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Thakuri DS, Bhattarai P, Wong DF, Chand GB. Dysregulated Salience Network Control over Default-Mode and Central-Executive Networks in Schizophrenia Revealed Using Stochastic Dynamical Causal Modeling. Brain Connect 2024; 14:70-79. [PMID: 38164105 PMCID: PMC10890948 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2023.0054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
Abstract
Introduction: Neuroimaging studies suggest that the human brain consists of intrinsically organized, large-scale neural networks. Among these networks, the interplay among the default-mode network (DMN), salience network (SN), and central-executive network (CEN) has been widely used to understand the functional interaction patterns in health and disease. This triple network model suggests that the SN causally controls over the DMN and CEN in healthy individuals. This interaction is often referred to as SN's dynamic regulating mechanism. However, such interactions are not well understood in individuals with schizophrenia. Methods: In this study, we leveraged resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from schizophrenia (n = 67) and healthy controls (n = 81) and evaluated the directional functional interactions among DMN, SN, and CEN using stochastic dynamical causal modeling methodology. Results: In healthy controls, our analyses replicated previous findings that SN regulates DMN and CEN activities (Mann-Whitney U test; p < 10-8). In schizophrenia, however, our analyses revealed a disrupted SN-based controlling mechanism over the DMN and CEN (Mann-Whitney U test; p < 10-16). Conclusions: These results indicate that the disrupted controlling mechanism of SN over the other two neural networks may be a candidate neuroimaging phenotype in schizophrenia.
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- Deepa S. Thakuri
- Department of Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Departments of Medicine and Radiology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Imaging Core, Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Imaging Core, Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- NeuroGenomics and Informatics Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Weyrich L, Arif Y, Schantell M, Johnson HJ, Willett MP, Okelberry HJ, Wilson TW. Altered functional connectivity and oscillatory dynamics in polysubstance and cannabis only users during visuospatial processing. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2023; 240:769-783. [PMID: 36752815 PMCID: PMC10545949 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-023-06318-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/16/2023] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Cannabis use is often associated with the use of other psychoactive substances, which is subsequently linked to an increased risk for addiction. While there is a growing body of neuroimaging literature investigating the cognitive effect of long-term cannabis use, very little is known about the potential additive effects of cannabis polysubstance use. METHODS Fifty-six adults composed of 18 polysubstance users (i.e., cannabis plus at least one other illicit substance), 19 cannabis-only users, and 19 nonusers completed a visuospatial attention task while undergoing magnetoencephalography. A data-driven approach was used to identify oscillatory neural responses, which were imaged using a beamforming approach. The resulting cortical regions were probed for group differences and used as seeds for whole-brain connectivity analysis. RESULTS Participants exhibited robust theta, alpha, beta, and gamma responses during visuospatial processing. Statistical analyses indicated that the cannabis-only group had weaker occipital theta relative to the nonusers, and that both polysubstance and cannabis-only users had reduced spontaneous gamma in the occipital cortices during the pre-stimulus baseline period relative to nonusers. Finally, functional connectivity analyses revealed that polysubstance users had sharply reduced beta connectivity between occipital and prefrontal, as well as occipital and left temporal cortices. CONCLUSIONS Cannabis use should be considered in a polysubstance context, as our correlational design suggests differences in functional connectivity among those who reported cannabis-only versus polysubstance use in occipital to prefrontal pathways critical to visuospatial processing and attention function. Future work should distinguish the effect of different polysubstance combinations and use more causal designs.
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- Lucas Weyrich
- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 14090 Mother Teresa Ln, Boys Town, NE, 68010, USA
- Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE, 68178, USA
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- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 14090 Mother Teresa Ln, Boys Town, NE, 68010, USA
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- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 14090 Mother Teresa Ln, Boys Town, NE, 68010, USA
- College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 42nd and Emile Street, Omaha, NE, 68198, USA
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- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 14090 Mother Teresa Ln, Boys Town, NE, 68010, USA
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- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 14090 Mother Teresa Ln, Boys Town, NE, 68010, USA
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- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 14090 Mother Teresa Ln, Boys Town, NE, 68010, USA
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- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 14090 Mother Teresa Ln, Boys Town, NE, 68010, USA.
- Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE, 68178, USA.
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Gao J, Min X, Kang Q, Si H, Zhan H, Manyande A, Tian X, Dong Y, Zheng H, Song J. Effective connectivity in cortical networks during deception: A lie detection study using EEG. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2022; 26:3755-3766. [PMID: 35522638 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2022.3172994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Previous studies have identified activated regions associated with deceptive tasks and most of them utilized time, frequency, or temporal features to identify deceptive responses. However, when deception behaviors occur, the functional connectivity pattern and the communication between different brain areas remain largely unclear. In this study, we explored the most important information flows between different brain cortices during deception. First, we employed the guilty knowledge test protocol and recorded on 64 electrodes electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from 30 subjects (15 guilty and 15 innocent). EEG source estimation was then performed to compute the cortical activities on the 24 regions of interest (ROIs). Next, effective connectivity was calculated by partial directed coherence (PDC) analysis applied to the cortical signals. Furthermore, based on the graph-theoretical analysis, the network parameters with significant differences were extracted as features to identify two groups of subjects. In addition, the ROIs frequently involved in the above network parameters were selected, and based on the difference in the group mean of PDC values of all the edges connected with the selected ROIs, we presented the strongest information flows (MIIF) in the guilty group relative to the innocent group. Experimental results first show that the optimal classification features are mainly in-degree and out-degree measures of the ROI and the high classification accuracy for four bands demonstrated that the proposed method is suitable for lie detection. In addition, the frontoparietal network was found to be most prominent among all the MIIFs in four bands. Finally, combining the neurophysiology signification of four frequency bands, respectively, we analyzed the roles of all the important information flows to uncover the underlying cognitive processes and mechanisms used in deception.
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Gao J, Gu L, Min X, Lin P, Li C, Zhang Q, Rao N. Brain Fingerprinting and Lie Detection: A Study of Dynamic Functional Connectivity Patterns of Deception Using EEG Phase Synchrony Analysis. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2021; 26:600-613. [PMID: 34232900 DOI: 10.1109/jbhi.2021.3095415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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This study investigated the brain functional connectivity (FC) patterns related to lie detection (LD) tasks with the purpose of analyzing the underlying cognitive processes and mechanisms in deception. Using the guilty knowledge test protocol, 30 subjects were divided randomly into guilty and innocent groups, and their electroencephalogram (EEG) signals were recorded on 32 electrodes. Phase synchrony of EEG was analyzed between different brain regions. A few-trials-based relative phase synchrony (FTRPS) measure was proposed to avoid the false synchronization that occurs due to volume conduction. FTRPS values with a significantly statistical difference between two groups were employed to construct FC patterns of deception, and the FTRPS values from the FC networks were extracted as the features for the training and testing of the support vector machine. Finally, four more intuitive brain fingerprinting graphs (BFG) on delta, theta, alpha and beta bands were respectively proposed. The experimental results reveal that deceptive responses elicited greater oscillatory synchronization than truthful responses between different brain regions, which plays an important role in executing lying tasks. The functional connectivity in the BFG are mainly implicated in the visuo-spatial imagery, bottom-top attention and memory systems, work memory and episodic encoding, and top-down attention and inhibition processing. These may, in part, underlie the mechanism of communication between different brain cortices during lying. High classification accuracy demonstrates the validation of BFG to identify deception behavior, and suggests that the proposed FTRPS could be a sensitive measure for LD in the real application.
