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Zeng Y, Xiong B, Gao H, Liu C, Chen C, Wu J, Qin S. Cortisol awakening response prompts dynamic reconfiguration of brain networks in emotional and executive functioning. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2405850121. [PMID: 39680766 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2405850121] [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: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 09/20/2024] [Indexed: 12/18/2024] Open
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Emotion and cognition involve an intricate crosstalk of neural and endocrine systems that support dynamic reallocation of neural resources and optimal adaptation for upcoming challenges, an active process analogous to allostasis. As a hallmark of human endocrine activity, the cortisol awakening response (CAR) is recognized to play a critical role in proactively modulating emotional and executive functions. Yet, the underlying mechanisms of such proactive effects remain elusive. By leveraging pharmacological neuroimaging and hidden Markov modeling of brain state dynamics, we show that the CAR proactively modulates rapid spatiotemporal reconfigurations (state) of large-scale brain networks involved in emotional and executive functions. Behaviorally, suppression of CAR proactively impaired performance of emotional discrimination but not working memory (WM), while individuals with higher CAR exhibited better performance for both emotional and WM tasks. Neuronally, suppression of CAR led to a decrease in fractional occupancy and mean lifetime of task-related brain states dominant to emotional and WM processing. Further information-theoretic analyses on sequence complexity of state transitions revealed that a suppressed or lower CAR led to higher transition complexity among states primarily anchored in visual-sensory and salience networks during emotional task. Conversely, an opposite pattern of transition complexity was observed among states anchored in executive control and visuospatial networks during WM, indicating that CAR distinctly modulates neural resources allocated to emotional and WM processing. Our findings establish a causal link of CAR with brain network dynamics across emotional and executive functions, suggesting a neuroendocrine account for CAR proactive effects on human emotion and cognition.
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- Yimeng Zeng
- School of Management, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & International Data Group/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Connectomics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & International Data Group/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Connectomics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & International Data Group/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Connectomics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- School of Education Sciences, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & International Data Group/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Connectomics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing 100069, China
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Van Overwalle F, Heleven E, Haihambo N, Li M, Ma Q, Pu M, Baeken C, Deroost N, Baetens K. Mentalizing About Dynamic Social Action Sequences Is Supported by the Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, and Neocortex: A Meta-Analysis of Activation and Connectivity. Hum Brain Mapp 2024; 45:e70098. [PMID: 39688325 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.70098] [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: 08/21/2024] [Revised: 11/08/2024] [Accepted: 12/01/2024] [Indexed: 12/18/2024] Open
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The posterior cerebellum and anterior basal ganglia are critical subcortical structures for learning and identifying dynamic action sequences, in concert with the neocortex. The present analysis investigates the role of action sequences during social mentalizing, termed here dynamic or sequential social mentalizing. Although the role of the cerebellum in dynamic social mentalizing was extensively investigated during the last decade, the basal ganglia were long ignored. We conducted an activation likelihood estimation coordinate-based meta-analysis of sequential social mentalizing tasks (with 485 participants in 17 studies). These tasks required participants to make social mentalizing inferences ranging from low-level goals to high-level beliefs and traits, while either memorizing, generating or predicting temporal sequences of the social actions involved (i.e., social sequencing condition), or not (i.e., social non-sequencing control condition), or did so for nonsocial objects (i.e., nonsocial sequencing control condition). The tasks also occasionally included inconsistencies in social behavior. Results revealed that the cerebellum exhibited a preference for social, sequencing, and inconsistent information, while the basal ganglia showed a preference for sequencing and inconsistency, without a general preference for social input. Meta-analytic connectivity analysis further showed evidence of coactivation between mentalizing areas of the cerebellum, basal ganglia and cerebral neocortex. The present work underscores the role of subcortical structures in social mentalizing about dynamic action sequences.
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Center for Neuroscience, Brussel, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Center for Neuroscience, Brussel, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Center for Neuroscience, Brussel, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Center for Neuroscience, Brussel, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Center for Neuroscience, Brussel, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Center for Neuroscience, Brussel, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Center for Neuroscience, Brussel, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Center for Neuroscience, Brussel, Belgium
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Pandey HR, Keshri A, Sinha N, Kumar U. Neuroanatomical correlates of subjective tinnitus: insights from advanced cortical morphology analysis. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae432. [PMID: 39505573 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2024] [Revised: 10/09/2024] [Accepted: 10/15/2024] [Indexed: 11/08/2024] Open
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Subjective tinnitus, characterized by the perception of phantom sounds in the absence of external stimuli, presents significant challenges in both audiology and neurology. Once thought to primarily involve aberrant neural activity within auditory pathways, it is now understood to engage a broader array of neuroanatomical structures. This study investigated the connections between auditory, cognitive, and sensory processing regions, which are crucial for unraveling the complex neurobiological basis of tinnitus. Using high-resolution T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, we compared 52 individuals with subjective tinnitus with 52 age-matched healthy controls, focusing on cerebral cortex features, including fractal dimensionality, gyrification, and sulcal depth. Covariate analyses were conducted to explore the relationships between tinnitus duration, Tinnitus Handicap Inventory scores, anxiety score, and neuroanatomical changes. We found significant alterations in key brain regions involved in sensory processing, cognition, and emotional regulation, including the insula, lateral occipital cortex, middle frontal gyrus, and superior parietal lobule. These neuroanatomical changes were strongly correlated with the severity and chronicity of tinnitus symptoms. Our findings reveal profound structural changes in the brain associated with subjective tinnitus, offering valuable insights into the condition's underlying mechanisms and providing a potential framework for guiding future research and therapeutic interventions.
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- Himanshu R Pandey
- Department of Advanced Spectroscopy and Imaging, Centre of Bio-Medical Research, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences Campus, Raebareli Road, Lucknow 226014, India
- Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli Road, Lucknow 226014, India
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- Department of Advanced Spectroscopy and Imaging, Centre of Bio-Medical Research, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences Campus, Raebareli Road, Lucknow 226014, India
- Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Department of Advanced Spectroscopy and Imaging, Centre of Bio-Medical Research, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences Campus, Raebareli Road, Lucknow 226014, India
- Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad 201002, India
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Chen M, Su Q, Zhao Z, Li T, Yao Z, Zheng W, Han L, Hu B. Rich Club Reorganization in Nurses Before and After the Onset of Occupational Burnout: A Longitudinal MRI Study. J Magn Reson Imaging 2024; 60:1918-1931. [PMID: 38353493 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.29288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2023] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 01/27/2024] [Indexed: 10/11/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Studies on potential disruptions in rich club structure in nursing staff with occupational burnout are lacking. Moreover, existing studies on nurses with burnout are limited by their cross-sectional design. PURPOSE To investigate rich club reorganization in nursing staff before and after the onset of burnout and the underlying impact of anatomical distance on such reconfiguration. STUDY TYPE Prospective, longitudinal. POPULATION Thirty-nine hospital nurses ( 23.67 ± 1.03 years old at baseline, 24.67 ± 1.03 years old at a follow-up within 1.5 years, 38 female). FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE Magnetization-prepared rapid gradient-echo and gradient-echo echo-planar imaging sequences at 3.0 T. ASSESSMENT The Maslach Burnout Inventory and Symptom Check-List 90 testing were acquired at each MRI scan. Rich club structure was assessed at baseline and follow-up to determine whether longitudinal changes were related to burnout and to changes in connectivities with different anatomical distances (short-, mid-, and long range). STATISTICAL TESTS Chi-square, paired-samples t, two-sample t, Mann-Whitney U tests, network-based statistic, Spearman correlation analysis, and partial least squares regression analysis. Significance level: Bonferroni-corrected P < 0.05 . RESULTS In nurses who developed burnout: 1) Strengths of rich club, feeder, local, short-, mid-, and long-range connectivities were significantly decreased at follow-up compared with baseline. 2) At follow-up, strengths of above connectivities and that between A5m.R and dlPu.L were significantly correlated with emotional exhaustion (r ranges from -0.57 to -0.73) and anxiety scores (r = -0.56), respectively. 3) Longitudinal change (follow-up minus baseline) in connectivity strength between A5m.R and dlPu.L reflected change in emotional exhaustion score (r = 0.87). Longitudinal changes in strength of connectivities mainly involving parietal lobe were significantly decreased in nurses who developed burnout compared with those who did not. DATA CONCLUSION In nurses after the onset of burnout, rich club reorganization corresponded to significant reductions in strength of connectivities with different anatomical distances. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 1 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 2.
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- Miao Chen
- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Department of Nursing, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, China
- The First Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Department of Nursing, Gansu Provincial Hospital, Lanzhou, China
- The First Clinical Medical School, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
- School of Nursing, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Wearable Computing, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
- School of Medical Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- Joint Research Center for Cognitive Neurosensor Technology of Lanzhou University and Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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Péron JA. Challenges and prospects in advancing clinical neuropsychology. Cortex 2024; 179:261-270. [PMID: 39213778 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.08.001] [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: 05/16/2024] [Revised: 08/07/2024] [Accepted: 08/13/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
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In the ever-evolving field of clinical neuropsychology, significant methodological and conceptual limitations hinder progress. To ensure the continued relevance of this discipline amidst remarkable advancements in neuroscience, medicine, and methodology, these obstacles must be addressed. This opinion article identifies inherent limitations within current clinical neuropsychology, including issues such as multi-collinearity in neuropsychological assessments, lack of validated tools reflecting contemporary cognitive function models, and the use of divergent theoretical frameworks in evaluations, leading to a gap between theory and practice. The disconnect between behavior and biomarkers, particularly evident in neurodegenerative diseases but also relevant for other pathologies, together with the rise of genetic analyses, necessitate change. Methodological improvements are crucial for ensuring the discipline's future relevance. Looking ahead, key perspectives and challenges are outlined, emphasizing the need for a holistic approach to cognitive functioning and congruent tools, patient engagement in experimental studies, rectification of biases, and exploration of variables like personality. Training professionals to bridge the gap between practice and research is essential. By addressing these challenges, clinical neuropsychology can not only adapt to the evolving landscape but also shape it, ensuring a brighter future for the field.
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- Julie Anne Péron
- Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Manto M, Adamaszek M, Apps R, Carlson E, Guarque-Chabrera J, Heleven E, Kakei S, Khodakhah K, Kuo SH, Lin CYR, Joshua M, Miquel M, Mitoma H, Larry N, Péron JA, Pickford J, Schutter DJLG, Singh MK, Tan T, Tanaka H, Tsai P, Van Overwalle F, Yamashiro K. Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Reward. CEREBELLUM (LONDON, ENGLAND) 2024; 23:2169-2192. [PMID: 38769243 DOI: 10.1007/s12311-024-01702-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/06/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024]
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Cerebellum is a key-structure for the modulation of motor, cognitive, social and affective functions, contributing to automatic behaviours through interactions with the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia and spinal cord. The predictive mechanisms used by the cerebellum cover not only sensorimotor functions but also reward-related tasks. Cerebellar circuits appear to encode temporal difference error and reward prediction error. From a chemical standpoint, cerebellar catecholamines modulate the rate of cerebellar-based cognitive learning, and mediate cerebellar contributions during complex behaviours. Reward processing and its associated emotions are tuned by the cerebellum which operates as a controller of adaptive homeostatic processes based on interoceptive and exteroceptive inputs. Lobules VI-VII/areas of the vermis are candidate regions for the cortico-subcortical signaling pathways associated with loss aversion and reward sensitivity, together with other nodes of the limbic circuitry. There is growing evidence that the cerebellum works as a hub of regional dysconnectivity across all mood states and that mental disorders involve the cerebellar circuitry, including mood and addiction disorders, and impaired eating behaviors where the cerebellum might be involved in longer time scales of prediction as compared to motor operations. Cerebellar patients exhibit aberrant social behaviour, showing aberrant impulsivity/compulsivity. The cerebellum is a master-piece of reward mechanisms, together with the striatum, ventral tegmental area (VTA) and prefrontal cortex (PFC). Critically, studies on reward processing reinforce our view that a fundamental role of the cerebellum is to construct internal models, perform predictions on the impact of future behaviour and compare what is predicted and what actually occurs.
