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Shao Z, Tan Y, Zhan Y, He L. Modular organization of functional brain networks in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy. Sci Rep 2024; 14:8593. [PMID: 38615051 PMCID: PMC11016091 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-58764-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/15/2024] Open
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Previous studies have indicated that brain functional plasticity and reorganization in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM). However, the effects of cervical cord compression on the functional integration and separation between and/or within modules remain unclear. This study aimed to address these questions using graph theory. Functional MRI was conducted on 46 DCM patients and 35 healthy controls (HCs). The intra- and inter-modular connectivity properties of the whole-brain functional network and nodal topological properties were then calculated using theoretical graph analysis. The difference in categorical variables between groups was compared using a chi-squared test, while that between continuous variables was evaluated using a two-sample t-test. Correlation analysis was conducted between modular connectivity properties and clinical parameters. Modules interaction analyses showed that the DCM group had significantly greater inter-module connections than the HCs group (DMN-FPN: t = 2.38, p = 0.02); inversely, the DCM group had significantly lower intra-module connections than the HCs group (SMN: t = - 2.13, p = 0.036). Compared to HCs, DCM patients exhibited higher nodal topological properties in the default-mode network and frontal-parietal network. In contrast, DCM patients exhibited lower nodal topological properties in the sensorimotor network. The Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) score was positively correlated with inter-module connections (r = 0.330, FDR p = 0.029) but not correlated with intra-module connections. This study reported alterations in modular connections and nodal centralities in DCM patients. Decreased nodal topological properties and intra-modular connection in the sensory-motor regions may indicate sensory-motor dysfunction. Additionally, increased nodal topological properties and inter-modular connection in the default mode network and frontal-parietal network may serve as a compensatory mechanism for sensory-motor dysfunction in DCM patients. This could provide an implicative neural basis to better understand alterations in brain networks and the patterns of changes in brain plasticity in DCM patients.
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- Ziwei Shao
- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
- Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging In Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
- Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging In Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China
- Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging In Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330006, China.
- Clinical Research Center for Medical Imaging In Jiangxi Province, Nanchang, China.
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Jiang Y, Gao Y, Dong D, Sun X, Situ W, Yao S. Brain Anatomy in Boys with Conduct Disorder: Differences Among Aggression Subtypes. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 2024; 55:3-13. [PMID: 35704134 DOI: 10.1007/s10578-022-01360-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Aggression is a core feature of conduct disorder (CD), but the motivation, execution of aggression may vary. A deeper understanding of the neural substrates of aggressive behaviours is critical for effective clinical intervention. Seventy-six Boys with CD (50 with impulsive aggression (I-CD) and 26 with premeditated aggression (P-CD)) and 69 healthy controls (HCs) underwent a structural MRI scan and behavioural assessments. Whole-brain analyses revealed that, compared to HCs, the I-CD group showed significant cortical thinning in the right frontal cortex, while the P-CD group demonstrated significant folding deficits in the bilateral superior parietal cortex. Both types of aggression negatively correlated with the left amygdala volume, albeit in different ways. The present results demonstrated that the complex nature of aggression relies on differentiated anatomical substrates, highlighting the importance of exploring differential circuit-targeted interventions for CD patients.
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- Yali Jiang
- Medical Psychological Center, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, No. 139, Middle Renmin Road, 410011, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China
- Department of Radiology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, 139, Middle Renmin Road, 410011, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, South China Normal University, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China
- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
- Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, 139, Middle Renmin Road, 410011, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
- Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
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- Medical Psychological Center, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, No. 139, Middle Renmin Road, 410011, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
- Centre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
- Medical Psychological Center, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
- National Clinical Research Center on Psychiatry and Psychology, Changsha, China.
- Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, China.
