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Schienle A, Wabnegger A. Structural neuroimaging of skin-picking disorder. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2024; 133:111024. [PMID: 38705507 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2024.111024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2024] [Revised: 04/29/2024] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024]
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BACKGROUND Skin-picking disorder (SPD) is conceptualized as an obsessive-compulsive and related disorder (OCRD). Patients with SPD excessively manipulate their skin, which leads to skin lesions, psychological distress, and functional impairment. The neuroanatomical facets of this disorder are still poorly understood. METHODS A total of 220 participants (123 patients with a primary diagnosis of SPD and 97 healthy controls; mean age = 30 years, 80% female) were recruited for a voxel-based morphometry (VBM) study. VBM data were compared between patients and controls, and between three SPD subgroups, each characterized by a distinct age of symptom onset (before puberty, during puberty, adulthood). RESULTS Relative to the healthy comparison group, patients with SPD had significantly less grey matter volume (GMV) in regions of interest (ROIs: insula, orbitofrontal cortex, pallidum, cerebellum, supramarginal gyrus) and in the frontal pole and occipital regions (whole-brain findings). Early onset of symptoms (before puberty) was associated with elevated levels of focused skin-picking, in addition to less GMV in specific ROIs (insula, orbitofrontal cortex) as well as in paracingulate/ superior temporal regions (whole-brain findings). CONCLUSIONS SPD-related reductions in GMV were identified in brain regions involved in interoception, emotion regulation, and motor control. This partially aligns with findings for OCD. The detection of different age-of-onset groups based on clinical as well as morphometric data points to the heterogeneity of the disorder and warrants further investigation.
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- Anne Schienle
- Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, BioTechMed Graz, Austria.
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- Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, BioTechMed Graz, Austria
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Chen YCB, Lin HY, Wang LJ, Hung KC, Brunoni AR, Chou PH, Tseng PT, Liang CS, Tu YK, Lin PY, Carvalho AF, Hsu CW, Ni HC. A network meta-analysis of non-invasive brain stimulation interventions for autism spectrum disorder: Evidence from randomized controlled trials. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 164:105807. [PMID: 38981573 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105807] [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: 04/13/2024] [Revised: 07/03/2024] [Accepted: 07/05/2024] [Indexed: 07/11/2024]
Abstract
The efficacy and acceptability of various non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) interventions for autism spectrum disorder remain unclear. We carried out a systematic review for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) regarding NIBS for reducing autistic symptoms (INPLASY202370003). Sixteen articles (N = 709) met the inclusion criteria for network meta-analysis. Effect sizes were reported as standardized mean differences (SMDs) or odds ratios with 95 % confidence intervals (CIs). Fourteen active NIBS interventions, including transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, and transcranial pulse stimulation were analyzed. Only anodal tDCS over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex paired with cathodal tDCS over an extracephalic location (atDCS_F3 + ctDCS_E) significantly improved autistic symptoms compared to sham controls (SMD = - 1.40, 95 %CIs = - 2.67 to - 0.14). None of the NIBS interventions markedly improved social-communication symptoms or restricted/repetitive behaviors in autistic participants. Moreover, no active NIBS interventions exhibited significant dropout rate differences compared to sham controls, and no serious adverse events were reported for any intervention.
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- Yang-Chieh Brian Chen
- Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Service of Interdisciplinary Neuromodulation, National Institute of Biomarkers in Psychiatry, Laboratory of Neurosciences (LIM-27), Departamentoe Instituto de Psiquiatria, Faculdade de Medicina da University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Departamento de Ciências Médicas, Faculdade de Medicina da University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Dr. Chou's Mental Health Clinic, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Prospect Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology & Neurology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Psychology, College of Medical and Health Science, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan; Institute of Precision Medicine, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beitou Branch, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Psychiatry, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Health Data Analytics & Statistics, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Dentistry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Innovation in Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Treatment (IMPACT) Strategic Research Centre, School of Medicine, Barwon Health, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan; College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
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Liloia D, Zamfira DA, Tanaka M, Manuello J, Crocetta A, Keller R, Cozzolino M, Duca S, Cauda F, Costa T. Disentangling the role of gray matter volume and concentration in autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analytic investigation of 25 years of voxel-based morphometry research. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 164:105791. [PMID: 38960075 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105791] [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: 10/26/2023] [Revised: 05/22/2024] [Accepted: 06/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/05/2024]
Abstract
Despite over two decades of neuroimaging research, a unanimous definition of the pattern of structural variation associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has yet to be found. One potential impeding issue could be the sometimes ambiguous use of measurements of variations in gray matter volume (GMV) or gray matter concentration (GMC). In fact, while both can be calculated using voxel-based morphometry analysis, these may reflect different underlying pathological mechanisms. We conducted a coordinate-based meta-analysis, keeping apart GMV and GMC studies of subjects with ASD. Results showed distinct and non-overlapping patterns for the two measures. GMV decreases were evident in the cerebellum, while GMC decreases were mainly found in the temporal and frontal regions. GMV increases were found in the parietal, temporal, and frontal brain regions, while GMC increases were observed in the anterior cingulate cortex and middle frontal gyrus. Age-stratified analyses suggested that such variations are dynamic across the ASD lifespan. The present findings emphasize the importance of considering GMV and GMC as distinct yet synergistic indices in autism research.
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- Donato Liloia
- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems (FOCUS) Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- School of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- HUN-REN-SZTE Neuroscience Research Group, Hungarian Research Network, University of Szeged (HUN-REN-SZTE), Danube Neuroscience Research Laboratory, Szeged, Hungary
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- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems (FOCUS) Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
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- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems (FOCUS) Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Adult Autism Center, DSM Local Health Unit, ASL TO, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Humanities, Philosophical and Educational Sciences, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
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- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems (FOCUS) Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems (FOCUS) Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Neuroscience Institute of Turin (NIT), Turin, Italy
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- GCS-fMRI, Koelliker Hospital and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems (FOCUS) Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Neuroscience Institute of Turin (NIT), Turin, Italy
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Zhao S, Lv Q, Zhang G, Zhang J, Wang H, Zhang J, Wang M, Wang Z. Quantitative Expression of Latent Disease Factors in Individuals Associated with Psychopathology Dimensions and Treatment Response. Neurosci Bull 2024:10.1007/s12264-024-01224-z. [PMID: 38842612 DOI: 10.1007/s12264-024-01224-z] [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: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024] Open
Abstract
Psychiatric comorbidity is common in symptom-based diagnoses like autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention/deficit hyper-activity disorder (ADHD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, these co-occurring symptoms mediated by shared and/or distinct neural mechanisms are difficult to profile at the individual level. Capitalizing on unsupervised machine learning with a hierarchical Bayesian framework, we derived latent disease factors from resting-state functional connectivity data in a hybrid cohort of ASD and ADHD and delineated individual associations with dimensional symptoms based on canonical correlation analysis. Models based on the same factors generalized to previously unseen individuals in a subclinical cohort and one local OCD database with a subset of patients undergoing neurosurgical intervention. Four factors, identified as variably co-expressed in each patient, were significantly correlated with distinct symptom domains (r = -0.26-0.53, P < 0.05): behavioral regulation (Factor-1), communication (Factor-2), anxiety (Factor-3), adaptive behaviors (Factor-4). Moreover, we demonstrated Factor-1 expressed in patients with OCD and Factor-3 expressed in participants with anxiety, at the degree to which factor expression was significantly predictive of individual symptom scores (r = 0.18-0.5, P < 0.01). Importantly, peri-intervention changes in Factor-1 of OCD were associated with variable treatment outcomes (r = 0.39, P < 0.05). Our results indicate that these data-derived latent disease factors quantify individual factor expression to inform dimensional symptom and treatment outcomes across cohorts, which may promote quantitative psychiatric diagnosis and personalized intervention.
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- Shaoling Zhao
- Institute of Neuroscience, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health; IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Henan Provincial People's Hospital & the People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450003, China
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- Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province (Zhejiang Mental Health Center), Zhejiang Office of Mental Health, Hangzhou, 310012, China
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- Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province (Zhejiang Mental Health Center), Zhejiang Office of Mental Health, Hangzhou, 310012, China
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- Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Province (Zhejiang Mental Health Center), Zhejiang Office of Mental Health, Hangzhou, 310012, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Henan Provincial People's Hospital & the People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450003, China.
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- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health; IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research; Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
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Hensel L, Lüdtke J, Brouzou KO, Eickhoff SB, Kamp D, Schilbach L. Noninvasive brain stimulation in autism: review and outlook for personalized interventions in adult patients. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:8-18. [PMID: 38696602 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Revised: 02/13/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 05/04/2024] Open
Abstract
Noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) has been increasingly investigated during the last decade as a treatment option for persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Yet, previous studies did not reach a consensus on a superior treatment protocol or stimulation target. Persons with ASD often suffer from social isolation and high rates of unemployment, arising from difficulties in social interaction. ASD involves multiple neural systems involved in perception, language, and cognition, and the underlying brain networks of these functional domains have been well documented. Aiming to provide an overview of NIBS effects when targeting these neural systems in late adolescent and adult ASD, we conducted a systematic search of the literature starting at 631 non-duplicate publications, leading to six studies corresponding with inclusion and exclusion criteria. We discuss these studies regarding their treatment rationale and the accordingly chosen methodological setup. The results of these studies vary, while methodological advances may allow to explain some of the variability. Based on these insights, we discuss strategies for future clinical trials to personalize the selection of brain stimulation targets taking into account intersubject variability of brain anatomy as well as function.
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- Lukas Hensel
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Department of General Psychiatry 2, LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstraße 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Department of General Psychiatry 2, LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstraße 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Department of General Psychiatry 2, LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstraße 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße 1, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Department of General Psychiatry 2, LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstraße 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of General Psychiatry 2, LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstraße 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Nußbaumstraße 7, 80336 Munich, Germany
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Chen L, Du B, Li K, Li K, Hou T, Jia F, Li L. The effect of tDCS on inhibitory control and its transfer effect on sustained attention in children with autism spectrum disorder: An fNIRS study. Brain Stimul 2024; 17:594-606. [PMID: 38697468 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2024.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2024] [Revised: 04/20/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have inhibitory control deficits. The combination of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and inhibitory control training produces good transfer effects and improves neuroplasticity. However, no studies have explored whether applying tDCS over the dlPFC improves inhibitory control and produces transfer effects in children with ASD. OBJECTIVE To explore whether multisession tDCS could enhance inhibitory control training (response inhibition), near-transfer (interference control) and far-transfer effects (sustained attention; stability of attention) in children with ASD and the generalizability of training effects in daily life and the class, as reflected by behavioral performance and neural activity measured by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). METHODS Twenty-eight autistic children were randomly assigned to either the true or sham tDCS group. The experimental group received bifrontal tDCS stimulation at 1.5 mA, administered for 15 min daily across eight consecutive days. tDCS was delivered during a computerized Go/No-go training task. Behavioral performance in terms of inhibitory control (Dog/Monkey and Day/Night Stroop tasks), sustained attention (Continuous Performance and Cancellation tests), prefrontal cortex (PFC) neural activity and inhibitory control and sustained attention in the class and at home were evaluated. RESULTS Training (response inhibition) and transfer effects (interference control; sustained attention) were significantly greater after receiving tDCS during the Go/No-go training task than after receiving sham tDCS. Changes in oxyhemoglobin (HbO) concentrations in the dlPFC and FPA associated with consistent conditions in the Day/Night Stroop and Continuous Performance test were observed after applying tDCS during the inhibitory control training task. Notably, transfer effects can be generalized to classroom environments. CONCLUSION Inhibitory control training combined with tDCS may be a promising, safe, and effective method for improving inhibitory control and sustained attention in children with ASD.
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- Liu Chen
- School of Education and Psychology, University of Jinan, 250022, Jinan, China
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- School of Education and Psychology, University of Jinan, 250022, Jinan, China
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- School of Education and Psychology, University of Jinan, 250022, Jinan, China
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- School of Education and Psychology, University of Jinan, 250022, Jinan, China.
