as well as the plasticity of neural networks in disease states. In the clinical setting, functional maps of eloquent cortex in patients with brain lesions and/or epilepsy provides crucial information for presurgical planning. Although children are inherently challenging to scan in this setting, preparing them appropriately and providing adequate resources can help achieve useful clinical data. This article will review the basic underlying physiologic aspects of functional magnetic resonance imaging, review clinically relevant research applications, describe known validation data compared to gold standard techniques and detail future directions of this technology.
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- Julie B Guerin
- Department of Pediatric Radiology and Medical Imaging, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
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- Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery, Cincinnati, OH
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- Department of Pediatric Radiology and Medical Imaging, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH; Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
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Asaridou SS, Demir-Lira ÖE, Goldin-Meadow S, Levine SC, Small SL. Language development and brain reorganization in a child born without the left hemisphere. Cortex 2020; 127:290-312. [PMID: 32259667 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2019] [Revised: 11/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
We present a case of a 14-year-old girl born without the left hemisphere due to prenatal left internal carotid occlusion. We combined longitudinal language and cognitive assessments with functional and structural neuroimaging data to situate the case within age-matched, typically developing children. Despite having had a delay in getting language off the ground during the preschool years, our case performed within the normal range on a variety of standardized language tests, and exceptionally well on phonology and word reading, during the elementary and middle school years. Moreover, her spatial, number, and reasoning skills also fell in the average to above-average range based on assessments during these time periods. Functional MRI data revealed activation in right fronto-temporal areas when listening to short stories, resembling the bilateral activation patterns in age-matched typically developing children. Diffusion MRI data showed significantly larger dorsal white matter association tracts (the direct and anterior segments of the arcuate fasciculus) connecting areas active during language processing in her remaining right hemisphere, compared to either hemisphere in control children. We hypothesize that these changes in functional and structural brain organization are the result of compensatory brain plasticity, manifesting in unusually large right dorsal tracts, and exceptional performance in phonology, speech repetition, and decoding. More specifically, we posit that our case's large white matter connections might have played a compensatory role by providing fast and reliable transfer of information between cortical areas for language in the right hemisphere.
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- Salomi S Asaridou
- University of California, Irvine, Department of Neurology, Biological Sciences III, Irvine, CA, USA.
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- The University of Iowa, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, DeLTA Center, Iowa Neuroscience Institute, Iowa City, IA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Gesture, Sign and Language, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of California, Irvine, Department of Neurology, Biological Sciences III, Irvine, CA, USA
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Lynch KM, Cabeen RP, Toga AW, Clark KA. Magnitude and timing of major white matter tract maturation from infancy through adolescence with NODDI. Neuroimage 2020; 212:116672. [PMID: 32092432 PMCID: PMC7224237 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Revised: 01/19/2020] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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White matter maturation is a nonlinear and heterogeneous phenomenon characterized by axonal packing, increased axon caliber, and a prolonged period of myelination. While current in vivo diffusion MRI (dMRI) methods, like diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), have successfully characterized the gross structure of major white matter tracts, these measures lack the specificity required to unravel the distinct processes that contribute to microstructural development. Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) is a dMRI approach that probes tissue compartments and provides biologically meaningful measures that quantify neurite density index (NDI) and orientation dispersion index (ODI). The purpose of this study was to characterize the magnitude and timing of major white matter tract maturation with NODDI from infancy through adolescence in a cross-sectional cohort of 104 subjects (0.6–18.8 years). To probe the regional nature of white matter development, we use an along-tract approach that partitions tracts to enable more fine-grained analysis. Major white matter tracts showed exponential age-related changes in NDI with distinct maturational patterns. Overall, analyses revealed callosal fibers developed before association fibers. Our along-tract analyses elucidate spatially varying patterns of maturation with NDI that are distinct from those obtained with DTI. ODI was not significantly associated with age in the majority of tracts. Our results support the conclusion that white matter tract maturation is heterochronous process and, furthermore, we demonstrate regional variability in the developmental timing within major white matter tracts. Together, these results help to disentangle the distinct processes that contribute to and more specifically define the time course of white matter maturation.
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- Kirsten M Lynch
- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Charbonnier L, Raemaekers MAH, Cornelisse PA, Verwoert M, Braun KPJ, Ramsey NF, Vansteensel MJ. A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Approach for Language Laterality Assessment in Young Children. Front Pediatr 2020; 8:587593. [PMID: 33313027 PMCID: PMC7707083 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2020.587593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2020] [Accepted: 09/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a usable technique to determine hemispheric dominance of language function, but high-quality fMRI images are difficult to acquire in young children. Here we aimed to develop and validate an fMRI approach to reliably determine hemispheric language dominance in young children. We designed two new tasks (story, SR; Letter picture matching, LPM) that aimed to match the interests and the levels of cognitive development of young children. We studied 32 healthy children (6-10 years old, median age 8.7 years) and seven children with epilepsy (7-11 years old, median age 8.6 years) and compared the lateralization index of the new tasks with those of a well-validated task (verb generation, VG) and with clinical measures of hemispheric language dominance. A conclusive assessment of hemispheric dominance (lateralization index ≤-0.2 or ≥0.2) was obtained for 94% of the healthy participants who performed both new tasks. At least one new task provided conclusive language laterality assessment in six out of seven participants with epilepsy. The new tasks may contribute to assessing language laterality in young and preliterate children and may benefit children who are scheduled for surgical treatment of disorders such as epilepsy.
