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Fu JT, Huang HT, Chen PC, Kuo YM, Chen PS, Tzeng SF. Exploring the reduction in aquaporin-4 and increased expression of ciliary neurotrophic factor with the frontal-striatal gliosis induced by chronic high-fat dietary stress. J Neurochem 2024. [PMID: 39374168 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.16236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2024] [Revised: 09/17/2024] [Accepted: 09/18/2024] [Indexed: 10/09/2024]
Abstract
High-fat diet (HFD)-induced obesity induces peripheral inflammation and hypothalamic pathogenesis linking the activation of astrocytes and microglia. Clinical evidence indicates a positive correlation between obesity and psychiatric disorders, such as depression. The connectivity of the frontal-striatal (FS) circuit, involving the caudate putamen (CPu) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) within the prefrontal cortex (PFC), is known for its role in stress-induced depression. Thus, there is a need for a thorough investigation into whether chronic obesity-induced gliosis, characterized by the activation of astrocytes and microglia, in these brain regions of individuals with chronic obesity. The results revealed increased S100β+ astrocytes and Iba1+ microglia in the CPu and ACC of male obese mice, along with immune cell accumulation in meningeal lymphatic drainage. Activated GFAP+ astrocytes and Iba1+ microglia were observed in the corpus callosum of obese mice. Gliosis in the CPu and ACC was linked to elevated cleaved caspase-3 levels, indicating potential neural cell death by chronic HFD feeding. There was a loss of myelin and adenomatous polyposis coli (APC)+ oligodendrocytes (OLs) in the corpus callosum, an area known to be linked with injury to the CPu. Additionally, reduced levels of aquaporin-4 (AQP4), a protein associated within the glymphatic systems, were noted in the CPu and ACC, while ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) gene expression was upregulated in these brain regions of obese mice. The in vitro study revealed that high-dose CNTF causing a trend of reduced astrocytic AQP4 expression, but it significantly impaired OL maturation. This pathological evidence highlights that prolonged HFD consumption induces persistent FS gliosis and demyelination in the corpus callosum. An elevated level of CNTF appears to act as a potential regulator, leading to AQP4 downregulation in the FS areas and demyelination in the corpus callosum. This cascade of events might contribute to neural cell damage within these regions and disrupt the glymphatic flow.
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- Jing-Ting Fu
- Department of Life Sciences, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Life Sciences, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Institute of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, College of Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- Department of Life Sciences, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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Feola B, Beermann A, Manzanarez Felix K, Coleman M, Bouix S, Holt DJ, Lewandowski KE, Öngür D, Breier A, Shenton ME, Heckers S, Brady RO, Blackford JU, Ward HB. Data-driven, connectome-wide analysis identifies psychosis-specific brain correlates of fear and anxiety. Mol Psychiatry 2024; 29:2601-2610. [PMID: 38503924 PMCID: PMC11411017 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02512-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/01/2024] [Indexed: 03/21/2024]
Abstract
Decades of psychosis research highlight the prevalence and the clinical significance of negative emotions, such as fear and anxiety. Translational evidence demonstrates the pivotal role of the amygdala in fear and anxiety. However, most of these approaches have used hypothesis-driven analyses with predefined regions of interest. A data-driven analysis may provide a complimentary, unbiased approach to identifying brain correlates of fear and anxiety. The aim of the current study was to identify the brain basis of fear and anxiety in early psychosis and controls using a data-driven approach. We analyzed data from the Human Connectome Project for Early Psychosis, a multi-site study of 125 people with psychosis and 58 controls with resting-state fMRI and clinical characterization. Multivariate pattern analysis of whole-connectome data was used to identify shared and psychosis-specific brain correlates of fear and anxiety using the NIH Toolbox Fear-Affect and Fear-Somatic Arousal scales. We then examined clinical correlations of Fear-Affect scores and connectivity patterns. Individuals with psychosis had higher levels of Fear-Affect scores than controls (p < 0.05). The data-driven analysis identified a cluster encompassing the amygdala and hippocampus where connectivity was correlated with Fear-Affect score (p < 0.005) in the entire sample. The strongest correlate of Fear-Affect was between this cluster and the anterior insula and stronger connectivity was associated with higher Fear-Affect scores (r = 0.31, p = 0.0003). The multivariate pattern analysis also identified a psychosis-specific correlate of Fear-Affect score between the amygdala/hippocampus cluster and a cluster in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC). Higher Fear-Affect scores were correlated with stronger amygdala/hippocampal-VMPFC connectivity in the early psychosis group (r = 0.33, p = 0.002), but not in controls (r = -0.15, p = 0.28). The current study provides evidence for the transdiagnostic role of the amygdala, hippocampus, and anterior insula in the neural basis of fear and anxiety and suggests a psychosis-specific relationship between fear and anxiety symptoms and amygdala/hippocampal-VMPFC connectivity. Our novel data-driven approach identifies novel, psychosis-specific treatment targets for fear and anxiety symptoms and provides complimentary evidence to decades of hypothesis-driven approaches examining the brain basis of threat processing.
