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Pan N, Qin K, Patino LR, Tallman MJ, Lei D, Lu L, Li W, Blom TJ, Bruns KM, Welge JA, Strawn JR, Gong Q, Sweeney JA, Singh MK, DelBello MP. Aberrant brain network topology in youth with a familial risk for bipolar disorder: a task-based fMRI connectome study. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2024; 65:1072-1086. [PMID: 38220469 PMCID: PMC11246494 DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13946] [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] [Accepted: 11/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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BACKGROUND Youth with a family history of bipolar disorder (BD) may be at increased risk for mood disorders and for developing side effects after antidepressant exposure. The neurobiological basis of these risks remains poorly understood. We aimed to identify biomarkers underlying risk by characterizing abnormalities in the brain connectome of symptomatic youth at familial risk for BD. METHODS Depressed and/or anxious youth (n = 119, age = 14.9 ± 1.6 years) with a family history of BD but no prior antidepressant exposure and typically developing controls (n = 57, age = 14.8 ± 1.7 years) received functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during an emotional continuous performance task. A generalized psychophysiological interaction (gPPI) analysis was performed to compare their brain connectome patterns, followed by machine learning of topological metrics. RESULTS High-risk youth showed weaker connectivity patterns that were mainly located in the default mode network (DMN) (network weight = 50.1%) relative to controls, and connectivity patterns derived from the visual network (VN) constituted the largest proportion of aberrant stronger pairs (network weight = 54.9%). Global local efficiency (Elocal, p = .022) and clustering coefficient (Cp, p = .029) and nodal metrics of the right superior frontal gyrus (SFG) (Elocal: p < .001; Cp: p = .001) in the high-risk group were significantly higher than those in healthy subjects, and similar patterns were also found in the left insula (degree: p = .004; betweenness: p = .005; age-by-group interaction, p = .038) and right hippocampus (degree: p = .003; betweenness: p = .003). The case-control classifier achieved a cross-validation accuracy of 78.4%. CONCLUSIONS Our findings of abnormal connectome organization in the DMN and VN may advance mechanistic understanding of risk for BD. Neuroimaging biomarkers of increased network segregation in the SFG and altered topological centrality in the insula and hippocampus in broader limbic systems may be used to target interventions tailored to mitigate the underlying risk of brain abnormalities in these at-risk youth.
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- Nanfang Pan
- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University; Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Functional & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Radiology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, China
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- College of Medical Informatics, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University; Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Functional & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University; Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Functional & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University; Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Functional & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Radiology, West China Xiamen Hospital of Sichuan University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University; Research Unit of Psychoradiology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; Functional & Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
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Pedapati EV, Ethridge LE, Liu Y, Liu R, Sweeney JA, DeStefano LA, Miyakoshi M, Razak K, Schmitt LM, Moore DR, Gilbert DL, Wu SW, Smith E, Shaffer RC, Dominick KC, Horn PS, Binder D, Erickson CA. Frontal Cortex Hyperactivation and Gamma Desynchrony in Fragile X Syndrome: Correlates of Auditory Hypersensitivity. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.13.598957. [PMID: 38915683 PMCID: PMC11195233 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.13.598957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/26/2024]
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Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is an X-linked disorder that often leads to intellectual disability, anxiety, and sensory hypersensitivity. While sound sensitivity (hyperacusis) is a distressing symptom in FXS, its neural basis is not well understood. It is postulated that hyperacusis may stem from temporal lobe hyperexcitability or dysregulation in top-down modulation. Studying the neural mechanisms underlying sound sensitivity in FXS using scalp electroencephalography (EEG) is challenging because the temporal and frontal regions have overlapping neural projections that are difficult to differentiate. To overcome this challenge, we conducted EEG source analysis on a group of 36 individuals with FXS and 39 matched healthy controls. Our goal was to characterize the spatial and temporal properties of the response to an auditory chirp stimulus. Our results showed that males with FXS exhibit excessive activation in the frontal cortex in response to the stimulus onset, which may reflect changes in top-down modulation of auditory processing. Additionally, during the chirp stimulus, individuals with FXS demonstrated a reduction in typical gamma phase synchrony, along with an increase in asynchronous gamma power, across multiple regions, most strongly in temporal cortex. Consistent with these findings, we observed a decrease in the signal-to-noise ratio, estimated by the ratio of synchronous to asynchronous gamma activity, in individuals with FXS. Furthermore, this ratio was highly correlated with performance in an auditory attention task. Compared to controls, males with FXS demonstrated elevated bidirectional frontotemporal information flow at chirp onset. The evidence indicates that both temporal lobe hyperexcitability and disruptions in top-down regulation play a role in auditory sensitivity disturbances in FXS. These findings have the potential to guide the development of therapeutic targets and back-translation strategies.
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- Ernest V Pedapati
- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
- Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
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- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Communication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Division of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Riverside, United States
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- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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Davidson C, Theyer A, Amaireh G, Wijeakumar S. The impact of caregiver inhibitory control on infant visual working memory. Infant Behav Dev 2024; 74:101921. [PMID: 38211463 DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101921] [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: 08/02/2023] [Revised: 12/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
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Visual working memory (VWM) emerges in the first year of life and has far-reaching implications for academic and later life outcomes. Given that caregivers play a significant role in shaping cognitive function in children, it is important to understand how they might impact VWM development as early as infancy. The current study investigated whether caregivers' efficiency of regulating inhibitory control was associated with VWM function in their infants. Eighty-eight caregivers were presented with a Go-NoGo task to assess inhibitory control. An efficiency score was calculated using their behavioural responses. Eighty-six 6-to-10-month-old infants were presented with a preferential looking task to assess VWM function. VWM load was manipulated across one (low load), two (medium load) and three (high load) items. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy was used to record brain activation from caregivers and their infants. We found no direct association between caregiver efficiency and infant VWM behaviour. However, we found an indirect association - caregiver efficiency was linked to infant VWM through left-lateralized fronto-parietal engagement. Specifically, infants with low efficiency caregivers showed decreasing left-lateralized parietal engagement with increasing VWM performance at the medium and high loads compared to infants with high efficiency caregivers, who did not show any load- or performance-dependent modulation. Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature examining the role that caregivers play in early neurocognitive development.
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- Christina Davidson
- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Wang Y, Li Q, Yao L, He N, Tang Y, Chen L, Long F, Chen Y, Kemp GJ, Lui S, Li F. Shared and differing functional connectivity abnormalities of the default mode network in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae094. [PMID: 38521993 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae094] [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: 10/02/2023] [Revised: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/25/2024] Open
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) both show abnormal resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of default mode network (DMN), but it is unclear to what extent these abnormalities are shared. Therefore, we performed a comprehensive meta-analysis, including 31 MCI studies and 20 AD studies. MCI patients, compared to controls, showed decreased within-DMN rsFC in bilateral medial prefrontal cortex/anterior cingulate cortex (mPFC/ACC), precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), right temporal lobes, and left angular gyrus and increased rsFC between DMN and left inferior temporal gyrus. AD patients, compared to controls, showed decreased rsFC within DMN in bilateral mPFC/ACC and precuneus/PCC and between DMN and left inferior occipital gyrus and increased rsFC between DMN and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Conjunction analysis showed shared decreased rsFC in mPFC/ACC and precuneus/PCC. Compared to MCI, AD had decreased rsFC in left precuneus/PCC and between DMN and left inferior occipital gyrus and increased rsFC in right temporal lobes. MCI and AD share a decreased within-DMN rsFC likely underpinning episodic memory deficits and neuropsychiatric symptoms, but differ in DMN rsFC alterations likely related to impairments in other cognitive domains such as language, vision, and execution. This may throw light on neuropathological mechanisms in these two stages of dementia.
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- Yaxuan Wang
- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, P.R. China
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- Department of Neurology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, 6 West Derby Street, Liverpool L7 8TX, United Kingdom
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Radiology and Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Functional and Molecular lmaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, P.R. China
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Patino LR, Wilson AS, Tallman MJ, Blom TJ, DelBello MP, McNamara RK. Aberrant Neurofunctional Responses During Emotional and Attentional Processing Differentiate ADHD Youth With and Without a Family History of Bipolar I Disorder. J Atten Disord 2024; 28:820-833. [PMID: 38153098 DOI: 10.1177/10870547231215292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To compare neurofunctional responses in emotional and attentional networks of psychostimulant-free ADHD youth with and without familial risk for bipolar I disorder (BD). METHODS ADHD youth with (high-risk, HR, n = 48) and without (low-risk, LR, n = 50) a first-degree relative with BD and healthy controls (n = 46) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a continuous performance task with emotional distracters. Region-of-interest analyses were performed for bilateral amygdala (AMY), ventrolateral (VLPFC) and dorsolateral (DLPFC) prefrontal cortex, and anterior (ACC) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC). RESULTS Compared with HC, HR, but not LR, exhibited predominantly left-lateralized AMY, VLPFC, DLPFC, PCC, and rostral ACC hyperactivation to emotional distractors, whereas LR exhibited right VLPFC and bilateral dorsal ACC hypoactivation to attentional targets. Regional responses correlated with emotional and attention symptoms. CONCLUSION Aberrant neurofunctional responses during emotional and attentional processing differentiate ADHD youth with and without a family history of BD and correlate with relevant symptoms ratings.