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- School of Education and Psychology, University of Jinan, 250022, Jinan, China
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- School of Education and Psychology, University of Jinan, 250022, Jinan, China
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- BoShan Special Education Center School, 255299, Zibo, China
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Guo Z, Tang X, Xiao S, Yan H, Sun S, Yang Z, Huang L, Chen Z, Wang Y. Systematic review and meta-analysis: multimodal functional and anatomical neural alterations in autism spectrum disorder. Mol Autism 2024; 15:16. [PMID: 38576034 PMCID: PMC10996269 DOI: 10.1186/s13229-024-00593-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 04/06/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND This meta-analysis aimed to explore the most robust findings across numerous existing resting-state functional imaging and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies on the functional and structural brain alterations in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). METHODS A whole-brain voxel-wise meta-analysis was conducted to compare the differences in the intrinsic functional activity and gray matter volume (GMV) between individuals with ASD and typically developing individuals (TDs) using Seed-based d Mapping software. RESULTS A total of 23 functional imaging studies (786 ASD, 710 TDs) and 52 VBM studies (1728 ASD, 1747 TDs) were included. Compared with TDs, individuals with ASD displayed resting-state functional decreases in the left insula (extending to left superior temporal gyrus [STG]), bilateral anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex (ACC/mPFC), left angular gyrus and right inferior temporal gyrus, as well as increases in the right supplementary motor area and precuneus. For VBM meta-analysis, individuals with ASD displayed decreased GMV in the ACC/mPFC and left cerebellum, and increased GMV in the left middle temporal gyrus (extending to the left insula and STG), bilateral olfactory cortex, and right precentral gyrus. Further, individuals with ASD displayed decreased resting-state functional activity and increased GMV in the left insula after overlapping the functional and structural differences. CONCLUSIONS The present multimodal meta-analysis demonstrated that ASD exhibited similar alterations in both function and structure of the insula and ACC/mPFC, and functional or structural alterations in the default mode network (DMN), primary motor and sensory regions. These findings contribute to further understanding of the pathophysiology of ASD.
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- Zixuan Guo
- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
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Jenkinson PM, Rossell SL. Disturbed interoception in body dysmorphic disorder: A framework for future research. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2024; 58:300-307. [PMID: 38054446 DOI: 10.1177/00048674231215030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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Body dysmorphic disorder is a severe psychiatric condition characterised by a preoccupation with a perceived appearance flaw or flaws that are typically not observable to others. Although significant advances in understanding the disorder have been made in the past decade, current explanations focus on cognitive, behavioural and visual perceptual disturbances that contribute to the disorder. Such a focus does not consider how perception of the internal body or interoception may be involved, despite (1) clinical observations of disturbed perception of the body in body dysmorphic disorder and (2) disturbed interoception being increasingly recognised as a transdiagnostic factor underlying a wide range of psychopathologies. In this paper, we use an existing model of hierarchical brain function and neural (predictive) processing to propose that body dysmorphic disorder involves defective interoception, with perceived appearance flaws being the result of 'interoceptive prediction errors' that cause body parts to be experienced as 'not just right'. We aim to provide a framework for interoceptive research into body dysmorphic disorder, and outline areas for future research.
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- Paul M Jenkinson
- Institute for Social Neuroscience (ISN) Psychology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Araújo A, Duarte IC, Sousa T, Oliveira J, Pereira AT, Macedo A, Castelo-Branco M. Neural inhibition as implemented by an actor-critic model involves the human dorsal striatum and ventral tegmental area. Sci Rep 2024; 14:6363. [PMID: 38493169 PMCID: PMC10944470 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-56161-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024] Open
Abstract
Inhibition is implicated across virtually all human experiences. As a trade-off of being very efficient, this executive function is also prone to many errors. Rodent and computational studies show that midbrain regions play crucial roles during errors by sending dopaminergic learning signals to the basal ganglia for behavioural adjustment. However, the parallels between animal and human neural anatomy and function are not determined. We scanned human adults while they performed an fMRI inhibitory task requiring trial-and-error learning. Guided by an actor-critic model, our results implicate the dorsal striatum and the ventral tegmental area as the actor and the critic, respectively. Using a multilevel and dimensional approach, we also demonstrate a link between midbrain and striatum circuit activity, inhibitory performance, and self-reported autistic and obsessive-compulsive subclinical traits.
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- Ana Araújo
- Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Department of Psychiatry, Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Institute of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Department of Psychiatry, Coimbra Hospital and University Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
- Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
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Yeh CH, Lin PC, Tseng RY, Chao YP, Wu CT, Chou TL, Chen RS, Gau SSF, Ni HC, Lin HY. Lack of effects of eight-week left dorsolateral prefrontal theta burst stimulation on white matter macro/microstructure and connection in autism. Brain Imaging Behav 2024:10.1007/s11682-024-00874-x. [PMID: 38492129 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-024-00874-x] [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] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024]
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Whether brain stimulation could modulate brain structure in autism remains unknown. This study explored the impact of continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) on white matter macro/microstructure in intellectually able children and emerging adults with autism. Sixty autistic participants were randomized (30 active) and received active or sham cTBS for eight weeks twice per week, 16 total sessions using a double-blind (participant-, rater-, analyst-blinded) design. All participants received high-angular resolution diffusion MR imaging at baseline and week 8. Twenty-eight participants in the active group and twenty-seven in the sham group with good imaging quality entered the final analysis. With longitudinal fixel-based analysis and network-based statistics, we found no significant difference between the active and sham groups in changes of white matter macro/microstructure and connections following cTBS. In addition, we found no association between baseline white matter macro/microstructure and autistic symptom changes from baseline to week 8 in the active group. In conclusion, we did not find a significant impact of left DLPFC cTBS on white matter macro/microstructure and connections in children and emerging adults with autism. These findings need to be interpreted in the context that the current intellectually able cohort in a single university hospital site limits the generalizability. Future studies are required to investigate if higher stimulation intensities and/or doses, other personal factors, or rTMS parameters might confer significant brain structural changes visible on MRI in ASD.
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- Chun-Hung Yeh
- Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, No.5 Fusing St. Gueishan, Taoyuan, 333, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, No.5 Fusing St. Gueishan, Taoyuan, 333, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Deparment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Neurobiology and Cognitive Science Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, No.5 Fusing St. Gueishan, Taoyuan, 333, Taiwan.
- College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
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- Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Zheng H, Zhai T, Lin X, Dong G, Yang Y, Yuan TF. The resting-state brain activity signatures for addictive disorders. MED 2024; 5:201-223.e6. [PMID: 38359839 PMCID: PMC10939772 DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2024.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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BACKGROUND Addiction is a chronic and relapsing brain disorder. Despite numerous neuroimaging and neurophysiological studies on individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) or behavioral addiction (BEA), currently a clear neural activity signature for the addicted brain is lacking. METHODS We first performed systemic coordinate-based meta-analysis and partial least-squares regression to identify shared or distinct brain regions across multiple addictive disorders, with abnormal resting-state activity in SUD and BEA based on 46 studies (55 contrasts), including regional homogeneity (ReHo) and low-frequency fluctuation amplitude (ALFF) or fractional ALFF. We then combined Neurosynth, postmortem gene expression, and receptor/transporter distribution data to uncover the potential molecular mechanisms underlying these neural activity signatures. FINDINGS The overall comparison between addiction cohorts and healthy subjects indicated significantly increased ReHo and ALFF in the right striatum (putamen) and bilateral supplementary motor area, as well as decreased ReHo and ALFF in the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex and ventral medial prefrontal cortex, in the addiction group. On the other hand, neural activity in cingulate cortex, ventral medial prefrontal cortex, and orbitofrontal cortex differed between SUD and BEA subjects. Using molecular analyses, the altered resting activity recapitulated the spatial distribution of dopaminergic, GABAergic, and acetylcholine system in SUD, while this also includes the serotonergic system in BEA. CONCLUSIONS These results indicate both common and distinctive neural substrates underlying SUD and BEA, which validates and supports targeted neuromodulation against addiction. FUNDING This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health.
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- Hui Zheng
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Brain Health Institute, National Center for Mental Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China; Co-Innovation Center of Neuroregeneration, Nantong University, Nantong, China
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- Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital, Peking University Institute of Mental Health, NHC Key Laboratory of Mental Health (Peking University), National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders (Peking University Sixth Hospital), Beijing 100191, China
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- Department of Psychology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, China
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- Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Brain Health Institute, National Center for Mental Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200030, China; Co-Innovation Center of Neuroregeneration, Nantong University, Nantong, China; Institute of Mental Health and Drug Discovery, Oujiang Laboratory (Zhejiang Lab for Regenerative Medicine, Vision and Brain Health), Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325000, China.
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You W, Li Q, Chen L, He N, Li Y, Long F, Wang Y, Chen Y, McNamara RK, Sweeney JA, DelBello MP, Gong Q, Li F. Common and distinct cortical thickness alterations in youth with autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. BMC Med 2024; 22:92. [PMID: 38433204 PMCID: PMC10910790 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-024-03313-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are neurodevelopmental disorders with overlapping behavioral features and genetic etiology. While brain cortical thickness (CTh) alterations have been reported in ASD and ADHD separately, the degree to which ASD and ADHD are associated with common and distinct patterns of CTh changes is unclear. METHODS We searched PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Science Direct from inception to 8 December 2023 and included studies of cortical thickness comparing youth (age less than 18) with ASD or ADHD with typically developing controls (TDC). We conducted a comparative meta-analysis of vertex-based studies to identify common and distinct CTh alterations in ASD and ADHD. RESULTS Twelve ASD datasets involving 458 individuals with ASD and 10 ADHD datasets involving 383 individuals with ADHD were included in the analysis. Compared to TDC, ASD showed increased CTh in bilateral superior frontal gyrus, left middle temporal gyrus, and right superior parietal lobule (SPL) and decreased CTh in right temporoparietal junction (TPJ). ADHD showed decreased CTh in bilateral precentral gyri, right postcentral gyrus, and right TPJ relative to TDC. Conjunction analysis showed both disorders shared reduced TPJ CTh located in default mode network (DMN). Comparative analyses indicated ASD had greater CTh in right SPL and TPJ located in dorsal attention network and thinner CTh in right TPJ located in ventral attention network than ADHD. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest shared thinner TPJ located in DMN is an overlapping neurobiological feature of ASD and ADHD. This alteration together with SPL alterations might be related to altered biological motion processing in ASD, while abnormalities in sensorimotor systems may contribute to behavioral control problems in ADHD. The disorder-specific thinner TPJ located in disparate attention networks provides novel insight into distinct symptoms of attentional deficits associated with the two neurodevelopmental disorders. TRIAL REGISTRATION PROSPERO CRD42022370620. Registered on November 9, 2022.
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- Wanfang You
- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
- Department of Radiology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, 310016, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45219, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45219, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45219, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China.
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People's Republic of China.
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Tang X, Guo Z, Chen G, Sun S, Xiao S, Chen P, Tang G, Huang L, Wang Y. A Multimodal Meta-Analytical Evidence of Functional and Structural Brain Abnormalities Across Alzheimer's Disease Spectrum. Ageing Res Rev 2024; 95:102240. [PMID: 38395200 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2024.102240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 02/18/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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BACKGROUND Numerous neuroimaging studies have reported that Alzheimer's disease (AD) spectrum have been linked to alterations in intrinsic functional activity and cortical thickness (CT) of some brain areas. However, the findings have been inconsistent and the correlation with the transcriptional profile and neurotransmitter systems remain largely unknown. METHODS We conducted a meta-analysis to identify multimodal differences in the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF)/fractional ALFF (fALFF) and CT in patients with AD and preclinical AD compared to healthy controls (HCs), using the Seed-based d Mapping with Permutation of Subject Images software. Transcriptional data were retrieved from the Allen Human Brain Atlas. The atlas-based nuclear imaging-derived neurotransmitter maps were investigated by JuSpace toolbox. RESULTS We included 26 ALFF/fALFF studies comprising 884 patients with AD and 1,020 controls, along with 52 studies comprising 2,046 patients with preclinical AD and 2,336 controls. For CT, we included 11 studies comprising 353 patients with AD and 330 controls. Overall, compared to HCs, patients with AD showed decreased ALFF/fALFF in the bilateral posterior cingulate gyrus (PCC)/precuneus and right angular gyrus, as well as increased ALFF/fALFF in the bilateral parahippocampal gyrus (PHG). Patients with peclinical AD showed decreased ALFF/fALFF in the left precuneus. Additionally, patients with AD displayed decreased CT in the bilateral PHG, left PCC, bilateral orbitofrontal cortex, sensorimotor areas and temporal lobe. Furthermore, gene sets related to brain structural and functional changes in AD and preclincal AD were enriched for G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway, ion gated channel activity, and components of biological membrane. Functional and structural alterations in AD and preclinical AD were spatially associated with dopaminergic, serotonergic, and GABAergic neurotransmitter systems. CONCLUSIONS The multimodal meta-analysis demonstrated that patients with AD exhibited convergent functional and structural alterations in the PCC/precuneus and PHG, as well as cortical thinning in the primary sensory and motor areas. Furthermore, patients with preclinical AD showed reduced functional activity in the precuneus. AD and preclinical AD showed genetic modulations/neurotransmitter deficits of brain functional and structural impairments. These findings may provide new insights into the pathophysiology of the AD spectrum.
