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He H, Long J, Song X, Li Q, Niu L, Peng L, Wei X, Zhang R. A connectome-wide association study of altered functional connectivity in schizophrenia based on resting-state fMRI. Schizophr Res 2024; 270:202-211. [PMID: 38924938 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2024.06.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2022] [Revised: 05/09/2024] [Accepted: 06/19/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Aberrant resting-state functional connectivity is a neuropathological feature of schizophrenia (SCZ). Prior investigations into functional connectivity abnormalities have primarily employed seed-based connectivity analysis, necessitating predefined seed locations. To address this limitation, a data-driven multivariate method known as connectome-wide association study (CWAS) has been proposed for exploring whole-brain functional connectivity. METHODS We conducted a CWAS analysis involving 46 patients with SCZ and 40 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Multivariate distance matrix regression (MDMR) was utilized to identify key nodes in the brain. Subsequently, we conducted a follow-up seed-based connectivity analysis to elucidate specific connectivity patterns between regions of interest (ROIs). Additionally, we explored the spatial correlation between changes in functional connectivity and underlying molecular architectures by examining correlations between neurotransmitter/transporter distribution densities and functional connectivity. RESULTS MDMR revealed the right medial frontal gyrus and the left calcarine sulcus as two key nodes. Follow-up analysis unveiled hypoconnectivity between the right medial frontal superior gyrus and the right fusiform gyrus, as well as hypoconnectivity between the left calcarine sulcus and the right lingual gyrus in SCZ. Notably, a significant association between functional connectivity strength and positive symptom severity was identified. Furthermore, altered functional connectivity patterns suggested potential dysfunctions in the dopamine, serotonin, and gamma-aminobutyric acid systems. CONCLUSIONS This study elucidated reduced functional connectivity both within and between the medial frontal regions and the occipital cortex in patients with SCZ. Moreover, it indicated potential alterations in molecular architecture, thereby expanding current knowledge regarding neurobiological changes associated with SCZ.
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- Huawei He
- Cognitive Control and Brain Healthy Laboratory, Department of Psychology, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Cognitive Control and Brain Healthy Laboratory, Department of Psychology, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Cognitive Control and Brain Healthy Laboratory, Department of Psychology, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Cognitive Control and Brain Healthy Laboratory, Department of Psychology, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Cognitive Control and Brain Healthy Laboratory, Department of Psychology, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Cognitive Control and Brain Healthy Laboratory, Department of Psychology, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
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- Cognitive Control and Brain Healthy Laboratory, Department of Psychology, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Psychiatry, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, PRC, China; Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for PsychiatricDisorders, Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine for Qingzhi Diseases, PR China.
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Yan YJ, Hu HX, Zhang YJ, Wang LL, Pan YM, Lui SSY, Huang J, Chan RCK. Reward motivation adaptation in people with negative schizotypal features: development of a novel behavioural paradigm and identifying its neural correlates using resting-state functional connectivity analysis. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2024; 274:941-953. [PMID: 37395812 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-023-01640-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/04/2023]
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Reward motivation in individuals with high levels of negative schizotypal traits (NS) has been found to be lower than that in their counterparts. But it is unclear that whether their reward motivation adaptively changes with external effort-reward ratio, and what resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) is associated with this change. Thirty-five individuals with high levels of NS and 44 individuals with low levels of NS were recruited. A 3T resting-state functional brain scan and a novel reward motivation adaptation behavioural task were administrated in all participants. The behavioural task was manipulated with three conditions (effort > reward condition vs. effort < reward condition vs. effort = reward condition). Under each condition were rated 'wanting' and 'liking' for rewards. The seed-based voxel-wise rsFC analysis was conducted to explore the rsFCs associated with the 'wanting' and 'liking' ratings in individuals with high levels of NS. 'Wanting' and 'liking' ratings of individuals with high levels of NS significantly declined in the effort > reward condition but did not rebound as high as their counterparts in the effort < reward condition. The rsFCs in NS group associated with these ratings were altered. The altered rsFCs in NS group involved regions in the prefrontal lobe, dopaminergic brain regions (ventral tegmental area, substantia nigra), hippocampus, thalamus and cerebellum. Individuals with high levels of NS manifested their reward motivation adaptation impairment as a failure of adjustment adaptively during effort-reward imbalance condition and altered rsFCs in prefrontal, dopaminergic and other brain regions.
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- Yong-Jie Yan
- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, People's Republic of China
- Sino-Danish College of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, People's Republic of China
- Department of Psychology, The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, People's Republic of China
- Department of Psychology, The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, People's Republic of China
- Department of Psychology, The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, People's Republic of China
- Department of Psychology, The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region , People's Republic of China
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, People's Republic of China.
- Department of Psychology, The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
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- Neuropsychology and Applied Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101, People's Republic of China.
- Sino-Danish College of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
- Department of Psychology, The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
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Jia Y, Kudo K, Jariwala N, Tarapore P, Nagarajan S, Subramaniam K. Causal role of medial superior frontal cortex on enhancing neural information flow and self-agency judgments in the self-agency network. MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2024:2024.02.13.24302764. [PMID: 38405834 PMCID: PMC10888992 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.13.24302764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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Self-agency is being aware of oneself as the agent of one's thoughts and actions. Self-agency is necessary for successful interactions with the outside world (reality-monitoring). Prior research has shown that the medial superior prefrontal gyri (mPFC/SFG) may represent one neural correlate underlying self-agency judgments. However, the causal relationship remains unknown. Here, we applied high-frequency 10Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to modulate the excitability of the mPFC/SFG site that we have previously shown to mediate self-agency. For the first time, we delineate causal neural mechanisms, revealing precisely how rTMS modulates SFG excitability and impacts directional neural information flow in the self-agency network by implementing innovative magnetoencephalography (MEG) phase-transfer entropy (PTE) metrics, measured from pre-to-post rTMS. We found that, compared to control rTMS, enhancing SFG excitability by rTMS induced significant increases in information flow between SFG and specific cingulate and paracentral regions in the self-agency network in delta-theta, alpha, and gamma bands, which predicted improved self-agency judgments. This is the first multimodal imaging study in which we implement MEG PTE metrics of 5D imaging of space, frequency and time, to provide cutting-edge analyses of the causal neural mechanisms of how rTMS enhances SFG excitability and improves neural information flow between distinct regions in the self-agency network to potentiate improved self-agency judgments. Our findings provide a novel perspective for investigating causal neural mechanisms underlying self-agency and create a path towards developing novel neuromodulation interventions to improve self-agency that will be particularly useful for patients with psychosis who exhibit severe impairments in self-agency.
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Charney M, Foster S, Shukla V, Zhao W, Jiang SH, Kozlowska K, Lin A. Neurometabolic alterations in children and adolescents with functional neurological disorder. Neuroimage Clin 2023; 41:103557. [PMID: 38219534 PMCID: PMC10825645 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103557] [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: 09/23/2023] [Revised: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/16/2024]
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OBJECTIVES In vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was used to investigate neurometabolic homeostasis in children with functional neurological disorder (FND) in three regions of interest: supplementary motor area (SMA), anterior default mode network (aDMN), and posterior default mode network (dDMN). Metabolites assessed included N-acetyl aspartate (NAA), a marker of neuron function; myo-inositol (mI), a glial-cell marker; choline (Cho), a membrane marker; glutamate plus glutamine (Glx), a marker of excitatory neurotransmission; γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a marker of inhibitor neurotransmission; and creatine (Cr), an energy marker. The relationship between excitatory (glutamate and glutamine) and inhibitory (GABA) neurotransmitter (E/I) balance was also examined. METHODS MRS data were acquired for 32 children with mixed FND (25 girls, 7 boys, aged 10.00 to 16.08 years) and 41 healthy controls of similar age using both short echo point-resolved spectroscopy (PRESS) and Mescher-Garwood point-resolved spectroscopy (MEGAPRESS) sequences in the three regions of interest. RESULTS In the SMA, children with FND had lower NAA/Cr, mI/Cr (trend level), and GABA/Cr ratios. In the aDMN, no group differences in metabolite ratios were found. In the pDMN, children with FND had lower NAA/Cr and mI/Cr (trend level) ratios. While no group differences in E/I balance were found (FND vs. controls), E/I balance in the aDMN was lower in children with functional seizures-a subgroup within the FND group. Pearson correlations found that increased arousal (indexed by higher heart rate) was associated with lower mI/Cr in the SMA and pDMN. CONCLUSIONS Our findings of multiple differences in neurometabolites in children with FND suggest dysfunction on multiple levels of the biological system: the neuron (lower NAA), the glial cell (lower mI), and inhibitory neurotransmission (lower GABA), as well as dysfunction in energy regulation in the subgroup with functional seizures.
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- Molly Charney
- Department of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian, New York, NY, USA; Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Department of Radiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychological Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia; Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia; Brain Dynamics Centre, Westmead Institute of Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Li G, Zhong D, Li B, Chen Y, Yang L, Li CSR. Sleep Deficits Inter-Link Lower Basal Forebrain-Posterior Cingulate Connectivity and Perceived Stress and Anxiety Bidirectionally in Young Men. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2023; 26:879-889. [PMID: 37924270 PMCID: PMC10726414 DOI: 10.1093/ijnp/pyad062] [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: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The basal nucleus of Meynert (BNM), a primary source of cholinergic projections to the cortex, plays key roles in regulating the sleep-wake cycle and attention. Sleep deficit is associated with impairment in cognitive and emotional functions. However, whether or how cholinergic circuit, sleep, and cognitive/emotional dysfunction are inter-related remains unclear. METHODS We curated the Human Connectome Project data and explored BNM resting state functional connectivities (rsFC) in relation to sleep deficit, based on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), cognitive performance, and subjective reports of emotional states in 687 young adults (342 women). Imaging data were processed with published routines and evaluated at a corrected threshold. We assessed the correlation between BNM rsFC, PSQI, and clinical measurements with Pearson regressions and their inter-relationships with mediation analyses. RESULTS In whole-brain regressions with age and alcohol use severity as covariates, men showed lower BNM rsFC with the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) in correlation with PSQI score. No clusters were identified in women at the same threshold. Both BNM-PCC rsFC and PSQI score were significantly correlated with anxiety, perceived stress, and neuroticism scores in men. Moreover, mediation analyses showed that PSQI score mediated the relationship between BNM-PCC rsFC and these measures of negative emotions bidirectionally in men. CONCLUSIONS Sleep deficit is associated with negative emotions and lower BNM rsFC with the PCC. Negative emotional states and BNM-PCC rsFC are bidirectionally related through poor sleep quality. These findings are specific to men, suggesting potential sex differences in the neural circuits regulating sleep and emotional states.
