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Schneider R, Kogel A, Ladopoulos T, Siems N, Krieger B, Bellenberg B, Gold R, Ayzenberg I, Lukas C. Cortical atrophy patterns in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2024; 11:2166-2175. [PMID: 39054631 PMCID: PMC11330211 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.52137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2024] [Revised: 06/07/2024] [Accepted: 06/09/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVES Global brain volume changes in patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease compared with healthy controls (HC) could be revealed by magnetic resonance imaging, but specific atrophy patterns of cortical structures and relation to cognitive impairment are not yet comprehensively known. Thus, we aimed to investigate cortical thickness differences in patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease compared with HC. METHODS 3-Tesla brain magnetic resonance imaging was performed in 23 patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease and 49 HC for voxel-wise group comparisons and neuropsychological testing in patients. Surface-based morphometry with region of interest-based surface analysis and region of interest-based extraction of cortical thickness was performed in patients compared with HC and in patient subgroups with and without cognitive impairment. RESULTS Comparing patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease with HC, exploratory surface-based morphometry demonstrated cortical volume reduction in pericalcarine and lingual cortical regions. Region of interest-based surface analysis specified reduced cortical thickness in the adjacent pericalcarine and orbitofrontal regions in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease, as well as reduced temporal cortical thickness in patients with cognitive impairment (n = 10). Patients without cognitive impairment (n = 13) showed only circumscribed cortical brain volume loss compared with HC in the pericalcarine region. INTERPRETATION In conclusion, cortical atrophy in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease was characterized by cortical thickness reduction in the adjacent pericalcarine and orbitofrontal regions, with a tendency of temporal thickness reduction in cognitively impaired patients.
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- Ruth Schneider
- Department of Neurology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
- Institute of Neuroradiology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
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- Department of Neurology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
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- Department of Neurology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
- Institute of Neuroradiology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
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- Department of Neurology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
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- Institute of Neuroradiology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
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- Institute of Neuroradiology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
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- Department of Neurology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
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- Department of Neurology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
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- Institute of Neuroradiology, St. Josef HospitalRuhr University BochumBochumGermany
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Peng L, Cai H, Tang Y, Zhou F, Liu Y, Xu Z, Chen Q, Chen X. Causal associations between chronic heart failure and the cerebral cortex: results from Mendelian randomization study and integrated bioinformatics analysis. Front Cardiovasc Med 2024; 11:1396311. [PMID: 39027007 PMCID: PMC11254706 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1396311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2024] [Accepted: 06/11/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024] Open
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Background Chronic heart failure (CHF) patients exhibit alterations in cerebral cortical structure and cognitive function. However, the mechanisms by which CHF affects cortical structure and functional regions remain unknown. This study aims to investigate potential causal relationship between CHF and cerebral cortical structure through Mendelian randomization (MR). Methods The research utilized genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to explore the causal association between CHF and cerebral cortical structure. The results were primarily analyzed using the inverse-variance weighted (IVW). The reliability of the data was verified through horizontal pleiotropy and heterogeneity analysis by MR-Egger intercept test and Cochran's Q-test, respectively. Replication analysis was conducted in the Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU) OpenGWAS project for further validation. In addition, we collected mediator genes that mediate causality to reveal potential mechanisms. Integrated bioinformatics analysis was conducted using the Open Target Genetics platform, the STRING database, and Cytoscape software. Results The IVW results did not reveal any significant causal association between genetically predicted CHF and the overall structure of the cerebral cortex or the surface area (SA) of the 34 functional regions of the cerebral cortex (P > 0.05). However, the results revealed that CHF increased the thickness (TH) of pars opercularis (IVW: β = 0.015, 95% CI: 0.005-0.025, P = 3.16E-03). Replication analysis supported the causal association between CHF and pars opercularis TH (IVW: β = 0.02, 95% CI: 0.010-0.033, P = 1.84E-04). We examined the degree centrality values of the top 10 mediator genes, namely CDKN1A, CELSR2, NME5, SURF4, PSMA5, TSC1, RPL7A, SURF6, PRDX3, and FTO. Conclusion Genetic evidence indicates a positive correlation between CHF and pars opercularis TH.
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- Liqi Peng
- The First Clinical College of Chinese Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China
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- International Medical Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China
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- College of Integrative Medicine, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China
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- Health Management Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China
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- Preventive Treatment Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China
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- Intensive Care Unit, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China
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- Preventive Treatment Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, China
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Xie H, Wang Y, Zhu F, Zhang F, Wu B, Zhao Z, Gan R, Gong Q, Jia Z. Genes associated with cortical thickness alterations in behavioral addiction. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae298. [PMID: 39051658 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae298] [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: 05/13/2024] [Revised: 06/26/2024] [Accepted: 06/28/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024] Open
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Behavioral addiction (BA) is a conceptually new addictive phenotype characterized by compulsive reward-seeking behaviors despite adverse consequences. Currently, its underlying neurogenetic mechanism remains unclear. Here, this study aimed to investigate the association between cortical thickness (CTh) and genetic phenotypes in BA. We conducted a systematic search in five databases and extracted gene expression data from the Allen Human Brain Atlas. Meta-analysis of 10 studies (343 addicted individuals and 355 controls) revealed that the BA group showed thinner CTh in the precuneus, postcentral gyrus, orbital-frontal cortex, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (P < 0.005). Meta-regression showed that the CTh in the precuneus and postcentral gyrus were negatively associated with the addiction severity (P < 0.0005). More importantly, the CTh phenotype of BA was spatially correlated with the expression of 12 genes (false discovery rate [FDR] < 0.05), and the dopamine D2 receptor had the highest correlation (rho = 0.55). Gene enrichment analysis further revealed that the 12 genes were involved in the biological processes of behavior regulation and response to stimulus (FDR < 0.05). In conclusion, our findings demonstrated the thinner CTh in cognitive control-related brain areas in BA, which could be associated with the expression of genes involving dopamine metabolism and behavior regulation.
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- Hongsheng Xie
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Radiology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, 85 Jiefang South Road, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi, China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Department of Radiology, West China Xiamen Hospital of Sichuan University, 699 Jinyuan Xi Road, Jimei District, 361021 Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, 610041, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Bottenhorn KL, Corbett JD, Ahmadi H, Herting MM. Spatiotemporal patterns in cortical development: Age, puberty, and individual variability from 9 to 13 years of age. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.29.601354. [PMID: 39005403 PMCID: PMC11244861 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.29.601354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/16/2024]
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Humans and nonhuman primate studies suggest that timing and tempo of cortical development varies neuroanatomically along a sensorimotor-to-association (S-A) axis. Prior human studies have reported a principal S-A axis across various modalities, but largely rely on cross-sectional samples with wide age-ranges. Here, we investigate developmental changes and individual variability in cortical organization along the S-A axis between the ages of 9-13 years using a large, longitudinal sample (N = 2487-3747, 46-50% female) from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (ABCD Study®). This work assesses multiple aspects of neurodevelopment indexed by changes in cortical thickness, cortical microarchitecture, and resting-state functional fluctuations. First, we evaluated S-A organization in age-related changes and, then, computed individual-level S-A alignment in brain changes and assessing differences therein due to age, sex, and puberty. Varying degrees of linear and quadratic age-related brain changes were identified along the S-A axis. Yet, these patterns of cortical development were overshadowed by considerable individual variability in S-A alignment. Even within individuals, there was little correspondence between S-A patterning across the different aspects of neurodevelopment investigated (i.e., cortical morphology, microarchitecture, function). Some of the individual variation in developmental patterning of cortical morphology and microarchitecture was explained by age, sex, and pubertal development. Altogether, this work contextualizes prior findings that regional age differences do progress along an S-A axis at a group level, while highlighting broad variation in developmental change between individuals and between aspects of cortical development, in part due to sex and puberty. Significance Statement Understanding normative patterns of adolescent brain change, and individual variability therein, is crucial for disentangling healthy and abnormal development. We used longitudinal human neuroimaging data to study several aspects of neurodevelopment during early adolescence and assessed their organization along a sensorimotor-to-association (S-A) axis across the cerebral cortex. Age differences in brain changes were linear and curvilinear along this S-A axis. However, individual-level sensorimotor-association alignment varied considerably, driven in part by differences in age, sex, and pubertal development.
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Liu Y, Feng H, Du J, Yang L, Xue H, Zhang J, Liang YY, Liu Y. Associations between accelerometer-measured circadian rest-activity rhythm, brain structural and genetic mechanisms, and dementia. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2024; 78:393-404. [PMID: 38676558 DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13671] [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: 11/13/2023] [Revised: 03/12/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/29/2024]
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AIM Knowledge of how circadian rhythm influences brain health remains limited. We aimed to investigate the associations of accelerometer-measured circadian rest-activity rhythm (CRAR) with incident dementia, cognitive dysfunction, and structural brain abnormalities in the general population and underlying biological mechanisms. METHODS Fifty-seven thousand five hundred and two participants aged over 60 years with accelerometer data were included to investigate the association of CRAR with incidental dementia. Non-parametric CRAR parameters were utilized, including activity level during active periods of the day (M10), activity level during rest periods of the day (L5), and the relative difference between the M10 and L5 (relative amplitude, RA). Associations of CRAR with cognitive dysfunction and brain structure were studied in a subset of participants. Neuroimaging-transcriptomics analysis was utilized to identify the underlying molecular mechanisms. RESULTS Over 6.86 (4.94-8.78) years of follow-up, 494 participants developed dementia. The risk of incident dementia was associated with decreasing M10 (hazard ratio [HR] 1.45; 95% conference interval [CI], 1.28-1.64) and RA (HR 1.37; 95% CI, 1.28-1.64), increasing L5 (HR 1.14, 95% CI 1.07-1.21) and advanced L5 onset time (HR 1.12; 95% CI, 1.02-1.23). The detrimental associations were exacerbated by APOE ε4 status and age (>65 years). Decreased RA was associated with lower processing speed (Beta -0.04; SE 0.011), predominantly mediated by abnormalities in subcortical regions and white matter microstructure. The genes underlying CRAR-related brain regional structure variation were enriched for synaptic function. CONCLUSIONS Our study underscores the potential of intervention targeting at maintaining a healthy CRAR pattern to prevent dementia risk.
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- Yue Liu
- Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Center for Sleep and Circadian Medicine, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Medicine, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Channelopathies of Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education of China, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Medicine, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Channelopathies of Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education of China, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Medicine, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Channelopathies of Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education of China, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Medicine, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Channelopathies of Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education of China, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Medicine, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Channelopathies of Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education of China, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Institute of Psycho-neuroscience, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Medicine, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Channelopathies of Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education of China, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
- Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Duan H, Shi R, Kang J, Banaschewski T, Bokde ALW, Büchel C, Desrivières S, Flor H, Grigis A, Garavan H, Gowland PA, Heinz A, Brühl R, Martinot JL, Martinot MLP, Artiges E, Nees F, Papadopoulos Orfanos D, Poustka L, Hohmann S, Holz N, Fröhner JH, Smolka MN, Vaidya N, Walter H, Whelan R, Schumann G, Lin X, Feng J. Population clustering of structural brain aging and its association with brain development. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2024:2024.01.09.24301030. [PMID: 38260410 PMCID: PMC10802651 DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.09.24301030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Structural brain aging has demonstrated strong inter-individual heterogeneity and mirroring patterns with brain development. However, due to the lack of large-scale longitudinal neuroimaging studies, most of the existing research focused on the cross-sectional changes of brain aging. In this investigation, we present a data-driven approach that incorporate both cross-sectional changes and longitudinal trajectories of structural brain aging and identified two brain aging patterns among 37,013 healthy participants from UK Biobank. Participants with accelerated brain aging also demonstrated accelerated biological aging, cognitive decline and increased genetic susceptibilities to major neuropsychiatric disorders. Further, by integrating longitudinal neuroimaging studies from a multi-center adolescent cohort, we validated the "last in, first out" mirroring hypothesis and identified brain regions with manifested mirroring patterns between brain aging and brain development. Genomic analyses revealed risk loci and genes contributing to accelerated brain aging and delayed brain development, providing molecular basis for elucidating the biological mechanisms underlying brain aging and related disorders.