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH, USA
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Bruno A, Lothmann K, Bludau S, Mohlberg H, Amunts K. New organizational principles and 3D cytoarchitectonic maps of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the human brain. FRONTIERS IN NEUROIMAGING 2024; 3:1339244. [PMID: 38455685 PMCID: PMC10917992 DOI: 10.3389/fnimg.2024.1339244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
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Areas of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) are part of the frontoparietal control, default mode, salience, and ventral attention networks. The DLPFC is involved in executive functions, like working memory, value encoding, attention, decision-making, and behavioral control. This functional heterogeneity is not reflected in existing neuroanatomical maps. For example, previous cytoarchitectonic studies have divided the DLPFC into two or four areas. Macroanatomical parcellations of this region rely on gyri and sulci, which are not congruent with cytoarchitectonic parcellations. Therefore, this study aimed to provide a microstructural analysis of the human DLPFC and 3D maps of cytoarchitectonic areas to help address the observed functional variability in studies of the DLPFC. We analyzed ten human post-mortem brains in serial cell-body stained brain sections and mapped areal boundaries using a statistical image analysis approach. Five new areas (i.e., SFG2, SFG3, SFG4, MFG4, and MFG5) were identified on the superior and middle frontal gyrus, i.e., regions corresponding to parts of Brodmann areas 9 and 46. Gray level index profiles were used to determine interregional cytoarchitectural differences. The five new areas were reconstructed in 3D, and probability maps were generated in commonly used reference spaces, considering the variability of areas in stereotaxic space. Hierarchical cluster analysis revealed a high degree of similarity within the identified DLPFC areas while neighboring areas (frontal pole, Broca's region, area 8, and motoric areas) were separable. Comparisons with functional imaging studies revealed specific functional profiles of the DLPFC areas. Our results indicate that the new areas do not follow a simple organizational gradient assumption in the DLPFC. Instead, they are more similar to those of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (Broca's areas 44, 45) and frontopolar areas (Fp1, Fp2) than to the more posterior areas. Within the DLPFC, the cytoarchitectonic similarities between areas do not seem to follow a simple anterior-to-posterior gradient either, but cluster along other principles. The new maps are part of the publicly available Julich Brain Atlas and provide a microstructural reference for existing and future imaging studies. Thus, our study represents a further step toward deciphering the structural-functional organization of the human prefrontal cortex.
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- Ariane Bruno
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Fang F, Teixeira AL, Li R, Zou L, Zhang Y. The control patterns of affective processing and cognitive reappraisal: insights from brain controllability analysis. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhad500. [PMID: 38216523 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad500] [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: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 12/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/14/2024] Open
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Perceiving and modulating emotions is vital for cognitive function and is often impaired in neuropsychiatric conditions. Current tools for evaluating emotional dysregulation suffer from subjectivity and lack of precision, especially when it comes to understanding emotion from a regulatory or control-based perspective. To address these limitations, this study leverages an advanced methodology known as functional brain controllability analysis. We simultaneously recorded electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from 17 healthy subjects engaged in emotion processing and regulation tasks. We then employed a novel EEG/fMRI integration technique to reconstruct cortical activity in a high spatiotemporal resolution manner. Subsequently, we conducted functional brain controllability analysis to explore the neural network control patterns underlying different emotion conditions. Our findings demonstrated that the dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex exhibited increased controllability during the processing and regulation of negative emotions compared to processing of neutral emotion. Besides, the anterior cingulate cortex was notably more active in managing negative emotion than in either controlling neutral emotion or regulating negative emotion. Finally, the posterior parietal cortex emerged as a central network controller for the regulation of negative emotion. This study offers valuable insights into the cortical control mechanisms that support emotion perception and regulation.
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- Feng Fang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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- Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Institute of Collaborative Innovation, University of Macau, Macau, China
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- School of Information Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
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Kirsch DE, Kosted R, Le V, Almeida JRC, Fromme K, Strakowski SM, Lippard ETC. Ventral prefrontal network response to alcohol in young adults with bipolar disorder: a within-subject randomized placebo-controlled alcohol administration study. Neuropsychopharmacology 2023; 48:1910-1919. [PMID: 37474761 PMCID: PMC10584851 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-023-01657-6] [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: 03/16/2023] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/09/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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Bipolar disorder co-occurs with alcohol use disorder at a rate 3-5 times higher than the general population. We recently reported that individuals with bipolar disorder differ in the positive stimulating and anxiolytic effects of alcohol compared with healthy peers. This study used a randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over, within-subject alcohol administration design to investigate neurobiological mechanisms within ventral prefrontal cortical (vPFC) systems that may underlie altered sensitivity to alcohol in bipolar disorder (NCT04063384). Forty-seven young adults (n = 23 with bipolar disorder, 64% women) completed clinical assessment and two beverage administration sessions (alcohol and placebo, counter-balanced). Participants were dosed to 0.08 g% breath alcohol concentration during the alcohol condition and completed measures of subjective response to alcohol and an emotional processing fMRI task during the ascending limb. Timing during the placebo condition mirrored the alcohol session. Acute alcohol was associated with reduced functional connectivity between the insula - subcallosal cingulate cortex, and increased connectivity between the left nucleus accumbens - ventromedial PFC in bipolar disorder, but with no change in functional connectivity between these regions in healthy peers. Alcohol-related increases in nucleus accumbens - ventromedial PFC functional connectivity was associated with greater positive stimulating effects of alcohol in bipolar disorder and heavier recent alcohol use. Results suggest vPFC brain systems respond differently to acute alcohol during emotional processing in young adults with bipolar disorder compared with healthy peers, and that vPFC system responses relate to the subjective experience of intoxication and recent alcohol use.
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- Dylan E Kirsch
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
- Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
- Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
- Institute of Early Life Adversity Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.
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Vicente R, Bittencourt J, Costa É, Nicoliche E, Gongora M, Di Giacomo J, Bastos VH, Teixeira S, Orsini M, Budde H, Cagy M, Velasques B, Ribeiro P. Differences between hemispheres and in saccade latency regarding volleyball athletes and non-athletes during saccadic eye movements: an analysis using EEG. ARQUIVOS DE NEURO-PSIQUIATRIA 2023; 81:876-882. [PMID: 37852289 PMCID: PMC10631850 DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-1772830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND The saccadic eye movement is responsible for providing focus to a visual object of interest to the retina. In sports like volleyball, identifying relevant targets quickly is essential to a masterful performance. The training improves cortical regions underlying saccadic action, enabling more automated processing in athletes. OBJECTIVE We investigated changes in the latency during the saccadic eye movement and the absolute theta power on the frontal and prefrontal cortices during the execution of the saccadic eye movement task in volleyball athletes and non-athletes. We hypothesized that the saccade latency and theta power would be lower due to training and perceptual-cognitive enhancement in volleyball players. METHODS We recruited 30 healthy volunteers: 15 volleyball athletes (11 men and 4 women; mean age: 15.08 ± 1.06 years) and 15 non-athletes (5 men and 10 women; mean age: 18.00 ± 1.46 years). All tasks were performed simultaneously with electroencephalography signal recording. RESULTS The latency of the saccadic eye movement presented a significant difference between the groups; a shorter time was observed among the athletes, associated with the players' superiority in terms of attention level. During the experiment, the athletes observed a decrease in absolute theta power compared to non-athletes on the electrodes of each frontal and prefrontal area. CONCLUSION In the present study, we observed the behavior of reaction time and absolute theta power in athletes and non-athletes during a saccadic movement task. Our findings corroborate the premise of cognitive improvement, mainly due to the reduction of saccadic latency and lower beta power, validating the neural efficiency hypothesis.
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- Renan Vicente
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Educação Física e Desportos, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Educação Física e Desportos, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Educação Física e Desportos, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
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- Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
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- Universidade Federal do Piauí, Departamento de Fisioterapia, Teresina PI, Brazil.
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- Universidade Federal do Piauí, Departamento de Fisioterapia, Teresina PI, Brazil.
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- Universidade Federal Fluminense, Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro, Niterói RJ, Brazil.
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- Medical School Hamburg, Faculty of Human Sciences, Hamburg, Germany.
- Reykjavik University, Department of Sport Science, Reykjavik, Iceland.
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Engenharia Biomédica, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Educação Física e Desportos, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Educação Física e Desportos, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil.
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Chaudhari A, Wang X, Wu A, Liu H. Repeated Transcranial Photobiomodulation with Light-Emitting Diodes Improves Psychomotor Vigilance and EEG Networks of the Human Brain. Bioengineering (Basel) 2023; 10:1043. [PMID: 37760145 PMCID: PMC10525861 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering10091043] [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: 07/10/2023] [Revised: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM) has been suggested as a non-invasive neuromodulation tool. The repetitive administration of light-emitting diode (LED)-based tPBM for several weeks significantly improves human cognition. To understand the electrophysiological effects of LED-tPBM on the human brain, we investigated alterations by repeated tPBM in vigilance performance and brain networks using electroencephalography (EEG) in healthy participants. Active and sham LED-based tPBM were administered to the right forehead of young participants twice a week for four weeks. The participants performed a psychomotor vigilance task (PVT) during each tPBM/sham experiment. A 64-electrode EEG system recorded electrophysiological signals from each participant during the first and last visits in a 4-week study. Topographical maps of the EEG power enhanced by tPBM were statistically compared for the repeated tPBM effect. A new data processing framework combining the group's singular value decomposition (gSVD) with eLORETA was implemented to identify EEG brain networks. The reaction time of the PVT in the tPBM-treated group was significantly improved over four weeks compared to that in the sham group. We observed acute increases in EEG delta and alpha powers during a 10 min LED-tPBM while the participants performed the PVT task. We also found that the theta, beta, and gamma EEG powers significantly increased overall after four weeks of LED-tPBM. Combining gSVD with eLORETA enabled us to identify EEG brain networks and the corresponding network power changes by repeated 4-week tPBM. This study clearly demonstrated that a 4-week prefrontal LED-tPBM can neuromodulate several key EEG networks, implying a possible causal effect between modulated brain networks and improved psychomotor vigilance outcomes.
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 500 UTA Blvd, Arlington, TX 76019, USA; (A.C.); (X.W.); (A.W.)
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Nery FG, Welge JA, Fleck D, Weber W, Patino LR, Strawn JR, Adler CM, Strakowski SM, DelBello MP. Brain functional activation and first mood episode in youth at risk for bipolar disorder. J Affect Disord 2023; 331:238-244. [PMID: 36931569 PMCID: PMC10413175 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.03.025] [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: 07/25/2022] [Revised: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND In order to identify biomarkers of prodromal mood disorders, we examined functional brain activation in children and adolescent at familial risk for bipolar disorder. METHODS Offspring of parents with bipolar I disorder (at-risk youth; N = 115, mean ± SD age: 13.6 ± 2.7; 54 % girls) and group-matched offspring of healthy parents (healthy controls; N = 58, mean ± SD age: 14.2 ± 3.0; 53 % girls) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a continuous performance task with emotional and neutral distracters. At baseline, at-risk youth had no history of mood episodes or psychotic disorders. Subjects were followed longitudinally until developing their first mood episode or being lost to follow-up. Standard event-related region-of-interest (ROI) analyses were performed to compare brain activation at baseline between groups and in survival analyses. RESULTS At baseline, at-risk youth exhibited reduced activation to emotional distracters in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) (p = 0.04). Activation was not significantly altered in additional ROIs, including left VLPFC, bilateral amygdala, caudate, or putamen. In those at-risk youth who developed their first mood episode during follow-up (n = 17), baseline increased activation in right VLPFC, right caudate, and right putamen activation predicted the development of a mood episode. LIMITATIONS Sample size of converters, loss to follow-up, and number of statistical comparisons. CONCLUSIONS We found preliminary evidence that a reduced activation in right VLPFC might be a marker of risk for or resilience to mood disorders in at-risk youth. Conversely, an increased activation in the right VLPFC, caudate, and putamen might indicate an increased risk for the later development of their first mood episode.
