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Amos TJ, Guragai B, Rao Q, Li W, Jin Z, Zhang J, Li L. Task functional networks predict individual differences in the speed of emotional facial discrimination. Neuroimage 2024; 297:120715. [PMID: 38945182 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120715] [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: 09/30/2023] [Revised: 04/21/2024] [Accepted: 06/28/2024] [Indexed: 07/02/2024] Open
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Every individual experiences negative emotions, such as fear and anger, significantly influencing how external information is perceived and processed. With the gradual rise in brain-behavior relationship studies, analyses investigating individual differences in negative emotion processing and a more objective measure such as the response time (RT) remain unexplored. This study aims to address this gap by establishing that the individual differences in the speed of negative facial emotion discrimination can be predicted from whole-brain functional connectivity when participants were performing a face discrimination task. Employing the connectome predictive modeling (CPM) framework, we demonstrated this in the young healthy adult group from the Human Connectome Project-Young Adults (HCP-YA) dataset and the healthy group of the Boston Adolescent Neuroimaging of Depression and Anxiety (BANDA) dataset. We identified distinct network contributions in the adult and adolescent predictive models. The highest represented brain networks involved in the adult model predictions included representations from the motor, visual association, salience, and medial frontal networks. Conversely, the adolescent predictive models showed substantial contributions from the cerebellum-frontoparietal network interactions. Finally, we observed that despite the successful within-dataset prediction in healthy adults and adolescents, the predictive models failed in the cross-dataset generalization. In conclusion, our study shows that individual differences in the speed of emotional facial discrimination can be predicted in healthy adults and adolescent samples using their functional connectivity during negative facial emotion processing. Future research is needed in the derivation of more generalizable models.
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- Toluwani Joan Amos
- MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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- MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
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- MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
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Franco-O´Byrne D, Gonzalez-Gomez R, Morales Sepúlveda JP, Vergara M, Ibañez A, Huepe D. The impact of loneliness and social adaptation on depressive symptoms: Behavioral and brain measures evidence from a brain health perspective. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1096178. [PMID: 37077845 PMCID: PMC10108715 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1096178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023] Open
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Introduction Early detection of depression is a cost-effective way to prevent adverse outcomes on brain physiology, cognition, and health. Here we propose that loneliness and social adaptation are key factors that can anticipate depressive symptoms. Methods We analyzed data from two separate samples to evaluate the associations between loneliness, social adaptation, depressive symptoms, and their neural correlates. Results For both samples, hierarchical regression models on self-reported data showed that loneliness and social adaptation have negative and positive effects on depressive symptoms. Moreover, social adaptation reduces the impact of loneliness on depressive symptoms. Structural connectivity analysis showed that depressive symptoms, loneliness, and social adaptation share a common neural substrate. Furthermore, functional connectivity analysis demonstrated that only social adaptation was associated with connectivity in parietal areas. Discussion Altogether, our results suggest that loneliness is a strong risk factor for depressive symptoms while social adaptation acts as a buffer against the ill effects of loneliness. At the neuroanatomical level, loneliness and depression may affect the integrity of white matter structures known to be associated to emotion dysregulation and cognitive impairment. On the other hand, socio-adaptive processes may protect against the harmful effects of loneliness and depression. Structural and functional correlates of social adaptation could indicate a protective role through long and short-term effects, respectively. These findings may aid approaches to preserve brain health via social participation and adaptive social behavior.
