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Shoeibi A, Ghassemi N, Khodatars M, Moridian P, Khosravi A, Zare A, Gorriz JM, Chale-Chale AH, Khadem A, Rajendra Acharya U. Automatic diagnosis of schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in rs-fMRI modality using convolutional autoencoder model and interval type-2 fuzzy regression. Cogn Neurodyn 2023; 17:1501-1523. [PMID: 37974583 PMCID: PMC10640504 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-022-09897-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2022] [Revised: 09/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nowadays, many people worldwide suffer from brain disorders, and their health is in danger. So far, numerous methods have been proposed for the diagnosis of Schizophrenia (SZ) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), among which functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) modalities are known as a popular method among physicians. This paper presents an SZ and ADHD intelligent detection method of resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) modality using a new deep learning method. The University of California Los Angeles dataset, which contains the rs-fMRI modalities of SZ and ADHD patients, has been used for experiments. The FMRIB software library toolbox first performed preprocessing on rs-fMRI data. Then, a convolutional Autoencoder model with the proposed number of layers is used to extract features from rs-fMRI data. In the classification step, a new fuzzy method called interval type-2 fuzzy regression (IT2FR) is introduced and then optimized by genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimization, and gray wolf optimization (GWO) techniques. Also, the results of IT2FR methods are compared with multilayer perceptron, k-nearest neighbors, support vector machine, random forest, and decision tree, and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system methods. The experiment results show that the IT2FR method with the GWO optimization algorithm has achieved satisfactory results compared to other classifier methods. Finally, the proposed classification technique was able to provide 72.71% accuracy.
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- Afshin Shoeibi
- FPGA Lab, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Computer Engineering Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Medical Engineering, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
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- Faculty of Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (IISRI), Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Gonabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gonabad, Iran
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- Department of Signal Theory, Networking and Communications, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore, 599489 Singapore
- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore, Singapore
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Associations of neurodevelopmental risk factors with psychosis proneness: Findings from a non-clinical sample of young adults. Compr Psychiatry 2023; 123:152385. [PMID: 36931184 DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2023.152385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Revised: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023] Open
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Psychotic disorders often develop as the continuum of subclinical symptoms that include hallucination-like and delusion-like experiences, and are commonly referred to as psychotic-like experiences (PLEs). To date, a number of neurodevelopmental risk factors of psychosis have been detected, yet their mutual interplay remains unknown. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the additive association of childhood trauma history, reading disabilities and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with psychosis proneness. A total of 3000 young adults (58.3% females, aged 18-35 years) with a negative history of psychiatric treatment were recruited to the cross-sectional study through computer-assisted web interview. Self-reports were administered to measure childhood trauma history, ADHD symptoms and reading disabilities. Linear regression analyses revealed significant main associations of childhood trauma history and reading disabilities with higher levels of PLEs. There were no significant main associations of ADHD with the level of PLEs. However, the associations of all possible interactions between neurodevelopmental risk factors with the level of PLEs were significant. Our findings suggest that childhood trauma history and reading disabilities may additively increase a risk of psychosis. The present findings bring new implications for early intervention strategies in psychosis and posit the rationale of recording the accumulation of neurodevelopmental vulnerabilities in clinical practice.
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Salerno L, Becheri L, Pallanti S. ADHD-Gaming Disorder Comorbidity in Children and Adolescents: A Narrative Review. CHILDREN (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 9:children9101528. [PMID: 36291464 PMCID: PMC9600100 DOI: 10.3390/children9101528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Revised: 09/24/2022] [Accepted: 10/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurobiological condition characterized by developmentally inadequate levels of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, and a neurobiological disruption in brain neurotransmitters and circuitry causing abnormal responses to rewards. Playing electronic games generates a biological response that activates the neuronal circuits linked to pleasure and reward, and there is a growing attention to this type of activity, which can also turn into a mental health condition. The existence and the boundaries between the functional and the dysfunctional are still a source of debate, with the recognition of 'Internet Gaming Disorder' (IGD) as a condition belonging to the broader area of addiction requiring more in-depth study with respect to the DSM-5, while 'Gaming Disorder' (GD) was officially recognized as a new diagnosis by the World Health Organization (WHO) in the updated revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Notwithstanding, the suggested criteria for the diagnosis of Gaming Disorder are still debated. Since ADHD has been reported as a risk factor for developing addictions, this narrative review aims to provide the current state-of-the art of the knowledge about the comorbidity between ADHD and Gaming Disorder. For this aim, a literature search was conducted using a combination of specific keywords and the results are discussed within the R-Do-C framework and dimensions, and implications for treatment are considered.
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- Luana Salerno
- INS, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 50121 Florence, Italy
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- INS, Istituto di Neuroscienze, 50121 Florence, Italy
- Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Bae S, Rhee E, Hwang BS, Son YD, Bae JH, Han DH. Correlations Between Psychological Status and Perception of Facial Expression. Psychiatry Investig 2022; 19:435-442. [PMID: 35753682 PMCID: PMC9233958 DOI: 10.30773/pi.2022.0025] [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: 01/19/2022] [Accepted: 04/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Facial affect recognition is associated with neuropsychological status and psychiatric diseases. We hypothesized that facial affect recognition is associated with psychological status and perception of other affects. METHODS A total of 80 images depicting facial affect, including 20 Neutral, 20 Angry, 20 Fear, and 20 Sad, were screened for use in our research. A total of 100 healthy individuals were asked to rate these images using a 10-point Likert scale and complete psychological scales assessing the emotional statuses and cognitive functions. RESULTS The participants' emotional state of aggression, attention, and impulsivity may have been associated with their interpretation of the Angry facial expressions. The participants often rated the Angry facial expressions as Fear. The participants rated Fear images as Angry or Sad. In response to a Sad facial expression, the participants reported psychological statuses of attention and impulsivity which were associated with the facial expression rating. The participants rated the Sad expression as Angry or Fear. CONCLUSION The psychological statuses of the participants were significantly correlated with their interpretation of facial affects. In particular, a psychological state of attention was often correlated with incorrect affect ratings. Attention and impulsivity could affect the rating of the sad facial expressions.
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- Sujin Bae
- Department of Psychiatry, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Statistics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Statistics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Health Sciences & Technology, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Gachon University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Hayashi W, Hanawa Y, Yuriko I, Aoyagi K, Saga N, Nakamura D, Iwanami A. ASD symptoms in adults with ADHD: a preliminary study using the ADOS-2. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2022; 272:217-232. [PMID: 33751200 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-021-01250-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has long been regarded as disparate and mutually exclusive to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-III-R and DSM-IV. However, this idea has become obsolete due to a growing body of evidence suggesting numerous phenotypic and genetic similarities between ADHD and ASD. ASD symptoms or autistic traits in individuals with ADHD have been examined; however, most studies were conducted on children and relied on self- or parent- reports. ASD symptoms assessed with more direct, objective measures, such as the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition (ADOS-2) in adults with ADHD, remain understudied. In the present study, we used the ADOS-2 to evaluate ASD symptoms in adults with ADHD who were not clinically diagnosed with ASD. Fifty-six adults (mean age 33.9 years, 35 males, intelligence quotient ≥ 85), who were diagnosed with ADHD based on the DSM-5 criteria, completed Module 4 of the ADOS-2. Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), Conners' Adult ADHD Rating Scale (CAARS), and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)-III were also administered to assess self-rated ASD symptoms, ADHD symptoms, and intelligence, respectively. Overall, 23.3% of participants met the ASD diagnostic classification on the ADOS-2. Social reciprocal interaction scores tended to be higher, while restricted and repetitive behavior scores were low. The scoring patterns and possible overlapping and differing phenotypic characteristics of ADHD and ASD are discussed.
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- Wakaho Hayashi
- Department of Psychiatry, Showa University School of Medicine, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan. .,Department of Psychiatry, Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Showa University School of Medicine, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Showa University School of Medicine, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Showa University School of Medicine, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Showa University School of Medicine, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Showa University School of Medicine, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Showa University School of Medicine, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan.,Department of Psychiatry, Showa University Karasuyama Hospital, 6-11-11 Kitakarasuyama, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 157-8577, Japan
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[ADHD during childhood and subsequent psychotic disorder: A link?]. Encephale 2021; 47:484-490. [PMID: 33994156 DOI: 10.1016/j.encep.2021.01.008] [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: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Attention Deficit with/without Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with frequent comorbid psychiatric disorders. Several studies have underlined the increased risk of developing a psychotic disorder subsequent to a childhood ADHD. The aim of our review is not only to clarify this association and the related physiopathology but also to understand the consequences for therapeutic management. METHODS We processed a narrative review of available literature based on a research of the PubMed database. Articles related to ADHD and psychotic disorder on a genetical, clinical or biological level were selected by one of the authors. RESULTS ADHD and psychotic disorders share neonatal, environmental, and genetic risk factors. On a neurobiological level, both disorders are concerned by a dysfunction of the dopaminergic system with an abnormal regulation of dopaminergic neurons' phasic and tonic activity. Our review aims to explain the « dynamic » model of dopaminergic dysfunctions and propose some guidance for pharmacological treatment of ADHD, with or without psychotic disorder. This model offers a better understanding of why methylphenidate is not associated to an increased risk of psychotic disorder and could act as a protective factor. Association between ADHD and psychotic disorders could be explained by some comorbidities such as substance use disorders which are frequently associated with both conditions and could act as mediator in the genesis of psychotic disorders following ADHD during childhood. Our review also focuses on an epidemiological bias that could be found in some studies such as possible diagnostic errors, as some non-specific clinical signs could be found in both late diagnosed ADHD and in "at risk mental state" of psychosis. CONCLUSION ADHD and psychotic disorders share common risk factors, neurobiological pathways and clinical symptoms. Perspectives for future studies are proposed considering a dimensional aspect of psychiatric disorders using, for example, Research Domain Criteria and exploring the link between the two conditions.