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- Lisette Charbonnier
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Child Neurology, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Maknojia S, Churchill NW, Schweizer TA, Graham SJ. Resting State fMRI: Going Through the Motions. Front Neurosci 2019; 13:825. [PMID: 31456656 PMCID: PMC6700228 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 07/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) has become an indispensable tool in neuroscience research. Despite this, rs-fMRI signals are easily contaminated by artifacts arising from movement of the head during data collection. The artifacts can be problematic even for motions on the millimeter scale, with complex spatiotemporal properties that can lead to substantial errors in functional connectivity estimates. Effective correction methods must be employed, therefore, to distinguish true functional networks from motion-related noise. Research over the last three decades has produced numerous correction methods, many of which must be applied in combination to achieve satisfactory data quality. Subject instruction, training, and mild restraints are helpful at the outset, but usually insufficient. Improvements come from applying multiple motion correction algorithms retrospectively after rs-fMRI data are collected, although residual artifacts can still remain in cases of elevated motion, which are especially prevalent in patient populations. Although not commonly adopted at present, “real-time” correction methods are emerging that can be combined with retrospective methods and that promise better correction and increased rs-fMRI signal sensitivity. While the search for the ideal motion correction protocol continues, rs-fMRI research will benefit from good disclosure practices, such as: (1) reporting motion-related quality control metrics to provide better comparison between studies; and (2) including motion covariates in group-level analyses to limit the extent of motion-related confounds when studying group differences.
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- Sanam Maknojia
- Physical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Division of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Physical Sciences Platform, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Medical Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Functional MRI is a reliable, noninvasive technique which allows spatial mapping of the various functions like sensorimotor, language and vision in the brain. This is of immense help to the neurosurgeon in presurgical planning and intraoperative navigation in order to identify and preserve eloquent areas of the brain and minimize post-surgical neurological deficits. Using this technique in children pose unique challenges. This article discusses some of these challenges and how they can be overcome in successful application of this technique in pediatric patients.
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Development of Human Emotion Circuits Investigated Using a Big-Data Analytic Approach: Stability, Reliability, and Robustness. J Neurosci 2019; 39:7155-7172. [PMID: 31332001 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0220-19.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 07/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Emotion perception is fundamental to affective and cognitive development and is thought to involve distributed brain circuits. Efforts to chart neurodevelopmental changes in emotion have been severely hampered by narrowly focused approaches centered on activation of individual brain regions and small sample sizes. Here we investigate the maturation of human functional brain circuits associated with identification of fearful, angry, sad, happy, and neutral faces using a large sample of 759 children, adolescents, and adults (ages 8-23; female/male = 419/340). Network analysis of emotion-related brain circuits revealed three functional modules, encompassing lateral frontoparietal, medial prefrontal-posterior cingulate, and subcortical-posterior insular cortices, with hubs in medial prefrontal, but not posterior cingulate, cortex. This overall network architecture was stable by age 8, and it anchored maturation of circuits important for salience detection and cognitive control, as well as dissociable circuit patterns across distinct emotion categories. Our findings point to similarities and differences in functional circuits associated with identification of fearful, angry, sad, happy, and neutral faces, and reveal aspects of brain circuit organization underlying emotion perception that are stable over development as well as features that change with age. Reliability analyses demonstrated the robustness of our findings and highlighted the importance of large samples for probing functional brain circuit development. Our study emphasizes a need to focus beyond amygdala circuits and provides a robust neurodevelopmental template for investigating emotion perception and identification in psychopathology.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Emotion perception is fundamental to cognitive and affective development. However, efforts to chart neurodevelopmental changes in emotion perception have been hampered by narrowly focused approaches centered on the amygdala and prefrontal cortex and small sample sizes. Using a large sample of 759 children, adolescents, and adults and a multipronged analytical strategy, we investigated the development of brain network organization underlying identification and categorization of fearful, happy, angry, sad, and neutral facial expressions. Results revealed a developmentally stable modular architecture that anchored robust age-related and emotion category-related changes in brain connectivity across multiple brain systems that extend far beyond amygdala circuits and provide a new template for investigation of emotion processing in the developing brain.