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- Daniel Franco-O´Byrne
- Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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- Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Latin American Brain Health (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Programa de Doctorado en Neurociencias Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurocienciass, Santiago, Chile
- Facultad de Educación Psicología y Familia, Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile
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- Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Latin American Brain Health (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
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- Latin American Brain Health (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
- Global Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
- Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile, Chile
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Murray T, O’Brien J, Sagiv N, Kumari V. Changes in functional connectivity associated with facial expression processing over the working adult lifespan. Cortex 2022; 151:211-223. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Revised: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Zorzi G, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Manara R, Bussè C, Corbetta M, Cagnin A. White matter abnormalities of right hemisphere attention networks contribute to visual hallucinations in dementia with Lewy bodies. Cortex 2021; 139:86-98. [PMID: 33848693 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2020] [Revised: 01/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Functional alterations of the visual attention networks in a setting of impaired visual information processing have a role in the genesis of visual hallucinations (VH) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). This multimodal MRI study aims at exploring structural and functional basis of VH. METHODS 23 DLB patients (10 with and 13 without VH) and 13 healthy controls were studied. They underwent MRI with T1-w sequences to measure cortical thickness, DTI for whole-brain and single tract microstructural properties and rs-fMRI of the default mode, dorsal and ventral attention, and visual networks. RESULTS In DLB with VH, whole-brain DTI revealed a lower fractional anisotropy and a greater mean diffusivity in the right frontal and temporo-parietal white matter tracts. Tracts dissection showed lower fractional anisotropy in the right inferior and superior (ventral part) longitudinal fasciculi (ILF and SLF) (p < .05, corrected), and greater mean diffusivity (p < .05). The extent of white matter microstructural alterations involving the right ILF and SLF correlated with the severity of VH (r = .55, p < .01; r = .42, p < .05, respectively), and with performance in the visual attention task (r = -.56 and r = -.61; p < .01, respectively). Cortical thickness in the projection areas of the right SLF was significantly reduced (p < .05). Patients with VH also showed an altered functional connectivity in the ventral attention network, connected by the ventral portion of the SLF (p < .05). CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that a combination of microstructural and functional alterations involving the attention networks in the right hemisphere may be important in the genesis of VH.
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- Giovanni Zorzi
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
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- Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Sorbonne Universities, Paris, France; Groupe d'Imagerie Neurofonctionnelle, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives-UMR 5293, CNRS, CEA University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; Department of Neurology, Radiology, Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St.Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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BACKGROUND Racial discrimination is one of many barriers experienced by African Americans that interfere with health self-care management. Discrimination stress may decrease the tendency for individuals to resonate with the social-emotional appeals embedded in persuasive health information, which are known to play a key role in producing behavior change. Understanding the neurobehavioral underpinnings of discrimination stress experienced by African Americans may help reduce or resolve this important health disparity. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this secondary analysis was to examine the association between neural processing of health information and perceived discrimination. In particular, we focused on three previously identified measures of health information processing associated with distinct brain areas: analytic network, empathy network, and the ventral medial prefrontal cortex. METHODS Data were obtained from 24 African Americans enrolled in a blood pressure self-care management study. Participants completed surveys assessing racial discrimination and global stress, as well as a 40-minute functional magnetic resonance imaging protocol used to measure neural activation associated with processing different types of health information. RESULTS Discrimination stress was significantly related to reduced activation of the empathy network and ventral medial prefrontal cortex, whereas there was a nonsignificant positive relationship with activity in the analytic network. DISCUSSION Uncovering associations between patient experiences, such as racial discrimination, and their neural processing of health information can lead to the development of tailored health messages and self-care management interventions. This may inform strategies to close the gap on health outcomes.
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Jung S, Kim JH, Sung G, Ko YG, Bang M, Park CI, Lee SH. Uncinate fasciculus white matter connectivity related to impaired social perception and cross-sectional and longitudinal symptoms in patients with schizophrenia spectrum psychosis. Neurosci Lett 2020; 737:135144. [PMID: 32534095 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2020.135144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 06/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Dysfunctional social-emotional perception in patients with schizophrenia can result in adverse clinical symptoms and poorer long-term outcomes. The white matter tracts that interact among a number of brain regions have an important role to play. However, few neuroimaging studies focus on the effects of white matter connectivity on social-emotional perception in schizophrenia and its impact on patients' clinical symptoms and long-term outcomes. Forty-one patients with schizophrenia spectrum psychosis and 42 healthy controls underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging. The white matter fractional anisotropy values of the emotion recognition areas, the bilateral anterior thalamic radiation, inferior longitudinal fasciculus, cingulum bundle, superior longitudinal fasciculus, and uncinate fasciculus were compared between patients with schizophrenia spectrum psychosis and healthy controls. Social-emotional perception levels and symptom severity at baseline and after 1 year were examined. A group analysis showed that white matter connectivity was significantly lower in the bilateral anterior thalamic radiation, cingulum bundle, right inferior longitudinal fasciculus, and uncinate fasciculus of patients with schizophrenia spectrum psychosis compared to the healthy controls. Contrastingly, a correlation analysis revealed that larger right uncinate fasciculus fractional anisotropy values were associated with lower social-emotional perception levels in patients with schizophrenia spectrum psychosis. Additionally, the white matter fractional anisotropy values of the right uncinate fasciculus showed a significant positive correlation with the severity of positive symptoms at baseline and with poor outcomes after 1 year. The findings of the present study suggest that impaired social-emotional perception in patients with schizophrenia spectrum psychosis is associated with larger white matter connectivity of the uncinate fasciculus, which is also associated with more severe symptoms at baseline and after 1-year. These results suggest that the uncinate fasciculus could affect the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
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- Sra Jung
- Department of Psychiatry, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
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- CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea; Department of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Psychiatry, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea.
