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Honcamp H, Schwartze M, Amorim M, Linden DEJ, Pinheiro AP, Kotz SA. Revisiting alpha resting state dynamics underlying hallucinatory vulnerability: Insights from Hidden semi-Markov Modeling. J Neurosci Methods 2024; 407:110138. [PMID: 38648892 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2024.110138] [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: 12/13/2023] [Revised: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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BACKGROUND Resting state (RS) brain activity is inherently non-stationary. Hidden semi-Markov Models (HsMM) can characterize continuous RS data as a sequence of recurring and distinct brain states along with their spatio-temporal dynamics. NEW METHOD Recent explorations suggest that HsMM state dynamics in the alpha frequency band link to auditory hallucination proneness (HP) in non-clinical individuals. The present study aimed to replicate these findings to elucidate robust neural correlates of hallucinatory vulnerability. Specifically, we aimed to investigate the reproducibility of HsMM states across different data sets and within-data set variants as well as the replicability of the association between alpha brain state dynamics and HP. RESULTS We found that most brain states are reproducible in different data sets, confirming that the HsMM characterized robust and generalizable EEG RS dynamics on a sub-second timescale. Brain state topographies and temporal dynamics of different within-data set variants showed substantial similarities and were robust against reduced data length and number of electrodes. However, the association with HP was not directly reproducible across data sets. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHODS The HsMM optimally leverages the high temporal resolution of EEG data and overcomes time-domain restrictions of other state allocation methods. CONCLUSION The results indicate that the sensitivity of brain state dynamics to capture individual variability in HP may depend on the data recording characteristics and individual variability in RS cognition, such as mind wandering. Future studies should consider that the order in which eyes-open and eyes-closed RS data are acquired directly influences an individual's attentional state and generation of spontaneous thoughts, and thereby might mediate the link to hallucinatory vulnerability.
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- Hanna Honcamp
- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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- Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Centro de Investigação em Ciência Psicológica, Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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Kaminski A, Xie H, Hawkins B, Vaidya CJ. Change in Striatal Functional Connectivity Networks Across Two Years Due to Stimulant Exposure in Childhood ADHD: Results from the ABCD Sample. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2024:2024.03.18.24304470. [PMID: 38562872 PMCID: PMC10984058 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.18.24304470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Widely prescribed for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), stimulants (e.g., methylphenidate) have been studied for their chronic effects on the brain in prospective designs controlling dosage and adherence. While controlled approaches are essential, they do not approximate real-world stimulant exposure contexts where medication interruptions, dosage non-compliance, and polypharmacy are common. Brain changes in real-world conditions are largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we capitalized on the observational design of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study to examine effects of stimulants on large-scale bilateral cortical networks' resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) with 6 striatal regions (left and right caudate, putamen, and nucleus accumbens) across two years in children with ADHD. Bayesian hierarchical regressions revealed associations between stimulant exposure and change in rs-FC of multiple striatal-cortical networks, affiliated with executive and visuo-motor control, which were not driven by general psychotropic medication. Of these connections, three were selective to stimulants versus stimulant naive: reduced rs-FC between caudate and frontoparietal network, and between putamen and frontoparietal and visual networks. Comparison with typically developing children in the ABCD sample revealed stronger rs-FC reduction in stimulant-exposed children for putamen and frontoparietal and visual networks, suggesting a normalizing effect of stimulants. 14% of stimulant-exposed children demonstrated reliable reduction in ADHD symptoms, and were distinguished by stronger rs-FC reduction between right putamen and visual network. Thus, stimulant exposure for a two-year period under real-world conditions modulated striatal-cortical functional networks broadly, had a normalizing effect on a subset of networks, and was associated with potential therapeutic effects involving visual attentional control.
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- Adam Kaminski
- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Children’s Research Institute, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
- Children’s Research Institute, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
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Joliot M, Cremona S, Tzourio C, Etard O. Modulate the impact of the drowsiness on the resting state functional connectivity. Sci Rep 2024; 14:8652. [PMID: 38622265 PMCID: PMC11018752 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59476-8] [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: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024] Open
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This research explores different methodologies to modulate the effects of drowsiness on functional connectivity (FC) during resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI). The study utilized a cohort of students (MRi-Share) and classified individuals into drowsy, alert, and mixed/undetermined states based on observed respiratory oscillations. We analyzed the FC group difference between drowsy and alert individuals after five different processing methods: the reference method, two based on physiological and a global signal regression of the BOLD time series signal, and two based on Gaussian standardizations of the FC distribution. According to the reference method, drowsy individuals exhibit higher cortico-cortical FC than alert individuals. First, we demonstrated that each method reduced the differences between drowsy and alert states. The second result is that the global signal regression was quantitively the most effective, minimizing significant FC differences to only 3.3% of the total FCs. However, one should consider the risks of overcorrection often associated with this methodology. Therefore, choosing a less aggressive form of regression, such as the physiological method or Gaussian-based approaches, might be a more cautious approach. Third and last, using the Gaussian-based methods, cortico-subcortical and intra-default mode network (DMN) FCs were significantly greater in alert than drowsy subjects. These findings bear resemblance to the anticipated patterns during the onset of sleep, where the cortex isolates itself to assist in transitioning into deeper slow wave sleep phases, simultaneously disconnecting the DMN.
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- Marc Joliot
- GIN, IMN UMR5293, CEA, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
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- GIN, IMN UMR5293, CEA, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Normandie Université, UNICAEN, INSERM, COMETE U1075, CYCERON, CHU Caen, 14000, Caen, France
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Al‐Sa'd M, Vanhatalo S, Tokariev A. Multiplex dynamic networks in the newborn brain disclose latent links with neurobehavioral phenotypes. Hum Brain Mapp 2024; 45:e26610. [PMID: 38339895 PMCID: PMC10839739 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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The higher brain functions arise from coordinated neural activity between distinct brain regions, but the spatial, temporal, and spectral complexity of these functional connectivity networks (FCNs) has challenged the identification of correlates with neurobehavioral phenotypes. Characterizing behavioral correlates of early life FCNs is important to understand the activity dependent emergence of neurodevelopmental performance and for improving health outcomes. Here, we develop an analysis pipeline for identifying multiplex dynamic FCNs that combine spectral and spatiotemporal characteristics of the newborn cortical activity. This data-driven approach automatically uncovers latent networks that show robust neurobehavioral correlations and consistent effects by in utero drug exposure. Altogether, the proposed pipeline provides a robust end-to-end solution for an objective assessment and quantitation of neurobehaviorally meaningful network constellations in the highly dynamic cortical functions.
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- Mohammad Al‐Sa'd
- BABA Center, Pediatric Research Center, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Children's Hospital, HUS imaging, HUS Diagnostic CenterUniversity of Helsinki and Helsinki University HospitalHelsinkiFinland
- Department of PhysiologyUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
- Faculty of Information Technology and Communication SciencesTampere UniversityTampereFinland
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- BABA Center, Pediatric Research Center, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Children's Hospital, HUS imaging, HUS Diagnostic CenterUniversity of Helsinki and Helsinki University HospitalHelsinkiFinland
- Department of PhysiologyUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- BABA Center, Pediatric Research Center, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Children's Hospital, HUS imaging, HUS Diagnostic CenterUniversity of Helsinki and Helsinki University HospitalHelsinkiFinland
- Department of PhysiologyUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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Nugiel T, Demeter DV, Mitchell ME, Garza A, Hernandez AE, Juranek J, Church JA. Brain connectivity and academic skills in English learners. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhad414. [PMID: 38044467 PMCID: PMC10793574 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad414] [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: 06/22/2023] [Revised: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023] Open
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English learners (ELs) are a rapidly growing population in schools in the United States with limited experience and proficiency in English. To better understand the path for EL's academic success in school, it is important to understand how EL's brain systems are used for academic learning in English. We studied, in a cohort of Hispanic middle-schoolers (n = 45, 22F) with limited English proficiency and a wide range of reading and math abilities, brain network properties related to academic abilities. We applied a method for localizing brain regions of interest (ROIs) that are group-constrained, yet individually specific, to test how resting state functional connectivity between regions that are important for academic learning (reading, math, and cognitive control regions) are related to academic abilities. ROIs were selected from task localizers probing reading and math skills in the same participants. We found that connectivity across all ROIs, as well as connectivity of just the cognitive control ROIs, were positively related to measures of reading skills but not math skills. This work suggests that cognitive control brain systems have a central role for reading in ELs. Our results also indicate that an individualized approach for localizing brain function may clarify brain-behavior relationships.
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- Tehila Nugiel
- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32304, United States
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77225, United States
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, United States
- Biomedical Imaging Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, United States
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León JJ, Fernández-Martin P, González-Rodríguez A, Rodríguez-Herrera R, García-Pinteño J, Pérez-Fernández C, Sánchez-Kuhn A, Amaya-Pascasio L, Soto-Ontoso M, Martínez-Sánchez P, Sánchez-Santed F, Flores P. Decision-making and frontoparietal resting-state functional connectivity among impulsive-compulsive diagnoses. Insights from a Bayesian approach. Addict Behav 2023; 143:107683. [PMID: 36963236 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107683] [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: 10/14/2022] [Revised: 02/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/13/2023]
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The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) is one of the most widely used paradigms for assessing decision-making. An impairment in this process may be linked to several psychopathological disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), substance abuse disorder (SUD) or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which could make it a good candidate for being consider a transdiagnostic domain. Resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) has been proposed as a promising biomarker of decision-making. In this study, we aimed to identify idiosyncratic decision-making profiles among healthy people and impulsive-compulsive spectrum patients during the IGT, and to investigate the role of frontoparietal network (FPN) rsFC as a possible biomarker of different decision-making patterns. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), rsFC of 114 adults (34 controls; 25 OCD; 41 SUD; 14 ADHD) was obtained. Then, they completed the IGT. Hybrid clustering methods based on individual deck choices yielded three decision-makers subgroups. Cluster 1 (n = 27) showed a long-term advantageous strategy. Cluster 2 (n = 25) presented a maladaptive decision-making strategy. Cluster 3 (n = 62) did not develop a preference for any deck during the task. Interestingly, the proportion of participants in each cluster was not different between diagnostic groups. A Bayesian general linear model showed no credible differences in the IGT performance between diagnostic groups nor credible evidence to support the role of FPN rsFC as a biomarker of decision-making under the IGT context. This study highlights the importance of exploring in depth the behavioral and neurophysiological variables that may drive decision-making in clinical and healthy populations.