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- Guangfei Li
- Department of Biomedical engineering, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
- Beijing International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Transformation, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biomedical engineering, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biomedical engineering, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
- Beijing International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Transformation, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Biomedical engineering, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
- Beijing International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Intelligent Physiological Measurement and Clinical Transformation, Beijing, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Guo X, Wang S, Lin X, Wang Z, Dou Y, Cao Y, Zhang Y, Luo X, Kang L, Yu T, Wang Z, Tan Y, Gao S, Zheng H, Zhao F, Wang H, Wang K, Xie F, Chen W, Luo X. A novel risk variant block across introns 36-45 of CACNA1C for schizophrenia: a cohort-wise replication and cerebral region-wide validation study. Psychiatr Genet 2023; 33:182-190. [PMID: 37706495 PMCID: PMC10502955 DOI: 10.1097/ypg.0000000000000344] [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: 09/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Numerous genome-wide association studies have identified CACNA1C as one of the top risk genes for schizophrenia. As a necessary post-genome-wide association study (GWAS) follow-up, here, we focused on this risk gene, carefully investigated its novel risk variants for schizophrenia, and explored their potential functions. METHODS We analyzed four independent samples (including three European and one African-American) comprising 5648 cases and 6936 healthy subjects to identify replicable single nucleotide polymorphism-schizophrenia associations. The potential regulatory effects of schizophrenia-risk alleles on CACNA1C mRNA expression in 16 brain regions (n = 348), gray matter volumes (GMVs) of five subcortical structures (n = 34 431), and surface areas and thickness of 34 cortical regions (n = 36 936) were also examined. RESULTS A novel 17-variant block across introns 36-45 of CACNA1C was significantly associated with schizophrenia in the same effect direction across at least two independent samples (1.8 × 10-4 ≤ P ≤ 0.049). Most risk variants within this block showed significant associations with CACNA1C mRNA expression (1.6 × 10-3 ≤ P ≤ 0.050), GMVs of subcortical structures (0.016 ≤ P ≤ 0.048), cortical surface areas (0.010 ≤ P ≤ 0.050), and thickness (0.004 ≤ P ≤ 0.050) in multiple brain regions. CONCLUSION We have identified a novel and functional risk variant block at CACNA1C for schizophrenia, providing further evidence for the important role of this gene in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.
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- Xiaoyun Guo
- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Laboratory of Radiation Oncology and Radiobiology, Fujian Provincial Cancer Hospital, the Teaching Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350014, China
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- Sichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, 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
- Huaxi Brain Research Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, and National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha 410011, Hunan, China
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- Tianjin Mental Health Center, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, College of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian 350004, China
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- Key Laboratory for Molecular Genetic Mechanisms and Intervention Research on High Altitude Diseases of Tibet Autonomous Region, Xizang Minzu University School of Medicine, Xiangyang, Shaanxi 712082, China
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- Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center established the Clinical Research and Development Center of Shanghai Municipal Hospitals, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing, Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of medicine, Shanghai 200030, China
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- Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, Peking University Huilongguan School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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Swain JE, Ho SS. Brain circuits for maternal sensitivity and pain involving anterior cingulate cortex among mothers receiving buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder. J Neuroendocrinol 2023; 35:e13316. [PMID: 37491982 DOI: 10.1111/jne.13316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/10/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
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Opioid-induced deficits in maternal behaviors are well-characterized in rodent models. Amid the current epidemic of opioid use disorder (OUD), prevalence among pregnant women has risen sharply. Yet, the roles of buprenorphine replacement treatment for OUD (BT/OUD) in the brain functions of postpartum mothers are unclear. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we have developed an evolutionarily conserved maternal behavior neurocircuit (MBN) model to study human maternal care versus defensive/aggressive behaviors critical to mother-child bonding. The anterior cingulate gyrus (ACC) is not only involved in the MBN for mother-child bonding and attachment, but also part of an opioid sensitive "pain-matrix". The literature suggests that prescription opioids produce physical and emotional "analgesic" effects by disrupting specific resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) of ACC to regions related to MBN. Thus, in this longitudinal study, we report findings of overlapping MBN and pain matrix circuits, for mothers with chronic exposure of BT/OUD. A total of 32 mothers were studied with 6 min rs-FC at 1 month (T1) and 4 months postpartum (T2), including seven on BT/OUD and 25 non-BT/OUD mothers as a comparison group. We analyzed rs-FC between the insula, putamen, and the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (DACC) and rostral ACC (RACC), as the regions of interest that mediate opioid analgesia. BT/OUD mothers, as compared to non-BT/OUD mothers, showed less left insula-RACC rs-FC but greater right putamen-DACC rs-FC at T1, with these between-group differences diminished at T2. Some of these rs-FC results were correlated with the scores of postpartum parental bonding questionnaire. We found time-by-treatment interaction effects on DACC and RACC-dependent rs-FC, potentially identifying brain mechanisms for beneficial effects of BT, normalizing dysfunction of maternal brain and behavior over the first four months postpartum. This study complements recent studies to ascertain how BT/OUD affects maternal behaviors, mother-child bonding, and intersubjectivity and reveals potential MBN/pain-matrix targets for novel interventions.
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- James E Swain
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Renaissance School Of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- Department of Psychology, Program in Public Health, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Program in Public Health, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Renaissance School Of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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Berglund-Barraza A, Carey S, Hart J, Vanneste S, Evans JL. Modulating Phonological Working Memory With Anodal High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to the Anterior Portion of the Supplementary Motor Area. JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2023; 66:2079-2094. [PMID: 37227790 PMCID: PMC10465152 DOI: 10.1044/2023_jslhr-21-00098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2021] [Revised: 07/27/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Phonological working memory is key to vocabulary acquisition, spoken word recognition, real-time language processing, and reading. Transcranial direct current stimulation, when coupled with behavioral training, has been shown to facilitate speech motor output processes, a key component of nonword repetition, the primary task used to assess phonological working memory. In this study, we examined the efficacy of combining overt nonword repetition training with anodal high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD tDCS) to the presupplementary motor area (preSMA) to enhance nonword repetition. OBJECTIVE This study investigated whether 20 min of active or sham anodal HD tDCS targeting preSMA concurrently with a nonword repetition task differentially impacted nonword repetition ability. METHOD Twenty-eight neurotypical college-age adults (18-25 years; 19 females, eight males, one nonbinary) completed a 20-min nonword repetition training task where they received either active or sham 1-mA anodal HD tDCS to the preSMA while overtly repeating a list of four-, five-, six-, and seven-syllable English-like nonwords presented in a random order. Whole nonword accuracy and error patterns (phoneme and syllable) were measured prior to and following training. RESULTS Following training, both groups showed a decrease in nonword repetition accuracy. The drop in performance was significantly greater for the active stimulation group compared to the sham stimulation group at the four-syllable nonword length. DISCUSSION The findings suggest that targeting the speech motor component of nonword repetition through overt training and HD tDCS to the preSMA does not enhance phonological working memory ability.
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- Amy Berglund-Barraza
- Child Language and Cognitive Processes Laboratory, The University of Texas at Dallas
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- Child Language and Cognitive Processes Laboratory, The University of Texas at Dallas
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory of Memory and Language, The University of Texas at Dallas
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- Lab for Clinical & Integrative Neuroscience, Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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- Child Language and Cognitive Processes Laboratory, The University of Texas at Dallas
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Plachti A, Latzman RD, Balajoo SM, Hoffstaedter F, Madsen KS, Baare W, Siebner HR, Eickhoff SB, Genon S. Hippocampal anterior- posterior shift in childhood and adolescence. Prog Neurobiol 2023; 225:102447. [PMID: 36967075 PMCID: PMC10185869 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/23/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
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Hippocampal-cortical networks play an important role in neurocognitive development. Applying the method of Connectivity-Based Parcellation (CBP) on hippocampal-cortical structural covariance (SC) networks computed from T1-weighted magnetic resonance images, we examined how the hippocampus differentiates into subregions during childhood and adolescence (N = 1105, 6-18 years). In late childhood, the hippocampus mainly differentiated along the anterior-posterior axis similar to previous reported functional differentiation patterns of the hippocampus. In contrast, in adolescence a differentiation along the medial-lateral axis was evident, reminiscent of the cytoarchitectonic division into cornu ammonis and subiculum. Further meta-analytical characterization of hippocampal subregions in terms of related structural co-maturation networks, behavioural and gene profiling suggested that the hippocampal head is related to higher order functions (e.g. language, theory of mind, autobiographical memory) in late childhood morphologically co-varying with almost the whole brain. In early adolescence but not in childhood, posterior subicular SC networks were associated with action-oriented and reward systems. The findings point to late childhood as an important developmental period for hippocampal head morphology and to early adolescence as a crucial period for hippocampal integration into action- and reward-oriented cognition. The latter may constitute a developmental feature that conveys increased propensity for addictive disorders.
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- Anna Plachti
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital -Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Data Sciences Institute, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital -Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark; Radiography, Department of Technology, University College Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital -Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital -Amager and Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; GIGA-CRC In vivo Imaging, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
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Nie Z, Xie X, Kang L, Wang W, Xu S, Chen M, Yao L, Gong Q, Zhou E, Li M, Wang H, Bu L, Liu Z. A Cross-Sectional Study: Structural and Related Functional Connectivity Changes in the Brain: Stigmata of Adverse Parenting in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder? Brain Sci 2023; 13:brainsci13040694. [PMID: 37190659 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13040694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Revised: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023] Open
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Background: There is a high correlation between the risk of major depressive disorder (MDD) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as adverse parenting (AP). While there appears to be an association between ACEs and changes in brain structure and function, there have yet to be multimodal neuroimaging studies of associations between parenting style and brain developmental changes in MDD patients. To explore the effect of AP on brain structure and function. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 125 MDD outpatients were included in the study and divided into the AP group and the optimal parenting (OP) group. Participants completed self-rating scales to assess depressive severity, symptoms, and their parents' styles. They also completed magnetic resonance imaging within one week of filling out the instruments. The differences between groups of gender, educational level, and medications were analyzed using the chi-squared test and those of age, duration of illness, and scores on scales using the independent samples t-test. Differences in gray matter volume (GMV) and resting-state functional connectivity (RS-FC) were assessed between groups. Results: AP was associated with a significant increase in GMV in the right superior parietal lobule (SPL) and FC between the right SPL and the bilateral medial superior frontal cortex in MDD patients. Limitations: The cross-cultural characteristics of AP will result in the lack of generalizability of the findings. Conclusions: The results support the hypothesis that AP during childhood may imprint the brain and affect depressive symptoms in adulthood. Parents should pay attention to the parenting style and avoid a style that lacks warmth.
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- Zhaowen Nie
- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- PET/CT/MRI and Molecular Imaging Center, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- PET/CT/MRI and Molecular Imaging Center, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, China
- Taikang Center for Life and Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Rydzik Ł, Pałka T, Sobiło-Rydzik E, Tota Ł, Ambroży D, Ambroży T, Ruzbarsky P, Czarny W, Kopańska M. An Attempt to Develop a Model of Brain Waves Using Quantitative Electroencephalography with Closed Eyes in K1 Kickboxing Athletes-Initial Concept. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 23:4136. [PMID: 37112480 PMCID: PMC10145354 DOI: 10.3390/s23084136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Revised: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Brain injuries are a common problem in combat sports, especially in disciplines such as kickboxing. Kickboxing is a combat sport that has several variations of competition, with the most contact-oriented fights being carried out under the format of K-1 rules. While these sports require a high level of skill and physical endurance, frequent micro-traumas to the brain can have serious consequences for the health and well-being of athletes. According to studies, combat sports are one of the riskiest sports in terms of brain injuries. Among the sports disciplines with the highest number of brain injuries, boxing, mixed martial arts (MMA), and kickboxing are mentioned. METHODS The study was conducted on a group of 18 K-1 kickboxing athletes who demonstrate a high level of sports performance. The subjects were between the ages 18 and 28. QEEG (quantitative electroencephalogram) is a numeric spectral analysis of the EEG record, where the data is digitally coded and statistically analysed using the Fourier transform algorithm. Each examination of one person lasts about 10 min with closed eyes. The wave amplitude and power for specific frequencies (Delta, Theta, Alpha, Sensorimotor Rhythm (SMR), Beta 1, and Beta2) were analysed using 9 leads. RESULTS High values were shown in the Alpha frequency for central leads, SMR in the Frontal 4 (F4 lead), Beta 1 in leads F4 and Parietal 3 (P3), and Beta2 in all leads. CONCLUSIONS The high activity of brainwaves such as SMR, Beta and Alpha can have a negative effect on the athletic performance of kickboxing athletes by affecting focus, stress, anxiety, and concentration. Therefore, it is important for athletes to monitor their brainwave activity and use appropriate training strategies to achieve optimal results.