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Leroy A, Spotorno S, Faure S. Emotional scene processing in children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2021; 30:331-346. [PMID: 32034554 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-020-01480-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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"Impairments in emotional information processing are frequently reported in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at a voluntary, explicit level (e.g., emotion recognition) and at an involuntary, implicit level (e.g., emotional interference). Most of previous studies have used faces with emotional expressions, rarely examining other important sources of information usually co-occurring with faces in our every day experience. Here, we examined how the emotional content of an entire visual scene depicting real-world environments and situations is processed in ADHD. We systematically reviewed in PubMed, SCOPUS and ScienceDirect, using the PRISMA guidelines, empirical studies published in English until March 2019, about processing of visual scenes, with or without emotional content, in children and adolescents with ADHD. We included 17 studies among the 154 initially identified. Fifteen used scenes with emotional content (which was task-relevant in seven and irrelevant in eight studies) and two used scenes without emotional content. Even though the interpretation of the results differed according to the theoretical model of emotions of the study and the presence of comorbidity, differences in scene information processing between ADHD and typically developing children and adolescents were reported in all but one study. ADHD children and adolescents show difficulties in the processing of emotional information conveyed by visual scenes, which may stem from a stronger bottom-up impact of emotional stimuli in ADHD, increasing the emotional experience, and from core deficits of the disorder, decreasing the overall processing of the scene".
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- Anaïs Leroy
- Laboratoire D'Anthropologie Et de Psychologie Cliniques, Cognitives Et Sociales (LAPCOS), MSHS Sud Est, Université Côte D'Azur, Pôle Universitaire Saint Jean D'Angely, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357, Nice Cédex 4, France. .,CERTA, Reference Centre for Learning Disabilities, Fondation Lenval, Hôpitaux Pédiatriques de Nice CHU-Lenval, Nice, France.
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- Laboratoire D'Anthropologie Et de Psychologie Cliniques, Cognitives Et Sociales (LAPCOS), MSHS Sud Est, Université Côte D'Azur, Pôle Universitaire Saint Jean D'Angely, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357, Nice Cédex 4, France
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Prakash J, Chatterjee K, Guha S, Srivastava K, Chauhan VS. Adult attention-deficit Hyperactivity disorder: From clinical reality toward conceptual clarity. Ind Psychiatry J 2021; 30:23-28. [PMID: 34483520 PMCID: PMC8395556 DOI: 10.4103/ipj.ipj_7_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2021] [Revised: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
Abstract
There is ambiguity about the clinical picture and concept of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults. Relevant literature was extracted from various search engines, analyzed, and interpreted. Available literature suggests a significant prevalence of ADHD in the adult population affecting the quality of socio-occupational functioning. Inattentiveness was more commonly present than hyperactivity-impulsivity. Frequent comorbidities with other psychiatric disorders like anxiety disorders and substance use disorders were noted. Pharmacological management and psychotherapy have been found effective in its management. ADHD is a disorder across the lifespan and fairly prevalent among adults. Greater awareness and more research are required for a better understanding of Adult ADHD and its effective management.
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- Jyoti Prakash
- Department of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Private Consultant Psychiatrist, Sr Lecturer UQ School of Medicine and Griffith University School of Medicine, Australia
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- Department of Clinical Psychologist, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Almeida V, Levin R, Peres FF, Suiama MA, Vendramini AM, Santos CM, Silva ND, Zuardi AW, Hallak JEC, Crippa JA, Abílio VC. Role of the endocannabinoid and endovanilloid systems in an animal model of schizophrenia-related emotional processing/cognitive deficit. Neuropharmacology 2019; 155:44-53. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2019.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2018] [Revised: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Niarchou M, Chawner SJRA, Fiksinski A, Vorstman JAS, Maeder J, Schneider M, Eliez S, Armando M, Pontillo M, Vicari S, McDonald-McGinn DM, Emanuel BS, Zackai EH, Bearden CE, Shashi V, Hooper SR, Owen MJ, Gur RE, Wray NR, van den Bree MBM, Thapar A. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms as antecedents of later psychotic outcomes in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Schizophr Res 2019; 204:320-325. [PMID: 30093352 PMCID: PMC6406019 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.07.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2018] [Revised: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 07/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
Individuals with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11.2DS) are at substantially heightened risk for psychosis. Thus, prevention and early intervention strategies that target the antecedents of psychosis in this high-risk group are a clinical priority. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one the most prevalent psychiatric disorders in children with 22q11.2DS, particularly the inattentive subtype. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that ADHD inattention symptoms predict later psychotic symptoms and/or psychotic disorder in those with 22q11.2DS. 250 children and adolescents with 22q11.2DS without psychotic symptoms at baseline took part in a longitudinal study. Assessments were performed using well-validated structured diagnostic instruments at two time points (T1 (mean age = 11.2, SD = 3.1) and T2 (mean age = 14.3, SD = 3.6)). Inattention symptoms at T1 were associated with development of psychotic symptoms at T2 (OR:1.2, p = 0.01) but weak associations were found with development of psychotic disorder (OR:1.2, p = 0.15). ADHD diagnosis at T1 was strongly associated with development of psychotic symptoms at T2 (OR:4.5, p < 0.001) and psychotic disorder (OR:5.9, p = 0.02). Our findings that inattention symptoms and the diagnosis of ADHD are associated with subsequent psychotic outcomes in 22q11.2DS have important clinical implications. Future studies examining the effects of stimulant and other ADHD treatments on individuals with 22q11.2DS are warranted.
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- Maria Niarchou
- Medical Research Council Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
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- Medical Research Council Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Clinical Genetics Research Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; The Dalglish Family 22q Clinic for 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Clinical Genetics Research Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; The Dalglish Family 22q Clinic for 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Department of Psychology, UCLA, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, USA
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- Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Medical Research Council Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Section, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Medical Research Council Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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Mahadevan J, Kandasamy A, Benegal V. Situating adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the externalizing spectrum: Etiological, diagnostic, and treatment considerations. Indian J Psychiatry 2019; 61:3-12. [PMID: 30745648 PMCID: PMC6341912 DOI: 10.4103/psychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_549_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has a population prevalence of 5%. However, its prevalence is much higher in mental health and substance use treatment settings. It is associated with significant physical and psychiatric morbidity, as well as social, occupational, and legal consequences. Adult ADHD is considered to be a part of the externalizing spectrum with which it shares both homotypic comorbidity and heterotypic continuity across the lifespan. This is attributable to a shared genetic basis, which interacts with environmental risk factors such as nutritional deficiencies and psychosocial adversity to bring about epigenetic changes. This is seen to result in a lag in brain maturation particularly in the areas of the brain related to executive functioning (top-down regulation) such as the prefrontal and cingulate cortices. This delay when coupled with impairments in reward processing, leads to a preference for immediate small rewards and is common to externalizing disorders. Adult ADHD is increasingly understood to not merely be associated with the classically described symptoms of hyperactivity, impulsivity and inattention, but also issues with motivation, emotional recognition and regulation, excessive mind wandering, and behavioral self-regulation. These symptoms are also observed in other disorders which overlap with the externalizing spectrum such as oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, antisocial and borderline personality disorder. It is therefore important to develop both broad-based and specific interventions to be able to target these deficits which can reduce the burden and improve outcomes.