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- Haojing Duan
- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence (Fudan University), Ministry of Education, China
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- School of Data Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence (Fudan University), Ministry of Education, China
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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- Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, Mannheim, Germany
- Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, 68131 Mannheim, Germany
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- NeuroSpin, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Vermont, 05405 Burlington, Vermont, USA
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- Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U1299 "Developmental Trajectories and Psychiatry", Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Psychiatry Department, EPS Barthélémy Durand, Etampes; France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U1299 "Developmental Trajectories and Psychiatry", Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- AP-HP. Sorbonne Université, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U1299 "Developmental Trajectories and Psychiatry", Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Psychiatry Department, EPS Barthélémy Durand, Etampes; France
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
- Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, Mannheim, Germany
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Göttingen, von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität BerlinHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Psychology and Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität BerlinHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
- Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS Centre), ISTBI, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS), Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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- School of Data Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Huashan Institute of Medicine, Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence (Fudan University), Ministry of Education, China
- School of Data Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai, China
- Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Hua JPY, Fryer SL, Stuart B, Loewy RL, Vinogradov S, Mathalon DH. Adjustment of Regional Cortical Thickness Measures for Global Cortical Thickness Obscures Deficits Across the Schizophrenia Spectrum: A Cautionary Note About Normative Modeling of Brain Imaging Data. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2024:S2451-9022(24)00159-9. [PMID: 38908749 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Revised: 06/07/2024] [Accepted: 06/12/2024] [Indexed: 06/24/2024]
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Recent neuroimaging studies and publicly disseminated analytic tools suggest that regional morphometric analyses covary for global thickness. We empirically demonstrated that this statistical approach severely underestimates regional thickness dysmorphology in psychiatric disorders. Study 1 included 90 healthy control participants, 51 participants at clinical high risk for psychosis, and 78 participants with early-illness schizophrenia. Study 2 included 56 healthy control participants, 83 participants with nonaffective psychosis, and 30 participants with affective psychosis. We examined global and regional thickness correlations, global thickness group differences, and regional thickness group differences with and without global thickness covariation. Global and regional thickness were strongly correlated across groups. Global thickness was lower in the schizophrenia spectrum groups than the other groups. Regional thickness deficits in schizophrenia spectrum groups were attenuated or eliminated with global thickness covariation. Eliminating the variation that regional thickness shares with global thickness eliminated disease-related effects. This statistical approach results in erroneous conclusions that regional thickness is normal in disorders like schizophrenia or clinical high risk syndrome.
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- Jessica P Y Hua
- Mental Health Service, San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, California; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Mental Health Service, San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, California; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Mental Health Service, San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, California; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
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Yu J. Age-related decline in thickness and surface area in the cortical surface and hippocampus: lifespan trajectories and decade-by-decade analyses. GeroScience 2024:10.1007/s11357-024-01220-1. [PMID: 38831181 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-024-01220-1] [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: 04/23/2024] [Accepted: 05/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/05/2024] Open
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Previous studies on age-related changes in cortical and hippocampal morphology were not designed or able to reveal the complex spatial patterns of changes across the lifespan. To this end, the current study examined these changes in a decade-by-decade manner by comparing consecutive age decades at the vertex-wise level. Additionally, the lifespan trajectories of cortical/hippocampal mean thickness and total surface area were modeled and plotted out to provide an overview of their age-related changes. Using two lifespan datasets (Ntotal = 1378; 18 ≤ age ≤ 100), vertex-wise thickness and surface area measurements were extracted from the cortical and unfolded hippocampal surfaces and analyzed using whole-brain/hippocampus vertex-wise analyses. Lifespan trajectories of cortical/hippocampal mean thickness and total surface area were modeled with generalized additive models for location, scale, and shape. These models revealed fairly linear declines in both cortical measures and inverted U-shaped trajectories for both hippocampal measures. Across the different age decades, the sizes and locations of cortical thinning clusters were highly variable across the age decades. No significant clusters of cortical surface area changes were observed across the age decades. Significant clusters of hippocampal surface area and thickness reduction were not observed until the 70s. Generally, the agreement between datasets on the hippocampal findings was much higher than those of the cortical surface. These findings revealed important nuances in the age-related changes of cortical and hippocampal morphology and cautioned against using lifespan trajectories to infer decade-by-decade changes in the cortical surface and the hippocampus.
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- Junhong Yu
- Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 48 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798, Singapore.
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Van Hoornweder S, Geraerts M, Verstraelen S, Nuyts M, Caulfield KA, Meesen R. Differences in scalp-to-cortex tissues across age groups, sexes and brain regions: Implications for neuroimaging and brain stimulation techniques. Neurobiol Aging 2024; 138:45-62. [PMID: 38531217 PMCID: PMC11141186 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.02.011] [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: 07/06/2023] [Revised: 02/20/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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Aging affects the scalp-to-cortex distance (SCD) and the comprising tissues. This is crucial for noninvasive neuroimaging and brain stimulation modalities as they rely on traversing from the scalp to the cortex or vice versa. The specific relationship between aging and these tissues has not been comprehensively investigated. We conducted a study on 250 younger and older adults to examine age-related differences in SCD and its constituent tissues. We identified region-specific differences in tissue thicknesses related to age and sex. Older adults exhibit larger SCD in the frontocentral regions compared to younger adults. Men exhibit greater SCD in the inferior scalp regions, while women show similar-to-greater SCD values in regions closer to the vertex compared to men. Younger adults and men have thicker soft tissue layers, whereas women and older adults exhibit thicker compact bone layers. CSF is considerably thicker in older adults, particularly in men. These findings emphasize the need to consider age, sex, and regional differences when interpreting SCD and its implications for noninvasive neuroimaging and brain stimulation.
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- Sybren Van Hoornweder
- REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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- REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Brain Stimulation Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium; Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, Department of Movement Sciences, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Fjell AM. Aging Brain from a Lifespan Perspective. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 2024. [PMID: 38797799 DOI: 10.1007/7854_2024_476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
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Research during the last two decades has shown that the brain undergoes continuous changes throughout life, with substantial heterogeneity in age trajectories between regions. Especially, temporal and prefrontal cortices show large changes, and these correlate modestly with changes in the corresponding cognitive abilities such as episodic memory and executive function. Changes seen in normal aging overlap with changes seen in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease; differences between what reflects normal aging vs. a disease-related change are often blurry. This calls for a dimensional view on cognitive decline in aging, where clear-cut distinctions between normality and pathology cannot be always drawn. Although much progress has been made in describing typical patterns of age-related changes in the brain, identifying risk and protective factors, and mapping cognitive correlates, there are still limits to our knowledge that should be addressed by future research. We need more longitudinal studies following the same participants over longer time intervals with cognitive testing and brain imaging, and an increased focus on the representativeness vs. selection bias in neuroimaging research of aging.
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- Anders Martin Fjell
- Department of Psychology, Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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van der Pal Z, Walhovd KB, Amlien IK, Guichelaar CJ, Kaiser A, Bottelier MA, Geurts HM, Reneman L, Schrantee A. Stimulant medication use and apparent cortical thickness development in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a prospective longitudinal study. Front Psychiatry 2024; 15:1365159. [PMID: 38774436 PMCID: PMC11107082 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1365159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/24/2024] Open
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Background Stimulant medication is commonly prescribed as treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). While we previously found that short-term stimulant-treatment influences apparent cortical thickness development in an age-dependent manner, it remains unknown whether these effects persist throughout development into adulthood. Purpose Investigate the long-term age-dependent effects of stimulant medication use on apparent cortical thickness development in adolescents and adults previously diagnosed with ADHD. Methods This prospective study included the baseline and 4-year follow-up assessment of the "effects of Psychotropic drugs On the Developing brain-MPH" ("ePOD-MPH") project, conducted between June-1-2011 and December-28-2019. The analyses were pre-registered (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/32BHF). T1-weighted MR scans were obtained from male adolescents and adults, and cortical thickness was estimated for predefined regions of interest (ROIs) using Freesurfer. We determined medication use and assessed symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, and depression at both time points. Linear mixed models were constructed to assess main effects and interactions of stimulant medication use, time, and age group on regional apparent cortical thickness. Results A total of 32 male adolescents (aged mean ± SD, 11.2 ± 0.9 years at baseline) and 24 men (aged mean ± SD, 29.9 ± 5.0 years at baseline) were included that previously participated in the ePOD-MPH project. We found no evidence for long-term effects of stimulant medication use on ROI apparent cortical thickness. As expected, we did find age-by-time interaction effects in all ROIs (left prefrontal ROI: P=.002, right medial and posterior ROIs: P<.001), reflecting reductions in apparent cortical thickness in adolescents. Additionally, ADHD symptom severity (adolescents: P<.001, adults: P=.001) and anxiety symptoms (adolescents: P=0.03) were reduced, and more improvement of ADHD symptoms was associated with higher medication use in adults (P=0.001). Conclusion We found no evidence for long-term effects of stimulant-treatment for ADHD on apparent cortical thickness development in adolescents and adults. The identified age-dependent differences in apparent cortical thickness development are consistent with existing literature on typical cortical development.
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- Zarah van der Pal
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- CIBM, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Accare, Centre for Academic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Center (UMC) Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Division of Brain & Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Walhovd KB, Krogsrud SK, Amlien IK, Sørensen Ø, Wang Y, Bråthen ACS, Overbye K, Kransberg J, Mowinckel AM, Magnussen F, Herud M, Håberg AK, Fjell AM, Vidal-Pineiro D. Fetal influence on the human brain through the lifespan. eLife 2024; 12:RP86812. [PMID: 38602745 PMCID: PMC11008813 DOI: 10.7554/elife.86812] [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] [Indexed: 04/12/2024] Open
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Human fetal development has been associated with brain health at later stages. It is unknown whether growth in utero, as indexed by birth weight (BW), relates consistently to lifespan brain characteristics and changes, and to what extent these influences are of a genetic or environmental nature. Here we show remarkably stable and lifelong positive associations between BW and cortical surface area and volume across and within developmental, aging and lifespan longitudinal samples (N = 5794, 4-82 y of age, w/386 monozygotic twins, followed for up to 8.3 y w/12,088 brain MRIs). In contrast, no consistent effect of BW on brain changes was observed. Partly environmental effects were indicated by analysis of twin BW discordance. In conclusion, the influence of prenatal growth on cortical topography is stable and reliable through the lifespan. This early-life factor appears to influence the brain by association of brain reserve, rather than brain maintenance. Thus, fetal influences appear omnipresent in the spacetime of the human brain throughout the human lifespan. Optimizing fetal growth may increase brain reserve for life, also in aging.
