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Zhang S, Jung K, Langner R, Florin E, Eickhoff SB, Popovych OV. Impact of data processing varieties on DCM estimates of effective connectivity from task-fMRI. Hum Brain Mapp 2024; 45:e26751. [PMID: 38864293 PMCID: PMC11167406 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26751] [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: 06/20/2023] [Revised: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 05/22/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024] Open
Abstract
Effective connectivity (EC) refers to directional or causal influences between interacting neuronal populations or brain regions and can be estimated from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data via dynamic causal modeling (DCM). In contrast to functional connectivity, the impact of data processing varieties on DCM estimates of task-evoked EC has hardly ever been addressed. We therefore investigated how task-evoked EC is affected by choices made for data processing. In particular, we considered the impact of global signal regression (GSR), block/event-related design of the general linear model (GLM) used for the first-level task-evoked fMRI analysis, type of activation contrast, and significance thresholding approach. Using DCM, we estimated individual and group-averaged task-evoked EC within a brain network related to spatial conflict processing for all the parameters considered and compared the differences in task-evoked EC between any two data processing conditions via between-group parametric empirical Bayes (PEB) analysis and Bayesian data comparison (BDC). We observed strongly varying patterns of the group-averaged EC depending on the data processing choices. In particular, task-evoked EC and parameter certainty were strongly impacted by GLM design and type of activation contrast as revealed by PEB and BDC, respectively, whereas they were little affected by GSR and the type of significance thresholding. The event-related GLM design appears to be more sensitive to task-evoked modulations of EC, but provides model parameters with lower certainty than the block-based design, while the latter is more sensitive to the type of activation contrast than is the event-related design. Our results demonstrate that applying different reasonable data processing choices can substantially alter task-evoked EC as estimated by DCM. Such choices should be made with care and, whenever possible, varied across parallel analyses to evaluate their impact and identify potential convergence for robust outcomes.
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- Shufei Zhang
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM‐7)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
- Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Medical FacultyHeinrich‐Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM‐7)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
- Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Medical FacultyHeinrich‐Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM‐7)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
- Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Medical FacultyHeinrich‐Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
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- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical FacultyHeinrich‐Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM‐7)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
- Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Medical FacultyHeinrich‐Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM‐7)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
- Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Medical FacultyHeinrich‐Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
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Ramos BER, Inozemtseva O. Impaired cognitive control moderates the relation between the attribution of incentive salience and severity of consumption in patients with methamphetamine dependence. Drug Alcohol Depend 2023; 249:110816. [PMID: 37329731 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.110816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2023] [Revised: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Cognitive control and the attribution of incentive salience are two key neuropsychological processes proposed to explain substance use disorder (SUD). However, little is known about how they interact to influence the severity of drug use in people with SUD. OBJECTIVE To determine if cognitive control exerts a moderating effect on the relation between the attribution of salience to drug/reward-related cues and the severity of drug use in SUD cases. METHOD Sixty-nine SUD cases with methamphetamine as the main drug of consumption were selected and evaluated. Participants performed the Stroop, Go/No-Go, and Flanker tasks to identify a latent cognitive control factor, and the Effort-Expenditure for Reward task, as well as answering the Methamphetamine Incentive Salience Questionnaire to measure the attribution of incentive salience. Severity of drug use was determined by the KMSK scale and an exploratory clinical interview. RESULTS As expected, higher incentive salience attribution predicted greater severity of methamphetamine use. Unexpectedly, however, we found a moderating effect of impaired cognitive control on the relations between higher incentive salience scores and higher monthly drug use, and between younger age at onset of systematic drug use and higher incentive salience scores. CONCLUSION Results show the moderating role of cognitive control on the relation between incentive salience attribution and severity of drug use in SUD cases, and help explain the chronic, relapsing nature of addiction, knowledge necessary to develop more precise prevention and treatment strategies.