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Tillem S, Dotterer HL, Goetschius LG, Lopez-Duran N, Mitchell C, Monk CS, Hyde LW. Antisocial behavior is associated with reduced frontoparietal network efficiency in youth. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2023; 18:nsad026. [PMID: 37148314 PMCID: PMC10275549 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsad026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2022] [Revised: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/08/2023] Open
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Youth antisocial behavior (AB) is associated with deficits in socioemotional processing, reward and threat processing and executive functioning. These deficits are thought to emerge from differences in neural structure, functioning and connectivity, particularly within the default, salience and frontoparietal networks. However, the relationship between AB and the organization of these networks remains unclear. To address this gap, the current study applied unweighted, undirected graph analyses to resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data in a cohort of 161 adolescents (95 female) enriched for exposure to poverty, a risk factor for AB. As prior work indicates that callous-unemotional (CU) traits may moderate the neurocognitive profile of youth AB, we examined CU traits as a moderator. Using multi-informant latent factors, AB was found to be associated with less efficient frontoparietal network topology, a network associated with executive functioning. However, this effect was limited to youth at low or mean levels of CU traits, indicating that these neural differences were specific to those high on AB but not CU traits. Neither AB, CU traits nor their interaction was significantly related to default or salience network topologies. Results suggest that AB, specifically, may be linked with shifts in the architecture of the frontoparietal network.
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- Scott Tillem
- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Jiang Y, Gao Y, Dong D, Sun X, Situ W, Yao S. Structural abnormalities in adolescents with conduct disorder and high versus low callous unemotional traits. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2023; 32:193-203. [PMID: 34635947 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-021-01890-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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There may be distinct conduct disorder (CD) etiologies and neural morphologies in adolescents with high callous unemotional (CU) traits versus low CU traits. Here, we employed surface-based morphometry methods to investigate morphological differences in adolescents diagnosed with CD [42 with high CU traits (CD-HCU) and 40 with low CU traits (CD-LCU)] and healthy controls (HCs, N = 115) in China. Whole-brain analyses revealed significantly increased cortical surface area (SA) in the left inferior temporal cortex and the right precuneus, but decreased SA in the left superior temporal cortex in the CD-LCU group, compared with the HC group. There were no significant cortical SA differences between the CD-HCU and the HC groups. Compared to the CD-HCU group, the CD-LCU group had a greater cortical thickness (CT) in the left rostral middle frontal cortex. Region-of-interest analyses revealed significant group differences in the right hippocampus, with CD-HCU group having lower right hippocampal volumes than HCs. We did not detect significant group differences in the amygdalar volume, however, the right amygdalar volume was found to be a significant moderator of the correlation between CU traits and the proactive aggression in CD patients. The present results suggested that the manifestations of CD differ between those with high CU traits versus low CU traits, and underscore the importance of sample characteristics in understanding the neural substrates of CD.
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- Yali Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
- School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China.
- National Clinical Research Center on Psychiatry and Psychology, Changsha, People's Republic of China.
- Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China.
- National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, Changsha, People's Republic of China.
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Tillem S, Conley MI, Baskin-Sommers A. Conduct disorder symptomatology is associated with an altered functional connectome in a large national youth sample. Dev Psychopathol 2022; 34:1573-1584. [PMID: 33851904 PMCID: PMC8753609 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579421000237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Conduct disorder (CD), characterized by youth antisocial behavior, is associated with a variety of neurocognitive impairments. However, questions remain regarding the neural underpinnings of these impairments. To investigate novel neural mechanisms that may support these neurocognitive abnormalities, the present study applied a graph analysis to resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data collected from a national sample of 4,781 youth, ages 9-10, who participated in the baseline session of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive DevelopmentSM Study (ABCD Study®). Analyses were then conducted to examine the relationships among levels of CD symptomatology, metrics of global topology, node-level metrics for subcortical structures, and performance on neurocognitive assessments. Youth higher on CD displayed higher global clustering (β = .039, 95% CIcorrected [.0027 .0771]), but lower Degreesubcortical (β = -.052, 95% CIcorrected [-.0916 -.0152]). Youth higher on CD had worse performance on a general neurocognitive assessment (β = -.104, 95% CI [-.1328 -.0763]) and an emotion recognition memory assessment (β = -.061, 95% CI [-.0919 -.0290]). Finally, global clustering mediated the relationship between CD and general neurocognitive functioning (indirect β = -.002, 95% CI [-.0044 -.0002]), and Degreesubcortical mediated the relationship between CD and emotion recognition memory performance (indirect β = -.002, 95% CI [-.0046 -.0005]). CD appears associated with neuro-topological abnormalities and these abnormalities may represent neural mechanisms supporting CD-related neurocognitive disruptions.