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- Kristine B Walhovd
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
- Computational Radiology and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University HospitalOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
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- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
- Computational Radiology and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Oslo University HospitalOsloNorway
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- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, University of OsloOsloNorway
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Jiang A, Ma X, Li S, Wang L, Yang B, Wang S, Li M, Dong G. Age-atypical brain functional networks in autism spectrum disorder: a normative modeling approach. Psychol Med 2024:1-12. [PMID: 38563297 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291724000138] [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] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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BACKGROUND Despite extensive research into the neural basis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the presence of substantial biological and clinical heterogeneity among diagnosed individuals remains a major barrier. Commonly used case‒control designs assume homogeneity among subjects, which limits their ability to identify biological heterogeneity, while normative modeling pinpoints deviations from typical functional network development at individual level. METHODS Using a world-wide multi-site database known as Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange, we analyzed individuals with ASD and typically developed (TD) controls (total n = 1218) aged 5-40 years, generating individualized whole-brain network functional connectivity (FC) maps of age-related atypicality in ASD. We then used local polynomial regression to estimate a networkwise normative model of development and explored correlations between ASD symptoms and brain networks. RESULTS We identified a subset exhibiting highly atypical individual-level FC, exceeding 2 standard deviation from the normative value. We also identified clinically relevant networks (mainly default mode network) at cohort level, since the outlier rates decreased with age in TD participants, but increased in those with autism. Moreover, deviations were linked to severity of repetitive behaviors and social communication symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Individuals with ASD exhibit distinct, highly individualized trajectories of brain functional network development. In addition, distinct developmental trajectories were observed among ASD and TD individuals, suggesting that it may be challenging to identify true differences in network characteristics by comparing young children with ASD to their TD peers. This study enhances understanding of the biological heterogeneity of the disorder and can inform precision medicine.
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- Anhang Jiang
- Department of Psychology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, P.R. China
- Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China
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- Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China
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- Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China
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- Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China
- Institutes of Psychological Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Department of Psychology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, P.R. China
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- Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China
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- Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China
- Center for Mental Health Education and Counselling, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Psychology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, P.R. China
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Granovetter MC, Maallo AMS, Patterson C, Glen D, Behrmann M. Morphometrics of the preserved post-surgical hemisphere in pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.09.24.559189. [PMID: 37808659 PMCID: PMC10557613 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.24.559189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Importance Structural integrity of cortex following cortical resection for epilepsy management has been previously characterized, but only in adult patients. Objective This study sought to determine whether morphometrics of the preserved hemisphere in pediatric cortical resection patients differ from non-neurological controls. Design This was a case-control study, from 2013-2022. Setting This was a single-site study. Participants 32 patients with childhood epilepsy surgery and 51 age- and gender-matched controls participated. Main Measures We quantified morphometrics of the preserved hemisphere at the level of gross anatomy (lateral ventricle size, volume of gray and white matter). Additionally, cortical thickness, volume, and surface area were measured for 34 cortical regions segmented with the Desikan-Killiany atlas, and, last, volumes of nine subcortical regions were also quantified. Results 13 patients with left hemisphere (LH) surgery and a preserved right hemisphere (RH) (median age/median absolute deviation of age: 15.7/1.7 yr; 6 females, 7 males) and 19 patients with RH surgery and a preserved LH (15.4/3.7 yr; 11 females, 8 males) were compared to 51 controls (14.8/4.9 yr; 24 females, 27 males). Patient groups had larger ventricles and reduced total white matter volume relative to controls, and only patients with a preserved RH, but not patients with a preserved LH, had reduced total gray matter volume relative to controls. Furthermore, patients with a preserved RH had lower cortical thickness and volume and greater surface area of several cortical regions, relative to controls. Patients with a preserved LH had no differences in thickness, volume, or area, of any of the 34 cortical regions, relative to controls. Moreover, both LH and RH patients showed reduced volumes in select subcortical structures, relative to controls. Conclusions and Relevance That left-sided, but not right-sided, resection is associated with more pronounced reduction in cortical thickness and volume and increased cortical surface area relative to typically developing, age-matched controls suggests that the preserved RH undergoes structural plasticity to an extent not observed in cases of right-sided pediatric resection. Future work probing the association of the current findings with neuropsychological outcomes will be necessary to understand the implications of these structural findings for clinical practice.
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- Michael C. Granovetter
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213
- School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213
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- Scientific and Statistical Computing Core, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 20892
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213
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Fernández R, Zubiaurre-Elorza L, Santisteban A, Ojeda N, Collet S, Kiyar M, T'Sjoen G, Mueller SC, Guillamon A, Pásaro E. CBLL1 is hypomethylated and correlates with cortical thickness in transgender men before gender affirming hormone treatment. Sci Rep 2023; 13:21609. [PMID: 38062063 PMCID: PMC10703770 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48782-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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Gender identity refers to the consciousness of being a man, a woman or other condition. Although it is generally congruent with the sex assigned at birth, for some people it is not. If the incongruity is distressing, it is defined as gender dysphoria (GD). Here, we measured whole-genome DNA methylation by the Illumina © Infinium Human Methylation 850k array and reported its correlation with cortical thickness (CTh) in 22 transgender men (TM) experiencing GD versus 25 cisgender men (CM) and 28 cisgender women (CW). With respect to the methylation analysis, TM vs. CW showed significant differences in 35 CpGs, while 2155 CpGs were found when TM vs. CM were compared. With respect to correlation analysis, TM showed differences in methylation of CBLL1 and DLG1 genes that correlated with global and left hemisphere CTh. Both genes were hypomethylated in TM compared to the cisgender groups. Early onset TM showed a positive correlation between CBLL1 and several cortical regions in the frontal (left caudal middle frontal), temporal (right inferior temporal, left fusiform) and parietal cortices (left supramarginal and right paracentral). This is the first study relating CBLL1 methylation with CTh in transgender persons and supports a neurodevelopmental hypothesis of gender identity.
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- Rosa Fernández
- Centro Interdisciplinar de Química E Bioloxía - CICA. Departamento de Psicología, Universidade da Coruña, Grupo DICOMOSA, Campus Elviña S/N, 15071, A Coruña, Spain.
- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), 15071, Oza, A Coruña, Spain.
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- Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
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- Centro Interdisciplinar de Química E Bioloxía - CICA. Departamento de Psicología, Universidade da Coruña, Grupo DICOMOSA, Campus Elviña S/N, 15071, A Coruña, Spain
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- Departamento de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
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- Department of Endocrinology, Ghent University Hospital, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Endocrinology, Center for Sexology and Gender, Ghent University Hospital, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Departamento de Psicobiología, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
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- Centro Interdisciplinar de Química E Bioloxía - CICA. Departamento de Psicología, Universidade da Coruña, Grupo DICOMOSA, Campus Elviña S/N, 15071, A Coruña, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), 15071, Oza, A Coruña, Spain
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Chen X, Wang Z, Zheng P, Dongol A, Xie Y, Ge X, Zheng M, Dang X, Seyhan ZB, Nagaratnam N, Yu Y, Huang X. Impaired mitophagosome-lysosome fusion mediates olanzapine-induced aging. Aging Cell 2023; 22:e14003. [PMID: 37828862 PMCID: PMC10652317 DOI: 10.1111/acel.14003] [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: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 09/23/2023] [Accepted: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023] Open
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The lifespan of schizophrenia patients is significantly shorter than the general population. Olanzapine is one of the most commonly used antipsychotic drugs (APDs) for treating patients with psychosis, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Despite their effectiveness in treating positive and negative symptoms, prolonged exposure to APDs may lead to accelerated aging and cognitive decline, among other side effects. Here we report that dysfunctional mitophagy is a fundamental mechanism underlying accelerated aging induced by olanzapine, using in vitro and in vivo (Caenorhabditis elegans) models. We showed that the aberrant mitophagy caused by olanzapine was via blocking mitophagosome-lysosome fusion. Furthermore, olanzapine can induce mitochondrial damage and hyperfragmentation of the mitochondrial network. The mitophagosome-lysosome fusion in olanzapine-induced aging models can be restored by a mitophagy inducer, urolithin A, which alleviates defective mitophagy, mitochondrial damage, and fragmentation of the mitochondrial network. Moreover, the mitophagy inducer ameliorated behavioral changes induced by olanzapine, including shortened lifespan, and impaired health span, learning, and memory. These data indicate that olanzapine impairs mitophagy, leading to the shortened lifespan, impaired health span, and cognitive deficits. Furthermore, this study suggests the potential application of mitophagy inducers as therapeutic strategies to reverse APD-induced adverse effects associated with accelerated aging.
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- Xi Chen
- School of Medical, Indigenous and Health SciencesUniversity of WollongongWollongongNew South WalesAustralia
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- School of Medical, Indigenous and Health SciencesUniversity of WollongongWollongongNew South WalesAustralia
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- School of Medical, Indigenous and Health SciencesUniversity of WollongongWollongongNew South WalesAustralia
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- School of Medical, Indigenous and Health SciencesUniversity of WollongongWollongongNew South WalesAustralia
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- School of Medical, Indigenous and Health SciencesUniversity of WollongongWollongongNew South WalesAustralia
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Jiangsu International Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Department of Pathogen Biology and ImmunologyXuzhou Medical UniversityXuzhouJiangsuChina
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Jiangsu International Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Department of Pathogen Biology and ImmunologyXuzhou Medical UniversityXuzhouJiangsuChina
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Jiangsu International Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Department of Pathogen Biology and ImmunologyXuzhou Medical UniversityXuzhouJiangsuChina
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- School of Medical, Indigenous and Health SciencesUniversity of WollongongWollongongNew South WalesAustralia
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- School of Medical, Indigenous and Health SciencesUniversity of WollongongWollongongNew South WalesAustralia
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- School of Medical, Indigenous and Health SciencesUniversity of WollongongWollongongNew South WalesAustralia
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Jiangsu International Laboratory of Immunity and Metabolism, Department of Pathogen Biology and ImmunologyXuzhou Medical UniversityXuzhouJiangsuChina
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- School of Medical, Indigenous and Health SciencesUniversity of WollongongWollongongNew South WalesAustralia
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García-García I, Donica O, Cohen AA, Gonseth Nusslé S, Heini A, Nusslé S, Pichard C, Rietschel E, Tanackovic G, Folli S, Draganski B. Maintaining brain health across the lifespan. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2023; 153:105365. [PMID: 37604360 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 08/17/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
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Across the lifespan, the human body and brain endure the impact of a plethora of exogenous and endogenous factors that determine the health outcome in old age. The overwhelming inter-individual variance spans between progressive frailty with loss of autonomy to largely preserved physical, cognitive, and social functions. Understanding the mechanisms underlying the diverse aging trajectories can inform future strategies to maintain a healthy body and brain. Here we provide a comprehensive overview of the current literature on lifetime factors governing brain health. We present the growing body of evidence that unhealthy alimentary regime, sedentary behaviour, sleep pathologies, cardio-vascular risk factors, and chronic inflammation exert their harmful effects in a cumulative and gradual manner, and that timely and efficient intervention could promote healthy and successful aging. We discuss the main effects and interactions between these risk factors and the resulting brain health outcomes to follow with a description of current strategies aiming to eliminate, treat, or counteract the risk factors. We conclude that the detailed insights about modifiable risk factors could inform personalized multi-domain strategies for brain health maintenance on the background of increased longevity.