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Learning math by hand: The neural effects of gesture-based instruction in 8-year-old children. Atten Percept Psychophys 2019; 81:2343-2353. [DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01755-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Assessing motor, visual and language function using a single 5-minute fMRI paradigm: three birds with one stone. Brain Imaging Behav 2019; 12:1775-1785. [PMID: 29480439 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-018-9848-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Clinical functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) requires inferences on localization of major brain functions at the individual subject level. We hypothesized that a single "triple use" task would satisfy sensitivity and reliability requirements for successfully assessing the motor, visual and language domain in this context. This was tested here by the application in a group of healthy adults, assessing sensitivity and reliability at the individual subject level, separately for each domain.Our "triple use" task consisted of 2 conditions (condition 1, assessing motor and visual domain, and condition 2, assessing the language domain), serving mutually as active/control. We included 20 healthy adult subjects. Random effect analyses showed activation in primary motor, visual and language regions, as expected. Less expected regions were activated both for the motor and visual domains. Further, reliability of primary activation patterns was very high across individual subjects, with activation seen in 70-100% of subjects in primary motor, visual, and left-lateralized language regions.These findings suggest the "triple use" task to be reliable at the individual subject's level to assess motor, visual and language domains in the clinical fMRI context. Benefits of such an approach include shortening of acquisition time, simplicity of the task for each domain, and using a visual stimulus. Following establishment of reliability in adults, the task may also be a valuable addition in the pediatric clinical fMRI context, where each of these factors is of high relevance.
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Elliott ML, Knodt AR, Cooke M, Kim MJ, Melzer TR, Keenan R, Ireland D, Ramrakha S, Poulton R, Caspi A, Moffitt TE, Hariri AR. General functional connectivity: Shared features of resting-state and task fMRI drive reliable and heritable individual differences in functional brain networks. Neuroimage 2019; 189:516-532. [PMID: 30708106 PMCID: PMC6462481 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.01.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2018] [Revised: 01/22/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Intrinsic connectivity, measured using resting-state fMRI, has emerged as a fundamental tool in the study of the human brain. However, due to practical limitations, many studies do not collect enough resting-state data to generate reliable measures of intrinsic connectivity necessary for studying individual differences. Here we present general functional connectivity (GFC) as a method for leveraging shared features across resting-state and task fMRI and demonstrate in the Human Connectome Project and the Dunedin Study that GFC offers better test-retest reliability than intrinsic connectivity estimated from the same amount of resting-state data alone. Furthermore, at equivalent scan lengths, GFC displayed higher estimates of heritability than resting-state functional connectivity. We also found that predictions of cognitive ability from GFC generalized across datasets, performing as well or better than resting-state or task data alone. Collectively, our work suggests that GFC can improve the reliability of intrinsic connectivity estimates in existing datasets and, subsequently, the opportunity to identify meaningful correlates of individual differences in behavior. Given that task and resting-state data are often collected together, many researchers can immediately derive more reliable measures of intrinsic connectivity through the adoption of GFC rather than solely using resting-state data. Moreover, by better capturing heritable variation in intrinsic connectivity, GFC represents a novel endophenotype with broad applications in clinical neuroscience and biomarker discovery.
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- Maxwell L Elliott
- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Box 104410, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Box 104410, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Box 104410, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA
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- New Zealand Brain Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand; Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- New Zealand Brain Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand; Christchurch Radiology Group, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, 163 Union St E, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand
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- Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, 163 Union St E, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand
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- Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, 163 Union St E, Dunedin, 9016, New Zealand
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Box 104410, Durham, NC, 27708, USA; Social, Genetic, & Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF, UK; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27708, USA; Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Box 104410, Durham, NC, 27708, USA; Social, Genetic, & Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AF, UK; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, 27708, USA; Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Box 104410, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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Farah R, Horowitz-Kraus T. Increased Functional Connectivity Within and Between Cognitive-Control Networks from Early Infancy to Nine Years During Story Listening. Brain Connect 2019; 9:285-295. [PMID: 30777454 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2018.0625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The cingulo-opercular (CO) and frontoparietal (FP) networks are part of the cognitive-control system of the brain. Evidence suggests that over the course of development, brain regions supporting cognitive-control functions become more integrated within their networks (i.e., have increased within-network connectivity), more separated from other networks, and, due to increased maturation along development, are more functionally connected between the networks. The focus of this study was to characterize the developmental trajectory of the CO and FP networks from early infancy (17 months) to 9 years of age in typically developing children while listening to stories, using functional connectivity analyses. Seventy-four children underwent a functional magnetic resonance imaging session while listening to stories inside the scanner. Within- and between-network functional connectivity and graph theory measures were compared during development. Developmental increase in functional connectivity within the CO network and between the CO and FP networks, as well as global efficiency of the CO network from 17 months to 9 years of age, was observed. These findings highlight the involvement of the CO and FP networks in story listening from early infancy, which increases along development. Future studies examining failures in language acquisition to further explore the role of these networks in story listening are warranted.