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- Łukasz Rydzik
- Institute of Sports Sciences, University of Physical Education, 31-571 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, University of Physical Education, 31-571 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, University of Physical Education, 31-571 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Sports Sciences, University of Physical Education, 31-571 Kraków, Poland
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- Institute of Sports Sciences, University of Physical Education, 31-571 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Sports Kinanthropology, Faculty of Sports, Universtiy of Presov, 08001 Prešov, Slovakia
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- Department of Sports Kinanthropology, Faculty of Sports, Universtiy of Presov, 08001 Prešov, Slovakia
- College of Medical Sciences, Institute of Physical Culture Studies, University of Rzeszow, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland
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- Department of Pathophysiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszów University, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland
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Caballero-Insaurriaga J, Pineda-Pardo JA, Obeso I, Oliviero A, Foffani G. Noninvasive modulation of human corticostriatal activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2219693120. [PMID: 37023134 PMCID: PMC10104491 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2219693120] [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: 11/24/2022] [Accepted: 02/25/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023] Open
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Corticostriatal activity is an appealing target for nonpharmacological treatments of brain disorders. In humans, corticostriatal activity may be modulated with noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS). However, a NIBS protocol with a sound neuroimaging measure demonstrating a change in corticostriatal activity is currently lacking. Here, we combine transcranial static magnetic field stimulation (tSMS) with resting-state functional MRI (fMRI). We first present and validate the ISAAC analysis, a well-principled framework that disambiguates functional connectivity between regions from local activity within regions. All measures of the framework suggested that the region along the medial cortex displaying greater functional connectivity with the striatum is the supplementary motor area (SMA), where we applied tSMS. We then use a data-driven version of the framework to show that tSMS of the SMA modulates the local activity in the SMA proper, in the adjacent sensorimotor cortex, and in the motor striatum. We finally use a model-driven version of the framework to clarify that the tSMS-induced modulation of striatal activity can be primarily explained by a change in the shared activity between the modulated motor cortical areas and the motor striatum. These results suggest that corticostriatal activity can be targeted, monitored, and modulated noninvasively in humans.
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- Jaime Caballero-Insaurriaga
- HM CINAC (Centro Integral de Neurociencias Abarca Campal), Hospital Universitario HM Puerta del Sur, HM Hospitales, Madrid28938, Spain
- Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid28040, Spain
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- HM CINAC (Centro Integral de Neurociencias Abarca Campal), Hospital Universitario HM Puerta del Sur, HM Hospitales, Madrid28938, Spain
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- HM CINAC (Centro Integral de Neurociencias Abarca Campal), Hospital Universitario HM Puerta del Sur, HM Hospitales, Madrid28938, Spain
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- HM CINAC (Centro Integral de Neurociencias Abarca Campal), Hospital Universitario HM Puerta del Sur, HM Hospitales, Madrid28938, Spain
- Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Toledo45004, Spain
- CIBERNED, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid28031, Spain
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Daniel PL, Bonaiuto JJ, Bestmann S, Aron AR, Little S. High precision magnetoencephalography reveals increased right-inferior frontal gyrus beta power during response conflict. Cortex 2023; 158:127-136. [PMID: 36521374 PMCID: PMC9840697 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Revised: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Flexibility of behavior and the ability to rapidly switch actions is critical for adaptive living in humans. It is well established that the right-inferior frontal gyrus (R-IFG) is recruited during outright action-stopping, relating to increased beta (12-30 Hz) power. It has also been posited that inhibiting incorrect response tendencies and switching is central to motor flexibility. However, it is not known if the commonly reported R-IFG beta signature of response inhibition in action-stopping is also recruited during response conflict, which would suggest overlapping networks for stopping and switching. In the current study, we analyzed high precision magnetoencephalography (hpMEG) data recorded with multiple within subject recording sessions (trials n > 10,000) from 8 subjects during different levels of response conflict. We hypothesized that a R-IFG-triggered network for response inhibition is domain general and therefore also involved in mediating response conflict. We tested whether R-IFG showed increased beta power dependent on the level of response conflict. Using event-related spectral perturbations and linear mixed modeling, we found that R-IFG beta power increased for response conflict trials. The R-IFG beta increase was specific to trials with strong response conflict, and increased R-IFG beta power related to less error. This supports a more generalized role for R-IFG beta, beyond simple stopping behavior towards response switching.
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- Pria L. Daniel
- Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, 92093
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- Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Marc Jeannerod, CNRS UMR5229, 69500,Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 72501
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK; Department for Clinical and Movement Neuroscience, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.
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- Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, 92093
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- Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Lammers-Lietz F, Zacharias N, Mörgeli R, Spies CD, Winterer G. Functional Connectivity of the Supplementary and Presupplementary Motor Areas in Postoperative Transition Between Stages of Frailty. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2022; 77:2464-2473. [PMID: 35040961 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glac012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Frailty is a multietiological geriatric syndrome of run-down physical reserves with high vulnerability to stressors. Transitions between physical robustness and frailty often occur in the context of medical interventions. Studies suggest that neurological disorders contribute to faster progression of frailty. In a previous cross-sectional study we found altered functional connectivity of supplementary motor area (SMA) in (pre)frail compared to robust patients. We analyzed functional connectivity of the SMA and presupplementary motor area (pre-SMA) in patients with postoperative transitions between physical robustness and stages of frailty. METHODS We investigated 120 cognitively healthy patients (49.2% robust, 47.5% prefrail, 3.3% frail, 37.5% female, median age 71 [65-87] years) undergoing elective surgery from the BioCog project, a multicentric prospective cohort study on postoperative delirium and cognitive dysfunction. Assessments took place 14 days before and 3 months after surgery, comprising assessments of a modified frailty phenotype according to Fried and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging at 3 T. The associations between functional connectivity of the SMA and pre-SMA networks, preoperative frailty stages, and postoperative transitions were examined using mixed linear effects models. RESULTS Nineteen patients showed physical improvement after surgery, 24 patients progressed to (pre)frailty and in 77 patients no transition was observed. At follow-up, 57 (47.5%) patients were robust, 52 (43.3%) prefrail, and 11 (9.2%) frail. Lower functional connectivity in the pre-SMA network was associated with more unfavorable postoperative transition types. An exploratory analysis suggested that the association was restricted to patients who were prefrail at baseline. There was no association of transition type with SMA functional connectivity in the primary analysis. In an exploratory analysis, transition from prefrailty to robustness was associated with higher functional connectivity and progression in robust patients was associated with higher SMA network segregation. CONCLUSIONS Our findings implicate that dysfunctions of cortical networks involved in higher cognitive control of motion are associated with postoperative transitions between frailty stages. The pre-SMA may be a target for neurofeedback or brain stimulation in approaches to prevent frailty. Clinical Trials Registration Number: NCT02265263.
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- Florian Lammers-Lietz
- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.,Pharmaimage Biomarker Solutions GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.,Pharmaimage Biomarker Solutions GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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Zhong M, Zeng H, Wang D, Li J, Duan X, Li Y. Structure and activity alteration in adult highland residents' cerebrum: Voxel-based morphometry and amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation study. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:1035308. [PMID: 36507327 PMCID: PMC9730815 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1035308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Introduction People living in highland areas may have factors that allow them to adapt to chronic hypoxia, but these physiological mechanisms remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the brain mechanism in a cohort of adult residents of Tibet, a well-known plateau section in China, by observing differences in brain structure and function in non-plateau populations. Methods The study included 27 Tibetan and 27 non-plateau region residents who were matched in age, sex, and education. All participants underwent high-resolution three-dimensional T1 weighted imaging (3D-T1WI) and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) scans on a 1.5 Tesla MR. Gray matter volumes and regional spontaneous neuronal activity (SNA) were calculated and compared between the two groups. Results When comparing gray matter in people living in high altitudes to those living in the flatlands, the results showed positive activation of gray matter in local brain regions (p < 0.05, false discovery rate (FDR) corrected), in the right postcentral [automated atomic labeling (aal)], left postcentral (aal), and right lingual (aal) regions. Comparing the people of high altitude vs. flat land in the brain function study (p < 0.05, FDR corrected), positive activation was found in the right superior motor area (aal) and left superior frontal (aal), and negative activation was found in the right precuneus (aal). Conclusion In high-altitude individuals, larger regional gray matter volumes and higher SNA may represent a compensatory mechanism to adapt to chronic hypoxia.
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- Minzhi Zhong
- Department of Radiology, Guangzhou Red Cross Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiotherapy Center, Gaozhou People's Hospital, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Sanshui People's Hospital, Foshan, China
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- Department of Radiology, Nyingchi People's Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, Nyingchi, China
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- Department of Radiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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Chen F, Cai J, Dai L, Lin Y, Yu L, Lin Z, Kang Y, Yu T, Wang D, Kang D. Altered hippocampal functional connectivity after the rupture of anterior communicating artery aneurysm. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:997231. [DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.997231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Background and purposeAneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) predisposes hippocampal injury, a major cause of follow-up cognitive impairment. Our previous study has revealed an abnormal resting-state brain network in patients after the rupture of anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysm. However, the functional connectivity (FC) characteristics of the hippocampus and its relationship with cognitive performance in these patients remain unknown.MethodsThis study ultimately included 26 patients and 19 age- and sex-matched controls who completed quality control for resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The mean time series for each side of the hippocampus was extracted from individuals and then a seed-to-voxel analysis was performed. We compared the difference in FC strength between the two groups and subsequently analyzed the correlations between abnormal FC and their cognitive performance.ResultsThe results of bilateral hippocampus-based FC analysis were largely consistent. Compared with the healthy controls, patients after the rupture of ACoA aneurysm exhibited significantly decreased FC between the hippocampus and other brain structures within the Papez circuit, including bilateral anterior and middle cingulate cortex (MCC), bilateral medial superior frontal gyrus, and left inferior temporal gyrus (ITG). Instead, increased FC between the hippocampus and bilateral insula was observed. Correlation analyses showed that more subjective memory complaints or lower total cognitive scores were associated with decreased connectivity in the hippocampus and several brain regions such as left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and frontotemporal cortex.ConclusionThese results extend our previous findings and suggest that patients with ruptured ACoA aneurysm exist hypoconnectivity between the hippocampus and multiple brain regions within the Papez circuit. Deactivation of the Papez circuit may be a crucial neural mechanism related to cognitive deficits in patients after the rupture of ACoA aneurysm.
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Du H, Feng X, Qian X, Zhang J, Liu B, Li A, Huang Z, Gao X. Recent-onset and persistent tinnitus: Uncovering the differences in brain activities using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging technologies. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:976095. [PMID: 36340775 PMCID: PMC9627982 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.976095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Objective This study aimed to investigate the differences in intra-regional brain activity and inter-regional functional connectivity between patients with recent-onset tinnitus (ROT) and persistent tinnitus (PT) using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), including the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (ALFF), regional homogeneity (ReHo), and voxel-wise functional connectivity (FC). Method We acquired rs-fMRI scans from 82 patients (25 without recent-onset tinnitus, 28 with persistent tinnitus, and 29 healthy controls). Age, sex, and years of education were matched across the three groups. We performed ALFF, ReHo, and voxel-wise FC analyses for all patients. Results Compared with the control group, participants with ROT and PT manifested significantly reduced ALFF and ReHo activity within the left and right dorsolateral superior frontal gyrus (SFG) and gyrus rectus (GR). Additional voxel-wise FC revealed decreased connectivity between the dorsolateral SFG (left and right) and the right superior parietal gyrus (SPG), right middle frontal gyrus (MFG), and left medial superior frontal gyrus (mSFG) within these two groups. Significant differences were observed between the ROT and PT groups, with the ROT group demonstrating reduced FC. Conclusion Our data suggest that patients with PT have more difficulty monitoring external stimuli and reorienting attention than patients with ROT. In addition, patients who perceive higher levels of disruption from tinnitus are more likely to develop persistent and debilitating tinnitus once the tinnitus lasts longer than six months. Therefore, we strongly recommend that clinicians implement effective tinnitus management strategies in patients with ROT as soon as possible.