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Patterns of individual differences in fiber tract integrity of the face processing brain network support neurofunctional models. Neuroimage 2020; 204:116229. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2019] [Revised: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Dzafic I, Oestreich L, Martin AK, Mowry B, Burianová H. Stria terminalis, amygdala, and temporoparietal junction networks facilitate efficient emotion processing under expectations. Hum Brain Mapp 2019; 40:5382-5396. [PMID: 31460690 PMCID: PMC6864902 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2019] [Revised: 08/11/2019] [Accepted: 08/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Rapid emotion processing is an ecologically essential ability for survival in social environments in which threatening or advantageous encounters dynamically and rapidly occur. Efficient emotion recognition is subserved by different processes, depending on one's expectations; however, the underlying functional and structural circuitry is still poorly understood. In this study, we delineate brain networks that subserve fast recognition of emotion in situations either congruent or incongruent with prior expectations. For this purpose, we used multimodal neuroimaging and investigated performance on a dynamic emotion perception task. We show that the extended amygdala structural and functional networks relate to speed of emotion processing under threatening conditions. Specifically, increased microstructure of the right stria terminalis, an amygdala white-matter pathway, was related to faster detection of emotion during actual presentation of anger or after cueing anger. Moreover, functional connectivity of right amygdala with limbic regions was related to faster detection of anger congruent with cue, suggesting selective attention to threat. On the contrary, we found that faster detection of anger incongruent with cue engaged the ventral attention "reorienting" network. Faster detection of happiness, in either expectancy context, engaged a widespread frontotemporal-subcortical functional network. These findings shed light on the functional and structural circuitries that facilitate speed of emotion recognition and, for the first time, elucidate a role for the stria terminalis in human emotion processing.
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- Ilvana Dzafic
- Queensland Brain InstituteUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneAustralia
- Centre for Advanced ImagingUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneAustralia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain FunctionAustralia
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- Centre for Advanced ImagingUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneAustralia
- University of Queensland Centre for Clinical ResearchBrisbaneAustralia
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- University of Queensland Centre for Clinical ResearchBrisbaneAustralia
- Department of PsychologyDurham UniversityDurhamUK
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- Queensland Brain InstituteUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneAustralia
- Queensland Centre for Mental Health ResearchBrisbaneAustralia
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- Centre for Advanced ImagingUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneAustralia
- Department of PsychologySwansea UniversitySwanseaUnited Kingdom
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The superior longitudinal fasciculus and its functional triple-network mechanisms in brooding. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2019; 24:101935. [PMID: 31352219 PMCID: PMC6664225 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2019] [Revised: 07/10/2019] [Accepted: 07/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Brooding, which refers to a repetitive focus on one's distress, is associated with functional connectivity within Default-Mode, Salience, and Executive-Control networks (DMN; SN; ECN), comprising the so-called "triple-network" of attention. Individual differences in brain structure that might perseverate dysfunctional connectivity of brain networks associated with brooding are less clear, however. Using diffusion and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, we explored multimodal relationships between brooding severity, white-matter microstructure, and resting-state functional connectivity in depressed adults (N = 32-44), and then examined whether findings directly replicated in a demographically-similar, independent sample (N = 36-45). Among the fully-replicated results, three core findings emerged. First, brooding severity is associated with functional integration and segregation of the triple-network, particularly with a Precuneal subnetwork of the DMN. Second, microstructural asymmetry of the Superior Longitudinal Fasciculus (SLF) provides a robust structural connectivity basis for brooding and may account for over 20% of its severity (Discovery: adj. R2 = 0.18; Replication: adj. R2 = 0.22; MSE = 0.06, Predictive R2 = 0.22). Finally, microstructure of the right SLF and auxiliary white-matter is associated with the functional connectivity correlates of brooding, both within and between components of the triple-network (Discovery: adj. R2 = 0.21; Replication: adj. R2 = 0.18; MSE = 0.03, Predictive R2 = 0.21-0.22). By cross-validating multimodal discovery with replication, the present findings help to reproducibly unify disparate perspectives of brooding etiology. Based on that synthesis, our study reformulates brooding as a microstructural-functional connectivity neurophenotype.