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- Mario Manto
- Service de Neurologie, Médiathèque Jean Jacquy, CHU-Charleroi, 6000, Charleroi, Belgium.
- Service Des Neurosciences, Université de Mons, 7000, Mons, Belgium.
- Unité Des Ataxies Cérébelleuses, CHU-Charleroi, Service Des Neurosciences, University of Mons, 7000, Mons, Belgium.
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- Department of Clinical and Cognitive Neurorehabilitation, Klinik Bavaria Kreischa, 01731, Kreischa, Germany
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98108, USA
- Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, 98108, USA
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- Área de Psicobiología, Facultat de Ciències de La Salut, Universitat Jaume I, 12071, Castellón de La Plana, Spain
- Dominick Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, 10461, USA
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- Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Jissen Women's University, Tokyo, 191-8510, Japan
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- Dominick Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, 10461, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 10032, USA
- Initiative of Columbia Ataxia and Tremor, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, 77030 TX, USA
- Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, 77030 TX, USA
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- Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Área de Psicobiología, Facultat de Ciències de La Salut, Universitat Jaume I, 12071, Castellón de La Plana, Spain
- Dominick Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, 10461, USA
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- Department of Medical Education, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, 160-8402, Japan
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- Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California Davis, 2230 Stockton Blvd, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA
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- Department of Neurology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA
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- Faculty of Information Technology, Tokyo City University, Tokyo, 158-8557, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA
- Departments of Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA
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- Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050, Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA
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Rezqaoui A, Boumlah S, El Hessni A, El Brouzi MY, El Hamzaoui A, Ibouzine-Dine L, Benkirane S, Adnani M, Mesfioui A. Evaluating the Protective Effects of Melatonin Against Chronic Iron Administration in Male Wistar Rats: a Comparative Analysis of Affective, Cognitive, and Oxidative Stress with EDTA Chelator. Biol Trace Elem Res 2024; 202:4531-4546. [PMID: 38146034 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-023-04006-2] [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: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 12/27/2023]
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Iron is the dominant metal in the brain and is distributed widely. However, it can lead to various neuropathological and neurobehavioral abnormalities as well as oxidative stress. On the other hand, melatonin, a pineal hormone, is known for its neuroprotective properties, as well as its ability to act as a natural chelator against oxidative stress. It has also been used as an antidepressant and anxiolytic. The study investigated the potential of melatonin and EDTA treatment to prevent anxiety, depressive behavior, and memory impairment in male rats induced by chronic iron administration, and its connection to oxidative stress regulation in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. The rats were divided into six groups and intraperitoneally injected for 8 weeks with NaCl solution (control), iron sulfate (1 mg/kg), melatonin (4 mg/kg), EDTA (4 mg/kg), 1 mg/kg of iron + 4 mg/kg of melatonin, or 1 mg/kg of iron + 4 mg/kg of EDTA. In this study, we performed a neurobehavioral assessment and biochemical determinations of oxidative stress levels in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of each animal. The results indicate that chronic exposure to iron sulfate induced anxiety-like depressive behavior, and cognitive impairment also increased the levels of lipid peroxidation and nitric oxide, and reduced the activity of catalase in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex in male Wistar rats, suggesting the induction of oxidative stress. In contrast, these alterations were reversed by melatonin better than EDTA. The results of this study show that melatonin protects against the neurobehavioral changes caused by iron, which may be associated with decreasing oxidative stress in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.
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- Ayoub Rezqaoui
- Laboratory of Biology and Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, B.P 242, Kenitra, Morocco.
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- Laboratory of Biology and Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, B.P 242, Kenitra, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Biology and Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, B.P 242, Kenitra, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Biology and Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, B.P 242, Kenitra, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Biology and Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, B.P 242, Kenitra, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Biology and Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, B.P 242, Kenitra, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Biology and Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, B.P 242, Kenitra, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Biology and Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, B.P 242, Kenitra, Morocco
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- Laboratory of Biology and Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, B.P 242, Kenitra, Morocco
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Harrington YA, Paolini M, Fortaner-Uyà L, Maccario M, Melloni EMT, Poletti S, Lorenzi C, Zanardi R, Colombo C, Benedetti F. History of Peripartum Depression Moderates the Association Between Estradiol Polygenic Risk Scores and Basal Ganglia Volumes in Major Depressive Disorder. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY. COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2024:S2451-9022(24)00279-9. [PMID: 39362408 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2024] [Revised: 09/07/2024] [Accepted: 09/17/2024] [Indexed: 10/05/2024]
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BACKGROUND The neurobiological differences between women who have experienced a peripartum episode and those who have only had episodes outside of this period are not well understood. METHODS Sixty-four parous female patients with major depressive disorder who had either a positive (n = 30) or negative (n = 34) history of peripartum depression (PPD) underwent magnetic resonance imaging acquisition to obtain structural brain images. An independent 2-sample t test comparing patients with and without a history of PPD was performed using voxel-based morphometry analysis. Additionally, polygenic risk scores for estradiol were calculated, and a moderation analysis was conducted between 3 estradiol polygenic risk scores and PPD history status on extracted cluster volumes using IBM SPSS PROCESS macro. RESULTS The voxel-based morphometry analysis identified larger gray matter volumes in bilateral clusters encompassing the putamen, pallidum, caudate, and thalamus in patients with a PPD history than in patients without a history. The moderation analysis identified a significant interaction effect between 2 estradiol polygenic risk scores and PPD history on gray matter cluster volumes, with a positive effect in women with PPD and a negative effect in women with no history of PPD. CONCLUSIONS Our findings demonstrate that women who have experienced a peripartum episode are neurobiologically distinct from women who have no history of PPD in a cluster within the basal ganglia, an area important for motivation, decision making, and emotional processing. Furthermore, we show that the genetic load for estradiol has a differing effect in this area based on PPD status, which supports the claim that PPD is associated with sensitivity to sex steroid hormones.
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- Yasmin A Harrington
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
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- Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Mood Disorders Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Mood Disorders Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Mood Disorders Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy; Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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Lee MK, Kim SW, Kim H, Park MJ, Fava M, Mischoulon D, Jeon HJ. Association between cerebral artery stenosis and depressive symptoms in elderly patients. J Affect Disord 2024; 361:53-58. [PMID: 38844169 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.06.016] [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: 05/04/2023] [Revised: 05/31/2024] [Accepted: 06/03/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024]
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OBJECTIVE To examine the association between cerebral artery stenosis and depressive symptoms in elderly patients. METHODS The study participants were 365 patients aged ≥65 years who visited the psychiatric outpatient clinic, Samsung Medical Center between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2019, and were diagnosed with depressive disorder. They had brain imaging tests including magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), psychological evaluations including the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), and lab tests. Individuals' cerebral artery stenosis was identified and the association with significant depressive symptoms was examined. RESULTS Of the 365 subjects, 108 had at least one location of cerebral artery stenosis (29.6 %). The mean score of GDS-15 in the stenosis group was 8.1 (SD, 3.8), higher than the mean GDS-15 score of 6.5 (SD, 4.0) for the group without stenosis (p < 0.001). Compared to no middle cerebral artery (MCA) stenosis, having MCA stenosis was associated with significant depressive symptoms (p = 0.005). Compared to no posterior cerebral artery (PCA) stenosis, having left PCA stenosis was associated with significant depressive symptoms (p = 0.022). In the multivariable linear regression analysis, only bilateral MCA stenosis had a positive association with the score of GDS-15 (p = 0.013). CONCLUSION Bilateral MCA stenosis and left PCA stenosis are associated with significant depressive symptoms among elderly patients, with bilateral MCA stenosis positively associated with the severity of depression.
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- Min Kang Lee
- Department of Psychiatry, Depression Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Depression Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, South Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
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- Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Depression Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Department of Health Sciences & Technology, Department of Medical Device Management & Research, and Department of Clinical Research Design & Evaluation, Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences & Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea.
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Rahamim N, Gilad R, Linkovski O, Bergman H, Avirame K, Foul YA, Eitan R. Validation of behavioral measures of social cognition in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1443145. [PMID: 39319067 PMCID: PMC11420990 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1443145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2024] [Accepted: 08/28/2024] [Indexed: 09/26/2024] Open
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Schizophrenia, a complex neuropsychiatric disorder, manifests severe impairments in social cognition, notably in Theory of Mind (ToM), empathy, and emotion recognition, which significantly influence social competence and overall functioning. These aspects are crucial for prognosis in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia (SZ). This study validates a comics strip paradigm for ToM and empathy assessment, the Montreal Affective Voices (MAV) for measuring emotion recognition, and a Go-NoGo task for inhibition control estimation in individuals diagnosed with SZ, comparing their performance with healthy controls. SZ participants exhibited diminished abilities in the comics strip task, especially in ToM and empathy conditions, alongside challenges in identifying emotions from vocal cues in MAV. They responded slower and tended to be less accurate in the Go-NoGo task. The validated behavioral battery addresses the limitations of previous measures and emerges as a promising tool for future investigations into the neural systems underlying social cognition in schizophrenia. Such insights can lead to the development of long-needed treatment for negative symptoms and social dysfunctions in schizophrenia.
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- Noa Rahamim
- The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Psychiatric Division, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Ichilov, Tel Aviv, Israel
- The Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- The Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Medical Neurobiology, Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Psychiatric Division, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Ichilov, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Psychiatric Division, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Ichilov, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Psychiatric Division, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Ichilov, Tel Aviv, Israel
- The Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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Guo Z, Sun S, Xiao S, Chen G, Chen P, Yang Z, Tang X, Huang L, Wang Y. COVID-19 is associated with changes in brain function and structure: A multimodal meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 164:105792. [PMID: 38969310 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105792] [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: 01/29/2024] [Revised: 04/23/2024] [Accepted: 06/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/07/2024]
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The actual role of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in brain damage has been increasingly reported, necessitating a meta-analysis to collate and summarize the inconsistent findings from functional imaging and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies. A comprehensive voxel-wise meta-analysis of the whole brain was conducted to identify alterations in functional activity and gray matter volume (GMV) between COVID-19 patients and healthy controls (HCs) by using Seed-based d Mapping software. We included 15 functional imaging studies (484 patients with COVID-19, 534 HCs) and 9 VBM studies (449 patients with COVID-19, 388 HCs) in the analysis. Overall, patients with COVID-19 exhibited decreased functional activity in the right superior temporal gyrus (STG) (extending to the right middle and inferior temporal gyrus, insula, and temporal pole [TP]), left insula, right orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) (extending to the right olfactory cortex), and left cerebellum compared to HCs. For VBM, patients with COVID-19, relative to HCs, showed decreased GMV in the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex (extending to the bilateral OFC), and left cerebellum, and increased GMV in the bilateral amygdala (extending to the bilateral hippocampus, STG, TP, MTG, and right striatum). Moreover, overlapping analysis revealed that patients with COVID-19 exhibited both decreased functional activity and increased GMV in the right TP (extending to the right STG). The multimodal meta-analysis suggests that brain changes of function and structure in the temporal lobe, OFC and cerebellum, and functional or structural alterations in the insula and the limbic system in COVID-19. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the pathophysiology of brain alterations in COVID-19. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: This first large-scale multimodal meta-analysis collates existing neuroimaging studies and provides voxel-wise functional and structural whole-brain abnormalities in COVID-19. Findings of this meta-analysis provide valuable insights into the dynamic brain changes (from infection to recovery) and offer further explanations for the pathophysiological basis of brain alterations in COVID-19.