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- Xinyue Tang
- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China.
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Yang Z, Xiao S, Su T, Gong J, Qi Z, Chen G, Chen P, Tang G, Fu S, Yan H, Huang L, Wang Y. A multimodal meta-analysis of regional functional and structural brain abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2024; 274:165-180. [PMID: 37000246 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-023-01594-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2023] [Indexed: 04/01/2023]
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Numerous neuroimaging studies of resting-state functional imaging and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) have revealed abnormalities in specific brain regions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but results have been inconsistent. We conducted a whole-brain voxel-wise meta-analysis on resting-state functional imaging and VBM studies that investigated differences of functional activity and gray matter volume (GMV) between patients with OCD and healthy controls (HCs) using seed-based d mapping (SDM) software. A total of 41 independent studies (51 datasets) for resting-state functional imaging and 42 studies (46 datasets) for VBM were included by a systematic literature search. Overall, patients with OCD displayed increased spontaneous functional activity in the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) (extending to the bilateral insula) and bilateral medial prefrontal cortex/anterior cingulate cortex (mPFC/ACC), as well as decreased spontaneous functional activity in the bilateral paracentral lobule, bilateral cerebellum, left caudate nucleus, left inferior parietal gyri, and right precuneus cortex. For the VBM meta-analysis, patients with OCD displayed increased GMV in the bilateral thalamus (extending to the bilateral cerebellum), right striatum, and decreased GMV in the bilateral mPFC/ACC and left IFG (extending to the left insula). The conjunction analyses found that the bilateral mPFC/ACC, left IFG (extending to the left insula) showed decreased GMV with increased intrinsic function in OCD patients compared to HCs. This meta-analysis demonstrated that OCD exhibits abnormalities in both function and structure in the bilateral mPFC/ACC, insula, and IFG. A few regions exhibited only functional or only structural abnormalities in OCD, such as the default mode network, striatum, sensorimotor areas, and cerebellum. It may provide useful insights for understanding the underlying pathophysiology of OCD and developing more targeted and efficacious treatment and intervention strategies.
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- Zibin Yang
- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Department of Radiology, Six Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510655, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China.
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China.
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Mei T, Llera A, Forde NJ, van Rooij D, Floris DL, Beckmann CF, Buitelaar JK. Gray matter covariations in autism: out-of-sample replication using the ENIGMA autism cohort. Mol Autism 2024; 15:3. [PMID: 38229192 PMCID: PMC10792893 DOI: 10.1186/s13229-024-00583-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Autism spectrum disorder (henceforth autism) is a complex neurodevelopmental condition associated with differences in gray matter (GM) volume covariations, as reported in our previous study of the Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP) data. To make progress on the identification of potential neural markers and to validate the robustness of our previous findings, we aimed to replicate our results using data from the Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics Through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) autism working group. METHODS We studied 781 autistic and 927 non-autistic individuals (6-30 years, IQ ≥ 50), across 37 sites. Voxel-based morphometry was used to quantify GM volume as before. Subsequently, we used spatial maps of the two autism-related independent components (ICs) previously identified in the LEAP sample as templates for regression analyses to separately estimate the ENIGMA-participant loadings to each of these two ICs. Between-group differences in participants' loadings on each component were examined, and we additionally investigated the relation between participant loadings and autistic behaviors within the autism group. RESULTS The two components of interest, previously identified in the LEAP dataset, showed significant between-group differences upon regressions into the ENIGMA cohort. The associated brain patterns were consistent with those found in the initial identification study. The first IC was primarily associated with increased volumes of bilateral insula, inferior frontal gyrus, orbitofrontal cortex, and caudate in the autism group relative to the control group (β = 0.129, p = 0.013). The second IC was related to increased volumes of the bilateral amygdala, hippocampus, and parahippocampal gyrus in the autism group relative to non-autistic individuals (β = 0.116, p = 0.024). However, when accounting for the site-by-group interaction effect, no significant main effect of the group can be identified (p > 0.590). We did not find significant univariate association between the brain measures and behavior in autism (p > 0.085). LIMITATIONS The distributions of age, IQ, and sex between LEAP and ENIGMA are statistically different from each other. Owing to limited access to the behavioral data of the autism group, we were unable to further our understanding of the neural basis of behavioral dimensions of the sample. CONCLUSIONS The current study is unable to fully replicate the autism-related brain patterns from LEAP in the ENIGMA cohort. The diverse group effects across ENIGMA sites demonstrate the challenges of generalizing the average findings of the GM covariation patterns to a large-scale cohort integrated retrospectively from multiple studies. Further analyses need to be conducted to gain additional insights into the generalizability of these two GM covariation patterns.
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- Ting Mei
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Kapittelweg 29, 6525EN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Kapittelweg 29, 6525EN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Kapittelweg 29, 6525EN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Kapittelweg 29, 6525EN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Kapittelweg 29, 6525EN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Methods of Plasticity Research, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Kapittelweg 29, 6525EN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Kapittelweg 29, 6525EN, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Dell’Osso L, Nardi B, Bonelli C, Amatori G, Pereyra MA, Massimetti E, Cremone IM, Pini S, Carpita B. Autistic Traits as Predictors of Increased Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Severity: The Role of Inflexibility and Communication Impairment. Brain Sci 2024; 14:64. [PMID: 38248279 PMCID: PMC10813392 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14010064] [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: 12/14/2023] [Revised: 12/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/05/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024] Open
Abstract
Due to similar manifestations, some authors have proposed a potential correlation between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This link has long been recognized and debated, with some authors arguing that these disorders frequently occur comorbid but distinct while others believe they are part of the same spectrum. The aim of our study was to explore the prevalence and correlates of autistic traits in 55 OCD patients and 55 matched controls and to assess possible autistic dimensions predictive of higher OCD symptoms. All participants were assessed with the Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum-Short Version (OBS-SV) and the Adult Autism Subthreshold Spectrum (AdAS Spectrum). The OCD group scored significantly higher in both questionnaires. Total OBS-SV scores and domains were significantly correlated with all AdAS Spectrum domains and total score. The AdAS Spectrum total, Verbal Communication and Inflexibility and adherence to routine domain scores were significant positive predictors of higher OBS-SV scores. Lastly, when two clusters of subjects (high and low autism) were determined, Inflexibility and adherence to routine domain presented the greatest influence in forming the clusters. Our findings support the association between OCD and autistic traits in the adult population, supporting the hypothesis of a neurodevelopmental basis for these psychiatric conditions.
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- Liliana Dell’Osso
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; (L.D.); (C.B.); (G.A.); (M.A.P.); (I.M.C.); (S.P.); (B.C.)
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; (L.D.); (C.B.); (G.A.); (M.A.P.); (I.M.C.); (S.P.); (B.C.)
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; (L.D.); (C.B.); (G.A.); (M.A.P.); (I.M.C.); (S.P.); (B.C.)
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; (L.D.); (C.B.); (G.A.); (M.A.P.); (I.M.C.); (S.P.); (B.C.)
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; (L.D.); (C.B.); (G.A.); (M.A.P.); (I.M.C.); (S.P.); (B.C.)
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- UFSMA Val di Cornia, Azienda USL Toscana Nord Ovest, 54100 Massa, Italy;
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; (L.D.); (C.B.); (G.A.); (M.A.P.); (I.M.C.); (S.P.); (B.C.)
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; (L.D.); (C.B.); (G.A.); (M.A.P.); (I.M.C.); (S.P.); (B.C.)
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy; (L.D.); (C.B.); (G.A.); (M.A.P.); (I.M.C.); (S.P.); (B.C.)
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Li Z, Tong G, Wang Y, Ruan H, Zheng Z, Cheng J, Wang Z. Task fMRI studies investigating inhibitory control in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and eating disorders: A comparative meta-analysis. World J Biol Psychiatry 2024; 25:26-42. [PMID: 37640027 DOI: 10.1080/15622975.2023.2251057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Revised: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders (EDs) share similarities in terms of clinical characteristics and deficits in inhibitory control. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether inhibitory control could serve as a common behavioural phenotype between OCD and EDs and whether it might be underpinned by shared and/or distinct neural signatures. METHOD We performed a quantitative meta-analysis of brain function abnormalities during the inhibitory control task-based functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scan across patients with OCD and EDs using seed-based d mapping (SDM). RESULTS The meta-analysis included sixteen OCD fMRI studies and ten EDs fMRI studies. And findings revealed that patients with OCD showed hypoactivation relative to healthy controls and patients with EDs in the anterior cingulate cortex, while compared to healthy controls and patients with OCD, patients with EDs showed hypoactivation in the right insula. CONCLUSIONS Patients with OCD and EDs are inclined to exhibit impaired inhibitory control, which may be attributed to different abnormal patterns of neural activation.
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- Zheqin Li
- Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- Institute of Psychological and Behavioral Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Neubauer J, Kaiser A, Hohmann S. [Gut Microbiota and Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Overview of Correlations and Potential Implications for Therapeutic Interventions]. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR KINDER- UND JUGENDPSYCHIATRIE UND PSYCHOTHERAPIE 2023; 52:151-165. [PMID: 38098430 DOI: 10.1024/1422-4917/a000962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
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Gut Microbiota and Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Overview of Correlations and Potential Implications for Therapeutic Interventions Abstract: At the beginning of research on microbiota, researchers focused mainly on the role of microbiota dysbiosis in the development of gastrointestinal diseases. However, over the last years, researchers have also identified correlations with other physical processes and neuropsychiatric diseases such as autism spectrum disorder. These correlations are believed to be at least partly mediated through the brain-gut-microbiome axis. An altered composition of microbiota in patients with autism spectrum disorder was detected compared to healthy controls. Today, the discussion centers around a possible systemic impact of the metabolites of some microbiota or microbiota-induced chronic inflammatory processes on the brain (mediated through the brain-gut-microbiome axis) as an underlying mechanism. Still, the specific underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown, so conclusions on therapeutic implications are difficult to determine. Here, we describe some promising approaches to improving autistic behavior through dietary changes, the use of prebiotics and probiotics, stool transplantation from healthy controls, and restricted absorbance of certain metabolites. We need further clinical studies of high quality to fully understand the pathophysiology of autism spectrum disorder and to improve diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.
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- Johanna Neubauer
- Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, -psychiotherapie und -psychosomatik, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, -psychiotherapie und -psychosomatik, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Deutschland
- Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Deutschland
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- Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, -psychiotherapie und -psychosomatik, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Deutschland
- AG Neurophysiologie des Kindes- und Jugendalters, Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Deutschland
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Lan H, Suo X, Zuo C, Ni W, Wang S, Kemp GJ, Gong Q. Shared and distinct abnormalities of brain magnetization transfer ratio in schizophrenia and major depressive disorder: a comparative voxel-based meta-analysis. Chin Med J (Engl) 2023; 136:2824-2833. [PMID: 37697951 PMCID: PMC10686600 DOI: 10.1097/cm9.0000000000002538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2023] [Indexed: 09/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) and major depressive disorder (MDD) share significant clinical overlap, although it remains unknown to what extent this overlap reflects shared neural profiles. To identify the shared and specific abnormalities in SCZ and MDD, we performed a whole-brain voxel-based meta-analysis using magnetization transfer imaging, a technique that characterizes the macromolecular structural integrity of brain tissue in terms of the magnetization transfer ratio (MTR). METHODS A systematic search based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines was conducted in PubMed, EMBASE, International Scientific Index (ISI) Web of Science, and MEDLINE for relevant studies up to March 2022. Two researchers independently screened the articles. Rigorous scrutiny and data extraction were performed for the studies that met the inclusion criteria. Voxel-wise meta-analyses were conducted using anisotropic effect size-signed differential mapping with a unified template. Meta-regression was used to explore the potential effects of demographic and clinical characteristics. RESULTS A total of 15 studies with 17 datasets describing 365 SCZ patients, 224 MDD patients, and 550 healthy controls (HCs) were identified. The conjunction analysis showed that both disorders shared higher MTR than HC in the left cerebellum ( P =0.0006) and left fusiform gyrus ( P =0.0004). Additionally, SCZ patients showed disorder-specific lower MTR in the anterior cingulate/paracingulate gyrus, right superior temporal gyrus, and right superior frontal gyrus, and higher MTR in the left thalamus, precuneus/cuneus, posterior cingulate gyrus, and paracentral lobule; and MDD patients showed higher MTR in the left middle occipital region. Meta-regression showed no statistical significance in either group. CONCLUSIONS The results revealed a structural neural basis shared between SCZ and MDD patients, emphasizing the importance of shared neural substrates across psychopathology. Meanwhile, distinct disease-specific characteristics could have implications for future differential diagnosis and targeted treatment.