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- Fabiano G Nery
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Fleck DE, Wilson M, Lewis D, Welge JA, Arya G, Sathyan A, Cohen K, John Winhusen T. Neurocognitive predictors of adherence to an online pain self-management program adjunct to long-term opioid therapy. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2023; 45:242-254. [PMID: 37278690 PMCID: PMC10526690 DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2023.2221396] [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: 12/15/2022] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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INTRODUCTION While pain self-management programs can significantly improve patient outcomes, poor adherence is common and the need for research on predictors of adherence has been noted. A potential, but commonly overlooked, predictor is cognitive function. Our aim, then, was to examine the relative influence of various cognitive functional domains on engagement with an online pain self-management program. METHOD A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial testing the impact of E-health (a 4-month subscription to the online Goalistics Chronic Pain Management Program) plus treatment as usual, relative to treatment as usual alone, on pain and opioid dose outcomes in adults receiving long-term opioid therapy of morphine equivalence dose ≥20 mg; 165 E-health participants who completed an on-line neurocognitive battery were included in this sub-analysis. A variety of demographic, clinical, and symptom rating scales were also examined. We hypothesized that better processing speed and executive functions at baseline would predict engagement with the 4-month E-health subscription. RESULTS Ten functional cognitive domains were identified using exploratory factor analysis and the resultant factor scores applied for hypothesis testing. The strongest predictors of E-health engagement were selective attention, and response inhibition and speed domains. An explainable machine learning algorithm improved classification accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that cognition, especially selective attention, inhibitory control, and processing speed, is predictive of online chronic pain self-management program engagement. Future research to replicate and extend these findings seems warranted. CLINICALTRIALS.GOV REGISTRATION NUMBER NCT03309188.
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- David E. Fleck
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Washington State University College of Nursing, Spokane, WA, USA
- Program of Excellence in Addictions Research, Washington State University, Spokane, WA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Center for Addiction Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Opposing and emotion-specific associations between frontal activation with depression and anxiety symptoms during facial emotion processing in generalized anxiety and depression. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2023; 123:110716. [PMID: 36623581 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2023.110716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Revised: 11/06/2022] [Accepted: 01/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Major depression (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) have become one of the leading global causes of disability and both are characterized by marked interpersonal and social impairments. However, despite high comorbidity and overlapping social-emotional deficits, it remains unclear whether MDD and GAD share a common neural basis during interpersonal processing. In the present study, we combined an emotional face processing paradigm with fMRI and dimensional and categorical analyses in a sample of unmedicated MDD and GAD patients (N = 72) as well as healthy controls (N = 35). No group differences were found in categorical analyses. However, the dimensional analyses revealed that dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) reactivity to sad facial expressions was positively associated with depression symptom load, yet negatively associated with anxiety symptom load in the entire sample. On the network level depression symptom load was positively associated with functional connectivity between the bilateral amygdala and a widespread network including the anterior cingulate and insular cortex. Together, these findings suggest that the dlPFC - engaged in cognitive and emotional processing - exhibits symptom- and emotion-specific alteration during interpersonal processing. Dysregulated communication between the amygdala and core regions of the salience network may represent depression-specific neural dysregulations.
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Ince S, Steward T, Harrison BJ, Jamieson AJ, Davey CG, Agathos JA, Moffat BA, Glarin RK, Felmingham KL. Subcortical contributions to salience network functioning during negative emotional processing. Neuroimage 2023; 270:119964. [PMID: 36822252 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2023] Open
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Core regions of the salience network (SN), including the anterior insula (aINS) and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), coordinate rapid adaptive changes in attentional and autonomic processes in response to negative emotional events. In doing so, the SN incorporates bottom-up signals from subcortical brain regions, such as the amygdala and periaqueductal gray (PAG). However, the precise influence of these subcortical regions is not well understood. Using ultra-high field 7-Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging, this study investigated the bottom-up interactions of the amygdala and PAG with the SN during negative emotional salience processing. Thirty-seven healthy participants completed an emotional oddball paradigm designed to elicit a salient negative emotional response via the presentation of random, task-irrelevant negative emotional images. Negative emotional processing was associated with prominent activation in the SN, spanning the amygdala, PAG, aINS, and dACC. Consistent with previous research, analysis using dynamic causal modelling revealed an excitatory influence from the amygdala to the aINS, dACC, and PAG. In contrast, the PAG showed an inhibitory influence on amygdala, aINS and dACC activity. Our findings suggest that the amygdala may amplify the processing of negative emotional stimuli in the SN to enable upstream access to attentional resources. In comparison, the inhibitory influence of the PAG possibly reflects its involvement in modulating sympathetic-parasympathetic autonomic arousal mediated by the SN. This PAG-mediated effect may be driven by amygdala input and facilitate bottom-up processing of negative emotional stimuli. Overall, our results show that the amygdala and PAG modulate divergent functions of the SN during negative emotional processing.
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- Sevil Ince
- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia; Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia; Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- The Melbourne Brain Centre Imaging Unit, Department of Radiology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- The Melbourne Brain Centre Imaging Unit, Department of Radiology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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Anderson ED, Barbey AK. Investigating cognitive neuroscience theories of human intelligence: A connectome-based predictive modeling approach. Hum Brain Mapp 2023; 44:1647-1665. [PMID: 36537816 PMCID: PMC9921238 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2022] [Revised: 09/18/2022] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Central to modern neuroscientific theories of human intelligence is the notion that general intelligence depends on a primary brain region or network, engaging spatially localized (rather than global) neural representations. Recent findings in network neuroscience, however, challenge this assumption, providing evidence that general intelligence may depend on system-wide network mechanisms, suggesting that local representations are necessary but not sufficient to account for the neural architecture of human intelligence. Despite the importance of this key theoretical distinction, prior research has not systematically investigated the role of local versus global neural representations in predicting general intelligence. We conducted a large-scale connectome-based predictive modeling study (N = 297), administering resting-state fMRI and a comprehensive cognitive battery to evaluate the efficacy of modern neuroscientific theories of human intelligence, including spatially localized theories (Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Theory, Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory, and Multiple Demand Theory) and recent global accounts (Process Overlap Theory and Network Neuroscience Theory). The results of our study demonstrate that general intelligence can be predicted by local functional connectivity profiles but is most robustly explained by global profiles of whole-brain connectivity. Our findings further suggest that the improved efficacy of global theories is not reducible to a greater strength or number of connections, but instead results from considering both strong and weak connections that provide the basis for intelligence (as predicted by the Network Neuroscience Theory). Our results highlight the importance of considering local neural representations in the context of a global information-processing architecture, suggesting future directions for theory-driven research on system-wide network mechanisms underlying general intelligence.
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- Evan D Anderson
- Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp, Broomfield, Colorado, USA.,Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA
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- Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Zhu S, Song J, Xia W, Xue Y. Aberrant brain functional network strength related to cognitive impairment in age-related hearing loss. Front Neurol 2022; 13:1071237. [PMID: 36619924 PMCID: PMC9810801 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.1071237] [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: 10/16/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Purpose Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is a major public issue that affects elderly adults. However, the neural substrates for the cognitive deficits in patients with ARHL need to be elucidated. This study aimed to explore the brain regions that show aberrant brain functional network strength related to cognitive impairment in patients with ARHL. Methods A total of 27 patients with ARHL and 23 well-matched healthy controls were recruited for the present study. Each subject underwent pure-tone audiometry (PTA), MRI scanning, and cognition evaluation. We analyzed the functional network strength by using degree centrality (DC) characteristics and tried to recognize key nodes that contribute significantly. Subsequent functional connectivity (FC) was analyzed using significant DC nodes as seeds. Results Compared with controls, patients with ARHL showed a deceased DC in the bilateral supramarginal gyrus (SMG). In addition, patients with ARHL showed enhanced DC in the left fusiform gyrus (FG) and right parahippocampal gyrus (PHG). Then, the bilateral SMGs were used as seeds for FC analysis. With the seed set at the left SMG, patients with ARHL showed decreased connectivity with the right superior temporal gyrus (STG). Moreover, the right SMG showed reduced connectivity with the right middle temporal gyrus (MTG) and increased connection with the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) in patients with ARHL. The reduced DC in the left and right SMGs showed significant negative correlations with poorer TMT-B scores (r = -0.596, p = 0.002; r = -0.503, p = 0.012, respectively). Conclusion These findings enriched our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive impairment associated with ARHL and may serve as a potential brain network biomarker for investigating and predicting cognitive difficulties.
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- Shaoyun Zhu
- Department of Ultrasound, Nanjing Pukou Central Hospital, Pukou Branch Hospital of Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Nanjing Pukou Central Hospital, Pukou Branch Hospital of Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Endocrinology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China,*Correspondence: Wenqing Xia ✉
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Nanjing Pukou Central Hospital, Pukou Branch Hospital of Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China,Yuan Xue ✉
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Xu XM, Liu Y, Feng Y, Xu JJ, Gao J, Salvi R, Wu Y, Yin X, Chen YC. Degree centrality and functional connections in presbycusis with and without cognitive impairments. Brain Imaging Behav 2022; 16:2725-2734. [DOI: 10.1007/s11682-022-00734-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Altered functional connectivity: A possible reason for reduced performance during visual cognition involving scene incongruence and negative affect. IBRO Neurosci Rep 2022; 13:533-542. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ibneur.2022.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Accepted: 11/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Chen C, Tallman MJ, Cecil KM, Patino LR, Blom TJ, DelBello MP, McNamara RK. Symptom Profiles, But Not Prefrontal Neurochemistry, Differentiate ADHD Youth With and Without a Family History of Bipolar I Disorder. J Atten Disord 2022; 26:1762-1773. [PMID: 35658594 DOI: 10.1177/10870547221101645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Objective: To identify clinical and central features that differentiate ADHD youth with and without familial risk for bipolar I disorder (BD). Methods: Psychostimulant-free ADHD youth (10-18 years) with and without a first-degree relative with BD and healthy controls were enrolled. Bilateral ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) scans and a range of symptom ratings were performed. Results: A total of n = 145 youth were enrolled. ADHD youth with a family history of BD exhibited greater manic and depressive symptom severity, ADHD hyperactivity/impulsive symptom severity, and higher parent-reported ratings of dysregulation compared with ADHD youth without a BD family history. Although VLPFC metabolite levels did not differ across groups, choline levels in the left VLPFC correlated with different symptom ratings. Conclusion: Symptom profiles including more severe mood and externalizing symptoms, but not VLPFC neurochemistry, differentiate psychostimulant-free ADHD youth with and without a family history of BD.