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- Jayant Mahadevan
- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, Centre for Addiction Medicine, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, Centre for Addiction Medicine, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Moe AM, Breitborde NJ. Psychosis in Emerging Adulthood: Phenomenological, Diagnostic, and Clinical Considerations. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1080/23794925.2018.1509032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Aubrey M. Moe
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health and Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Niarchou M, Calkins ME, Moore TM, Tang SX, McDonald-McGinn DM, Zackai EH, Emanuel BS, Gur RC, Gur RE. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Psychosis in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome. Schizophr Bull 2018; 44:824-833. [PMID: 29040797 PMCID: PMC6007411 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbx113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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OBJECTIVE 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome (22q11.2DS) is associated with increased risk for schizophrenia in adulthood while Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most prevalent diagnosis in childhood. Inattention symptoms are pronounced in 22q11.2DS and given that attentional impairment is a core feature of schizophrenia, inattention symptoms may reflect underlying ADHD, psychosis, or both. We investigate whether inattention is associated with psychosis in 22q11.2DS and in other groups at risk for psychosis but without the deletion (ND) (idiopathic clinical risk and first degree family members of individuals with schizophrenia). METHODS One hundred thirty-seven individuals with 22q11.2DS (mean age: 14.0), 84 ND individuals with subthreshold psychosis (mean age: 16.9) and 31 ND individuals with family history of psychosis (mean age: 17.0) were included in the study. Psychopathology was assessed using research diagnostic assessments. RESULTS ADHD total symptoms were associated with overall levels of subthreshold psychosis symptoms in 22q11.2DS (β = .8, P = .04). Inattention symptoms were specifically associated with positive (β = .5, P = .004), negative (β = .5, P = .03), and disorganized (β = .5, P < .001) symptoms, while hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms were associated with disorganized symptoms (β = .5, P = .01). The prevalence of ADHD inattention symptoms was higher in 22q11.2DS with subthreshold psychosis compared to ND individuals with subthreshold psychosis (P < .001), even when adjusting for cognitive impairment and overall psychopathology. The pattern was similar when comparing individuals with 22q11.2DS and ND individuals with family history of psychosis. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study to examine the associations between ADHD symptoms and psychosis in 22q11.2DS. Our findings support a potentially important role of ADHD inattention symptoms in psychosis in 22q11.2DS.
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- Maria Niarchou
- Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Section, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK,Institute of Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Section, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Section, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Section, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Section, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Section, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,To whom correspondence should be addressed; Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry Section, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 10th Floor Gates Building, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, US; tel: +12156622915, fax: +12156627903, e-mail:
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Romani M, Vigliante M, Faedda N, Rossetti S, Pezzuti L, Guidetti V, Cardona F. Face memory and face recognition in children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2018; 89:1-12. [PMID: 29604300 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.03.026] [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: 10/17/2017] [Revised: 03/11/2018] [Accepted: 03/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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This review focuses on facial recognition abilities in children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A systematic review, using PRISMA guidelines, was conducted to identify original articles published prior to May 2017 pertaining to memory, face recognition, affect recognition, facial expression recognition and recall of faces in children and adolescents with ADHD. The qualitative synthesis based on different studies shows a particular focus of the research on facial affect recognition without paying similar attention to the structural encoding of facial recognition. In this review, we further investigate facial recognition abilities in children and adolescents with ADHD, providing synthesis of the results observed in the literature, while detecting face recognition tasks used on face processing abilities in ADHD and identifying aspects not yet explored.
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- Maria Romani
- Department of Human Neuroscience, Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Sapienza - University of Rome, Via dei Sabelli, 108 - 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Human Neuroscience, Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Sapienza - University of Rome, Via dei Sabelli, 108 - 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- PhD program in Behavioral Neuroscience, Department of Human Neuroscience, Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Sapienza - University of Rome, Via dei Sabelli, 108 - 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via degli Apuli, 108 - 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via degli Apuli, 108 - 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Human Neuroscience, Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Sapienza - University of Rome, Via dei Sabelli, 108 - 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Human Neuroscience, Section of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, Sapienza - University of Rome, Via dei Sabelli, 108 - 00185, Rome, Italy.
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Reduced emotional empathy in adults with subclinical ADHD: evidence from the empathy and systemizing quotient. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 10:141-150. [PMID: 28836147 PMCID: PMC5973978 DOI: 10.1007/s12402-017-0236-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2017] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Studies in children with ADHD suggest impairments in social cognitive functions, whereas studies in adults with ADHD are scarce and inconclusive. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between ADHD traits and self-reported social cognitive style in a sample of adults from the general population. For this purpose, a community sample of 685 adults filled out online self-report questionnaires about ADHD symptoms (ADHD Rating Scale, ARS), social cognitive functioning and friendships. The Empathy Quotient (EQ) with the subscales Cognitive Empathy (CE), Emotional Empathy (EE) and Social Skills (SS), and the Systemizing Quotient (SQ) were included for measuring social cognitive style and the Friendship Questionnaire (FQ) for the quality of friendships. Participants who met the DSM-5 criteria on the ARS (‘subclinical ADHD’; n = 56) were compared regarding their social cognitive functioning scores with a control group (n = 56) that was matched for age, sex and student status. With small effect sizes, the subclinical ADHD group showed reduced EE scores on the EQ and a more male social cognitive profile. This result was not influenced by sex or ADHD subtype. This study points to a relationship between traits of ADHD and the emotional aspect of empathy, whereas more complex aspects of empathy were unrelated. These findings should be corroborated in clinical patients with ADHD, employing neuropsychological tests rather than self-report questionnaires.
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Arizpe J, Walsh V, Yovel G, Baker CI. The categories, frequencies, and stability of idiosyncratic eye-movement patterns to faces. Vision Res 2016; 141:191-203. [PMID: 27940212 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2016.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2016] [Revised: 09/14/2016] [Accepted: 10/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The spatial pattern of eye-movements to faces considered typical for neurologically healthy individuals is a roughly T-shaped distribution over the internal facial features with peak fixation density tending toward the left eye (observer's perspective). However, recent studies indicate that striking deviations from this classic pattern are common within the population and are highly stable over time. The classic pattern actually reflects the average of these various idiosyncratic eye-movement patterns across individuals. The natural categories and respective frequencies of different types of idiosyncratic eye-movement patterns have not been specifically investigated before, so here we analyzed the spatial patterns of eye-movements for 48 participants to estimate the frequency of different kinds of individual eye-movement patterns to faces in the normal healthy population. Four natural clusters were discovered such that approximately 25% of our participants' fixation density peaks clustered over the left eye region (observer's perspective), 23% over the right eye-region, 31% over the nasion/bridge region of the nose, and 20% over the region spanning the nose, philthrum, and upper lips. We did not find any relationship between particular idiosyncratic eye-movement patterns and recognition performance. Individuals' eye-movement patterns early in a trial were more stereotyped than later ones and idiosyncratic fixation patterns evolved with time into a trial. Finally, while face inversion strongly modulated eye-movement patterns, individual patterns did not become less distinct for inverted compared to upright faces. Group-averaged fixation patterns do not represent individual patterns well, so exploration of such individual patterns is of value for future studies of visual cognition.
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- Joseph Arizpe
- Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA.
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- Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Pavlova MA. Sex and gender affect the social brain: Beyond simplicity. J Neurosci Res 2016; 95:235-250. [PMID: 27688155 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2016] [Revised: 07/06/2016] [Accepted: 07/14/2016] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- Marina A. Pavlova
- Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Medical School; Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; Tübingen Germany
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INTRODUCTION Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have been associated with facial affect recognition (FAR) alterations. METHODS This study examined accuracy and response times for general and specific FAR in whole face and eye-region stimuli. FAR was assessed in matched samples of children and adolescents with ASD (n = 35), ADHD (n = 32), and typical development (TD) (n = 32) aged 8.6-15.9 years (M = 11.6; SD = 2.0). RESULTS Compared to TD, the ASD group performed less accurate and showed longer response times for general and specific FAR, mostly driven by problems in neutral and happy face identification. The ADHD group responded faster than the ASD group for global FAR. No differences between ADHD and TD were found. Attentional distractibility had a significant effect on FAR performance in ASD and ADHD. CONCLUSIONS Findings confirm FAR alterations in ASD, but not ADHD, and endorse effects of attentional distractibility on FAR in ASD and ADHD. FAR and attention function training is clinically meaningful in ASD. Future studies should include control for visual attention and facial configuration skills, use naturalistic FAR material and also investigate implicit FAR.
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- Steve Berggren
- a Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND), Paediatric Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Women's and Children's Health , Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden.,b Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Stockholm, Center for Psychiatry Research , Stockholm County Council , Stockholm , Sweden
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- a Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (KIND), Paediatric Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Women's and Children's Health , Karolinska Institutet , Stockholm , Sweden.,b Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Stockholm, Center for Psychiatry Research , Stockholm County Council , Stockholm , Sweden
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Faces represent valuable signals for social cognition and non-verbal communication. A wealth of research indicates that women tend to excel in recognition of facial expressions. However, it remains unclear whether females are better tuned to faces. We presented healthy adult females and males with a set of newly created food-plate images resembling faces (slightly bordering on the Giuseppe Arcimboldo style). In a spontaneous recognition task, participants were shown a set of images in a predetermined order from the least to most resembling a face. Females not only more readily recognized the images as a face (they reported resembling a face on images, on which males still did not), but gave on overall more face responses. The findings are discussed in the light of gender differences in deficient face perception. As most neuropsychiatric, neurodevelopmental and psychosomatic disorders characterized by social brain abnormalities are sex specific, the task may serve as a valuable tool for uncovering impairments in visual face processing.