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- J J León
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain; Health Research Centre (CEINSA), University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain; Health Research Centre (CEINSA), University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain; Health Research Centre (CEINSA), University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain; Health Research Centre (CEINSA), University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain; Health Research Centre (CEINSA), University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain; Health Research Centre (CEINSA), University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain; Health Research Centre (CEINSA), University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain.
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Centre. Torrecárdenas University Hospital, Spain.
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- Mental Health Departament. Torrecárdenas University Hospital, Spain.
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- Department of Neurology and Stroke Centre. Torrecárdenas University Hospital, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain; Health Research Centre (CEINSA), University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain; Health Research Centre (CEINSA), University of Almeria, Carretera de Sacramento S/N, 04120, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almeria, Spain.
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Al-Khalil K, Bell RP, Towe SL, Gadde S, Burke E, Meade CS. Cortico-striatal networking deficits associated with advanced HIV disease and cocaine use. J Neurovirol 2023; 29:167-179. [PMID: 36809507 PMCID: PMC10515399 DOI: 10.1007/s13365-023-01120-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2022] [Revised: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Cocaine use is disproportionately prevalent in people with HIV (PWH) and is known to potentiate HIV neuropathogenesis. As both HIV and cocaine have well-documented cortico-striatal effects, PWH who use cocaine and have a history of immunosuppression may exhibit greater FC deficits compared to PWH without these conditions. However, research investigating the legacy effects of HIV immunosuppression (i.e., a history of AIDS) on cortico-striatal functional connectivity (FC) in adults with and without cocaine use is sparse. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and neuropsychological assessment data from 273 adults were analyzed to examine FC in relation to HIV disease: HIV-negative (n = 104), HIV-positive with nadir CD4 ≥ 200 (n = 96), HIV-positive with nadir CD4 < 200 (AIDS; n = 73), and cocaine use (83 COC and 190 NON). Using independent component analysis/dual regression, FC was assessed between the basal ganglia network (BGN) and five cortical networks: dorsal attention network (DAN), default mode network, left executive network, right executive network, and salience network. There were significant interaction effects such that AIDS-related BGN-DAN FC deficits emerged in COC but not in NON participants. Independent of HIV, cocaine effects emerged in FC between the BGN and executive networks. Disruption of BGN-DAN FC in AIDS/COC participants is consistent with cocaine potentiation of neuro-inflammation and may be indicative of legacy HIV immunosuppressive effects. The current study bolsters previous findings linking HIV and cocaine use with cortico-striatal networking deficits. Future research should consider the effects of the duration of HIV immunosuppression and early treatment initiation.
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- Kareem Al-Khalil
- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 102848, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 102848, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 102848, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 102848, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 102848, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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Mapping correlated neurological deficits after stroke to distributed brain networks. Brain Struct Funct 2022; 227:3173-3187. [PMID: 35881254 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-022-02525-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2021] [Accepted: 06/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Understanding the relationships between brain organization and behavior is a central goal of neuroscience. Traditional teaching emphasizes that the human cerebrum includes many distinct areas for which damage or dysfunction would lead to a unique and specific behavioral syndrome. This teaching implies that brain areas correspond to encapsulated modules that are specialized for specific cognitive operations. However, empirically, local damage from stroke more often produces one of a small number of clusters of deficits and disrupts brain-wide connectivity in a small number of predictable ways (relative to the vast complexity of behavior and brain connectivity). Behaviors that involve shared operations show correlated deficits following a stroke, consistent with a low-dimensional behavioral space. Because of the networked organization of the brain, local damage from a stroke can result in widespread functional abnormalities, matching the low dimensionality of behavioral deficit. In alignment with this, neurological disease, psychiatric disease, and altered brain states produce behavioral changes that are highly correlated across a range of behaviors. We discuss how known structural and functional network priors in addition to graph theoretical concepts such as modularity and entropy have provided inroads to understanding this more complex relationship between brain and behavior. This model for brain disease has important implications for normal brain-behavior relationships and the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases.
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Krendl AC, Betzel RF. Social cognitive network neuroscience. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2022; 17:510-529. [PMID: 35352125 PMCID: PMC9071476 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsac020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Over the past three decades, research from the field of social neuroscience has identified a constellation of brain regions that relate to social cognition. Although these studies have provided important insights into the specific neural regions underlying social behavior, they may overlook the broader neural context in which those regions and the interactions between them are embedded. Network neuroscience is an emerging discipline that focuses on modeling and analyzing brain networks-collections of interacting neural elements. Because human cognition requires integrating information across multiple brain regions and systems, we argue that a novel social cognitive network neuroscience approach-which leverages methods from the field of network neuroscience and graph theory-can advance our understanding of how brain systems give rise to social behavior. This review provides an overview of the field of network neuroscience, discusses studies that have leveraged this approach to advance social neuroscience research, highlights the potential contributions of social cognitive network neuroscience to understanding social behavior and provides suggested tools and resources for conducting network neuroscience research.
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- Anne C Krendl
- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
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Jia K, Frangou P, Karlaftis VM, Ziminski JJ, Giorgio J, Rideaux R, Zamboni E, Hodgson V, Emir U, Kourtzi Z. Neurochemical and functional interactions for improved perceptual decisions through training. J Neurophysiol 2022; 127:900-912. [PMID: 35235415 PMCID: PMC8977131 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00308.2021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Learning and experience are known to improve our ability to make perceptual decisions. Yet, our understanding of the brain mechanisms that support improved perceptual decisions through training remains limited. Here, we test the neurochemical and functional interactions that support learning for perceptual decisions in the context of an orientation identification task. Using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), we measure neurotransmitters (i.e., glutamate, GABA) that are known to be involved in visual processing and learning in sensory [early visual cortex (EV)] and decision-related [dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)] brain regions. Using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), we test for functional interactions between these regions that relate to decision processes. We demonstrate that training improves perceptual judgments (i.e., orientation identification), as indicated by faster rates of evidence accumulation after training. These learning-dependent changes in decision processes relate to lower EV glutamate levels and EV-DLPFC connectivity, suggesting that glutamatergic excitation and functional interactions between visual and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex facilitate perceptual decisions. Further, anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in EV impairs learning, suggesting a direct link between visual cortex excitation and perceptual decisions. Our findings advance our understanding of the role of learning in perceptual decision making, suggesting that glutamatergic excitation for efficient sensory processing and functional interactions between sensory and decision-related regions support improved perceptual decisions.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Combining multimodal brain imaging [magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), functional connectivity] with interventions [transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)], we demonstrate that glutamatergic excitation and functional interactions between sensory (visual) and decision-related (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) areas support our ability to optimize perceptual decisions through training.
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- Ke Jia
- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Purdue University School of Health Sciences, West Lafayette, Indiana
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Tackling the Complexity of Lesion-Symptoms Mapping: How to Bridge the Gap Between Data Scientists and Clinicians? ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA. SUPPLEMENT 2021; 134:195-203. [PMID: 34862543 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85292-4_23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Accurate and predictive lesion-symptoms mapping is a major goal in the field of clinical neurosciences. Recent studies have called for a reappraisal of the results given by the standard univariate voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping technique, emphasizing the need of developing multivariate methods. While the organization of large datasets and their analysis with machine learning (ML) approaches represents an opportunity to increase prediction accuracy, the complexity and dimensionality of the problem remain a major obstacle. Acknowledging the difficulty of inferring individual outcomes from the observation of spatial patterns of lesions, we propose here to base prediction on new individuals on models of brain connectivity, whereby the disruption of a given network predicts the occurrence of selective deficits. Well-suited ML tools are necessary to capture the relevant information from limited datasets and perform reliable inference.
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Li X, Ng KK, Wong JJY, Lee JW, Zhou JH, Yow WQ. Bilingual language entropy influences executive functions through functional connectivity and signal variability. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2021; 222:105026. [PMID: 34597903 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2021.105026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 09/01/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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How bilinguals' experience in managing multiple languages in different communicative contexts influences the cognitive and neural aspects of executive functions remains unclear. Therefore, we examined whether variations in language experience in young adult bilinguals were associated with data-driven brain functional network patterns (connectivity and signal variability) defined by performance during executive control tasks (Stroop and task-switching). Multiple aspects of language experience, such as the extent of balanced bilingualism in language proficiency and usage, and language diversity across social contexts (i.e., language entropy) were assessed. We found that greater language diversity, rather than balanced bilingualism per se, was related to higher brain network specialization and segregation concentrated on the default mode and executive control networks, and lower signal variability, a pattern linked to smaller RT-indices related to executive functioning of shifting, goal-maintenance, and conflict-monitoring. Our findings underscore the important role of language diversity in influencing bilinguals' neurocognitive characteristics of executive functioning.
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- Xiaoqian Li
- Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
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- Centre for Sleep and Cognition, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Centre for Sleep and Cognition, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
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- Centre for Sleep and Cognition, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Centre for Translational Magnetic Resonance Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme (ISEP), National University of Singapore, Singapore.
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- Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore.
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Reineberg AE, Hatoum AS, Hewitt JK, Banich MT, Friedman NP. Genetic and Environmental Influence on the Human Functional Connectome. Cereb Cortex 2021; 30:2099-2113. [PMID: 31711120 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2018] [Revised: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Detailed mapping of genetic and environmental influences on the functional connectome is a crucial step toward developing intermediate phenotypes between genes and clinical diagnoses or cognitive abilities. We analyzed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from two adult twin samples (Nos = 446 and 371) to quantify genetic and environmental influence on all pairwise functional connections between 264 brain regions (~35 000 functional connections). Nonshared environmental influence was high across the whole connectome. Approximately 14-22% of connections had nominally significant genetic influence in each sample, 4.6% were significant in both samples, and 1-2% had heritability estimates greater than 30%. Evidence of shared environmental influence was weak. Genetic influences on connections were distinct from genetic influences on a global summary measure of the connectome, network-based estimates of connectivity, and movement during the resting-state scan, as revealed by a novel connectome-wide bivariate genetic modeling procedure. The brain's genetic organization is diverse and not as one would expect based solely on structure evident in nongenetically informative data or lower resolution data. As follow-up, we make novel classifications of functional connections and examine highly localized connections with particularly strong genetic influence. This high-resolution genetic taxonomy of brain connectivity will be useful in understanding genetic influences on brain disorders.