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH, USA
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Nejati V, Heyrani R, Nitsche M. Attention bias modification through transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS): A review. Neurophysiol Clin 2022; 52:341-353. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2022.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Revised: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 09/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Duckworth JJ, Wright H, Christiansen P, Rose AK, Fallon N. Sign-tracking modulates reward-related neural activation to reward cues, but not reward feedback. Eur J Neurosci 2022; 56:5000-5013. [PMID: 35912531 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15787] [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: 06/30/2020] [Revised: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Research shows cognitive and neurobiological overlap between sign-tracking [value-modulated attentional capture (VMAC) by response-irrelevant, discrete cues] and maladaptive behaviour (e.g. substance abuse). We investigated the neural correlates of sign-tracking in 20 adults using an additional singleton task (AST) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants responded to a target to win monetary reward, the amount of which was signalled by singleton type (reward cue: high value vs. low value). Singleton responses resulted in monetary deductions. Sign-tracking-greater distraction by high-value vs. low-value singletons (H > L)-was observed, with high-value singletons producing slower responses to the target than low-value singletons. Controlling for age and sex, analyses revealed no differential brain activity across H > L singletons. Including sign-tracking as a regressor of interest revealed increased activity (H > L singletons) in cortico-subcortical loops, regions associated with Pavlovian conditioning, reward processing, attention shifts and relative value coding. Further analyses investigated responses to reward feedback (H > L). Controlling for age and sex, increased activity (H > L reward feedback) was found in regions associated with reward anticipation, attentional control, success monitoring and emotion regulation. Including sign-tracking as a regressor of interest revealed increased activity in the temporal pole, a region related to value discrimination. Results suggest sign-tracking is associated with activation of the 'attention and salience network' in response to reward cues but not reward feedback, suggesting parcellation between the two at the level of the brain. Results add to the literature showing considerable overlap in neural systems implicated in reward processing, learning, habit formation, emotion regulation and substance craving.
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- Jay J Duckworth
- Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- School of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Tang T, Huang L, Zhang Y, Li Z, Liang S. Aberrant pattern of regional cerebral blood flow in mild cognitive impairment: A meta-analysis of arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:961344. [PMID: 36118708 PMCID: PMC9475306 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.961344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In mild cognitive impairment (MCI), cognitive decline is associated with abnormal changes of cerebral blood flow (CBF). Arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging (ASL-MRI) is an effective method for assessing regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). However, the CBF estimated via ASL-MRI in MCI often differs between studies, and the consistency of CBF changes in MCI is unclear. In this study, 13 ASL-MRI studies with 495 MCI patients and 441 health controls were screened out from PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, Web of Science, Wanfang, and CNKI. An activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis was performed to explore the brain regions with abnormal CBF in MCI. It showed that the decreased CBF in MCI was identified in the precuneus, inferior parietal lobule (IPL), superior occipital gyrus (SOG), middle temporal gyrus (MTG), and middle occipital gyrus (MOG), while the increased CBF in MCI was identified in the lentiform nucleus (LN) compared with healthy controls. The study characterized the abnormal pattern of regional CBF in MCI, which would promote our knowledge of MCI and might be used as a biomarker in clinic.
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- Tong Tang
- National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Rehabilitation Medicine Technology, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
- Rehabilitation Industry Institute, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
- College of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Rehabilitation Medicine Technology, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
- Rehabilitation Industry Institute, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
- College of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Rehabilitation Medicine Technology, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
- Rehabilitation Industry Institute, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
- College of Rehabilitation Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Rehabilitation Medicine Technology, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
- Innovation and Transformation Center, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
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- National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Rehabilitation Medicine Technology, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
- Rehabilitation Industry Institute, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
- Traditional Chinese Medicine Rehabilitation Research Center of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Shengxiang Liang
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Yamaoka K, Uotsu N, Hoshino E. Relationship between psychosocial stress-induced prefrontal cortex activity and gut microbiota in healthy Participants-A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study. Neurobiol Stress 2022; 20:100479. [PMID: 36039149 PMCID: PMC9418982 DOI: 10.1016/j.ynstr.2022.100479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Revised: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Brain and gut microbes communicate in a bidirectional manner with each affecting a person's response to psychosocial stress. Although human studies demonstrated that the intake of probiotics can alter stress-related behavior in both patients and healthy participants, the association between stress-related brain functions and the gut microbiota has mostly been investigated in patients with depression. However, the response to psychosocial stress differs, even among healthy individuals, and elucidating the natural state of the gut microbiota would broaden the understanding of responses to psychosocial stress. We investigated the relationship between psychosocial stress response in the prefrontal cortex and the abundance of gut microbes in healthy male participants. The participants were exposed to psychosocial stress during a task while brain activation data were recorded using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. The heart rate and subjective stress were recorded, and fecal samples were collected. The stressful condition was accompanied by high subjective stress, high heart rate, and higher prefrontal activation in the right pre-motor cortex/supplementary motor area, right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, right frontal pole, and right inferior prefrontal gyrus. The psychosocial stress response in the prefrontal cortex was also associated with changes in the gut microbiota abundance. The abundance of Alistipes, Clostridium IV, Clostridium XI, Faecalibacterium, and Blautia in healthy participants who had high psychosocial stress resembled that noted in patients with depression. These results suggest that the gut microbiota differs, among healthy participants, depending on the psychosocial stress response. We believe that this study is the first to report a direct relationship between brain function and the gut microbiota in healthy participants, and our findings would shed a new light on this field in the near future. Brain and gut microbe communication affects the response to psychosocial stress. Gut microbiota related to psychosocial stress in healthy individuals is unknown. Stress-induced brain activation was observed in the right prefrontal cortex. Brain activity was associated with gut microbiota related to depression. Gut microbiota differs depending on the response to psychosocial stress.
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Key Words
- ANOVA, Analysis of variance
- BD, Bipolar disorder
- BMI, Body mass index
- CH, Channel
- CRH, Corticotropin-releasing hormone
- DNA, Deoxynucleic acid
- Depression
- FP, Frontal pole
- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy
- GABA, Gamma Amino Butyric Acid
- Gut microbiome
- HPA-axis, Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
- IFG, Inferior prefrontal gyrus
- MDD, Major depressive disorder
- MIST, Montreal Imaging Stress Task
- PANAS, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule
- PET, Positron emission tomography
- PFC, Prefrontal cortex
- PMC/SMA, Pre-motor cortex/supplementary motor area
- POMS2, Profile of Mood States 2 short version
- Prefrontal cortex
- Psychosocial stress
- SSES, State Self-Esteem Scale
- STAI, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
- VAS, Visual analog scale
- bpm, Beat per minute
- deoxy-Hb, Deoxygenated hemoglobin
- dlPFC, Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
- fMRI, Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- fNIRS, Functional near-infrared spectroscopy
- oxy-Hb, Oxygenated hemoglobin
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- Kao Yamaoka
- FANCL Corporation Research Institute, 12-13 Kamishinano, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 244-0806, Japan
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- FANCL Corporation Research Institute, 12-13 Kamishinano, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 244-0806, Japan
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- Keio University Global Research Institute (KGRI), 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345, Japan
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Choi KW, Han KM, Kim A, Kang W, Kang Y, Tae WS, Ham BJ. Decreased cortical gyrification in patients with bipolar disorder. Psychol Med 2022; 52:2232-2244. [PMID: 33190651 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291720004079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND An aberrant neural connectivity has been known to be associated with bipolar disorder (BD). Local gyrification may reflect the early neural development of cortical connectivity and has been studied as a possible endophenotype of psychiatric disorders. This study aimed to investigate differences in the local gyrification index (LGI) in each cortical region between patients with BD and healthy controls (HCs). METHODS LGI values, as measured using FreeSurfer software, were compared between 61 patients with BD and 183 HCs. The values were also compared between patients with BD type I and type II as a sub-group analysis. Furthermore, we evaluated whether there was a correlation between LGI values and illness duration or depressive symptom severity in patients with BD. RESULTS Patients with BD showed significant hypogyria in various cortical regions, including the left inferior frontal gyrus (pars opercularis), precentral gyrus, postcentral gyrus, superior temporal cortex, insula, right entorhinal cortex, and both transverse temporal cortices, compared to HCs after the Bonferroni correction (p < 0.05/66, 0.000758). LGI was not associated with clinical factors such as illness duration, depressive symptom severity, and lithium treatment. No significant differences in cortical gyrification according to the BD subtype were found. CONCLUSIONS BD appears to be characterized by a significant regionally localized hypogyria, in various cortical areas. This abnormality may be a structural and developmental endophenotype marking the risk for BD, and it might help to clarify the etiology of BD.
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- Kwan Woo Choi
- Department of Psychiatry, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Brain Convergence Research Center, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Brain Convergence Research Center, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Niiyama S, Yano S, Kondo T. Cerebral Activity-Based Quantitative Evaluation for Attention Levels. JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS 2022. [DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2022.p0739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Regional cerebral activity related to attention may be more useful as an evaluation index for attention levels than conventional task performance score-based methods. We therefore researched whether the quantitative evaluation of attention using regional cerebral activity, measured using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), was appropriate. NIRS signals during the continuous performance test (CPT), which is well known as an attention test, were measured and analyzed. We confirmed activities in the regions that may be associated with the right-side anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and on the estimated dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Furthermore, there was a high correlation between activity on the DLPFC related to executive function and the performance score. Our study using cerebral activity could not quantify attention, but it opened the possibility of quantifying levels of executive function.