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- Rola Farah
- 1 Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Educational Neuroimaging Center, Technion, Haifa, Israel.,2 Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Educational Neuroimaging Center, Technion, Haifa, Israel
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- 1 Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Educational Neuroimaging Center, Technion, Haifa, Israel.,3 Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Greenwood P, Hutton J, Dudley J, Horowitz-Kraus T. Maternal reading fluency is associated with functional connectivity between the child's future reading network and regions related to executive functions and language processing in preschool-age children. Brain Cogn 2018; 131:87-93. [PMID: 30553572 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2018.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2018] [Revised: 11/23/2018] [Accepted: 11/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Reading is an acquired skill that relies on cognitive-control and language abilities. Home reading environment has been positively correlated with activation in parietal-temporal-occipital association cortex supporting mental imagery and narrative comprehension during a story-listening task in preschool-age children. However, the degree to which maternal reading ability influences early brain development, specifically neural circuits involved with language and reading, is not well understood. The current study explored the relationship between maternal reading ability and functional connectivity within the language network, between the language network and networks related to cognitive control and visual processing, as well as between the language network and the entire brain (network-to-voxel analysis) of preschool-age children during a resting state. Thirteen 4-year-old girls and their mothers participated in this study, involving cognitive testing and functional magnetic resonance imaging, including a resting-state scan. Maternal reading ability was negatively correlated with functional connectivity within the child's language network at rest, and also with areas involved in visual processing, cognitive-control, and semantics. These results suggest that children whose mothers exhibit decreased reading ability may demonstrate a greater engagement of the language network and neural circuits related to visual word recognition, cognitive-control, and semantic processing, which later in life support reading.
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- Paige Greenwood
- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Educational Neuroimaging Center, Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
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Wilke M, Groeschel S, Lorenzen A, Rona S, Schuhmann MU, Ernemann U, Krägeloh‐Mann I. Clinical application of advanced MR methods in children: points to consider. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2018; 5:1434-1455. [PMID: 30480038 PMCID: PMC6243383 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2018] [Revised: 08/10/2018] [Accepted: 08/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The application of both functional MRI and diffusion MR tractography prior to a neurosurgical operation is well established in adults, but less so in children, for several reasons. For this review, we have identified several aspects (task design, subject preparation, actual scanning session, data processing, interpretation of results, and decision-making) where pediatric peculiarities should be taken into account. Further, we not only systematically identify common issues, but also provide solutions, based on our experience as well as a review of the pertinent literature. The aim is to provide the clinician as well as the imaging scientist with information that helps to plan, conduct, and interpret such a clinically-indicated exam in a way that maximizes benefit for, and minimizes the burden on the individual child.
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- Marko Wilke
- Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental MedicineChildren's HospitalTuebingenGermany
- Children's Hospital and Department of NeuroradiologyExperimental Pediatric NeuroimagingTuebingenGermany
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental MedicineChildren's HospitalTuebingenGermany
- Children's Hospital and Department of NeuroradiologyExperimental Pediatric NeuroimagingTuebingenGermany
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental MedicineChildren's HospitalTuebingenGermany
- Children's Hospital and Department of NeuroradiologyExperimental Pediatric NeuroimagingTuebingenGermany
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- Department of NeurosurgeryUniversity HospitalTuebingenGermany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional NeuroradiologyUniversity HospitalUniversity of TübingenTuebingenGermany
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental MedicineChildren's HospitalTuebingenGermany
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Madan CR. Age differences in head motion and estimates of cortical morphology. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5176. [PMID: 30065858 PMCID: PMC6065477 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 06/16/2018] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Cortical morphology is known to differ with age, as measured by cortical thickness, fractal dimensionality, and gyrification. However, head motion during MRI scanning has been shown to influence estimates of cortical thickness as well as increase with age. Studies have also found task-related differences in head motion and relationships between body–mass index (BMI) and head motion. Here I replicated these prior findings, as well as several others, within a large, open-access dataset (Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience, CamCAN). This is a larger dataset than these results have been demonstrated previously, within a sample size of more than 600 adults across the adult lifespan. While replicating prior findings is important, demonstrating these key findings concurrently also provides an opportunity for additional related analyses: critically, I test for the influence of head motion on cortical fractal dimensionality and gyrification; effects were statistically significant in some cases, but small in magnitude.
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Lukasova K, Nucci MP, Neto RMDA, Vieira G, Sato JR, Amaro E. Predictive saccades in children and adults: A combined fMRI and eye tracking study. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0196000. [PMID: 29718927 PMCID: PMC5931500 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2017] [Accepted: 04/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Saccades were assessed in 21 adults (age 24 years, SD = 4) and 15 children (age 11 years, SD = 1), using combined functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and eye-tracking. Subjects visually tracked a point on a horizontal line in four conditions: time and position predictable task (PRED), position predictable (pPRED), time predictable (tPRED) and visually guided saccades (SAC). Both groups in the PRED but not in pPRED, tPRED and SAC produced predictive saccades with latency below 80 ms. In task versus group comparisons, children's showed less efficient learning compared to adults for predictive saccades (adults = 48%, children = 34%, p = 0.05). In adults brain activation was found in the frontal and occipital regions in the PRED, in the intraparietal sulcus in pPRED and in the frontal eye field, posterior intraparietal sulcus and medial regions in the tPRED task. Group-task interaction was found in the supplementary eye field and visual cortex in the PRED task, and the frontal cortex including the right frontal eye field and left frontal pole, in the pPRED condition. These results indicate that, the basic visuomotor circuitry is present in both adults and children, but fine-tuning of the activation according to the task temporal and spatial demand mature late in child development.