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- Instituto de Neurociencias, CUCBA, Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; Departamento de Estudios en Educación, CUCSH, Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
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Ma L, Cunningham KA, Anastasio NC, Bjork JM, Taylor BA, Arias AJ, Riley BP, Snyder AD, Moeller FG. A serotonergic biobehavioral signature differentiates cocaine use disorder participants administered mirtazapine. Transl Psychiatry 2022; 12:187. [PMID: 35523779 PMCID: PMC9076859 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-022-01934-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Revised: 04/10/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cocaine use disorder (CUD) patients display heterogenous symptoms and unforeseeable responses to available treatment approaches, highlighting the need to identify objective, accessible biobehavioral signatures to predict clinical trial success in this population. In the present experiments, we employed a task-based behavioral and pharmacogenetic-fMRI approach to address this gap. Craving, an intense desire to take cocaine, can be evoked by exposure to cocaine-associated stimuli which can trigger relapse during attempted recovery. Attentional bias towards cocaine-associated words is linked to enhanced effective connectivity (EC) from the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to hippocampus in CUD participants, an observation which was replicated in a new cohort of participants in the present studies. Serotonin regulates attentional bias to cocaine and the serotonergic antagonist mirtazapine decreased activated EC associated with attentional bias, with greater effectiveness in those CUD participants carrying the wild-type 5-HT2CR gene relative to a 5-HT2CR single nucleotide polymorphism (rs6318). These data suggest that the wild-type 5-HT2CR is necessary for the efficacy of mirtazapine to decrease activated EC in CUD participants and that mirtazapine may serve as an abstinence enhancer to mitigate brain substrates of craving in response to cocaine-associated stimuli in participants with this pharmacogenetic descriptor. These results are distinctive in outlining a richer "fingerprint" of the complex neurocircuitry, behavior and pharmacogenetics profile of CUD participants which may provide insight into success of future medications development projects.
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- Liangsuo Ma
- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States.
- Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States.
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- Center for Addiction Research and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States.
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- Center for Addiction Research and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
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- Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
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Oliva V, Gregory R, Davies WE, Harrison L, Moran R, Pickering AE, Brooks JCW. Parallel cortical-brainstem pathways to attentional analgesia. Neuroimage 2020; 226:117548. [PMID: 33186712 PMCID: PMC7836236 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2020] [Revised: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Pain demands attention, yet pain can be reduced by focusing attention elsewhere. The neural processes involved in this robust psychophysical phenomenon, attentional analgesia, are still being defined. Our previous fMRI study linked activity in the brainstem triad of locus coeruleus (LC), rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) and periaqueductal grey (PAG) with attentional analgesia. Here we identify and model the functional interactions between these regions and the cortex in healthy human subjects (n = 57), who received painful thermal stimuli whilst simultaneously performing a visual attention task. RVM activity encoded pain intensity while contralateral LC activity correlated with attentional analgesia. Psycho-Physiological Interaction analysis and Dynamic Causal Modelling identified two parallel paths between forebrain and brainstem. These connections are modulated by attentional demand: a bidirectional anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) - right-LC loop, and a top-down influence of task on ACC-PAG-RVM. By recruiting discrete brainstem circuits, the ACC is able to modulate nociceptive input to reduce pain in situations of conflicting attentional demand.
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- Valeria Oliva
- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom; Anaesthesia, Pain and Critical Care Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University Hospitals Bristol, Bristol BS2 8HW, United Kingdom
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom; Anaesthesia, Pain and Critical Care Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University Hospitals Bristol, Bristol BS2 8HW, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, 12a Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, SE5 8AF, United Kingdom
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom; Anaesthesia, Pain and Critical Care Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University Hospitals Bristol, Bristol BS2 8HW, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, 12a Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU, United Kingdom.
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Wang Z, Dong H, Du X, Zhang JT, Dong GH. Decreased effective connection from the parahippocampal gyrus to the prefrontal cortex in Internet gaming disorder: A MVPA and spDCM study. J Behav Addict 2020; 9:105-115. [PMID: 32359234 PMCID: PMC8935187 DOI: 10.1556/2006.2020.00012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is essential for the condition's diagnosis and treatment. Nevertheless, the pathological mechanisms of IGD remain elusive at present. Hence, we employed multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) and spectral dynamic causal modeling (spDCM) to explore this issue. METHODS Resting-state fMRI data were collected from 103 IGD subjects (male = 57) and 99 well-matched recreational game users (RGUs, male = 51). Regional homogeneity was calculated as the feature for MVPA based on the support vector machine (SVM) with leave-one- out cross-validation. Mean time series data extracted from the brain regions in accordance with the MVPA results were used for further spDCM analysis. RESULTS Results display a high accuracy of 82.67% (sensitivity of 83.50% and specificity of 81.82%) in the classification of the two groups. The most discriminative brain regions that contributed to the classification were the bilateral parahippocampal gyrus (PG), right anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and middle frontal gyrus (MFG). Significant correlations were found between addiction severity (IAT and DSM scores) and the ReHo values of the brain regions that contributed to the classification. Moreover, the results of spDCM showed that compared with RGU, IGD showed decreased effective connectivity from the left PG to the right MFG and from the right PG to the ACC and decreased self-connection in the right PG. CONCLUSIONS These results show that the weakening of the PG and its connection with the prefrontal cortex, including the ACC and MFG, may be an underlying mechanism of IGD.