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- Zixuan Guo
- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China; Institute of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
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Subba R, Fasciolo G, Geremia E, Muscari Tomajoli MT, Petito A, Carrella S, Mondal AC, Napolitano G, Venditti P. Simultaneous induction of systemic hyperglycaemia and stress impairs brain redox homeostasis in the adult zebrafish. Arch Biochem Biophys 2024; 759:110101. [PMID: 39029645 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2024.110101] [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: 04/21/2024] [Revised: 07/15/2024] [Accepted: 07/16/2024] [Indexed: 07/21/2024]
Abstract
For diabetic patients it is crucial to constantly monitor blood glucose levels to mitigate complications due to hyperglycaemia, including neurological issues and cognitive impairments. This activity leads to psychological stress, called "diabetes distress," a problem for most patients living with diabetes. Diabetes distress can exacerbate the hyperglycaemia effects on brain and negatively impact the quality of life, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly explored. We simulated diabetes distress in adult zebrafish by modelling hyperglycaemia, through exposure to dextrose solution, along with chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS), and evaluated brain redox homeostasis by assessing reactive oxygen species (ROS) content, the antioxidant system, and effects on mitochondrial biogenesis and fission/fusion processes. We also evaluated the total, cytosolic and nuclear content of nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (NRF2), a critical regulator of redox balance, in the whole brain and total NRF2 in specific brain emotional areas. The combined CUMS + Dextrose challenge, but not the individual treatments, reduced total NRF2 levels in the entire brain, but strongly increased its levels in the nuclear fraction. Compensatory upregulation of antioxidant genes appeared inadequate to combat elevated levels of ROS, leading to lowering of the reduced glutathione content and total antioxidant capacity. CUMS + Dextrose treatment also upregulated transcription factors implicated in mitochondrial biogenesis and dynamics with a predominance of fission, which is consistent with increased oxidative stress. In conclusion, this study highlights the close interplay between hyperglycaemia and psychological distress causing overriding oxidative stress in the brain, rendering the organism vulnerable to the development of disease complications.
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- Rhea Subba
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 110067
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy; Ecosustainable Marine Biotechnology Department, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Via Acton 55, Napoli, 80133, Italy
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- International PhD Programme, UNESCO Chair "Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development", Department of Science and Technology, Parthenope University of Naples, 80143, Naples, Italy
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- International PhD Programme, UNESCO Chair "Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development", Department of Science and Technology, Parthenope University of Naples, 80143, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Ecosustainable Marine Biotechnology Department, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Via Acton 55, Napoli, 80133, Italy
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 110067.
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- International PhD Programme, UNESCO Chair "Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development", Department of Science and Technology, Parthenope University of Naples, 80143, Naples, Italy.
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
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Karibe H, Koeda M, Kato Y, Hama T, Tanaka S, Tateno A, Suzuki H, Okubo Y. Cerebral activation caused by dental sounds: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Odontology 2024; 112:1001-1009. [PMID: 38308677 PMCID: PMC11269441 DOI: 10.1007/s10266-023-00898-7] [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: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
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Dental drilling sounds can induce anxiety in some patients. This study aimed to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess the relationship between dental fear and auditory stimuli. Thirty-four right-handed individuals (21 women and 13 men; average age, 31.2 years) were selected. The level of dental fear was assessed using the dental fear survey (DFS). Based on a threshold DFS score > 52, participants were categorized into two groups: dental fear (DF) group (n = 12) and control group (n = 22). Two types of stimuli were presented in a single session: dental and neutral sounds. Cerebral activation during the presentation of these sounds was evaluated using contrast-enhanced blood oxygenation level-dependent fMRI. In the DF group, dental sounds induced significantly stronger activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus and left caudate nucleus (one-sample t test, P < 0.001). In contrast, in the control group, significantly stronger activation was observed in the bilateral Heschl's gyri and left middle frontal gyrus (one-sample t test, P < 0.001). Additionally, a two-sample t test revealed that dental sounds induced a significantly stronger activation in the left caudate nucleus in the DF group than in the control group (P < 0.005). These findings suggest that the cerebral activation pattern in individuals with DF differs from that in controls. Increased activation of subcortical regions may be associated with sound memory during dental treatment.
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- Hiroyuki Karibe
- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, The Nippon Dental University, 1-9-20 Fujimi, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, 102-8159, Japan.
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, The Nippon Dental University, 1-9-20 Fujimi, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, 102-8159, Japan
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- Department of Medical Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ehime Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ehime, Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, The Nippon Dental University, 1-9-20 Fujimi, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, 102-8159, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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Zhang B, Guo M, Dong T, Yang H, Zhang Q, Yang Q, Zhou X, Mao C, Zhang M. Disrupted Resting-State Functional Connectivity and Effective Connectivity of the Nucleus Accumbens in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study. J Pain Res 2024; 17:2133-2146. [PMID: 38915479 PMCID: PMC11194467 DOI: 10.2147/jpr.s455239] [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: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 05/28/2024] [Indexed: 06/26/2024] Open
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Purpose Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is a recurring and intractable disease that is often accompanied by emotional and cognitive disorders such as depression and anxiety. The nucleus accumbens (NAc) plays an important role in mediating emotional and cognitive processes and analgesia. This study investigated the resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) and effective connectivity (EC) of NAc and its subregions in cLBP. Methods Thirty-four cLBP patients and 34 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HC) underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). Seed-based rsFC and Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM) were used to examine the alteration of the rsFC and EC of the NAc. Results Our results showed that the cLBP group had increased rsFC of the bilateral NAc-left superior frontal cortex (SFC), orbital frontal cortex (OFC), left angular gyrus, the left NAc-bilateral middle temporal gyrus, as well as decreased rsFC of left NAc-left supramarginal gyrus, right precentral gyrus, left cerebellum, brainstem (medulla oblongata), and right insula pathways compared with the HC; the results of the subregions were largely consistent with the whole NAc. In addition, the rsFC of the left NAc-left SFC was negatively correlated with Hamilton's Depression Scale (HAMD) scores (r = -0.402, p = 0.018), and the rsFC of left NAc-OFC was positively correlated with present pain intensity scores (r = 0.406, p = 0.017) in the cLBP group. DCM showed that the cLBP group showed significantly increased EC from the left cerebellum to the right NAc (p = 0.012) as compared with HC. Conclusion Overall, our findings demonstrate aberrant rsFC and EC between NAc and regions that are associated with emotional regulation and cognitive processing in individuals with cLBP, underscoring the pivotal roles of emotion and cognition in cLBP.
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- Bo Zhang
- Department of Medical Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710061, People’s Republic of China
- Department of Medical Imaging, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710004, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710004, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710004, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710004, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710004, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710004, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710004, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710004, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Medical Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710061, People’s Republic of China
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Niemi KJ, Huovinen A, Jaakkola E, Glerean E, Nummenmaa L, Joutsa J. Bodily Maps of Symptoms and Emotions in Parkinson's Disease. Mov Disord 2024; 39:1037-1043. [PMID: 38586892 DOI: 10.1002/mds.29785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2023] [Revised: 02/22/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/09/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Emotions are reflected in bodily sensations, and these reflections are abnormal in psychiatric conditions. However, emotion-related bodily sensations have not been studied in neurological disorders. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate whether Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with altered bodily representations of emotions. METHODS Symptoms and emotion-related sensations were investigated in 380 patients with PD and 79 control subjects, using a topographical self-report method, termed body sensation mapping. The bodily mapping data were analyzed with pixelwise generalized linear models and principal component analyses. RESULTS Bodily maps of symptoms showed characteristic patterns of PD motor symptom distributions. Compared with control subjects, PD patients showed decreased parasternal sensation of anger, and longer PD symptom duration was associated with increased abdominal sensation of anger (PFWE < 0.05). The PD-related sensation patterns were abnormal across all basic emotions (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS The results demonstrate altered bodily maps of emotions in PD, providing novel insight into the nonmotor effects of PD. © 2024 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.
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- Kalle J Niemi
- Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Clinical Neurosciences, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Neurocenter, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Clinical Neurosciences, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Clinical Neurosciences, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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- Turku PET Centre, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Turku Brain and Mind Center, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Clinical Neurosciences, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Neurocenter, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
- Turku PET Centre, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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Yang J, Xiao R, Liu Y, He C, Han L, Xu X, Chen M, Zhong J. Spatiotemporal consistency analysis of cerebral small vessel disease: an rs-fMRI study. Front Neurosci 2024; 18:1385960. [PMID: 38841094 PMCID: PMC11150806 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1385960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 06/07/2024] Open
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Introduction Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) affects older adults, but traditional approaches have limited the understanding of the neural mechanisms of SVD. This study aimed to explore the effects of SVD on brain regions and its association with cognitive decline using the four-dimensional (spatiotemporal) consistency of local neural activity (FOCA) method. Methods Magnetic resonance imaging data from 42 patients with SVD and 38 healthy controls (HCs) were analyzed using the FOCA values. A two-sample t test was performed to compare the differences in FOCA values in the brain between the HCs and SVD groups. Pearson correlation analysis was conducted to analyze the association of various brain regions with SVD scores. Results The results revealed that the FOCA values in the right frontal_inf_oper, right temporal_pole_sup, and default mode network decreased, whereas those in the temporal_inf, hippocampus, basal ganglia, and cerebellum increased, in patients with SVD. Most of these varying brain regions were negatively correlated with SVD scores. Discussion This study suggested that the FOCA approach might have the potential to provide useful insights into the understanding of the neurophysiologic mechanisms of patients with SVD.
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- Jie Yang
- Department of Radiology, Zigong First People’s Hospital, Zigong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zigong First People’s Hospital, Zigong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zigong First People’s Hospital, Zigong, China
- Sichuan Vocational College of Health and Rehabilitation, Zigong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zigong First People’s Hospital, Zigong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zigong First People’s Hospital, Zigong, China
- North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
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- Department of Neurology, Zigong First People’s Hospital, Zigong, China
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- MR Research and Collaboration, Siemens Healthineers, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Radiology, Zigong First People’s Hospital, Zigong, China
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Prati JM, Pontes-Silva A, Gianlorenço ACL. The cerebellum and its connections to other brain structures involved in motor and non-motor functions: A comprehensive review. Behav Brain Res 2024; 465:114933. [PMID: 38458437 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2024.114933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2023] [Revised: 02/28/2024] [Accepted: 02/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024]
Abstract
The cerebellum has a large network of neurons that communicate with several brain structures and participate in different functions. Recent studies have demonstrated that the cerebellum is not only associated with motor functions but also participates in several non-motor functions. It is suggested that the cerebellum can modulate behavior through many connections with different nervous system structures in motor, sensory, cognitive, autonomic, and emotional processes. Recently, a growing number of clinical and experimental studies support this theory and provide further evidence. In light of recent findings, a comprehensive review is needed to summarize the knowledge on the influence of the cerebellum on the processing of different functions. Therefore, the aim of this review was to describe the neuroanatomical aspects of the activation of the cerebellum and its connections with other structures of the central nervous system in different behaviors.
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- José Mário Prati
- Postgraduate Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Therapy, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
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- Postgraduate Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Therapy, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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Abo Foul Y, Arkadir D, Demikhovskaya A, Noyman Y, Linetsky E, Abu Snineh M, Aviezer H, Eitan R. Perception of emotionally incongruent cues: evidence for overreliance on body vs. face expressions in Parkinson's disease. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1287952. [PMID: 38770252 PMCID: PMC11103677 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1287952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024] Open
Abstract
Individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) may exhibit impaired emotion perception. However, research demonstrating this decline has been based almost entirely on the recognition of isolated emotional cues. In real life, emotional cues such as expressive faces are typically encountered alongside expressive bodies. The current study investigated emotion perception in individuals with PD (n = 37) using emotionally incongruent composite displays of facial and body expressions, as well as isolated face and body expressions, and congruent composite displays as a baseline. In addition to a group of healthy controls (HC) (n = 50), we also included control individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) (n = 30), who display, as in PD, similar motor symptomology and decreased emotion perception abilities. The results show that individuals with PD showed an increased tendency to categorize incongruent face-body combinations in line with the body emotion, whereas those with HC showed a tendency to classify them in line with the facial emotion. No consistent pattern for prioritizing the face or body was found in individuals with SZ. These results were not explained by the emotional recognition of the isolated cues, cognitive status, depression, or motor symptoms of individuals with PD and SZ. As real-life expressions may include inconsistent cues in the body and face, these findings may have implications for the way individuals with PD and SZ interpret the emotions of others.