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Herbet G, Zemmoura I, Duffau H. Functional Anatomy of the Inferior Longitudinal Fasciculus: From Historical Reports to Current Hypotheses. Front Neuroanat 2018; 12:77. [PMID: 30283306 PMCID: PMC6156142 DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2018.00077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) is a long-range, associative white matter pathway that connects the occipital and temporal-occipital areas of the brain to the anterior temporal areas. In view of the ILF's anatomic connections, it has been suggested that this pathway has a major role in a relatively large array of brain functions. Until recently, however, the literature data on these potential functions were scarce. Here, we review the key findings of recent anatomic, neuromodulation, and neuropsychological studies. We also summarize reports on how this tract is disrupted in a wide range of brain disorders, including psychopathologic, neurodevelopmental, and neurologic diseases. Our review reveals that the ILF is a multilayered, bidirectional tract involved in processing and modulating visual cues and thus in visually guided decisions and behaviors. Accordingly, sudden disruption of the ILF by neurologic insult is mainly associated with neuropsychological impairments of visual cognition (e.g., visual agnosia, prosopagnosia, and alexia). Furthermore, disruption of the ILF may constitute the pathophysiologic basis for visual hallucinations and socio-emotional impairments in schizophrenia, as well as emotional difficulties in autism spectrum disorder. Degeneration of the ILF in neurodegenerative diseases affecting the temporal lobe may explain (at least in part) the gradual onset of semantic and lexical access difficulties. Although some of the functions mediated by the ILF appear to be relatively lateralized, observations from neurosurgery suggest that disruption of the tract's anterior portion can be dynamically compensated for by the contralateral portion. This might explain why bilateral disruption of the ILF in either acute or progressive disease is highly detrimental in neuropsychological terms.
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- Guillaume Herbet
- Department of Neurosurgery, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier University Medical Center, Montpellier, France
- INSERM-1051, Team 4, Saint-Eloi Hospital, Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tours University Medical Center, Tours, France
- UMR 1253, iBrain, INSERM, University of Tours, Tours, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier University Medical Center, Montpellier, France
- INSERM-1051, Team 4, Saint-Eloi Hospital, Institute for Neurosciences of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Social Cognition through the Lens of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2018; 2018:4283427. [PMID: 30302338 PMCID: PMC6158937 DOI: 10.1155/2018/4283427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Accepted: 08/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Social cognition refers to a set of processes, ranging from perception to decision-making, underlying the ability to decode others' intentions and behaviors to plan actions fitting with social and moral, besides individual and economic considerations. Its centrality in everyday life reflects the neural complexity of social processing and the ubiquity of social cognitive deficits in different pathological conditions. Social cognitive processes can be clustered in three domains associated with (a) perceptual processing of social information such as faces and emotional expressions (social perception), (b) grasping others' cognitive or affective states (social understanding), and (c) planning behaviors taking into consideration others', in addition to one's own, goals (social decision-making). We review these domains from the lens of cognitive neuroscience, i.e., in terms of the brain areas mediating the role of such processes in the ability to make sense of others' behavior and plan socially appropriate actions. The increasing evidence on the “social brain” obtained from healthy young individuals nowadays constitutes the baseline for detecting changes in social cognitive skills associated with physiological aging or pathological conditions. In the latter case, impairments in one or more of the abovementioned domains represent a prominent concern, or even a core facet, of neurological (e.g., acquired brain injury or neurodegenerative diseases), psychiatric (e.g., schizophrenia), and developmental (e.g., autism) disorders. To pave the way for the other papers of this issue, addressing the social cognitive deficits associated with severe acquired brain injury, we will briefly discuss the available evidence on the status of social cognition in normal aging and its breakdown in neurodegenerative disorders. Although the assessment and treatment of such impairments is a relatively novel sector in neurorehabilitation, the evidence summarized here strongly suggests that the development of remediation procedures for social cognitive skills will represent a future field of translational research in clinical neuroscience.