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- Andrew E Reineberg
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA.,Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA.,Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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Three types of individual variation in brain networks revealed by single-subject functional connectivity analyses. Curr Opin Behav Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.02.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Yang W, Zhuang K, Liu P, Guo Y, Chen Q, Wei D, Qiu J. Memory Suppression Ability can be Robustly Predicted by the Internetwork Communication of Frontoparietal Control Network. Cereb Cortex 2021; 31:3451-3461. [PMID: 33662104 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 01/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Memory suppression (MS) is essential for mental well-being. However, no studies have explored how intrinsic resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) predicts this ability. Here, we adopted the connectome-based predictive modeling (CPM) based on the resting-state fMRI data to investigate whether and how rs-FC profiles in predefined brain networks (the frontoparietal control networks or FPCN) can predict MS in healthy individuals with 497 participants. The MS ability was assessed by MS-induced forgetting during the think/no-think paradigm. The results showed that FPCN network was especially informative for generating the prediction model for MS. Some regions of FPCN, such as middle frontal gyrus, superior frontal gyrus and inferior parietal lobe were critical in predicting MS. Moreover, functional interplay between FPCN and multiple networks, such as dorsal attention network (DAN), ventral attention network (VAN), default mode network (DMN), the limbic system and subcortical regions, enabled prediction of MS. Crucially, the predictive FPCN networks were stable and specific to MS. These results indicated that FPCN flexibility interacts with other networks to underpin the ability of MS. These would also be beneficial for understanding how compromises in these functional networks may have led to the intrusive thoughts and memories characterized in some mental disorders.
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- Wenjing Yang
- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, 400715, China
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- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, 400715, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400715, China.,Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, 400715, China
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Wang X, Li Q, Zhao Y, He Y, Ma B, Fu Z, Li S. Decomposition of individual-specific and individual-shared components from resting-state functional connectivity using a multi-task machine learning method. Neuroimage 2021; 238:118252. [PMID: 34116155 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118252] [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: 01/09/2021] [Revised: 05/31/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) can be used for mapping large-scale human brain networks during rest. There is considerable interest in distinguishing the individual-shared and individual-specific components in RSFC for the better identification of individuals and prediction of behavior. Therefore, we propose a multi-task learning based sparse convex alternating structure optimization (MTL-sCASO) method to decompose RSFC into individual-specific connectivity and individual-shared connectivity. We used synthetic data to validate the efficacy of the MTL-sCASO method. In addition, we verified that individual-specific connectivity achieves higher identification rates than the Pearson correlation (PC) method, and the individual-specific components observed in 886 individuals from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) examined in two sessions over two consecutive days might serve as individual fingerprints. Individual-specific connectivity has low inter-subject similarity (-0.005±0.023), while individual-shared connectivity has high inter-subject similarity (0.822±0.061). We also determined the anatomical locations (region or subsystem) related to individual attributes and common features. We find that individual-specific connectivity exhibits low degree centrality in the sensorimotor processing system but high degree centrality in the control system. Importantly, the individual-specific connectivity estimated by the MTL-sCASO method accurately predicts behavioral scores (improved by 9.4% compared to the PC method) in the cognitive dimension. The decomposition of individual-specific and individual-shared components from RSFC provides a new approach for tracing individual traits and group analysis using functional brain networks.
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- Xuetong Wang
- School of Biological Science & Medical Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Biological Science & Medical Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Biological Science & Medical Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Biological Science & Medical Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Biological Science & Medical Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Biological Science & Medical Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Biological Science & Medical Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100083, China
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Lee TY, Jung WH, Kwak YB, Yoon YB, Lee J, Kim M, Kim E, Kwon JS. Distinct neural networks associated with obsession and delusion: a connectome-wide association study. Psychol Med 2021; 51:1320-1328. [PMID: 31997729 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291720000057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Obsession and delusion are theoretically distinct from each other in terms of reality testing. Despite such phenomenological distinction, no extant studies have examined the identification of common and distinct neural correlates of obsession and delusion by employing biologically grounded methods. Here, we investigated dimensional effects of obsession and delusion spanning across the traditional diagnostic boundaries reflected upon the resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) using connectome-wide association studies (CWAS). METHODS Our study sample comprised of 96 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, 75 patients with schizophrenia, and 65 healthy controls. A connectome-wide analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between obsession and delusion severity and RFSC using multivariate distance-based matrix regression. RESULTS Obsession was associated with the supplementary motor area, precentral gyrus, and superior parietal lobule, while delusion was associated with the precuneus. Follow-up seed-based RSFC and modularity analyses revealed that obsession was related to aberrant inter-network connectivity strength. Additional inter-network analyses demonstrated the association between obsession severity and inter-network connectivity between the frontoparietal control network and the dorsal attention network. CONCLUSIONS Our CWAS study based on the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) provides novel evidence for the circuit-level functional dysconnectivity associated with obsession and delusion severity across diagnostic boundaries. Further refinement and accumulation of biomarkers from studies embedded within the RDoC framework would provide useful information in treating individuals who have some obsession or delusion symptoms but cannot be identified by the category of clinical symptoms alone.
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- Tae Young Lee
- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychology, Daegu University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Seoul National University College of Natural Science, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Seoul National University College of Natural Science, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Yin D, Kaiser M. Understanding neural flexibility from a multifaceted definition. Neuroimage 2021; 235:118027. [PMID: 33836274 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Flexibility is a hallmark of human intelligence. Emerging studies have proposed several flexibility measurements at the level of individual regions, to produce a brain map of neural flexibility. However, flexibility is usually inferred from separate components of brain activity (i.e., intrinsic/task-evoked), and different definitions are used. Moreover, recent studies have argued that neural processing may be more than a task-driven and intrinsic dichotomy. Therefore, the understanding to neural flexibility is still incomplete. To address this issue, we propose a multifaceted definition of neural flexibility according to three key features: broad cognitive engagement, distributed connectivity, and adaptive connectome dynamics. For these three features, we first review the advances in computational approaches, their functional relevance, and their potential pitfalls. We then suggest a set of metrics that can help us assign a flexibility rating to each region. Subsequently, we present an emergent probabilistic view for further understanding the functional operation of individual regions in the unified framework of intrinsic and task-driven states. Finally, we highlight several areas related to the multifaceted definition of neural flexibility for future research. This review not only strengthens our understanding of flexible human brain, but also suggests that the measure of neural flexibility could bridge the gap between understanding intrinsic and task-driven brain function dynamics.
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- Dazhi Yin
- Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (Ministry of Education and Shanghai), School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China.
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- School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5TG, UK; School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK; Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China.
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Teeuw J, Hulshoff Pol HE, Boomsma DI, Brouwer RM. Reliability modelling of resting-state functional connectivity. Neuroimage 2021; 231:117842. [PMID: 33581291 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117842] [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: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 02/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) has an inherently low signal-to-noise ratio largely due to thermal and physiological noise that attenuates the functional connectivity (FC) estimates. Such attenuation limits the reliability of FC and may bias its association with other traits. Low reliability also limits heritability estimates. Classical test theory can be used to obtain a true correlation estimate free of random measurement error from parallel tests, such as split-half sessions of a rs-fMRI scan. We applied a measurement model to split-half FC estimates from the resting-state fMRI data of 1003 participants from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) to examine the benefit of reliability modelling of FC in association with traits from various domains. We evaluated the efficiency of the measurement model on extracting a stable and reliable component of FC and its association with several traits for various sample sizes and scan durations. In addition, we aimed to replicate our previous findings of increased heritability estimates when using a measurement model in a longitudinal adolescent twin cohort. The split-half measurement model improved test-retest reliability of FC on average with +0.33 points (from +0.49 to +0.82), improved strength of associations between FC and various traits on average 1.2-fold (range 1.09-1.35), and increased heritability estimates on average with +20% points (from 39% to 59%) for the full HCP dataset. On average, about half of the variance in split-session FC estimates was attributed to the stable and reliable component of FC. Shorter scan durations showed greater benefit of reliability modelling (up to 1.6-fold improvement), with an additional gain for smaller sample sizes (up to 1.8-fold improvement). Reliability modelling of FC based on a split-half using a measurement model can benefit genetic and behavioral studies by extracting a stable and reliable component of FC that is free from random measurement error and improves genetic and behavioral associations.
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- Jalmar Teeuw
- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus and Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, Netherlands.
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- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus and Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus and Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, Netherlands
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Romei A, Voigt K, Verdejo-Garcia A. A Perspective on Candidate Neural Underpinnings of Binge Eating Disorder: Reward and Homeostatic Systems. Curr Pharm Des 2020; 26:2327-2333. [PMID: 32148192 DOI: 10.2174/1381612826666200309152321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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People with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) exhibit heightened sensitivity to rewarding stimuli and elevated activity in reward-related brain regions, including the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), ventral striatum (VS) and insula, during food-cue exposure. BED has also been associated with altered patterns of functional connectivity during resting-state. Investigating neural connectivity in the absence of task stimuli provides knowledge about baseline communication patterns that may influence the behavioural and cognitive manifestation of BED. Elevated resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) between reward-related brain regions may contribute to uncontrolled eating bouts observed in BED, through heightened food-cue sensitivity and food-craving. The impact of homeostatic state on rsFC of the reward system has not yet been investigated in people with BED. Homeostatic dysfunction is a key driver of excessive food consumption in obesity, whereby rsFC between rewardrelated brain regions does not attenuate during satiety. Future studies should investigate BED related differences in rsFC within the reward system during hunger and satiety, in order to determine whether individuals with BED display an abnormal neural response to changes in homeostatic state. This knowledge would further enhance current understandings of the mechanisms contributing to BED, potentially implicating both reward and homeostatic dysfunctions as drivers of BED.