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- Yasmin Abo Foul
- Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Brain Division, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Brain Division, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Neuropsychiatry Unit, Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Neuropsychiatry Unit, Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Brain Division, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Brain Division, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Brain Division, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Neuropsychiatry Unit, Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Medical Neurobiology (Physiology), Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
- Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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Li L, Liang Z, Li G, Xu H, Yang X, Liu X, Zhang X, Wang J, Zhang Z, Zhou Y. Unveiling convergent and divergent intrinsic brain network alternations in depressed adolescents engaged in non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors with and without suicide attempts. CNS Neurosci Ther 2024; 30:e14684. [PMID: 38739217 PMCID: PMC11090151 DOI: 10.1111/cns.14684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2023] [Revised: 01/28/2024] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/14/2024] Open
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AIMS Limited understanding exists regarding the neurobiological mechanisms underlying non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicide attempts (SA) in depressed adolescents. The maturation of brain network is crucial during adolescence, yet the abnormal alternations in depressed adolescents with NSSI or NSSI+SA remain poorly understood. METHODS Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data were collected from 114 depressed adolescents, classified into three groups: clinical control (non-self-harm), NSSI only, and NSSI+SA based on self-harm history. The alternations of resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) were identified through support vector machine-based classification. RESULTS Convergent alterations in NSSI and NSSI+SA predominantly centered on the inter-network RSFC between the Limbic network and the three core neurocognitive networks (SalVAttn, Control, and Default networks). Divergent alterations in the NSSI+SA group primarily focused on the Visual, Limbic, and Subcortical networks. Additionally, the severity of depressive symptoms only showed a significant correlation with altered RSFCs between Limbic and DorsAttn or Visual networks, strengthening the fact that increased depression severity alone does not fully explain observed FC alternations in the NSSI+SA group. CONCLUSION Convergent alterations suggest a shared neurobiological mechanism along the self-destructiveness continuum. Divergent alterations may indicate biomarkers differentiating risk for SA, informing neurobiologically guided interventions.
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- Linling Li
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, International Health Science Innovation Center, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, International Health Science Innovation Center, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Shenzhen Mental Health Center/Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Shenzhen Mental Health Center/Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Shenzhen Mental Health Center/Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Shenzhen Mental Health Center/Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Shenzhen Mental Health Center/Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Shenzhen Mental Health Center/Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Shenzhen Mental Health Center/Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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Meinke C, Lueken U, Walter H, Hilbert K. Predicting treatment outcome based on resting-state functional connectivity in internalizing mental disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2024; 160:105640. [PMID: 38548002 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105640] [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: 06/29/2023] [Revised: 02/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 04/07/2024]
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Predicting treatment outcome in internalizing mental disorders prior to treatment initiation is pivotal for precision mental healthcare. In this regard, resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) and machine learning have often shown promising prediction accuracies. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates these studies, considering their risk of bias through the Prediction Model Study Risk of Bias Assessment Tool (PROBAST). We examined the predictive performance of features derived from rs-FC, identified features with the highest predictive value, and assessed the employed machine learning pipelines. We searched the electronic databases Scopus, PubMed and PsycINFO on the 12th of December 2022, which resulted in 13 included studies. The mean balanced accuracy for predicting treatment outcome was 77% (95% CI: [72%- 83%]). rs-FC of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex had high predictive value in most studies. However, a high risk of bias was identified in all studies, compromising interpretability. Methodological recommendations are provided based on a comprehensive exploration of the studies' machine learning pipelines, and potential fruitful developments are discussed.
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- Charlotte Meinke
- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), partner site Berlin/Potsdam, Germany.
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- Charité Universtätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of FU Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Department of Psychiatrie and Psychotherapy, CCM, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; Department of Psychology, Health and Medical University Erfurt, Germany.
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Lee H, Yong SY, Choi H, Yoon GY, Koh S. Association between loneliness and cognitive function, and brain volume in community-dwelling elderly. Front Aging Neurosci 2024; 16:1389476. [PMID: 38741916 PMCID: PMC11089178 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1389476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/16/2024] Open
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Introduction We investigated the relationship between loneliness, cognitive impairment, and regional brain volume among elderly individuals residing in the Korean community. Methods Data from the ARIRANG aging-cognition sub-cohort, collected between 2020 and 2022, were utilized for the present study. Loneliness was assessed using the UCLA-Loneliness Scale (UCLA-LS) questionnaire and the relevant item from Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale Korean version (CES-D-K). Cognitive impairment was measured through Mini-Mental State Examination (K-MMSE-2) and Seoul Neuropsychological Screening Battery (SNSB-C), with five sub-categories: attention, memory, visuospatial function, language, and executive function. Logistic regression was employed for prevalence ratios related to cognitive impairment, while linear regression was used for regional brain volume including white matter hyperintensity (WMH) and cortical thickness. Results Our analysis involved 785 participants (292 men and 493 women). We observed increased cognitive impairment assessed by K-MMSE-2 [UCLA-LS: odds ratio (OR) 3.133, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.536-6.393; loneliness from CES-D: OR 2.823, 95% CI 1.426-5.590] and SNSB-C total score (UCLA-LS: OR 2.145, 95% CI 1.304-3.529) in the lonely group compared to the non-lonely group. Specifically, the lonely group identified by UCLA-LS showed an association with declined visuospatial (OR 1.591, 95% CI 1.029-2.460) and executive function (OR 1.971, 95% CI 1.036-3.750). The lonely group identified by CES-D-K was associated with impaired memory (OR 1.577, 95% CI 1.009-2.466) and executive function (OR 1.863, 95% CI 1.036-3.350). In the regional brain volume analysis, loneliness was linked to reduced brain volume in frontal white matter (left: -1.24, 95% CI -2.37 ∼-0.12; right: -1.16, 95% CI -2.31 ∼ -0.00), putamen (left: -0.07, 95% CI -0.12 ∼-0.02; right: -0.06, 95% CI -0.11 ∼-0.01), and globus pallidus (-15.53, 95% CI -30.13 ∼-0.93). There was no observed association in WMH and cortical thickness. Conclusion Loneliness is associated with cognitive decline and volumetric reduction in the frontal white matter, putamen, and globus pallidus.
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- Hunju Lee
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Republic of Korea
- Institute of Genomic Cohort, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Republic of Korea
- International Olympic Committee Research Centre Korea, Yonsei Institute of Sports Science and Exercise Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology, Wonju Severance Christian Hospital, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Republic of Korea
- Institute of Genomic Cohort, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Republic of Korea
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Takahashi R, Kaneko N, Yokoyama H, Sasaki A, Nakazawa K. Effects of arousal and valence on center of pressure and ankle muscle activity during quiet standing. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0297540. [PMID: 38635774 PMCID: PMC11025900 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024] Open
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Emotion affects postural control during quiet standing. Emotional states can be defined as two-dimensional models comprising valence (pleasant/unpleasant) and arousal (aroused/calm). Most previous studies have investigated the effects of valence on postural control without considering arousal. In addition, studies have focused on the center of pressure (COP) trajectory to examine emotional effects on the quiet standing control; however, the relationship between neuromuscular mechanisms and the emotionally affected quiet standing control is largely unknown. This study aimed to investigate the effects of arousal and valence on the COP trajectory and ankle muscle activity during quiet standing. Twenty-two participants were instructed to stand on a force platform and look at affective pictures for 72 seconds. The tasks were repeated six times, according to the picture conditions composed of arousal (High and Low) and valence (Pleasant, Neutral, and Unpleasant). During the task, the COP, electromyogram (EMG) of the tibialis anterior and soleus muscles, and electrocardiogram (ECG) were recorded. The heart rate calculated from the ECG was significantly affected by valence; the value was lower in Unpleasant than that in Neutral and Pleasant. The 95% confidence ellipse area and standard deviation of COP in the anterior-posterior direction were lower, and the mean power frequency of COP in the anterior-posterior direction was higher in Unpleasant than in Pleasant. Although the mean velocity of the COP in the medio-lateral direction was significantly lower in Unpleasant than in Pleasant, the effect was observed only when arousal was low. Although the EMG variables were not significantly affected by emotional conditions, some EMG variables were significantly correlated with the COP variables that were affected by emotional conditions. Therefore, ankle muscle activity may be partially associated with postural changes triggered by emotional intervention. In conclusion, both valence and arousal affect the COP variables, and ankle muscle activity may be partially associated with these COP changes.
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- Ryogo Takahashi
- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Guo Z, Tang X, Xiao S, Yan H, Sun S, Yang Z, Huang L, Chen Z, Wang Y. Systematic review and meta-analysis: multimodal functional and anatomical neural alterations in autism spectrum disorder. Mol Autism 2024; 15:16. [PMID: 38576034 PMCID: PMC10996269 DOI: 10.1186/s13229-024-00593-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 04/06/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND This meta-analysis aimed to explore the most robust findings across numerous existing resting-state functional imaging and voxel-based morphometry (VBM) studies on the functional and structural brain alterations in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). METHODS A whole-brain voxel-wise meta-analysis was conducted to compare the differences in the intrinsic functional activity and gray matter volume (GMV) between individuals with ASD and typically developing individuals (TDs) using Seed-based d Mapping software. RESULTS A total of 23 functional imaging studies (786 ASD, 710 TDs) and 52 VBM studies (1728 ASD, 1747 TDs) were included. Compared with TDs, individuals with ASD displayed resting-state functional decreases in the left insula (extending to left superior temporal gyrus [STG]), bilateral anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex (ACC/mPFC), left angular gyrus and right inferior temporal gyrus, as well as increases in the right supplementary motor area and precuneus. For VBM meta-analysis, individuals with ASD displayed decreased GMV in the ACC/mPFC and left cerebellum, and increased GMV in the left middle temporal gyrus (extending to the left insula and STG), bilateral olfactory cortex, and right precentral gyrus. Further, individuals with ASD displayed decreased resting-state functional activity and increased GMV in the left insula after overlapping the functional and structural differences. CONCLUSIONS The present multimodal meta-analysis demonstrated that ASD exhibited similar alterations in both function and structure of the insula and ACC/mPFC, and functional or structural alterations in the default mode network (DMN), primary motor and sensory regions. These findings contribute to further understanding of the pathophysiology of ASD.
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- Zixuan Guo
- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
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Caragea VM, Méndez-Couz M, Manahan-Vaughan D. Dopamine receptors of the rodent fastigial nucleus support skilled reaching for goal-directed action. Brain Struct Funct 2024; 229:609-637. [PMID: 37615757 PMCID: PMC10978667 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-023-02685-0] [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: 03/20/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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The dopaminergic (DA) system regulates both motor function, and learning and memory. The cerebellum supports motor control and the acquisition of procedural memories, including goal-directed behavior, and is subjected to DA control. Its fastigial nucleus (FN) controls and interprets body motion through space. The expression of dopamine receptors has been reported in the deep cerebellar nuclei of mice. However, the presence of dopamine D1-like (D1R) and D2-like (D2R) receptors in the rat FN has not yet been verified. In this study, we first confirmed that DA receptors are expressed in the FN of adult rats and then targeted these receptors to explore to what extent the FN modulates goal-directed behavior. Immunohistochemical assessment revealed expression of both D1R and D2R receptors in the FN, whereby the medial lateral FN exhibited higher receptor expression compared to the other FN subfields. Bilateral treatment of the FN with a D1R antagonist, prior to a goal-directed pellet-reaching task, significantly impaired task acquisition and decreased task engagement. D2R antagonism only reduced late performance post-acquisition. Once task acquisition had occurred, D1R antagonism had no effect on successful reaching, although it significantly decreased reaching speed, task engagement, and promoted errors. Motor coordination and ambulation were, however, unaffected as neither D1R nor D2R antagonism altered rotarod latencies or distance and velocity in an open field. Taken together, these results not only reveal a novel role for the FN in goal-directed skilled reaching, but also show that D1R expressed in FN regulate this process by modulating motivation for action.