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- Huan Lan
- Department of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Department of Radiology, West China Xiamen Hospital of Sichuan University, Xiamen, Fujian 361000, China
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- Department of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110004, China
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- Department of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Liverpool Magnetic Resonance Imaging Centre (LiMRIC) and Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L693BX, United Kingdom
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- Department of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
- Department of Radiology, West China Xiamen Hospital of Sichuan University, Xiamen, Fujian 361000, China
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Pronina MV, Ponomarev VA, Poliakov YI, Martins-Mourao A, Plotnikova IV, Müller A, Kropotov YD. Event-related EEG synchronization and desynchronization in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychophysiology 2023; 60:e14403. [PMID: 37578353 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2022] [Revised: 04/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
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Symptoms in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are associated with impairment in cognitive control, attention, and action inhibition. We investigated OCD group differences relative to healthy subjects in terms of event-related alpha and beta range synchronization (ERS) and desynchronization (ERD) during a visually cued Go/NoGo task. Subjects were 62 OCD patients and 296 healthy controls (HC). The OCD group in comparison with HC, showed a changed value of alpha/beta oscillatory power over the central cortex, in particular, an increase in the alpha/beta ERD over the central-parietal cortex during the interstimulus interval (Cue condition) as well as changes in the postmovement beta synchronization topography and frequency. Over the frontal cortex, the OCD group showed an increase in magnitude of the beta ERS in NoGo condition. Within the parietal-occipital ERS/ERD modulations, the OCD group showed an increase in the alpha/beta ERD over the parietal cortex after the presentation of the visual stimuli as well as a decrease in the beta ERD over the occipital cortex after the presentation of the Cue and Go stimuli. The specific properties in the ERS/ERD patterns observed in the OCD group may reflect high involvement of the frontal and central cortex in action preparation and action inhibition processes and, possibly, in maintaining the motor program, which might be a result of the dysfunction of the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuits involving prefrontal cortex. The data about enhanced involvement of the parietal cortex in the evaluation of the visual stimuli are in line with the assumption about overfocused attention in OCD.
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- Marina V Pronina
- N.P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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- N.P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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- Pavlov First Saint-Petersburg State Medical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
- Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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- QEEG & Brain Research Lab, Life, Health and Chemical Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- N.P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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- N.P. Bechtereva Institute of the Human Brain of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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Mei T, Forde NJ, Floris DL, Dell'Acqua F, Stones R, Ilioska I, Durston S, Moessnang C, Banaschewski T, Holt RJ, Baron-Cohen S, Rausch A, Loth E, Oakley B, Charman T, Ecker C, Murphy DGM, Beckmann CF, Llera A, Buitelaar JK. Autism Is Associated With Interindividual Variations of Gray and White Matter Morphology. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2023; 8:1084-1093. [PMID: 36075529 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.08.011] [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: 02/15/2022] [Revised: 08/06/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although many studies have explored atypicalities in gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM) morphology of autism, most of them relied on unimodal analyses that did not benefit from the likelihood that different imaging modalities may reflect common neurobiology. We aimed to establish brain patterns of modalities that differentiate between individuals with and without autism and explore associations between these brain patterns and clinical measures in the autism group. METHODS We studied 183 individuals with autism and 157 nonautistic individuals (age range, 6-30 years) in a large, deeply phenotyped autism dataset (EU-AIMS LEAP [European Autism Interventions-A Multicentre Study for Developing New Medications Longitudinal European Autism Project]). Linked independent component analysis was used to link all participants' GM volume and WM diffusion tensor images, and group comparisons of modality shared variances were examined. Subsequently, we performed univariate and multivariate brain-behavior correlation analyses to separately explore the relationships between brain patterns and clinical profiles. RESULTS One multimodal pattern was significantly related to autism. This pattern was primarily associated with GM volume in bilateral insula and frontal, precentral and postcentral, cingulate, and caudate areas and co-occurred with altered WM features in the superior longitudinal fasciculus. The brain-behavior correlation analyses showed a significant multivariate association primarily between brain patterns that involved variation of WM and symptoms of restricted and repetitive behavior in the autism group. CONCLUSIONS Our findings demonstrate the assets of integrated analyses of GM and WM alterations to study the brain mechanisms that underpin autism and show that the complex clinical autism phenotype can be interpreted by brain covariation patterns that are spread across the brain involving both cortical and subcortical areas.
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- Ting Mei
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Methods of Plasticity Research, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany; Department of Applied Psychology, SRH University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Autism Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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Liloia D, Cauda F, Uddin LQ, Manuello J, Mancuso L, Keller R, Nani A, Costa T. Revealing the Selectivity of Neuroanatomical Alteration in Autism Spectrum Disorder via Reverse Inference. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2023; 8:1075-1083. [PMID: 35131520 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Revised: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although neuroimaging research has identified atypical neuroanatomical substrates in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it is at present unclear whether and to what extent disorder-selective gray matter alterations occur in this spectrum of conditions. In fact, a growing body of evidence shows a substantial overlap between the pathomorphological changes across different brain diseases, which may complicate identification of reliable neural markers and differentiation of the anatomical substrates of distinct psychopathologies. METHODS Using a novel data-driven and Bayesian methodology with published voxel-based morphometry data (849 peer-reviewed experiments and 22,304 clinical subjects), this study performs the first reverse inference investigation to explore the selective structural brain alteration profile of ASD. RESULTS We found that specific brain areas exhibit a >90% probability of gray matter alteration selectivity for ASD: the bilateral precuneus (Brodmann area 7), right inferior occipital gyrus (Brodmann area 18), left cerebellar lobule IX and Crus II, right cerebellar lobule VIIIA, and right Crus I. Of note, many brain voxels that are selective for ASD include areas that are posterior components of the default mode network. CONCLUSIONS The identification of these spatial gray matter alteration patterns offers new insights into understanding the complex neurobiological underpinnings of ASD and opens attractive prospects for future neuroimaging-based interventions.
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- Donato Liloia
- GCS-fMRI Research Group, Koelliker Hospital, and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- GCS-fMRI Research Group, Koelliker Hospital, and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Neuroscience Institute of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- GCS-fMRI Research Group, Koelliker Hospital, and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.
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- GCS-fMRI Research Group, Koelliker Hospital, and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Adult Autism Center, DSM Local Health Unit, ASL TO, Turin, Italy
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- GCS-fMRI Research Group, Koelliker Hospital, and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- GCS-fMRI Research Group, Koelliker Hospital, and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Functional Neuroimaging and Complex Neural Systems Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Neuroscience Institute of Turin, Turin, Italy
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Zhang E, Hauson AO, Pollard AA, Meis B, Lackey NS, Carson B, Khayat S, Fortea L, Radua J. Lateralized grey matter volume changes in adolescents versus adults with major depression: SDM-PSI meta-analysis. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2023; 335:111691. [PMID: 37837793 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2023.111691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Revised: 05/22/2023] [Accepted: 07/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/16/2023]
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The current study is the first meta-analysis to examine grey matter volume (GMV) changes in adolescents and across the lifespan in major depressive disorder (MDD). Seed-based d mapping-with permutation of subject images (SDM-PSI) has advantages over previous coordinate-based meta-analytical methods (CBMA), such as reducing bias (via the MetaNSUE algorithm) and including non-statistically significant unreported effects. SDM-PSI was used to analyze 105 whole-brain GMV voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies comparing 6,530 individuals with MDD versus 6,821 age-matched healthy controls (HC). A laterality effect was observed in which adults with MDD showed lower GMV than adult HC in left fronto-temporo-parietal structures (superior temporal gyrus, insula, Rolandic operculum, and inferior frontal gyrus). However, these abnormalities were not statistically significant for adolescent MDD versus adolescent HC. Instead, adolescent MDD showed lower GMV than adult MDD in right temporo-parietal structures (angular gyrus and middle temporal gyrus). These regional differences may be used as potential biomarkers to predict and monitor treatment outcomes as well as to choose the most effective treatments in adolescents versus adults. Finally, due to the paucity of youth, older adult, and longitudinal studies, future studies should attempt to replicate these GMV findings and examine whether they correlate with treatment response and illness severity.
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- Emily Zhang
- California School of Professional Psychology, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program, San Diego, CA, United States of America; Institute of Brain Research and Integrated Neuropsychological Services (iBRAINs.org), San Diego, CA, United States of America
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- California School of Professional Psychology, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program, San Diego, CA, United States of America; Institute of Brain Research and Integrated Neuropsychological Services (iBRAINs.org), San Diego, CA, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States of America.
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- California School of Professional Psychology, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program, San Diego, CA, United States of America; Institute of Brain Research and Integrated Neuropsychological Services (iBRAINs.org), San Diego, CA, United States of America
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- California School of Professional Psychology, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program, San Diego, CA, United States of America; Institute of Brain Research and Integrated Neuropsychological Services (iBRAINs.org), San Diego, CA, United States of America
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- California School of Professional Psychology, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program, San Diego, CA, United States of America; Institute of Brain Research and Integrated Neuropsychological Services (iBRAINs.org), San Diego, CA, United States of America
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- California School of Professional Psychology, Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program, San Diego, CA, United States of America; Institute of Brain Research and Integrated Neuropsychological Services (iBRAINs.org), San Diego, CA, United States of America
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- Institute of Brain Research and Integrated Neuropsychological Services (iBRAINs.org), San Diego, CA, United States of America
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Centre for Psychiatry Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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Zhong S, Su T, Gong J, Huang L, Wang Y. Brain functional alterations in patients with anorexia nervosa: A meta-analysis of task-based functional MRI studies. Psychiatry Res 2023; 327:115358. [PMID: 37544086 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 07/16/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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The goal of this study was to discern the neural activation patterns associated with anorexia nervosa (AN) in response to tasks related to body-, food-, emotional-, cognitive-, and reward- processing. A meta-analysis was performed on task-based fMRI studies, revealing that patients with AN showed increased activity in the left superior temporal gyrus and bilaterally in the ACC during a reward-related task. During cognitive-related tasks, patients with AN also showed increased activity in the left superior parietal gyrus, right middle temporal gyrus, but decreased activity in the MCC. Additionally, patients with AN showed increased activity bilaterally in the cerebellum, MCC, and decreased activity bilaterally in the bilateral precuneus/PCC, right middle temporal gyrus, left ACC when they viewed food images. During emotion-related tasks, patients with AN showed increased activity in the left cerebellum, but decreased activity bilaterally in the striatum, right mPFC, and right superior parietal gyrus. Patients with AN also showed increased activity in the right striatum and decreased activity in the right inferior temporal gyrus and bilaterally in the mPFC during body-related tasks. The present meta-analysis provides a comprehensive overview of the patterns of brain activity evoked by task stimuli, thereby augmenting the current comprehension of the pathophysiology in AN.
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- Shuming Zhong
- Department of Psychiatry, First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Department of Radiology, Six Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510655, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510630, China.
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Yeung AWK. Do "Ten simple rules for neuroimaging meta-analysis" receive equal attention and accurate quotation? An examination on the quotations to an influential neuroimaging meta-analysis guideline. Neuroimage Clin 2023; 39:103496. [PMID: 37603951 PMCID: PMC10458279 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Revised: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
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The collection of recommendations and guidelines for conducting and reporting neuroimaging meta-analyses, called "Ten simple rules for neuroimaging meta-analysis" by Müller et al., has been published for a few years. Here, the papers citing this reference were examined to evaluate the rationale of the quotations and what quotation errors existed. In May 2023, an online query via Scopus identified 386 papers citing this reference, 2 of which were inaccessible. The resultant 384 papers were checked to identify the total number of quotations to the reference, the exact quotations, which of the ten recommendations/rules was concerned by each quotation, and if any quotation error existed. Results found that the reference by Müller et al. were quoted 804 times by the 384 papers, meaning an average of 2.1 quotations per paper. Out of the 804 quotations, the three rules that the researchers most frequently referred were the power of the meta-analysis (Rule #2, 14.1%), the consistency of the search coverage and reference space (Rule #4, 13.8%), and the statistical threshold (Rule #8, 10.2%). Overall, 63 quotations from 51 papers contained some errors. In other words, 7.8% (63/804) of the quotations contained errors and they involved 13.3% (51/384) of the papers. The commonest quotation errors were dealing with a failure to substantiate the assertion, unrelated to the assertion, and oversimplification of the original notion. Some notable quotation error examples were to quote Müller et al. to substantiate the assertion of having at least 10 datasets to be considered to have adequate power for ES-SDM meta-analysis (no such recommendation), and having a misquoted primary cluster-forming threshold of p < 0.05 or p < 0.005 (should be p < 0.001). The neuroscience community should be cautious and double-check the accuracy of assertions, even with a quotation.