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- Amelia Romei
- School of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- School of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
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- School of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
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Similarity in functional brain connectivity at rest predicts interpersonal closeness in the social network of an entire village. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:33149-33160. [PMID: 33318188 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2013606117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
People often have the intuition that they are similar to their friends, yet evidence for homophily (being friends with similar others) based on self-reported personality is inconsistent. Functional connectomes-patterns of spontaneous synchronization across the brain-are stable within individuals and predict how people tend to think and behave. Thus, they may capture interindividual variability in latent traits that are particularly similar among friends but that might elude self-report. Here, we examined interpersonal similarity in functional connectivity at rest-that is, in the absence of external stimuli-and tested if functional connectome similarity is associated with proximity in a real-world social network. The social network of a remote village was reconstructed; a subset of residents underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging. Similarity in functional connectomes was positively related to social network proximity, particularly in the default mode network. Controlling for similarities in demographic and personality data (the Big Five personality traits) yielded similar results. Thus, functional connectomes may capture latent interpersonal similarities between friends that are not fully captured by commonly used demographic or personality measures. The localization of these results suggests how friends may be particularly similar to one another. Additionally, geographic proximity moderated the relationship between neural similarity and social network proximity, suggesting that such associations are particularly strong among people who live particularly close to one another. These findings suggest that social connectivity is reflected in signatures of brain functional connectivity, consistent with the common intuition that friends share similarities that go beyond, for example, demographic similarities.
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Jolles DD, Mennigen E, Gupta MW, Hegarty CE, Bearden CE, Karlsgodt KH. Relationships between intrinsic functional connectivity, cognitive control, and reading achievement across development. Neuroimage 2020; 221:117202. [PMID: 32730958 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2019] [Revised: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 07/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
Abstract
There are vast individual differences in reading achievement between students. Besides structural and functional variability in domain-specific brain regions, these differences may partially be explained by the organization of domain-general functional brain networks. In the current study we used resting-state functional MRI data from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort (PNC; N = 553; ages 8-22) to examine the relation between performance on a well-validated reading assessment task, the Wide Range Achievement Word Reading Test (WRAT-Reading) and patterns of functional connectivity. We focused specifically on functional connectivity within and between networks associated with cognitive control, and investigated whether the relationship with academic test performance was mediated by cognitive control abilities. We show that individuals with higher scores on the WRAT-Reading, have stronger lateralization in frontoparietal networks, increased functional connectivity between dorsal striatum and the dorsal attention network, and reduced functional connectivity between dorsal and ventral striatum. The relationship between functional connectivity and reading performance was mediated by cognitive control abilities (i.e., performance on a composite measure of executive function and complex cognition), but not by abilities in other domains, demonstrating the specificity of our findings. Finally, there were no significant interactions with age, suggesting that the observed brain-behavior relationships stay relatively stable over the course of development. Our findings provide important insights into the functional significance of inter-individual variability in the network architecture of the developing brain, showing that functional connectivity in domain-general control networks is relevant to academic achievement in the reading domain.
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- Dietsje D Jolles
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands; Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
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Shanmugan S, Cao W, Satterthwaite TD, Sammel MD, Ashourvan A, Bassett DS, Ruparel K, Gur RC, Epperson CN, Loughead J. Impact of childhood adversity on network reconfiguration dynamics during working memory in hypogonadal women. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2020; 119:104710. [PMID: 32563173 PMCID: PMC7745207 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Revised: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Many women with no history of cognitive difficulties experience executive dysfunction during menopause. Significant adversity during childhood negatively impacts executive function into adulthood and may be an indicator of women at risk of a mid-life cognitive decline. Previous studies have indicated that alterations in functional network connectivity underlie these negative effects of childhood adversity. There is growing evidence that functional brain networks are not static during executive tasks; instead, such networks reconfigure over time. Optimal dynamics are necessary for efficient executive function; while too little reconfiguration is insufficient for peak performance, too much reconfiguration (supra-optimal reconfiguration) is also maladaptive and associated with poorer performance. Here we examined the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on network flexibility, a measure of dynamic reconfiguration, during a letter n-back task within three networks that support executive function: frontoparietal, salience, and default mode networks. Several animal and human subject studies have suggested that childhood adversity exerts lasting effects on executive function via serotonergic mechanisms. Tryptophan depletion (TD) was used to examine whether serotonin function drives ACE effects on network flexibility. We hypothesized that ACE would be associated with higher flexibility (supra-optimal flexibility) and that TD would further increase this measure. Forty women underwent functional imaging at two time points in this double-blind, placebo controlled, crossover study. Participants also completed the Penn Conditional Exclusion Test, a task assessing abstraction and mental flexibility. The effects of ACE and TD were evaluated using generalized estimating equations. ACE was associated with higher flexibility across networks (frontoparietal β = 0.00748, D = 2.79, p = 0.005; salience β = 0.00679, D = 3.02, p = 0.003; and default mode β = 0.00910, D = 3.53, p = 0.0004). While there was no interaction between ACE and TD, active TD increased network flexibility in both ACE groups in comparison to sham depletion (frontoparietal β = 0.00489, D = 2.15, p = 0.03; salience β = 0.00393, D = 1.91, p = 0.06; default mode β = 0.00334, D = 1.73, p = 0.08). These results suggest that childhood adversity has lasting impacts on dynamic reconfiguration of functional brain networks supporting executive function and that decreasing serotonin levels may exacerbate these effects.
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- Sheila Shanmugan
- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Penn PROMOTES Research on Sex and Gender in Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Penn PROMOTES Research on Sex and Gender in Health, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Alderson TH, Bokde ALW, Kelso JAS, Maguire L, Coyle D. Metastable neural dynamics underlies cognitive performance across multiple behavioural paradigms. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 41:3212-3234. [PMID: 32301561 PMCID: PMC7375112 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2019] [Revised: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Despite resting state networks being associated with a variety of cognitive abilities, it remains unclear how these local areas act in concert to express particular cognitive operations. Theoretical and empirical accounts indicate that large-scale resting state networks reconcile dual tendencies towards integration and segregation by operating in a metastable regime of their coordination dynamics. Metastability may confer important behavioural qualities by binding distributed local areas into large-scale neurocognitive networks. We tested this hypothesis by analysing fMRI data in a large cohort of healthy individuals (N = 566) and comparing the metastability of the brain's large-scale resting network architecture at rest and during the performance of several tasks. Metastability was estimated using a well-defined collective variable capturing the level of 'phase-locking' between large-scale networks over time. Task-based reasoning was principally characterised by high metastability in cognitive control networks and low metastability in sensory processing areas. Although metastability between resting state networks increased during task performance, cognitive ability was more closely linked to spontaneous activity. High metastability in the intrinsic connectivity of cognitive control networks was linked to novel problem solving or fluid intelligence, but was less important in tasks relying on previous experience or crystallised intelligence. Crucially, subjects with resting architectures similar or 'pre-configured' to a task-general arrangement demonstrated superior cognitive performance. Taken together, our findings support a key linkage between the spontaneous metastability of large-scale networks in the cerebral cortex and cognition.
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- Thomas H. Alderson
- Intelligent Systems Research CentreUlster UniversityAntrimUnited Kingdom
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and TechnologyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana‐ChampaignUrbanaIllinoisUnited States
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- Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems Group, Discipline of Psychiatry, School of MedicineTrinity College DublinDublinIreland
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- Intelligent Systems Research CentreUlster UniversityAntrimUnited Kingdom
- Center for Complex Systems and Brain SciencesFlorida Atlantic UniversityBoca RatonFloridaUnited States
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- Intelligent Systems Research CentreUlster UniversityAntrimUnited Kingdom
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- Intelligent Systems Research CentreUlster UniversityAntrimUnited Kingdom
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Voigt K, Murawski C, Speer S, Bode S. Effective brain connectivity at rest is associated with choice-induced preference formation. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 41:3077-3088. [PMID: 32243689 PMCID: PMC7336152 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2019] [Revised: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 03/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Preferences can change as a consequence of making hard decisions whereby the value of chosen options increases and the value of rejected options decreases. Such choice-induced preference changes have been associated with brain areas detecting choice conflict (anterior cingulate cortex, ACC), updating stimulus value (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, dlPFC) and supporting memory of stimulus value (hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, vmPFC). Here we investigated whether resting-state neuronal activity within these regions is associated with the magnitude of individuals' preference updates. We fitted a dynamic causal model (DCM) to resting-state neuronal activity in the spectral domain (spDCM) and estimated the causal connectivity among core regions involved in preference formation following hard choices. The extent of individuals' choice-induced preference changes were found to be associated with a diminished resting-state excitation between the left dlPFC and the vmPFC, whereas preference consistency was related to a higher resting-state excitation from the ACC to the left hippocampus and vmPFC. Our results point to a model of preference formation during which the dynamic network configurations between left dlPFC, ACC, vmPFC and left hippocampus at rest are linked to preference change or stability.