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- Violeta-Maria Caragea
- Department of Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, MA 4/150, 44780, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, MA 4/150, 44780, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, MA 4/150, 44780, Bochum, Germany.
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Malatesta G, D'Anselmo A, Prete G, Lucafò C, Faieta L, Tommasi L. The Predictive Role of the Posterior Cerebellum in the Processing of Dynamic Emotions. CEREBELLUM (LONDON, ENGLAND) 2024; 23:545-553. [PMID: 37285048 PMCID: PMC10951036 DOI: 10.1007/s12311-023-01574-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Recent studies have bolstered the important role of the cerebellum in high-level socio-affective functions. In particular, neuroscientific evidence shows that the posterior cerebellum is involved in social cognition and emotion processing, presumably through its involvement in temporal processing and in predicting the outcomes of social sequences. We used cerebellar transcranial random noise stimulation (ctRNS) targeting the posterior cerebellum to affect the performance of 32 healthy participants during an emotion discrimination task, including both static and dynamic facial expressions (i.e., transitioning from a static neutral image to a happy/sad emotion). ctRNS, compared to the sham condition, significantly reduced the participants' accuracy to discriminate static sad facial expressions, but it increased participants' accuracy to discriminate dynamic sad facial expressions. No effects emerged with happy faces. These findings may suggest the existence of two different circuits in the posterior cerebellum for the processing of negative emotional stimuli: a first-time-independent mechanism which can be selectively disrupted by ctRNS, and a second time-dependent mechanism of predictive "sequence detection" which can be selectively enhanced by ctRNS. This latter mechanism might be included among the cerebellar operational models constantly engaged in the rapid adjustment of social predictions based on dynamic behavioral information inherent to others' actions. We speculate that it might be one of the basic principles underlying the understanding of other individuals' social and emotional behaviors during interactions.
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- Gianluca Malatesta
- Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences - University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.
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- Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences - University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences - University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences - University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences - University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences - University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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Li M, Haihambo N, Bylemans T, Ma Q, Heleven E, Baeken C, Baetens K, Deroost N, Van Overwalle F. Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2024; 19:nsae015. [PMID: 38554289 PMCID: PMC10981473 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsae015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 12/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/01/2024] Open
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Spatial trajectory planning and execution in a social context play a vital role in our daily lives. To study this process, participants completed a goal-directed task involving either observing a sequence of preferred goals and self-planning a trajectory (Self Sequencing) or observing and reproducing the entire trajectory taken by others (Other Sequencing). The results indicated that in the observation phase, witnessing entire trajectories created by others (Other Sequencing) recruited cerebellar mentalizing areas (Crus 2 and 1) and cortical mentalizing areas in the precuneus, ventral and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex and temporo-parietal junction more than merely observing several goals (Self Sequencing). In the production phase, generating a trajectory by oneself (Self Sequencing) activated Crus 1 more than merely reproducing the observed trajectories from others (Other Sequencing). Additionally, self-guided observation and planning (Self Sequencing) activated the cerebellar lobules IV and VIII more than Other Sequencing. Control conditions involving non-social objects and non-sequential conditions where the trajectory did not have to be (re)produced revealed no differences with the main Self and Other Sequencing conditions, suggesting limited social and sequential specificity. These findings provide insights into the neural mechanisms underlying trajectory observation and production by the self or others during social navigation.
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- Meijia Li
- Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium
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- Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium
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- Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium
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- Language Pathology and Brain Science MEG Lab, School of Communication Sciences, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium
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- Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Head and Skin, Ghent Experimental Psychiatry (GHEP) Lab, Ghent University, Ghent 9000, Belgium
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital (UZBrussel), Brussels 1090, Belgium
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600, the Netherlands
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- Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium
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- Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium
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- Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels 1050, Belgium
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Oldrati V, Butti N, Ferrari E, Strazzer S, Romaniello R, Borgatti R, Urgesi C, Finisguerra A. Neurorestorative effects of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation on social prediction of adolescents and young adults with congenital cerebellar malformations. Neuroimage Clin 2024; 41:103582. [PMID: 38428326 PMCID: PMC10944181 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2023] [Revised: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 02/25/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024]
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BACKGROUND Converging evidence points to impairments of the predictive function exerted by the cerebellum as one of the causes of the social cognition deficits observed in patients with cerebellar disorders. OBJECTIVE We tested the neurorestorative effects of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation (ctDCS) on the use of contextual expectations to interpret actions occurring in ambiguous sensory sceneries in a sample of adolescents and young adults with congenital, non-progressive cerebellar malformation (CM). METHODS We administered an action prediction task in which, in an implicit-learning phase, the probability of co-occurrence between actions and contextual elements was manipulated to form either strongly or moderately informative expectations. Subsequently, in a testing phase, we probed the use of these contextual expectations for predicting ambiguous (i.e., temporally occluded) actions. In a sham-controlled, within-subject design, participants received anodic or sham ctDCS during the task. RESULTS Anodic ctDCS, compared to sham, improved patients' ability to use contextual expectations to predict the unfolding of actions embedded in moderately, but not strongly, informative contexts. CONCLUSIONS These findings corroborate the role of the cerebellum in using previously learned contextual associations to predict social events and document the efficacy of ctDCS to boost social prediction in patients with congenital cerebellar malformation. The study encourages the further exploration of ctDCS as a neurorestorative tool for the neurorehabilitation of social cognition abilities in neurological, neuropsychiatric, and neurodevelopmental disorders featured by macro- or micro-structural alterations of the cerebellum.
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- Viola Oldrati
- Scientific Institute, IRCCS E. Medea, Via Don Luigi Monza 20, 23842 Bosisio Parini (LC), Italy.
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- Scientific Institute, IRCCS E. Medea, Via Don Luigi Monza 20, 23842 Bosisio Parini (LC), Italy; PhD Program in Neural and Cognitive Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Via Edoardo Weiss 2, 34128 Trieste, Italy
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- Scientific Institute, IRCCS E. Medea, Via Don Luigi Monza 20, 23842 Bosisio Parini (LC), Italy
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- Scientific Institute, IRCCS E. Medea, Via Don Luigi Monza 20, 23842 Bosisio Parini (LC), Italy
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- Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Via Mondino 2, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Child Neurology and Psychiatry Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Via Mondino 2, 27100 Pavia, Italy; Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Agostino Bassi 21, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine, Via Margreth, 3, 33100 Udine, Italy; Scientific Institute, IRCCS E. Medea, Via Cialdini 29, 33037 Pasian di Prato (UD), Italy
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- Scientific Institute, IRCCS E. Medea, Via Cialdini 29, 33037 Pasian di Prato (UD), Italy
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Vedaei F, Mashhadi N, Alizadeh M, Zabrecky G, Monti D, Wintering N, Navarreto E, Hriso C, Newberg AB, Mohamed FB. Deep learning-based multimodality classification of chronic mild traumatic brain injury using resting-state functional MRI and PET imaging. Front Neurosci 2024; 17:1333725. [PMID: 38312737 PMCID: PMC10837852 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1333725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 02/06/2024] Open
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Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a public health concern. The present study aimed to develop an automatic classifier to distinguish between patients with chronic mTBI (n = 83) and healthy controls (HCs) (n = 40). Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging were acquired from the subjects. We proposed a novel deep-learning-based framework, including an autoencoder (AE), to extract high-level latent and rectified linear unit (ReLU) and sigmoid activation functions. Single and multimodality algorithms integrating multiple rs-fMRI metrics and PET data were developed. We hypothesized that combining different imaging modalities provides complementary information and improves classification performance. Additionally, a novel data interpretation approach was utilized to identify top-performing features learned by the AEs. Our method delivered a classification accuracy within the range of 79-91.67% for single neuroimaging modalities. However, the performance of classification improved to 95.83%, thereby employing the multimodality model. The models have identified several brain regions located in the default mode network, sensorimotor network, visual cortex, cerebellum, and limbic system as the most discriminative features. We suggest that this approach could be extended to the objective biomarkers predicting mTBI in clinical settings.
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- Faezeh Vedaei
- Department of Radiology, Jefferson Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Jefferson Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, Marcus Institute of Integrative, Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, Marcus Institute of Integrative, Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, Marcus Institute of Integrative, Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, Marcus Institute of Integrative, Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, Marcus Institute of Integrative, Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Jefferson Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, Marcus Institute of Integrative, Health, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Jefferson Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Sharma S, Mehan S, Khan Z, Gupta GD, Narula AS. Icariin prevents methylmercury-induced experimental neurotoxicity: Evidence from cerebrospinal fluid, blood plasma, brain samples, and in-silico investigations. Heliyon 2024; 10:e24050. [PMID: 38226245 PMCID: PMC10788811 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Revised: 11/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/17/2024] Open
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes significant neurodegeneration. Methylmercury (MeHg+) is a neurotoxin that induces axonal neurodegeneration and motor nerve degeneration by destroying oligodendrocytes, degenerating white matter, inducing apoptosis, excitotoxicity, and reducing myelin basic protein (MBP). This study examines the inhibition of SIRT-1 (silence information regulator 1), Nrf-2 (nuclear factor E2-related factor 2), HO-1 (heme oxygenase 1), and TDP-43 (TAR-DNA-binding protein 43) accumulation in the context of ALS, as well as the modulation of these proteins by icariin (15 and 30 mg/kg, orally), a glycoside flavonoid with neuroprotective properties. Neuroprotective icariin activates SIRT-1, Nrf-2, and HO-1, mitigating inflammation and neuronal injury in neurodegenerative disorders. In-vivo and in-silico testing of experimental ALS models confirmed icariin efficacy in modulating these cellular targets. The addition of sirtinol 10 mg/kg, an inhibitor of SIRT-1, helps determine the effectiveness of icariin. In this study, we also examined neurobehavioral, neurochemical, histopathological, and LFB (Luxol fast blue) markers in various biological samples, including Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), blood plasma, and brain homogenates (Cerebral Cortex, Hippocampus, Striatum, mid-brain, and Cerebellum). These results demonstrate that the administration of icariin ameliorates experimental ALS and that the mechanism underlying these benefits is likely related to regulating the SIRT-1, Nrf-2, and HO-1 signaling pathways.
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- Sarthak Sharma
- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, ISF College of Pharmacy (Affiliated to IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, 144603, India), Moga, Punjab, India
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- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, ISF College of Pharmacy (Affiliated to IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, 144603, India), Moga, Punjab, India
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- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, ISF College of Pharmacy (Affiliated to IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, 144603, India), Moga, Punjab, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, ISF College of Pharmacy (Affiliated to IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab, 144603, India), Moga, Punjab, India
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Kent J, Pinkham A. Cerebral and cerebellar correlates of social cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2024; 128:110850. [PMID: 37657639 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2023.110850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 07/26/2023] [Accepted: 08/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/03/2023]
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Social cognition is a broad construct encompassing the ways in which individuals perceive, process, and use information about other people. Social cognition involves both lower- and higher-level processes such as emotion recognition and theory of mind, respectively. Social cognitive impairments have been repeatedly demonstrated in schizophrenia spectrum illnesses and, crucially, are related to functional outcomes. In this review, we summarize the literature investigating the brain networks implicated in social cognitive impairments in schizophrenia spectrum illnesses. In addition to cortical and limbic loci and networks, we also discuss evidence for cerebellar contributions to social cognitive impairment in this population. We conclude by synthesizing these two literatures, with an emphasis on current knowledge gaps, particularly in regard to cerebellar influences, and future directions.
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- Jerillyn Kent
- Department of Psychology, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
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- Department of Psychology, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States.