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- Andy Wai Kan Yeung
- Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Oral Sciences and Community Dental Care, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
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Yamashita M, Kagitani-Shimono K, Hirano Y, Hamatani S, Nishitani S, Yao A, Kurata S, Kosaka H, Jung M, Yoshida T, Sasaki T, Matsumoto K, Kato Y, Nakanishi M, Tachibana M, Mohri I, Tsuchiya KJ, Tsujikawa T, Okazawa H, Shimizu E, Taniike M, Tomoda A, Mizuno Y. Child Developmental MRI (CDM) project: protocol for a multi-centre, cross-sectional study on elucidating the pathophysiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder through a multi-dimensional approach. BMJ Open 2023; 13:e070157. [PMID: 37355265 PMCID: PMC10314540 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/26/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Neuroimaging studies on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have demonstrated differences in extensive brain structure, activity and network. However, there remains heterogeneity and inconsistency across these findings, presumably because of the diversity of the disorders themselves, small sample sizes, and site and parameter differences in MRI scanners, and their overall pathogenesis remains unclear. To address these gaps in the literature, we will apply the travelling-subject approach to correct site differences in MRI scanners and clarify brain structure and network characteristics of children with ADHD and ASD using large samples collected in a multi-centre collaboration. In addition, we will investigate the relationship between these characteristics and genetic, epigenetic, biochemical markers, and behavioural and psychological measures. METHODS AND ANALYSIS We will collect resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) and T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted MRI data from 15 healthy adults as travelling subjects and 300 children (ADHD, n=100; ASD, n=100; and typical development, n=100) with multi-dimensional assessments. We will also apply data from more than 1000 samples acquired in our previous neuroimaging studies on ADHD and ASD. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION The study protocol has been approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Fukui Hospital (approval no: 20220601). Our study findings will be submitted to scientific peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
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- Masatoshi Yamashita
- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Molecular Research Centre for Children's Mental Development, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Paediatrics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine, University of Fukui Hospital, Fukui, Japan
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- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
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- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
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- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine, University of Fukui Hospital, Fukui, Japan
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- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
- Cognitive Science Research Group, Korea Brain Research Institute, Daegu, Korea (the Republic of)
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- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Child Psychiatry and Psychiatry, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan
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- Department of Paediatrics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Molecular Research Centre for Children's Mental Development, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Paediatrics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Molecular Research Centre for Children's Mental Development, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Paediatrics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Molecular Research Centre for Children's Mental Development, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Paediatrics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Centre, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Molecular Research Centre for Children's Mental Development, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Paediatrics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine, University of Fukui Hospital, Fukui, Japan
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- Research Centre for Child Mental Development, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
- United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Chiba University and University of Fukui, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine, University of Fukui Hospital, Fukui, Japan
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Lukito S, O'Daly OG, Lythgoe DJ, Hodsoll J, Maltezos S, Pitts M, Simonoff E, Rubia K. Reduced inferior fronto-insular-thalamic activation during failed inhibition in young adults with combined ASD and ADHD compared to typically developing and pure disorder groups. Transl Psychiatry 2023; 13:133. [PMID: 37087490 PMCID: PMC10122665 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-023-02431-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Revised: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 04/24/2023] Open
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often co-occurs with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and people with these conditions have frontostriatal functional atypicality during motor inhibition. We compared the neural and neurocognitive correlates of motor inhibition and performance monitoring in young adult males with "pure" and combined presentations with age-and sex-matched typically developing controls, to explore shared or disorder-specific atypicality. Males aged 20-27 years with typical development (TD; n = 22), ASD (n = 21), combined diagnoses ASD + ADHD (n = 23), and ADHD (n = 25) were compared using a modified tracking fMRI stop-signal task that measures motor inhibition and performance monitoring while controlling for selective attention. In addition, they performed a behavioural go/no-go task outside the scanner. While groups did not differ behaviourally during successful stop trials, the ASD + ADHD group relative to other groups had underactivation in typical performance monitoring regions of bilateral anterior insula/inferior frontal gyrus, right posterior thalamus, and right middle temporal gyrus/hippocampus during failed inhibition, which was associated with increased stop-signal reaction time. In the behavioural go/no-go task, both ADHD groups, with and without ASD, had significantly lower motor inhibition performance compared to TD controls. In conclusion, only young adult males with ASD + ADHD had neurofunctional atypicality in brain regions associated with performance monitoring, while inhibition difficulties on go/no-go task performance was shared with ADHD. The suggests that young people with ASD + ADHD are most severely impaired during motor inhibition tasks compared to ASD and ADHD but do not reflect a combination of the difficulties associated with the pure disorders.
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- Steve Lukito
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, UK.
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- Department of Neuroimaging, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, UK
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- Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, UK
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- The Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism National Service, Behavioural and Developmental Psychiatry Clinical Academic Group, South London and Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust, London, UK
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- The Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism National Service, Behavioural and Developmental Psychiatry Clinical Academic Group, South London and Maudsley Foundation NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, UK
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, UK
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Xu Y, Zheng R, Guo H, Wei Y, Wen B, Dai S, Han S, Cheng J, Zhang Y. Structural and functional deficits and couplings in severe and moderate OCD. J Psychiatr Res 2023; 160:240-247. [PMID: 36870233 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2022] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Changes in gray matter volume and functional connections have been frequently observed in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder. However, different grouping may cause diverse volume alterations and could draw more adverse conclusions about the pathophysiology of obsessive compulsive disorder(OCD). Most of them preferred to divide subjects into patients and healthy controls, rather than a detailed subgroup. Moreover, multimodal neuroimaging studies about structural-functional defects and couplings are rather rare. Our aim was to explore gray matter volume(GMV) and functional networks abnormalities induced by structural deficits based on severity of Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale(Y-BOCS) symptom including OCD patients with severe(S-OCD, n = 31) and moderate symptoms(M-OCD, n = 42) and healthy controls (HCs, n = 54); Voxel-based morphometry(VBM) method was used to detect GMV differences among three groups, then used as masks according to one-way analysis of variance(ANOVA) results for the subsequent resting-state functional connectivity(rs-FC) analysis. Besides, correlation and subgroup analysis were performed to detect the potential roles of structural deficits between every two groups. ANOVA analysis showed that both S-OCD and M-OCD had increased volume in anterior cingulate cortex(ACC), left precuneus(L-Pre) and paracentral lobule(PCL), postcentral gyrus, left inferior occipital gyrus(L-IOG) and right superior occipital gyrus(R-SOG) and bilateral cuneus, middle occipital gyrus(MOG), and calcarine. Additionally, increased connections between Pre and angular gyrus(AG) and inferior parietal lobule(IPL) have been found. Moreover, connections between the left cuneus and lingual gyrus, between IOG and left lingual gyrus, fusiform and between L-MOG and cerebellum were also included. Subgroup analysis showed that decreased GMV in left caudate was negatively correlated with compulsion and total score in patients with moderate symptom compared to HCs. Our findings indicated that altered GMV in occipital-related regions, Pre, ACC and PCL and the disrupted FC networks including MOG-cerebellum and Pre-AG and IPL. Moreover, subgroup GMV analysis furtherly revealed negative associations between GMV changes and Y-BOCS symptom, offering preparatory proof for the involvement of structural and functional deficits in cortical-subcortical circuitry. Thus, they could provide insights into the neurobiological basis.
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- Yinhuan Xu
- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Software School of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
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Neuroinflammation, Energy and Sphingolipid Metabolism Biomarkers Are Revealed by Metabolic Modeling of Autistic Brains. Biomedicines 2023; 11:biomedicines11020583. [PMID: 36831124 PMCID: PMC9953696 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11020583] [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: 01/08/2023] [Revised: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders generally characterized by repetitive behaviors and difficulties in communication and social behavior. Despite its heterogeneous nature, several metabolic dysregulations are prevalent in individuals with ASD. This work aims to understand ASD brain metabolism by constructing an ASD-specific prefrontal cortex genome-scale metabolic model (GEM) using transcriptomics data to decipher novel neuroinflammatory biomarkers. The healthy and ASD-specific models are compared via uniform sampling to identify ASD-exclusive metabolic features. Noticeably, the results of our simulations and those found in the literature are comparable, supporting the accuracy of our reconstructed ASD model. We identified that several oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and inflammatory markers are elevated in ASD. While oxidative phosphorylation fluxes were similar for healthy and ASD-specific models, and the fluxes through the pathway were nearly undisturbed, the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) fluxes indicated disruptions in the pathway. Similarly, the secretions of mitochondrial dysfunction markers such as pyruvate are found to be higher, as well as the activities of oxidative stress marker enzymes like alanine and aspartate aminotransferases (ALT and AST) and glutathione-disulfide reductase (GSR). We also detected abnormalities in the sphingolipid metabolism, which has been implicated in many inflammatory and immune processes, but its relationship with ASD has not been thoroughly explored in the existing literature. We suggest that important sphingolipid metabolites, such as sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), ceramide, and glucosylceramide, may be promising biomarkers for the diagnosis of ASD and provide an opportunity for the adoption of early intervention for young children.
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Altered cortical gyrification, sulcal depth, and fractal dimension in the autism spectrum disorder comorbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder than the autism spectrum disorder. Neuroreport 2023; 34:93-101. [PMID: 36608165 DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000001864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) frequently occurs accompanied by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which catches increasing attention. The comorbid diagnosis of ASD with ADHD (ASD + ADHD) is permitted in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). However, compared to autism spectrum disorder without other symptoms (ASD-only), the special neural underpinnings in ASD+ADHD remain unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to uncover the differences in cortical complexity between ASD + ADHD and ASD-only patients. A total of 114 ASD participants (i.e. containing 40 ASD + ADHD and 74 ASD-only participants) with T1-weighted magnetic resonance images were collected from the Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange II. Afterward, a surface-based morphometry method was carried out to compare the cortical complexity (i.e. gyrification index, fractal dimension, and sulcal depth) between the ASD + ADHD and ASD-only cohorts. Results showed the increased fractal dimension in the right fusiform gyrus of the ASD + ADHD cohort in comparison to the ASD-only cohort. Moreover, the ASD + ADHD cohort exhibited increased sulcal depth in the left middle temporal gyrus/inferior temporal gyrus and right middle temporal gyrus compared to the ASD-only cohort. Last but not least, the increased gyrification index in the insula/postcentral gyrus was observed in the ASD + ADHD cohort in comparison to the ASD-only cohort. Overall, the present study contributes to the delineation of particular structural abnormalities in ASD + ADHD than ASD-only, enriching the evidence of the combined phenotype of ASD + ADHD.
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Tao Q, Dang J, Niu X, Gao X, Zhang M, Yang Z, Xu Y, Yu M, Cheng J, Han S, Zhang Y. White matter microstructural abnormalities and gray matter volume alterations in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A coordinate-based meta-analysis. J Affect Disord 2023; 320:751-761. [PMID: 36174788 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2022] [Revised: 09/10/2022] [Accepted: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE A comprehensive meta-analysis using correlated coordinate data to explore abnormalities in white matter (WM) microarchitecture and changes in gray matter volume (GMV) in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHODS We reviewed 23 reported studies of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in OCD patients. The differences in WM fractional anisotropy (FA) between OCD patients and healthy controls (HCs) were investigated using tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) and voxel-based analysis (VBA), respectively, and the results of the two methods were compared. In addition, we will explore changes in OCD GMV by analyzing studies (n = 21) using the voxel-based morphometry (VBM) approach and comparing the difference between adults and adolescents. RESULTS In the pooled meta-analysis, WM study results presented that compared with HCs, OCD patients had higher FA in right lenticular nucleus (putamen), and lower FA in corpus callosum (CC), left insula, right cerebellum (hemispheric lobule), right gyrus rectal and left inferior parietal gyri. However, in subgroup analysis, there was a significant difference in FA changes between TBSS and VBA in OCD patients compared with HCs. In addition, we found that the GMV of OCD patients was significantly increased in left striatum and left precentral gyrus, and significantly decreased in right inferior frontal gyrus triangular part, right superior temporal gyrus and right hippocampus. Compared with adolescents, adult patients have increased GMV in left lenticular nucleus putamen. CONCLUSION The meta-analysis showed that OCD patients had abnormal WM microarchitecture and altered GMV. These changes may be closely related to the pathophysiological mechanism of the disease.
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- Qiuying Tao
- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China.
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China.