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- Isabel García-García
- Laboratory for Research in Neuroimaging (LREN), Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre for Research in Neurosciences, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Clinique la Prairie, Montreux, Switzerland
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- Department of Geriatrics and Rehabilitation, Hadassah University Medical Center Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Nutrition Unit, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Research in Neuroimaging (LREN), Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre for Research in Neurosciences, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
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Schilling KG, Chad JA, Chamberland M, Nozais V, Rheault F, Archer D, Li M, Gao Y, Cai L, Del'Acqua F, Newton A, Moyer D, Gore JC, Lebel C, Landman BA. White matter tract microstructure, macrostructure, and associated cortical gray matter morphology across the lifespan. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.09.25.559330. [PMID: 37808645 PMCID: PMC10557619 DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.25.559330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/10/2023]
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Characterizing how, when and where the human brain changes across the lifespan is fundamental to our understanding of developmental processes of childhood and adolescence, degenerative processes of aging, and divergence from normal patterns in disease and disorders. We aimed to provide detailed descriptions of white matter pathways across the lifespan by thoroughly characterizing white matter microstructure, white matter macrostructure, and morphology of the cortex associated with white matter pathways. We analyzed 4 large, high-quality, publicly-available datasets comprising 2789 total imaging sessions, and participants ranging from 0 to 100 years old, using advanced tractography and diffusion modeling. We first find that all microstructural, macrostructural, and cortical features of white matter bundles show unique lifespan trajectories, with rates and timing of development and degradation that vary across pathways - describing differences between types of pathways and locations in the brain, and developmental milestones of maturation of each feature. Second, we show cross-sectional relationships between different features that may help elucidate biological changes occurring during different stages of the lifespan. Third, we show unique trajectories of age-associations across features. Finally, we find that age associations during development are strongly related to those during aging. Overall, this study reports normative data for several features of white matter pathways of the human brain that will be useful for studying normal and abnormal white matter development and degeneration.
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- Kurt G Schilling
- Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Medical Imaging and Neuroinformatic (MINi) Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
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- Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA
- Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- NatbrainLab, Department of Forensics and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, King's College London, London UK
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- Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI), Calgary, AB, Canada
- Department of Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Griffiths-King D, Wood AG, Novak J. Predicting 'Brainage' in late childhood to adolescence (6-17yrs) using structural MRI, morphometric similarity, and machine learning. Sci Rep 2023; 13:15591. [PMID: 37730747 PMCID: PMC10511546 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42414-5] [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: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/10/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023] Open
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Brain development is regularly studied using structural MRI. Recently, studies have used a combination of statistical learning and large-scale imaging databases of healthy children to predict an individual's age from structural MRI. This data-driven, predicted 'Brainage' typically differs from the subjects chronological age, with this difference a potential measure of individual difference. Few studies have leveraged higher-order or connectomic representations of structural MRI data for this Brainage approach. We leveraged morphometric similarity as a network-level approach to structural MRI to generate predictive models of age. We benchmarked these novel Brainage approaches using morphometric similarity against more typical, single feature (i.e., cortical thickness) approaches. We showed that these novel methods did not outperform cortical thickness or cortical volume measures. All models were significantly biased by age, but robust to motion confounds. The main results show that, whilst morphometric similarity mapping may be a novel way to leverage additional information from a T1-weighted structural MRI beyond individual features, in the context of a Brainage framework, morphometric similarity does not provide more accurate predictions of age. Morphometric similarity as a network-level approach to structural MRI may be poorly positioned to study individual differences in brain development in healthy participants in this way.
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- Daniel Griffiths-King
- Aston Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
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- Aston Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
- School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Melbourne Burwood Campus, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Aston Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK.
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Kollndorfer K, Novak A, Nenning KH, Fischmeister FPS, Seidl R, Langs G, Kasprian G, Prayer D, Bartha-Doering L. Cortical thickness in the right medial frontal gyrus predicts planning performance in healthy children and adolescents. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1196707. [PMID: 37794918 PMCID: PMC10546024 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 09/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/06/2023] Open
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The ability to plan is an important part of the set of the cognitive skills called "executive functions." To be able to plan actions in advance is of great importance in everyday life and constitutes one of the major key features for academic as well as economic success. The present study aimed to investigate the neuroanatomical correlates of planning in normally developing children, as measured by the cortical thickness of the prefrontal cortex. Eighteen healthy children and adolescents underwent structural MRI examinations and the Tower of London (ToL) task. A multiple regression analysis revealed that the cortical thickness of the right caudal middle frontal gyrus (cMFG) was a significant predictor of planning performance. Neither the cortical thickness of any other prefrontal area nor gender were significantly associated with performance in the ToL task. The results of the present exploratory study suggest that the cortical thickness of the right, but not the left cMFG, is positively correlated with performance in the ToL task. We, therefore, conclude that increased cortical thickness may be more beneficial for higher-order processes, such as information integration, than for lower-order processes, such as the analysis of external information.
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- Kathrin Kollndorfer
- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Developmental and Interventional Imaging (DIN) Lab, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Computational Imaging Research Lab (CIR), Vienna, Austria
- Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Developmental and Interventional Imaging (DIN) Lab, Vienna, Austria
- Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Computational Imaging Research Lab (CIR), Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Fu TT, Barnes-Davis ME, Fujiwara H, Folger AT, Merhar SL, Kadis DS, Poindexter BB, Parikh NA. Correlation of NICU anthropometry in extremely preterm infants with brain development and language scores at early school age. Sci Rep 2023; 13:15273. [PMID: 37714903 PMCID: PMC10504298 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42281-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 09/17/2023] Open
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Growth in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is associated with increased global and regional brain volumes at term, and increased postnatal linear growth is associated with higher language scores at age 2. It is unknown whether these relationships persist to school age or if an association between growth and cortical metrics exists. Using regression analyses, we investigated relationships between the growth of 42 children born extremely preterm (< 28 weeks gestation) from their NICU hospitalization, standardized neurodevelopmental/language assessments at 2 and 4-6 years, and multiple neuroimaging biomarkers obtained from T1-weighted images at 4-6 years. We found length at birth and 36 weeks post-menstrual age had positive associations with language scores at 2 years in multivariable linear regression. No growth metric correlated with 4-6 year assessments. Weight and head circumference at 36 weeks post-menstrual age positively correlated with total brain volume and negatively with global cortical thickness at 4-6 years of age. Head circumference relationships remained significant after adjusting for age, sex, and socioeconomic status. Right temporal cortical thickness was related to receptive language at 4-6 years in the multivariable model. Results suggest growth in the NICU may have lasting effects on brain development in extremely preterm children.
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- Ting Ting Fu
- Division of Neonatology, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 7009, Cincinnati, OH, 45229-3026, USA.
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
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- Division of Neonatology, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 7009, Cincinnati, OH, 45229-3026, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Division of Neonatology, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 7009, Cincinnati, OH, 45229-3026, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Division of Neonatology, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 7009, Cincinnati, OH, 45229-3026, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Huang W, Zeng J, Jia L, Zhu D, O’Brien J, Ritchie C, Shu N, Su L. Genetic risks of Alzheimer's by APOE and MAPT on cortical morphology in young healthy adults. Brain Commun 2023; 5:fcad234. [PMID: 37693814 PMCID: PMC10489122 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad234] [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: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 07/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023] Open
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Genetic risk factors such as APOE ε4 and MAPT (rs242557) A allele are associated with amyloid and tau pathways and grey matter changes at both early and established stages of Alzheimer's disease, but their effects on cortical morphology in young healthy adults remain unclear. A total of 144 participants aged from 18 to 24 underwent 3T MRI and genotyping for APOE and MAPT to investigate unique impacts of these genetic risk factors in a cohort without significant comorbid conditions such as metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. We segmented the cerebral cortex into 68 regions and calculated the cortical area, thickness, curvature and folding index for each region. Then, we trained machine learning models to classify APOE and MAPT genotypes using these morphological features. In addition, we applied a growing hierarchical self-organizing maps algorithm, which clustered the 68 regions into 4 subgroups representing different morphological patterns. Then, we performed general linear model analyses to estimate the interaction between APOE and MAPT on cortical patterns. We found that the classifiers using all cortical features could accurately classify individuals carrying genetic risks of dementia outperforming each individual feature alone. APOE ε4 carriers had a more convoluted and thinner cortex across the cerebral cortex. A similar pattern was found in MAPT A allele carriers only in the regions that are vulnerable for early tau pathology. With the clustering analysis, we found a synergetic effect between APOE ε4 and MAPT A allele, i.e. carriers of both risk factors showed the most deviation of cortical pattern from the typical pattern of that cluster. Genetic risk factors of dementia by APOE ε4 and MAPT (rs242557) A allele were associated with variations of cortical morphology, which can be observed in young healthy adults more than 30 years before Alzheimer's pathology is likely to occur and 50 years before dementia symptoms may begin.
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- Weijie Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Department of Neuroscience, Neuroscience Institute, Insigneo Institute for In Silico Medicine, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2HQ, UK
- School of Systems Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Sino-Britain Centre for Cognition and Ageing Research, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100088, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK
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- Edinburgh Dementia Prevention and Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
- Scottish Brain Sciences, Edinburgh EH12 9DQ, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Department of Neuroscience, Neuroscience Institute, Insigneo Institute for In Silico Medicine, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2HQ, UK
- Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SZ, UK
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Rakesh D, Whittle S, Sheridan MA, McLaughlin KA. Childhood socioeconomic status and the pace of structural neurodevelopment: accelerated, delayed, or simply different? Trends Cogn Sci 2023; 27:833-851. [PMID: 37179140 PMCID: PMC10524122 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Revised: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with children's brain and behavioral development. Several theories propose that early experiences of adversity or low SES can alter the pace of neurodevelopment during childhood and adolescence. These theories make contrasting predictions about whether adverse experiences and low SES are associated with accelerated or delayed neurodevelopment. We contextualize these predictions within the context of normative development of cortical and subcortical structure and review existing evidence on SES and structural brain development to adjudicate between competing hypotheses. Although none of these theories are fully consistent with observed SES-related differences in brain development, existing evidence suggests that low SES is associated with brain structure trajectories more consistent with a delayed or simply different developmental pattern than an acceleration in neurodevelopment.
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Demirci N, Hoffman ME, Holland MA. Systematic cortical thickness and curvature patterns in primates. Neuroimage 2023; 278:120283. [PMID: 37516374 PMCID: PMC10443624 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120283] [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: 01/29/2023] [Revised: 07/11/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/31/2023] Open
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Humans are known to have significant and consistent differences in thickness throughout the cortex, with thick outer gyral folds and thin inner sulcal folds. Our previous work has suggested a mechanical basis for this thickness pattern, with the forces generated during cortical folding leading to thick gyri and thin sulci, and shown that cortical thickness varies along a gyral-sulcal spectrum in humans. While other primate species are expected to exhibit similar patterns of cortical thickness, it is currently unknown how these patterns scale across different sizes, forms, and foldedness. Among primates, brains vary enormously from roughly the size of a grape to the size of a grapefruit, and from nearly smooth to dramatically folded; of these, human brains are the largest and most folded. These variations in size and form make comparative neuroanatomy a rich resource for investigating common trends that transcend differences between species. In this study, we examine 12 primate species in order to cover a wide range of sizes and forms, and investigate the scaling of their cortical thickness relative to the surface geometry. The 12 species were selected due to the public availability of either reconstructed surfaces and/or population templates. After obtaining or reconstructing 3D surfaces from publicly available neuroimaging data, we used our surface-based computational pipeline (https://github.com/mholla/curveball) to analyze patterns of cortical thickness and folding with respect to size (total surface area), geometry (i.e. curvature, shape, and sulcal depth), and foldedness (gyrification). In all 12 species, we found consistent cortical thickness variations along a gyral-sulcal spectrum, with convex shapes thicker than concave shapes and saddle shapes in between. Furthermore, we saw an increasing thickness difference between gyri and sulci as brain size increases. Our results suggest a systematic folding mechanism relating local cortical thickness to geometry. Finally, all of our reconstructed surfaces and morphometry data are available for future research in comparative neuroanatomy.