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Kim BH, Baek J, Kim O, Kim H, Ko M, Chu SH, Jung YC. North Korean defectors with PTSD and complex PTSD show alterations in default mode network resting-state functional connectivity. BJPsych Open 2024; 10:e25. [PMID: 38179593 PMCID: PMC10790227 DOI: 10.1192/bjo.2023.636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Revised: 11/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND North Korean defectors (NKDs) have often been exposed to traumatic events. However, there have been few studies of neural alterations in NKDs with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (cPTSD). AIMS To investigate neural alterations in NKDs with PTSD and cPTSD, with a specific focus on alterations in resting-state functional connectivity networks, including the default mode network (DMN). METHOD Resting-state functional connectivity was assessed using brain functional magnetic resonance imaging in three groups of NKDs: without PTSD, with PTSD and with cPTSD. Statistical tests were performed, including region of interest (ROI)-to-ROI and ROI-to-voxel analysis, followed by post hoc correlation analysis. RESULTS In the ROI-to-ROI analysis, differences in functional connectivity were found among the components of the DMN, as well as in the thalamus and the basal ganglia. Right hippocampus-left pallidum and right amygdala-left lingual gyrus connectivity differed between groups in the ROI-to-voxel analysis, as did connectivity involving the basal ganglia. The post hoc analysis revealed negative correlations between Coping and Adaptation Processing Scale (CAPS) score and left posterior cingulate cortex-right pallidum connectivity and between CAPS score and right putamen-left angular gyrus connectivity in the control group, which were not observed in other groups. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that there are alterations in the functional connectivity of the DMN and the limbic system in NKDs with PTSD and cPTSD, and that these alterations involve the basal ganglia. The lower correlations of CAPS score with right basal ganglia-DMN functional connectivity in patients compared with controls further implies that these connectivities are potential targets for treatment of PTSD and cPTSD.
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- Byung-Hoon Kim
- Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Institute of Behavioral Sciences in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Nursing, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Nursing, Yonsei University College of Nursing and Brain Korea 21 FOUR Project, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Nursing, Yonsei University College of Nursing, Seoul, South Korea; and Brain Korea 21 FOUR Project, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Nursing, Yonsei University College of Nursing, Seoul, South Korea
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- Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Nursing, Seoul, South Korea; and Department of Nursing, Yonsei University College of Nursing, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and Institute of Behavioral Sciences in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Péron JA. Beyond corticocentrism in human neuropsychology: Discoveries unattainable 60 years ago. Cortex 2024; 170:64-68. [PMID: 38135614 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
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- Julie A Péron
- Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Strege MV, Richey JA, Siegle GJ. Trying to name what doesn't change: Neural nonresponse to Cognitive Therapy for depression. Psychol Med 2024; 54:136-147. [PMID: 37191029 PMCID: PMC10651800 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291723000727] [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] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Theoretical models of neural mechanisms underlying Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for major depressive disorder (MDD) propose that psychotherapy changes neural functioning of prefrontal cortical structures associated with cognitive-control processes (DeRubeis, Siegle, & Hollon, ); however, MDD is persistent and characterized by long-lasting vulnerabilities to recurrence after intervention, suggesting that underlying neural mechanisms of MDD remain despite treatment. It follows that identification of treatment-resistant aberrant neural processes in MDD may inform clinical and research efforts targeting sustained remission. Thus, we sought to identify brain regions showing aberrant neural functioning in MDD that either (1) fail to exhibit substantive change (nonresponse) or (2) exhibit functional changes (response) following CBT. METHODS To identify treatment-resistant neural processes (as well as neural processes exhibiting change after treatment), we collected functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data of MDD patients (n = 58) before and after CBT as well as never-depressed controls (n = 35) before and after a similar amount of time. We evaluated fMRI data using conjunction analyses, which utilized several contrast-based criteria to characterize brain regions showing both differences between patients and controls at baseline and nonresponse or response to CBT. RESULTS Findings revealed nonresponse in a cerebellar region and response in prefrontal and parietal regions. CONCLUSIONS Results are consistent with prior theoretical models of CBT's direct effect on cortical regulatory processes but expand on them with identification of additional regions (and associated neural systems) of response and nonresponse to CBT.
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Psychology
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Zhang X, You J, Qao Q, Qi X, Shi J, Li J. Correlation Between the Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuation and Cognitive Defects in Alzheimer's Disease. J Alzheimers Dis 2024; 101:577-587. [PMID: 39240633 DOI: 10.3233/jad-231040] [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] [Indexed: 09/07/2024]
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Background The fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFFs) can detect spontaneous brain activity. However, the association between abnormal brain activity and cognitive function, amyloid protein (Aβ), and emotion in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients remains unclear. Objective This study aimed to survey alterations in fALFF in different frequency bands and the relationship between abnormal brain activity, depressive mood, and cognitive function to determine the potential mechanism of AD. Methods We enrolled 34 AD patients and 32 healthy controls (HC). All the participants underwent resting-state magnetic resonance imaging, and slow-4 and slow-5 fALFF values were measured. Subsequently, the study determined the correlation of abnormal brain activity with mood and cognitive function scores. Results AD patients revealed altered mfALFF values in the slow-5 and slow-4 bands. In the slow-4 band, the altered mfALFF regions were the right cerebellar crus I, right inferior frontal orbital gyrus (IFOG), right supramarginal gyrus, right precuneus, angular gyrus, and left middle cingulate gyrus. Elevated mfALFF values in the right IFOG were negatively associated with Montreal Cognitive Assessment scores, Boston Naming Test, and Aβ1-42 levels. The mfALFF value of the AD group was lower than the HC group in the slow-5 band, primarily within the right inferior parietal lobule and right precuneus. Conclusions Altered mfALFF values in AD patients are linked with cognitive dysfunction. Compared with HCs, Aβ1-42 levels in AD patients are related to abnormal IFOG activity. Therefore, mfALFF could be a potential biomarker of AD.
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- Xuemei Zhang
- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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van der Horn HJ, de Koning ME, Visser K, Kok MGJ, Spikman JM, Scheenen ME, Renken RJ, Calhoun VD, Vergara VM, Cabral J, Mayer AR, van der Naalt J. Dynamic phase-locking states and personality in sub-acute mild traumatic brain injury: An exploratory study. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0295984. [PMID: 38100479 PMCID: PMC10723684 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023] Open
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Research has shown that maladaptive personality characteristics, such as Neuroticism, are associated with poor outcome after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). The current exploratory study investigated the neural underpinnings of this process using dynamic functional network connectivity (dFNC) analyses of resting-state (rs) fMRI, and diffusion MRI (dMRI). Twenty-seven mTBI patients and 21 healthy controls (HC) were included. After measuring the Big Five personality dimensions, principal component analysis (PCA) was used to obtain a superordinate factor representing emotional instability, consisting of high Neuroticism, moderate Openness, and low Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness. Persistent symptoms were measured using the head injury symptom checklist at six months post-injury; symptom severity (i.e., sum of all items) was used for further analyses. For patients, brain MRI was performed in the sub-acute phase (~1 month) post-injury. Following parcellation of rs-fMRI using independent component analysis, leading eigenvector dynamic analysis (LEiDA) was performed to compute dynamic phase-locking brain states. Main patterns of brain diffusion were computed using tract-based spatial statistics followed by PCA. No differences in phase-locking state measures were found between patients and HC. Regarding dMRI, a trend significant decrease in fractional anisotropy was found in patients relative to HC, particularly in the fornix, genu of the corpus callosum, anterior and posterior corona radiata. Visiting one specific phase-locking state was associated with lower symptom severity after mTBI. This state was characterized by two clearly delineated communities (each community consisting of areas with synchronized phases): one representing an executive/saliency system, with a strong contribution of the insulae and basal ganglia; the other representing the canonical default mode network. In patients who scored high on emotional instability, this relationship was even more pronounced. Dynamic phase-locking states were not related to findings on dMRI. Altogether, our results provide preliminary evidence for the coupling between personality and dFNC in the development of long-term symptoms after mTBI.
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- Harm J. van der Horn
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- The Mind Research Network/Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute, Pete & Nancy Domenici Hall, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuropsychology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuropsychology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research (TReNDS), Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
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- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research (TReNDS), Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Emory, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
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- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
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- The Mind Research Network/Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute, Pete & Nancy Domenici Hall, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
- Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
- Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, United States of America
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- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Johnson AJ, Shankland E, Richards T, Corrigan N, Shusterman D, Edden R, Estes A, St John T, Dager S, Kleinhans NM. Relationships between GABA, glutamate, and GABA/glutamate and social and olfactory processing in children with autism spectrum disorder. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2023; 336:111745. [PMID: 37956467 PMCID: PMC10841920 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2023.111745] [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: 08/11/2023] [Revised: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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Theories of altered inhibitory/excitatory signaling in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suggest that gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) and glutamate (Glu) abnormalities may underlie social and sensory challenges in ASD. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to measure Glu and GABA+ levels in the amygdala-hippocampus region and cerebellum in autistic children (n = 30), a clinical control group with sensory abnormalities (SA) but not ASD (n = 30), and children with typical development (n = 37). All participants were clinically assessed using the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised, the Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale-2, and the Child Sensory Profile-2. The Social Responsiveness Scale-2, Sniffin Sticks Threshold Test, and the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test were administered to assess social impairment and olfactory processing. Overall, autistic children showed increased cerebellar Glu levels compared to TYP children. Evidence for altered excitatory/inhibitory signaling in the cerebellum was more clear-cut when analyses were restricted to male participants. Further, lower cerebellar GABA+/Glu ratios were correlated to more severe social impairment in both autistic and SA males, suggesting that the cerebellum may play a transdiagnostic role in social impairment. Future studies of inhibitory/excitatory neural markers, powered to investigate the role of sex, may aid in parsing out disorder-specific neurochemical profiles.
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- Allegra J Johnson
- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, USA; Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC), University of Washington, Box 357115, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, USA; Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC), University of Washington, Box 357115, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Institute on Human Development and Disability (IHDD), University of Washington, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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- Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA; F.M. Kirby Center for Functional MRI, Kennedy Krieger Institute, USA
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- Institute on Human Development and Disability (IHDD), University of Washington, USA; Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, USA; University of Washington Autism Center, USA
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- University of Washington Autism Center, USA; Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, USA; Institute on Human Development and Disability (IHDD), University of Washington, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Washington, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Washington, USA; Integrated Brain Imaging Center (IBIC), University of Washington, Box 357115, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Institute on Human Development and Disability (IHDD), University of Washington, USA.
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Magielse N, Heuer K, Toro R, Schutter DJLG, Valk SL. A Comparative Perspective on the Cerebello-Cerebral System and Its Link to Cognition. CEREBELLUM (LONDON, ENGLAND) 2023; 22:1293-1307. [PMID: 36417091 PMCID: PMC10657313 DOI: 10.1007/s12311-022-01495-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The longstanding idea that the cerebral cortex is the main neural correlate of human cognition can be elaborated by comparative analyses along the vertebrate phylogenetic tree that support the view that the cerebello-cerebral system is suited to support non-motor functions more generally. In humans, diverse accounts have illustrated cerebellar involvement in cognitive functions. Although the neocortex, and its transmodal association cortices such as the prefrontal cortex, have become disproportionately large over primate evolution specifically, human neocortical volume does not appear to be exceptional relative to the variability within primates. Rather, several lines of evidence indicate that the exceptional volumetric increase of the lateral cerebellum in conjunction with its connectivity with the cerebral cortical system may be linked to non-motor functions and mental operation in primates. This idea is supported by diverging cerebello-cerebral adaptations that potentially coevolve with cognitive abilities across other vertebrates such as dolphins, parrots, and elephants. Modular adaptations upon the vertebrate cerebello-cerebral system may thus help better understand the neuroevolutionary trajectory of the primate brain and its relation to cognition in humans. Lateral cerebellar lobules crura I-II and their reciprocal connections to the cerebral cortical association areas appear to have substantially expanded in great apes, and humans. This, along with the notable increase in the ventral portions of the dentate nucleus and a shift to increased relative prefrontal-cerebellar connectivity, suggests that modular cerebellar adaptations support cognitive functions in humans. In sum, we show how comparative neuroscience provides new avenues to broaden our understanding of cerebellar and cerebello-cerebral functions in the context of cognition.