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Reduction of somatosensory functional connectivity by transcranial alternating current stimulation at endogenous mu-frequency. Neuroimage 2020; 221:117175. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2020] [Revised: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Jiang H, Hua L, Dai Z, Tian S, Yao Z, Lu Q, Popov T. Spectral fingerprints of facial affect processing bias in major depression disorder. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2020; 14:1233-1242. [PMID: 31850496 PMCID: PMC7057280 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsz096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2019] [Revised: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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In major depressive disorder (MDD), processing of facial affect is thought to reflect a perceptual bias (toward negative emotion, away from positive emotion, and interpretation of neutral as emotional). However, it is unclear to what extent and which specific perceptual bias is represented in MDD at the behavior and neuronal level. The present report examined 48 medication naive MDD patients and 41 healthy controls (HCs) performing a facial affect judgment task while magnetoencephalography was recorded. MDD patients were characterized by overall slower response times and lower perceptual judgment accuracies. In comparison with HC, MDD patients exhibited less somatosensory beta activity (20–30 Hz) suppression, more visual gamma activity (40–80 Hz) modulation and somatosensory beta and visual gamma interaction deficit. Moreover, frontal gamma activity during positive facial expression judgment was found to be negatively correlated with depression severity. Present findings suggest that perceptual bias in MDD is associated with distinct spatio-spectral manifestations on the neural level, which potentially establishes aberrant pathways during facial emotion processing and contributes to MDD pathology.
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- Haiteng Jiang
- Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- School of Biological Sciences and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.,Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
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- School of Biological Sciences and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.,Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China.,Nanjing Brain Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- School of Biological Sciences and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China.,Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science, Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
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- Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/University of Heidelberg, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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Chand GB, Hajjar I, Qiu D. Disrupted interactions among the hippocampal, dorsal attention, and central-executive networks in amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:4987-4997. [PMID: 30272830 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2018] [Revised: 07/14/2018] [Accepted: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Neuroimaging investigations consistently demonstrate that the neural processes involve complex interactions between the large-scale networks. Among those networks, the dorsal attention network (DAN) and the central-executive network (CEN) have been previously shown to exhibit anti-correlated activity with the default-mode network (DMN) in cognitively normal people. In amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease, the hippocampal network (HCN)-a key memory processing system-and its interactions with other networks have gathered central interest. The current study aims to evaluate the patterns of functional architectures of the HCN with the three networks-DAN, CEN, and DMN-in amnestic MCI and normal controls (NC) to test the hypothesis that the interactions of HCN with other networks alter in MCI. We recorded the resting state functional MRI, assessed patterns of functional architectures between the four networks using dynamical causal modeling, and compared between NC and MCI. Our analysis showed that the DAN modulates the activity between the HCN and the DMN in both MCI and NC. We further uncovered that the DAN modulates the activity between the HCN and the CEN in NC, but such modulation is impaired in MCI. We found an association between impaired modulation and Montreal cognitive assessment (R = 0.349). Overall, our findings provide important insight in understanding the neuroimaging signature of amnestic MCI and/or Alzheimer's disease.
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- Ganesh B Chand
- Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.,Department of Neurology, Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
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Ramsøy TZ, Skov M, Christensen MK, Stahlhut C. Frontal Brain Asymmetry and Willingness to Pay. Front Neurosci 2018; 12:138. [PMID: 29662432 PMCID: PMC5890093 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Consumers frequently make decisions about how much they are willing to pay (WTP) for specific products and services, but little is known about the neural mechanisms underlying such calculations. In this study, we were interested in testing whether specific brain activation—the asymmetry in engagement of the prefrontal cortex—would be related to consumer choice. Subjects saw products and subsequently decided how much they were willing to pay for each product, while undergoing neuroimaging using electroencephalography. Our results demonstrate that prefrontal asymmetry in the gamma frequency band, and a trend in the beta frequency band that was recorded during product viewing was significantly related to subsequent WTP responses. Frontal asymmetry in the alpha band was not related to WTP decisions. Besides suggesting separate neuropsychological mechanisms of consumer choice, we find that one specific measure—the prefrontal gamma asymmetry—was most strongly related to WTP responses, and was most coupled to the actual decision phase. These findings are discussed in light of the psychology of WTP calculations, and in relation to the recent emergence of consumer neuroscience and neuromarketing.