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Rho A, Traicu A, Lepage M, Iyer SN, Malla A, Joober R. Clinical and functional implications of a history of childhood ADHD in first-episode psychosis. Schizophr Res 2015; 165:128-33. [PMID: 25921441 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.03.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2014] [Revised: 03/23/2015] [Accepted: 03/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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There is mounting evidence indicating that a childhood history of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with an increased risk for psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia. However, the implications of such a history on the symptomatic and functional outcomes of patients with psychotic disorders are still not well documented. This study examined the prevalence of childhood ADHD in patients with first episode psychosis (FEP) consecutively admitted to a specialized early intervention clinic covering a well-defined catchment area, and compared patients with and without a history of childhood ADHD on socio-demographic, clinical, and functional outcomes over a six to twelve months period. Out of 179 patients with FEP, 27 (15%) were treated for ADHD during childhood, consistent with previous literature indicating an association between childhood ADHD and psychosis. FEP patients with childhood history of ADHD had lower academic achievement, earlier onset of psychosis, and higher rates of childhood conduct and learning disorder. While the two groups had similar scores on psychopathology and functioning at baseline, patients with childhood ADHD showed significantly less improvement in positive and negative symptoms, as well as social and occupational functioning. These results strongly indicate that a history of childhood ADHD in FEP is more frequent than that reported in the general population and predictive of poorer clinical response to treatment. This emphasizes the need for actively screening for a history of ADHD in FEP patients and for treatments that are tailored for these patients.
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- Aldanie Rho
- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Research Institute, Boulevard LaSalle, H4H 1R3 Montreal, QC, Canada.
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- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Research Institute, Boulevard LaSalle, H4H 1R3 Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ludmer Research & Training Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West, H3A 1A1 Montreal, QC, Canada.
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- McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ludmer Research & Training Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West, H3A 1A1 Montreal, QC, Canada.
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- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Research Institute, Boulevard LaSalle, H4H 1R3 Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ludmer Research & Training Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West, H3A 1A1 Montreal, QC, Canada.
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- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Research Institute, Boulevard LaSalle, H4H 1R3 Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ludmer Research & Training Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West, H3A 1A1 Montreal, QC, Canada.
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- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Research Institute, Boulevard LaSalle, H4H 1R3 Montreal, QC, Canada; McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Ludmer Research & Training Building, 1033 Pine Avenue West, H3A 1A1 Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Heidbreder R. ADHD symptomatology is best conceptualized as a spectrum: a dimensional versus unitary approach to diagnosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 7:249-69. [PMID: 25957598 DOI: 10.1007/s12402-015-0171-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2015] [Accepted: 04/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The aim of this paper is to build a case for the utility of conceptualizing ADHD, not as a unitary disorder that contains several subtypes, but rather as a marker of impairment in attention and/or impulsivity that can be used to identify one of several disorders belonging to a spectrum. The literature will be reviewed to provide an overview of what is known about ADHD in terms of heterogeneity in symptomatology, neuropsychology, neurobiology, as well as comorbidity with other diseases and treatment options. The data from these areas of research will be critically analyzed to support the construct of a spectrum of disorders that can capture the great variability that exists between individuals with ADHD and can discriminate between separate disorders that manifest similar symptoms. The symptoms associated with ADHD can be viewed as dimensional markers that point to a spectrum of related disorders that have as part of their characteristics impairments of attention and impulsivity. The spectrum can accommodate symmetrically and asymmetrically comorbid psychiatric disorders associated with ADHD as well as the wide heterogeneity known to be a part of the ADHD disorder. Individuals presenting with impairments associated with ADHD should be treated as having a positive marker for a spectrum disorder that has as part of its characteristics impairments of attention and/or impulsivity. The identification of impairment in attention and/or impulsivity should be a starting point for further testing rather than being an endpoint of diagnosis that results in pharmacological treatment that may or may not be the optimal therapy. Rather than continuing to attribute a large amount of heterogeneity in symptom presentation as well as a high degree of symmetric and asymmetric comorbidity to a single disorder, clinical evaluation should turn to the diagnosis of the type of attentional deficit and/or impulsivity an individual has in order to colocate the individual's disorder on a spectrum that captures the heterogeneity in symptomatology, the symmetrical and asymmetrical comorbidity, as well as subthreshold presentation and other variants often worked into the disorder of ADHD. The spectrum model can accommodate not only the psychophysiological profiles of patients, but is also consistent with what is known about the functional heterogeneity of the prefrontal cortex as well as the construct that cognitive processes are supported by overlapping and collaborative networks.
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- Rebeca Heidbreder
- PsychResearchCenter, LLC, 3669 Michaux Mill Drive, Powhatan, VA, 23139, USA.
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Okada R, Fujiwara H, Mizuki D, Araki R, Yabe T, Matsumoto K. Involvement of dopaminergic and cholinergic systems in social isolation-induced deficits in social affiliation and conditional fear memory in mice. Neuroscience 2015; 299:134-45. [PMID: 25943484 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.04.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2015] [Revised: 04/24/2015] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Post-weaning social isolation rearing (SI) in rodents elicits various behavioral abnormalities including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder-like behaviors. In order to obtain a better understanding of SI-induced behavioral abnormalities, we herein investigated the effects of SI on social affiliation and conditioned fear memory as well as the neuronal mechanism(s) underlying these effects. Four-week-old male mice were group-housed (GH) or socially isolated for 2-4 weeks before the experiments. The social affiliation test and fear memory conditioning were conducted at the age of 6 and 7 weeks, respectively. SI mice were systemically administered saline or test drugs 30 min before the social affiliation test and fear memory conditioning. Contextual and auditory fear memories were elucidated 1 and 4 days after fear conditioning. Social affiliation and contextual and auditory fear memories were weaker in SI mice than in GH mice. Methylphenidate (MPH), an inhibitor for dopamine transporters, ameliorated the SI-induced social affiliation deficit and the effect was attenuated by SCH23390, a D1 receptor antagonist, but not by sulpiride, a D2 receptor antagonist. On the other hand, tacrine, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, had no effect on this deficit. In contrast, tacrine improved SI-induced deficits in fear memories in a manner that was reversed by the muscarinic receptor antagonist scopolamine, while MPH had no effect on memory deficits. Neurochemical studies revealed that SI down-regulated the expression levels of the phosphorylated forms of neuro-signaling proteins, calmodulin-dependent kinase II (p-CaMKII), and cyclic AMP-responsive element binding protein (p-CREB), as well as early growth response protein-1 (Egr-1) in the hippocampus. The administration of MPH or tacrine before fear conditioning had no effect on the levels of the phosphorylated forms of the neuro-signaling proteins elucidated following completion of the auditory fear memory test; however, when analyzed 30 min after the administration of the test drugs, tacrine significantly attenuated the SI-induced decrease in p-CaMKII, p-CREB, and Egr-1 in a manner reversible by scopolamine. Our results suggest that SI-induced deficits in social affiliation and conditioned fear memory were mediated by functional alterations to central dopaminergic and cholinergic systems, respectively.
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- R Okada
- Division of Medicinal Pharmacology, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Division of Medicinal Pharmacology, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Division of Medicinal Pharmacology, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Setsunan University, 45-1 Nagaotoge-cho, Hirakata City, Osaka 573-0101, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Setsunan University, 45-1 Nagaotoge-cho, Hirakata City, Osaka 573-0101, Japan
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- Division of Medicinal Pharmacology, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan.
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Pallanti S, Salerno L. Raising attention to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in schizophrenia. World J Psychiatry 2015; 5:47-55. [PMID: 25815254 PMCID: PMC4369549 DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v5.i1.47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2014] [Revised: 11/20/2014] [Accepted: 12/31/2014] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are two psychiatric disorders with a negative impact on quality of life of individuals affected. Although they are classified into distinct disorders categories, attentional dysfunction is considered as a core feature in both conditions, either at the clinical then pathophysiological level. Beyond the obvious clinical overlap between these disorders, the Research Domain Criteria approach might offer an interesting perspective for disentangling common circuits underpinning both disorders. Hence, we review evidences regarding the overlap between schizophrenia and ADHD, at the clinical level, and at the level of underlying brain mechanisms. The evidence regarding the influence of environmental risk factors in the emergence of both disorders, and their developmental trajectories is also reviewed. Among these, we will try to elucidate the complex relationship between stimulants use and psychotic symptoms, discussing the potential role of ADHD medication in inducing psychosis or in exacerbating it. We aim that, taken together, these findings may promote further investigation with important implications both for clinicians and research. In fact, considering the amounting evidence on the overlap between schizophrenia and ADHD, the delineation of their boundaries might help in the decision for diagnosis and treatment. Moreover, it may help to promote interventions focused on the prevention of both schizophrenia and ADHD, by the reduction of recognized environmental risk factors.