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Toledo F, Carson F. Neurobiological Features of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Their Role in Understanding Adaptive Behavior and Stress Resilience. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:10258. [PMID: 36011896 PMCID: PMC9407950 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph191610258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been impacting the functioning of a large number of people in military activities and victims of violence for many generations. However, investments in research aiming to understand the neurobiological aspects of the disorder started relatively late, around the last third of the 20th century. The development of neuroimaging methods has greatly supported further understanding of the structural and functional changes in the re-organization processes of brains with PTSD. This helps to better explain the severity and evolution of behavioral symptoms, and opens the possibilities for identifying individual preexisting structural characteristics that could increase symptom severity and the risk of development. Here, we review the advances in neuroanatomical research on these adaptations in PTSD and discuss how those modifications in prefrontal and anterior cingulate circuitry impact the severity and development of the disorder, detaching the research from an amygdalocentric perspective. In addition, we investigate existing and contradictory evidence regarding the preexisting neurobiological features found mostly in twin studies and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) reports.
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- Felippe Toledo
- LUNEX International University of Health, Exercise and Sports, 50 Avenue du Parc des Sports, L-4671 Differdange, Luxembourg
- Luxembourg Health and Sport Sciences Research Institute ASBL, 50 Avenue du Parc des Sports, L-4671 Differdange, Luxembourg
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- LUNEX International University of Health, Exercise and Sports, 50 Avenue du Parc des Sports, L-4671 Differdange, Luxembourg
- Luxembourg Health and Sport Sciences Research Institute ASBL, 50 Avenue du Parc des Sports, L-4671 Differdange, Luxembourg
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Tretyak V, Kirsch DE, Le V, Fromme K, Strakowski SM, Lippard ET. Coping drinking motives, neural functional coupling during emotion processing, and alcohol use in young adults with bipolar disorder. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2022; 46:1482-1496. [PMID: 35702929 PMCID: PMC9478569 DOI: 10.1111/acer.14885] [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: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND Rates of alcohol use disorders in individuals with bipolar disorder are 3 to 5 times greater than in the general population and exceed rates of alcohol use disorders reported in other affective and anxiety disorders. Despite this high rate of comorbidity, our understanding of the psychosocial and neural mechanisms that underlie the initiation of alcohol misuse in young adults with bipolar disorder remains limited. Prior work suggests that individuals with bipolar disorder may misuse alcohol as a coping mechanism, yet the neural correlates of coping drinking motives and associated alcohol use have not been previously investigated in this population. METHODS Forty-eight young adults (22 bipolar disorder type I, 26 typically developing; 71% women; average age ± standard deviation = 22 ± 2 years) completed the Drinking Motives and Daily Drinking Questionnaires, and a Continuous Performance Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) Task with Emotional and Neutral Distracters. We calculated the relative difference in anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) functional coupling with the anterior insula and amygdala in response to emotional distracters compared with neutral stimuli and investigated the relations with coping drinking motives and alcohol use. RESULTS Across all participants, coping drinking motives were associated with greater quantity of recent alcohol use. In individuals with bipolar disorder, greater ACC-anterior insula functional coupling was associated with greater coping drinking motives, and greater quantity and frequency of recent alcohol use. The relative difference in ACC-anterior insula functional coupling was not associated with coping drinking motives or alcohol use in the typically developing group. Greater ACC-anterior insula functional coupling in individuals with bipolar disorder was also associated with greater anxiety symptoms and recent perceived psychological stress. Exploratory analyses suggest that the relations between ACC-anterior insula functional coupling and coping drinking motives may be confounded by anticonvulsant use. CONCLUSION Results suggest that a difference in ACC-anterior insula functional coupling during emotion processing may underlie alcohol use as a maladaptive coping mechanism in young adults with bipolar disorder.
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- Valeria Tretyak
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX,
USA,Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research,
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research,
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin,
TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX,
USA,Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research,
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX,
USA,Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research,
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin,
TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX,
USA,Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research,
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin,
TX, USA,Institute of Early Life Adversity Research, University of
Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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A Double-Blind Randomized Trial to Investigate Mechanisms of Antidepressant-Related Dysfunctional Arousal in Depressed or Anxious Youth at Familial Risk for Bipolar Disorder. J Pers Med 2022; 12:jpm12061006. [PMID: 35743790 PMCID: PMC9225632 DOI: 10.3390/jpm12061006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2022] [Revised: 06/11/2022] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Antidepressants are standardly used to treat moderate to severe symptoms of depression and/or anxiety in youth but may also be associated with rare but serious psychiatric adverse events such as irritability, agitation, aggression, or suicidal ideation. Adverse events are especially common in youth with a family history of bipolar disorder (BD) who are at heightened risk for dysfunction in neurobiological systems that regulate emotion and arousal. To further understand this phenomenon, this study will examine (a) baseline risk factors associated with dysfunctional arousal in a sample of youth at high-risk for BD treated with or without an antidepressant, (b) whether antidepressant-related changes in arousal are mediated by changes in prefrontal-limbic circuitry, and (c) whether pharmacogenetic factors influence antidepressant-related changes in arousal. High-risk youth (aged 12-17 years with moderate to severe depressive and/or anxiety symptoms and at least one first-degree relative with bipolar I disorder) will be randomized to receive psychotherapy plus escitalopram or psychotherapy plus placebo. Neuroimaging and behavioral measures of arousal will be collected prior to randomization and at 4 weeks. Samples for pharmacogenetic analysis (serum escitalopram concentration, CYP2C19 metabolizer phenotype, and HTR2A and SLC6A4 genotypes) will be collected at 8 weeks. Youth will be followed for up to 16 weeks to assess change in arousal measures.
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Capistrano CG, Grande LA, McRae K, Phan KL, Kim P. Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting. Soc Neurosci 2022; 17:276-292. [PMID: 35620995 PMCID: PMC10829500 DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2022.2082521] [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: 11/15/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The transition to becoming a mother involves numerous emotional challenges, and the ability to effectively keep negative emotions in check is critical for parenting. Evidence suggests that experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage interferes with parenting adaptations and alters neural processes related to emotion regulation. The present study examined whether socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with diminished neural activation while mothers engaged in volitional (i.e., purposeful) emotion regulation. 59 mothers, at an average of 4 months postpartum, underwent fMRI scanning and completed the Emotion Regulation Task (ERT). When asked to regulate emotions using reappraisal (i.e., Reappraise condition; reframing stimuli in order to decrease negative emotion), mothers with lower income-to-needs ratio exhibited dampened neural activation in the dorsolateral and ventrolateral PFC, middle frontal and middle temporal gyrus, and caudate. Without explicit instructions to down-regulate (i.e., Maintain condition), mothers experiencing lower income also exhibited dampened response in regulatory areas, including the middle frontal and middle temporal gyrus and caudate. Blunted middle frontal gyrus activation across both Reappraise and Maintain conditions was associated with reduced maternal sensitivity during a mother-child interaction task. Results of the present study demonstrate the influence of socioeconomic disadvantage on prefrontal engagement during emotion regulation, which may have downstream consequences for maternal behaviors.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA
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Piani MC, Maggioni E, Delvecchio G, Brambilla P. Sustained attention alterations in major depressive disorder: A review of fMRI studies employing Go/No-Go and CPT tasks. J Affect Disord 2022; 303:98-113. [PMID: 35139418 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a severe psychiatric condition characterized by selective cognitive dysfunctions. In this regard, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies showed, both at resting state and during tasks, alterations in the brain functional networks involved in cognitive processes in MDD patients compared to controls. Among those, it seems that the attention network may have a role in the disease pathophysiology. Therefore, in this review we aim at summarizing the current fMRI evidence investigating sustained attention in MDD patients. METHODS We conducted a search on PubMed on case-control studies on MDD employing fMRI acquisitions during Go/No-Go and continuous performance tasks. A total of 12 studies have been included in the review. RESULTS Overall, the majority of fMRI studies reported quantitative alterations in the response to attentive tasks in selective brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex, the cingulate cortex, the temporal and parietal lobes, the insula and the precuneus, which are key nodes of the attention, the executive, and the default mode networks. LIMITATIONS The heterogeneity in the study designs, fMRI acquisition techniques and processing methods have limited the generalizability of the results. CONCLUSIONS The results from the included studies showed the presence of alterations in the activation patterns of regions involved in sustained attention in MDD, which are in line with current evidence and seemed to explain some of the key symptoms of depression. However, given the paucity and heterogeneity of studies available, it may be worthwhile to continue investigating the attentional domain in MDD with ad-hoc study designs to retrieve more robust evidence.
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- Maria Chiara Piani
- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano 20122, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano 20122, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano 20122, Italy.
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- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano 20122, Italy; Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Italy
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Acute neurofunctional effects of escitalopram during emotional processing in pediatric anxiety: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Neuropsychopharmacology 2022; 47:1081-1087. [PMID: 34580419 PMCID: PMC8938471 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-021-01186-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Revised: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental disorders in adolescents. However, only 50% of pediatric patients with anxiety disorders respond to the first-line pharmacologic treatments-selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Thus, identifying the neurofunctional targets of SSRIs and finding pretreatment or early-treatment neurofunctional markers of SSRI treatment response in this population is clinically important. We acquired pretreatment and early-treatment (2 weeks into treatment) functional magnetic resonance imaging during a continuous processing task with emotional and neutral distractors in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD, N = 36) randomized to 8 weeks of double-blind escitalopram or placebo. Generalized psychophysiological interaction analysis was conducted to examine the functional connectivity of the amygdala while patients viewed emotional pictures. Full-factorial analysis was used to investigate the treatment effect of escitalopram on amygdala connectivity. Correlation analyses were performed to explore whether pretreatment and early (week 2) treatment-related connectivity were associated with treatment response (improvement in anxiety) at week 8. Compared to placebo, escitalopram enhanced emotional processing speed and enhanced negative right amygdala-bilateral ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and positive left amygdala-right angular gyrus connectivity during emotion processing. Baseline amygdala-vmPFC connectivity and escitalopram-induced increased amygdala-angular gyrus connectivity at week 2 predicted the magnitude of subsequent improvement in anxiety symptoms. These findings suggest that amygdala connectivity to hubs of the default mode network represents a target of acute SSRI treatment. Furthermore, pretreatment and early-treatment amygdala connectivity could serve as biomarkers of SSRI treatment response in adolescents with GAD. The trial registration for the study is ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02818751.