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Wang Y, Metoki A, Alm KH, Olson IR. White matter pathways and social cognition. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2018; 90:350-370. [PMID: 29684403 PMCID: PMC5993647 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2017] [Revised: 03/02/2018] [Accepted: 04/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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There is a growing consensus that social cognition and behavior emerge from interactions across distributed regions of the "social brain". Researchers have traditionally focused their attention on functional response properties of these gray matter networks and neglected the vital role of white matter connections in establishing such networks and their functions. In this article, we conduct a comprehensive review of prior research on structural connectivity in social neuroscience and highlight the importance of this literature in clarifying brain mechanisms of social cognition. We pay particular attention to three key social processes: face processing, embodied cognition, and theory of mind, and their respective underlying neural networks. To fully identify and characterize the anatomical architecture of these networks, we further implement probabilistic tractography on a large sample of diffusion-weighted imaging data. The combination of an in-depth literature review and the empirical investigation gives us an unprecedented, well-defined landscape of white matter pathways underlying major social brain networks. Finally, we discuss current problems in the field, outline suggestions for best practice in diffusion-imaging data collection and analysis, and offer new directions for future research.
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- Yin Wang
- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, 19107, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, 19107, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, 19107, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, 19107, USA.
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Bernard F, Lemée JM, Ter Minassian A, Menei P. Right Hemisphere Cognitive Functions: From Clinical and Anatomic Bases to Brain Mapping During Awake Craniotomy Part I: Clinical and Functional Anatomy. World Neurosurg 2018; 118:348-359. [PMID: 29763748 DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2018.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2018] [Revised: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The nondominant hemisphere (usually the right) is responsible for primary cognitive functions such as visuospatial and social cognition. Awake surgery using direct electric stimulation for right cerebral tumor removal remains challenging because of the complexity of the functional anatomy and difficulties in adapting standard bedside tasks to awake surgery conditions. An understanding of semiology and anatomic bases, along with an analysis of the available cognitive tasks for visuospatial and social cognition per operative mapping allow neurosurgeons to better appreciate the functional anatomy of the right hemisphere and its relevance to tumor surgery. In this article, the first of a 2-part review, we discuss the anatomic and functional basis of right hemisphere function. Whereas part II of the review focuses primarily on semiology and surgical management of right-sided tumors under awake conditions, this article provides a comprehensive review of knowledge underpinning awake surgery on the right hemisphere.
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- Florian Bernard
- Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU d'Angers, Angers, France; Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Faculté de Médecine d'Angers, Angers, France
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- Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU d'Angers, Angers, France; CRCINA, INSERM, Université de Nantes, Université d'Angers, Angers, France
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- Département d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, CHU d'Angers, Angers, France; LARIS EA 7315, Image Signal et Sciences du Vivant, Angers Teaching Hospital, Angers, France
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- Service de Neurochirurgie, CHU d'Angers, Angers, France; CRCINA, INSERM, Université de Nantes, Université d'Angers, Angers, France.
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The Original Social Network: White Matter and Social Cognition. Trends Cogn Sci 2018; 22:504-516. [PMID: 29628441 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2017] [Revised: 03/06/2018] [Accepted: 03/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Social neuroscience has traditionally focused on the functionality of gray matter regions, ignoring the critical role played by axonal fiber pathways in supporting complex social processes. In this paper, we argue that research on white matter is essential for understanding a range of topics in social neuroscience, such as face processing, theory of mind, empathy, and imitation, as well as clinical disorders defined by aberrant social behavior, such as prosopagnosia, autism, and schizophrenia. We provide practical advice on how best to carry out these studies, which ultimately will substantially deepen our understanding of the neurobiological basis of social behavior.
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