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- Nagehan Demirci
- Bioengineering Graduate Program, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
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- Bioengineering Graduate Program, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
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Liu Y, Chakraborty N, Qin ZS, Kundu S. Integrative Bayesian tensor regression for imaging genetics applications. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1212218. [PMID: 37680967 PMCID: PMC10481528 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1212218] [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: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Identifying biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease with a goal of early detection is a fundamental problem in clinical research. Both medical imaging and genetics have contributed informative biomarkers in literature. To further improve the performance, recently, there is an increasing interest in developing analytic approaches that combine data across modalities such as imaging and genetics. However, there are limited methods in literature that are able to systematically combine high-dimensional voxel-level imaging and genetic data for accurate prediction of clinical outcomes of interest. Existing prediction models that integrate imaging and genetic features often use region level imaging summaries, and they typically do not consider the spatial configurations of the voxels in the image or incorporate the dependence between genes that may compromise prediction ability. We propose a novel integrative Bayesian scalar-on-image regression model for predicting cognitive outcomes based on high-dimensional spatially distributed voxel-level imaging data, along with correlated transcriptomic features. We account for the spatial dependencies in the imaging voxels via a tensor approach that also enables massive dimension reduction to address the curse of dimensionality, and models the dependencies between the transcriptomic features via a Graph-Laplacian prior. We implement this approach via an efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) computation strategy. We apply the proposed method to the analysis of longitudinal ADNI data for predicting cognitive scores at different visits by integrating voxel-level cortical thickness measurements derived from T1w-MRI scans and transcriptomics data. We illustrate that the proposed imaging transcriptomics approach has significant improvements in prediction compared to prediction using a subset of features from only one modality (imaging or genetics), as well as when using imaging and transcriptomics features but ignoring the inherent dependencies between the features. Our analysis is one of the first to conclusively demonstrate the advantages of prediction based on combining voxel-level cortical thickness measurements along with transcriptomics features, while accounting for inherent structural information.
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- Yajie Liu
- Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, Division of Basic Science Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
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Argiris G, Stern Y, Lee S, Ryu H, Habeck C. Simple topological task-based functional connectivity features predict longitudinal behavioral change of fluid reasoning in the RANN cohort. Neuroimage 2023; 277:120237. [PMID: 37343735 PMCID: PMC10999229 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120237] [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: 05/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023] Open
Abstract
Recent attention has been given to topological data analysis (TDA), and more specifically persistent homology (PH), to identify the underlying shape of brain network connectivity beyond simple edge pairings by computing connective components across different connectivity thresholds (see Sizemore et al., 2019). In the present study, we applied PH to task-based functional connectivity, computing 0-dimension Betti (B0) curves and calculating the area under these curves (AUC); AUC indicates how quickly a single connected component is formed across correlation filtration thresholds, with lower values interpreted as potentially analogous to lower whole-brain system segregation (e.g., Gracia-Tabuenca et al., 2020). One hundred sixty-three participants from the Reference Ability Neural Network (RANN) longitudinal lifespan cohort (age 20-80 years) were tested in-scanner at baseline and five-year follow-up on a battery of tests comprising four domains of cognition (i.e., Stern et al., 2014). We tested for 1.) age-related change in the AUC of the B0 curve over time, 2.) the predictive utility of AUC in accounting for longitudinal change in behavioral performance and 3.) compared system segregation to the PH approach. Results demonstrated longitudinal age-related decreases in AUC for Fluid Reasoning, with these decreases predicting longitudinal declines in cognition, even after controlling for demographic and brain integrity factors; moreover, change in AUC partially mediated the effect of age on change in cognitive performance. System segregation also significantly decreased with age in three of the four cognitive domains but did not predict change in cognition. These results argue for greater application of TDA to the study of aging.
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- Georgette Argiris
- Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 710 West 168th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10032, United States
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 710 West 168th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10032, United States
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- Mental Health Data Science, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States; Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 710 West 168th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10032, United States; Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States; Mental Health Data Science, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 710 West 168th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10032, United States; Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
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Rukadikar C, Shah CJ, Raju A, Popat S, Josekutty R. The Influence of Obesity on Cognitive Functioning Among Healthcare Professionals: A Comprehensive Analysis. Cureus 2023; 15:e42926. [PMID: 37667717 PMCID: PMC10475152 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.42926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 09/06/2023] Open
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Background Excessive body fat, or obesity, is a worldwide epidemic and a major contributor to the development of dementia. Aim The research aimed to determine how obesity affected healthcare professionals' memory performance. Materials and Method A total of 474 participants (both male and female) were recruited in this study by random sampling method from three different health institutions. Participants were categorized into overweight, normal weight, and obese groups based on their body mass index (BMI) as per the WHO guidelines and for body fat participants. The memory function test was done using the Gilewski MJ scale. General frequency of forgetting, mnemonic usage, retrospective functioning, and seriousness of forgetting were measured and compared across the BMI and %body fat groups. Results The percentage of body fat of males and females was 38.19% and 42.26%. Statistically, a significant difference (p<0.05) was observed among the male and female BMI and percentage of body fat. The results showed that there was a significant difference between memory scale parameters and percentage BMI. Statistically, a significant difference was observed in the level of general frequency of forgetting among participants with different percentages of BMI (p<0.05). Similar, results were also observed in the level of seriousness of forgetting, retrospective functioning, and mnemonics usage with different % BMI (p<0.05). The findings showed a positive correlation between BMI and %body fat on the scale of general frequency of forgetting and seriousness of forgetting whereas, a negative correlation was observed on the scale of retrospective functioning and mnemonics usage. Conclusion Memory loss is one of the disorders that obesity is linked to more frequently. A focus on keeping a healthy weight may help prevent the development of future diseases.
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- Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani, Kalyani, IND
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- Medicine and Surgery, Zydus Medical College & Hospital, Dahod, IND
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- Medicine and Surgery, Zydus Medical College and Hospital, Dahod, IND
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Lozano Wun V, Foland‐Ross LC, Jo B, Green T, Hong D, Ross JL, Reiss AL. Adolescent brain development in girls with Turner syndrome. Hum Brain Mapp 2023; 44:4028-4039. [PMID: 37126641 PMCID: PMC10258525 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26327] [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: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023] Open
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Turner syndrome (TS) is a common sex chromosome aneuploidy in females associated with various physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional phenotypes. However, few studies have examined TS-associated alterations in the development of cortical gray matter volume and the two components that comprise this measure-surface area and thickness. Moreover, the longitudinal direct (i.e., genetic) and indirect (i.e., hormonal) effects of X-monosomy on the brain are unclear. Brain structure was assessed in 61 girls with TS (11.3 ± 2.8 years) and 55 typically developing girls (10.8 ± 2.3 years) for up to 4 timepoints. Surface-based analyses of cortical gray matter volume, thickness, and surface area were conducted to examine the direct effects of X-monosomy present before pubertal onset and indirect hormonal effects of estrogen deficiency/X-monosomy emerging after pubertal onset. Longitudinal analyses revealed that, whereas typically developing girls exhibited normative declines in gray matter structure during adolescence, this pattern was reduced or inverted in TS. Further, girls with TS demonstrated smaller total surface area and larger average cortical thickness overall. Regionally, the TS group exhibited decreased volume and surface area in the pericalcarine, postcentral, and parietal regions relative to typically developing girls, as well as larger volume in the caudate, amygdala, and temporal lobe regions and increased thickness in parietal and temporal regions. Surface area alterations were predominant by age 8, while maturational differences in thickness emerged by age 10 or later. Taken together, these results suggest the involvement of both direct and indirect effects of X-chromosome haploinsufficiency on brain development in TS.
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- Vanessa Lozano Wun
- Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
- Department of PsychologyUniversity of MinnesotaMinneapolisMinnesotaUSA
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- Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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- Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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- Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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- Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of PediatricsThomas Jefferson UniversityPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
- Nemours Children's HospitalWilmingtonDelawareUSA
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- Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencesStanford UniversityStanfordCaliforniaUSA
- Department of PediatricsStanford University School of MedicineStanfordCaliforniaUSA
- Department of RadiologyStanford University School of MedicineStanfordCaliforniaUSA
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Pretzsch CM, Ecker C. Structural neuroimaging phenotypes and associated molecular and genomic underpinnings in autism: a review. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1172779. [PMID: 37457001 PMCID: PMC10347684 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1172779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/09/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
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Autism has been associated with differences in the developmental trajectories of multiple neuroanatomical features, including cortical thickness, surface area, cortical volume, measures of gyrification, and the gray-white matter tissue contrast. These neuroimaging features have been proposed as intermediate phenotypes on the gradient from genomic variation to behavioral symptoms. Hence, examining what these proxy markers represent, i.e., disentangling their associated molecular and genomic underpinnings, could provide crucial insights into the etiology and pathophysiology of autism. In line with this, an increasing number of studies are exploring the association between neuroanatomical, cellular/molecular, and (epi)genetic variation in autism, both indirectly and directly in vivo and across age. In this review, we aim to summarize the existing literature in autism (and neurotypicals) to chart a putative pathway from (i) imaging-derived neuroanatomical cortical phenotypes to (ii) underlying (neuropathological) biological processes, and (iii) associated genomic variation.
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- Charlotte M. Pretzsch
- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
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Smid CR, Ganesan K, Thompson A, Cañigueral R, Veselic S, Royer J, Kool W, Hauser TU, Bernhardt B, Steinbeis N. Neurocognitive basis of model-based decision making and its metacontrol in childhood. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2023; 62:101269. [PMID: 37352654 PMCID: PMC10329104 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101269] [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: 09/02/2022] [Revised: 04/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/25/2023] Open
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Human behavior is supported by both goal-directed (model-based) and habitual (model-free) decision-making, each differing in its flexibility, accuracy, and computational cost. The arbitration between habitual and goal-directed systems is thought to be regulated by a process known as metacontrol. However, how these systems emerge and develop remains poorly understood. Recently, we found that while children between 5 and 11 years displayed robust signatures of model-based decision-making, which increased during this developmental period, there were substantial individual differences in the display of metacontrol. Here, we inspect the neurocognitive basis of model-based decision-making and metacontrol in childhood and focus this investigation on executive functions, fluid reasoning, and brain structure. A total of 69 participants between the ages of 6-13 completed a two-step decision-making task and an extensive behavioral test battery. A subset of 44 participants also completed a structural magnetic resonance imaging scan. We find that individual differences in metacontrol are specifically associated with performance on an inhibition task and individual differences in thickness of dorsolateral prefrontal, temporal, and superior-parietal cortices. These brain regions likely reflect the involvement of cognitive processes crucial to metacontrol, such as cognitive control and contextual processing.