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- Katerina Lukasova
- LIM-44, NIF - Neuroimagem Funcional, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
- Center of Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- LIM-44, NIF - Neuroimagem Funcional, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- LIM-44, NIF - Neuroimagem Funcional, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
- Inter-institutional Grad Program on Bioinformatics, IME-USP, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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- Center of Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- LIM-44, NIF - Neuroimagem Funcional, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
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Maternal reading fluency is positively associated with greater functional connectivity between the child’s future reading network and regions related to executive functions and language processing in preschool-age children. Brain Cogn 2018; 121:17-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2018.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2017] [Revised: 12/21/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Zaitsev M, Akin B, LeVan P, Knowles BR. Prospective motion correction in functional MRI. Neuroimage 2016; 154:33-42. [PMID: 27845256 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2016] [Revised: 11/04/2016] [Accepted: 11/05/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Due to the intrinsic low sensitivity of BOLD-fMRI long scanning is required. Subject motion during fMRI scans reduces statistical significance of the activation maps and increases the prevalence of false activations. Motion correction is therefore an essential tool for a successful fMRI data analysis. Retrospective motion correction techniques are now commonplace and are incorporated into a wide range of fMRI analysis toolboxes. These techniques are advantageous due to robustness, sequence independence and have minimal impact on the fMRI study setup. Retrospective techniques however, do not provide an accurate intra-volume correction, nor can these techniques correct for the spin-history effects. The application of prospective motion correction in fMRI appears to be effective in reducing false positives and increasing sensitivity when compared to retrospective techniques, particularly in the cases of substantial motion. Especially advantageous in this regard is the combination of prospective motion correction with dynamic distortion correction. Nevertheless, none of the recent methods are able to recover activations in presence of motion that are comparable to no-motion conditions, which motivates further research in the area of adaptive dynamic imaging.
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- Maxim Zaitsev
- Department of Radiology - Medical Physics, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg - Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany.
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- Department of Radiology - Medical Physics, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg - Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Radiology - Medical Physics, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg - Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Radiology - Medical Physics, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg - Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany
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Afacan O, Erem B, Roby DP, Roth N, Roth A, Prabhu SP, Warfield SK. Evaluation of motion and its effect on brain magnetic resonance image quality in children. Pediatr Radiol 2016; 46:1728-1735. [PMID: 27488508 PMCID: PMC5083190 DOI: 10.1007/s00247-016-3677-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2016] [Revised: 06/02/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Motion artifacts pose significant problems for the acquisition of MR images in pediatric populations. OBJECTIVE To evaluate temporal motion metrics in MRI scanners and their effect on image quality in pediatric populations in neuroimaging studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS We report results from a large pediatric brain imaging study that shows the effect of motion on MRI quality. We measured motion metrics in 82 pediatric patients, mean age 13.4 years, in a T1-weighted brain MRI scan. As a result of technical difficulties, 5 scans were not included in the subsequent analyses. A radiologist graded the images using a 4-point scale ranging from clinically non-diagnostic because of motion artifacts to no motion artifacts. We used these grades to correlate motion parameters such as maximum motion, mean displacement from a reference point, and motion-free time with image quality. RESULTS Our results show that both motion-free time (as a ratio of total scan time) and average displacement from a position at a fixed time (when the center of k-space was acquired) were highly correlated with image quality, whereas maximum displacement was not as good a predictor. Among the 77 patients whose motion was measured successfully, 17 had average displacements of greater than 0.5 mm, and 11 of those (14.3%) resulted in non-diagnostic images. Similarly, 14 patients (18.2%) had less than 90% motion-free time, which also resulted in non-diagnostic images. CONCLUSION We report results from a large pediatric study to show how children and young adults move in the MRI scanner and the effect that this motion has on image quality. The results will help the motion-correction community in better understanding motion patterns in pediatric populations and how these patterns affect MR image quality.
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- Onur Afacan
- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave., WB215, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave., WB215, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave., WB215, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Robin Medical Inc., Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Robin Medical Inc., Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave., WB215, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave., WB215, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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Faraji-Dana Z, Tam F, Chen JJ, Graham SJ. Interactions between head motion and coil sensitivity in accelerated fMRI. J Neurosci Methods 2016; 270:46-60. [PMID: 27288867 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2016.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2016] [Revised: 05/03/2016] [Accepted: 06/07/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Parallel imaging is widely adopted to accelerate functional MRI (fMRI) data acquisition, through various strategies that involve multi-channel receiver coils. However, the non-uniform spatial sensitivity of multi-channel receiver coils may introduce unwanted artifacts when head motion occurs during the few-minute long fMRI scans. Although prospective correction provides a promising solution for alleviating the head motion artifacts in fMRI, the relative position of the fixed multi-channel receiver coils moves in the moving reference frame, potentially resulting in artifactual signal. NEW METHOD We used numerical simulations to investigate this effect on fMRI using two parallel imaging schemes: sensitivity encoding (SENSE) and generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) with acceleration factors 2 and 4, towards characterizing the regime over which parallel-imaging fMRI with prospective motion correction will benefit from updating coil sensitivities to reflect relative positional change between the head and the receiver coil. Moreover, six subjects were scanned with acceleration factors 2 and 4 while performing a simple finger-tapping task with and without overt head motion. RESULTS Updating coil sensitivities showed significant positive impact on standard deviation and activation maps in presence of overt head motion compared to that obtained with no overt head motion. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHODS The parallel imaging fMRI with updated coil sensitivity maps were compared to that with the coil sensitivity maps acquired at the reference position. CONCLUSIONS Head motion in relation to a fixed multi-channel coil can adversely affect the quality of parallel imaging fMRI data; and updating coil sensitivity map can mitigate this effect.