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Drusch K, Stroth S, Kamp D, Frommann N, Wölwer W. Effects of Training of Affect Recognition on the recognition and visual exploration of emotional faces in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2014; 159:485-90. [PMID: 25248938 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2014] [Revised: 08/12/2014] [Accepted: 09/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Schizophrenia patients have impairments in facial affect recognition and display scanpath abnormalities during the visual exploration of faces. These abnormalities are characterized by fewer fixations on salient feature areas and longer fixation durations. The present study investigated whether social-cognitive remediation not only improves performance in facial affect recognition but also normalizes patients' gaze behavior while looking at faces. METHODS Within a 2 × 2-design (group × time), 16 schizophrenia patients and 16 healthy controls performed a facial affect recognition task with concomitant infrared oculography at baseline (T0) and after six weeks (T1). Between the measurements, patients completed the Training of Affect Recognition (TAR) program. The influence of the training on facial affect recognition (percent of correct answers) and gaze behavior (number and mean duration of fixations into salient or non-salient facial areas) was assessed. RESULTS In line with former studies, at baseline patients showed poorer facial affect recognition than controls and aberrant scanpaths, and after TAR facial affect recognition was improved. Concomitant with improvements in performance, the number of fixations in feature areas ('mouth') increased while fixations in non-feature areas ('white space') decreased. However, the change in fixation behavior did not correlate with the improvement in performance. CONCLUSIONS After TAR, patients pay more attention to facial areas that contain information about a displayed emotion. Although this may contribute to the improved performance, the lack of a statistical correlation implies that this factor is not sufficient to explain the underlying mechanism of the treatment effect.
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- Katharina Drusch
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstrasse 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstrasse 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstrasse 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstrasse 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Bergische Landstrasse 2, 40629 Düsseldorf, Germany
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The effects of atomoxetine and methylphenidate on the prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response in mice. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2014; 54:206-15. [PMID: 24953433 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2014.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2014] [Revised: 05/30/2014] [Accepted: 06/11/2014] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Atomoxetine (ATM) and methylphenidate (MPD) have been used for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ATM is a selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, whereas MPD is a psychostimulant and acts as a norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitor. In the present study, we investigated the effects of ATM (1, 3 or 10mg/kg) and MPD (5, 10 or 20mg/kg) on pharmacological mouse models of sensorimotor gating measured by prepulse inhibition (PPI) using the acoustic startle response test. MK-801, a non-competitive N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist, or apomorphine, a non-competitive dopamine receptor agonist, was used to induce PPI deficits. ATM (3 or 10mg/kg, s.c.) significantly attenuated the MK-801-, but not apomorphine-, induced PPI deficits. In contrast to ATM, MPD did not reverse the PPI deficits induced by either MK-801 or apomorphine. Immunostaining revealed that the number of c-Fos-immunopositive cells was increased in the nucleus accumbens following MK-801 treatment, and this was reversed by the administration of ATM (3mg/kg), but not MPD (10mg/kg). However, neither ATM nor MPD reversed the increased number of c-Fos-immunopositive cells in the nucleus accumbens following apomorphine treatment. These results suggest that the attenuating effect of ATM on the increased c-Fos immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens induced by MK-801 may be attributed to the PPI deficit-ameliorating effects of ATM and that ATM would be useful to treat sensorimotor gating-related disorders by improving the patient's attention span or cognitive function.
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Bagcioglu E, Isikli H, Demirel H, Sahin E, Kandemir E, Dursun P, Yuksek E, Emul M. Facial emotion recognition in male antisocial personality disorders with or without adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Compr Psychiatry 2014; 55:1152-6. [PMID: 24656525 DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2013] [Revised: 02/15/2014] [Accepted: 02/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate facial emotion recognition abilities in violent individuals with antisocial personality disorder who have comorbid attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or not. METHOD The photos of happy, surprised, fearful, sad, angry, disgust, and neutral facial expressions and Wender Utah Rating Scale have been performed in all groups. RESULTS The mean ages were as follows: in antisocial personality disorder with ADHD 22.0 ± 1.59, in pure antisocial individuals 21.90 ± 1.80 and in controls 22.97 ± 2.85 (p>0.05). The mean score in Wender Utah Rating Scale was significantly different between groups (p<0.001). The mean accurate responses to each facial emotion between groups were insignificant (p>0.05) excluding disgust faces which was significantly impaired in ASPD+ADHD and pure ASPD groups. Antisocial individuals with attention deficient and hyperactivity had spent significantly more time to each facial emotion than healthy controls (p<0.05) while pure antisocial individual had more time to recognize disgust and neutral faces than healthy controls (p<0.05). CONCLUSION Study of complex social cognitive abilities in adults with ADHD and violent behaviors is lacking. This study is the first, investigating the differences according to social cognition cues in violent individual that revealed no significance within pure antisocial individuals and antisocial individuals with ADHD.
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- Erman Bagcioglu
- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Afyonkocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.
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- Forensic Medical Council, Istanbul, Ministry of Justice, Turkey.
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- Forensic Medical Council, Istanbul, Ministry of Justice, Turkey.
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- Forensic Medical Council, Istanbul, Ministry of Justice, Turkey.
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Afyonkocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Medical School of Cerrahpasa, Istanbul University, Turkey.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Medical School of Cerrahpasa, Istanbul University, Turkey.
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A comparison of social cognitive profiles in children with autism spectrum disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a matter of quantitative but not qualitative difference? J Autism Dev Disord 2013; 43:1157-70. [PMID: 23015110 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-012-1657-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The aim of this study was to compare social cognitive profiles of children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and ADHD. Participants diagnosed with an ASD (n = 137) were compared to participants with ADHD (n = 436) on tests of facial and vocal affect recognition, social judgment and problem-solving, and parent- and teacher-report of social functioning. Both groups performed significantly worse than the normative sample on all measures. Although the ASD group had more severe deficits, the pattern of deficits was surprisingly similar between groups, suggesting that social cognitive deficit patterns may be more similar in ASD and ADHD than previously thought. Thus, like those with ASDs, individuals with ADHD may also need to be routinely considered for treatments targeting social skills.
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Shaw TA, Porter MA. Emotion recognition and visual-scan paths in Fragile X syndrome. J Autism Dev Disord 2013; 43:1119-39. [PMID: 23015109 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-012-1654-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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This study investigated emotion recognition abilities and visual scanning of emotional faces in 16 Fragile X syndrome (FXS) individuals compared to 16 chronological-age and 16 mental-age matched controls. The relationships between emotion recognition, visual scan-paths and symptoms of social anxiety, schizotypy and autism were also explored. Results indicated that, compared to both control groups, the FXS group displayed specific emotion recognition deficits for angry and neutral (but not happy or fearful) facial expressions. Despite these evident emotion recognition deficits, the visual scanning of emotional faces was found to be at developmentally appropriate levels in the FXS group. Significant relationships were also observed between visual scan-paths, emotion recognition performance and symptomology in the FXS group.
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- Tracey A Shaw
- Department of Cognitive Science, and the ARC Centre for Cognition and Its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
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Hasan A, Schneider M, Schneider-Axmann T, Ruge D, Retz W, Rösler M, Falkai P, Wobrock T. A similar but distinctive pattern of impaired cortical excitability in first-episode schizophrenia and ADHD. Neuropsychobiology 2013; 67:74-83. [PMID: 23295893 DOI: 10.1159/000343912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2011] [Accepted: 09/30/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND First-episode schizophrenia (FE-SZ) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are both neuropsychiatric disorders associated with an impaired dopaminergic transmission. Though displaying different clinical phenotypes, a common pathophysiological pathway is discussed controversially. Several studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) revealed abnormalities in human motor cortex excitability in both schizophrenia and ADHD patients. Studies on cortical excitability comparing these two diseases directly are lacking. METHOD In this study, a total of 94 subjects were analyzed. Twenty-five FE-SZ patients were directly compared with 28 ADHD patients and 41 healthy controls (HC). We investigated cortical excitability (inhibitory and facilitatory networks) with single- and paired-pulse TMS to the left and right motor cortex. RESULTS Compared to HC, FE-SZ/ADHD patients displayed an impaired cortical inhibition over the left hemisphere. Apart from an enhanced intracortical facilitation, FE-SZ patients did not differ compared to ADHD patients in the main outcome measures. Both patient groups presented a dysfunctional hemispheric pattern of cortical inhibition and facilitation in comparison with HC. CONCLUSION The results of this study indicate a pattern of cortical disinhibition and abnormal hemispheric balance of intracortical excitability networks in two different psychiatric diseases. These effects might be associated with an imbalance in GABAergic and dopaminergic transmission and might provide evidence for a common pathophysiological pathway of both diseases.