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- C R Smid
- Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
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- Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, Department of Motor Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, United Kingdom
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, United Kingdom; Max Planck University College London Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, United Kingdom
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
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Shin JH, Kim H, Kim YK, Yoon EJ, Nam H, Jeon B, Lee JY. Longitudinal evolution of cortical thickness signature reflecting Lewy body dementia in isolated REM sleep behavior disorder: a prospective cohort study. Transl Neurodegener 2023; 12:27. [PMID: 37217951 DOI: 10.1186/s40035-023-00356-y] [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: 12/22/2022] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The isolated rapid-eye-movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) is a prodromal condition of Lewy body disease including Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). We aim to investigate the longitudinal evolution of DLB-related cortical thickness signature in a prospective iRBD cohort and evaluate the possible predictive value of the cortical signature index in predicting dementia-first phenoconversion in individuals with iRBD. METHODS We enrolled 22 DLB patients, 44 healthy controls, and 50 video polysomnography-proven iRBD patients. Participants underwent 3-T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical/neuropsychological evaluations. We characterized DLB-related whole-brain cortical thickness spatial covariance pattern (DLB-pattern) using scaled subprofile model of principal components analysis that best differentiated DLB patients from age-matched controls. We analyzed clinical and neuropsychological correlates of the DLB-pattern expression scores and the mean values of the whole-brain cortical thickness in DLB and iRBD patients. With repeated MRI data during the follow-up in our prospective iRBD cohort, we investigated the longitudinal evolution of the cortical thickness signature toward Lewy body dementia. Finally, we analyzed the potential predictive value of cortical thickness signature as a biomarker of phenoconversion in iRBD cohort. RESULTS The DLB-pattern was characterized by thinning of the temporal, orbitofrontal, and insular cortices and relative preservation of the precentral and inferior parietal cortices. The DLB-pattern expression scores correlated with attentional and frontal executive dysfunction (Trail Making Test-A and B: R = - 0.55, P = 0.024 and R = - 0.56, P = 0.036, respectively) as well as visuospatial impairment (Rey-figure copy test: R = - 0.54, P = 0.0047). The longitudinal trajectory of DLB-pattern revealed an increasing pattern above the cut-off in the dementia-first phenoconverters (Pearson's correlation, R = 0.74, P = 6.8 × 10-4) but no significant change in parkinsonism-first phenoconverters (R = 0.0063, P = 0.98). The mean value of the whole-brain cortical thickness predicted phenoconversion in iRBD patients with hazard ratio of 9.33 [1.16-74.12]. The increase in DLB-pattern expression score discriminated dementia-first from parkinsonism-first phenoconversions with 88.2% accuracy. CONCLUSION Cortical thickness signature can effectively reflect the longitudinal evolution of Lewy body dementia in the iRBD population. Replication studies would further validate the utility of this imaging marker in iRBD.
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- Jung Hwan Shin
- Department of Neurology, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
- Institute of Radiation Medicine, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul Metropolitan Government-Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center and Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
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Yin G, Li T, Jin S, Wang N, Li J, Wu C, He H, Wang J. A comprehensive evaluation of multicentric reliability of single-subject cortical morphological networks on traveling subjects. Cereb Cortex 2023:7169131. [PMID: 37197789 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2023] [Revised: 04/29/2023] [Accepted: 04/30/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023] Open
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Despite the prevalence of research on single-subject cerebral morphological networks in recent years, whether they can offer a reliable way for multicentric studies remains largely unknown. Using two multicentric datasets of traveling subjects, this work systematically examined the inter-site test-retest (TRT) reliabilities of single-subject cerebral morphological networks, and further evaluated the effects of several key factors. We found that most graph-based network measures exhibited fair to excellent reliabilities regardless of different analytical pipelines. Nevertheless, the reliabilities were affected by choices of morphological index (fractal dimension > sulcal depth > gyrification index > cortical thickness), brain parcellation (high-resolution > low-resolution), thresholding method (proportional > absolute), and network type (binarized > weighted). For the factor of similarity measure, its effects depended on the thresholding method used (absolute: Kullback-Leibler divergence > Jensen-Shannon divergence; proportional: Jensen-Shannon divergence > Kullback-Leibler divergence). Furthermore, longer data acquisition intervals and different scanner software versions significantly reduced the reliabilities. Finally, we showed that inter-site reliabilities were significantly lower than intra-site reliabilities for single-subject cerebral morphological networks. Altogether, our findings propose single-subject cerebral morphological networks as a promising approach for multicentric human connectome studies, and offer recommendations on how to determine analytical pipelines and scanning protocols for obtaining reliable results.
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- Guole Yin
- Institute for Brain Research and Rehabilitation, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Institute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
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- Institute for Brain Research and Rehabilitation, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Institute for Brain Research and Rehabilitation, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Institute for Brain Research and Rehabilitation, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Institute for Brain Research and Rehabilitation, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
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- Center for Brain Imaging Science and Technology, College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrumental Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute for Brain Research and Rehabilitation, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100816, China
- Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510000, China
- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510000, China
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Ben-Azu B, del Re EC, VanderZwaag J, Carrier M, Keshavan M, Khakpour M, Tremblay MÈ. Emerging epigenetic dynamics in gut-microglia brain axis: experimental and clinical implications for accelerated brain aging in schizophrenia. Front Cell Neurosci 2023; 17:1139357. [PMID: 37256150 PMCID: PMC10225712 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2023.1139357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023] Open
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Brain aging, which involves a progressive loss of neuronal functions, has been reported to be premature in probands affected by schizophrenia (SCZ). Evidence shows that SCZ and accelerated aging are linked to changes in epigenetic clocks. Recent cross-sectional magnetic resonance imaging analyses have uncovered reduced brain reserves and connectivity in patients with SCZ compared to typically aging individuals. These data may indicate early abnormalities of neuronal function following cyto-architectural alterations in SCZ. The current mechanistic knowledge on brain aging, epigenetic changes, and their neuropsychiatric disease association remains incomplete. With this review, we explore and summarize evidence that the dynamics of gut-resident bacteria can modulate molecular brain function and contribute to age-related neurodegenerative disorders. It is known that environmental factors such as mode of birth, dietary habits, stress, pollution, and infections can modulate the microbiota system to regulate intrinsic neuronal activity and brain reserves through the vagus nerve and enteric nervous system. Microbiota-derived molecules can trigger continuous activation of the microglial sensome, groups of receptors and proteins that permit microglia to remodel the brain neurochemistry based on complex environmental activities. This remodeling causes aberrant brain plasticity as early as fetal developmental stages, and after the onset of first-episode psychosis. In the central nervous system, microglia, the resident immune surveillance cells, are involved in neurogenesis, phagocytosis of synapses and neurological dysfunction. Here, we review recent emerging experimental and clinical evidence regarding the gut-brain microglia axis involvement in SCZ pathology and etiology, the hypothesis of brain reserve and accelerated aging induced by dietary habits, stress, pollution, infections, and other factors. We also include in our review the possibilities and consequences of gut dysbiosis activities on microglial function and dysfunction, together with the effects of antipsychotics on the gut microbiome: therapeutic and adverse effects, role of fecal microbiota transplant and psychobiotics on microglial sensomes, brain reserves and SCZ-derived accelerated aging. We end the review with suggestions that may be applicable to the clinical setting. For example, we propose that psychobiotics might contribute to antipsychotic-induced therapeutic benefits or adverse effects, as well as reduce the aging process through the gut-brain microglia axis. Overall, we hope that this review will help increase the understanding of SCZ pathogenesis as related to chronobiology and the gut microbiome, as well as reveal new concepts that will serve as novel treatment targets for SCZ.
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- Benneth Ben-Azu
- Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton, MA, United States
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
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- Division of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- Axe Neurosciences, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, QC, Canada
- Centre for Advanced Materials and Related Technology (CAMTEC), Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health (IALH), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Lee Y, Park JY, Lee JJ, Gim J, Do AR, Jo J, Park J, Kim K, Park K, Jin H, Choi KY, Kang S, Kim H, Kim S, Moon SH, Farrer LA, Lee KH, Won S. Heritability of cognitive abilities and regional brain structures in middle-aged to elderly East Asians. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:6051-6062. [PMID: 36642501 PMCID: PMC10183741 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2022] [Revised: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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This study examined the single-nucleotide polymorphism heritability and genetic correlations of cognitive abilities and brain structural measures (regional subcortical volume and cortical thickness) in middle-aged and elderly East Asians (Korean) from the Gwangju Alzheimer's and Related Dementias cohort study. Significant heritability was found in memory function, caudate volume, thickness of the entorhinal cortices, pars opercularis, superior frontal gyri, and transverse temporal gyri. There were 3 significant genetic correlations between (i) the caudate volume and the thickness of the entorhinal cortices, (ii) the thickness of the superior frontal gyri and pars opercularis, and (iii) the thickness of the superior frontal and transverse temporal gyri. This is the first study to describe the heritability and genetic correlations of cognitive and neuroanatomical traits in middle-aged to elderly East Asians. Our results support the previous findings showing that genetic factors play a substantial role in the cognitive and neuroanatomical traits in middle to advanced age. Moreover, by demonstrating shared genetic effects on different brain regions, it gives us a genetic insight into understanding cognitive and brain changes with age, such as aging-related cognitive decline, cortical atrophy, and neural compensation.
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- Younghwa Lee
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Gwangju Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementia Cohort Research Center, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
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- Gwangju Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementia Cohort Research Center, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
- Department of Biomedical Science, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
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- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Gwangju Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementia Cohort Research Center, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
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- Gwangju Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementia Cohort Research Center, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
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- Gwangju Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementia Cohort Research Center, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
- Department of Neurology, Chosun University Hospital, Gwangju, Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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- Gwangju Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementia Cohort Research Center, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
- Department of Biomedical Science, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea
- Dementia Research Group, Korea Brain Research Institute, Daegu, Korea
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- RexSoft Inc., Seoul, Korea
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Lu J, Zhang Z, Wu P, Liang X, Zhang H, Hong J, Clement C, Yen TC, Ding S, Wang M, Xiao Z, Rominger A, Shi K, Guan Y, Zuo C, Zhao Q. The heterogeneity of asymmetric tau distribution is associated with an early age at onset and poor prognosis in Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimage Clin 2023; 38:103416. [PMID: 37137254 PMCID: PMC10176076 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Revised: 04/13/2023] [Accepted: 04/22/2023] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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PURPOSE Left-right asymmetry, an important feature of brain development, has been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases, although it's less discussed in typical Alzheimer's disease (AD). We sought to investigate whether asymmetric tau deposition plays a potential role in AD heterogeneity. METHODS Two independent cohorts consisting of patients with mild cognitive impairment due to AD and AD dementia with tau PET imaging were enrolled [the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) cohort with 18F-Flortaucipir, the Shanghai Memory Study (SMS) cohort with 18F-Florzolotau]. Based on the absolute global tau interhemispheric differences, each cohort was divided into two groups (asymmetric versus symmetric tau distribution). The two groups were cross-sectionally compared in terms of demographic, cognitive characteristics, and pathological burden. The cognitive decline trajectories were analyzed longitudinally. RESULTS Fourteen (23.3%) and 42 (48.3%) patients in the ADNI and SMS cohorts showed an asymmetric tau distribution, respectively. An asymmetric tau distribution was associated with an earlier age at disease onset (proportion of early-onset AD: ADNI/SMS/combined cohorts, p = 0.093/0.026/0.001) and more severe pathological burden (i.e., global tau burden: ADNI/SMS cohorts, p < 0.001/= 0.007). And patients with an asymmetric tau distribution were characterized by a steeper cognitive decline longitudinally (i.e., the annual decline of Mini-Mental Status Examination score: ADNI/SMS/combined cohorts, p = 0.053 / 0.035 / < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS Asymmetry in tau deposition, which may be associated with an earlier age at onset, more severe pathological burden, and a steeper cognitive decline, is potentially an important characteristic of AD heterogeneity.