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- Z Faraji-Dana
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada.
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- Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
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Wu M, Kujawa A, Lu LH, Fitzgerald DA, Klumpp H, Fitzgerald KD, Monk CS, Phan KL. Age-related changes in amygdala-frontal connectivity during emotional face processing from childhood into young adulthood. Hum Brain Mapp 2016; 37:1684-95. [PMID: 26931629 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2015] [Revised: 01/06/2016] [Accepted: 01/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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The ability to process and respond to emotional facial expressions is a critical skill for healthy social and emotional development. There has been growing interest in understanding the neural circuitry underlying development of emotional processing, with previous research implicating functional connectivity between amygdala and frontal regions. However, existing work has focused on threatening emotional faces, raising questions regarding the extent to which these developmental patterns are specific to threat or to emotional face processing more broadly. In the current study, we examined age-related changes in brain activity and amygdala functional connectivity during an fMRI emotional face matching task (including angry, fearful, and happy faces) in 61 healthy subjects aged 7-25 years. We found age-related decreases in ventral medial prefrontal cortex activity in response to happy faces but not to angry or fearful faces, and an age-related change (shifting from positive to negative correlation) in amygdala-anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex (ACC/mPFC) functional connectivity to all emotional faces. Specifically, positive correlations between amygdala and ACC/mPFC in children changed to negative correlations in adults, which may suggest early emergence of bottom-up amygdala excitatory signaling to ACC/mPFC in children and later development of top-down inhibitory control of ACC/mPFC over amygdala in adults. Age-related changes in amygdala-ACC/mPFC connectivity did not vary for processing of different facial emotions, suggesting changes in amygdala-ACC/mPFC connectivity may underlie development of broad emotional processing, rather than threat-specific processing. Hum Brain Mapp 37:1684-1695, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Minjie Wu
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.,Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.,Department of Psychology, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.,Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.,Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Dymerska B, Poser BA, Bogner W, Visser E, Eckstein K, Cardoso P, Barth M, Trattnig S, Robinson SD. Correcting dynamic distortions in 7T echo planar imaging using a jittered echo time sequence. Magn Reson Med 2015; 76:1388-1399. [PMID: 26584148 PMCID: PMC5082535 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Revised: 09/24/2015] [Accepted: 09/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Purpose To develop a distortion correction method for echo planar imaging (EPI) that is able to measure dynamic changes in B0. Theory and Methods The approach we propose is based on single‐echo EPI with a jittering of the echo time between two values for alternate time points. Field maps are calculated between phase images from adjacent volumes and are used to remove distortion from corresponding magnitude images. The performance of our approach was optimized using an analytical model and by comparison with field maps from dual‐echo EPI. The method was tested in functional MRI experiments at 7T with motor tasks and compared with the conventional static approach. Results Unwarping using our method was accurate even for head rotations up to 8.2°, where the static approach introduced errors up to 8.2 mm. Jittering the echo time between 19 and 25 ms had no measurable effect on blood oxygenation level–dependent (BOLD) sensitivity. Our approach reduced the distortions in activated regions to <1 mm and repositioned active voxels correctly. Conclusion This method yields accurate distortion correction in the presence of motion. No reduction in BOLD sensitivity was observed. As such, it is suitable for application in a wide range of functional MRI experiments. Magn Reson Med 76:1388–1399, 2016. © 2015 The Authors Magnetic Resonance in Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- Barbara Dymerska
- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Faculty, of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- High Field MR Centre, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Máté A, Lidzba K, Hauser TK, Staudt M, Wilke M. A "one size fits all" approach to language fMRI: increasing specificity and applicability by adding a self-paced component. Exp Brain Res 2015; 234:673-84. [PMID: 26514810 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4473-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2015] [Accepted: 10/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We have previously established an fMRI task battery suitable for mapping the language processing network in children. Among the tasks used, the synonyms and the vowel identification task induced robust task-related activations in children with average language abilities; however, the fixed presentation time seems to be a drawback in participants with above- or below-average language abilities. This feasibility study in healthy adults (n = 20) was aimed at adapting these tasks to the individual level of each patient by implementing a self-paced stimulus presentation. The impact of using a block- versus an event-related statistical approach was also evaluated. The self-paced modification allowed our participants with above-average language abilities to process stimuli much faster than originally implemented, likely increasing task adherence. A higher specificity of the event-related analysis was confirmed by stronger left inferior frontal and crossed cerebellar activations. We suggest that self-paced paradigms and event-related analyses may both increase specificity and applicability.