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- Scott Tillem
- Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Impaired global efficiency in boys with conduct disorder and high callous unemotional traits. J Psychiatr Res 2021; 138:560-568. [PMID: 33991994 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.04.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Revised: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Callous unemotional (CU) traits differentiate subtypes of conduct disorder (CD). It has been suggested that CU traits may be related to topographical irregularities that hinder information integration. To date, there is limited evidence of whether CU traits may be associated with abnormal brain topology. In this study, 43 CD boys with high and low CU trait (CD-HCU, CD-LCU), and 46 healthy controls (HCs) were subjected to resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how CU trait level and conduct problems may be reflected in topological organization. Brain functional networks were constructed and network/nodal properties, including small-world properties and network/nodal efficiency, were calculated. Topological analysis revealed that, compared with HCs, CD-HCU group were characterized by decreased small-worldness (σ), decreased global efficiency, and increased path length (λ). These variables were similar between the CD-LCU and HC groups. Self-reported CU traits in CD patients correlated negatively with global efficiency and positively with λ. Regional analysis revealed diminished nodal efficiency in the right amygdala in the CD-HCU group compared with HCs. The present results suggest that disrupted global efficiency, together with a regional abnormality affecting the amygdala, may contribute to abnormal information processing and integration in adolescents with CD and high CU traits.
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Richmond S, Beare R, Johnson KA, Allen NB, Seal ML, Whittle S. Towards understanding neurocognitive mechanisms of parenting: Maternal behaviors and structural brain network organization in late childhood. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:1845-1862. [PMID: 33528857 PMCID: PMC7978130 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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A substantial body of knowledge suggests that exposure to adverse family environments - including violence and neglect - influences many aspects of brain development. Relatively less attention has been directed toward the influence of "normative" differences in parenting behaviors. Given the rapid brain reorganization during late childhood, parenting behaviors are particularly likely to impact the structure of the brain during this time. This study investigated associations between maternal parenting behaviors and the organization of structural brain networks in late childhood, as measured by structural covariance. One hundred and forty-five typically developing 8-year-olds and their mothers completed questionnaire measures and two observed interaction tasks; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were obtained from the children. Measures of maternal negative, positive, and communicative behavior were derived from the interaction tasks. Structural covariance networks based on partial correlations between cortical thickness estimates were constructed and estimates of modularity were obtained using graph theoretical analysis. High levels of negative maternal behavior were associated with low modularity. Minimal support was found for an association between positive maternal behaviors and modularity and between maternal communicative behaviors and modularity. Our findings suggest that variation in negative maternal behavior is associated with the structural organization of brain networks in children.
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- Sally Richmond
- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of PsychiatryThe University of Melbourne and Melbourne HealthMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
- Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesThe University of MelbourneParkvilleVictoriaAustralia
- Turner Institute for Brain and Mental HealthMonash UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- Department of Developmental ImagingMurdoch Children's Research InstituteParkvilleVictoriaAustralia
- Department of MedicineMonash UniversityMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
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- Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesThe University of MelbourneParkvilleVictoriaAustralia
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- Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesThe University of MelbourneParkvilleVictoriaAustralia
- Department of PsychologyUniversity of OregonEugeneOregonUSA
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- Department of Developmental ImagingMurdoch Children's Research InstituteParkvilleVictoriaAustralia
- Department for PaediatricsThe University of MelbourneParkvilleVictoriaAustralia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of PsychiatryThe University of Melbourne and Melbourne HealthMelbourneVictoriaAustralia
- Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesThe University of MelbourneParkvilleVictoriaAustralia
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Lv Y, Wu S, Lin Y, Wang X, Wang J, Cai S, Huang L. Association of rs1059004 polymorphism in the OLIG2 locus with functional brain network in first-episode negative schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2020; 303:111130. [PMID: 32563948 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2020.111130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Revised: 05/29/2020] [Accepted: 06/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Schizophrenia has often been viewed as a disorder of connectivity. The single nucleotide polymorphism rs1059004 in the oligodendrocyte lineage transcription factor 2 gene locus has been reported to be associated with schizophrenia. We measured the functional connectivity and functional brain network topology properties in 49 schizophrenic patients and 47 healthy controls. We compared the strength and diversity of the functional connectivity and topological properties of functional networks between different genotypes. The correlations among functional connectivity, topological properties and behavioral performances were also investigated in this study. We found that the connectivity strength of schizophrenic patients carrying the risk A allele was generally decreased whereas connectivity diversity was increased. Regarding topological properties, all groups showed small-world properties, the nodal efficiency showed significant differences in the right precuneus and left middle temporal pole between different genotypes in schizophrenic patients. Moreover, the nodal efficiency in the left middle temporal pole was positively correlated with the neuropsychological assessment battery results of the schizophrenic patients who were homozygous for the C allele. Our results elucidate the contribution of rs1059004 to the functional brain network, and may help enhance the present understanding of the role of risk gene in the functional dysconnectivity of schizophrenia.