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, China; Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, China; Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and application of Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function of Henan Province, China; Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Zhengzhou, China; Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research Medicine of Henan Province, China
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Zhang L, Liu X, Tong F, Zou R, Peng W, Yang H, Liu F, Yang D, Huang X, Yi L, Wen M, Jiang L. Cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and depression in cancer survivors: a meta-analysis. Sci Rep 2022; 12:21466. [PMID: 36509786 PMCID: PMC9744858 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-25068-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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This study aimed to investigate the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on anxiety and depression in cancer survivors. The PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Library databases were searched. Randomized controlled trials that evaluated the effects of CBT in cancer survivors were included. The standardized mean difference (SMD) was used as an effect size indicator. Fifteen studies were included. For the depression score, the pooled results of the random effects model were as follows: pre-treatment versus post-treatment, SMD (95% confidence interval [CI]) = 0.88 (0.46, 1.29), P < 0.001; pre-treatment versus 3-month follow-up, 0.83 (0.09, 1.76), P = 0.08; pre-treatment versus 6-month follow-up, 0.92 (0.27, 1.58), P = 0.006; and pre-treatment versus 12-month follow-up, 0.21 (- 0.28, 0.70), P = 0.40. For the anxiety score, the pooled results of the random effects model were as follows: pre-treatment versus post-treatment, 0.97 (0.58, 1.36), P < 0.001; pre-treatment versus 3-month follow-up, 1.45 (- 0.82, 3.72), P = 0.21; and pre-treatment versus 6-month follow-up, 1.00 (0.17, 1.83), P = 0.02). The pooled result of the fixed effects model for the comparison between pre-treatment and the 12-month follow-up was 0.10 (- 0.16, 0.35; P = 0.45). The subgroup analysis revealed that the geographical location, treatment time and treatment form were not sources of significant heterogeneity. CBT significantly improved the depression and anxiety scores of the cancer survivors; such improvement was maintained until the 6-month follow-up. These findings support recommendations for the use of CBT in survivors of cancer.
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- Lemeng Zhang
- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Thoracic Medicine Department 1, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Clinical Spiritual Care, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Tongzipo Rd 283#, Yuelu District, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Clinical Spiritual Care, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Tongzipo Rd 283#, Yuelu District, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Clinical Spiritual Care, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Tongzipo Rd 283#, Yuelu District, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Clinical Spiritual Care, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Tongzipo Rd 283#, Yuelu District, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Clinical Spiritual Care, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Tongzipo Rd 283#, Yuelu District, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Radiation Oncology, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Clinical Spiritual Care, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Tongzipo Rd 283#, Yuelu District, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Clinical Spiritual Care, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Tongzipo Rd 283#, Yuelu District, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Clinical Spiritual Care, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Tongzipo Rd 283#, Yuelu District, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.216417.70000 0001 0379 7164Department of Clinical Spiritual Care, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Hunan Province, Tongzipo Rd 283#, Yuelu District, Changsha, 410013 People’s Republic of China
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Zhou Z, Li B, Jiang J, Li H, Cao L, Zhang S, Gao Y, Zhang L, Qiu C, Huang X, Gong Q. Abnormal resting-state functional connectivity of the insula in medication-free patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. BMC Psychiatry 2022; 22:742. [PMID: 36447147 PMCID: PMC9710058 DOI: 10.1186/s12888-022-04341-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The function of the insula has been increasingly mentioned in neurocircuitry models of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) for its role in affective processing and regulating anxiety and its wide interactions with the classic cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuit. However, the insular resting-state functional connectivity patterns in OCD remain unclear. Therefore, we aimed to investigate characteristic intrinsic connectivity alterations of the insula in OCD and their associations with clinical features. METHODS We obtained resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 85 drug-free OCD patients and 85 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HCs). We performed a general linear model to compare the whole-brain intrinsic functional connectivity maps of the bilateral insula between the OCD and HC groups. In addition, we further explored the relationship between the intrinsic functional connectivity alterations of the insula and clinical features using Pearson or Spearman correlation analysis. RESULTS Compared with HCs, patients with OCD exhibited increased intrinsic connectivity between the bilateral insula and bilateral precuneus gyrus extending to the inferior parietal lobule and supplementary motor area. Decreased intrinsic connectivity was only found between the right insula and bilateral lingual gyrus in OCD patients relative to HC subjects, which was negatively correlated with the severity of depression symptoms in the OCD group. CONCLUSION In the current study, we identified impaired insular intrinsic connectivity in OCD patients and the dysconnectivity of the right insula and bilateral lingual gyrus associated with the depressive severity of OCD patients. These findings provide neuroimaging evidence for the involvement of the insula in OCD and suggest its potential role in the depressive symptoms of OCD.
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- Zilin Zhou
- grid.412901.f0000 0004 1770 1022Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No.37 Guo Xue Xiang, 610041 Chengdu, China
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- grid.412901.f0000 0004 1770 1022Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- grid.412901.f0000 0004 1770 1022Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- grid.412901.f0000 0004 1770 1022Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No.37 Guo Xue Xiang, 610041 Chengdu, China
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- grid.412901.f0000 0004 1770 1022Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No.37 Guo Xue Xiang, 610041 Chengdu, China
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- grid.412901.f0000 0004 1770 1022Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No.37 Guo Xue Xiang, 610041 Chengdu, China
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- grid.412901.f0000 0004 1770 1022Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No.37 Guo Xue Xiang, 610041 Chengdu, China
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- grid.412901.f0000 0004 1770 1022Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No.37 Guo Xue Xiang, 610041 Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, 610041, Chengdu, China.
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No.37 Guo Xue Xiang, 610041, Chengdu, China. .,Psychoradiology Research Unit of the Chinese Academy of Medical Science (2018RU011), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. .,Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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- grid.412901.f0000 0004 1770 1022Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No.37 Guo Xue Xiang, 610041 Chengdu, China ,grid.412901.f0000 0004 1770 1022Psychoradiology Research Unit of the Chinese Academy of Medical Science (2018RU011), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Funch Uhre V, Melissa Larsen K, Marc Herz D, Baaré W, Katrine Pagsberg A, Roman Siebner H. Inhibitory control in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review and activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. NEUROIMAGE: CLINICAL 2022; 36:103268. [PMID: 36451370 PMCID: PMC9723317 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103268] [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: 10/06/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) often show deficits in inhibitory control, which may underlie poor control over obsessions and compulsions. Several functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments utilizing a variety of tasks have investigated the neural correlates of inhibitory control in OCD. Evidence from existing meta-analyses suggests aberrant activation of regions in fronto-striatal circuits during inhibitory control. However, new fMRI articles have since been published, and a more rigorous methodology for neuroimaging meta-analyses is now available. OBJECTIVES First, to reevaluate the evidence for abnormal brain activation during performance of inhibitory control tasks in OCD while adhering to current best practices for meta-analyses, and second, to extend previous findings by separately assessing different subprocesses of inhibitory control. METHOD We systematically searched Web of Knowledge, ScienceDirect, Scopus, PubMed and the functional BrainMap database for fMRI articles that compared activation during performance of inhibitory control tasks in patients with OCD and healthy control (HC) subjects. Thirty-five experiments from 21 articles met our criteria for inclusion. We first performed activation-likelihood-estimation meta-analyses to elucidate brain areas in which case-control activation differences converged across articles and tasks. We then aimed to extend previous work by separately evaluating experiments requiring inhibition of a prepotent response without execution of an alternative response (i.e., response inhibition) and experiments requiring inhibition of a prepotent response and execution of an alternative response (i.e., cognitive inhibition). RESULTS The 35 experiments included a total of 394 patients and 410 controls. We did not find evidence of abnormal brain activation in OCD during inhibitory control when pooling data from all experiments. Analysis restricted to cognitive inhibition experiments showed abnormal activation of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC; P = .04, cluster-level familywise error-corrected, cluster volume of 824 mm3). We did not have sufficient data to evaluate response inhibition experiments separately. CONCLUSION Findings of abnormal brain activation in OCD from different inhibitory control tasks do not appear to converge on the same brain regions, but the dACC may be implicated in abnormal cognitive inhibition. Our findings highlight a need for experiments that specifically target subprocesses of inhibitory control to achieve a more differentiated understanding of the neural correlates for impaired inhibitory control in OCD.
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- Valdemar Funch Uhre
- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark,Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark,Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services, Denmark,Corresponding author at: Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR), section 714, Center for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital – Amager and Hvidovre, Kettegård Allé 30, 2650 Hvidovre, Denmark.
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark,Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services, Denmark
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- MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, UK,Department of Neurology, Section Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, University Hospital, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark,Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark,Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark,Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Cai M, Wang R, Liu M, Du X, Xue K, Ji Y, Wang Z, Zhang Y, Guo L, Qin W, Zhu W, Fu J, Liu F. Disrupted local functional connectivity in schizophrenia: An updated and extended meta-analysis. SCHIZOPHRENIA (HEIDELBERG, GERMANY) 2022; 8:93. [PMID: 36347874 PMCID: PMC9643538 DOI: 10.1038/s41537-022-00311-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Neuroimaging studies have shown that schizophrenia is associated with disruption of resting-state local functional connectivity. However, these findings vary considerably, which hampers our understanding of the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of schizophrenia. Here, we performed an updated and extended meta-analysis to identify the most consistent changes of local functional connectivity measured by regional homogeneity (ReHo) in schizophrenia. Specifically, a systematic search of ReHo studies in patients with schizophrenia in PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science identified 18 studies (20 datasets), including 652 patients and 596 healthy controls. In addition, we included three whole-brain statistical maps of ReHo differences calculated based on independent datasets (163 patients and 194 controls). A voxel-wise meta-analysis was then conducted to investigate ReHo alterations and their relationship with clinical characteristics using the newly developed seed-based d mapping with permutation of subject images (SDM-PSI) meta-analytic approach. Compared with healthy controls, patients with schizophrenia showed significantly higher ReHo in the bilateral medial superior frontal gyrus, while lower ReHo in the bilateral postcentral gyrus, right precentral gyrus, and right middle occipital gyrus. The following sensitivity analyses including jackknife analysis, subgroup analysis, heterogeneity test, and publication bias test demonstrated that our results were robust and highly reliable. Meta-regression analysis revealed that illness duration was negatively correlated with ReHo abnormalities in the right precentral/postcentral gyrus. This comprehensive meta-analysis not only identified consistent and reliably aberrant local functional connectivity in schizophrenia but also helped to further deepen our understanding of its pathophysiology.
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- Mengjing Cai
- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
- School of Medical Imaging, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, 300070, China
- Department of Radiology, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China.
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China.
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China.
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Chen G, Wang J, Gong J, Qi Z, Fu S, Tang G, Chen P, Huang L, Wang Y. Functional and structural brain differences in bipolar disorder: a multimodal meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Psychol Med 2022; 52:2861-2873. [PMID: 36093787 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291722002392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Numerous studies of resting-state functional imaging and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) have revealed differences in specific brain regions of patients with bipolar disorder (BD), but the results have been inconsistent. METHODS A whole-brain voxel-wise meta-analysis was conducted on resting-state functional imaging and VBM studies that compared differences between patients with BD and healthy controls using Seed-based d Mapping with Permutation of Subject Images software. RESULTS A systematic literature search identified 51 functional imaging studies (1842 BD and 2190 controls) and 83 VBM studies (2790 BD and 3690 controls). Overall, patients with BD displayed increased resting-state functional activity in the left middle frontal gyrus, right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) extending to the right insula, right superior frontal gyrus and bilateral striatum, as well as decreased resting-state functional activity in the left middle temporal gyrus extending to the left superior temporal gyrus and post-central gyrus, left cerebellum, and bilateral precuneus. The meta-analysis of VBM showed that patients with BD displayed decreased VBM in the right IFG extending to the right insula, temporal pole and superior temporal gyrus, left superior temporal gyrus extending to the left insula, temporal pole, and IFG, anterior cingulate cortex, left superior frontal gyrus (medial prefrontal cortex), left thalamus, and right fusiform gyrus. CONCLUSIONS The multimodal meta-analyses suggested that BD showed similar patterns of aberrant brain activity and structure in the insula extending to the temporal cortex, fronto-striatal-thalamic, and default-mode network regions, which provide useful insights for understanding the underlying pathophysiology of BD.
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- Guanmao Chen
- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Department of Applied Psychology, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, 510006, China
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- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Department of Radiology, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510655, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
- Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510630, China
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Liu X, Klugah-Brown B, Zhang R, Chen H, Zhang J, Becker B. Pathological fear, anxiety and negative affect exhibit distinct neurostructural signatures: evidence from psychiatric neuroimaging meta-analysis. Transl Psychiatry 2022; 12:405. [PMID: 36151073 PMCID: PMC9508096 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-022-02157-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2022] [Revised: 09/04/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Internalizing disorders encompass anxiety, fear and depressive disorders, which exhibit overlap at both conceptual and symptom levels. Given that a neurobiological evaluation is lacking, we conducted a Seed-based D-Mapping comparative meta-analysis including coordinates as well as original statistical maps to determine common and disorder-specific gray matter volume alterations in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), fear-related anxiety disorders (FAD, i.e., social anxiety disorder, specific phobias, panic disorder) and major depressive disorder (MDD). Results showed that GAD exhibited disorder-specific altered volumes relative to FAD including decreased volumes in left insula and lateral/medial prefrontal cortex as well as increased right putamen volume. Both GAD and MDD showed decreased prefrontal volumes compared to controls and FAD. While FAD showed less robust alterations in lingual gyrus compared to controls, this group presented intact frontal integrity. No shared structural abnormalities were found. Our study is the first to provide meta-analytic evidence for distinct neuroanatomical abnormalities underlying the pathophysiology of anxiety-, fear-related and depressive disorders. These findings may have implications for determining promising target regions for disorder-specific neuromodulation interventions (e.g. transcranial magnetic stimulation or neurofeedback).