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- Ziliang Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China,Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, PR China
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- Department of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, PR China
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- Department of Physics, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, East China Normal University, Shanghai, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, PR China,Corresponding author. Tel./fax: +86 10 58800728. E-mail:
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- Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, PR China,Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Research in Assessment of Cognitive Impairments, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, PR China,Corresponding author. Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China. Tel.: +86 15 867949909. E-mail:
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Wang M, Zheng H, Du X, Dong G. Mapping Internet gaming disorder using effective connectivity: A spectral dynamic causal modeling study. Addict Behav 2019; 90:62-70. [PMID: 30366150 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2018] [Revised: 09/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTS Understanding the neural basis underlying Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of this type of behavioural addiction. Aberrant resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the default mode network (DMN) has been reported in individuals with IGD. Since rsFC is not a directional analysis, the effective connectivity within the DMN in IGD remains unclear. Here, we employed spectral dynamic causal modeling (spDCM) to explore this issue. METHODS Resting state fMRI data were collected from 64 IGD (age: 22.6 ± 2.2) and 63 well-matched recreational Internet game users (RGU, age: 23.1 ± 2.5). Voxel-based mean time series data extracted from the 4 brain regions within the DMN (medial prefrontal cortex, mPFC; posterior cingulate cortex, PCC; bilateral inferior parietal lobule, left IPL/right IPL) of two groups during the resting state were used for the spDCM analysis. RESULTS Compared with RGU, IGD showed reduced effective connectivity from the mPFC to the PCC and from the left IPL to the mPFC, with reduced self-connection in the PCC and the left IPL. CONCLUSIONS The spDCM could distinguish the changes in the functional architecture between two groups more precisely than rsFC. Our findings suggest that the decreased excitatory connectivity from the mPFC to the PCC may be a crucial biomarker for IGD. Future brain-based intervention should pay attention to dysregulation in the IPL-mPFC-PCC circuits.
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He Q, Huang X, Zhang S, Turel O, Ma L, Bechara A. Dynamic Causal Modeling of Insular, Striatal, and Prefrontal Cortex Activities During a Food-Specific Go/NoGo Task. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2019; 4:1080-1089. [PMID: 30691967 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate the dynamic interactions among three neural systems that are implicated in substance and behavioral addictions in response to food cues in young adults. These include an impulsive system involving the striatum, a reflective system involving the prefrontal cortex, and a homeostasis sensing system involving the insular cortex. METHODS College students (N = 45) with various levels of body mass index were recruited. Functional magnetic resonance imaging data were acquired while participants performed food-related Go/NoGo tasks, with low-calorie and high-calorie food cues. Participants were scanned under both food satiety and deprivation conditions. Dynamic causal modeling was applied to the data to examine the causal architecture of coupled or distributed dynamics among the aforementioned systems. RESULTS Participants showed difficulty inhibiting responses to high-calorie foods as suggested by higher false alarm rate and decision bias for low-calorie food Go task. This difficulty was enhanced during the food deprivation condition. Deprivation increased neural activity of both the insula and the striatum bilaterally in response to high-calorie foods during Go trials and anterior cingulate cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activity during NoGo trials. Dynamic causal modeling analysis revealed that food deprivation modulated the communications between the insula, striatum, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and the modulations were positively associated with body mass index. CONCLUSIONS The results support tripartite views of decision making. Deprivation states, such as hunger, trigger insular activity, which modulates the balance between impulsive and reflective systems when facing tempting food cues.
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- Qinghua He
- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beibei, Chongqing; Chongqing Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beibei, Chongqing; Southwest University Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beibei, Chongqing.