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- Alkomiet Hasan
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany
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Niijima-Yaoita F, Tsuchiya M, Saito H, Nagasawa Y, Murai S, Arai Y, Nakagawasai O, Nemoto W, Tadano T, Tan-No K. Influence of a long-term powdered diet on the social interaction test and dopaminergic systems in mice. Neurochem Int 2013; 63:309-15. [PMID: 23871718 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2013.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2012] [Revised: 06/22/2013] [Accepted: 07/07/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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It is well known that the characteristics of mastication are important for the maintenance of our physical well-being. In this study, to assess the importance of the effects of food hardness during mastication, we investigated whether a long-term powdered diet might cause changes in emotional behavior tests, including spontaneous locomotor activity and social interaction (SI) tests, and the dopaminergic system of the frontal cortex and hippocampus in mice. Mice fed a powdered diet for 17 weeks from weaning were compared with mice fed a standard diet (control). The dopamine turnover and expression of dopamine receptors mRNA in the frontal cortex were also evaluated. Spontaneous locomotor activity, SI time and dopamine turnover of the frontal cortex were increased in powdered diet-fed mice. On the other hand, the expression of dopamine-4 (D4) receptors mRNA in the frontal cortex was decreased in powdered diet-fed mice. Moreover, we examined the effect of PD168077, a selective D4 agonist, on the increased SI time in powdered diet-fed mice. Treatment with PD168077 decreased the SI time. These results suggest that the masticatory dysfunction induced by long-term powdered diet feeding may cause the increased SI time and the changes in the dopaminergic system, especially dopamine D4 receptor subtype in the frontal cortex.
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- Fukie Niijima-Yaoita
- Department of Pharmacology, Tohoku Pharmaceutical University, 4-4-1 Komatsushima, Aoba-ku, Sendai 981-8558, Japan.
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Ibáñez A, Aguado J, Baez S, Huepe D, Lopez V, Ortega R, Sigman M, Mikulan E, Lischinsky A, Torrente F, Cetkovich M, Torralva T, Bekinschtein T, Manes F. From neural signatures of emotional modulation to social cognition: individual differences in healthy volunteers and psychiatric participants. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2013; 9:939-50. [PMID: 23685775 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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It is commonly assumed that early emotional signals provide relevant information for social cognition tasks. The goal of this study was to test the association between (a) cortical markers of face emotional processing and (b) social-cognitive measures, and also to build a model which can predict this association (a and b) in healthy volunteers as well as in different groups of psychiatric patients. Thus, we investigated the early cortical processing of emotional stimuli (N170, using a face and word valence task) and their relationship with the social-cognitive profiles (SCPs, indexed by measures of theory of mind, fluid intelligence, speed processing and executive functions). Group comparisons and individual differences were assessed among schizophrenia (SCZ) patients and their relatives, individuals with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), individuals with euthymic bipolar disorder (BD) and healthy participants (educational level, handedness, age and gender matched). Our results provide evidence of emotional N170 impairments in the affected groups (SCZ and relatives, ADHD and BD) as well as subtle group differences. Importantly, cortical processing of emotional stimuli predicted the SCP, as evidenced by a structural equation model analysis. This is the first study to report an association model of brain markers of emotional processing and SCP.
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- Agustín Ibáñez
- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UKLaboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, C
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UKLaboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, C
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UKLaboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, C
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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- Laboratory of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience (LPEN), Institute of Cognitive Neurology (INECO), Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Laboratory of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience (LANCYS), UDP-INECO Foundation Core on Neuroscience (NUFIN), Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Parc Sanitari Joan de Deu-SSM, CIBERSAM, Universitat de Barcelona, Sant Boi, Barcelona, Spain, Escuela de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Laboratorio de Neurociencia Cognitiva, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Facultad de Medicina, y Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Programa de Doctorado en Psicología, Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Departamento de Física, FCEN, UBA and IFIBA, Conicet, Pabellón 1, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Alte. Juan Saenz Valiente 1010, Buenos Aires C1428BIJ, Argentina, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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Collin L, Bindra J, Raju M, Gillberg C, Minnis H. Facial emotion recognition in child psychiatry: a systematic review. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 2013; 34:1505-1520. [PMID: 23475001 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2012] [Revised: 01/13/2013] [Accepted: 01/17/2013] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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This review focuses on facial affect (emotion) recognition in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders other than autism. A systematic search, using PRISMA guidelines, was conducted to identify original articles published prior to October 2011 pertaining to face recognition tasks in case-control studies. Used in the qualitative synthesis were: 2 studies on schizophrenia, 18 on mood disorders, 16 on anxiety disorders, 4 on eating disorders, 14 on ADHD and 9 on conduct disorder. Our review suggests that there are abnormalities in facial emotion recognition in a wide range of child psychiatric disorders and that these are likely to have a negative effect on both family and peer relationships. Scope for further research has been identified.
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- Lisa Collin
- NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, United Kingdom
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Effects of facial emotion recognition remediation on visual scanning of novel face stimuli. Schizophr Res 2012; 141:234-40. [PMID: 22959743 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2012.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2011] [Revised: 07/20/2012] [Accepted: 08/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Previous research shows that emotion recognition in schizophrenia can be improved with targeted remediation that draws attention to important facial features (eyes, nose, mouth). Moreover, the effects of training have been shown to last for up to one month after training. The aim of this study was to investigate whether improved emotion recognition of novel faces is associated with concomitant changes in visual scanning of these same novel facial expressions. Thirty-nine participants with schizophrenia received emotion recognition training using Ekman's Micro-Expression Training Tool (METT), with emotion recognition and visual scanpath (VSP) recordings to face stimuli collected simultaneously. Baseline ratings of interpersonal and cognitive functioning were also collected from all participants. Post-METT training, participants showed changes in foveal attention to the features of facial expressions of emotion not used in METT training, which were generally consistent with the information about important features from the METT. In particular, there were changes in how participants looked at the features of facial expressions of emotion surprise, disgust, fear, happiness, and neutral, demonstrating that improved emotion recognition is paralleled by changes in the way participants with schizophrenia viewed novel facial expressions of emotion. However, there were overall decreases in foveal attention to sad and neutral faces that indicate more intensive instruction might be needed for these faces during training. Most importantly, the evidence shows that participant gender may affect training outcomes.
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Jandl M, Steyer J, Kaschka WP. Adolescent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and susceptibility to psychosis in adulthood: a review of the literature and a phenomenological case report. Early Interv Psychiatry 2012; 6:11-20. [PMID: 21895990 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7893.2011.00293.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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AIM In contrast to affective disorders, some forms of personality disorders and drug addiction, schizophrenia is commonly not considered to be a sequela of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. However, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the prodromal stages of schizophrenia spectrum disorders do exhibit a number of common central features. To facilitate the early treatment of schizophrenic symptoms, the detection of discrete and subtle alterations in the prodromal stages of incipient psychoses is particularly important. METHODS We review the literature on the prodromal symptoms of psychosis and present a case report, in which a phenomenological approach was used to identify subtle alterations linked to anomalous self-experience. RESULTS Using the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience symptom checklist, the case report presented here reveals attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in adolescence as a precursor state of psychosis in adulthood. CONCLUSIONS The characteristics of this schizophrenia spectrum disorder case and its time course are derived from the specific distribution pattern of Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience items. When treating adolescent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder patients, the rare possibility of the development of schizophrenia spectrum disorder from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder like symptoms should be kept in mind.
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- Martin Jandl
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I, University Hospital Ulm, Ravensburg, Germany.
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Cassidy CM, Joober R, King S, Malla AK. Childhood symptoms of inattention-hyperactivity predict cannabis use in first episode psychosis. Schizophr Res 2011; 132:171-6. [PMID: 21778038 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2011.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2011] [Revised: 06/22/2011] [Accepted: 06/24/2011] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND A history of childhood symptoms of inattention-hyperactivity is often reported in first episode psychosis (FEP) as is cannabis use. In the general population childhood ADHD predicts future cannabis use but the relationship has not been tested in FEP. METHOD Parents of patients with a first episode of psychosis (n=75) retrospectively assessed their affected child for symptoms of early-life disorders, namely, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), conduct disorder (CD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) using the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL). Assessments were made prospectively of cannabis use over two years following a FEP and of SCID diagnosis of cannabis-use disorder. RESULTS Childhood hyperactivity-inattention symptoms predicted inability to maintain abstinence from cannabis following treatment (Wald=8.4, p=.004) and lifetime cannabis-use diagnosis (Wald=5.3, p=.022) in a logistic regression controlling for relevant covariates including symptoms of CD and ODD from ages 12 to 18. When the symptom of inattention was considered in place of the hyperactivity-inattention syndrome it predicted cannabis-use diagnosis (Wald=6.4, p=.011) and persistent abstinence from cannabis (Wald=5.3, p=.021). Symptoms of CD and ODD did not predict cannabis use when hyperactivity-inattention symptoms were controlled for. CONCLUSIONS Symptoms of childhood inattention-hyperactivity predict subsequent cannabis use in FEP.