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- Xiqin Liu
- grid.54549.390000 0004 0369 4060The Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731 Chengdu, P. R. China
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- grid.54549.390000 0004 0369 4060The Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731 Chengdu, P. R. China
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- grid.54549.390000 0004 0369 4060The Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731 Chengdu, P. R. China
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- grid.54549.390000 0004 0369 4060The Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731 Chengdu, P. R. China
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- grid.8547.e0000 0001 0125 2443Institute of Science and Technology for Brain Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, 200433 Shanghai, P. R. China ,grid.8547.e0000 0001 0125 2443Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Ministry of Education, 200433 Shanghai, P. R. China
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- The Center of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, MOE Key Laboratory for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 611731, Chengdu, P. R. China.
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Li Y, Bi HY. Comparative research on neural dysfunction in children with dyslexia under different writing systems: A meta-analysis study. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2022; 137:104650. [PMID: 35367220 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Developmental dyslexia is a special learning disorder which is prevalent in all languages. A central question in dyslexia is whether the neural mechanism of their defects is universal or distinct in different writing systems. Using meta-analytic approach, we created meta-images using activation abnormalities in Chinese and alphabetic children with dyslexia to find convergence and divergence under different writing systems. The results revealed that dyslexic children have a universal attention-related dysfunction with hypoactivation in the left inferior frontal cortex (IFC) and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) under different writing systems, in spite of differences of degree and spatial extent in those regions. Alphabetic dyslexic children additionally showed hypoactivation in the left occipito-temporo-parietal regions. Chinese dyslexic children showed specific hyperactivation in the right postcentral gyrus, the left rectus, and the right middle temporal gyrus. The present meta-analysis for the first time showed both shared and distinct abnormalities in children with dyslexia under Chinese and alphabetic writing systems.
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- YiZhen Li
- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Center for Brain Science and Learning Difficulties, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Center for Brain Science and Learning Difficulties, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Multimodal English Teaching Classroom Interaction Based on Artificial Neural Network. COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE 2022; 2022:3141451. [PMID: 35669674 PMCID: PMC9167107 DOI: 10.1155/2022/3141451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2022] [Revised: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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In recent years, with the rapid development of science and technology, traditional teaching methods and concepts have been frequently impacted. Artificial neural network shows excellent intelligence because of its powerful nonlinear processing ability and efficient associative function. It is increasingly becoming an emerging object in the field of artificial intelligence. At the same time, in the field of education and teaching, the integration of English teaching and multimodality not only condenses the characteristics of the times but also expands new teaching models, bringing opportunities for the emergence of new teaching models. Based on this, this study proposes an interactive method for multimodal English teaching based on artificial neural networks. It aims to study how to use the autonomous learning of artificial neural networks to accelerate the fusion of different modalities and at the same time make suggestions for different teaching interaction modes. This paper firstly analyzes the interaction of English teaching under the traditional mode. It then proposes a multimodal fusion interaction method based on artificial neural networks. It finally explores the feasibility of the new interaction theory by setting up an experimental group and a control group. Through the analysis of the experimental data, the final data results show that the multimodal fusion interaction based on artificial neural network has a very significant effect, and the students' interest in the English classroom is as high as 81.9%. This fully demonstrates the great value of the new fusion method, and it has certain enlightening significance for the establishment of English teaching modes and curriculum reform.
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Zhang H, Wei S, Wang Y, Feng J. Neuroanatomical substrates of maximizing tendency in decision-making: a voxel-based morphometric study. Brain Imaging Behav 2022; 16:1938-1945. [PMID: 35585446 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-022-00656-3] [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: 06/10/2021] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Maximizing tendency is a central decision-making concept that has increasingly drawn attention from the scientific community. It refers to individuals' predisposition to look for the best option instead of settling for something that merely passes an internal threshold of acceptability. Although this maximizing strategy intuitively increases individual benefits, it also has been linked to various negative outcomes, including decreased well-being and low life satisfaction, and it varies considerably across populations. However, the neuroanatomical characteristics underlying this heterogeneity remain poorly understood. To address this knowledge gap, a 13-item Maximization Scale and magnetic resonance imaging technique were respectively used in this study to estimate individual maximizing tendency and structural morphological information on a sample of healthy adults (n = 69). Furthermore, voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis was conducted to investigate the associations between gray matter volume (GMV) and maximizing tendency through univariate and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA). Univariate analysis did not determine an association between maximizing tendency and whole-brain GMV; by contrast, MVPA revealed that maximizing tendency could be successfully predicted by the GMVs of the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), right insula, and right cerebellum. These findings suggest the critical role of the morphological characteristics of the cortical-subcortical circuitry in individuals' maximizing tendency.
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- Hanqi Zhang
- School of Economics and Management, South China Normal University, 510006, Guangzhou, China.,Key Lab for Behavioral Economic Science & Technology, South China Normal University, 510006, Guangzhou, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, 300387, Tianjin, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, 300387, Tianjin, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, 300387, Tianjin, China.
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Nakua H, Hawco C, Forde NJ, Jacobs GR, Joseph M, Voineskos AN, Wheeler AL, Lai MC, Szatmari P, Kelley E, Liu X, Georgiades S, Nicolson R, Schachar R, Crosbie J, Anagnostou E, Lerch JP, Arnold PD, Ameis SH. Cortico-amygdalar connectivity and externalizing/internalizing behavior in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Brain Struct Funct 2022; 227:1963-1979. [PMID: 35469103 PMCID: PMC9232404 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-022-02483-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Background Externalizing and internalizing behaviors contribute to clinical impairment in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Although associations between externalizing or internalizing behaviors and cortico-amygdalar connectivity have been found in clinical and non-clinical pediatric samples, no previous study has examined whether similar shared associations are present across children with different NDDs. Methods Multi-modal neuroimaging and behavioral data from the Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Disorders (POND) Network were used. POND participants aged 6–18 years with a primary diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), as well as typically developing children (TDC) with T1-weighted, resting-state fMRI or diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and parent-report Child Behavioral Checklist (CBCL) data available, were analyzed (total n = 346). Associations between externalizing or internalizing behavior and cortico-amygdalar structural and functional connectivity indices were examined using linear regressions, controlling for age, gender, and image-modality specific covariates. Behavior-by-diagnosis interaction effects were also examined. Results No significant linear associations (or diagnosis-by-behavior interaction effects) were found between CBCL-measured externalizing or internalizing behaviors and any of the connectivity indices examined. Post-hoc bootstrapping analyses indicated stability and reliability of these null results. Conclusions The current study provides evidence towards an absence of a shared linear relationship between internalizing or externalizing behaviors and cortico-amygdalar connectivity properties across a transdiagnostic sample of children with different primary NDD diagnoses and TDC. Different methodological approaches, including incorporation of multi-dimensional behavioral data (e.g., task-based fMRI) or clustering approaches may be needed to clarify complex brain-behavior relationships relevant to externalizing/internalizing behaviors in heterogeneous clinical NDD populations. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00429-022-02483-0.
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- Hajer Nakua
- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 80 Workman Way, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada
- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 80 Workman Way, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 80 Workman Way, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 80 Workman Way, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada
- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 80 Workman Way, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 80 Workman Way, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 80 Workman Way, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 80 Workman Way, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Mouse Imaging Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 80 Workman Way, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada.
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- Program in Neurosciences and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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Varinelli A, Caricasole V, Pellegrini L, Hall N, Garg K, Mpavaenda D, Dell'Osso B, Albert U, Fineberg NA. Functional interventions as augmentation strategies for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): scoping review and expert survey from the international college of obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (ICOCS). Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract 2022; 26:92-107. [PMID: 33502269 DOI: 10.1080/13651501.2021.1872646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) commonly exhibit a range of functional difficulties, presumed linked to neurocognitive changes. Evidence-based first-line treatments have limited effect on improving these cognitive-functional problems. Candidate interventions could be used to augment evidence-based treatments by the multi-professional mental health team. METHODS A scoping review was performed to identify any intervention with at least one peer-reviewed report of clinical improvement in any of the 13 functional domains of the Cognitive Assessment Instrument of Obsessions and Compulsions (CAIOC-13). Next, an online survey of experts of the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders was conducted. RESULTS Forty-four studies were identified reporting a positive outcome for 27 different kinds of intervention. Twenty-six experts from 12 different countries, including at least one expert from each continent, completed the opinion survey. Five interventions were identified as 'highly promising', none of which was moderated by rater-related factors, suggesting global applicability. CONCLUSION Patients with OCD may benefit from a detailed functional assessment, to identify areas of unmet need. A variety of interventions show theoretical promise for treating the complex functional difficulties in OCD as adjuncts to first-line treatments, but the published evidence is weak. Randomised controlled trials are needed to determine the clinical effectiveness of these interventions.HighlightsFunctional-cognitive problems are common in patients with OCD.First-line evidence-based treatments have limited effect on these functionalcognitive difficulties.In our scoping review we found 44 studies reporting of improved clinical outcomes in any of the 13 functional domains of the Cognitive Assessment Instrument of Obsessions and Compulsions (CAIOC-13).An online survey of experts of the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) was conducted and identified five interventions as "highly promising" candidate treatments for functional-cognitive problems in OCD.Randomised controlled trials are needed to determine the clinical effectiveness of these interventions.
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- Alberto Varinelli
- Department of Mental Health, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Luigi Sacco, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Mental Health, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Luigi Sacco, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Welwyn Garden City, UK.,School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.,Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
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- Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Welwyn Garden City, UK
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- Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Welwyn Garden City, UK.,School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
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- Department of Mental Health, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Luigi Sacco, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Bipolar Disorders Clinic, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.,'Aldo Ravelli' Center for Neurotechnology and Brain Therapeutic, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, UCO Clinica Psichiatrica, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) Expert Survey Workgroup: Michael Van Ameringen (Canada), Leonardo Fontenelle (Brazil), Giacomo Grassi (Italy), Jamie Feusner (US), Lior Carmi (Israel), Edna Grunblatt (Switzerland), Susanne Walitza (Switzerland), Christine Lochner (South Africa), Carolyn Rodriguez (US), Alexander Bystritsky (US), Maria Ceica Rosario (US), Peter van Roessel (US), Dan Geller (US), Eric Hollander (US), Humberto Nicolini (Mexico), Joseph Zohar (Israel), José Menchón (Spain)
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- Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Welwyn Garden City, UK.,School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.,School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Zhao L, Xue SW, Sun YK, Lan Z, Zhang Z, Xue Y, Wang X, Jin Y. Altered dynamic functional connectivity of insular subregions could predict symptom severity of male patients with autism spectrum disorder. J Affect Disord 2022; 299:504-512. [PMID: 34953921 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.12.093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Revised: 10/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social communication and restricted or repetitive patterns of behavior. This disorder was characterized by widespread abnormalities involving distributed brain networks. As one such key network node, the insular cortex has been regarded as a research focus of ASD neuropathology. The insula is a functionally complex brain structure. However, it is not fully clear if dynamic characteristics of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (R-fMRI) signals in insular heterogeneous could be used to depict abnormalities in ASD. To address this question, we investigated dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) of 12 insular subregions. Data were obtained from 44 individuals with ASD and 65 typically developing age-matched controls (TDC). We assessed dFC by sliding-window method and quantified its temporal variability. Multivariable linear regression models were constructed to determine whether dFC support complementary information about symptom severity of individuals with ASD rather than static functional connectivity (sFC). The results showed that individuals with ASD exhibited dFC and sFC alterations in distinct insular subregions. Some brain regions showed only abnormal dFC but not sFC with insular subregions. These abnormal dFC could significantly predict the symptom severity of individuals with ASD. Our findings might advance our knowledge about the potential of insular heterogeneity and dynamic characteristics in understanding the neuropathology mechanism of ASD and in developing neuroimaging biomarkers for clinical applications.
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- Lei Zhao
- Centre for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, No.2318, Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311121, China; Institute of Psychological Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China; Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Centre for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, No.2318, Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311121, China; Institute of Psychological Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China; Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments, Hangzhou 311121, China.