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beibei, Chongqing
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- Faculty of Education, Guangxi Normal University, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Applied Psychology, Guilin, Guangxi, China
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- Information Systems and Decision Sciences, California State University, Fullerton, California; Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Radiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Richmond, Virginia
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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Ma L, Steinberg JL, Cunningham KA, Bjork JM, Lane SD, Schmitz JM, Burroughs T, Narayana PA, Kosten TR, Bechara A, Moeller FG. Altered anterior cingulate cortex to hippocampus effective connectivity in response to drug cues in men with cocaine use disorder. Psychiatry Res 2018; 271:59-66. [PMID: 29108734 PMCID: PMC5741507 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2017] [Revised: 08/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
Drug-related attentional bias may have significant implications for the treatment of cocaine use disorder (CocUD). However, the neurobiology of attentional bias is not completely understood. This study employed dynamic causal modeling (DCM) to conduct an analysis of effective (directional) connectivity involved in drug-related attentional bias in treatment-seeking CocUD subjects. The DCM analysis was conducted based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data acquired from fifteen CocUD subjects while performing a cocaine-word Stroop task, during which blocks of Cocaine Words (CW) and Neutral Words (NW) alternated. There was no significant attentional bias at group level. Although no significant brain activation was found, the DCM analysis found that, relative to the NW, the CW caused a significant increase in the strength of the right (R) anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to R hippocampus effective connectivity. Greater increase of this connectivity was associated with greater CW reaction time (relative to NW reaction time). The increased strength of R ACC to R hippocampus connectivity may reflect ACC activation of hippocampal memories related to drug use, which was triggered by the drug cues. This circuit could be a potential target for therapeutics in CocUD patients. No significant change was found in the other modeled connectivities.
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- Liangsuo Ma
- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Richmond, VA, USA; Department of Radiology, Richmond, VA, USA.
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Richmond, VA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, USA
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- Center for Addiction Research and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Richmond, VA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC), Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC), Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, UTHSC, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute, and Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Richmond, VA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, USA; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Richmond, VA, USA; Department of Neurology, VCU, Richmond, VA, USA
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Yang Y, Zhong N, Friston K, Imamura K, Lu S, Li M, Zhou H, Wang H, Li K, Hu B. The functional architectures of addition and subtraction: Network discovery using fMRI and DCM. Hum Brain Mapp 2017; 38:3210-3225. [PMID: 28345153 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2016] [Revised: 01/25/2017] [Accepted: 03/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The neuronal mechanisms underlying arithmetic calculations are not well understood but the differences between mental addition and subtraction could be particularly revealing. Using fMRI and dynamic causal modeling (DCM), this study aimed to identify the distinct neuronal architectures engaged by the cognitive processes of simple addition and subtraction. Our results revealed significantly greater activation during subtraction in regions along the dorsal pathway, including the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), middle portion of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (mDLPFC), and supplementary motor area (SMA), compared with addition. Subsequent analysis of the underlying changes in connectivity - with DCM - revealed a common circuit processing basic (numeric) attributes and the retrieval of arithmetic facts. However, DCM showed that addition was more likely to engage (numeric) retrieval-based circuits in the left hemisphere, while subtraction tended to draw on (magnitude) processing in bilateral parietal cortex, especially the right intraparietal sulcus (IPS). Our findings endorse previous hypotheses about the differences in strategic implementation, dominant hemisphere, and the neuronal circuits underlying addition and subtraction. Moreover, for simple arithmetic, our connectivity results suggest that subtraction calls on more complex processing than addition: auxiliary phonological, visual, and motor processes, for representing numbers, were engaged by subtraction, relative to addition. Hum Brain Mapp 38:3210-3225, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Yang Yang
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,Department of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi, Japan.,Beijing International Collaboration Base on Brain Informatics and Wisdom Services, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,Department of Life Science and Informatics, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi, Japan.,International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,Beijing International Collaboration Base on Brain Informatics and Wisdom Services, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Systems Life Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Maebashi, Japan