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- Katharina Voigt
- Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesThe University of MelbourneCarltonVictoriaAustralia
- School of Psychological Sciences and Turner Institute for Brain and Mental HealthMonash UniversityClaytonVictoriaAustralia
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- Department of FinanceThe University of MelbourneCarltonVictoriaAustralia
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- Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesThe University of MelbourneCarltonVictoriaAustralia
- Rotterdam School of ManagementErasmus UniversityRotterdamThe Netherlands
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- Melbourne School of Psychological SciencesThe University of MelbourneCarltonVictoriaAustralia
- Department of PsychologyUniversity of CologneCologneGermany
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McPhilemy G, Nabulsi L, Kilmartin L, Whittaker JR, Martyn FM, Hallahan B, McDonald C, Murphy K, Cannon DM. Resting-State Network Patterns Underlying Cognitive Function in Bipolar Disorder: A Graph Theoretical Analysis. Brain Connect 2020; 10:355-367. [PMID: 32458698 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2019.0709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Background: Synchronous and antisynchronous activity between neural elements at rest reflects the physiological processes underlying complex cognitive ability. Regional and pairwise connectivity investigations suggest that perturbations in these activity patterns may relate to widespread cognitive impairments seen in bipolar disorder (BD). Here we take a network-based perspective to more meaningfully capture interactions among distributed brain regions compared to focal measurements and examine network-cognition relationships across a range of commonly affected cognitive domains in BD in relation to healthy controls. Methods: Resting-state networks were constructed as matrices of correlation coefficients between regionally averaged resting-state time series from 86 cortical/subcortical brain regions (FreeSurferv5.3.0). Cognitive performance measured using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Cambridge Automated Neuropsychological Test Battery (CANTAB), and Reading the Mind in the Eyes tests was examined in relation to whole-brain connectivity measures and patterns of connectivity using a permutation-based statistical approach. Results: Faster response times in controls (n = 49) related to synchronous activity between frontal, parietal, cingulate, temporal, and occipital regions, while a similar response times in BD (n = 35) related to antisynchronous activity between regions of this subnetwork. Across all subjects, antisynchronous activity between the frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital, cingulate, insula, and amygdala regions related to improved memory performance. No resting-state subnetworks related to intelligence, executive function, short-term memory, or social cognition performance in the overall sample or in a manner that would explain deficits in these facets in BD. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate alterations in the intrinsic connectivity patterns underlying response timing in BD that are not specific to performance or errors on the same tasks. Across all individuals, no strong effects of resting-state global topology on cognition are found, while distinct functional networks supporting episodic and spatial memory highlight intrinsic inhibitory influences present in the resting state that facilitate memory processing. Impact Statement Regional and pairwise-connectivity investigations suggest altered interactions between brain areas may contribute to impairments in cognition that are observed in bipolar disorder. However, the distributed nature of these interactions across the brain remains poorly understood. Using recent advances in network neuroscience, we examine functional connectivity patterns associated with multiple cognitive domains in individuals with and without bipolar disorder. We discover distinct patterns of connectivity underlying response-timing performance uniquely in bipolar disorder and, independent of diagnosis, inhibitory interactions that relate to memory performance.
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- Genevieve McPhilemy
- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- College of Science and Engineering, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Republic of Ireland
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Neuroimaging & Cognitive Genomics (NICOG), Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, NCBES Galway Neuroscience Centre, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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González-Roldán AM, Terrasa JL, Sitges C, van der Meulen M, Anton F, Montoya P. Age-Related Changes in Pain Perception Are Associated With Altered Functional Connectivity During Resting State. Front Aging Neurosci 2020; 12:116. [PMID: 32457594 PMCID: PMC7221150 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.00116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Aging affects pain experience and brain functioning. However, how aging leads to changes in pain perception and brain functional connectivity has not yet been completely understood. To investigate resting-state and pain perception changes in old and young participants, this study employed region of interest (ROI) to ROI resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) analysis of imaging data by using regions implicated in sensory and affective dimensions of pain, descending pain modulation, and the default-mode networks (DMNs). Thirty-seven older (66.86 ± 4.04 years; 16 males) and 38 younger healthy participants (20.74 ± 4.15 years; 19 males) underwent 10 min’ eyes-closed resting-state scanning. We examined the relationship between rsFC parameters with pressure pain thresholds. Older participants showed higher pain thresholds than younger. Regarding rsFC, older adults displayed increased connectivity of pain-related sensory brain regions in comparison to younger participants: increased rsFC between bilateral primary somatosensory area (SI) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and between SI(L) and secondary somatosensory area (SII)-(R) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC). Moreover, decreased connectivity in the older compared to the younger group was found among descending pain modulatory regions: between the amygdala(R) and bilateral insula(R), thalamus(R), ACC, and amygdala(L); between the amygdala(L) and insula(R) and bilateral thalamus; between ACC and bilateral insula, and between periaqueductal gray (PAG) and bilateral thalamus. Regarding the DMN, the posterior parietal cortex and lateral parietal (LP; R) were more strongly connected in the older group than in the younger group. Correlational analyses also showed that SI(L)-SII(R) rsFC was positively associated with pressure pain thresholds in older participants. In conclusion, these findings suggest a compensatory mechanism for the sensory changes that typically accompanies aging. Furthermore, older participants showed reduced functional connectivity between key nodes of the descending pain inhibitory pathway.
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- Ana M González-Roldán
- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology, Research Institute of Health Sciences (IUNICS) and Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa), University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma, Spain
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- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology, Research Institute of Health Sciences (IUNICS) and Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa), University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma, Spain
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- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology, Research Institute of Health Sciences (IUNICS) and Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa), University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma, Spain
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- Institute for Health and Behaviour, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- Institute for Health and Behaviour, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology, Research Institute of Health Sciences (IUNICS) and Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBa), University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma, Spain
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Morris KA, Grace SA, Woods W, Dean B, Rossell SL. The influence of COMT rs4680 on functional connectivity in healthy adults: A systematic review. Eur J Neurosci 2020; 52:3851-3878. [PMID: 32306439 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 04/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The aim of this systematic review was to qualitatively synthesise the available research that investigated the influence of COMT genotype at SNP rs4680 on both task-based and resting-state connectivity in healthy adults. Thirty-five studies were identified that met inclusion criteria. Of the included studies, 20 studies reported resting-state findings and 16 studies reported task-based findings (emotion-processing, memory, working memory, reward-based learning and executive function). Studies were highly heterogeneous but an overall trend towards an association of the Val allele with greater resting-state connectivity and the Met allele with greater task-based connectivity is reported. A possible interpretation of current findings is discussed, whereby the Val allele is associated with improved cognitive flexibility allowing integration of novel relevant stimuli, and the Met allele allows improved sustained attention and targeted neural processing, particularly between limbic regions and prefrontal cortex. The most promising brain regions implicated in a COMT genotype influence on functional connectivity include prefrontal regions, amygdala and hippocampus.
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- Kim A Morris
- Centre for Mental health, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Centre for Mental health, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Centre for Mental health, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Centre for Mental health, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.,The Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Centre for Mental health, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.,Psychiatry, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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Zhu H, Yuan M, Qiu C, Ren Z, Li Y, Wang J, Huang X, Lui S, Gong Q, Zhang W, Zhang Y. Multivariate classification of earthquake survivors with post-traumatic stress disorder based on large-scale brain networks. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2020; 141:285-298. [PMID: 31997301 DOI: 10.1111/acps.13150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The identification of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among natural disaster survivors is remarkably challenging, and there are no reliable objective signatures that can be used to assist clinical diagnosis and optimize treatment. The current study aimed to establish a neurobiological signature of PTSD from the connectivity of large-scale brain networks and clarify the brain network mechanisms of PTSD. METHODS We examined fifty-seven unmedicated survivors with chronic PTSD and 59 matched trauma-exposed healthy controls (TEHCs) using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). We extracted the node-to-network connectivity and obtained a feature vector with a dimensionality of 864 (108 nodes × 8 networks) to represent each subject's functional connectivity (FC) profile. Multivariate pattern analysis with a relevance vector machine was then used to distinguish PTSD patients from TEHCs. RESULTS We achieved a promising diagnostic accuracy of 89.2% in distinguishing PTSD patients from TEHCs. The most heavily weighted connections for PTSD classification were among the default mode network (DMN), visual network (VIS), somatomotor network, limbic network, and dorsal attention network (DAN). The strength of the anticorrelation of FC between the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC) in DMN and the VIS and DAN was associated with the severity of PTSD. CONCLUSIONS This study achieved relatively high accuracy in classifying PTSD patients vs. TEHCs at the individual level. This performance demonstrates that rs-fMRI-derived multivariate classification based on large-scale brain networks can provide potential signatures both to facilitate clinical diagnosis and to clarify the underlying brain network mechanisms of PTSD caused by natural disasters.
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- H Zhu
- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.,Huaxi Brain Research Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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Herbet G, Duffau H. Revisiting the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain: Toward a Meta-Networking Theory of Cerebral Functions. Physiol Rev 2020; 100:1181-1228. [PMID: 32078778 DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00033.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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For more than one century, brain processing was mainly thought in a localizationist framework, in which one given function was underpinned by a discrete, isolated cortical area, and with a similar cerebral organization across individuals. However, advances in brain mapping techniques in humans have provided new insights into the organizational principles of anatomo-functional architecture. Here, we review recent findings gained from neuroimaging, electrophysiological, as well as lesion studies. Based on these recent data on brain connectome, we challenge the traditional, outdated localizationist view and propose an alternative meta-networking theory. This model holds that complex cognitions and behaviors arise from the spatiotemporal integration of distributed but relatively specialized networks underlying conation and cognition (e.g., language, spatial cognition). Dynamic interactions between such circuits result in a perpetual succession of new equilibrium states, opening the door to considerable interindividual behavioral variability and to neuroplastic phenomena. Indeed, a meta-networking organization underlies the uniquely human propensity to learn complex abilities, and also explains how postlesional reshaping can lead to some degrees of functional compensation in brain-damaged patients. We discuss the major implications of this approach in fundamental neurosciences as well as for clinical developments, especially in neurology, psychiatry, neurorehabilitation, and restorative neurosurgery.
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- Guillaume Herbet
- Department of Neurosurgery, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier University Medical Center, Montpellier, France; Team "Plasticity of Central Nervous System, Stem Cells and Glial Tumors," INSERM U1191, Institute of Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France; and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Gui de Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier University Medical Center, Montpellier, France; Team "Plasticity of Central Nervous System, Stem Cells and Glial Tumors," INSERM U1191, Institute of Functional Genomics, Montpellier, France; and University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Warren SM, Chou YH, Steklis HD. Potential for Resting-State fMRI of the Amygdala in Elucidating Neural Mechanisms of Adaptive Self-Regulatory Strategies: A Systematic Review. Brain Connect 2020; 10:3-17. [PMID: 31950847 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2019.0700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Evolutionary-developmental theories consider the evolved mechanisms underlying adaptive behavioral strategies shaped in response to early environmental cues. Identifying neural mechanisms mediating processes of conditional adaptation in humans is an active area of research. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (RS-fMRI) captures functional connectivity theorized to represent the underlying functional architecture of the brain. This allows for investigating how underlying functional brain connections are related to early experiences during development, as well as current traits and behaviors. This review explores the potential of RS-fMRI of the amygdala (AMY) for advancing research on the neural mechanisms underlying adaptive strategies developed in early adverse environments. RS-fMRI studies of early life stress (ELS) and AMY functional connectivity within the frame of evolutionary theories are reviewed, specifically regarding the development of self-regulatory strategies. The potential of RS-fMRI for investigating the effects of ELS on developmental trajectories of self-regulation is discussed.