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Menting-Henry S, Hidalgo-Lopez E, Aichhorn M, Kronbichler M, Kerschbaum H, Pletzer B. Oral Contraceptives Modulate the Relationship Between Resting Brain Activity, Amygdala Connectivity and Emotion Recognition – A Resting State fMRI Study. Front Behav Neurosci 2022; 16:775796. [PMID: 35368304 PMCID: PMC8967165 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.775796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2021] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Recent research into the effects of hormonal contraceptives on emotion processing and brain function suggests that hormonal contraceptive users show (a) reduced accuracy in recognizing emotions compared to naturally cycling women, and (b) alterations in amygdala volume and connectivity at rest. To date, these observations have not been linked, although the amygdala has certainly been identified as core region activated during emotion recognition. To assess, whether volume, oscillatory activity and connectivity of emotion-related brain areas at rest are predictive of participant’s ability to recognize facial emotional expressions, 72 participants (20 men, 20 naturally cycling women, 16 users of androgenic contraceptives, 16 users of anti-androgenic contraceptives) completed a brain structural and resting state fMRI scan, as well as an emotion recognition task. Our results showed that resting brain characteristics did not mediate oral contraceptive effects on emotion recognition performance. However, sex and oral contraceptive use emerged as a moderator of brain-behavior associations. Sex differences did emerge in the prediction of emotion recognition performance by the left amygdala amplitude of low frequency oscillations (ALFF) for anger, as well as left and right amygdala connectivity for fear. Anti-androgenic oral contraceptive users (OC) users stood out in that they showed strong brain-behavior associations, usually in the opposite direction as naturally cycling women, while androgenic OC-users showed a pattern similar to, but weaker, than naturally cycling women. This result suggests that amygdala ALFF and connectivity have predictive values for facial emotion recognition. The importance of the different connections depends heavily on sex hormones and oral contraceptive use.
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- Shanice Menting-Henry
- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Neuroscience Institute, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- *Correspondence: Belinda Pletzer,
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McNamara RK, Li W, Lei D, Tallman MJ, Welge JA, Strawn JR, Patino LR, DelBello MP. Fish oil supplementation alters emotion-generated corticolimbic functional connectivity in depressed adolescents at high-risk for bipolar I disorder: A 12-week placebo-controlled fMRI trial. Bipolar Disord 2022; 24:161-170. [PMID: 34214231 PMCID: PMC8720319 DOI: 10.1111/bdi.13110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of fish oil (FO), a source of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), on emotion-generated corticolimbic functional connectivity in depressed youth at high risk for developing bipolar I disorder. METHODS Thirty-nine antidepressant-free youth with a current depressive disorder diagnosis and a biological parent with bipolar I disorder were randomized to 12-week double-blind treatment with FO or placebo. At baseline and endpoint, fMRI (4 Tesla) scans were obtained while performing a continuous performance task with emotional and neutral distractors (CPT-END). Seed-to-voxel functional connectivity analyses were performed using bilateral orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and amygdala (AMY) seeds. Measures of depression, mania, global symptom severity, and erythrocyte fatty acids were obtained. RESULTS Erythrocyte EPA+DHA composition increased significantly in the FO group (+47%, p ≤ 0.0001) but not in the placebo group (-10%, p = 0.11). Significant group by time interactions were found for functional connectivity between the left OFC and the left superior temporal gyrus (STG) and between the right AMY and right inferior temporal gyrus (ITG). OFC-STG connectivity increased in the FO group (p = 0.0001) and decreased in the placebo group (p = 0.0019), and AMY-ITG connectivity decreased in the FO group (p = 0.0014) and increased in the placebo group (p < 0.0001). In the FO group, but not placebo group, the decrease in AMY-ITG functional connectivity correlated with decreases in Childhood Depression Rating Scale-Revised and Clinical Global Impression-Severity Scale scores. CONCLUSIONS In depressed high-risk youth FO supplementation alters emotion-generated corticolimbic functional connectivity which correlates with changes in symptom severity ratings.
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- Robert K. McNamara
- Corresponding author: Robert K. McNamara, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 260 Stetson Street, Cincinnati, OH 45219-0516, PH: 513-558-5601, FAX: 513-558-4805,
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Gan X, Zhou X, Li J, Jiao G, Jiang X, Biswal B, Yao S, Klugah-Brown B, Becker B. Common and distinct neurofunctional representations of core and social disgust in the brain: Coordinate-based and network meta-analyses. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2022; 135:104553. [PMID: 35122784 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Revised: 01/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Disgust represents a multifaceted defensive-avoidance response. On the behavioral level, the response includes withdrawal and a disgust-specific facial expression. While both serve the avoidance of pathogens, the latter additionally transmits social-communicative information. Given that common and distinct brain representation of the primary defensive-avoidance response (core disgust) and encoding of the social-communicative signal (social disgust) remain debated, we employed neuroimaging meta-analyses to (1) determine brain systems generally engaged in disgust processing, and (2) segregate common and distinct brain systems for core and social disgust. Disgust processing, in general, engaged a bilateral network encompassing the insula, amygdala, occipital and prefrontal regions. Core disgust evoked stronger reactivity in left-lateralized threat detection and defensive response network including amygdala, occipital and frontal regions, while social disgust engaged a right-lateralized superior temporal-frontal network engaged in social cognition. Anterior insula, inferior frontal and fusiform regions were commonly engaged during core and social disgust, suggesting a shared neurofunctional basis. We demonstrate a common and distinct neural basis of primary disgust responses and encoding of associated social-communicative signals.
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- Xianyang Gan
- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China; Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ 7102, United States
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China.
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- The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan 610054, China.
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Kundu S, Huang H, Erickson KI, McAuley E, Kramer AF, Rohde GK. Investigating impact of cardiorespiratory fitness in reducing brain tissue loss caused by ageing. Brain Commun 2021; 3:fcab228. [PMID: 34917939 PMCID: PMC8669566 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcab228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Revised: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Mitigating the loss of brain tissue due to age is a major problem for an ageing population. Improving cardiorespiratory fitness has been suggested as a possible strategy, but the influenceon brain morphology has not been fully characterized. To investigate the dependent shifts in brain tissue distribution as a function of cardiorespiratory fitness, we used a 3D transport-based morphometry approach. In this study of 172 inactive older adults aged 58-81 (66.5 ± 5.7) years, cardiorespiratory fitness was determined by VO 2 peak (ml/kg/min) during graded exercise and brain morphology was assessed through structural magnetic resonance imaging. After correcting for covariates including age (in the fitness model), gender and level of education, we compared dependent tissue shifts with age to those due to V O 2 peak . We found a significant association between cardiorespiratory fitness and brain tissue distribution (white matter, r = 0.30, P = 0.003; grey matter, r = 0.40, P < 0.001) facilitated by direct visualization of the brain tissue shifts due to cardiorespiratory fitness through inverse transformation-a key capability of 3D transport-based morphometry. A strong statistical correlation was found between brain tissue changes related to ageing and those associated with lower cardiorespiratory fitness (white matter, r = 0.62, P < 0.001; grey matter, r = 0.74, P < 0.001). In both cases, frontotemporal regions shifted the most while basal ganglia shifted the least. Our results highlight the importance of cardiorespiratory fitness in maintaining brain health later in life. Furthermore, this work demonstrates 3D transport-based morphometry as a novel neuroinformatic technology that may aid assessment of therapeutic approaches for brain ageing and neurodegenerative diseases.
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- Shinjini Kundu
- Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Brain Aging & Cognitive Health Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Brain Aging & Cognitive Health Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61801, USA
- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
- Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 29908, USA
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Zhang Y, Liu B, Gao X. Investigation of the interaction between emotion and working memory load using spatiotemporal pattern similarity analysis. J Neural Eng 2021; 18. [PMID: 34700299 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac3347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Objective.Accumulating evidence has revealed that emotions can be provided with the modulatory effect on working memory (WM) and WM load is an important factor for the interaction between emotion and WM. However, it remains controversial whether emotions inhibit or facilitate WM and the interaction between cognitive task, processing load and emotional processing remains unclear.Approach.In this study, we used a change detection paradigm wherein memory items have four different load sizes and emotion videos to induce three emotions (negative, neutral, and positive). We performed an event-related spectral perturbation (ERSP) analysis and a spatiotemporal pattern similarity (STPS) analysis on the electroencephalography data.Main results.The ERSP results indicated that alpha and beta oscillations can reflect the difference among WM load sizes and also can reflect the difference among emotions under middle high WM load over posterior brain region in the maintenance stage. Moreover, the STPS results demonstrated a significant interaction between emotion and WM load size in the posterior region and found significantly higher similarity indexes for the negative emotion to the neutral emotion under the middle high WM load during WM maintenance. In addition, The STPS results also revealed that both positive emotion and negative emotion could interfere with the distinction of load sizes.Significance.The consistence of the behavioral, ERSP and STPS results suggested that when the memory load approaches the limit of WM capacity, negative emotion could facilitate WM through the top-down attention modulation promoting the most relevant information storage during WM maintenance.
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- Yuanyuan Zhang
- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Cognitive Computing and Application, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, People's Republic of China
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- School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China
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Li W, Lei D, Tallman MJ, Patino LR, Gong Q, Strawn JR, DelBello MP, McNamara RK. Emotion-Related Network Reorganization Following Fish Oil Supplementation in Depressed Bipolar Offspring: An fMRI Graph-Based Connectome Analysis. J Affect Disord 2021; 292:319-327. [PMID: 34139404 PMCID: PMC8282765 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.05.086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 05/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/31/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Mood disorders are associated with fronto-limbic structural and functional abnormalities and deficits in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids including eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Emerging evidence also suggests that n-3 PUFA, which are enriched in fish oil, promote cortical plasticity and connectivity. The present study performed a graph-based connectome analysis to investigate the role of n-3 PUFA in emotion-related network organization in medication-free depressed adolescent bipolar offspring. METHODS At baseline patients (n = 53) were compared with healthy controls (n = 53), and patients were then randomized to 12-week double-blind treatment with placebo or fish oil. At baseline and endpoint, erythrocyte EPA+DHA levels were measured and fMRI scans (4 Tesla) were obtained while performing a continuous performance task with emotional and neutral distractors (CPT-END). Graph-based analysis was used to characterize topological properties of large-scale brain network organization. RESULTS Compared with healthy controls, patients exhibited lower erythrocyte EPA+DHA levels (p = 0.0001), lower network clustering coefficients (p = 0.029), global efficiency (p = 0.042), and lower node centrality and connectivity strengths in frontal-limbic regions (p<0.05). Compared with placebo, 12-week fish oil supplementation increased erythrocyte EPA+DHA levels (p<0.001), network clustering coefficient (p = 0.005), global (p = 0.047) and local (p = 0.023) efficiency, and node centralities mainly in temporal regions (p<0.05). LIMITATIONS The duration of fish oil supplementation was relatively short and the sample size was relatively small. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide preliminary evidence that abnormalities in emotion-related network organization observed in depressed high-risk youth may be amenable to modification through fish oil supplementation.