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,Beijing International Collaboration Base on Brain Informatics and Wisdom Services, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,Beijing International Collaboration Base on Brain Informatics and Wisdom Services, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,Beijing International Collaboration Base on Brain Informatics and Wisdom Services, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Internet Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.,Beijing International Collaboration Base on Brain Informatics and Wisdom Services, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of MRI and Brain Informatics, Beijing, China.,Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Ubiquitous Awareness and Intelligent Solutions Lab, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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Cha J, DeDora D, Nedic S, Ide J, Greenberg T, Hajcak G, Mujica-Parodi LR. Clinically Anxious Individuals Show Disrupted Feedback between Inferior Frontal Gyrus and Prefrontal-Limbic Control Circuit. J Neurosci 2016; 36:4708-18. [PMID: 27122030 PMCID: PMC6601720 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1092-15.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2015] [Revised: 02/10/2016] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
UNLABELLED Clinical anxiety is associated with generalization of conditioned fear, in which innocuous stimuli elicit alarm. Using Pavlovian fear conditioning (electric shock), we quantify generalization as the degree to which subjects' neurobiological responses track perceptual similarity gradients to a conditioned stimulus. Previous studies show that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) inversely and ventral tegmental area directly track the gradient of perceptual similarity to the conditioned stimulus in healthy individuals, whereas clinically anxious individuals fail to discriminate. Here, we extend this work by identifying specific functional roles within the prefrontal-limbic circuit. We analyzed fMRI time-series acquired from 57 human subjects during a fear generalization task using entropic measures of circuit-wide regulation and feedback (power spectrum scale invariance/autocorrelation), in combination with structural (diffusion MRI-probabilistic tractography) and functional (stochastic dynamic causal modeling) measures of prefrontal-limbic connectivity within the circuit. Group comparison and correlations with anxiety severity across 57 subjects revealed dysregulatory dynamic signatures within the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), which our prior work has linked to impaired feedback within the circuit. Bayesian model selection then identified a fully connected prefrontal-limbic model comprising the IFG, vmPFC, and amygdala. Dysregulatory IFG dynamics were associated with weaker reciprocal excitatory connectivity between the IFG and the vmPFC. The vmPFC exhibited inhibitory influence on the amygdala. Our current results, combined with our previous work across a threat-perception spectrum of 137 subjects and a meta-analysis of 366 fMRI studies, dissociate distinct roles for three prefrontal-limbic regions, wherein the IFG provides evaluation of stimulus meaning, which then informs the vmPFC in inhibiting the amygdala. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Affective neuroscience has generally treated prefrontal regions (orbitofrontal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, inferior frontal gyrus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex) equivalently as inhibitory components of the prefrontal-limbic system. Yet research across the anxiety spectrum suggests that the inferior frontal gyrus may have a more complex role in emotion regulation, as this region shows abnormal function in disorders of both hyperarousal and hypoarousal. Using entropic measures of circuit-wide regulation and feedback, in combination with measures of structural and functional connectivity, we dissociate distinct roles for three prefrontal-limbic regions, wherein the inferior frontal gyrus provides evaluation of stimulus meaning, which then informs the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in inhibiting the amygdala. This reconfiguration coheres with studies of conceptual disambiguation also implicating the inferior frontal gyrus.
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- Jiook Cha
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York 10032
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York 11794, Department of Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, and
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York 11794, Department of Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, and
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York 11794, Department of Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, and
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York 11794, Department of Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, and
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Zhang J, Li B, Gao J, Shi H, Wang X, Jiang Y, Ming Q, Gao Y, Ma R, Yao S. Impaired Frontal-Basal Ganglia Connectivity in Male Adolescents with Conduct Disorder. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0145011. [PMID: 26658732 PMCID: PMC4682835 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
Abstract
Alack of inhibition control has been found in subjects with conduct disorder (CD), but the underlying neuropathophysiology remains poorly understood. The current study investigated the different mechanism of inhibition control in adolescent-onset CD males (n = 29) and well-matched healthy controls (HCs) (n = 40) when performing a GoStop task by functional magnetic resonance images. Effective connectivity (EC) within the inhibition control network was analyzed using a stochastic dynamic causality model. We found that EC within the inhibition control network was significantly different in the CD group when compared to the HCs. Exploratory relationship analysis revealed significant negative associations between EC between the IFG and striatum and behavioral scale scores in the CD group. These results suggest for the first time that the failure of inhibition control in subjects with CD might be associated with aberrant connectivity of the frontal–basal ganglia pathways, especially between the IFG and striatum.