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- Thomas Z Ramsøy
- Neurons Inc., Holbæk, Denmark.,Singularity University, Sunnyvale, CA, United States.,Center for Decision Neuroscience, Department of Marketing, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Center for Decision Neuroscience, Department of Marketing, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Center for Decision Neuroscience, Department of Marketing, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- Section for Cognitive Systems, Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Chand GB, Wu J, Hajjar I, Qiu D. Interactions of Insula Subdivisions-Based Networks with Default-Mode and Central-Executive Networks in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Front Aging Neurosci 2017; 9:367. [PMID: 29170635 PMCID: PMC5684105 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2017] [Accepted: 10/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Interactions between the brain networks and subnetworks are crucial for active and resting cognitive states. Whether a subnetwork can restore the adequate function of the parent network whenever a disease state affects the parent network is unclear. Investigations suggest that the control of the anterior insula-based network (AIN) over the default-mode network (DMN) and central-executive network (CEN) is decreased in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Here, we hypothesized that the posterior insula-based network (PIN) attempts to compensate for this decrease. To test this, we compared a group of MCI and normal cognitive individuals. A dynamical causal modeling method has been employed to investigate the dynamic network controls/modulations. We used the resting state functional MRI data, and assessed the interactions of the AIN and of the PIN, respectively, over the DMN and CEN. We found that the greater control of AIN than that of DMN (Wilcoxon rank sum: Z = 1.987; p = 0.047) and CEN (Z = 3.076; p = 0.002) in normal group and the lower (impaired) control of AIN than that of CEN (Z = 8.602; p = 7.816 × 10-18). We further revealed that the PIN control was significantly higher than that of DMN (Z = 6.608; p = 3.888 × 10-11) and CEN (Z = 6.429; p = 1.278 × 10-10) in MCI group where the AIN was impaired, but that control was significantly lower than of DMN (Z = 5.285; p = 1.254 × 10-7) and CEN (Z = 5.404; p = 6.513 × 10-8) in normal group. Finally, the global cognitive test score assessed using Montreal cognitive assessment and the network modulations were correlated (Spearman's correlation: r = 0.47; p = 3.76 × 10-5 and r = -0.43; p = 1.97 × 10-4). These findings might suggest the flexible functional profiles of AIN and PIN in normal aging and MCI.
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- Ganesh B Chand
- Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States.,Department of Neurology, Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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Chand GB, Wu J, Hajjar I, Qiu D. Interactions of the Salience Network and Its Subsystems with the Default-Mode and the Central-Executive Networks in Normal Aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Brain Connect 2017; 7:401-412. [PMID: 28707959 PMCID: PMC5647507 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2017.0509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigations suggest that the intrinsically organized large-scale networks and the interaction between them might be crucial for cognitive activities. A triple network model, which consists of the default-mode network, salience network, and central-executive network, has been recently used to understand the connectivity patterns of the cognitively normal brains versus the brains with disorders. This model suggests that the salience network dynamically controls the default-mode and central-executive networks in healthy young individuals. However, the patterns of interactions have remained largely unknown in healthy aging or those with cognitive decline. In this study, we assess the patterns of interactions between the three networks using dynamical causal modeling in resting state fMRI data and compare them between subjects with normal cognition and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). In healthy elderly subjects, our analysis showed that the salience network, especially its dorsal subnetwork, modulates the interaction between the default-mode network and the central-executive network (Mann-Whitney U test; p < 0.05), which was consistent with the pattern of interaction reported in young adults. In contrast, this pattern of modulation by salience network was disrupted in MCI (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the degree of disruption in salience network control correlated significantly with lower overall cognitive performance measured by Montreal Cognitive Assessment (r = 0.295; p < 0.05). This study suggests that a disruption of the salience network control, especially the dorsal salience network, over other networks provides a neuronal basis for cognitive decline and may be a candidate neuroimaging biomarker of cognitive impairment.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ganesh B. Chand
- Division of Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Division of Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
