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Compagne C, Mayer JT, Gabriel D, Comte A, Magnin E, Bennabi D, Tannou T. Adaptations of the balloon analog risk task for neuroimaging settings: a systematic review. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1237734. [PMID: 37790591 PMCID: PMC10544912 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1237734] [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: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Introduction The Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART), a computerized behavioral paradigm, is one of the most common tools used to assess the risk-taking propensity of an individual. Since its initial behavioral version, the BART has been adapted to neuroimaging technique to explore brain networks of risk-taking behavior. However, while there are a variety of paradigms adapted to neuroimaging to date, no consensus has been reached on the best paradigm with the appropriate parameters to study the brain during risk-taking assessed by the BART. In this review of the literature, we aimed to identify the most appropriate BART parameters to adapt the initial paradigm to neuroimaging and increase the reliability of this tool. Methods A systematic review focused on the BART versions adapted to neuroimaging was performed in accordance with PRISMA guidelines. Results A total of 105 articles with 6,879 subjects identified from the PubMed database met the inclusion criteria. The BART was adapted in four neuroimaging techniques, mostly in functional magnetic resonance imaging or electroencephalography settings. Discussion First, to adapt the BART to neuroimaging, a delay was included between each trial, the total number of inflations was reduced between 12 and 30 pumps, and the number of trials was increased between 80 and 100 balloons, enabling us to respect the recording constraints of neuroimaging. Second, explicit feedback about the balloon burst limited the decisions under ambiguity associated with the first trials. Third, employing an outcome index that provides more informative measures than the standard average pump score, along with a model incorporating an exponential monotonic increase in explosion probability and a maximum explosion probability between 50 and 75%, can yield a reliable estimation of risk profile. Additionally, enhancing participant motivation can be achieved by increasing the reward in line with the risk level and implementing payment based on their performance in the BART. Although there is no universal adaptation of the BART to neuroimaging, and depending on the objectives of a study, an adjustment of parameters optimizes its evaluation and clinical utility in assessing risk-taking.
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Affiliation(s)
- Charline Compagne
- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
- CIC-1431 INSERM, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Besançon, France
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- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
- Centre Département de Psychiatrie de l’Adulte, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Besançon, France
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- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
- CIC-1431 INSERM, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Besançon, France
- Plateforme de Neuroimagerie Fonctionnelle Neuraxess, Besançon, France
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- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
- Centre Département de Psychiatrie de l’Adulte, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Besançon, France
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- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
- CHU Département de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Besançon, France
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- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
- Centre Département de Psychiatrie de l’Adulte, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Besançon, France
- Centre Expert Dépression Résistante Fondamentale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Besançon, France
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- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
- Plateforme de Neuroimagerie Fonctionnelle Neuraxess, Besançon, France
- CIUSS Centre-Sud de l’Ile de Montréal, Centre de Recherche de l’Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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Compagne C, Gabriel D, Ferrero L, Magnin E, Tannou T. Tools for the Assessment of Risk-Taking Behavior in Older Adults with Mild Dementia: A Cross-Sectional Clinical Study. Brain Sci 2023; 13:967. [PMID: 37371445 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13060967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Diseases such as Alzheimer's cause an alteration of cognitive functions, which can lead to increased daily risk-taking in older adults living at home. The assessment of decision-making abilities is primarily based on clinicians' global analysis. Usual neuropsychological tests such as the MoCA (Montreal Cognitive Assessment) cover most of the cognitive domains and include mental flexibility tasks. Specific behavioral tasks for risk-taking, such as the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) or the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), have been developed to assess risk-taking behavior, particularly in the field of addictology. Our cross-sectional study aims to determine whether the MoCA global cognitive assessment could be used as a substitute for behavioral tasks in the assessment of risky behavior. In the current study, 24 patients (age: 82.1 ± 5.9) diagnosed with mild dementia completed the cognitive assessment (MoCA and executive function assessment) and two behavioral risk-taking tasks (BART, simplified version of the IGT). Results revealed no relationship between scores obtained in the MoCA and behavioral decision-making tasks. However, the two tasks assessing risk-taking behavior resulted in concordant risk profiles. In addition, patients with a high risk-taking behavior profile on the BART had better Trail Making Test (TMT) scores and thus retained mental flexibility. These findings suggest that MoCA scores are not representative of risk-taking behavioral inclinations. Thus, additional clinical tests should be used to assess risk-taking behavior in geriatric settings. Executive function measures, such as the TMT, and behavioral laboratory measures, such as the BART, are recommended for this purpose.