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- Shannon M Warren
- Norton School of Family & Consumer Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Psychology, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Arizona Center on Aging, BIO5 Institute, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Jung WH, Kim NH. Hippocampal Functional Connectivity Mediates the Impact of Acceptance on Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Severity. Front Psychiatry 2020; 11:753. [PMID: 32848930 PMCID: PMC7406826 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Investigation in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) shows a negative association between patients' degrees of acceptance (the willingness to face unwanted private experiences while pursuing one's values and goals) and those of clinical symptom severity, suggesting that experiential acceptance is a protective factor of symptoms or an early indicator of resilience after trauma. However, neural mechanisms involved in the relationship between these two variables have yet to be elucidated. Thus, we here investigate whether there are neural mechanisms mediating such relationship using whole-brain voxel-level mediation analysis with seed-based resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) maps generated by hippocampal subregion seeds in accident survivors (n = 33). We found that the correlation between patients' acceptance and symptom severity was mediated by the RSFC strength between left hippocampal body and left lateral occipital cortex adjacent to superior parietal cortex, the areas related to flashbacks. Our result provides novel evidence that hippocampal RSFC mediates the effect of experiential acceptance on posttraumatic stress symptom severity. If further refined and validated, the finding may aid to the identification of biomarkers to intervention and prevention programs for patients with PTSD.
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- Wi Hoon Jung
- Department of Psychology, Daegu University, Gyeongsan, South Korea
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- Maumtodac Psychiatric Clinic, Ansan, South Korea.,Suwon Smile Center for Criminal Victims, Suwon, South Korea
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FKBP5 methylation predicts functional network architecture of the rostral anterior cingulate cortex. Brain Struct Funct 2019; 225:33-43. [PMID: 31728624 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-019-01980-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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DNA methylation (DNAM) changes in the FKBP5 gene have been identified as a potential molecular mechanism explaining how environmental adversity may confer long-term health risks. However, the neurobiological correlates of epigenetic signatures in FKBP5 have only recently been explored in human brain imaging research. The present study aims to investigate associations of FKBP5 DNAM and functional network architecture during an implicit emotion regulation task (N = 74 healthy individuals). For this, we applied a data-driven multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) to identify regions, where connectivity values vary as a function of FKBP5 DNAM, which then served as seed regions for functional network architecture analyses. Blood-derived DNA samples were obtained to analyze quantitative DNAM at three CpGs sites in intron 7 of the FKBP5 gene using bisulfite pyrosequencing. MPVA revealed a cluster within the right rostral ACC and the paracingulate ACCs, where connectivity patterns were strongly related to FKBP5 DNAM. Using this cluster as seed region for connectivity analyses, we further identified a functional network, including prefrontal, subcortical, insular, and thalamic regions, where connectivity patterns positively correlated with FKBP5 DNAM. A subsequent behavioral domain analyses to determine the functional specialization of this network revealed highest effect sizes for subdomains that represent affective and cognitive processes. Together, these findings suggest that FKBP5 demethylation predicts a widespread functional disruption in a brain network centrally implicated in emotion regulation and cognition, which may in turn convey increased disease susceptibility.
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Schedlbauer AM, Ekstrom AD. Flexible network community organization during the encoding and retrieval of spatiotemporal episodic memories. Netw Neurosci 2019; 3:1070-1093. [PMID: 31637339 PMCID: PMC6777981 DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Memory encoding and retrieval involve distinct interactions between multiple brain areas, yet the flexible structure of corresponding large-scale networks during such memory processing remains unclear. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we employed a spatiotemporal encoding and retrieval task, detecting functional community structure across the multiple components of our task. Consistent with past work, we identified a set of stable subnetworks, mostly belonging to primary motor and sensory cortices but also identified a subset of flexible hubs, mostly belonging to higher association areas. These “mover” hubs changed connectivity patterns across spatial and temporal memory encoding and retrieval, engaging in an integrative role within the network. Global encoding network and subnetwork dissimilarity predicted retrieval performance. Together, our findings emphasize the importance of flexible network allegiance among some hubs and the importance of network reconfiguration to human episodic memory. The degree to which task-related functional connectivity patterns remain stable or are dynamic when people learn and remember information remains largely untested. We investigated this issue by collecting fMRI while participants performed a memory encoding and retrieval task. Our results suggested that subnetworks are dynamic and tend to fragment relative to a resting-state network partition. From these changes in connectivity, we identified a subset of “movers,” or in other words, nodes that changed their allegiance to subnetworks across all aspects of the task. These findings emphasize that memory is a dynamic process involving changes in task-related functional connectivity across the brain.
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- Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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De Baene W, Rutten GJM, Sitskoorn MM. Cognitive functioning in glioma patients is related to functional connectivity measures of the non-tumoural hemisphere. Eur J Neurosci 2019; 50:3921-3933. [PMID: 31370107 PMCID: PMC6972640 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2018] [Revised: 07/04/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Previous studies have shown that cognitive functioning in patients with brain tumour is associated with the functional network characteristics of specific resting‐state networks or with whole‐brain network characteristics. These studies, however, did not acknowledge the functional contribution of areas in the contralesional, non‐tumoural hemisphere, even though these healthy remote areas likely play a critical role in compensating for the loss of function in damaged tissue. In the current study, we examined whether there is an association between cognitive performance and functional network features of the contralesional hemisphere of patients with glioma. We found that local efficiency of the contralesional hemisphere was associated with performance on the reaction time domain, whereas contralesional assortativity was associated with complex attention and cognitive flexibility scores. Our results suggest that a less segregated organization of the contralesional hemisphere is associated with better reaction time scores, whereas a better spread of information over the contralesional hemisphere through mutually interconnected contralesional hubs is associated with better cognitive flexibility and better complex attention scores. These findings urge researchers to recognize the functional contribution of remote, undamaged regions and to focus more on the graph metrics of the contralesional hemisphere in the search for predictors of cognitive functioning in patients with brain tumour.
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- Wouter De Baene
- Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Loewenstern J, You X, Merchant J, Gordon EM, Stollstorff M, Devaney J, Vaidya CJ. Interactive effect of 5-HTTLPR and BDNF polymorphisms on amygdala intrinsic functional connectivity and anxiety. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2019; 285:1-8. [PMID: 30711709 PMCID: PMC6699775 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2019.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [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: 06/29/2018] [Revised: 01/28/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The serotonin transporter (5-HTTLPR) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene polymorphisms have been associated with risk for affective disorders and functional variability of the amygdala. We examined whether the two genotypes interactively influence intrinsic functional connectivity (FC) of the amygdala and whether FC mediates the genetic association with anxiety. Eighty genotyped healthy adults underwent resting state fMRI and completed the self-reported State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Interactive genetic association with anxiety was observed such that effects of 5-HTTLPR depended on the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism (rs6265 variant), with higher anxiety scores in short and Met carriers compared to the other allelic groups. Voxel-wise FC with left and right amygdala seeds identified regions that were sensitive to variability in anxiety scores. A significant moderated mediation model demonstrated that the effect of 5-HTTLPR genotype on anxiety, moderated by BDNF Val66Met genotype, was fully mediated by FC between the left amygdala and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a cognitive control-related region, during a task-free state. FC was highest in carriers of the 5-HTTLPR short allele and BDNF Met allele. These findings establish intrinsic amygdala-prefrontal functional connectivity as a potential intermediate phenotype for anxiety, an important step toward identification of causal pathways for vulnerability to affective disorders.
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- Joshua Loewenstern
- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, 306 White-Gravenor, Washington, DC 20057, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, 306 White-Gravenor, Washington, DC 20057, United States; Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, 306 White-Gravenor, Washington, DC 20057, United States
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- VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans, Waco, TX, United States; Center for Vital Longevity, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States
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- Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, 306 White-Gravenor, Washington, DC 20057, United States; Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States.
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Joshi SA, Duval ER, Kubat B, Liberzon I. A review of hippocampal activation in post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychophysiology 2019; 57:e13357. [PMID: 30829407 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2018] [Revised: 01/22/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often characterized by deficits in memory encoding and retrieval and aberrant fear and extinction learning. The hippocampus plays a critical role in memory and contextual processing and has been implicated in intrinsic functional connectivity networks involved in self-referential thought and memory-related processes. This review focuses on hippocampal activation findings during memory and fear and extinction learning tasks, as well as resting state hippocampal connectivity in individuals with PTSD. A preponderance of functional neuroimaging studies to date, using memory, fear learning, and extinction tasks, report decreased or "controls comparable" hippocampal activation in individuals with PTSD, which is usually associated with poorer performance on the task imaged. Existing evidence thus raises the possibility that greater hippocampal recruitment in PTSD participants may be required for similar performance levels. Studies of resting state functional connectivity in PTSD predominantly report reduced within-network connectivity in the default mode network (DMN), as well as greater coupling between the DMN and salience network (SN) via the hippocampus. Together, these findings suggest that deficient hippocampal activation in PTSD may be associated with poorer performance during memory, extinction recall, and fear renewal tasks. Furthermore, studies of resting state connectivity implicate the hippocampus in decreased within-network DMN connectivity and greater coupling with SN regions characteristic of PTSD.