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- Adrienn Máté
- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.,Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 1, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.,Experimental Pediatric Neuroimaging Group, Pediatric Neurology and Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 1, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.,Experimental Pediatric Neuroimaging Group, Pediatric Neurology and Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 1, 72076, Tübingen, Germany.,Clinic for Neuropediatrics and Neurorehabilitation, Epilepsy Center for Children and Adolescents, Schön Klinik, Vogtareuth, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 1, 72076, Tübingen, Germany. .,Experimental Pediatric Neuroimaging Group, Pediatric Neurology and Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany.
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Relationship between receptive vocabulary and the neural substrates for story processing in preschoolers. Brain Imaging Behav 2014; 9:43-55. [DOI: 10.1007/s11682-014-9342-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Hertz-Pannier L, Noulhiane M, Rodrigo S, Chiron C. Pretherapeutic functional magnetic resonance imaging in children. Neuroimaging Clin N Am 2014; 24:639-53. [PMID: 25441505 DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2014.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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In this article, some specificities of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in children (eg, blood-oxygen-level-dependent response and brain maturation, paradigm design, technical issues, feasibility, data analysis) are reviewed, the main knowledge on presurgical cortical mapping in children (motor, language, reading, memory) is summarized, and the emergence of resting state fMRI in presurgical cortical mapping is discussed.
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- Lucie Hertz-Pannier
- UMR 1129, INSERM, Paris Descartes University, CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; UNIACT/Neurospin, I2BM, DSV, CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France.
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- UMR 1129, INSERM, Paris Descartes University, CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; UNIACT/Neurospin, I2BM, DSV, CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- UMR 1129, INSERM, Paris Descartes University, CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; UNIACT/Neurospin, I2BM, DSV, CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France
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- UMR 1129, INSERM, Paris Descartes University, CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France; UNIACT/Neurospin, I2BM, DSV, CEA-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France
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Wilke M. Isolated assessment of translation or rotation severely underestimates the effects of subject motion in fMRI data. PLoS One 2014; 9:e106498. [PMID: 25333359 PMCID: PMC4204812 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2014] [Accepted: 08/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Subject motion has long since been known to be a major confound in functional MRI studies of the human brain. For resting-state functional MRI in particular, data corruption due to motion artefacts has been shown to be most relevant. However, despite 6 parameters (3 for translations and 3 for rotations) being required to fully describe the head's motion trajectory between timepoints, not all are routinely used to assess subject motion. Using structural (n = 964) as well as functional MRI (n = 200) data from public repositories, a series of experiments was performed to assess the impact of using a reduced parameter set (translationonly and rotationonly) versus using the complete parameter set. It could be shown that the usage of 65 mm as an indicator of the average cortical distance is a valid approximation in adults, although care must be taken when comparing children and adults using the same measure. The effect of using slightly smaller or larger values is minimal. Further, both translationonly and rotationonly severely underestimate the full extent of subject motion; consequently, both translationonly and rotationonly discard substantially fewer datapoints when used for quality control purposes (“motion scrubbing”). Finally, both translationonly and rotationonly severely underperform in predicting the full extent of the signal changes and the overall variance explained by motion in functional MRI data. These results suggest that a comprehensive measure, taking into account all available parameters, should be used to characterize subject motion in fMRI.
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- Marko Wilke
- Department of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Medicine, Children's Hospital, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Experimental Pediatric Neuroimaging group, Pediatric Neurology & Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany
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Graham AM, Pfeifer JH, Fisher PA, Lin W, Gao W, Fair DA. The potential of infant fMRI research and the study of early life stress as a promising exemplar. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2014; 12:12-39. [PMID: 25459874 PMCID: PMC4385461 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2014.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2014] [Revised: 09/24/2014] [Accepted: 09/29/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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fMRI research with infants and toddlers has increased rapidly over the past decade. Infant fMRI has provided unique insight into early functional brain development. Complex methodological challenges associated with infant fMRI warrant careful consideration and ongoing research. Infant fMRI has potential to contribute to multiple fields of study. The study of early life stress is a prime example of a field that is ripe to benefit from this technique.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research with infants and toddlers has increased rapidly over the past decade, and provided a unique window into early brain development. In the current report, we review the state of the literature, which has established the feasibility and utility of task-based fMRI and resting state functional connectivity MRI (rs-fcMRI) during early periods of brain maturation. These methodologies have been successfully applied beginning in the neonatal period to increase understanding of how the brain both responds to environmental stimuli, and becomes organized into large-scale functional systems that support complex behaviors. We discuss the methodological challenges posed by this promising area of research. We also highlight that despite these challenges, early work indicates a strong potential for these methods to influence multiple research domains. As an example, we focus on the study of early life stress and its influence on brain development and mental health outcomes. We illustrate the promise of these methodologies for building on, and making important contributions to, the existing literature in this field.