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- Charline Compagne
- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, 25 000 Besançon, France
- CIC-1431 INSERM, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, 25 000 Besançon, France
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- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, 25 000 Besançon, France
- CIC-1431 INSERM, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, 25 000 Besançon, France
- Plateforme de Neuroimagerie Fonctionnelle Neuraxess, 25 000 Besançon, France
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- CIC-1431 INSERM, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, 25 000 Besançon, France
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- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, 25 000 Besançon, France
- CHU Département de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, 25 000 Besançon, France
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- UR LINC, Université de Franche-Comté, 25 000 Besançon, France
- Plateforme de Neuroimagerie Fonctionnelle Neuraxess, 25 000 Besançon, France
- CIUSS Centre-Sud de l'Ile-de-Montréal, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3W 1W5, Canada
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Zhao Z, Gobrogge K. Neurodevelopmental Model Explaining Associations between Sex Hormones, Personality, and Eating Pathology. Brain Sci 2023; 13:859. [PMID: 37371339 PMCID: PMC10296733 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13060859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2023] [Revised: 05/22/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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Clinical scientists have been investigating the relationships between sex hormones, personality, and eating disorders for decades. However, there is a lack of direct research that addresses whether personality mediates or moderates the relationships between sex hormones and eating pathology. Moreover, the neural mechanisms that underlie the interactive associations between these variables remain unclear. This review aims to summarize the associations between these constructs, describe a neural mechanism mediating these relationships, and offer clinical strategies for the early identification and intervention of eating disorders. The gathered evidence shows that aggressiveness, impulsivity, and obsessive-compulsiveness may mediate or moderate the relationships between sex hormones and eating pathology, but only among females. Furthermore, sex hormone receptor density in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine pathway may explain the neural mechanism of these associations. Future research should use more comprehensive personality measurements and assess the mediation and moderation effects of temperament while taking the hormone levels of women across menstrual cycles into account. Additionally, electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging should be implemented to directly assess brain activity and corroborate these findings.
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- Ziyu Zhao
- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA;
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA;
- Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience, College of Art & Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Gentili C, Di Rosa E, Podina I, Popita R, Voinescu B, David D. Resting state predicts neural activity during reward-guided decision making: An fMRI study on Balloon Analogue Risk Task. Behav Brain Res 2022; 417:113616. [PMID: 34606774 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113616] [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: 01/04/2021] [Revised: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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In our previous work [8], we have shown that resting state (RS) functional connectivity metrics are significantly related with behavioural performance at Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). In the present study we investigated the hypothesis of an association between RS metrics and neural activity evoked by BART execution. A group-level whole-brain regression was run to assess whether RS metrics predict brain activation during the BART, in a sample of 35 young healthy adults (mean age 23 ± 2 years, 25 F). Results complete the previous findings showing that RS is also significantly associated with the neural activity during BART execution. Specifically, ALFF is positively associated with the activity of both the right inferior parietal lobule and the left caudate. These new results are coherent with previous evidence indicating RS abnormalities in clinical conditions characterised by symptoms of impulse control disorders, and further suggest that RS might be a stable predictor of both behavioural indices and neural correlates of impulsivity and of reward-guided decision-making.