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- Sonalee A Joshi
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan.,Department of Psychiatry, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas
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Mendes N, Oligschläger S, Lauckner ME, Golchert J, Huntenburg JM, Falkiewicz M, Ellamil M, Krause S, Baczkowski BM, Cozatl R, Osoianu A, Kumral D, Pool J, Golz L, Dreyer M, Haueis P, Jost R, Kramarenko Y, Engen H, Ohrnberger K, Gorgolewski KJ, Farrugia N, Babayan A, Reiter A, Schaare HL, Reinelt J, Röbbig J, Uhlig M, Erbey M, Gaebler M, Smallwood J, Villringer A, Margulies DS. A functional connectome phenotyping dataset including cognitive state and personality measures. Sci Data 2019; 6:180307. [PMID: 30747913 PMCID: PMC6371896 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2017] [Accepted: 11/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The dataset enables exploration of higher-order cognitive faculties, self-generated mental experience, and personality features in relation to the intrinsic functional architecture of the brain. We provide multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data and a broad set of state and trait phenotypic assessments: mind-wandering, personality traits, and cognitive abilities. Specifically, 194 healthy participants (between 20 and 75 years of age) filled out 31 questionnaires, performed 7 tasks, and reported 4 probes of in-scanner mind-wandering. The scanning session included four 15.5-min resting-state functional MRI runs using a multiband EPI sequence and a hig h-resolution structural scan using a 3D MP2RAGE sequence. This dataset constitutes one part of the MPI-Leipzig Mind-Brain-Body database.
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- Natacha Mendes
- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School NeuroCom, Leipzig, Germany
- Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Neurocomputation and Neuroimaging Unit, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- International Max Planck Research School NeuroCom, Leipzig, Germany
- Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Database management, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- MindBrainBody Institute, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group Cognitive and Affective Control of Behavioural Adaptation, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- MindBrainBody Institute, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- MindBrainBody Institute, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- International Max Planck Research School NeuroCom, Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- International Max Planck Research School NeuroCom, Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- MindBrainBody Institute, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- MindBrainBody Institute, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group for Neuroanatomy & Connectivity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Tzagarakis C, Thompson A, Rogers RD, Pellizzer G. The Degree of Modulation of Beta Band Activity During Motor Planning Is Related to Trait Impulsivity. Front Integr Neurosci 2019; 13:1. [PMID: 30705624 PMCID: PMC6344424 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2019.00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 01/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Impulsivity is a prominent personality trait, and a key modulating component of neurologic and psychiatric disorders. How impulsivity is related to the brain mechanisms associated with action planning is poorly understood. Here, we investigated the relation between impulsivity and the modulation of beta band oscillatory activity associated with action planning and execution. Given that beta power decreases during action planning and decreases further during action execution, we hypothesized that during planning the level of beta band power of more impulsive individuals would be closer to the level reached during execution than that of less impulsive individuals. This could explain the tendency to "jump the gun" (commission errors) in high impulsivity. To test this hypothesis, we recruited healthy volunteers (50 participants analyzed) and used the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale questionnaire to evaluate their impulsivity as high or low. We then recorded their brain neuromagnetic signals while they performed an instructed-delay task that induced different levels of action planning by varying the number of spatial cues, hence the uncertainty, about the location of the upcoming target. During the early cue period of the task, we found a posterior (source localized in the occipito-parietal areas) and a left fronto-central group of channels (source localized in the left sensorimotor areas) where beta power was modulated by number of cues, whereas during the late cue period only the left fronto-central group was modulated. We found that the decrease of relative beta band power during action planning in the left fronto-central group of channels was more pronounced in the high impulsivity group than in the low impulsivity group. In addition, we found that the beta band-mediated functional connectivity between the posterior and the left fronto-central groups of channels was weaker in the high impulsivity group than in the low impulsivity group during the early cue period. Furthermore, high impulsives made more commission and movement errors in the task than low impulsives. These results reveal neural mechanisms through which impulsivity affects action planning and open the way for further study of the role of beta band activity in impulsivity, especially in the context of disease and therapeutics.
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- Charidimos Tzagarakis
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
- Brain Sciences Center, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- College of Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- School of Psychology, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
- Brain Sciences Center, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN, United States
- Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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Unique Mapping of Structural and Functional Connectivity on Cognition. J Neurosci 2018; 38:9658-9667. [PMID: 30249801 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0900-18.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2018] [Revised: 09/04/2018] [Accepted: 09/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The unique mapping of structural brain connectivity (SC) and functional brain connectivity (FC) on cognition is currently not well understood. It is not clear whether cognition is mapped via a global connectome pattern or instead is underpinned by several sets of distributed connectivity patterns. Moreover, we also do not know whether the spatial distributions of SC and FC that underlie cognition are overlapping or distinct. Here, we study the relationship between SC and FC and an array of psychological tasks in 609 subjects (males, 269; females, 340) from the Human Connectome Project. We identified several sets of connections that each uniquely map onto cognitive function. We found a small number of distributed SCs and a larger set of corticocortical and corticosubcortical FCs that express this association. Importantly, the SC and FC each show unique and distinct patterns of variance across subjects as they relate to cognition. The results suggest that a complete understanding of connectome underpinnings of cognition calls for a combination of the two modalities.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Structural connectivity (SC), the physical white-matter inter-regional pathways in the brain, and functional connectivity (FC), the temporal coactivations between the activity of the brain regions, have each been studied extensively. Little is known, however, about the distribution of variance in connections as they relate to cognition. Here, in a large sample of subjects (N = 609), we showed that two sets of brain-behavior patterns capture the correlations between SC and FC with a wide range of cognitive tasks, respectively. These brain-behavior patterns reveal distinct sets of connections within the SC and the FC network and provide new evidence that SC and FC each provide unique information for cognition.
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Working memory capacity and the functional connectome - insights from resting-state fMRI and voxelwise centrality mapping. Brain Imaging Behav 2018; 12:238-246. [PMID: 28247158 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-017-9688-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The functional connectome represents a comprehensive network map of functional connectivity throughout the human brain. To date, the relationship between the organization of functional connectivity and cognitive performance measures is still poorly understood. In the present study we use resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to explore the link between the functional connectome and working memory capacity in an individual differences design. Working memory capacity, which refers to the maximum amount of context information that an individual can retain in the absence of external stimulation, was assessed outside the MRI scanner and estimated based on behavioral data from a change detection task. Resting-state time series were analyzed by means of voxelwise degree and eigenvector centrality mapping, which are data-driven network analytic approaches for the characterization of functional connectivity. We found working memory capacity to be inversely correlated with both centrality in the right intraparietal sulcus. Exploratory analyses revealed that this relationship was putatively driven by an increase in negative connectivity strength of the structure. This resting-state connectivity finding fits previous task based activation studies that have shown that this area responds to manipulations of working memory load.
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Prillwitz CC, Rüber T, Reuter M, Montag C, Weber B, Elger CE, Markett S. The salience network and human personality: Integrity of white matter tracts within anterior and posterior salience network relates to the self-directedness character trait. Brain Res 2018; 1692:66-73. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2018.04.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2018] [Revised: 04/25/2018] [Accepted: 04/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Network Approaches to Understand Individual Differences in Brain Connectivity: Opportunities for Personality Neuroscience. PERSONALITY NEUROSCIENCE 2018; 1. [PMID: 30221246 PMCID: PMC6133307 DOI: 10.1017/pen.2018.4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Over the past decade, advances in the interdisciplinary field of network science have provided a framework for understanding the intrinsic structure and function of human brain networks. A particularly fruitful area of this work has focused on patterns of functional connectivity derived from noninvasive neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging. An important subset of these efforts has bridged the computational approaches of network science with the rich empirical data and biological hypotheses of neuroscience, and this research has begun to identify features of brain networks that explain individual differences in social, emotional, and cognitive functioning. The most common approach estimates connections assuming a single configuration of edges that is stable across the experimental session. In the literature, this is referred to as a static network approach, and researchers measure static brain networks while a subject is either at rest or performing a cognitively demanding task. Research on social and emotional functioning has primarily focused on linking static brain networks with individual differences, but recent advances have extended this work to examine temporal fluctuations in dynamic brain networks. Mounting evidence suggests that both the strength and flexibility of time-evolving brain networks influence individual differences in executive function, attention, working memory, and learning. In this review, we first examine the current evidence for brain networks involved in cognitive functioning. Then we review some preliminary evidence linking static network properties to individual differences in social and emotional functioning. We then discuss the applicability of emerging dynamic network methods for examining individual differences in social and emotional functioning. We close with an outline of important frontiers at the intersection between network science and neuroscience that will enhance our understanding of the neurobiological underpinnings of social behavior.
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Brodmann K, Gruber O, Goya-Maldonado R. Intranasal Oxytocin Selectively Modulates Large-Scale Brain Networks in Humans. Brain Connect 2018; 7:454-463. [PMID: 28762756 PMCID: PMC5647506 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2017.0528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A growing body of evidence indicates that the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) alters the neural correlates of socioemotional and salience processing. Yet the effects of OT over important large-scale networks involved in these processes, such as the default mode (DM), ventral attention (VA), and cingulo-opercular (CO) networks, remain unknown. Therefore, we conducted a placebo-controlled crossover study with intranasal 24 IU OT in 38 healthy male subjects using a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm to investigate its impact over these three networks candidates. To understand the underlying mechanisms of the neuropeptide, we compared the intranetwork connectivity for each network candidate and also the internetwork connectivity across all networks between both treatment conditions. Based on the relevance of interindividual factors for OT effects, we correlated individual network changes with behavioral performance in a decision-making task and with impulsivity scores. Our results show that OT mainly alters connectivity in the VA, on one side reducing the coupling to regions that typically form the nodes of DM, an introspective and self-referential network, and on the other side increasing the coupling to the edges of the CO, which is involved in salience processing. The results of the internetwork analyses confirmed the specificity of the OT effects. Indeed, we observed significant correlations with the erroneous performance during decision-making but not with the obtained impulsivity scores. Overall, our data support that the modulation of functional connectivity within the VA is a basic mechanism by which OT directs attentional resources from internal to external cues, preparing the brain for context-dependent salience processing.