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- Yahui Lv
- School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, China
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, China
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, China
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai jiaotong university, Shanghai 200030, China
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, China.
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- School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710071, China.
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Jiang Y, Ming Q, Gao Y, Dong D, Sun X, Zhang X, Situ W, Yao S, Rao H. Effects of BDNF Val66Met polymorphisms on brain structures and behaviors in adolescents with conduct disorder. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2020; 29:479-488. [PMID: 31264106 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-019-01363-z] [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: 11/06/2018] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Accumulating evidence suggests that neural abnormalities in conduct disorder (CD) may be subject to genetic influences, but few imaging studies have taken genetic variants into consideration. The Val66Met polymorphism of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has emerged as a high-interest genetic variant due to its importance in cortical maturation, and several studies have implicated its involvement in neurodevelopmental disorders. Thus, it is unclear how this polymorphism may influence brain anatomy and aberrant behaviors in CD. A total of 65 male adolescents with CD and 69 gender-, IQ- and socioeconomic status-matched healthy controls (HCs) (age range 13-17 years) were enrolled in this study. Analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were used to assess the main effects of CD diagnosis, BDNF genotype, and diagnosis-genotype interactions on brain anatomy and behaviors. We detected a significant main effect of BDNF genotype on temporal gyrification and antisocial behaviors, but not on CD symptoms. Diagnosis-genotype interactive effects were found for cortical thickness of the superior temporal and adjacent areas. These results suggest that the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism may exert its influence both on neural alterations and delinquent behaviors in CD patients. This initial evidence highlights the importance of elucidating potentially different pathways between BDNF genotype and cortical alterations or delinquent behaviors in CD patients.
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- Yali Jiang
- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, No. 139, Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, People's Republic of China.,Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, No. 139, Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, No. 139, Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, No. 139, Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, No. 139, Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, No. 139, Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, No. 139, Middle Renmin Road, Changsha, 410011, Hunan, People's Republic of China. .,National Clinical Research Center on Psychiatry and Psychology, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China. .,Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China.
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- Center of Functional Neuroimaging, Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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Liu H, Jiang H, Bi W, Huang B, Li X, Wang M, Wang X, Zhao H, Cheng Y, Tao X, Liu C, Huang T, Jin C, Zhang T, Yang J. Abnormal Gray Matter Structural Covariance Networks in Children With Bilateral Cerebral Palsy. Front Hum Neurosci 2019; 13:343. [PMID: 31708758 PMCID: PMC6819944 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Bilateral cerebral palsy (BCP) is a common movement disorder in children, which often results in lifelong motor disability. One main symptom of BCP is the limitation of hand function in everyday activities. However, the neuroanatomical basis of this prominent hand impairment is yet to discover. Recent advances mainly focus on the lesions of BCP, but the views on the atypical development of cortical parcellations are extremely lacking. Here, in our study, neuroimaging with network analysis was employed to evaluate the changes of structural covariance networks (SCNs) in BCP children. We aimed to elucidate the alteration of SCNs based on cortical thickness (CT), and to reveal the relationship of CT and hand function in the participants with BCP. SCNs were constructed using covariance between regional CT, which was acquired from T1-weighted images of 19 children with BCP and 19 demographically matched healthy controls (HCs). Compared with HCs, BCP children showed increased CT in several regions involving the bilateral areas (lateral occipital, lingual, and fusiform) and right areas (cuneus, pericalcarine, inferior temporal, middle temporal, superior temporal, and insula). Decreased CT was found in the left superior temporal and right superior parietal cortices. Global network analyses revealed significantly decreased normalized clustering and small-worldness in the BCP network. The area under the curve (AUC) of global network measures varied slightly between the BCP and HC networks. The resistance of the both SCNs to the target and random attack showed no significant difference. Also, the BCP foci (right superior temporal and subtemporal cortex) showed a significantly negative correlation between the CT and manual ability. In this work, we identified the CT-based SCNs changes in children with BCP. The abnormal topological organization of SCNs was revealed, indicating abnormal CT, incongruous development of structural wiring, destructive nodal profiles of betweenness, and moved hub distribution in BCP children. This may provide a neuroanatomical hallmark of BCP in the developing brain. Therefore, our results may not only reflect neurodevelopmental aberrations but also compensatory mechanisms.