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- Haoliang Du
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory Medical Discipline, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China
- Department of Research Institution of Otolaryngology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory Medical Discipline, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China
- Department of Research Institution of Otolaryngology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory Medical Discipline, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China
- Department of Research Institution of Otolaryngology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
- *Correspondence: Zhichun Huang,
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- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory Medical Discipline, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China
- Department of Research Institution of Otolaryngology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China
- Xia Gao,
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Li M, Lindenmuth M, Tarnai K, Lee J, King-Casas B, Kim-Spoon J, Deater-Deckard K. Development of cognitive control during adolescence: The integrative effects of family socioeconomic status and parenting behaviors. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2022; 57:101139. [PMID: 35905528 PMCID: PMC9335383 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Revised: 07/13/2022] [Accepted: 07/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Cognitive control is of great interest to researchers and practitioners. The concurrent association between family socioeconomic status (SES) and adolescent cognitive control is well-documented. However, little is known about whether and how SES relates to individual differences in the development of adolescent cognitive control. The current four-year longitudinal investigation (N = 167, 13-14 years at Wave 1) used multi-source interference task performance (reaction time in interference correct trials minus neutral correct trials) and corresponding neural activities (blood oxygen level dependent contrast of interference versus neutral conditions) as measures of cognitive control. SES and parenting behaviors (warmth, monitoring) were measured through surveys. We examined direct and indirect effects of earlier SES on the development of cognitive control via parenting behaviors; the moderating effect of parenting also was explored. Results of latent growth modeling (LGM) revealed significant interactive effects between SES and parenting predicting behavioral and neural measures of cognitive control. Lower family SES was associated with poorer cognitive performance when coupled with low parental warmth. In contrast, higher family SES was associated with greater improvement in performance, as well as a higher intercept and steeper decrease in frontoparietal activation over time, when coupled with high parental monitoring. These findings extend prior cross-sectional evidence to show the moderating effect of the parenting environment on the potential effects of SES on developmental changes in adolescent cognitive control.
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- Mengjiao Li
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA; Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
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Abnormal Brain Networks Related to Drug and Nondrug Reward Anticipation and Outcome Processing in Stimulant Use Disorder: A Functional Connectomics Approach. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2022; 8:560-571. [PMID: 36108930 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.08.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2022] [Revised: 08/25/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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BACKGROUND Drug addiction is associated with blunted neural responses to nondrug rewards, such as money, but heightened responses to drug cues that predict drug-reward outcomes. This dissociation underscores the role of incentive context in the attribution of motivational salience, which may reflect a narrowing toward drug-related goals. This hypothesis, however, has scarcely been investigated. METHODS To address this important scientific gap, the current study performed an empirical assessment of differences in salience attribution by comparing patients with stimulant use disorder (SUD) (n = 41) with control participants (n = 48) on network connectivity related to anticipation and outcome processing using a modified monetary incentive delay task. We hypothesized increased task-related activation and connectivity to drug rewards in patients with SUD, and reduced task-related activation and connectivity to monetary rewards during incentive processing across brain networks. RESULTS In the presence of behavioral and regional brain activation similarities, we found that patients with SUD showed significantly less connectivity involving three separate distributed networks during monetary reward anticipation, and drug and monetary reward outcome processing. No group connectivity differences for drug reward anticipation were identified. Additional graph theory analyses revealed that patients with SUD had longer path lengths across these networks, all of which positively correlated with the duration of stimulant drug use. CONCLUSIONS Specific disruptions in connectivity in networks related to the anticipation of nondrug reward together with more general dysconnectivity in the processing of rewarding outcomes suggest an insensitivity to consequences. These observations support the notion of a predominance of habitual control in patients with SUD.
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Nees F, Banaschewski T, Bokde ALW, Desrivières S, Grigis A, Garavan H, Gowland P, Grimmer Y, Heinz A, Brühl R, Isensee C, Becker A, Martinot JL, Paillère Martinot ML, Artiges E, Papadopoulos Orfanos D, Lemaître H, Stringaris A, van Noort B, Paus T, Penttilä J, Millenet S, Fröhner JH, Smolka MN, Walter H, Whelan R, Schumann G, Poustka L. Global and Regional Structural Differences and Prediction of Autistic Traits during Adolescence. Brain Sci 2022; 12:1187. [PMID: 36138923 PMCID: PMC9496772 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12091187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2022] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Autistic traits are commonly viewed as dimensional in nature, and as continuously distributed in the general population. In this respect, the identification of predictive values of markers such as subtle autism-related alterations in brain morphology for parameter values of autistic traits could increase our understanding of this dimensional occasion. However, currently, very little is known about how these traits correspond to alterations in brain morphology in typically developing individuals, particularly during a time period where changes due to brain development processes do not provide a bias. Therefore, in the present study, we analyzed brain volume, cortical thickness (CT) and surface area (SA) in a cohort of 14-15-year-old adolescents (N = 285, female: N = 162) and tested their predictive value for autistic traits, assessed with the social responsiveness scale (SRS) two years later at the age of 16-17 years, using a regression-based approach. We found that autistic traits were significantly predicted by volumetric changes in the amygdala (r = 0.181), cerebellum (r = 0.128) and hippocampus (r = -0.181, r = -0.203), both in boys and girls. Moreover, the CT of the superior frontal region was negatively correlated (r = -0.144) with SRS scores. Furthermore, we observed a significant association between the SRS total score and smaller left putamen volume, specifically in boys (r = -0.217), but not in girls. Our findings suggest that neural correlates of autistic traits also seem to lie on a continuum in the general population, are determined by limbic-striatal neuroanatomical brain areas, and are partly dependent on sex. As we imaged adolescents from a large population-based cohort within a small age range, these data may help to increase the understanding of autistic-like occasions in otherwise typically developing individuals.
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- Frauke Nees
- Institute of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center Schleswig Holstein, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
- Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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- Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS), SGDP Centre, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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- NeuroSpin, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA
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- Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2QL, UK
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy CCM and Berlin Institute of Health, Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), 38116 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Göttingen, von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Göttingen, von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U A10 “Trajectoires Développementales en Psychiatrie”, Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U A10 “Trajectoires Développementales en Psychiatrie”, Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, AP-HP Sorbonne Université, 75013 Paris, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U A10 “Trajectoires Développementales en Psychiatrie”, Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Psychiatry Department, EPS Barthélémy Durand, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91150 Etampes, France
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- Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives, UMR 5293, CNRS, CEA, Université de Bordeaux, 33076 Bordeaux, France
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- National Institute of Mental Health/NIH, 15K North Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- MSB Medical School Berlin, Hochschule für Gesundheit und Medizin, Siemens Villa, 14197 Berlin, Germany
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- Departments of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 2S8, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 2S8, Canada
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- CanadaDepartment of Social and Health Care, Psychosocial Services Adolescent Outpatient Clinic Kauppakatu 14, 15140 Lahti, Finland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Square J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- School of Psychology, Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Göttingen, von-Siebold-Str. 5, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
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- School of Psychology, Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
- PONS Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charite Mitte, Humboldt University, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany
- Institute for Science and Technology of Brain-inspired Intelligence (ISTBI), Fudan University, Shanghai 200437, China
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U A10 “Trajectoires Développementales en Psychiatrie”, Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Nakajima K, Osada T, Ogawa A, Tanaka M, Oka S, Kamagata K, Aoki S, Oshima Y, Tanaka S, Konishi S. A causal role of anterior prefrontal-putamen circuit for response inhibition revealed by transcranial ultrasound stimulation in humans. Cell Rep 2022; 40:111197. [PMID: 35977493 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Revised: 06/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Stopping an inappropriate response requires the involvement of the prefrontal-subthalamic hyperdirect pathway. However, how the prefrontal-striatal indirect pathway contributes to stopping is poorly understood. In this study, transcranial ultrasound stimulation is used to perform interventions in a task-related region in the striatum. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reveals activation in the right anterior part of the putamen during response inhibition, and ultrasound stimulation to the anterior putamen, as well as the subthalamic nucleus, results in significant impairments in stopping performance. Diffusion imaging further reveals prominent structural connections between the anterior putamen and the right anterior part of the inferior frontal cortex (IFC), and ultrasound stimulation to the anterior IFC also shows significant impaired stopping performance. These results demonstrate that the right anterior putamen and right anterior IFC causally contribute to stopping and suggest that the anterior IFC-anterior putamen circuit in the indirect pathway serves as an essential route for stopping.
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- Koji Nakajima
- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan; Sportology Center, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan; Advanced Research Institute for Health Science, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.
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Sulpizio V, Strappini F, Fattori P, Galati G, Galletti C, Pecchinenda A, Pitzalis S. The human middle temporal cortex responds to both active leg movements and egomotion-compatible visual motion. Brain Struct Funct 2022; 227:2573-2592. [PMID: 35963915 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-022-02549-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The human middle-temporal region MT+ is highly specialized in processing visual motion. However, recent studies have shown that this region is modulated by extraretinal signals, suggesting a possible involvement in processing motion information also from non-visual modalities. Here, we used functional MRI data to investigate the influence of retinal and extraretinal signals on MT+ in a large sample of subjects. Moreover, we used resting-state functional MRI to assess how the subdivisions of MT+ (i.e., MST, FST, MT, and V4t) are functionally connected. We first compared responses in MST, FST, MT, and V4t to coherent vs. random visual motion. We found that only MST and FST were positively activated by coherent motion. Furthermore, regional analyses revealed that MST and FST were positively activated by leg, but not arm, movements, while MT and V4t were deactivated by arm, but not leg, movements. Taken together, regional analyses revealed a visuomotor role for the anterior areas MST and FST and a pure visual role for the anterior areas MT and V4t. These findings were mirrored by the pattern of functional connections between these areas and the rest of the brain. Visual and visuomotor regions showed distinct patterns of functional connectivity, with the latter preferentially connected with the somatosensory and motor areas representing leg and foot. Overall, these findings reveal a functional sensitivity for coherent visual motion and lower-limb movements in MST and FST, suggesting their possible involvement in integrating sensory and motor information to perform locomotion.
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- Valentina Sulpizio
- Brain Imaging Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
- Department of Cognitive and Motor Rehabilitation and Neuroimaging, Santa Lucia Foundation (IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia), Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Brain Imaging Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
- Department of Cognitive and Motor Rehabilitation and Neuroimaging, Santa Lucia Foundation (IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia), Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Cognitive and Motor Rehabilitation and Neuroimaging, Santa Lucia Foundation (IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia), Rome, Italy.
- Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome ''Foro Italico'', 00194, Rome, Italy.