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- Brandee Feola
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology, École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, Boston, MA, USA
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- McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Moussa-Tooks AB, Beermann A, Manzanarez Felix K, Coleman M, Bouix S, Holt D, Lewandowski KE, Öngür D, Breier A, Shenton ME, Heckers S, Walther S, Brady RO, Ward HB. Isolation of Distinct Networks Driving Action and Cognition in Psychomotor Processes. Biol Psychiatry 2024; 96:390-400. [PMID: 38452884 PMCID: PMC11414019 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.02.1013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Revised: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 02/23/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Psychomotor disturbances are observed across psychiatric disorders and often manifest as psychomotor slowing, agitation, disorganized behavior, or catatonia. Psychomotor function includes both cognitive and motor components, but the neural circuits driving these subprocesses and how they relate to symptoms have remained elusive for centuries. METHODS We analyzed data from the HCP-EP (Human Connectome Project for Early Psychosis), a multisite study of 125 participants with early psychosis and 58 healthy participants with resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and clinical characterization. Psychomotor function was assessed using the 9-hole pegboard task, a timed motor task that engages mechanical and psychomotor components of action, and tasks assessing processing speed and task switching. We used multivariate pattern analysis of whole-connectome data to identify brain correlates of psychomotor function. RESULTS We identified discrete brain circuits driving the cognitive and motor components of psychomotor function. In our combined sample of participants with psychosis (n = 89) and healthy control participants (n = 52), the strongest correlates of psychomotor function (pegboard performance) (p < .005) were between a midline cerebellar region and left frontal region and presupplementary motor area. Psychomotor function was correlated with both cerebellar-frontal connectivity (r = 0.33) and cerebellar-presupplementary motor area connectivity (r = 0.27). However, the cognitive component of psychomotor performance (task switching) was correlated only with cerebellar-frontal connectivity (r = 0.19), whereas the motor component (processing speed) was correlated only with cerebellar-presupplementary motor area connectivity (r = 0.15), suggesting distinct circuits driving unique subprocesses of psychomotor function. CONCLUSIONS We identified cerebellar-cortical circuits that drive distinct subprocesses of psychomotor function. Future studies should probe relationships between cerebellar connectivity and psychomotor performance using neuromodulation.
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- Alexandra B Moussa-Tooks
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Program in Neuroscience, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology, École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
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Li Y, Zhang W, Wu Y, Yin L, Zhu C, Chen Y, Cetin-Karayumak S, Cho KIK, Zekelman LR, Rushmore J, Rathi Y, Makris N, O'Donnell LJ, Zhang F. A diffusion MRI tractography atlas for concurrent white matter mapping across Eastern and Western populations. Sci Data 2024; 11:787. [PMID: 39019877 PMCID: PMC11255335 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03624-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 07/08/2024] [Indexed: 07/19/2024] Open
Abstract
The study of brain differences across Eastern and Western populations provides vital insights for understanding potential cultural and genetic influences on cognition and mental health. Diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography is an important tool in assessing white matter (WM) connectivity and brain tissue microstructure across different populations. However, a comprehensive investigation into WM fiber tracts between Eastern and Western populations is challenged due to the lack of a cross-population WM atlas and the large site-specific variability of dMRI data. This study presents a dMRI tractography atlas, namely the East-West WM Atlas, for concurrent WM mapping between Eastern and Western populations and creates a large, harmonized dMRI dataset (n=306) based on the Human Connectome Project and the Chinese Human Connectome Project. The curated WM atlas, as well as subject-specific data including the harmonized dMRI data, the whole brain tractography data, and parcellated WM fiber tracts and their diffusion measures, are publicly released. This resource is a valuable addition to facilitating the exploration of brain commonalities and differences across diverse cultural backgrounds.
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- Yijie Li
- School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
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- West China Hospital of Medical Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
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- School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
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Cetin-Karayumak S, Zhang F, Zurrin R, Billah T, Zekelman L, Makris N, Pieper S, O'Donnell LJ, Rathi Y. Harmonized diffusion MRI data and white matter measures from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study. Sci Data 2024; 11:249. [PMID: 38413633 PMCID: PMC10899197 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03058-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/29/2024] Open
Abstract
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study® has collected data from over 10,000 children across 21 sites, providing insights into adolescent brain development. However, site-specific scanner variability has made it challenging to use diffusion MRI (dMRI) data from this study. To address this, a dataset of harmonized and processed ABCD dMRI data (from release 3) has been created, comprising quality-controlled imaging data from 9,345 subjects, focusing exclusively on the baseline session, i.e., the first time point of the study. This resource required substantial computational time (approx. 50,000 CPU hours) for harmonization, whole-brain tractography, and white matter parcellation. The dataset includes harmonized dMRI data, 800 white matter clusters, 73 anatomically labeled white matter tracts in full and low resolution, and 804 different dMRI-derived measures per subject (72.3 TB total size). Accessible via the NIMH Data Archive, it offers a large-scale dMRI dataset for studying structural connectivity in child and adolescent neurodevelopment. Additionally, several post-harmonization experiments were conducted to demonstrate the success of the harmonization process on the ABCD dataset.
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- Suheyla Cetin-Karayumak
- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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