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- Heng Liu
- The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.,Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.,Medical Imaging Center of Guizhou Province, Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.,Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.,Shenzhen University Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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- Medical Imaging Center of Guizhou Province, Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.,Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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Dong D, Jiang Y, Gao Y, Ming Q, Wang X, Yao S. Atypical Frontotemporal Connectivity of Cognitive Empathy in Male Adolescents With Conduct Disorder. Front Psychol 2019; 9:2778. [PMID: 30687205 PMCID: PMC6338247 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Accepted: 12/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Background: It has been suggested that adolescents with conduct disorder (CD) may have a deficit in the affective and cognitive domains empathy, but studies exploring networks within the key brain regions of affective and cognitive empathy in adolescents with CD are lacking. Methods: Functional connectivity (FC) analyses among key brain regions of the affective and cognitive empathy with resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) were conducted in 30 adolescent boys with CD and 33 demographically matched healthy controls (HCs). Results: Atypical FC within the key brain regions of affective empathy was not observed in CD adolescents. However, we found that CD adolescents showed decreased frontotemporal connectivity within the key brain regions of cognitive empathy in relation to HCs, that is, the FCs between right temporoparietal junction and ventromedial prefrontal cortex as well as dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. Conclusion: These findings may provide insight into neural mechanism underlying a cognitive empathy deficiency of CD adolescents from the perspective of FC.
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- Daifeng Dong
- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, China.,China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, China.,China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, China.,China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, China.,China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, China.,China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, China
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Wu YT, Huang SR, Jao CW, Soong BW, Lirng JF, Wu HM, Wang PS. Impaired Efficiency and Resilience of Structural Network in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3. Front Neurosci 2019; 12:935. [PMID: 30618564 PMCID: PMC6304428 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Background: Recent studies have shown that the patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) may not only have disease involvement in the cerebellum and brainstem but also in the cerebral regions. However, the relations between the widespread degenerated brain regions remains incompletely explored. Methods: In the present study, we investigate the topological properties of the brain networks of SCA3 patients (n = 40) constructed based on the correlation of three-dimensional fractal dimension values. Random and targeted attacks were applied to measure the network resilience of normal and SCA3 groups. Results: The SCA3 networks had significantly smaller clustering coefficients (P < 0.05) and global efficiency (P < 0.05) but larger characteristic path length (P < 0.05) than the normal controls networks, implying loss of small-world features. Furthermore, the SCA3 patients were associated with reduced nodal betweenness (P < 0.001) in the left supplementary motor area, bilateral paracentral lobules, and right thalamus, indicating that the motor control circuit might be compromised. Conclusions: The SCA3 networks were more vulnerable to targeted attacks than the normal controls networks because of the effects of pathological topological organization. The SCA3 revealed a more sparsity and disrupted structural network with decreased values in the largest component size, mean degree, mean density, clustering coefficient, and global efficiency and increased value in characteristic path length. The cortico-cerebral circuits in SCA3 were disrupted and segregated into occipital-parietal (visual-spatial cognition) and frontal-pre-frontal (motor control) clusters. The cerebellum of SCA3 were segregated from cerebellum-temporal-frontal circuits and clustered into a frontal-temporal cluster (cognitive control). Therefore, the disrupted structural network presented in this study might reflect the clinical characteristics of SCA3.