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- Wenbin Li
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267,Departments of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267
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- Departments of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Division of Bipolar Disorders Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267
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Lippard ET, Weber W, Welge J, Adler CM, Fleck DE, Almeida J, DelBello MP, Strakowski SM. Variation in rostral anterior cingulate functional connectivity with amygdala and caudate during first manic episode distinguish bipolar young adults who do not remit following treatment. Bipolar Disord 2021; 23:500-508. [PMID: 33089593 PMCID: PMC8060357 DOI: 10.1111/bdi.13025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2020] [Revised: 09/04/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Altered activity in the ventrolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices, as well as subcortical and amygdala projection sites, was previously reported during a first manic episode in youth with bipolar disorder and observed to be associated with treatment response. To extend these findings, we investigated functional connectivity among these regions in first-episode manic participants who remitted after 8 weeks of treatment compared to those who did not. METHODS Forty-two participants with bipolar disorder (60% female) during their first manic episode were recruited and received 8 weeks of treatment. Twenty-one remitted following treatment. Participants completed fMRI scans, at baseline and following 8 weeks of treatment, while performing a continuous performance task with emotional and neutral distractors. A healthy comparison group (n = 41) received fMRI evaluations at the same intervals. Differences in functional connectivity of the amygdala and caudate with the rostral anterior cingulate and ventrolateral prefrontal cortices at baseline (and changes in functional connectivity following treatment) were modeled between groups. RESULTS At baseline, non-remitters showed an increase in positive connectivity between right anterior cingulate and caudate and a loss of negative connectivity between right anterior cingulate and amygdala, compared to healthy participants. Individuals who remitted following treatment showed an increase in negative connectivity between amygdala and left anterior cingulate 8 weeks following treatment. CONCLUSIONS Results provide evidence of alterations in anterior cingulate amygdala and caudate functional connectivity in bipolar disorder non-remitters during a first manic episode and changes in anterior cingulate functional connectivity associated with remission suggesting targets to predict treatment response. Registered at ClinicalTrials.Gov; Functional and Neurochemical Brain Changes in First-episode Bipolar Mania. NCT00609193. URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00609193?term=strakowskirank=1.
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- Elizabeth T.C. Lippard
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Dell Medical School, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Institute of Early Life Adversity Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Dell Medical School, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and Center for Imaging Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and Center for Imaging Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and Center for Imaging Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Dell Medical School, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and Center for Imaging Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Dell Medical School, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Institute for Neuroscience, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA,Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
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Zhou GP, Chen YC, Li WW, Wei HL, Yu YS, Zhou QQ, Yin X, Tao YJ, Zhang H. Aberrant functional and effective connectivity of the frontostriatal network in unilateral acute tinnitus patients with hearing loss. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 16:151-160. [PMID: 34296381 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-021-00486-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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PURPOSE The present study combined resting-state functional connectivity (FC) and Granger causality analysis (GCA) to explore frontostriatal network dysfunction in unilateral acute tinnitus (AT) patients with hearing loss. METHODS The participants included 42 AT patients and 43 healthy control (HC) subjects who underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans. Based on the seed regions in the frontostriatal network, FC and GCA were conducted between the AT patients and HC subjects. Correlation analyses were used to examine correlations among altered FC values, GCA values, and clinical features in AT patients. RESULTS Compared with HCs, AT patients showed a general reduction in FC between the seed regions in the frontostriatal network and nonauditory areas, including the frontal cortices, midcingulate cortex (MCC), supramarginal gyrus, and postcentral gyrus (PoCG). Using the GCA algorithm, we detected abnormal effective connectivity (EC) in the inferior occipital gyrus, MCC, Cerebelum_Crus1, and PoCG. Furthermore, correlations between disrupted FC/EC and clinical characteristics, especially tinnitus distress-related characteristics, were found in AT patients. CONCLUSIONS Our work demonstrated abnormal FC and EC between the frontostriatal network and several nonauditory regions in AT patients with hearing loss, suggesting that multiple large-scale network dysfunctions and interactions are involved in the perception of tinnitus. These findings not only enhance the current understanding of the frontostriatal network in tinnitus but also serve as a reminder of the importance of focusing on tinnitus at an early stage.
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- Gang-Ping Zhou
- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No. 168, Gushan Road, Nanjing, 211100, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Radiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210006, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of E.N.T., The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No. 168, Gushan Road, Nanjing, 211100, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No. 168, Gushan Road, Nanjing, 211100, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No. 168, Gushan Road, Nanjing, 211100, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No. 168, Gushan Road, Nanjing, 211100, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of Radiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 210006, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Department of E.N.T., The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No. 168, Gushan Road, Nanjing, 211100, Jiangsu Province, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, No. 168, Gushan Road, Nanjing, 211100, Jiangsu Province, China.
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Moore M, Maclin EL, Iordan AD, Katsumi Y, Larsen RJ, Bagshaw AP, Mayhew S, Shafer AT, Sutton BP, Fabiani M, Gratton G, Dolcos F. Proof-of-concept evidence for trimodal simultaneous investigation of human brain function. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:4102-4121. [PMID: 34160860 PMCID: PMC8357002 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2020] [Revised: 04/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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The link between spatial (where) and temporal (when) aspects of the neural correlates of most psychological phenomena is not clear. Elucidation of this relation, which is crucial to fully understand human brain function, requires integration across multiple brain imaging modalities and cognitive tasks that reliably modulate the engagement of the brain systems of interest. By overcoming the methodological challenges posed by simultaneous recordings, the present report provides proof‐of‐concept evidence for a novel approach using three complementary imaging modalities: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), event‐related potentials (ERPs), and event‐related optical signals (EROS). Using the emotional oddball task, a paradigm that taps into both cognitive and affective aspects of processing, we show the feasibility of capturing converging and complementary measures of brain function that are not currently attainable using traditional unimodal or other multimodal approaches. This opens up unprecedented possibilities to clarify spatiotemporal integration of brain function.
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- Matthew Moore
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Centre for Human Brain Health and School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Centre for Human Brain Health and School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- Centre for Neuroscience, University of Alberta, Alta., Canada; now at Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, Brain Imaging and Behavior Section, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.,Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA
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Meehan CE, Wiesman AI, Spooner RK, Schantell M, Eastman JA, Wilson TW. Differences in Rhythmic Neural Activity Supporting the Temporal and Spatial Cueing of Attention. Cereb Cortex 2021; 31:4933-4944. [PMID: 34226925 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The neural processes serving the orienting of attention toward goal-relevant stimuli are generally examined with informative cues that direct visual attention to a spatial location. However, cues predicting the temporal emergence of an object are also known to be effective in attentional orienting but are implemented less often. Differences in the neural oscillatory dynamics supporting these divergent types of attentional orienting have only rarely been examined. In this study, we utilized magnetoencephalography and an adapted Posner cueing task to investigate the spectral specificity of neural oscillations underlying these different types of attentional orienting (i.e., spatial vs. temporal). We found a spectral dissociation of attentional cueing, such that alpha (10-16 Hz) oscillations were central to spatial orienting and theta (3-6 Hz) oscillations were critical to temporal orienting. Specifically, we observed robust decreases in alpha power during spatial orienting in key attention areas (i.e., lateral occipital, posterior cingulate, and hippocampus), along with strong theta increases during temporal orienting in the primary visual cortex. These results suggest that the oscillatory dynamics supporting attentional orienting are spectrally and anatomically specific, such that spatial orienting is served by stronger alpha oscillations in attention regions, whereas temporal orienting is associated with stronger theta responses in visual sensory regions.
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- Chloe E Meehan
- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, NE 68010, USA.,Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182, USA
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada.,College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
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- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, NE 68010, USA.,College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
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- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, NE 68010, USA.,College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
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- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, NE 68010, USA
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- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, NE 68010, USA.,Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE 68182, USA.,College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
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Zacharia AA, Ahuja N, Kaur S, Sharma R. Frontal activation as a key for deciphering context congruity and valence during visual perception: An electrical neuroimaging study. Brain Cogn 2021; 150:105711. [PMID: 33774336 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105711] [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: 10/23/2020] [Revised: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 02/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The object-context associations and the valence are two important stimulus attributes that influence visual perception. The current study investigates the neural sources associated with schema congruent and incongruent object-context associations within positive, negative, and neutral valence during an intermittent binocular rivalry task with simultaneous high-density EEG recording. Cortical sourceswere calculated using the sLORETA algorithm in 150 ms after stimulus onset (Stim + 150) and 400 ms before response (Resp-400) time windows. No significant difference in source activity was found between congruent and incongruent associations in any of the valence categories in the Stim + 150 ms window indicating that immediately after stimulus presentation the basic visual processing remains the same for both. In the Resp-400 ms window, different frontal regions showed higher activity for incongruent associations with different valence such as the superior frontal gyrus showed significantly higher activations for negative while the middle and medial frontal gyrus showed higher activations for neutral and finally, the inferior frontal gyrus showed higher activations for positive valence. Besides replicating the previous knowledge of frontal activations in response to context congruity, the current study provides further evidence for the sensitivity of the frontal lobe to the valence associated with the incongruent stimuli.