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- Jiaying Lu
- Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital Bern, University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital Bern, University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital Bern, University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China; Department of Informatics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital Bern, University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital Bern, University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Department of Informatics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; National Clinical Research Center for Aging and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; National Center for Neurological Disorders, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; National Clinical Research Center for Aging and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; National Center for Neurological Disorders, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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- Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; National Clinical Research Center for Aging and Medicine, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; National Center for Neurological Disorders, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
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Van Hoornweder S, Geraerts M, Verstraelen S, Nuyts M, Caulfield KA, Meesen R. From scalp to cortex, the whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts: introducing GetTissueThickness (GTT) to assess age and sex differences in tissue thicknesses. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.04.18.537177. [PMID: 37131842 PMCID: PMC10153183 DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.18.537177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Noninvasive techniques to record and stimulate the brain rely on passing through the tissues in between the scalp and cortex. Currently, there is no method to obtain detailed information about these scalp-to-cortex distance (SCD) tissues. We introduce GetTissueThickness (GTT), an open-source, automated approach to quantify SCD, and unveil how tissue thicknesses differ across age groups, sexes and brain regions (n = 250). We show that men have larger SCD in lower scalp regions and women have similar-to-larger SCD in regions closer to the vertex, with aging resulting in increased SCD in fronto-central regions. Soft tissue thickness varies by sex and age, with thicker layers and greater age-related decreases in men. Compact and spongy bone thickness also differ across sexes and age groups, with thicker compact bone in women in both age groups and an age-related thickening. Older men generally have the thickest cerebrospinal fluid layer and younger women and men having similar cerebrospinal fluid layers. Aging mostly results in grey matter thinning. Concerning SCD, the whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts. GTT enables rapid quantification of the SCD tissues. The distinctive sensitivity of noninvasive recording and stimulation modalities to different tissues underscores the relevance of GTT.
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- Sybren Van Hoornweder
- REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Brain Stimulation Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
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- REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Movement Control and Neuroplasticity Research Group, Department of Movement Sciences, Group Biomedical Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Willbrand EH, Ferrer E, Bunge SA, Weiner KS. Development of Human Lateral Prefrontal Sulcal Morphology and Its Relation to Reasoning Performance. J Neurosci 2023; 43:2552-2567. [PMID: 36828638 PMCID: PMC10082454 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1745-22.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2022] [Revised: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 02/01/2023] [Indexed: 02/26/2023] Open
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Previous findings show that the morphology of folds (sulci) of the human cerebral cortex flatten during postnatal development. However, previous studies did not consider the relationship between sulcal morphology and cognitive development in individual participants. Here, we fill this gap in knowledge by leveraging cross-sectional morphologic neuroimaging data in the lateral PFC (LPFC) from individual human participants (6-36 years old, males and females; N = 108; 3672 sulci), as well as longitudinal morphologic and behavioral data from a subset of child and adolescent participants scanned at two time points (6-18 years old; N = 44; 2992 sulci). Manually defining thousands of sulci revealed that LPFC sulcal morphology (depth, surface area, and gray matter thickness) differed between children (6-11 years old)/adolescents (11-18 years old) and young adults (22-36 years old) cross-sectionally, but only cortical thickness showed differences across childhood and adolescence and presented longitudinal changes during childhood and adolescence. Furthermore, a data-driven approach relating morphology and cognition identified that longitudinal changes in cortical thickness of four left-hemisphere LPFC sulci predicted longitudinal changes in reasoning performance, a higher-level cognitive ability that relies on LPFC. Contrary to previous findings, these results suggest that sulci may flatten either after this time frame or over a longer longitudinal period of time than previously presented. Crucially, these results also suggest that longitudinal changes in the cortex within specific LPFC sulci are behaviorally meaningful, providing targeted structures, and areas of the cortex, for future neuroimaging studies examining the development of cognitive abilities.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Recent work has shown that individual differences in neuroanatomical structures (indentations, or sulci) within the lateral PFC are behaviorally meaningful during childhood and adolescence. Here, we describe how specific lateral PFC sulci develop at the level of individual participants for the first time: from both cross-sectional and longitudinal perspectives. Further, we show, also for the first time, that the longitudinal morphologic changes in these structures are behaviorally relevant. These findings lay the foundation for a future avenue to precisely study the development of the cortex and highlight the importance of studying the development of sulci in other cortical expanses and charting how these changes relate to the cognitive abilities those areas support at the level of individual participants.
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- Ethan H Willbrand
- Department of Psychology
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Department of Psychology
- Center for Mind and Brain, University of California-Davis, Davis, California 95616
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- Department of Psychology
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Department of Psychology
- Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720
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Elliott MV, Esmail SAS, Weiner KS, Johnson SL. Neuroanatomical Correlates of Emotion-Related Impulsivity. Biol Psychiatry 2023; 93:566-574. [PMID: 36244800 PMCID: PMC9898470 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.07.018] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Revised: 07/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Emotion-related impulsivity (ERI) refers to chronically poor self-control during periods of strong emotion. ERI robustly predicts psychiatric disorders and related problems, yet its neuroanatomical correlates are largely unknown. We tested whether local brain morphometry in targeted brain regions that integrate emotion and control could explain ERI severity. METHODS One hundred twenty-two adults (ages 18-55 years) with internalizing or externalizing psychopathology completed a structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, the Three-Factor Impulsivity Index, and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5. The Three-Factor Impulsivity Index measures two types of ERI and a third type of impulsivity not linked to emotion. Cortical reconstruction yielded cortical thickness and local gyrification measurements. We evaluated whether morphometry in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), insula, amygdala, and nucleus accumbens was associated with ERI severity. Hypotheses and analyses were preregistered. RESULTS Lower cortical gyrification in the right lateral OFC was associated with high ERI severity in a full, preregistered model. Separate examinations of local gyrification and cortical thickness also showed a positive association between gyrification in the left lateral OFC and ERI. An integrated measure of hemispheric imbalance in lateral OFC gyrification (right < left) correlated with ERI severity. These findings were specific to ERI and did not appear with non-emotion-related impulsivity. CONCLUSIONS Local gyrification in the lateral OFC is associated with ERI severity. The current findings fit with existing theories of OFC function, strengthen the connections between the transdiagnostic literature in psychiatry and neuroscience, and may guide future treatment development.
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- Matthew V Elliott
- Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
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- Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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- Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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- Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
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Chen Z, Wu B, Li G, Zhou L, Zhang L, Liu J. Age and sex differentially shape brain networks in Parkinson's disease. CNS Neurosci Ther 2023. [PMID: 36890620 DOI: 10.1111/cns.14149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2023] [Revised: 02/18/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/10/2023] Open
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AIMS Age and sex are important individual factors modifying the clinical symptoms of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Our goal is to evaluate the effects of age and sex on brain networks and clinical manifestations of PD patients. METHODS Parkinson's disease participants (n = 198) receiving functional magnetic resonance imaging from Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative database were investigated. Participants were classified into lower quartile group (age rank: 0%~25%), interquartile group (age rank: 26%~75%), and upper quartile group (age rank: 76%~100%) according to their age quartiles to examine how age shapes brain network topology. The differences of brain network topological properties between male and female participants were also investigated. RESULTS Parkinson's disease patients in the upper quartile age group exhibited disrupted network topology of white matter networks and impaired integrity of white matter fibers compared to lower quartile age group. In contrast, sex preferentially shaped the small-world topology of gray matter covariance network. Differential network metrics mediated the effects of age and sex on cognitive function of PD patients. CONCLUSION Age and sex have diverse effects on brain structural networks and cognitive function of PD patients, highlighting their roles in the clinical management of PD.
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- Zhichun Chen
- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.,Department of Neurology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Neurology, Xuchang Central Hospital affiliated with Henan University of Science and Technology, Henan, China
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology, Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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Griffiths-King DJ, Wood AG, Novak J. Predicting 'Brainage' in the Developmental Period using Structural MRI, Morphometric Similarity, and Machine Learning. RESEARCH SQUARE 2023:rs.3.rs-2583936. [PMID: 36909598 PMCID: PMC10002817 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2583936/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Brain development is regularly studied using structural MRI. Recently, studies have used a combination of statistical learning and large-scale imaging databases of healthy-children to predict an individual's age from structural MRI. This data-driven, 'brainage' typically differs from the subjects chronological age, with this difference a potential measure of individual difference. Few studies have leveraged higher-order or connectomic representations of structural MRI data for this brainage approach. We leveraged morphometric similarity as a network-level approach to structural MRI to generate predictive models of age. We benchmarked these novel brain-age approaches using morphometric similarity against more typical, single feature (i.e. cortical thickness) approaches. We showed that these novel methods did not outperform cortical thickness or cortical volume measures. All models were significantly biased by age, but robust to motion confounds. The main results show that, whilst morphometric similarity mapping may be a novel way to leverage additional information from a T1-weighted structural MRI beyond individual features, in the context of a brain-age framework, morphometric similarity does not explain more variance than individual structural features. Morphometric similarity as a network-level approach to structural MRI may be poorly positioned to study individual differences in brain development in healthy individuals.
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Hölig C, Guerreiro MJS, Lingareddy S, Kekunnaya R, Röder B. Sight restoration in congenitally blind humans does not restore visual brain structure. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:2152-2161. [PMID: 35580850 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Revised: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 04/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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It is unknown whether impaired brain structure after congenital blindness is reversible if sight is restored later in life. Using structural magnetic resonance imaging, visual cortical surface area and cortical thickness were assessed in a large group of 21 sight-recovery individuals who had been born blind and who months or years later gained sight through cataract removal surgery. As control groups, we included 27 normally sighted individuals, 10 individuals with permanent congenital blindness, and 11 sight-recovery individuals with a late onset of cataracts. Congenital cataract-reversal individuals had a lower visual cortical surface area and a higher visual cortical thickness than normally sighted controls. These results corresponded to those of congenitally permanently blind individuals suggesting that impaired brain structure did not recover. Crucially, structural brain alterations in congenital-cataract reversal individuals were associated with a lower post-surgery visual acuity. No significant changes in visual cortex structure were observed in sight-recovery individuals with late onset cataracts. The results demonstrate that impaired structural brain development due to visual deprivation from birth is not fully reversible and limits functional recovery. Additionally, they highlight the crucial importance of prevention measures in the context of other types of aberrant childhood environments including low socioeconomic status and adversity.