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Wen X, Chi S, Yu Y, Wang G, Zhang X, Wang Z, Gesang M, Luo B. The Cerebellum is Involved in Motor Improvements After Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease Patients. Neuroscience 2022; 499:1-11. [PMID: 35817220 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2022.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Revised: 07/01/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Accumulating evidence indicates that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) ameliorates motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD); however, patients' responses to rTMS are different. Here, we aimed to explore neural activity changes in patients with PD exhibiting different responses to high-frequency rTMS treatments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We treated 24 patients with PD using 10-session rTMS (10 Hz) over the supplementary motor area (SMA) for 10 days. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Part III (UPDRS-III) and other neuropsychological scales were performed at the baseline and endpoint of rTMS treatment. The changes in the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) were calculated. Significant improvements were observed in motor symptoms, especially in the sub-symptoms of bradykinesia. All the participants were subsequently stratified into responders and non-responders according to the UPDRS-III reduction. We identified increased fALFF values in the left Crus II of the cerebellar hemisphere and bilateral thalamus as responsive signs to rTMS. Furthermore, the motor response to rTMS over the SMA, measured by the reduction in UPDRS-III and bradykinesia scores, was positively associated with increased fALFF values in the left Crus2 of cerebellar hemisphere, left lobule VIIB of cerebellar hemisphere, right lobule VI of the cerebellar hemisphere, and the right postcentral gyrus. These findings provide evidence for the involvement of cerebellar activity in the motor response to rTMS treatment.
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- Xinrui Wen
- Department of Neurology & Brain Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Mental Health Center & Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Affiliated Sir Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Mental Health Center & Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Mental Health Center & Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Mental Health Center & Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Mental Health Center & Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Neurology & Brain Medical Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
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Ding J, Qu X, Cui J, Dong J, Guo J, Xian J, Li D. Altered Spontaneous Brain Activity and Network Property in Patients With Congenital Monocular Blindness. Front Neurol 2022; 13:789655. [PMID: 35280267 PMCID: PMC8907119 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2022.789655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Individuals with congenital monocular blindness may have specific brain changes since the brain is prenatally deprived of half the normal visual input. To explore characteristic brain functional changes of congenital monocular blindness, we analyzed resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) data of 16 patients with unilateral congenital microphthalmia and 16 healthy subjects with normal vision to compare intergroup differences of amplitude of low frequency fluctuations (ALFFs), functional connectivity (FC), and network topolgoical properties. Compared with controls, patients with microphthalmia exhibited significantly lower ALFF values in the left inferior occipital and temporal gyri, superior temporal gyrus, inferior parietal lobe and post-central gyrus, whereas higher ALFF in the right middle and inferior temporal gyri, middle and superior frontal gyri, left superior frontal, and temporal gyri, such as angular gyrus. Meanwhile, FC between left medial superior frontal gyrus and angular gyrus, FC between left superior temporal gyrus and inferior parietal lobe and post-central gyrus decreased in the patients with congenital microphthalmia. In addition, a graph theory-analysis revealed increased regional network metrics (degree centrality and nodal efficiency) in the middle and inferior temporal gyri and middle and superior frontal gyri, while decreased values in the inferior occipital and temporal gyri, inferior parietal lobule, post-central gyrus, and angular gyrus. Taken together, patients with congenital microphthalmia had widespread abnormal activities within neural networks involving the vision and language and language-related regions played dominant roles in their brain networks. These findings may provide clues for functional reorganization of vision and language networks induced by the congenital monocular blindness.
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- Jingwen Ding
- Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Science Key Lab, Department of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Science Key Lab, Department of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- *Correspondence: Junfang Xian
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- Beijing Ophthalmology & Visual Science Key Lab, Department of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
- Dongmei Li
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Swain JE, Ho SS. Reduced Child-Oriented Face Mirroring Brain Responses in Mothers With Opioid Use Disorder: An Exploratory Study. Front Psychol 2022; 12:770093. [PMID: 35185679 PMCID: PMC8854864 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.770093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/29/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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While the prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD) among pregnant women has multiplied in the United States in the last decade, buprenorphine treatment (BT) for peripartum women with OUD has been administered to reduce risks of repeated cycles of craving and withdrawal. However, the maternal behavior and bonding in mothers with OUD may be altered as the underlying maternal behavior neurocircuit (MBN) is opioid sensitive. In the regulation of rodent maternal behaviors such as licking and grooming, a series of opioid-sensitive brain regions are functionally connected, including the ventral pallidum (VP). In humans, these brain regions, interact with the supplementary motor area (SMA) to regulate maternal behaviors and are functionally dysregulated by opioids. It is unclear how these brain regions respond to the emotions of their child for mothers receiving BT. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) pilot study in 22 mothers within the first postpartum year, including six mothers receiving BT and 16 non-OUD mothers as a comparison group (CG), we devised a child face mirroring task in fMRI settings to assess maternal responses to pictures of facial expressions of own child and an unknown child in an empathic mirroring condition (Join) and a non-mirroring observation condition (Observe). In each condition, faces of neutral, ambiguous, distressed, and joyful expressions of each child were repeatedly displayed in a random order. The response of SMA during empathic mirroring (Join) vs. non-mirroring (Observe) of own child was reduced among BT/OUD vs. CG. Within MBN, the left VP, critical for parental sensitivity, had a similar deficit. This study outlines potential mechanisms for investigating the risks of deficits in the neural responses to actual maternal sensitivity and parenting behavior in mothers with OUD, and potential targets for interventions that reduce stress and augment maternal behavior and child outcome.
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- James E. Swain
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
- Program in Public Health, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
- *Correspondence: James E. Swain,
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
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Jiang G, Feng Y, Li M, Wen H, Wang T, Shen Y, Chen Z, Li S. Distinct alterations of functional connectivity of the basal forebrain subregions in insomnia disorder. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:1036997. [PMID: 36311494 PMCID: PMC9606586 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1036997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cholinergic basal forebrain (BF) plays an important role in sleep-wake regulation and is implicated in cortical arousal and activation. However, less is known currently regarding the abnormal BF-related neuronal circuit in human patients with insomnia disorder (ID). In this study, we aimed to explore alterations of functional connectivity (FC) in subregions of the BF and the relationships between FC alterations and sleep and mood measures in ID. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred and two ID patients and ninety-six healthy controls (HC) were included in this study. Each subject underwent both resting-state fMRI and high-resolution anatomical scanning. All participants completed the sleep and mood questionnaires in ID patients. Voxel-based resting-state FC in each BF subregion (Ch_123 and Ch_4) were computed. For the voxel-wise FC differences between groups, a two-sample t-test was performed on the individual maps in a voxel-by-voxel manner. To examine linear relationships with sleep and mood measures, Pearson correlations were calculated between FC alterations and sleep and mood measures, respectively. RESULTS The ID group showed significantly decreased FC between the medial superior frontal gyrus and Ch_123 compared to HC. However, increased FC between the midbrain and Ch_4 was found in ID based on the voxel-wise analysis. The correlation analysis only revealed that the altered FC between the midbrain with Ch_4 was significantly negatively correlated with the self-rating anxiety scale. CONCLUSION Our findings of decreased FC between Ch_123 and medial superior frontal gyrus and increased FC between midbrain and Ch4 suggest distinct roles of subregions of BF underlying the neurobiology of ID.
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- Guihua Jiang
- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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- The First School of Clinical Medicine, Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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Liu Y, Lai CH. The alterations of degree centrality in the frontal lobe of patients with panic disorder. Int J Med Sci 2022; 19:105-111. [PMID: 34975304 PMCID: PMC8692120 DOI: 10.7150/ijms.65367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Objective: The brain network in panic disorder (PD) is still an intriguing issue for research. In this study, we hoped to investigate the role of DC (degree centrality) for the pathophysiology of PD, especially for the fear network. Methods: We enrolled 60 patients with PD and 60 controls in the current study. The gender and age were matched for two groups. All participants received the resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to survey the baseline brain activity. Then the DC values of all participants were using REST toolbox. We also compared the DC values between PD and controls. The statistical threshold was set as FDR (false discovery rate) < 0.05. Results: The DC values were significantly lower in the right superior frontal gyrus of PD patients compared to controls (FDR < 0.05). In addition, a negative correlation between the DC values and panic severity was observed in the right superior frontal gyrus and left inferior frontal gyrus. However, there was no significant association between the DC values and illness duration. Conclusion: The DC seemed significantly altered in the frontal lobe of PD patients. The role of the frontal lobe might be more emphasized in the pathophysiology research for PD.
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- Yongbao Liu
- Department of Imaging, The First People's Hospital of LianYun Gang, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, 222000, China
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- Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.,PhD Psychiatry & Neuroscience Clinic, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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Niu X, Gao X, Zhang M, Yang Z, Yu M, Wang W, Wei Y, Cheng J, Han S, Zhang Y. Meta-analysis of structural and functional brain alterations in internet gaming disorder. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:1029344. [PMID: 37033880 PMCID: PMC10074425 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1029344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 04/11/2023] Open
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Background Many neuroimaging studies have reported abnormalities in brain structure and function in internet gaming disorder (IGD). However, the findings were divergent. We aimed to provide evidence-based evidence of structural and functional changes in IGD by conducting a meta-analysis integrating these studies quantitatively. Method A systematic search was conducted in PubMed, ScienceDirect, Web of Science, and Scopus from January 1, 2010 to October 31, 2021, to identify eligible voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. Brain alternations between IGD subjects and healthy controls (HCs) were compared using the anisotropic seed-based d mapping (AES-SDM) meta-analytic method. Meta-regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between gray matter volume (GMV) alterations and addiction-related clinical features. Results The meta-analysis contained 15 VBM studies (422 IGD patients and 354 HCs) and 30 task-state fMRI studies (617 IGD patients and 550 HCs). Compared with HCs, IGD subjects showed: (1) reduced GMV in the bilateral anterior/median cingulate cortex, superior/inferior frontal gyrus and supplementary motor area; (2) hyperactivation in the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus, precentral gyrus, left precuneus, right inferior temporal gyrus and right fusiform; (3) hypoactivation in the bilateral lingual and the left middle frontal gyrus; and (4) both decreased GMV and increased activation in the left anterior cingulate. Furthermore, Meta-regression revealed that GMV reduction in left anterior cingulate were positively correlated with BIS-11 score [r = 0.725, p = 0.012(uncorrected)] and IAT score [r = 0.761, p = 0.017(uncorrected)]. Conclusion This meta-analysis showed structural and functional impairments in brain regions related to executive control, cognitive function and reward-based decision making in IGD. Furthermore, multi-domain assessments captured different aspects of neuronal changes in IGD, which may help develop effective interventions as potential therapeutic targets.
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- Xiaoyu Niu
- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and Application of Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China
- Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Brain Function Development and Application, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and Application of Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China
- Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Brain Function Development and Application, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and Application of Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China
- Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Brain Function Development and Application, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and Application of Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China
- Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Brain Function Development and Application, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and Application of Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China
- Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Brain Function Development and Application, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and Application of Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China
- Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Brain Function Development and Application, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and Application of Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China
- Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Brain Function Development and Application, Zhengzhou, China
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and Application of Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China
- Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Brain Function Development and Application, Zhengzhou, China
- Jingliang Cheng,
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and Application of Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China
- Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Brain Function Development and Application, Zhengzhou, China
- Shaoqiang Han,
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- Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Technology Research Center for Detection and Application of Brain Function, Zhengzhou, China
- Key Laboratory for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Molecular Imaging of Henan Province, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Medical Imaging Intelligent Diagnosis and Treatment, Zhengzhou, China
- Zhengzhou Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Cognitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Key Laboratory of Imaging Intelligence Research, Zhengzhou, China
- Henan Engineering Research Center of Brain Function Development and Application, Zhengzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Yong Zhang,
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Biao W, Long Z, Yang Z, Hua G, Shuangkun W. Abnormal resting-state brain activity and connectivity of brain-bladder control network in overactive bladder syndrome. Acta Radiol 2021; 63:1695-1702. [PMID: 34851160 DOI: 10.1177/02841851211057278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Neuroimaging studies have shown that the brain is involved in the mechanism of overactive bladder disease (OAB). PURPOSE To explorer spatial patterns of spontaneous neural activities and functional integration in patients with OAB. MATERIAL AND METHODS In total, 28 patients with OAB and 28 matched healthy controls (HC) underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and completed questionnaires to assess clinical symptoms. The amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) and ROI-based functional connectivity (FC) within the brain-bladder control network (BBCN) were calculated and compared between the two groups using a two-sample t-test. Pearson correlation analysis was performed to investigate the relationship between ALFF and the clinical score of patients with OAB. RESULTS Compared with HCs, patients with OAB exhibited significantly decreased ALFF in the left superior medial middle gyrus (SFGmed) and superior dorsal frontal gyrus (SFGdor), and increased ALFF in the right hippocampus. Furthermore, ALFF values in the left SFGmed were negatively correlated with OABSS scores. FC in patients with OAB was significantly increased between the bilateral caudate nucleus (CAU) and bilateral SFGdor, the bilateral CAU and bilateral supplementary motor area (SMA), the bilateral thalamus and SMA; the left CAU and bilateral SFGmed, the left CAU and bilateral anterior cingulate gyrus, and the left CAU and left insula. Additionally, decreased FC was found between the bilateral amygdala and bilateral SFGmed and the left SMA and left insula. CONCLUSION These abnormal activities and connectivities of BBCN may indicate impaired cortical control of micturition in OAB, suggesting a possible neural mechanism of OAB.