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- Angel Anna Zacharia
- Stress and Cognitive Electroimaging Lab, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
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- Stress and Cognitive Electroimaging Lab, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
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- Stress and Cognitive Electroimaging Lab, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
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- Stress and Cognitive Electroimaging Lab, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
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Gender differences in functional connectivity during emotion regulation. Neuropsychologia 2021; 156:107829. [PMID: 33744320 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2020] [Revised: 02/26/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Gender differences in emotion regulation (ER) have been postulated, yet their neural basis remains poorly understood. The goal of this study was to investigate this issue from a functional connectivity (FC) perspective. Utilizing a region of interest (ROI) analysis, we investigated whether men and women (N = 48) differed in their FC pattern while viewing versus regulating negative emotion induced by highly salient pictures, and whether this pattern related to their self-reported negative affect and suppression success. Despite women reporting more negative affect, both genders had comparable suppression success. Moreover, differences emerged between men and women's FC patterns. During the regulation of negative emotion, better suppression in women was associated with stronger FC within a cingulo-opercular network, while men exhibited stronger FC within posterior regions of the ventral attentional network. We conclude that due to their propensity for higher emotional reactivity, women may employ a frontal top-down control network to downregulate negative emotion, while men may redirect attention away from the negative stimulus by using posterior regions of the ventral attention network. The findings may have significant implications for understanding women's vulnerability for developing affective disorders and developing targeted individualized treatment.
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Nery FG, Masifi SL, Strawn JR, Duran LR, Weber WA, Welge JA, Adler CM, Strakowski SM, DelBello MP. Association between poor tolerability of antidepressant treatment and brain functional activation in youth at risk for bipolar disorder. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021; 43:70-74. [PMID: 32876131 PMCID: PMC7861172 DOI: 10.1590/1516-4446-2019-0803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Objective: To investigate whether poor antidepressant tolerability is associated with functional brain changes in children and adolescents of parents with bipolar I disorder (at-risk youth). Methods: Seventy-three at-risk youth (ages 9-20 years old) who participated in a prospective study and had an available baseline functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan were included. Research records were reviewed for the incidence of adverse reactions related to antidepressant exposure during follow-up. The sample was divided among at-risk youth without antidepressant exposure (n=21), at-risk youth with antidepressant exposure and no adverse reaction (n=12), at-risk youth with antidepressant-related adverse reaction (n=21), and healthy controls (n=20). The fMRI task was a continuous performance test with emotional distracters. Region-of-interest mean activation in brain areas of the fronto-limbic emotional circuit was compared among groups. Results: Right amygdala activation in response to emotional distracters significantly differed among groups (F3,66 = 3.1, p = 0.03). At-risk youth with an antidepressant-related adverse reaction had the lowest amygdala activation, while at-risk youth without antidepressant exposure had the highest activation (p = 0.004). Conclusions: Decreased right amygdala activation in response to emotional distracters is associated with experiencing an antidepressant-related adverse reaction in at-risk youth. Further studies to determine whether amygdala activation is a useful biomarker for antidepressant-related adverse events are needed.
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- Fabiano G Nery
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Shafer AT, Benoit JR, Brown MRG, Greenshaw AJ, Van Vliet KJ, Vohra S, Dolcos F, Singhal A. Differences in attentional control and white matter microstructure in adolescents with attentional, affective, and behavioral disorders. Brain Imaging Behav 2021; 14:599-614. [PMID: 31838614 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-019-00211-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Adolescence is a critical time of physiological, cognitive, and social development. It is also a time of increased risk-taking and vulnerability for psychopathology. White matter (WM) changes during adolescence have been better elucidated in the last decade, but how WM is impacted by psychopathology during this time remains unclear. Here, we examined the link between WM microstructure and psychopathology during adolescence. Twenty youth diagnosed with affective, attentional, and behavioral disorders (clinical sample), and 20 age-matched controls were recruited to examine group differences in WM microstructure, attentional control, and the link between them. The main results showed that clinical sample had relatively lower attentional control and fractional anisotropy (FA) in WM throughout the brain: two association tracts were identified, and many differences were found in areas rich in callosal and projection fibers. Moreover, increased FA was positively associated with attention performance in the clinical sample in structures supporting ventral WM pathways, whereas a similar link was identified in controls in dorsal WM association fibers. Overall, these results support a model of general impairment in WM microstructure combined with reliance on altered, perhaps less efficient, pathways for attentional control in youth with affective, attentional, and behavioral disorders.
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- Andrea T Shafer
- Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.,Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.,Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.,Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.,Psychology Department and Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.,Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
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- Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. .,Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
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Yousef HA, ElSerogy YMBE, Abdelal SM, Abdel-Rahman SR. Voxel-based morphometry in patients with mood disorder bipolar I mania in comparison to normal controls. THE EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE 2020. [DOI: 10.1186/s43055-019-0119-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background
Neuroimaging is used to study brain structural alterations in neuropsychiatric diseases including bipolar disorder (BD). Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) quantifies structural changes detected in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The aim of this study was to identify brain structural changes in patients with mood disorder bipolar I mania, compared to healthy controls; and detect any correlations between volumetric findings and different clinical aspects of the disease. VBM was used to identify structural changes in 24 patients with bipolar I mania compared to 16 controls. Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) was used to evaluate clinical severity of BD. t test was used to compare differences in volumetric data and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was used to detect potential correlations between volumetric data and clinical parameters of BD.
Results
Compared to controls, BD patients had significantly larger right globus pallidus and right lateral ventricle. There was significant correlation between volumetric data of different brain structures and clinical criteria of BD including age of onset, illness duration, YMRS, number of manic attacks, and duration of the last attack.
Conclusions
VBM could address specific structural findings in bipolar I mania that may contribute to pathophysiology of the disease and show significant correlation with different clinical aspects of the disease.
Trial registration
This clinical trial was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov under registration number NCT03181698, registered 11 June 2017.
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Chen YL, Tu PC, Huang TH, Bai YM, Su TP, Chen MH, Wu YT. Using Minimal-Redundant and Maximal-Relevant Whole-Brain Functional Connectivity to Classify Bipolar Disorder. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:563368. [PMID: 33192250 PMCID: PMC7641629 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.563368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Background A number of mental illness is often re-diagnosed to be bipolar disorder (BD). Furthermore, the prefronto-limbic-striatal regions seem to be associated with the main dysconnectivity of BD. Functional connectivity is potentially an appropriate objective neurobiological marker that can assist with BD diagnosis. Methods Health controls (HC; n = 173) and patients with BD who had been diagnosed by experienced physicians (n = 192) were separated into 10-folds, namely, a ninefold training set and a onefold testing set. The classification involved feature selection of the training set using minimum redundancy/maximum relevance. Support vector machine was used for training. The classification was repeated 10 times until each fold had been used as the testing set. Results The mean accuracy of the 10 testing sets was 76.25%, and the area under the curve was 0.840. The selected functional within-network/between-network connectivity was mainly in the subcortical/cerebellar regions and the frontoparietal network. Furthermore, similarity within the BD patients, calculated by the cosine distance between two functional connectivity matrices, was smaller than between groups before feature selection and greater than between groups after the feature selection. Limitations The major limitations were that all the BD patients were receiving medication and that no independent dataset was included. Conclusion Our approach effectively separates a relatively large group of BD patients from HCs. This was done by selecting functional connectivity, which was more similar within BD patients, and also seems to be related to the neuropathological factors associated with BD.
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- Yen-Ling Chen
- Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Institute of Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Department of Psychiatry, Cheng-Hsin General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.,Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
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The Emotional Attentional Blink as a Measure of Patriotism. SPANISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2020; 23:e30. [PMID: 32744218 DOI: 10.1017/sjp.2020.32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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This study aims to explore whether the implicit processing of emotional symbols related to patriotic feeling may exert some effects on attention. Here, we have conducted an experiment using two interrelated tasks. First, we use flags with different meanings to participants for measuring the strength of the emotional attentional blink (EAB) within a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm. Then, we use a "congruency judgments" subjective test, where we confront participants to judge the affinity between pairs of politician leaders and flags of different sign for community participants, while recording two physiological measures (Heart Rate Variance and Galvanic Skin Response) to evaluate the variations elicited by that confrontation. Results on the EAB task show a significant emotion induced blindness for emotional stimuli representing Catalan and Spanish patriotism (α = .05), while the effect does not appear for the stimulus representing neutral patriotism. The interaction "Flags x Patriotism" was significant, F(1, 51) = 4.62; p = .036; ηp2 = .083. Results on the second task show that measures derived from electrophysiological records are sensitive to patriotic feeling, both being complementary. In addition, by using measures of congruence, the "Leaders x Flags" interaction was significant, F(3.682, 125.204) = 53.55; p < .001; ηp2 = .612. Finally, a multiple linear regression model for each emotional inductor was verified for the Catalan case, using the EAB effect as criteria, R2Adjusted = .79; p < .001. Some theoretical and methodological aspects derived of this exploratory study are discussed.
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A study in affect: Predicting valence from fMRI data. Neuropsychologia 2020; 143:107473. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Ravindran A, Richter M, Jain T, Ravindran L, Rector N, Farb N. Functional connectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder and its subtypes. Psychol Med 2020; 50:1173-1181. [PMID: 31120006 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291719001090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder with significant morbidity whose pathophysiology is not fully understood. Neuroimaging studies have characterized OCD in terms of elevated striatal and prefrontal reactivity to emotion provocation. This neural model may be informed by investigation of functional connectivity in OCD, identifying alterations in how sensory information is integrated into frontostriatal regions. METHODS The current study employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to compare neural activity and connectivity in 31 OCD patients (12 washing and 19 checking subtypes) and 17 healthy volunteers in an emotion provocation paradigm using visual stimuli. RESULTS OCD status was associated with hyper-activation of the posterior cingulate (PCg) in response to emotion provocation. Additionally, OCD patients demonstrated elevated PCg functional connectivity with the visual cortices and frontostriatal regions. Exploratory analyses suggested that stimulus-provoked activity and connectivity was elevated for checking subtypes in motor cortices, and elevated in washing subtypes in the anterior insula and orbitofrontal cortex. CONCLUSIONS The PCg's role in moderating connectivity between the visual cortex and frontolimbic regions is muted in OCD, consistent with the PCg's suggested role in regulating attention towards emotional stimuli. Exploratory analyses suggest distinct PCg connectivity profiles in OCD subtypes, with checking linked to motor activation, but washing linked to a network supporting emotional salience. The study was not powered to fully investigate the effects of medication, patients often endorsed secondary symptom subtypes that muddied washing/checking distinctions, and the emotion provocation paradigm was of limited intensity compared to life stressors.
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- Arun Ravindran
- Division of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaM6J 1H4
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Division of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaM6J 1H4
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- Division of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaM6J 1H4
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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