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- Jibiao Zhang
- Department of Psychology, School of Education, Jianghan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
- Medical Psychological Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
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- Centre of Buddhist Studies, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Medical Psychological Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Medical Psychological Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Medical Psychological Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Medical Psychological Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Medical Psychological Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Medical Psychological Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
- National Technology Institute of Psychiatry, Changsha, Hunan, China
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Ma L, Steinberg JL, Moeller FG, Johns SE, Narayana PA. Effect of cocaine dependence on brain connections: clinical implications. Expert Rev Neurother 2015; 15:1307-19. [PMID: 26512421 DOI: 10.1586/14737175.2015.1103183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Cocaine dependence (CD) is associated with several cognitive deficits. Accumulating evidence, based on human and animal studies, has led to models for interpreting the neural basis of cognitive functions as interactions between functionally related brain regions. In this review, we focus on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies using brain connectivity techniques as related to CD. The majority of these brain connectivity studies indicated that cocaine use is associated with altered brain connectivity between different structures, including cortical-striatal regions and default mode network. In cocaine users some of the altered brain connectivity measures are associated with behavioral performance, history of drug use, and treatment outcome. The implications of these brain connectivity findings to the treatment of CD and the pros and cons of the major brain connectivity techniques are discussed. Finally potential future directions in cocaine use disorder research using brain connectivity techniques are briefly described.
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- Liangsuo Ma
- a Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies , Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) , Richmond , VA , USA.,b Department of Radiology , VCU , Richmond , VA , USA
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- a Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies , Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) , Richmond , VA , USA.,c Department of Psychiatry , VCU , Richmond , VA , USA
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- a Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies , Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) , Richmond , VA , USA.,c Department of Psychiatry , VCU , Richmond , VA , USA.,d Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology , VCU , Richmond , VA , USA.,e Department of Neurology , VCU , Richmond , VA , USA
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- a Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies , Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) , Richmond , VA , USA.,c Department of Psychiatry , VCU , Richmond , VA , USA
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- f Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging , University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) , Houston , TX , USA
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Ma L, Steinberg JL, Cunningham KA, Lane SD, Bjork JM, Neelakantan H, Price AE, Narayana PA, Kosten TR, Bechara A, Moeller FG. Inhibitory behavioral control: A stochastic dynamic causal modeling study comparing cocaine dependent subjects and controls. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2015; 7:837-47. [PMID: 26082893 PMCID: PMC4459041 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2015] [Revised: 03/02/2015] [Accepted: 03/19/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Abstract
Cocaine dependence is associated with increased impulsivity in humans. Both cocaine dependence and impulsive behavior are under the regulatory control of cortico-striatal networks. One behavioral laboratory measure of impulsivity is response inhibition (ability to withhold a prepotent response) in which altered patterns of regional brain activation during executive tasks in service of normal performance are frequently found in cocaine dependent (CD) subjects studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, little is known about aberrations in specific directional neuronal connectivity in CD subjects. The present study employed fMRI-based dynamic causal modeling (DCM) to study the effective (directional) neuronal connectivity associated with response inhibition in CD subjects, elicited under performance of a Go/NoGo task with two levels of NoGo difficulty (Easy and Hard). The performance on the Go/NoGo task was not significantly different between CD subjects and controls. The DCM analysis revealed that prefrontal–striatal connectivity was modulated (influenced) during the NoGo conditions for both groups. The effective connectivity from left (L) anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to L caudate was similarly modulated during the Easy NoGo condition for both groups. During the Hard NoGo condition in controls, the effective connectivity from right (R) dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) to L caudate became more positive, and the effective connectivity from R ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) to L caudate became more negative. In CD subjects, the effective connectivity from L ACC to L caudate became more negative during the Hard NoGo conditions. These results indicate that during Hard NoGo trials in CD subjects, the ACC rather than DLPFC or VLPFC influenced caudate during response inhibition. Dynamic causal modeling was used to study response inhibition in cocaine dependence. A Go/NoGo task with two levels of NoGo difficulty (Easy and Hard) was used. Patients and controls used anterior cingulate cortex to control caudate during Easy NoGo. Controls used dorsolateral/ventrolateral prefrontal cortex to control caudate during Hard NoGo. Patients continued using anterior cingulate cortex to control caudate during Hard NoGo.
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- Liangsuo Ma
- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, USA ; Department of Radiology, VCU, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, USA ; Department of Psychiatry, VCU, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Center for Addiction Research and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston (UTHSC-H), USA
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, USA ; Department of Psychiatry, VCU, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Center for Addiction Research and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Center for Addiction Research and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging, UTHSC-H, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Brain and Creativity Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA, USA ; Department of Psychiatry, VCU, Richmond, VA, USA ; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Richmond, VCU, VA 23219, USA
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