- Department of Neurology, Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Chand GB, Wu J, Qiu D, Hajjar I. Racial Differences in Insular Connectivity and Thickness and Related Cognitive Impairment in Hypertension. Front Aging Neurosci 2017; 9:177. [PMID: 28620297 PMCID: PMC5449740 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Hypertensive African–Americans have a greater risk of cognitive impairment than hypertensive Caucasian–Americans. The neural basis of this increased risk is yet unknown. Neuroimaging investigations suggest that the normal neural activity comprises complex interactions between brain networks. Recent studies consistently demonstrate that the insula, part of the salience network, provides modulation effects (information flow) over the default-mode and central-executive networks in cognitively normal subjects, and argue that the modulation effect is declined in cognitive impairment. The purpose of this study is to examine the information flow at the nodes of three networks using resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data in cognitively impaired hypertensive individuals with the African–Americans and the Caucasian–Americans races, and to compare the thickness of impaired node between two racial groups. Granger causality methodology was used to calculate information flow between networks using resting state functional MRI data, and FreeSurfer was used to measure cortical thickness from T1-weighted structural images. We found that negative information flow of the insula in both African–Americans and Caucasian–Americans, which was in contrast with previously reported positive information flow in this region of normal individuals. Also, significantly greater negative information flow in insula was found in African–Americans than Caucasian–Americans (Wilcoxon rank sum; Z = 2.06; p < 0.05). Significantly, lower insula thickness was found in African–Americans compared with Caucasian–Americans (median = 2.797 mm vs. 2.897 mm) (Wilcoxon rank sum; Z = 2.09; p < 0.05). Finally, the insula thickness correlated with the global cognitive testing measured by Montreal cognitive assessment (Spearman’s correlation; r = 0.30; p < 0.05). These findings suggest that the insula is a potential biomarker for the racial disparity in cognitive impairment of hypertensive individuals.
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- Ganesh B Chand
- Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, AtlantaGA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, AtlantaGA, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, AtlantaGA, United States.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, AtlantaGA, United States
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- Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, AtlantaGA, United States.,Department of Neurology, Emory Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine, AtlantaGA, United States
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Chand GB, Dhamala M. Interactions between the anterior cingulate-insula network and the fronto-parietal network during perceptual decision-making. Neuroimage 2017; 152:381-389. [PMID: 28284798 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2016] [Revised: 03/03/2017] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Information processing in the human brain during cognitively demanding goal-directed tasks is thought to involve several large-scale brain networks, including the anterior cingulate-insula network (aCIN) and the fronto-parietal network (FPN). Recent functional MRI (fMRI) studies have provided clues that the aCIN initiates activity changes in the FPN. However, when and how often these networks interact remains largely unknown to date. Here, we systematically examined the oscillatory interactions between the aCIN and the FPN by using the spectral Granger causality analysis of reconstructed brain source signals from the scalp electroencephalography (EEG) recorded from human participants performing a face-house perceptual categorization task. We investigated how the aCIN and the FPN interact, what the temporal sequence of events in these nodes is, and what frequency bands of information flow bind these nodes in networks. We found that beta band (13-30Hz) and gamma (30-100Hz) bands of interactions are involved between the aCIN and the FPN during decision-making tasks. In gamma band, the aCIN initiated the Granger causal control over the FPN in 25-225 ms timeframe. In beta band, the FPN achieved a control over the aCIN in 225-425 ms timeframe. These band-specific time-dependent Granger causal controls of the aCIN and the FPN were retained for behaviorally harder decision-making tasks. These findings of times and frequencies of oscillatory interactions in the aCIN and FPN provide us new insights into the general neural mechanisms for sensory information-guided, goal-directed behaviors, including perceptual decision-making processes.
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- Ganesh B Chand
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA; Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
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- Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA; Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Center for Nano-Optics, Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, GSU-GaTech Center for Advanced Brain Imaging, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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