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Ibáñez A, Petroni A, Urquina H, Torrente F, Torralva T, Hurtado E, Guex R, Blenkmann A, Beltrachini L, Muravchik C, Baez S, Cetkovich M, Sigman M, Lischinsky A, Manes F. Cortical deficits of emotional face processing in adults with ADHD: Its relation to social cognition and executive function. Soc Neurosci 2011; 6:464-81. [DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2011.620769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Donev R, Gantert D, Alawam K, Edworthy A, Hässler F, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Dressing H, Thome J. Comorbidity of schizophrenia and adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. World J Biol Psychiatry 2011; 12 Suppl 1:52-6. [PMID: 21905996 DOI: 10.3109/15622975.2011.599212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Adult ADHD is characterised by a plethora of comorbid conditions. However, the comorbidity of schizophrenia and ADHD does not seem to be a typical feature and is therefore under-researched. OBJECTIVE To identify adult patients with schizophrenia and comorbid ADHD and compare their symptomatology with schizophrenic patients without ADHD. METHOD Performance in specific neuropsychological tests (set shifting, selective and sustained attention, cognitive performance, and speed of information processing) was determined. Additionally, important demographic data and information about the patients' history such as the number of suicide attempts were gathered. Twenty-seven patients were involved in this study (14 male and 13 female). Fifteen patients were diagnosed with schizophrenia/no ADHD and twelve had both schizophrenia/ADHD. RESULTS We report here an increase in suicidal behaviour of patients with both schizophrenia and ADHD compared to schizophrenia only. A significant underperformance of the patients with ADHD comorbidity compared to patients with schizophrenia only was also determined. CONCLUSIONS The increased suicidal behaviour in patients with schizophrenia and ADHD suggests the need of further studies on mood regulation and suicidal ideations in these patients.
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- Rossen Donev
- Academic Unit of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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Calzavara MB, Medrano WA, Levin R, Libânio TC, de Alencar Ribeiro R, Abílio VC. The contextual fear conditioning deficit presented by spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) is not improved by mood stabilizers. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2011; 35:1607-11. [PMID: 21708209 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2011.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2010] [Revised: 06/09/2011] [Accepted: 06/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We have recently reported that spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) present a contextual fear conditioning (CFC) deficit. This deficit is improved by antipsychotic drugs, potentiated by proschizophrenia manipulations and not altered by acute administration of carbamazepine, lamotrigine and valproic acid. Nevertheless, the effects of lithium-a classical mood stabilizer-or repeated treatment with these drugs were not evaluated. The main aim of the present study was to extend our previous work by investigating a possible beneficial effect of acute and/or chronic treatments with lithium or lamotrigine on the acquisition deficit of CFC presented by SHR. METHODS Rats were submitted to CFC task after an acute treatment with lithium and/or a repeated treatment with lithium and lamotrigine. RESULTS Our data revealed that the CFC deficit presented by SHR is not improved by acute or repeated treatment with lithium. Repeated lamotrigine treatment potentiated the deficit presented by SHR and impaired CFC in control animals (Wistar Rats). CONCLUSIONS These data reinforce the absence of beneficial effects of mood stabilizers on the emotional context processing impairment modeled by SHR.
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Calzavara MB, Levin R, Medrano WA, Almeida V, Sampaio APF, Barone LC, Frussa-Filho R, Abílio VC. Effects of antipsychotics and amphetamine on social behaviors in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Behav Brain Res 2011; 225:15-22. [PMID: 21741413 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2010] [Revised: 06/20/2011] [Accepted: 06/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We have recently reported that spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) exhibit a deficit in contextual fear conditioning that is specifically reversed by antipsychotic and potentiated by psychostimulants and other manipulations thought to produce schizophrenia-like states in rodents. Based on these findings, we suggested that this deficit in fear conditioning could be used as an experimental model of emotional processing impairments observed in schizophrenia. This strain has also been suggested as a model by which to study attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Considering that schizophrenia and ADHD are both characterized by poor social function, this study aimed to investigate possible behavioral deficits of SHRs in a social context. Furthermore, we sought to examine the effects of typical and atypical antipsychotics (used for the treatment of schizophrenia) and a psychostimulant (used to treat ADHD) on these behaviors. Pairs of unfamiliar rats of the same or different (i.e., Wistar) strains were treated with one of the aforementioned drugs and placed in an open-field for 10min. During this time, social behaviors, locomotion and rearing frequencies were scored. Atypical antipsychotics increased social interaction in Wistar rats (WRs) and improved the deficit in social interaction exhibited by SHRs. In addition, the SHR group displayed hyperlocomotion that was attenuated by all antipsychotics (quetiapine and clozapine also decreased locomotion in WRs) and potentiated by amphetamine (which also increased locomotion in WRs). Our results reveal that the behavioral profile of the SHR group demonstrates that this strain can be a useful animal model to study several aspects of schizophrenia.
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- Mariana Bendlin Calzavara
- Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Rua Pedro de Toledo, 669, 5° andar, Ed. de Pesquisas II, CEP 04039-032, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Godoy A, Ishii M, Byrne PJ, Boahene KDO, Encarnacion CO, Ishii LE. The straight truth: measuring observer attention to the crooked nose. Laryngoscope 2011; 121:937-41. [PMID: 21520106 DOI: 10.1002/lary.21733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Quantify attentional distraction to crooked noses pre- and postoperatively as compared with normal noses by using an established metric of attention in a pilot study. STUDY DESIGN Prospective, randomized, controlled experiment with crossover. METHODS An eye-tracker system was used to record the eye-movement patterns, called scanpaths, of 40 naive observers gazing at pictures of faces with crooked noses preoperatively or postoperatively and pictures of faces without a crooked nose included as "normals." The fixation durations within the nasal area for each group of faces presented were compared. RESULTS A mixed-design univariate analysis of variance was performed to test the hypothesis that mean fixation times in the nasal region varied by face group. The results were highly statistically significant, F(2,116) = 20.28, P = .000, η(2) = 0.029. Marginal means were calculated for each nasal area of interest group with confidence intervals (normal, 2.32 [2.26-2.38]; preoperative, 2.66 [2.58-2.75]; postoperative, 2.43 [2.35-2.51]). Post hoc testing with Bonferroni correction for three comparisons showed differences between the normal and preoperative groups (χ(2) 41.38, P = .000) and between the preoperative and postoperative groups (χ(2) 14.41, P = .000) but not between the normal and postoperative groups (χ(2) 4.19, P = .12). CONCLUSIONS There were highly statistically significant differences in attention paid to the nasal area of crooked noses preoperatively and postoperatively, and there were no differences in attention to the nasal area between the postoperative noses and the normal noses. This represents a novel method for objectively evaluating attention and success of surgical procedures to minimize the appearance of deformities.
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- Andres Godoy
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Beedie SA, St. Clair DM, Benson PJ. Atypical scanpaths in schizophrenia: evidence of a trait- or state-dependent phenomenon? J Psychiatry Neurosci 2011; 36:150-64. [PMID: 21223647 PMCID: PMC3080511 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.090169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The development of trait markers of schizophrenia would represent an important advance in understanding the genetic architecture of the disease. To date, no candidate markers have satisfied all of the trait marker criteria, and many are not specific to the schizophrenia spectrum. Abnormalities in visual scanpaths are frequently reported in patients with schizophrenia and are emerging as a novel candidate for a schizophrenia biomarker. Here we review the suitability of scanpath measures as a target for trait marker research in schizophrenia. Papers reporting scanpath patterns in patients with schizophrenia were identified by PubMed and Google Scholar searches and by scanning reference lists in relevant articles. Search terms included "schizophrenia," "psychosis," "scanpath," "scan path," "fixation," "saccade" and "eye movement." Scanpath abnormalities afford impressive sensitivity and specificity and appear largely independent of psychotropic medications. Scanpaths may demonstrate some fluctuation with symptomatology and may be useful in illuminating illness state or subtypes. However, there is evidence that viewing behaviours remain atypical regardless of symptom remission and may be present in unaffected relatives of individuals with schizophrenia. This research is in its early stages, and further investigation regarding patterns of inheritance is required. Our findings support scanpath measures as a favourable topic for further investigation as a trait marker.