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- Alice M Graham
- Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239, United States.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, 1715 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, 1715 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403, United States
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- Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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- Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, 1715 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239, United States; Advanced Imaging Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239, United States
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Jacola LM, Byars AW, Hickey F, Vannest J, Holland SK, Schapiro MB. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of story listening in adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome: evidence for atypical neurodevelopment. JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH : JIDR 2014; 58:892-902. [PMID: 23962356 DOI: 10.1111/jir.12089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Previous studies have documented differences in neural activation during language processing in individuals with Down syndrome (DS) in comparison with typically developing individuals matched for chronological age. This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to compare activation during language processing in young adults with DS to typically developing comparison groups matched for chronological age or mental age. We hypothesised that the pattern of neural activation in the DS cohort would differ when compared with both typically developing cohorts. METHOD Eleven persons with DS (mean chronological age = 18.3; developmental age range = 4-6 years) and two groups of typically developing individuals matched for chronological (n = 13; mean age = 18.3 years) and developmental (mental) age (n = 12; chronological age range = 4-6 years) completed fMRI scanning during a passive story listening paradigm. Random effects group comparisons were conducted on individual maps of the contrast between activation (story listening) and rest (tone presentation) conditions. RESULTS Robust activation was seen in typically developing groups in regions associated with processing auditory information, including bilateral superior and middle temporal lobe gyri. In contrast, the DS cohort demonstrated atypical spatial distribution of activation in midline frontal and posterior cingulate regions when compared with both typically developing control groups. Random effects group analyses documented reduced magnitude of activation in the DS cohort when compared with both control groups. CONCLUSIONS Activation in the DS group differed significantly in magnitude and spatial extent when compared with chronological and mental age-matched typically developing control groups during a story listening task. Results provide additional support for an atypical pattern of functional organisation for language processing in this population.
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- L M Jacola
- Department of Psychology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
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Rajagopal A, Byars A, Schapiro M, Lee GR, Holland SK. Success rates for functional MR imaging in children. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2014; 35:2319-25. [PMID: 25082823 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a4062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Functional MR imaging is widely used for research in functional brain development in healthy children. However, obtaining high-quality brain imaging data from pediatric research participants requires cooperation that is challenging for young children. In this study, we examined success rates for fMRI in typically developing children in both longitudinal and cross-sectional research study designs to inform the recruitment needs of future pediatric brain imaging studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS In the cross-sectional study, 459 healthy children (5-18 years of age, 215 girls) were recruited. A subset of 30 healthy children 5-7 years of age from the cross-sectional cohort were selected and scanned for 10 consecutive years in the longitudinal arm of the study. Following anatomic scans, each participant attempted 4 functional MR imaging tasks. Success rate was defined as the proportion of fMRI tasks completed. Differences in success rates across sexes and in cross-sectional-versus-longitudinal cohorts were evaluated by using the Fischer exact test. RESULTS In the cross-sectional study, 74% of the children completed all tasks. Success rates for individual tasks ranged from 34% to 67% for children 5-7 years of age and 76%-100% for those 8-18 years of age. In the longitudinal study, 89% of children completed all tasks in all 10 years. We established significance (P < .0001) between the cross-sectional and longitudinal cohorts for both 0% and 100% task completion rates. There was no significance between sexes. CONCLUSIONS When designing pediatric fMRI studies in children, the sample sizes indicated by power analysis should be scaled up according to age (ie, 33% for ages 8-18 years, 50% for ages 5-7 years).
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- A Rajagopal
- From the Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium (A.R., G.R.L., S.K.H.), Department of Radiology
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- Department of Neurology (A.B., M.S.), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Neurology (A.B., M.S.), Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- From the Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium (A.R., G.R.L., S.K.H.), Department of Radiology
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- From the Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium (A.R., G.R.L., S.K.H.), Department of Radiology Departments of Radiology (S.K.H.) Pediatrics (S.K.H.) Otolaryngology (S.K.H.) Physics (S.K.H.) Neuroscience (S.K.H.) Biomedical Engineering (S.K.H.), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Horowitz-Kraus T, Vannest JJ, Gozdas E, Holland SK. Greater Utilization of Neural-Circuits Related to Executive Functions is Associated with Better Reading: A Longitudinal fMRI Study Using the Verb Generation Task. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:447. [PMID: 24999322 PMCID: PMC4064667 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2013] [Accepted: 06/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
INTRODUCTION Reading is an acquired-developmental ability that relies on intact language and executive function skills. Verbal fluency tasks (such as verb generation) also engage language and executive function skills. Performance of such tasks matures with normal language development, and is independent of reading proficiency. In this longitudinal fMRI study, we aim to examine the association between maturation of neural-circuits supporting both executive functions and language (assessed using verb generation) with reading proficiency achieved in adolescence with a focus on left-lateralization typical for language proficiency. METHODS Normalized fMRI data from the verb generation task was collected from 16 healthy children at ages 7, 11, and 17 years and was correlated with reading scores at 17 years of age. Lateralization indices were calculated in key language, reading, and executive function-related regions in all age groups. RESULTS Typical development was associated with (i) increasingly left-lateralized patterns in language regions (ii) more profound left-lateralized activation for reading and executive function-related regions when correlating with reading scores, (iii) greater involvement of frontal and parietal regions (in older children), and of the anterior frontal cortex (in younger children). CONCLUSION We suggest that reading and verb generation share mutual neural-circuits during development with major reliance on regions related to executive functions and reading. The results are discussed in the context of the dual-networks architecture model.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus
- Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
| | - Jennifer J. Vannest
- Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
| | - Elveda Gozdas
- Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
| | - Scott K. Holland
- Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation, Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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