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- Claudio Gentili
- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; School of Psychology, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Radiology, The Oncology Institute "Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta" (IOCN), Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Centre for Academic Mental Health, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Department of Oncological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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Ji S, Ma H, Yao M, Guo M, Li S, Chen N, Liu X, Shao X, Yao Z, Hu B. Aberrant Temporal Variability in Brain Regions during Risk Decision Making in Patients with Bipolar I Disorder: A Dynamic Effective Connectivity Study. Neuroscience 2021; 469:68-78. [PMID: 34153355 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2021.06.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Revised: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/16/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Bipolar I disorder (BD-I) is associated with high-risk behaviors, such as suicide attempts and addictive substance abuse. Understanding brain activity exposure to risk decision making provides evidence for the treatment of BD-I patients. This study aimed to investigate the temporal dynamics of brain connectivity underlying risk decision making in patients with BD-I. A total of 101 subjects (48 BD-I patients and 53 age- and gender-matched healthy controls (HCs)) were included in this research. We analyzed the fMRI data acquired during Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART) performance. Voxel-wise dynamic effective connectivity (dEC) was employed to measure the activities in 264 brain regions. The coefficient of variation (CV) was calculated as temporal dynamics of brain connectivity. Finally, we used structural equation modeling (SEM) to determine the relationships of dEC in brain regions with clinical symptoms, behavior performances in patients. Results showed that BD-I patients exhibited increased dynamics in four lobes and exhibited decreased in three frontal regions. Besides, SEM results showed that the impulsive symptoms of patients were affected by the dEC during both resting and task states. Moreover, the dEC of left supramarginal gyrus (SMG) influenced those of left orbital frontal and right cuneus (CUN), as well as the affective symptoms and BART behaviors in patients with BD-I. Our results suggested that the altered temporal dynamics of brain connectivity might contribute to the impulsivity of BD-I during resting and task states. More importantly, the left SMG might be a therapeutic target to reduce the risk behavior in BD-I patients.
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- Shanling Ji
- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China
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- School of Clinical Medicine, Jining Medical University, Jining, Shandong Province, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Jining Psychiatric Hospital, Jining, Shandong Province, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China.
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China; School of Computer Science, Qinghai Normal University, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Joint Research Center for Cognitive Neurosensor Technology of Lanzhou University & Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Engineering Research Center of Open Source Software and Real-Time System (Lanzhou University), Ministry of Education, Lanzhou, China.
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Neufang S, Akhrif A. Regional Hurst Exponent Reflects Impulsivity-Related Alterations in Fronto-Hippocampal Pathways Within the Waiting Impulsivity Network. Front Physiol 2020; 11:827. [PMID: 32765298 PMCID: PMC7381286 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00827] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
Abstract
In general, the Hurst exponent. is used as a measure of long-term memory of time series. In previous neuroimaging studies, H has been introduced as one important parameter to define resting-state networks, reflecting upon global scale-free properties emerging from a network. H has been examined in the waiting impulsivity (WI) network in an earlier study. We found that alterations of H in the anterior cingulate cortex (HACC) and the nucleus accumbens (HNAcc) were lower in high impulsive (highIMP) compared to low impulsive (lowIMP) participants. Following up on those findings, we addressed the relation between altered fractality in HACC and HNAcc and brain activation and neural network connectivity. To do so, brain activation maps were calculated, and network connectivity was determined using the Dynamic Causal Modeling (DCM) approach. Finally, 1–H scores were determined to quantify the alterations of H. This way, the focus of the analyses was placed on the potential effects of alterations of H on neural network activation and connectivity. Correlation analyses between the alterations of HACC/HNAcc and activation maps and DCM estimates were performed. We found that the alterations of H predominantly correlated with fronto-hippocampal pathways and correlations were significant only in highIMP subjects. For example, alterations of HACC was associated with a decrease in neural activation in the right HC in combination with increased ACC-hippocampal connectivity. Alteration inHNAcc, in return, was related to an increase in bilateral prefrontal activation in combination with increased fronto-hippocampal connectivity. The findings, that the WI network was related to H alteration in highIMP subjects indicated that impulse control was not reduced per se but lacked consistency. Additionally, H has been used to describe long-term memory processes before, e.g., in capital markets, energy future prices, and human memory. Thus, current findings supported the relation of H toward memory processing even when further prominent cognitive functions were involved.
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- Susanne Neufang
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.,Comparative Psychology, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Comparative Psychology, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.,Center of Mental Health, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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Yang H, Di X, Gong Q, Sweeney J, Biswal B. Investigating inhibition deficit in schizophrenia using task-modulated brain networks. Brain Struct Funct 2020; 225:1601-1613. [DOI: 10.1007/s00429-020-02078-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Accepted: 04/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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