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- Neville Magielse
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Otto Hahn Cognitive Neurogenetics Group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute Pasteur, Unité de Neuroanatomie Appliquée et Théorique, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
- Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute Pasteur, Unité de Neuroanatomie Appliquée et Théorique, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
- Otto Hahn Cognitive Neurogenetics Group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Rizzo G, Martino D, Avanzino L, Avenanti A, Vicario CM. Social cognition in hyperkinetic movement disorders: a systematic review. Soc Neurosci 2023; 18:331-354. [PMID: 37580305 DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2023.2248687] [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: 07/30/2022] [Revised: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/16/2023]
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Numerous lines of research indicate that our social brain involves a network of cortical and subcortical brain regions that are responsible for sensing and controlling body movements. However, it remains unclear whether movement disorders have a systematic impact on social cognition. To address this question, we conducted a systematic review examining the influence of hyperkinetic movement disorders (including Huntington disease, Tourette syndrome, dystonia, and essential tremor) on social cognition. Following the PRISMA guidelines and registering the protocol in the PROSPERO database (CRD42022327459), we analyzed 50 published studies focusing on theory of mind (ToM), social perception, and empathy. The results from these studies provide evidence of impairments in ToM and social perception in all hyperkinetic movement disorders, particularly during the recognition of negative emotions. Additionally, individuals with Huntington's Disease and Tourette syndrome exhibit empathy disorders. These findings support the functional role of subcortical structures (such as the basal ganglia and cerebellum), which are primarily responsible for movement disorders, in deficits related to social cognition.
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- Gaetano Rizzo
- Dipartimento di Scienze Cognitive, Psicologiche, Pedagogiche e degli studi culturali, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Human Physiology, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Centro studi e ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive, Dipartimento di Psicologia "Renzo Canestrari", Campus di Cesena, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Cesena, Italy
- Centro de Investigación en Neuropsicología y Neurociencias Cognitivas, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Cognitive, Psicologiche, Pedagogiche e degli studi culturali, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
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Li T, Le W, Jankovic J. Linking the cerebellum to Parkinson disease: an update. Nat Rev Neurol 2023; 19:645-654. [PMID: 37752351 DOI: 10.1038/s41582-023-00874-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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Parkinson disease (PD) is characterized by heterogeneous motor and non-motor symptoms, resulting from neurodegeneration involving various parts of the central nervous system. Although PD pathology predominantly involves the nigral-striatal system, growing evidence suggests that pathological changes extend beyond the basal ganglia into other parts of the brain, including the cerebellum. In addition to a primary involvement in motor control, the cerebellum is now known to also have an important role in cognitive, sleep and affective processes. Over the past decade, an accumulating body of research has provided clinical, pathological, neurophysiological, structural and functional neuroimaging findings that clearly establish a link between the cerebellum and PD. This Review presents an overview and update on the involvement of the cerebellum in the clinical features and pathogenesis of PD, which could provide a novel framework for a better understanding the heterogeneity of the disease.
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- Tianbai Li
- Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory for Research on the Pathogenic Mechanisms of Neurological Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory for Research on the Pathogenic Mechanisms of Neurological Diseases, the First Affiliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.
- Institute of Neurology, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences, Sichuan Provincial Hospital, Chengdu, China.
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- Parkinson's Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
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Coulombe V, Joyal M, Martel-Sauvageau V, Monetta L. Affective prosody disorders in adults with neurological conditions: A scoping review. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 2023; 58:1939-1954. [PMID: 37212522 DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.12909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Individuals with affective-prosodic deficits have difficulty understanding or expressing emotions and attitudes through prosody. Affective prosody disorders can occur in multiple neurological conditions, but the limited knowledge about the clinical groups prone to deficits complicates their identification in clinical settings. Additionally, the nature of the disturbance underlying affective prosody disorder observed in different neurological conditions remains poorly understood. AIMS To bridge these knowledge gaps and provide relevant information to speech-language pathologists for the management of affective prosody disorders, this study provides an overview of research findings on affective-prosodic deficits in adults with neurological conditions by answering two questions: (1) Which clinical groups present with acquired affective prosodic impairments following brain damage? (2) Which aspects of affective prosody comprehension and production are negatively affected in these neurological conditions? METHODS & PROCEDURES We conducted a scoping review following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. A literature search was undertaken in five electronic databases (MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE, CINAHL and Linguistics, and Language Behavior Abstracts) to identify primary studies reporting affective prosody disorders in adults with neurological impairments. We extracted data on clinical groups and characterised their deficits based on the assessment task used. OUTCOMES & RESULTS The review of 98 studies identified affective-prosodic deficits in 17 neurological conditions. The task paradigms typically used in affective prosody research (discrimination, recognition, cross-modal integration, production on request, imitation and spontaneous production) do not target the processes underlying affective prosody comprehension and production. Therefore, based on the current state of knowledge, it is not possible to establish the level of processing at which impairment occurs in clinical groups. Nevertheless, deficits in the comprehension of affective prosody are observed in 14 clinical groups (mainly recognition deficits) and deficits in the production of affective prosody (either on request or spontaneously) in 10 clinical groups. Neurological conditions and types of deficits that have not been investigated in many studies are highlighted. CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS The aim of this scoping review was to provide an overview on acquired affective prosody disorders and to identify gaps in knowledge that warrant further investigation. Deficits in the comprehension or production of affective prosody are common to numerous clinical groups with various neurological conditions. However, the underlying cause of affective prosody disorders across them is still unknown. Future studies should implement standardised assessment methods with specific tasks based on a cognitive model to identify the underlying deficits of affective prosody disorders. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS What is already known on the subject What is already known on the subjectAffective prosody is used to share emotions and attitudes through speech and plays a fundamental role in communication and social interactions. Affective prosody disorders can occur in various neurological conditions, but the limited knowledge about the clinical groups prone to affective-prosodic deficits and about the characteristics of different phenotypes of affective prosody disorders complicates their identification in clinical settings. Distinct abilities underlying the comprehension and production of affective prosody can be selectively impaired by brain damage, but the nature of the disturbance underlying affective prosody disorders in different neurological conditions remains unclear. What this study adds Affective-prosodic deficits are reported in 17 neurological conditions, despite being recognised as a core feature of the clinical profile in only a few of them. The assessment tasks typically used in affective prosody research do not provide accurate information about the specific neurocognitive processes impaired in the comprehension or production of affective prosody. Future studies should implement assessment methods based on a cognitive approach to identify underlying deficits. The assessment of cognitive/executive dysfunctions, motor speech impairment and aphasia might be important for distinguishing primary affective prosodic dysfunctions from those secondarily impacting affective prosody. What are the potential clinical implications of this study? Raising awareness about the possible presence of affective-prosodic disorders in numerous clinical groups will facilitate their recognition by speech-language pathologists and, consequently, their management in clinical settings. A comprehensive assessment covering multiple affective-prosodic skills could highlight specific aspects of affective prosody that warrant clinical intervention.
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- Valérie Coulombe
- Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS), Québec, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS), Québec, Canada
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- Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS), Québec, Canada
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Li J, Leng Y, Ma H, Yang F, Liu B, Fan W. Functional reorganization of intranetwork and internetwork connectivity in patients with Ménière's disease. Sci Rep 2023; 13:16775. [PMID: 37798378 PMCID: PMC10556034 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44090-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023] Open
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Ménière's disease (MD) is associated with functional reorganization not only in the auditory or sensory cortex but also in other control and cognitive areas. In this study, we examined intranetwork and internetwork connectivity differences between 55 MD patients and 70 healthy controls (HC) in 9 well-defined resting-state networks. Functional connectivity degree was lower in MD compared to HC in 19 brain areas involved in the somatomotor, auditory, ventral attention, default mode, limbic, and deep gray matter networks. In addition, we observed lower intranetwork connectivity in the auditory, ventral attention, and limbic networks, as well as lower internetwork connectivity between the somatomotor and limbic networks, and between the auditory and somatomotor, deep gray matter, and ventral attention networks, and between the deep gray matter and default mode network. Furthermore, we identified 81 pairs of brain areas with significant differences in functional connectivity between MD patients and HC at the edge level. Notably, the left amygdala's functional connectivity degree was positively correlated with MD's disease stage, and the ventral attention network's intranetwork connectivity was positively correlated with the healthy side vestibular ratio. Our findings suggest that these functional network reorganization alterations may serve as potential biomarkers for predicting clinical progression, evaluating disease severity, and gaining a better understanding of MD's pathophysiology. Large-scale network studies using neuroimaging techniques can provide additional insights into the underlying mechanisms of MD.
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- Jing Li
- Department of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
- Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
- Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China
- Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, 430022, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
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- Department of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430022, China.
- Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, 430022, China.
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Pierce JE, Thomasson M, Voruz P, Selosse G, Péron J. Explicit and Implicit Emotion Processing in the Cerebellum: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review. CEREBELLUM (LONDON, ENGLAND) 2023; 22:852-864. [PMID: 35999332 PMCID: PMC10485090 DOI: 10.1007/s12311-022-01459-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The cerebellum's role in affective processing is increasingly recognized in the literature, but remains poorly understood, despite abundant clinical evidence for affective disruptions following cerebellar damage. To improve the characterization of emotion processing and investigate how attention allocation impacts this processing, we conducted a meta-analysis on task activation foci using GingerALE software. Eighty human neuroimaging studies of emotion including 2761 participants identified through Web of Science and ProQuest databases were analyzed collectively and then divided into two categories based on the focus of attention during the task: explicit or implicit emotion processing. The results examining the explicit emotion tasks identified clusters within the posterior cerebellar hemispheres (bilateral lobule VI/Crus I/II), the vermis, and left lobule V/VI that were likely to be activated across studies, while implicit tasks activated clusters including bilateral lobules VI/Crus I/II, right Crus II/lobule VIII, anterior lobule VI, and lobules I-IV/V. A direct comparison between these categories revealed five overlapping clusters in right lobules VI/Crus I/Crus II and left lobules V/VI/Crus I of the cerebellum common to both the explicit and implicit task contrasts. There were also three clusters activated significantly more for explicit emotion tasks compared to implicit tasks (right lobule VI, left lobule VI/vermis), and one cluster activated more for implicit than explicit tasks (left lobule VI). These findings support previous studies indicating affective processing activates both the lateral hemispheric lobules and the vermis of the cerebellum. The common and distinct activation of posterior cerebellar regions by tasks with explicit and implicit attention demonstrates the supportive role of this structure in recognizing, appraising, and reacting to emotional stimuli.
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- Jordan E Pierce
- Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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- Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 40 bd du Pont d'Arve, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland
- Neuropsychology Unit, Neurology Department, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 40 bd du Pont d'Arve, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland
- Neuropsychology Unit, Neurology Department, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 40 bd du Pont d'Arve, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 40 bd du Pont d'Arve, 1205, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Neuropsychology Unit, Neurology Department, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Dai P, Zhou X, Xiong T, Ou Y, Chen Z, Zou B, Li W, Huang Z. Altered Effective Connectivity Among the Cerebellum and Cerebrum in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder Using Multisite Resting-State fMRI. CEREBELLUM (LONDON, ENGLAND) 2023; 22:781-789. [PMID: 35933493 DOI: 10.1007/s12311-022-01454-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious and widespread psychiatric disorder. Previous studies mainly focused on cerebrum functional connectivity, and the sample size was relatively small. However, functional connectivity is undirected. And, there is increasing evidence that the cerebellum is also involved in emotion and cognitive processing and makes outstanding contributions to the symptomology and pathology of depression. Therefore, we used a large sample size of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) data to investigate the altered effective connectivity (EC) among the cerebellum and other cerebral cortex in patients with MDD. Here, from the perspective of data-driven analysis, we used two different atlases to divide the whole brain into different regions and analyzed the alterations of EC and EC networks in the MDD group compared with healthy controls group (HCs). The results showed that compared with HCs, there were significantly altered EC in the cerebellum-neocortex and cerebellum-basal ganglia circuits in MDD patients, which implied that the cerebellum may be a potential biomarker of depressive disorders. And, the alterations of EC brain networks in MDD patients may provide new insights into the pathophysiological mechanisms of depression.