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- Centre for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, No.2318, Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311121, China; Institute of Psychological Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China; Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Centre for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, No.2318, Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311121, China; Institute of Psychological Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China; Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments, Hangzhou 311121, China; Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Centre for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, No.2318, Yuhangtang Rd, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311121, China; Institute of Psychological Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China; Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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- Jing Hengyi School of Education, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
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Liu J, Cao L, Li H, Gao Y, Bu X, Liang K, Bao W, Zhang S, Qiu H, Li X, Hu X, Lu L, Zhang L, Hu X, Huang X, Gong Q. Abnormal resting-state functional connectivity in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2022; 135:104574. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 12/12/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Kong X, Postema MC, Guadalupe T, de Kovel C, Boedhoe PSW, Hoogman M, Mathias SR, van Rooij D, Schijven D, Glahn DC, Medland SE, Jahanshad N, Thomopoulos SI, Turner JA, Buitelaar J, van Erp TGM, Franke B, Fisher SE, van den Heuvel OA, Schmaal L, Thompson PM, Francks C. Mapping brain asymmetry in health and disease through the ENIGMA consortium. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 43:167-181. [PMID: 32420672 PMCID: PMC8675409 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Revised: 03/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Left-right asymmetry of the human brain is one of its cardinal features, and also a complex, multivariate trait. Decades of research have suggested that brain asymmetry may be altered in psychiatric disorders. However, findings have been inconsistent and often based on small sample sizes. There are also open questions surrounding which structures are asymmetrical on average in the healthy population, and how variability in brain asymmetry relates to basic biological variables such as age and sex. Over the last 4 years, the ENIGMA-Laterality Working Group has published six studies of gray matter morphological asymmetry based on total sample sizes from roughly 3,500 to 17,000 individuals, which were between one and two orders of magnitude larger than those published in previous decades. A population-level mapping of average asymmetry was achieved, including an intriguing fronto-occipital gradient of cortical thickness asymmetry in healthy brains. ENIGMA's multi-dataset approach also supported an empirical illustration of reproducibility of hemispheric differences across datasets. Effect sizes were estimated for gray matter asymmetry based on large, international, samples in relation to age, sex, handedness, and brain volume, as well as for three psychiatric disorders: autism spectrum disorder was associated with subtly reduced asymmetry of cortical thickness at regions spread widely over the cortex; pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder was associated with altered subcortical asymmetry; major depressive disorder was not significantly associated with changes of asymmetry. Ongoing studies are examining brain asymmetry in other disorders. Moreover, a groundwork has been laid for possibly identifying shared genetic contributions to brain asymmetry and disorders.
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- Xiang‐Zhen Kong
- Language and Genetics DepartmentMax Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Language and Genetics DepartmentMax Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Language and Genetics DepartmentMax Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Language and Genetics DepartmentMax Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam University Medical CenterVrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Human GeneticsRadboud University Medical CenterNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourRadboud University Medical CentreNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Department of PsychiatryBoston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourRadboud University Medical CentreNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Language and Genetics DepartmentMax Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Department of PsychiatryBoston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMassachusettsUSA
- Olin Neuropsychiatry Research CenterInstitute of Living, Hartford HospitalHartfordConnecticutUSA
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- Psychiatric GeneticsQIMR Berghofer Medical Research InstituteBrisbaneQueenslandAustralia
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics InstituteKeck School of Medicine of the University of Southern CaliforniaMarina del ReyCaliforniaUSA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging & Informatics InstituteKeck School of Medicine of the University of Southern CaliforniaMarina del ReyCaliforniaUSA
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- Tri‐institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS)Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory UniversityAtlantaGeorgiaUSA
- Department of Psychology and NeuroscienceGeorgia State UniversityAtlantaGeorgiaUSA
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- Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourRadboud University Medical CentreNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourRadboud University Medical CentreNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Karakter Child and Adolescent PsychiatryNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Clinical Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Human BehaviorUniversity of California IrvineIrvineCaliforniaUSA
- Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and MemoryUniversity of California IrvineIrvineCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Human Genetics, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourRadboud University Medical CenterNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviourRadboud University Medical CenterNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Language and Genetics DepartmentMax Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviorRadboud UniversityNijmegenThe Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam University Medical CenterVrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental HealthParkvilleVictoriaAustralia
- Centre for Youth Mental HealthThe University of MelbourneMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- Tri‐institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS)Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory UniversityAtlantaGeorgiaUSA
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- Language and Genetics DepartmentMax Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsNijmegenThe Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and BehaviorRadboud UniversityNijmegenThe Netherlands
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Liu J, Wen F, Yan J, Yu L, Wang F, Wang D, Zhang J, Yan C, Chu J, Li Y, Li Y, Cui Y. Gray Matter Alterations in Pediatric Schizophrenia and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Voxel-Based Morphometry Studies. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:785547. [PMID: 35308883 PMCID: PMC8924120 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.785547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is comparing gray matter alterations in SCZ pediatric patients with those suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) based on a systematic review and an activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis. METHODS A systematic literature search was performed in PubMed, Elsevier, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). A systematic review and an ALE meta-analysis were performed to quantitatively examine brain gray matter alterations. RESULTS Children and adolescents with schizophrenia had decreased gray matter volume (GMV) mainly in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), temporal cortex (such as the middle temporal gyrus and transverse temporal gyrus), and insula, while children and adolescents with OCD mainly had increased GMV in the PFC and the striatum (including the lentiform nucleus and caudate nucleus), and decreased GMV in the parietal cortex. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that gray matter abnormalities in the PFC may indicate homogeneity between the two diseases. In children and adolescents, structural alterations in schizophrenia mainly involve the fronto-temporal and cortico-insula circuits, whereas those in OCD mainly involve the prefrontal-parietal and the prefrontal-striatal circuits.
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- Jingran Liu
- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Centre for Children's Health, Beijing, China
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Xu S, Li M, Yang C, Fang X, Ye M, Wu Y, Yang B, Huang W, Li P, Ma X, Fu S, Yin Y, Tian J, Gan Y, Jiang G. Abnormal Degree Centrality in Children with Low-Function Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Sleeping-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2022; 18:1363-1374. [PMID: 35818374 PMCID: PMC9270980 DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s367104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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PURPOSE This study used the graph-theory approach, degree centrality (DC) to analyze whole-brain functional networks at the voxel level in children with ASD, and investigated whether DC changes were correlated with any clinical variables in ASD children. METHODS The current study included 86 children with ASD and 54 matched healthy subjects Aged 2-5.5 years. Next, chloral hydrate induced sleeping-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (ss-fMRI) datasets were acquired from these ASD and healthy subjects. For a given voxel, the DC was calculated by calculating the number of functional connections with significantly positive correlations at the individual level. Group differences were tested using two-sample t-tests (p < 0.01, AlphaSim corrected). Finally, relationships between abnormal DCs and clinical variables were investigated via Pearson's correlation analysis. RESULTS Children with ASD exhibited low DC values in the right middle frontal gyrus (MFG) (p < 0.01, AlphaSim corrected). Furthermore, significantly negative correlations were established between the decreased average DC values within the right MFG in ASD children and the total ABC scores, as well as with two ABC subscales measuring highly relevant impairments in ASD (ie, stereotypes and object-use behaviors and difficulties in language). CONCLUSION Taken together, the results of our ss-fMRI study suggest that abnormal DC may represent an important contribution to elucidation of the neuropathophysiological mechanisms of preschoolers with ASD.
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- Shoujun Xu
- Department of Radiology, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Department of Children Healthcare, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Department of Children Healthcare, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Department of Children Healthcare, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Department of Children Healthcare, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, Shenzhen Children's Hospital, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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Li L, Yu H, Zhong M, Liu S, Wei W, Meng Y, Li ML, Li T, Wang Q. Gray matter volume alterations in subjects with overweight and obesity: Evidence from a voxel-based meta-analysis. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:955741. [PMID: 36226110 PMCID: PMC9548618 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.955741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Obesity is a multi-systemic disease with complex etiology. And consistent evidence indicated obesity or overweight subjects render brain structure changes. Increasing evidence indicates these subjects have shown widespread structural brain gray matter volume (GMV) changes. However, results from other neuroimaging studies have been inconsistent. Consequently, the question remains whether body mass index (BMI), a gold standard to define obesity/overweight, is associated with brain structural changes. METHODS This study will apply an updated meta-analysis of voxel-based GMV studies to compare GMV changes in overweight and obese subjects. Online databases were used to build on relevant studies published before May 2022. The updated Seed-based d Mapping with Permutation of Subject Images (SDM-PSI) explores GMV changes in individuals with overweight and obesity and further examines the correlation between GMV and obesity-related variables, specifically body mass index (BMI). RESULTS This research included fourteen studies and provided a whole-brain analysis of GMV distribution in overweight and obese individuals. It revealed lower GMV in brain regions, including the left putamen and right precentral gyrus, in individuals with overweight and obesity compared to lean controls. Further, meta-regression analyses revealed GMV in the left middle occipital gyrus was negatively correlated with the BMI of the whole sample. CONCLUSION GMV decreased was reported in reward circuit processing areas and sensorimotor processing areas of individuals with overweight and obesity diagnoses, suggesting an underlying structural basis for reward processing and sensorimotor processing dysregulation in overweight and obese subjects. Our results also suggest that GMV in occipital gyrus, a key region for food visual and gustatory encoding, is negatively associated with BMI. These results provide further evidence for the dysregulated reward circuit in individuals with overweight and obesity.
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- Lei Li
- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,Sichuan Clinical Medical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,Sichuan Clinical Medical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Sport and Health Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,Sichuan Clinical Medical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,Sichuan Clinical Medical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,Sichuan Clinical Medical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,Sichuan Clinical Medical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Neurobiology, Affiliated Mental Health Center & Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,Sichuan Clinical Medical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Chengdu, China
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Common Grey Matter Reductions in Alcohol Use and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Metanalysis. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY GLOBAL OPEN SCIENCE 2021; 2:421-431. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2021.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2021] [Revised: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Sabaie H, Dehghani H, Shiva S, Asadi MR, Rezaei O, Taheri M, Rezazadeh M. Mechanistic Insight Into the Regulation of Immune-Related Genes Expression in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:754296. [PMID: 34746237 PMCID: PMC8568055 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.754296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder featuring impairment in verbal and non-verbal interactions, defects in social interactions, stereotypic behaviors as well as restricted interests. In recent times, the incidence of ASD is growing at a rapid pace. In spite of great endeavors devoted to explaining ASD pathophysiology, its precise etiology remains unresolved. ASD pathogenesis is related to different phenomena associated with the immune system; however, the mechanisms behind these immune phenomena as well as the potential contributing genes remain unclear. In the current work, we used a bioinformatics approach to describe the role of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)-associated competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) in the peripheral blood (PB) samples to figure out the molecular regulatory procedures involved in ASD better. The Gene Expression Omnibus database was used to obtain the PB microarray dataset (GSE89594) from the subjects suffering from ASD and control subjects, containing the data related to both mRNAs and lncRNAs. The list of immune-related genes was obtained from the ImmPort database. In order to determine the immune-related differentially expressed mRNAs (DEmRNAs) and lncRNAs (DElncRNAs), the limma package of R software was used. A protein-protein interaction network was developed for the immune-related DEmRNAs. By employing the Human MicroRNA Disease Database, DIANA-LncBase, and DIANA-TarBase databases, the RNA interaction pairs were determined. We used the Pearson correlation coefficient to discover the positive correlations between DElncRNAs and DEmRNAs within the ceRNA network. Finally, the lncRNA-associated ceRNA network was created based on DElncRNA-miRNA-DEmRNA interactions and co-expression interactions. In addition, the KEGG enrichment analysis was conducted for immune-related DEmRNAs found within the constructed network. This work found four potential DElncRNA-miRNA-DEmRNA axes in ASD pathogenesis, including, LINC00472/hsa-miR-221-3p/PTPN11, ANP32A-IT1/hsa-miR-182-5p/S100A2, LINC00472/hsa-miR-132-3p/S100A2, and RBM26-AS1/hsa-miR-182-5p/S100A2. According to pathway enrichment analysis, the immune-related DEmRNAs were enriched in the "JAK-STAT signaling pathway" and "Adipocytokine signaling pathway." An understanding of regulatory mechanisms of ASD-related immune genes would provide novel insights into the molecular mechanisms behind ASD pathogenesis.
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- Hani Sabaie
- Molecular Medicine Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
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- Pediatric Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Molecular Medicine Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Skull Base Research Center, Loghman Hakim Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Skull Base Research Center, Loghman Hakim Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Institute of Human Genetics, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Molecular Medicine Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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