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- Wang Biao
- Department of Urology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China
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Rahimpour S, Rajkumar S, Hallett M. The Supplementary Motor Complex in Parkinson's Disease. J Mov Disord 2021; 15:21-32. [PMID: 34814237 PMCID: PMC8820882 DOI: 10.14802/jmd.21075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by both motor and nonmotor symptoms. Although the basal ganglia is traditionally the primary brain region implicated in this disease process, this limited view ignores the roles of the cortex and cerebellum that are networked with the basal ganglia to support motor and cognitive functions. In particular, recent research has highlighted dysfunction in the supplementary motor complex (SMC) in patients with PD. Using the PubMed and Google Scholar search engines, we identified research articles using keywords pertaining to the involvement of the SMC in action sequencing impairments, temporal processing disturbances, and gait impairment in patients with PD. A review of abstracts and full-text articles was used to identify relevant articles. In this review of 63 articles, we focus on the role of the SMC in PD, highlighting anatomical and functional data to create new perspectives in understanding clinical symptoms and, potentially, new therapeutic targets. The SMC has a nuanced role in the pathophysiology of PD, with both hypo- and hyperactivation associated with various symptoms. Further studies using more standardized patient populations and functional tasks are needed to more clearly elucidate the role of this region in the pathophysiology and treatment of PD.
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- Shervin Rahimpour
- Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neuroscience Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA
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- Human Motor Control Section, Medical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Ahmadi ZZ, DiBacco ML, Pearl PL. Speech Motor Function and Auditory Perception in Succinic Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase Deficiency: Toward Pre-Supplementary Motor Area (SMA) and SMA-Proper Dysfunctions. J Child Neurol 2021; 36:1210-1217. [PMID: 33757330 DOI: 10.1177/08830738211001210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This study reviews the fundamental roles of pre-supplementary motor area (SMA) and SMA-proper responsible for speech-motor functions and auditory perception in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase (SSADH) deficiency. We comprehensively searched the databases of PubMed, Google Scholar, and the electronic journals Springer, PreQuest, and Science Direct associated with keywords SSADHD, SMA, auditory perception, speech, and motor with AND operator. Transcranial magnetic stimulation emerged for assessing excitability/inhibitory M1 functions, but its role in pre-SMA and SMA proper dysfunction remains unknown. There was a lack of data on resting-state and task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with a focus on passive and active tasks for both speech and music, in terms of analysis of SMA-related cortex and its connections. Children with SSADH deficiency likely experience a dysfunction in connectivity between SMA portions with cortical and subcortical areas contributing to disabilities in speech-motor functions and auditory perception. Early diagnosis of auditory-motor disabilities in children with SSADH deficiency by neuroimaging techniques invites opportunities for utilizing sensory-motor integration as future interventional strategies.
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- Zohreh Ziatabar Ahmadi
- Department of Speech Therapy, School of Rehabilitation, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, I.R. Iran
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- Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Parallel cognitive processing streams in human prefrontal cortex: Parsing areal-level brain network for response inhibition. Cell Rep 2021; 36:109732. [PMID: 34551294 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 08/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Multiple cognitive processes are recruited to achieve adaptive behavior. However, it is poorly understood how such cognitive processes are implemented in temporal cascades of human cerebral cortical areas as processing streams to achieve behavior. In the present study, we identify cortical processing streams for response inhibition and examine relationships among the processing streams. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and time-resolved single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) reveal three distinct critical timings of transient disruption in the functionally essential cortical areas that belong to two distinct cerebrocortical networks. Furthermore, single-pulse TMS following suppression of the ventral posterior inferior frontal cortex (vpIFC) with repetitive TMS reveals information flow from the vpIFC to the presupplementary motor area (preSMA) within the same network but not to the dorsal posterior inferior frontal cortex (dpIFC) across different networks. These causal behavioral effects suggest two parallel processing streams (vpIFC-preSMA versus dpIFC-intraparietal sulcus) that act concurrently during response inhibition.
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Huang CW, Lin CH, Lin YH, Tsai HY, Tseng MT. Neural Basis of Somatosensory Spatial and Temporal Discrimination in Humans: The Role of Sensory Detection. Cereb Cortex 2021; 32:1480-1493. [PMID: 34427294 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Revised: 07/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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While detecting somatic stimuli from the external environment, an accurate determination of their spatial and temporal properties is essential for human behavior. Whether and how detection relates to human capacity for somatosensory spatial discrimination (SD) and temporal discrimination (TD) remains unclear. Here, participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning when simply detecting vibrotactile stimuli of the leg, judging their location (SD), or deciding their number in time (TD). By conceptualizing tactile discrimination as consisting of detection and determination processes, we found that tactile detection elicited activation specifically involved in SD within the right inferior and superior parietal lobules, 2 regions previously implicated in the control of spatial attention. These 2 regions remained activated in the determination process, during which functional connectivity between these 2 regions predicted individual SD ability. In contrast, tactile detection produced little activation specifically related to TD. Participants' TD ability was implemented in brain regions implicated in coding temporal structures of somatic stimuli (primary somatosensory cortex) and time estimation (anterior cingulate, pre-supplementary motor area, and putamen). Together, our findings indicate a close link between somatosensory detection and SD (but not TD) at the neural level, which aids in explaining why we can promptly respond toward detected somatic stimuli.
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- Cheng-Wei Huang
- Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Taiwan International Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Taiwan International Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
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The disrupted topological properties of structural networks showed recovery in ischemic stroke patients: a longitudinal design study. BMC Neurosci 2021; 22:47. [PMID: 34340655 PMCID: PMC8330082 DOI: 10.1186/s12868-021-00652-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Introduction Stroke is one of the leading causes of substantial disability worldwide. Previous studies have shown brain functional and structural alterations in adults with stroke. However, few studies have examined the longitudinal reorganization in whole-brain structural networks in stroke. Methods Here, we applied graph theoretical analysis to investigate the longitudinal topological organization of white matter networks in 20 ischemic stroke patients with a one-month interval between two timepoints. Two sets of clinical scores, Fugl-Meyer motor assessment (FMA) and neurological deficit scores (NDS), were assessed for all patients on the day the image data were collected. Results The stroke patients exhibited significant increases in FMA scores and significant reductions in DNS between the two timepoints. All groups exhibited small-world organization (σ > 1) in the brain structural network, including a high clustering coefficient (γ > 1) and a low normalized characteristic path length (λ ≈ 1). However, compared to healthy controls, stroke patients showed significant decrease in nodal characteristics at the first timepoint, primarily in the right supplementary motor area, right middle temporal gyrus, right inferior parietal lobe, right postcentral gyrus and left posterior cingulate gyrus. Longitudinal results demonstrated that altered nodal characteristics were partially restored one month later. Additionally, significant correlations between the nodal characteristics of the right supplementary motor area and the clinical scale scores (FMA and NDS) were observed in stroke patients. Similar behavioral-neuroimaging correlations were found in the right inferior parietal lobe. Conclusion Altered topological properties may be an effect of stroke, which can be modulated during recovery. The longitudinal results and the neuroimaging-behavioral relationship may provide information for understanding brain recovery from stroke. Future studies should detect whether observed changes in structural topological properties can predict the recovery of daily cognitive function in stroke. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12868-021-00652-1.
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Nakajima R, Kinoshita M, Okita H, Shinohara H, Nakada M. Disconnection of posterior part of the frontal aslant tract causes acute phase motor functional deficit. Brain Cogn 2021; 151:105752. [PMID: 33993006 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105752] [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: 08/18/2020] [Revised: 04/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The frontal aslant tract (FAT) mainly connects the supplementary motor area (SMA) and inferior frontal gyrus. The left FAT is involved in language-related functions, while the functional role of the right FAT is not fully understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the function of the right FAT by dividing it into three segments according to the anatomical structure. A total of 34 right frontal gliomas who had undergone surgery were studied. Participants were assessed for the acute and chronic phases of several neuropsychological and motor functions. FAT was reconstructed into the anterior, middle, and posterior segments according to the cortical connections as the medial prefrontal cortex, pre-SMA, and SMA proper, respectively. The relationships between the damaged severity of each FAT segment and behavioral scores were analyzed. A significant relationship was observed only in the acute phase motor function and posterior segment of the FAT. The middle segment was involved in motor function, but it did not have a sufficient significance level compared to the posterior segment. Our study revealed that the right FAT can be divided into three segments and that its posterior segment is related to acute phase motor function.
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- Riho Nakajima
- Department of Occupational therapy, Faculty of Health Science, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Functional Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan.
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Lammers F, Zacharias N, Borchers F, Mörgeli R, Spies CD, Winterer G. Functional Connectivity of the Supplementary Motor Network Is Associated with Fried's Modified Frailty Score in Older Adults. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2021; 75:2239-2248. [PMID: 31900470 DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glz297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Frailty is a geriatric syndrome defined by coexistence of unintentional weight loss, low physical reserve, or activity and is associated with adverse health events. Neuroimaging studies reported structural white matter changes in frail patients. In the current study, we hypothesized that clinical frailty is associated also with functional changes in motion-related cortical areas, that is, (pre-)supplementary motor areas (SMA, pre-SMA). We expected that observed functional changes are related to motor-cognitive test performance. We studied a clinical sample of 143 cognitively healthy patients ≥65 years presenting for elective surgery, enrolled in the BioCog prospective multicentric cohort study on postoperative cognitive disorders. Participants underwent preoperative resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging, motor-cognitive testing, and assessment of Fried's modified frailty criteria. We analyzed functional connectivity associations with frailty and motor-cognitive test performance. Clinically robust patients (N = 60) showed higher connectivity in the SMA network compared to frail (N = 13) and prefrail (N = 70) patients. No changes were found in the pre-SMA network. SMA connectivity correlated with motor speed (Trail-Making-Test A) and manual dexterity (Grooved Pegboard Test). Our results suggest that diminished functional connectivity of the SMA is an early correlate of functional decline in the older adults . The SMA may serve as a potential treatment target in frailty.