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- Peishan Dai
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 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, Hunan, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Basic Medical Science, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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Dong L, Liang HB, Du J, Wang Y, Zhou Q, Xin Z, Hu Y, Liu YS, Zhao R, Qiao Y, Zhou C, Liu JR, Du X. Microstructural Differences of the Cerebellum-Thalamus-Basal Ganglia-Limbic Cortex in Patients with Somatic Symptom Disorders: a Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging Study. CEREBELLUM (LONDON, ENGLAND) 2023; 22:840-851. [PMID: 35986875 DOI: 10.1007/s12311-022-01461-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Somatic symp tom disorders (SSDs) are a group of psychiatric disorders characterized by persistent disproportionate concern and obsessive behaviors regarding physical conditions. Currently, SSDs lack effective treatments and their pathophysiology is unclear. In this paper, we aimed to examine microstructural abnormalities in the brains of patients with SSD using diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) and to investigate the correlation between these abnormalities and clinical indicators. Diffusion kurtosis images were acquired from 30 patients with SSD and 30 healthy controls (HCs). Whole-brain maps of multiple diffusion measures, including fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusivity (AD), radial diffusivity (RD), mean diffusivity (MD), mean kurtosis (MK), radial kurtosis (RK), and axial kurtosis (AK), were calculated. To analyze differences between the two groups, nonparametric permutation testing with 10,000 randomized permutations and threshold-free cluster enhancement was used with family-wise error-corrected p values < 0.05 as the threshold for statistical significance. Then, the correlations between significant changes in these diffusion measures and clinical factors were examined. Compared to HCs, patients with SSD had significantly higher FA, MK, and RK and significantly lower MD and RD in the cerebellum, thalamus, basal ganglia, and limbic cortex. The FA in the left caudate and the pontine crossing tract were negatively correlated with disease duration; the MD and the RD in the genu of the corpus callosum were positively correlated with disease duration. Our findings highlight the role of the cerebellum-thalamus-basal ganglia-limbic cortex pathway, especially the cerebellum, in SSDs and enhance our understanding of the pathogenesis of SSDs.
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- Liao Dong
- Department of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, 200438, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Department of Physics, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China
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- Department of Neurology &Jiuyuan Municipal Stroke Center, Shanghai 9Th People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China
- Clinical Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, 200438, China
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- Department of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, 200438, China
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- Department of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, 200438, China
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- Department of Neurology &Jiuyuan Municipal Stroke Center, Shanghai 9Th People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China
- Clinical Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Department of Neurology &Jiuyuan Municipal Stroke Center, Shanghai 9Th People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Department of Neurology &Jiuyuan Municipal Stroke Center, Shanghai 9Th People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China
- Clinical Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Department of Neurology &Jiuyuan Municipal Stroke Center, Shanghai 9Th People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China
- Clinical Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China
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- Department of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, 200438, China
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- Department of Neurology &Jiuyuan Municipal Stroke Center, Shanghai 9Th People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China.
- Clinical Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200011, China.
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- Department of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, 200438, China.
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Speidell A, Bin Abid N, Yano H. Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Dysregulation as an Essential Pathological Feature in Huntington's Disease: Mechanisms and Potential Therapeutics. Biomedicines 2023; 11:2275. [PMID: 37626771 PMCID: PMC10452871 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11082275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 08/09/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a major neurotrophin whose loss or interruption is well established to have numerous intersections with the pathogenesis of progressive neurological disorders. There is perhaps no greater example of disease pathogenesis resulting from the dysregulation of BDNF signaling than Huntington's disease (HD)-an inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, psychiatric, and cognitive impairments associated with basal ganglia dysfunction and the ultimate death of striatal projection neurons. Investigation of the collection of mechanisms leading to BDNF loss in HD highlights this neurotrophin's importance to neuronal viability and calls attention to opportunities for therapeutic interventions. Using electronic database searches of existing and forthcoming research, we constructed a literature review with the overarching goal of exploring the diverse set of molecular events that trigger BDNF dysregulation within HD. We highlighted research that investigated these major mechanisms in preclinical models of HD and connected these studies to those evaluating similar endpoints in human HD subjects. We also included a special focus on the growing body of literature detailing key transcriptomic and epigenetic alterations that affect BDNF abundance in HD. Finally, we offer critical evaluation of proposed neurotrophin-directed therapies and assessed clinical trials seeking to correct BDNF expression in HD individuals.
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- Andrew Speidell
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; (A.S.); (N.B.A.)
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; (A.S.); (N.B.A.)
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA; (A.S.); (N.B.A.)
- Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
- Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
- Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Artiach Hortelano P, Martens MAG, Pringle A, Harmer CJ. Effect of lithium administration on brain activity under an emotion regulation paradigm in healthy participants: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2023; 240:1719-1734. [PMID: 37338568 PMCID: PMC10349753 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-023-06395-7] [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: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
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RATIONALE Emotion regulation (ER) difficulties have been previously described in bipolar disorder (BD). Whilst lithium has been shown to be effective in the treatment of BD, the mechanisms underlying lithium's effect on mood stabilisation remain unclear. OBJECTIVES Unravelling lithium's effect on psychological processes impaired in BD, such as ER, could address this translational gap and inform the development of new treatments. METHODS This study investigated the neural effects of lithium (800mg) on ER in 33 healthy volunteers in a double-blind between-groups design, randomised to lithium (n=17) or placebo (n=16) for 11 days. At treatment completion, participants underwent 3-Tesla fMRI scan whilst performing an ER task. RESULTS Reappraisal reduced negative affect across groups and led to the expected increase in frontal brain activity. Participants receiving lithium showed (1) decreased activation in prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices and connectivity between the fronto-limbic network (Z>2.3, p<0.05 corrected); and (2) increased activity in the right superior temporal gyrus (Z>3.1, p<0.05 corrected) and connectivity between the right medial temporal gyrus (MTG) and left middle frontal gyrus (Z>2.3, p<0.05 corrected) during reappraisal. Further effects of lithium were found in response to negative picture presentation, whereby an anticorrelation was found between the left amygdala and the frontal cortex, and greater connectivity between the right MTG and the bilateral medial prefrontal cortex extending into the paracingulate gyrus, compared to placebo (Z>2.3, p < 0.05 corrected). CONCLUSIONS These results show a potential effect of lithium on ER through its effects on activity and connectivity, and further elaborate the neural underpinnings of cognitive reappraisal. Future work should investigate longer term effects of lithium on ER in BD, ultimately benefitting the development of novel and more effective treatments.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
- Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK
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Monachesi B, Grecucci A, Ahmadi Ghomroudi P, Messina I. Comparing reappraisal and acceptance strategies to understand the neural architecture of emotion regulation: a meta-analytic approach. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1187092. [PMID: 37546477 PMCID: PMC10403290 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1187092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023] Open
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Introduction In the emotion regulation literature, the amount of neuroimaging studies on cognitive reappraisal led the impression that the same top-down, control-related neural mechanisms characterize all emotion regulation strategies. However, top-down processes may coexist with more bottom-up and emotion-focused processes that partially bypass the recruitment of executive functions. A case in point is acceptance-based strategies. Method To better understand neural commonalities and differences behind different emotion regulation processes, in the present study, we applied the Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) method to perform a meta-analysis on fMRI studies investigating task-related activity of reappraisal and acceptance. Both increased and decreased brain activity was taken into account in the contrast and conjunction analysis between the two strategies. Results Results showed increased activity in left-inferior frontal gyrus and insula for both strategies, and decreased activity in the basal ganglia for reappraisal, and decreased activity in limbic regions for acceptance. Discussion These findings are discussed in the context of a model of common and specific neural mechanisms of emotion regulation that support and expand the previous dual-routes models. We suggest that emotion regulation may rely on a core inhibitory circuit, and on strategy-specific top-down and bottom-up processes distinct for different strategies.
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- Bianca Monachesi
- Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences—DiPSCo, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
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- Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences—DiPSCo, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
- Center for Medical Sciences—CISMed, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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- Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences—DiPSCo, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
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Mirzac D, Kreis SL, Luhmann HJ, Gonzalez-Escamilla G, Groppa S. Translating Pathological Brain Activity Primers in Parkinson's Disease Research. RESEARCH (WASHINGTON, D.C.) 2023; 6:0183. [PMID: 37383218 PMCID: PMC10298229 DOI: 10.34133/research.0183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/30/2023]
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Translational experimental approaches that help us better trace Parkinson's disease (PD) pathophysiological mechanisms leading to new therapeutic targets are urgently needed. In this article, we review recent experimental and clinical studies addressing abnormal neuronal activity and pathological network oscillations, as well as their underlying mechanisms and modulation. Our aim is to enhance our knowledge about the progression of Parkinson's disease pathology and the timing of its symptom's manifestation. Here, we present mechanistic insights relevant for the generation of aberrant oscillatory activity within the cortico-basal ganglia circuits. We summarize recent achievements extrapolated from available PD animal models, discuss their advantages and limitations, debate on their differential applicability, and suggest approaches for transferring knowledge on disease pathology into future research and clinical applications.
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- Daniela Mirzac
- Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience, Rhine Main Neuroscience Network, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Physiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Physiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience, Rhine Main Neuroscience Network, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany
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- Movement Disorders and Neurostimulation, Department of Neurology, Focus Program Translational Neuroscience, Rhine Main Neuroscience Network, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany
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Wang K, Hu Y, Yan C, Li M, Wu Y, Qiu J, Zhu X. Brain structural abnormalities in adult major depressive disorder revealed by voxel- and source-based morphometry: evidence from the REST-meta-MDD Consortium. Psychol Med 2023; 53:3672-3682. [PMID: 35166200 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291722000320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Neuroimaging studies on major depressive disorder (MDD) have identified an extensive range of brain structural abnormalities, but the exact neural mechanisms associated with MDD remain elusive. Most previous studies were performed with voxel- or surface-based morphometry which were univariate methods without considering spatial information across voxels/vertices. METHODS Brain morphology was investigated using voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and source-based morphometry (SBM) in 1082 MDD patients and 990 healthy controls (HCs) from the REST-meta-MDD Consortium. We first examined group differences in regional grey matter (GM) volumes and structural covariance networks between patients and HCs. We then compared first-episode, drug-naïve (FEDN) patients, and recurrent patients. Additionally, we assessed the effects of symptom severity and illness duration on brain alterations. RESULTS VBM showed decreased GM volume in various regions in MDD patients including the superior temporal cortex, anterior and middle cingulate cortex, inferior frontal cortex, and precuneus. SBM returned differences only in the prefrontal network. Comparisons between FEDN and recurrent MDD patients showed no significant differences by VBM, but SBM showed greater decreases in prefrontal, basal ganglia, visual, and cerebellar networks in the recurrent group. Moreover, depression severity was associated with volumes in the inferior frontal gyrus and precuneus, as well as the prefrontal network. CONCLUSIONS Simultaneous application of VBM and SBM methods revealed brain alterations in MDD patients and specified differences between recurrent and FEDN patients, which tentatively provide an effective multivariate method to identify potential neurobiological markers for depression.
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- KangCheng Wang
- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China
- Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- International Big-Data Center for Depression Research, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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- Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400716, China
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- Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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Lam CL, Wong CH, Junghöfer M, Roesmann K. Implicit threat learning involves the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the cerebellum. Int J Clin Health Psychol 2023; 23:100357. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijchp.2022.100357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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