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- Katja Brodmann
- 1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, University Medical Center , Göttingen, Germany .,2 Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Medicina Molecular , Lisbon, Portugal
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- 1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, University Medical Center , Göttingen, Germany .,3 Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University , Heidelberg, Germany
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- 1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Center for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, University Medical Center , Göttingen, Germany .,4 The Systems Neuroscience and Imaging in Psychiatry (SNIP) Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center , Göttingen, Germany
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Chamberland M, Girard G, Bernier M, Fortin D, Descoteaux M, Whittingstall K. On the Origin of Individual Functional Connectivity Variability: The Role of White Matter Architecture. Brain Connect 2018; 7:491-503. [PMID: 28825322 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2017.0539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Fingerprint patterns derived from functional connectivity (FC) can be used to identify subjects across groups and sessions, indicating that the topology of the brain substantially differs between individuals. However, the source of FC variability inferred from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging remains unclear. One possibility is that these variations are related to individual differences in white matter structural connectivity (SC). However, directly comparing FC with SC is challenging given the many potential biases associated with quantifying their respective strengths. In an attempt to circumvent this, we employed a recently proposed test-retest approach that better quantifies inter-subject variability by first correcting for intra-subject nuisance variability (i.e., head motion, physiological differences in brain state, etc.) that can artificially influence FC and SC measures. Therefore, rather than directly comparing the strength of FC with SC, we asked whether brain regions with, for example, low inter-subject FC variability also exhibited low SC variability. From this, we report two main findings: First, at the whole-brain level, SC variability was significantly lower than FC variability, indicating that an individual's structural connectome is far more similar to another relative to their functional counterpart even after correcting for noise. Second, although FC and SC variability were mutually low in some brain areas (e.g., primary somatosensory cortex) and high in others (e.g., memory and language areas), the two were not significantly correlated across all cortical and sub-cortical regions. Taken together, these results indicate that even after correcting for factors that may differently affect FC and SC, the two, nonetheless, remain largely independent of one another. Further work is needed to understand the role that direct anatomical pathways play in supporting vascular-based measures of FC and to what extent these measures are dictated by anatomical connectivity.
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- Maxime Chamberland
- 1 Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sherbrooke , Sherbrooke, Canada .,2 Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), Cardiff University , Cardiff, United Kingdom
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- 3 Sherbrooke Connectivity Imaging Lab (SCIL), Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science, University of Sherbrooke , Sherbrooke, Canada .,4 Signal Processing Lab (LTS5) , Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- 1 Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sherbrooke , Sherbrooke, Canada
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- 5 Division of Neurosurgery and Neuro-Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sherbrooke , Sherbrooke, Canada
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- 3 Sherbrooke Connectivity Imaging Lab (SCIL), Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science, University of Sherbrooke , Sherbrooke, Canada
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- 1 Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Sherbrooke , Sherbrooke, Canada
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Kolla NJ, Dunlop K, Meyer JH, Downar J. Corticostriatal Connectivity in Antisocial Personality Disorder by MAO-A Genotype and Its Relationship to Aggressive Behavior. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2018; 21:725-733. [PMID: 29746646 PMCID: PMC6070029 DOI: 10.1093/ijnp/pyy035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Accepted: 05/01/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The influence of genetic variation on resting-state neural networks represents a burgeoning line of inquiry in psychiatric research. Monoamine oxidase A, an X-linked gene, is one example of a molecular target linked to brain activity in psychiatric illness. Monoamine oxidase A genetic variants, including the high and low variable nucleotide tandem repeat polymorphisms, have been shown to differentially affect brain functional connectivity in healthy humans. However, it is currently unknown whether these same polymorphisms influence resting-state brain activity in clinical conditions. Given its high burden on society and strong connection to violent behavior, antisocial personality disorder is a logical condition to study, since in vivo markers of monoamine oxidase A brain enzyme are reduced in key affect-modulating regions, and striatal levels of monoamine oxidase A show a relation with the functional connectivity of this same region. METHODS We utilized monoamine oxidase A genotyping and seed-to-voxel-based functional connectivity to investigate the relationship between genotype and corticostriatal connectivity in 21 male participants with severe antisocial personality disorder and 19 male healthy controls. RESULTS Dorsal striatal connectivity to the frontal pole and anterior cingulate gyrus differentiated antisocial personality disorder subjects and healthy controls by monoamine oxidase A genotype. Furthermore, the linear relationship of proactive aggression to superior ventral striatal-angular gyrus functional connectivity differed by monoamine oxidase A genotype in the antisocial personality disorder groups. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that monoamine oxidase A genotype may affect corticostriatal connectivity in antisocial personality disorder and that these functional connections may also underlie use of proactive aggression in a genotype-specific manner.
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- Nathan J Kolla
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Research Imaging Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,Violence Prevention Neurobiological Research Unit, CAMH, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,Correspondence: Nathan Kolla, MD, PhD, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Room 626, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 1R8 ()
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- Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Research Imaging Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Ketcherside A, Filbey FM, Aubert PM, Seibyl JP, Price JL, Adinoff B. Brain intrinsic network connectivity in individuals with frequent tanning behavior. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE 2018; 44:668-677. [PMID: 29714526 DOI: 10.1080/00952990.2018.1461878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Emergent studies suggest a bidirectional relationship between brain functioning and the skin. This neurocutaneous connection may be responsible for the reward response to tanning and, thus, may contribute to excessive tanning behavior. To date, however, this association has not yet been examined. OBJECTIVES To explore whether intrinsic brain functional connectivity within the default mode network (DMN) is related to indoor tanning behavior. METHODS Resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) was obtained in twenty adults (16 females) with a history of indoor tanning. Using a seed-based [(posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)] approach, the relationship between tanning severity and FC strength was assessed. Tanning severity was measured with symptom count from the Structured Clinical Interview for Tanning Abuse and Dependence (SITAD) and tanning intensity (lifetime indoor tanning episodes/years tanning). RESULTS rsFC strength between the PCC and other DMN regions (left globus pallidus, left medial frontal gyrus, left superior frontal gyrus) is positively correlated with tanning symptom count. rsFC strength between the PCC and salience network regions (right anterior cingulate cortex, left inferior parietal lobe, left inferior temporal gyrus) is correlated with tanning intensity. CONCLUSION Greater connectivity between tanning severity and DMN and salience network connectivity suggests that heightened self-awareness of salient stimuli may be a mechanism that underlies frequent tanning behavior. These findings add to the growing evidence of brain-skin connection and reflect dysregulation in the reward processing networks in those with frequent tanning.
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- Ariel Ketcherside
- a Center for Brain Health , University of Texas Dallas , Dallas , TX , USA
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- a Center for Brain Health , University of Texas Dallas , Dallas , TX , USA
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- b Department of Dermatology , University of Texas Southwestern , Dallas , TX , USA
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- c Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders, Molecular Neuroimaging , LLC, and Yale University , New Haven , CT , USA
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- d Department of Psychiatry , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA
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- e Department of Psychiatry , University of Texas Southwestern , Dallas , TX , USA.,f Mental Health , VA North Texas Health Care System , Dallas , TX , USA
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Rueter AR, Abram SV, MacDonald AW, Rustichini A, DeYoung CG. The goal priority network as a neural substrate of Conscientiousness. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:3574-3585. [PMID: 29691946 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2017] [Revised: 03/15/2018] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Conscientiousness is a personality trait associated with many important life outcomes, but little is known about the mechanisms that underlie it. We investigated its neural correlates using functional connectivity analysis in fMRI, which identifies brain regions that act in synchrony. We tested the hypothesis that a broad network resembling a combination of the salience and ventral attention networks, which we provisionally label the goal priority network (GPN), is a neural correlate of Conscientiousness. Self- and peer-ratings of Conscientiousness were collected in a community sample of adults who underwent a resting-state fMRI scan (N = 218). An independent components analysis yielded five components that overlapped substantially with the GPN. We examined synchrony within and between these GPN subcomponents. Synchrony within one of the components-mainly comprising regions of anterior insula, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex-was significantly associated with Conscientiousness. Connectivity between this component and the four other GPN components was also significantly associated with Conscientiousness. Our results support the hypothesis that variation in a network that enables prioritization of multiple goals may be central to Conscientiousness.
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- Amanda R Rueter
- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Risk seeking for losses modulates the functional connectivity of the default mode and left frontoparietal networks in young males. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 2018; 18:536-549. [DOI: 10.3758/s13415-018-0586-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Zhang H, Sachdev PS, Thalamuthu A, He Y, Xia M, Kochan NA, Crawford JD, Trollor JN, Brodaty H, Wen W. The relationship between voxel-based metrics of resting state functional connectivity and cognitive performance in cognitively healthy elderly adults. Brain Imaging Behav 2018; 12:1742-1758. [PMID: 29464531 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-018-9843-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In previous studies, resting-state functional connectivity (FC) metrics of specific brain regions or networks based on prior hypotheses have been correlated with cognitive performance. Without constraining our analyses to specific regions or networks, we employed whole-brain voxel-based weighted degree (WD), a measure of local FC strength, to be correlated with three commonly used neuropsychological assessments of language, executive function and memory retrieval in both positive and negative directions in 67 cognitively healthy elderly adults. We also divided voxel-based WD into short-ranged and long-ranged WDs to evaluate the influence of FC distance on the WD-cognition relationship, and performed three validation tests. Our results showed that for language and executive function tests, positive WD correlates were located in the frontal and temporal cortices, and negative WD correlates in the precuneus and occipital cortices; for memory retrieval, positive WD correlates were located in the inferior temporal cortices, and negative WD correlates in the anterior cingulate cortices and supplementary motor areas. An FC-distance-dependent effect was also observed, with the short-ranged WD correlates of language and executive function tests located in the medial brain regions and the long-ranged WD correlates in the lateral regions. Our findings suggest that inter-individual differences in FC at rest are predictive of cognitive ability in the elderly adults. Moreover, the distinct patterns of positive and negative WD correlates of cognitive performance recapitulate the dichotomy between task-activated and task-deactivated neural systems, implying that a competition between distinct neural systems on functional network topology may have cognitive relevance.
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- Haobo Zhang
- College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
- Neuropsychiatric Institute, NPI, Euroa Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Barker Street, Randwick, NSW, 2031, Australia.
- Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, School of Psychiatry, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Neuropsychiatric Institute, NPI, Euroa Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Barker Street, Randwick, NSW, 2031, Australia
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, School of Psychiatry, UNSW Australia, NSW, 2052, Sydney, Australia
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Academic Department for Old Age Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, 2031, Australia
- Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, School of Psychiatry, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
- Neuropsychiatric Institute, NPI, Euroa Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Barker Street, Randwick, NSW, 2031, Australia.
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