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- Florian Lammers
- Department of Anaesthesiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Germany.,Pharmaimage Biomarker Solutions GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Germany.,Pharmaimage Biomarker Solutions GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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Bruce AB, Yuan W, Gilbert DL, Horn PS, Jackson HS, Huddleston DA, Wu SW. Altered frontal-mediated inhibition and white matter connectivity in pediatric chronic tic disorders. Exp Brain Res 2021; 239:955-965. [PMID: 33462641 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-020-06017-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Tics are unique from most movement disorders, in that they are partially suppressible. As part of the inhibitory motor network, the pre-supplementary motor area is engaged in motor control and may be involved in tic physiology. We used dual-site transcranial magnetic stimulation to assess inhibitory connectivity between right pre-supplementary motor area and left primary motor cortex, which has previously been demonstrated in healthy adults. We also used diffusion tensor imaging to investigate white matter connectivity in children with chronic tics. Twelve children with chronic tic disorder and fourteen typically developing controls underwent MRI with diffusion tensor imaging indices analysis followed by single and paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation with conditioning pulse over the right pre-supplementary motor area followed by left motor cortex test pulse. Neurophysiologic and imaging data relationships to measures of tic severity and suppressibility were also evaluated in tic patients. Pre-supplementary motor area-mediated inhibition of left motor cortex was present in healthy control children but not in chronic tic disorder participants. Less inhibition correlated with worse tic suppressibility (ρ = - 0.73, p = 0.047). Imaging analysis showed increased fractional anisotropy in the right superior longitudinal fasciculus, corpus callosum, corona radiata and posterior limb of the internal capsule (p < 0.05) in tic participants, which correlated with lower self-reported tic suppressibility (ρ = - 0.70, p = 0.05). Physiologic data revealed impaired frontal-mediated motor cortex inhibition in chronic tic participants, and imaging analysis showed abnormalities in motor pathways. Collectively, the neurophysiologic and neuroanatomic data correlate with tic suppressibility, supporting the relevancy to tic pathophysiology.
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- Adrienne B Bruce
- Department of Pediatrics, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Greenville, SC, USA
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- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave. MLC 2015, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave. MLC 2015, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave. MLC 2015, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave. MLC 2015, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
- Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave. MLC 2015, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA.
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He L, Guo W, Qiu J, An X, Lu W. Altered Spontaneous Brain Activity in Women During Menopause Transition and Its Association With Cognitive Function and Serum Estradiol Level. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2021; 12:652512. [PMID: 34046011 PMCID: PMC8146460 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2021.652512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Serum hormone deficiencies during menopause transition may affect spontaneous brain activity and global cognition. The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in spontaneous brain activity between premenopausal and perimenopausal women, and to investigate the associations between spontaneous brain activity, serum hormone levels and global cognition. METHODS Thirty-two premenopausal women (47.75 ± 1.55 years) and twenty-five perimenopausal women (51.60 ± 1.63 years) underwent resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) scan. Clinical information including Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), levels of estradiol (E2), free testosterone, progesterone, prolactin, follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone were measured. Regional homogeneity (ReHo) was used to evaluate spontaneous brain activity alterations between perimenopausal and premenopausal women. Correlation analysis was used to investigate the associations between brain functional alterations and clinical measures in perimenopausal group. RESULTS The results demonstrated increased ReHo value in the right lingual gyrus (LG) and decreased ReHo value in the right superior frontal gyrus (SFG) in perimenopausal women compared with premenopausal women. In perimenopausal group, ReHo of the right LG showed a negative correlation with level of E2 (r = -0.586, p = 0.002), ReHo of the right SFG showed a positive correlation with level of E2 (r = 0.470, p = 0.018) and MMSE (r = 0.614, p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS The results demonstrated that women approaching menopause suffered from altered functions in brain regions related to cognitive function, working memory, the results also revealed a direct association between levels of E2 and brain functions in perimenopausal women.
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- Lemin He
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Precision Instruments and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
- Department of Radiology, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Taian, China
- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Taian, China
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- Department of Radiology, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Taian, China
- Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Academy of Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
- *Correspondence: Xingwei An, ; Weizhao Lu,
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- Department of Radiology, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Taian, China
- Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
- *Correspondence: Xingwei An, ; Weizhao Lu,
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Kleimaker M, Kleimaker A, Weissbach A, Colzato LS, Beste C, Bäumer T, Münchau A. Non-invasive Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome. Front Neurol 2020; 11:592258. [PMID: 33244309 PMCID: PMC7683779 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.592258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome is a multifaceted neuropsychiatric disorder typically commencing in childhood and characterized by motor and phonic tics. Its pathophysiology is still incompletely understood. However, there is convincing evidence that structural and functional abnormalities in the basal ganglia, in cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuits, and some cortical areas including medial frontal regions and the prefrontal cortex as well as hyperactivity of the dopaminergic system are key findings. Conventional therapeutic approaches in addition to counseling comprise behavioral treatment, particularly habit reversal therapy, oral pharmacotherapy (antipsychotic medication, alpha-2-agonists) and botulinum toxin injections. In treatment-refractory Tourette syndrome, deep brain stimulation, particularly of the internal segment of the globus pallidus, is an option for a small minority of patients. Based on pathophysiological considerations, non-invasive brain stimulation might be a suitable alternative. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation appears particularly attractive. It can lead to longer-lasting alterations of excitability and connectivity in cortical networks and inter-connected regions including the basal ganglia through the induction of neural plasticity. Stimulation of the primary motor and premotor cortex has so far not been shown to be clinically effective. Some studies, though, suggest that the supplementary motor area or the temporo-parietal junction might be more appropriate targets. In this manuscript, we will review the evidence for the usefulness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial electric stimulation as treatment options in Tourette syndrome. Based on pathophysiological considerations we will discuss the rational for other approaches of non-invasive brain stimulation including state informed repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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- Maximilian Kleimaker
- Institute of Systems Motor Science, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Motor Science, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Motor Science, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Motor Science, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Motor Science, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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Berglund-Barraza A, Tian F, Basak C, Hart J, Evans JL. Tracking Changes in Frontal Lobe Hemodynamic Response in Individual Adults With Developmental Language Disorder Following HD tDCS Enhanced Phonological Working Memory Training: An fNIRS Feasibility Study. Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:362. [PMID: 33132869 PMCID: PMC7511756 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00362] [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: 04/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background: Current research suggests a neurobiological marker of developmental language disorder (DLD) in adolescents and young adults may be an atypical neural profile coupled with behavioral performance that overlaps with that of normal controls. Although many imaging techniques are not suitable for the study of speech and language processing in DLD populations, fNIRS may be a viable option. In this study we asked if fNIRS can be used to identify atypical cortical activation patterns in individual adults with DLD and track potential changes in cortical activation patterns following a phonological working memory training protocol enhanced with anodal HD tDCS stimulation to the presupplementary motor area (preSMA). Objective/Hypothesis: The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to determine if fNIRS can be used to identify atypical hemodynamic responses in individual young adults with DLD during active spoken word processing and, (2) to determine if fNIRS can detect changes in hemodynamic response in these same adults with DLD following anodal HD tDCS enhanced phonological working memory training. Methods: Two adult subjects with DLD (female, age 25) completed a total of two sessions of fNIRs working memory task prior to and following one session of a non-word repetition task paired with anodal HD tDCS (1.0 mA tDCS; 20 min) to the preSMA. Standardized z-scores of behavioral measures (accuracy and reaction time) and changes in hemodynamic response during an n-back working memory task for the two participants with DLD was compared to that of a normative sample of 21 age- and gender- matched normal controls (ages 18 to 25) prior to and following phonological working memory training. Results: Individual standardized z-scores for each participant with DLD indicated that prior to training, hemoglobin response in the prefrontal lobe for both participants was markedly different from each other and normal controls. Following training, standard scores showed that the hemodynamic response for both participants moved within normal limits for ROIs. Conclusion: These findings highlight the feasibility of fNIRS to establish individual differences in the link between behavior and neural patterns in single subjects with DLD, as well as track individual differences in changes in brain activity following working memory training.
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- Amy Berglund-Barraza
- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States
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Ide JS, Li HT, Chen Y, Le TM, Li CSP, Zhornitsky S, Li CSR. Gray matter volumetric correlates of behavioral activation and inhibition system traits in children: An exploratory voxel-based morphometry study of the ABCD project data. Neuroimage 2020; 220:117085. [PMID: 32592852 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Approach and avoidance represent two fundamental behavioral traits that develop early in life. Previous studies have examined the neural correlates of approach and avoidance traits in adults and adolescents. Here, using the data set of the Adolescent Brain Cognition Development project, we investigated the structural cerebral bases of behavioral activation system (BAS) and behavioral inhibition system (BIS) in children. We employed voxel-based morphometry to examine how gray matter volumes (GMV) related specifically to BAS and BIS traits in 11,542 children (5491 girls, age 9-10 years) with 648 and 2697 identified as monozygotic twins (MZ) and dizygotic twins/siblings (DZ), respectively. After accounting for the BIS score, higher BAS scores (residuals) were positively correlated with the GMV of the ventral striatum (VS), and the correlation was stronger in MZ than in DZ and unrelated children, with a heritability (h2) of 0.8463. Higher BAS scores were negatively correlated with the GMV of bilateral visual, lateral orbitofrontal, temporal, and inferior frontal cortex, as well as the precuneus. Higher BIS (after accounting for BAS) scores were negatively correlated with the GMVs of the ventral caudate and bilateral putamen/pallidum, hypothalamus, and right anterior insula, and the correlation was stronger in MZ than in DZ and unrelated children, with a heritability of 0.8848. A cluster in the VS showed positive and negative correlation with the BAS and BIS scores, respectively. These findings suggest shared and distinct cerebral volumetric bases of the BAS and BIS traits in children. Whereas both traits have a strong genetic basis, the BAS relative to BIS appears to be more amenable to environmental influences. These findings add to the literature of developmental neuroscience and may help identify genetic risk factors of externalizing and internalizing psychopathology.
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- Jaime S Ide
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT, 06492, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Smith College, Northampton, MA, 06492, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
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Cheng H, Zhu H, Zheng Q, Liu J, He G. Functional parcellation of the hippocampus by semi-supervised clustering of resting state fMRI data. Sci Rep 2020; 10:16402. [PMID: 33009447 PMCID: PMC7532162 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-73328-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Many unsupervised methods are widely used for parcellating the brain. However, unsupervised methods aren’t able to integrate prior information, obtained from such as exiting functional neuroanatomy studies, to parcellate the brain, whereas the prior information guided semi-supervised method can generate more reliable brain parcellation. In this study, we propose a novel semi-supervised clustering method for parcellating the brain into spatially and functionally consistent parcels based on resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. Particularly, the prior supervised and spatial information is integrated into spectral clustering to achieve reliable brain parcellation. The proposed method has been validated in the hippocampus parcellation based on resting state fMRI data of 20 healthy adult subjects. The experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed method could successfully parcellate the hippocampus into head, body and tail parcels. The distinctive functional connectivity patterns of these parcels have further demonstrated the validity of the parcellation results. The effects of aging on the three hippocampus parcels’ functional connectivity were also explored across the healthy adult subjects. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, the proposed method had better performance on functional homogeneity. Furthermore, the proposed method had good test–retest reproducibility validated by parcellating the hippocampus based on three repeated resting state fMRI scans from 24 healthy adult subjects.
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- Hewei Cheng
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Bioinformatics, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China.,Chongqing Engineering Research Center of Medical Electronics and Information Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China.,Chongqing Engineering Laboratory of Digital Medical Equipment and Systems, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China
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- College of Mathematics Physics and Information, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing, 312000, China
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- School of Computer and Control Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai, 264005, China
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- Research Institute of Education Development, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China.
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- College of International Finance and Trade, Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages, Shaoxing, 312000, China.