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- Yu-Te Wu
- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Biophotonics and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biophotonics and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, Shuang Ho Hospital and Taipei Neuroscience Institute, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Radiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biophotonics and Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Neurology, Taipei Municipal Gan-Dau Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Lindner P, Flodin P, Budhiraja M, Savic I, Jokinen J, Tiihonen J, Hodgins S. Associations of Psychopathic Traits With Local and Global Brain Network Topology in Young Adult Women. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2018; 3:1003-1012. [PMID: 29945829 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2017] [Revised: 04/24/2018] [Accepted: 04/25/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Psychopathic traits vary dimensionally in the population and are associated with multiple negative outcomes. The impaired integration theory (IIT) proposes that psychopathic traits are associated with abnormal neural network topology, such that disturbed integration of neural networks results in a self-perpetuating impairment in rapid integration and learning from multiple components of information. The IIT is based on findings from male offenders presenting high scores on all psychopathic traits. The present study investigated whether IIT predictions of topology abnormalities were associated with psychopathic traits, measured dimensionally, in young adult women with subsyndromal scores. METHODS Seventy-three women, with an average age of 25 years, were assessed using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and completed resting-state magnetic resonance imaging. Preprocessed time series from 90 anatomical regions were extracted to form connectivity matrices and used to calculate network topology based on graph theory. Correlations between total psychopathy and factor scores with both the raw connectivity matrix and global and local graph theory measures were computed. RESULTS Total psychopathy scores and behavioral factor scores were related to connectivity between several pairs of regions, primarily limbic/paralimbic. Psychopathic traits were not associated with global topology measures. Topology abnormalities, robust across network formation thresholds, were found in nodes of the default mode network and in hubs connecting several resting-state networks. CONCLUSIONS IIT predictions of abnormal topology of hubs and default mode network nodes with dimensionally measured psychopathic traits were confirmed in a sample of young women. Regional abnormalities, accompanied by preserved global topology, may underlie context-specific abnormal information processing and integration.
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- Philip Lindner
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Dependency Disorders, Stockholm Health Care Services, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Center for Aging and Demographic Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Neurology Clinic, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Clinical Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Eastern Finland, Niuvanniemi Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Département de Psychiatrie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Pu W, Luo Q, Jiang Y, Gao Y, Ming Q, Yao S. Alterations of Brain Functional Architecture Associated with Psychopathic Traits in Male Adolescents with Conduct Disorder. Sci Rep 2017; 7:11349. [PMID: 28900210 PMCID: PMC5595864 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11775-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2017] [Accepted: 08/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Psychopathic traits of conduct disorder (CD) have a core callous-unemotional (CU) component and an impulsive-antisocial component. Previous task-driven fMRI studies have suggested that psychopathic traits are associated with dysfunction of several brain areas involved in different cognitive functions (e.g., empathy, reward, and response inhibition etc.), but the relationship between psychopathic traits and intrinsic brain functional architecture has not yet been explored in CD. Using a holistic brain-wide functional connectivity analysis, this study delineated the alterations in brain functional networks in patients with conduct disorder. Compared with matched healthy controls, we found decreased anti-synchronization between the fronto-parietal network (FPN) and default mode network (DMN), and increased intra-network synchronization within the frontothalamic-basal ganglia, right frontoparietal, and temporal/limbic/visual networks in CD patients. Correlation analysis showed that the weakened FPN-DMN interaction was associated with CU traits, while the heightened intra-network functional connectivity was related to impulsivity traits in CD patients. Our findings suggest that decoupling of cognitive control (FPN) with social understanding of others (DMN) is associated with the CU traits, and hyper-functions of the reward and motor inhibition systems elevate impulsiveness in CD.
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- Weidan Pu
- Medical Psychological Center, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China
- Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China
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- School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China
- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China
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- Medical Psychological Center, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China
- Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China
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- Medical Psychological Center, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China
- Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China
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- Medical Psychological Center, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China
- Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China
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- Medical Psychological Center, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China.
- Medical Psychological Institute of Central South University, Changsha, P.R. China.
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