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- Cordula Hölig
- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.,Biological Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
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- Jasti V Ramanamma Children's Eye Care Center, Child Sight Institute, LV Prasad Eye Institute, 50034 Hyderabad, India
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- Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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No signs of neurodegenerative effects in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 copy number variant carriers in the UK Biobank. Transl Psychiatry 2023; 13:61. [PMID: 36807331 PMCID: PMC9938862 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-023-02358-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2021] [Revised: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/19/2023] Open
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The 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 copy number variant (CNV) is associated with altered brain morphology and risk for atypical development, including increased risk for schizophrenia and learning difficulties for the deletion. However, it is still unclear whether differences in brain morphology are associated with neurodevelopmental or neurodegenerative processes. This study derived morphological brain MRI measures in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 deletion (n = 124) and duplication carriers (n = 142), and matched deletion-controls (n = 496) and duplication-controls (n = 568) from the UK Biobank study to investigate the association with brain morphology and estimates of brain ageing. Further, we examined the ageing trajectory of age-affected measures (i.e., cortical thickness, surface area, subcortical volume, reaction time, hand grip strength, lung function, and blood pressure) in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 CNV carriers compared to non-carriers. In this ageing population, the results from the machine learning models showed that the estimated brain age gaps did not differ between the 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 CNV carriers and non-carriers, despite deletion carriers displaying thicker cortex and lower subcortical volume compared to the deletion-controls and duplication carriers, and lower surface area compared to the deletion-controls. Likewise, the 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 CNV carriers did not deviate from the ageing trajectory on any of the age-affected measures examined compared to non-carriers. Despite altered brain morphology in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 CNV carriers, the results did not show any clear signs of apparent altered ageing in brain structure, nor in motor, lung or heart function. The results do not indicate neurodegenerative effects in 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 CNV carriers.
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Argiris G, Stern Y, Habeck C. Neural similarity across task load relates to cognitive reserve and brain maintenance measures on the Letter Sternberg task: a longitudinal study. Brain Imaging Behav 2023; 17:100-113. [PMID: 36484923 PMCID: PMC9925407 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-022-00746-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The aging process is characterized by change across several measures that index cognitive status and brain integrity. In the present study, 54 cognitively-healthy younger and older adults, were analyzed, longitudinally, on a verbal working memory task to investigate the effect of brain maintenance (i.e., cortical thickness) and cognitive reserve (i.e., NART IQ as proxy) factors on a derived measure of neural efficiency. Participants were scanned using fMRI while presented with the Letter Sternberg task, a verbal working memory task consisting of encoding, maintenance and retrieval phases, where cognitive load is manipulated by varying the number of presented items (i.e., between one and six letters). Via correlation analysis, we looked at region-level and whole-brain relationships between load levels within each phase and then computed a global task measure, what we term phase specificity, to analyze how similar neural responses were across load levels within each phase compared to between each phase. We found that longitudinal change in phase specificity was positively related to longitudinal change in cortical thickness, at both the whole-brain and regional level. Additionally, baseline NART IQ was positively related to longitudinal change in phase specificity over time. Furthermore, we found a longitudinal effect of sex on change in phase specificity, such that females displayed higher phase specificity over time. Cross-sectional findings aligned with longitudinal findings, with the notable exception of behavioral performance being positively linked to phase specificity cross-sectionally at baseline. Taken together, our findings suggest that phase specificity positively relates to brain maintenance and reserve factors and should be better investigated as a measure of neural efficiency.
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- Georgette Argiris
- Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Neurological Institute, 710 West 168th Street, 3rd floor, NY, 10032, New York, USA
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Neurological Institute, 710 West 168th Street, 3rd floor, NY, 10032, New York, USA
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
- Taub Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Neurological Institute, 710 West 168th Street, 3rd floor, NY, 10032, New York, USA.
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Mareckova K, Mareček R, Jani M, Zackova L, Andryskova L, Brazdil M, Nikolova YS. Association of Maternal Depression During Pregnancy and Recent Stress With Brain Age Among Adult Offspring. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e2254581. [PMID: 36716025 PMCID: PMC9887495 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.54581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Maternal mental health problems during pregnancy are associated with altered neurodevelopment in offspring, but the long-term relationship between these prenatal risk factors and offspring brain structure in adulthood remains incompletely understood due to a paucity of longitudinal studies. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between exposure to maternal depression in utero and offspring brain age in the third decade of life, and to evaluate recent stressful life events as potential moderators of this association. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cohort study examined the 30-year follow-up of a Czech prenatal birth cohort with a within-participant design neuroimaging component in young adulthood conducted from 1991 to 2022. Participants from the European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood prenatal birth cohort were recruited for 2 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) follow-ups, one between ages 23 and 24 years (early 20s) and another between ages 28 and 30 years (late 20s). EXPOSURES Maternal depression during pregnancy; stressful life events in the past year experienced by the young adult offspring. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Gap between estimated neuroanatomical vs chronological age at MRI scan (brain age gap estimation [BrainAGE]) calculated once in participants' early 20s and once in their late 20s, and pace of aging calculated as the differences between BrainAGE at the 2 MRI sessions in young adulthood. RESULTS A total of 260 individuals participated in the second neuroimaging follow-up (mean [SD] age, 29.5 [0.6] years; 135 [52%] male); MRI data for both time points and a history of maternal depression were available for 110 participants (mean [SD] age, 29.3 [0.6] years; 56 [51%] male). BrainAGE in participants' early 20s was correlated with BrainAGE in their late 20s (r = 0.7, P < .001), and a previously observed association between maternal depression during pregnancy and BrainAGE in their early 20s persisted in their late 20s (adjusted R2 = 0.04; P = .04). However, no association emerged between maternal depression during pregnancy and the pace of aging between the 2 MRI sessions. The stability of the associations between maternal depression during pregnancy and BrainAGE was also supported by the lack of interactions with recent stress. In contrast, more recent stress was associated with greater pace of aging between the 2 MRI sessions, independent of maternal depression (adjusted R2 = 0.09; P = .01). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE The findings of this cohort study suggest that maternal depression and recent stress may have independent associations with brain age and the pace of aging, respectively, in young adulthood. Prevention and treatment of depression in pregnant mothers may have long-term implications for offspring brain development.
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- Klara Mareckova
- Brain and Mind Research, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 1st Department of Neurology, St Anne’s University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, MU, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Brain and Mind Research, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Brain and Mind Research, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Brain and Mind Research, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 1st Department of Neurology, St Anne’s University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, MU, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Brain and Mind Research, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- 1st Department of Neurology, St Anne’s University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, MU, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Ahmad S, Wu Y, Wu Z, Thung KH, Liu S, Lin W, Li G, Wang L, Yap PT. Multifaceted atlases of the human brain in its infancy. Nat Methods 2023; 20:55-64. [PMID: 36585454 PMCID: PMC9834057 DOI: 10.1038/s41592-022-01703-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Brain atlases are spatial references for integrating, processing, and analyzing brain features gathered from different individuals, sources, and scales. Here we introduce a collection of joint surface-volume atlases that chart postnatal development of the human brain in a spatiotemporally dense manner from two weeks to two years of age. Our month-specific atlases chart normative patterns and capture key traits of early brain development and are therefore conducive to identifying aberrations from normal developmental trajectories. These atlases will enhance our understanding of early structural and functional development by facilitating the mapping of diverse features of the infant brain to a common reference frame for precise multifaceted quantification of cortical and subcortical changes.
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- Sahar Ahmad
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
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Nyberg L, Andersson M, Lundquist A. Longitudinal change-change associations of cognition with cortical thickness and surface area. AGING BRAIN 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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Rojas Albert A, Backhaus W, Graterol Pérez JA, Braaβ H, Schön G, Choe CU, Feldheim J, Bönstrup M, Cheng B, Thomalla G, Gerloff C, Schulz R. Cortical thickness of contralesional cortices positively relates to future outcome after severe stroke. Cereb Cortex 2022; 32:5622-5627. [PMID: 35169830 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Imaging studies have evidenced that contralesional cortices are involved in recovery after motor stroke. Cortical thickness (CT) analysis has proven its potential to capture the changes of cortical anatomy, which have been related to recovery and treatment gains under therapy. An open question is whether CT obtained in the acute phase after stroke might inform correlational models to explain outcome variability. Data of 38 severely impaired (median NIH Stroke Scale 9, interquartile range: 6-13) acute stroke patients of 2 independent cohorts were reanalyzed. Structural imaging data were processed via the FreeSurfer pipeline to quantify regional CT of the contralesional hemisphere. Ordinal logistic regression models were fit to relate CT to modified Rankin Scale as an established measure of global disability after 3-6 months, adjusted for the initial deficit, lesion volume, and age. The data show that CT of contralesional cortices, such as the precentral gyrus, the superior frontal sulcus, and temporal and cingulate cortices, positively relates to the outcome after stroke. This work shows that the baseline cortical anatomy of selected contralesional cortices can explain the outcome variability after severe stroke, which further contributes to the concept of structural brain reserve with respect to contralesional cortices to promote recovery.
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- Alina Rojas Albert
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Medical Center, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg 20246, Germany
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Fabiani M, Asnakew BA, Bowie DC, Chism SM, Clements GM, Gardner JC, Islam SS, Rubenstein SL, Gratton G. A healthy mind in a healthy body: Effects of arteriosclerosis and other risk factors on cognitive aging and dementia. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MOTIVATION 2022; 77:69-123. [PMID: 37139101 PMCID: PMC10153623 DOI: 10.1016/bs.plm.2022.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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In this review we start from the assumption that, to fully understand cognitive aging, it is important to embrace a holistic view, integrating changes in bodily, brain, and cognitive functions. This broad view can help explain individual differences in aging trajectories and could ultimately enable prevention and remediation strategies. As the title of this review suggests, we claim that there are not only indirect but also direct effects of various organ systems on the brain, creating cascades of phenomena that strongly contribute to age-related cognitive decline. Here we focus primarily on the cerebrovascular system, because of its direct effects on brain health and close connections with the development and progression of Alzheimer's Disease and other types of dementia. We start by reviewing the main cognitive changes that are often observed in normally aging older adults, as well as the brain systems that support them. Second, we provide a brief overview of the cerebrovascular system and its known effects on brain anatomy and function, with a focus on aging. Third, we review genetic and lifestyle risk factors that may affect the cerebrovascular system and ultimately contribute to cognitive decline. Lastly, we discuss this evidence, review limitations, and point out avenues for additional research and clinical intervention.
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Affiliation(s)
- Monica Fabiani
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
- Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
- Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
- Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
- Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
- Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
- Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
- Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
- Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
- Psychology Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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Associations between brain imaging and polygenic scores of mental health and educational attainment in children aged 9-11. Neuroimage 2022; 263:119611. [PMID: 36070838 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Revised: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 09/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Psychiatric disorders are highly heritable and polygenic, and many have their peak onset in late childhood and adolescence, a period of tremendous changes. Although the neurodevelopmental antecedents of mental illness are widely acknowledged, research in youth population cohorts is still scarce, preventing our progress towards the early characterization of these disorders. We included 7,124 children (9-11 years old) from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study to map the associations of structural and diffusion brain imaging with common genetic variants and polygenic scores for psychiatric disorders and educational attainment. We used principal component analysis to derive imaging components, and calculated their heritability. We then assessed the relationship of imaging components with genetic and clinical psychiatric risk with univariate models and Canonical correlation analysis (CCA). Most imaging components had moderate heritability. Univariate models showed limited evidence and small associations of polygenic scores with brain structure at this age. CCA revealed two significant modes of covariation. The first mode linked higher polygenic scores for educational attainment with less externalizing problems and larger surface area. The second mode related higher polygenic scores for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorder to higher global cortical thickness, smaller white matter volumes of the fornix and cingulum, larger medial occipital surface area and smaller surface area of lateral and medial temporal regions. While cross-validation suggested limited generalizability, our results highlight the potential of multivariate models to better understand the transdiagnostic and distributed relationships between mental health and brain structure in late childhood.
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Makowski C, Wang H, Chen CH. Clinical opportunity awaits at the intersection of genomics and brain imaging. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2022; 47:E293-E298. [PMID: 35948342 PMCID: PMC9377545 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.220075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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- From the Center for Multimodal Imaging and Genetics, Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, Cali., USA
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