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- Sara A. Beedie
- Correspondence to: Dr. S.A. Beedie, School of Psychology, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Aberdeen, William Guild Bldg., King’s College, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB24 3FX;
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Apresentamos a Psicofísica como uma ciência aplicada nas investigações e nas abordagens e diagnósticos clínicos. Inicialmente, introduzimos algo dos aspectos epistemológicos e teóricos da área, passamos para as abordagens que a Psicofísica pode apresentar na aplicabilidade clínica e, por fim, discutimos os avanços recentes da aplicação clínica, apresentamos as experiências de nosso laboratório de pesquisa clínica em psicofísica, finalizando com as perspectivas de ampliação do uso da psicofísica para investigações clínicas de funções perceptuais mais complexas.
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Kochhar P, Batty MJ, Liddle EB, Groom MJ, Scerif G, Liddle PF, Hollis CP. Autistic spectrum disorder traits in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Child Care Health Dev 2011; 37:103-10. [PMID: 20666783 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2010.01123.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Current classification systems do not allow for comorbid diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). Children with ADHD are often screened for ASD during clinical assessment and when recruited to clinical trials. We predicted that children with ADHD would have more autistic traits than controls and that certain traits would be more prevalent. METHODS The clinically referred sample consisted of 30 children with ADHD and 30 matched controls aged 9-15 years. Children were screened for ASD traits using the Social Aptitudes Scale (SAS) and the Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ). RESULTS We found that ASD traits were significantly higher in children with ADHD than controls. None of the children received a diagnosis of autism or ASD. However, a large proportion (28% using the SCQ and 62% using the SAS) of children with ADHD reached screening thresholds for a predictive diagnosis of ASD. Relative to controls, children with ADHD had significantly higher levels of communication and social deficits, but not repetitive behaviours. CONCLUSION Further work is needed to establish whether autistic-like communication and social difficulties in children with ADHD are part of the broader ASD phenotype or are specific to ADHD.
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- P Kochhar
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
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Meneses A, Perez-Garcia G, Ponce-Lopez T, Tellez R, Gallegos-Cari A, Castillo C. Spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) as an animal model for ADHD: a short overview. Rev Neurosci 2011; 22:365-71. [DOI: 10.1515/rns.2011.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Methylphenidate-induced psychosis in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: report of 3 new cases and review of the literature. Clin Neuropharmacol 2010; 33:204-6. [PMID: 20571380 DOI: 10.1097/wnf.0b013e3181e29174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE We present 3 new cases of psychotic symptoms in patients with adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder while regularly treated with a stimulant therapy with methylphenidate. METHODS Existing literature about this theme is reviewed, and potential mechanisms are discussed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS Medication with methylphenidate should be avoided in patients with vulnerability to schizophrenia and in drug addiction, but reported cases without these risk factors demonstrate that a careful and regular psychiatric monitoring is essential in all patients treated with methylphenidate.
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Porter MA, Shaw TA, Marsh PJ. An unusual attraction to the eyes in Williams-Beuren syndrome: a manipulation of facial affect while measuring face scanpaths. Cogn Neuropsychiatry 2010; 15:505-30. [PMID: 20432078 DOI: 10.1080/13546801003644486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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INTRODUCTION This study aimed to investigate face scanpaths and emotion recognition in Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) and whether: (1) the eyes capture the attention of WBS individuals faster than typically developing mental age-matched controls; (2) WBS patients spend abnormally prolonged periods of time viewing the eye region; and (3) emotion recognition skills or eye gaze patterns change depending on the emotional valance of the face. METHODS Visual scanpaths were recorded while 16 WBS patients and 16 controls passively viewed happy, angry, fearful, and neutral faces. Emotion recognition was subsequently measured. RESULTS The eyes did not capture the attention of WBS patients faster than controls, but once WBS patients attended to the eyes, they spent significantly more time looking at this region. Unexpectedly, WBS patients showed an impaired ability to recognise angry faces, but face scanpaths were similar across the different facial expressions. CONCLUSIONS Findings suggest that face processing is atypical in WBS and that emotion recognition and eye gaze abnormalities in WBS are likely to be more complex than previously thought. Findings highlight the need to develop remediation programmes to teach WBS patients how to explore all facial features, enhancing their emotion recognition skills and "normalising" their social interactions.
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Meneses A, Ponce-Lopez T, Tellez R, Gonzalez R, Castillo C, Gasbarri A. Effects of d-amphetamine on short- and long-term memory in spontaneously hypertensive, Wistar-Kyoto and Sprague-Dawley rats. Behav Brain Res 2010; 216:472-6. [PMID: 20813138 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.08.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2010] [Revised: 08/15/2010] [Accepted: 08/20/2010] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Diverse studies indicate that the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with alterations in encoding processes, including working or short-term memory. Some ADHD dysfunctional domains are reflected in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). Here SHR-saline group showed significantly poor STM and LTM relative to SD and WKY saline rats. SD and WKY rats treated with d-amphetamine displayed better STM and LTM, compared to SD-vehicle, WKY-vehicle or SHR-d-amphetamine groups.
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- A Meneses
- Department of Pharmacobiology, CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Marsh PJ, Green MJ, Russell TA, McGuire J, Harris A, Coltheart M. Remediation of Facial Emotion Recognition in Schizophrenia: Functional Predictors, Generalizability, and Durability. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/15487761003757066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Calzavara MB, Medrano WA, Levin R, Kameda SR, Andersen ML, Tufik S, Silva RH, Frussa-Filho R, Abílio VC. Neuroleptic drugs revert the contextual fear conditioning deficit presented by spontaneously hypertensive rats: a potential animal model of emotional context processing in schizophrenia? Schizophr Bull 2009; 35:748-59. [PMID: 18281713 PMCID: PMC2696367 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbn006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) present abnormalities in emotion processing. A previous study showed that the spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), a putative animal model of ADHD, present reduced contextual fear conditioning (CFC). The aim of the present study was to characterize the deficit in CFC presented by SHR. Adult male normotensive Wistar rats and SHR were submitted to the CFC task. Sensitivity of the animals to the shock and the CFC performance after repeated exposure to the task were investigated. Pharmacological characterization consisted in the evaluation of the effects of the following drugs administered previously to the acquisition of the CFC: pentylenetetrazole (anxiogenic) and chlordiazepoxide (anxiolytic); methylphenidate and amphetamine (used for ADHD); lamotrigine, carbamazepine, and valproic acid (mood stabilizers); haloperidol, ziprasidone, risperidone, amisulpride, and clozapine (neuroleptic drugs); metoclopramide and SCH 23390 (dopamine antagonists without antipsychotic properties); and ketamine (a psychotomimmetic). The effects of paradoxical sleep deprivation (that worsens psychotic symptoms) and the performance in a latent inhibition protocol (an animal model of schizophrenia) were also verified. No differences in the sensitivity to the shock were observed. The repeated exposure to the CFC task did not modify the deficit in CFC presented by SHR. Considering pharmacological treatments, only the neuroleptic drugs reversed this deficit. This deficit was potentiated by proschizophrenia manipulations. Finally, a deficit in latent inhibition was also presented by SHR. These findings suggest that the deficit in CFC presented by SHR could be a useful animal model to study abnormalities in emotional context processing related to schizophrenia.
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- Departament of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departament of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Physiology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology,To whom correspondence should be addressed; Departamento de Farmacologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Botucatu, 862 Ed. Leal Prado, CEP 04023-062, São Paulo, Brazil; tel/fax: +55-11-5576-4502, e-mail:
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Ishii L, Carey J, Byrne P, Zee DS, Ishii M. Measuring attentional bias to peripheral facial deformities. Laryngoscope 2009; 119:459-65. [PMID: 19235748 DOI: 10.1002/lary.20132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Introduce a novel method for objectively evaluating attentional bias to peripheral facial deformities using an established metric of attention. METHODS The SMI eye-tracker system (SensoMotoric Inc., Boston, MA) was used to record the eye movement patterns, called scanpaths, of eight naïve observers gazing at pictures of faces with or without peripheral surgical deformities. The scanpaths of observers gazing on those novel faces were compared, and the fixation durations for different facial regions were compared between faces. RESULTS There were statistically significant differences in the mean fixation times between the faces considered normal and those considered abnormal (those with an obvious defect). When multivariate analysis of variance was performed with dependent variables total fixation time, fixation time in central triangle, and fixation time in the defect region and the independent variable face, all four tests were highly statistically significant. When univariate analysis of variance was performed to test the hypothesis that defect fixation times varied by face, the results were highly statistically significant (F = 8.79, P = .0003). CONCLUSIONS Observers gazing on faces typically focus their attention on discriminating features, such as eyes, nose, and mouth. The well-established method of eye movement recordings was applied in a novel way to provide quantitative data showing changes in observer gaze patterns to focus on deformities. These gaze patterns are a direct reflection of observer attention. This is the first objective method to quantify the amount of distraction caused by peripheral facial deformities and may provide insight into the perception of facial deformity.
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- Lisa Ishii
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.
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