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Liang S, Xue K, Wang W, Yu W, Ma X, Luo S, Zhang J, Sun X, Luo X, Liu F, Zhang Y. Altered brain function and clinical features in patients with first-episode, drug naïve major depressive disorder: A resting-state fMRI study. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2020; 303:111134. [PMID: 32652482 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2020.111134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2020] [Revised: 06/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by heterogeneous clinical performance and neurocognitive impairment. It is important to explore the correlation between global functioning and regional homogeneity (ReHo)/amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) values in MDD patients. 67 first-episode, drug naïve MDD patients and 69 healthy subjects were enrolled in the study. The MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) and the Functioning Assessment Short Test (FAST) were used to assess functional impairment in patients. Brain activity was assessed using ReHo and ALFF measurements. The relationship between the clinical features and altered brain function was evaluated using correlation analysis. There were significant differences in the ReHo and ALFF values between MDD patients and healthy subjects. The reduction in ReHo in the left calcarine/lingual gyrus/cuneus was negatively correlated with occupational functioning and the total FAST scores. The reduction in ALFF in the right calcarine/lingual gyrus was positively correlated with the verbal learning aspects of the MCCB. These findings suggest that the altered brain function in the default mode network (DMN) may be related to functional impairments in patients with first-episode, drug naïve major depressive disorder.
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- Sixiang Liang
- The National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders & Beijing Key Laboratory of Mental Disorders, Beijing Anding Hospital, Capital Medical University & the Advanced Innovation Center for Human Brain Protection, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China
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- Department of Bipolar Disorder, Tianjin Anding Hospital, 13 Liulin Road, Hexi District, Tianjin 300222, China
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- Department of Bipolar Disorder, Tianjin Anding Hospital, 13 Liulin Road, Hexi District, Tianjin 300222, China
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- Tianjin Medical College, Tianjin 300222, China
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- Department of Obstetrics, Baoding Second Central Hospital, Hebei 072750, China
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- Department of Bipolar Disorder, Tianjin Anding Hospital, 13 Liulin Road, Hexi District, Tianjin 300222, China
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- Department of Bipolar Disorder, Tianjin Anding Hospital, 13 Liulin Road, Hexi District, Tianjin 300222, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
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- Department of Radiology and Tianjin Key Laboratory of Functional Imaging, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China
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- Department of Bipolar Disorder, Tianjin Anding Hospital, 13 Liulin Road, Hexi District, Tianjin 300222, China.
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Shang S, Chen YC, Zhang H, Dou W, Qian L, Yin X, Wu J. Mapping the Interactive Effects of ApoE Gene Polymorphism on Caudate Functional Connectivity in Mild Cognitive Impairment Associated With Parkinson's Disease. Front Neurosci 2020; 14:857. [PMID: 33041748 PMCID: PMC7527607 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2020.00857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Introduction Cognitive impairment (CI) is a frequent non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Caudate and Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) are biomarkers linked to CI in PD. There is little known about whether ApoE affects caudate in mild CI of PD (PD-MCI). We investigated the possible interactive effect of ApoE genotypes on caudate functional connectivity (FC) in PD-MCI. Methods A total of 95 PD-MCI patients and 99 matched healthy controls underwent extensive neuropsychological assessment and magnetic resonance imaging. The two groups were separated into three subgroups according to their genotyping. Functional data were analyzed with FC analysis. Results Decreased FC between the caudate and the bilateral inferior orbit frontal gyrus and bilateral middle occipital gyrus (MOG) was found between groups, along with poor performance in general, executive, episodic memory, language, and visual–spatial function. Decreased FC between the caudate and right MOG, right middle temporal gyrus, and right superior occipital gyrus was found as an interaction effect. The FC values of ε4 carriers with PD-MCI were much lower than the other carriers, and FC was positively correlated with the impairment of global and language function. Conclusion These results support the idea that altered FC between the bilateral caudate and posterior cortical regions was interactively influenced by ApoE genotype and PD-MCI status, and the ε4 subtype associated with underlying pathology of global cognitive decline and semantic fluency impairment in an interactive manner. Gene-based imaging approaches might strengthen the credibility in imaging genetic associations, which might provide new powerful insights into the neural mechanisms underlying PD-MCI.
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- Song'an Shang
- Department of Radiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Clinical Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- GE Healthcare, MR Research China, Beijing, China
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- GE Healthcare, MR Research China, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Clinical Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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Gao M, Shao R, Huang CM, Liu HL, Chen YL, Lee SH, Lin C, Lee TM. The relationship between loneliness and working-memory-related frontoparietal network connectivity in people with major depressive disorder. Behav Brain Res 2020; 393:112776. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2020] [Revised: 05/24/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Murillo-González JA, Notario B, Maldonado E, Martinez-Sanz E, Barrio MC, Herrera M. Connections between the internal and the external capsules and the globus pallidus in the sheep: A dichromate stain X-ray microtomographic study. Anat Histol Embryol 2020; 50:84-92. [PMID: 32794251 DOI: 10.1111/ahe.12604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 07/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sheep are recognized as useful species for translational neurodegeneration research, in particular for the study of Huntington disease. There is a lack of information regarding the detailed anatomy and connections of the basal ganglia of sheep, in normal myeloarchitectonics and in tract-tracing studies. In this work, the organization of the corticostriatal projections at the level of the putamen and globus pallidus (GP) are explored. For the first time, the myeloarchitectonic pattern of connections between the internal (IC) and the external (EC) capsules with the GP have been investigated in the sheep. Formaldehyde-fixed blocks of the striatum were treated with a metallic stain containing potassium dichromate and visualized using micro-CT (µ-CT). The trivalent chromium (Cr3+), attached to myelin phospholipids, imparts a differential contrast to the grey and white matter compartments, which allows the visualization of myelinated fascicles in µ-CT images. The fascicles were classified according to their topographical location in dorsal supreme fascicles (X, Y, apex) arising from the IC and EC; pre-commissurally, basal fascicles connecting the ventral part of the EC with the lateral zone of the ventral pallidum (VP) and, post-commissurally, superior (Z1 ), middle (Z2 ) and lower (Z3 ) fascicles, connecting at different levels the EC with the GP. The results suggest that the presumptive cortical efferent and afferent fibres to the pallidum could be organized according to a dorsal to ventrolateral topography in the sheep, similar to that seen in other mammals. The proposed methodology has the potential to delineate the myeloarchitectonic patterns of nervous systems and tracts.
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- Microcomputed Tomography Lab, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH, Burgos, Spain
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Ding J, Wang Y, Wang C, d'Oleire Uquillas F, He Q, Cheng L, Zou Z. Negative Impact of Sadness on Response Inhibition in Females: An Explicit Emotional Stop Signal Task fMRI Study. Front Behav Neurosci 2020; 14:119. [PMID: 32903296 PMCID: PMC7396530 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Response inhibition is a critical cognitive ability underlying executive control over reactions to external cues, or inner requirements. Previous studies suggest that high arousal negative emotions (e.g., anger or fear) could impair response inhibition in implicit emotional stop signal tasks (eSSTs). However, studies exploring how low arousal negative emotions (e.g., sadness) influence response inhibition remain sparse. In the current study, 20 female college students performed an explicit eSST to explore the influence of sadness on response inhibition and its neural mechanism. Participants are instructed to press a button to sad or neutral facial stimuli while inhibiting their response during the presentation of a stop signal. Results showed that compared with neutral stimuli, sad stimuli were related to increased stop signal reaction time (SSRT) (i.e., worse response inhibition). Compared with neutral condition, higher activation during sad condition was found within the right superior frontal gyrus (SFG), right insula, right middle cingulate cortex (MCC), bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG), left lingual gyrus, and right motor cortex. These findings indicated that sadness, like other negative emotions, may impair response inhibition in an explicit way and highlight the explicit eSST as a new paradigm to investigate the subtle interaction between negative emotion processing and cognitive control.
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- Jianrui Ding
- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Sino-Danish College, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Beijing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.,Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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Base rate neglect and neural computations for subjective weight in decision under uncertainty. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:16908-16919. [PMID: 32616568 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1912378117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Base rate neglect, an important bias in estimating probability of uncertain events, describes humans' tendency to underweight base rate (prior) relative to individuating information (likelihood). However, the neural mechanisms that give rise to this bias remain elusive. In this study, subjects chose between uncertain prospects where estimating reward probability was essential. We found that when the variability of prior and likelihood information about reward probability were systematically manipulated, prior variability significantly affected the degree to which subjects underweight the base rate of reward probability. Activity in the orbitofrontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, and putamen represented the relative subjective weight that reflected such bias. Further, sensitivity to likelihood relative to prior variability in the putamen correlated with individuals' overall tendency to underweight base rate. These findings suggest that in combining prior and likelihood, relative sensitivity to information variability and subjective-weight computations critically contribute to the individual heterogeneity in base rate neglect.
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Suda A, Osada T, Ogawa A, Tanaka M, Kamagata K, Aoki S, Hattori N, Konishi S. Functional Organization for Response Inhibition in the Right Inferior Frontal Cortex of Individual Human Brains. Cereb Cortex 2020; 30:6325-6335. [PMID: 32666077 PMCID: PMC7609925 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2020] [Revised: 06/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/16/2020] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The right inferior frontal cortex (IFC) is critical to response inhibition. The right IFC referred in the human studies of response inhibition is located in the posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus and the surrounding regions and consists of multiple areas that implement distinct functions. Recent studies using resting-state functional connectivity have parcellated the cerebral cortex and revealed across-subject variability of parcel-based cerebrocortical networks. However, how the right IFC of individual brains is functionally organized and what functional properties the IFC parcels possess regarding response inhibition remain elusive. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging study, precision functional mapping of individual human brains was adopted to the parcels in the right IFC to evaluate their functional properties related to response inhibition. The right IFC consisted of six modules or subsets of subregions, and the spatial organization of the modules varied considerably across subjects. Each module revealed unique characteristics of brain activity and its correlation to behavior related to response inhibition. These results provide updated functional features of the IFC and demonstrate the importance of individual-focused approaches in studying response inhibition in the right IFC.
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- Akimitsu Suda
- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.,Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.,Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.,Sportology Center, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.,Advanced Research Institute for Health Science, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan
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Le TM, Chao H, Levy I, Li CSR. Age-Related Changes in the Neural Processes of Reward-Directed Action and Inhibition of Action. Front Psychol 2020; 11:1121. [PMID: 32587547 PMCID: PMC7298110 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Aging is associated with structural and functional brain changes which may impact the regulation of motivated behaviors, including both action and inhibition of action. As behavioral regulation is often exercised in response to reward, it remains unclear how aging may influence reward-directed action and inhibition of action differently. Here we addressed this issue with the functional magnetic resonance imaging data of 72 participants (aged 21-74) performing a reward go/no-go (GNG) task with approximately 2/3 go and 1/3 no-go trials. The go and no-go success trials were rewarded with a dollar or a nickel, and the incorrect responses were penalized. An additional block of the GNG task without reward/punishment served as the control to account for age-related slowing in processing speed. The results showed a prolonged response time (RT) in rewarded (vs. control) go trials with increasing age. Whole-brain multiple regressions of rewarded (vs. control) go trials against age and RT both revealed an age-related reduced activity of the anterior insula, middle frontal gyrus, and rostral anterior cingulate cortex. Furthermore, activity from these regions mediated the relationship between age and go performance. During rewarded (vs. control) no-go trials, age was associated with increased accuracy rate but decreased activation in the medial superior frontal and postcentral gyri. As these regions also exhibited age-related activity reduction during rewarded go, the finding suggests aging effects on common brain substrates that regulate both action and action inhibition. Taken together, age shows a broad negative modulation on neural activations but differential effects on performance during rewarded action and inhibition of action.
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- Thang M. Le
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
- VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, United States
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
- Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
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