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Yoshioka D, Yamanashi T, Taneda K, Matsukawa T, Orimo K, Iwata M. Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification presenting with obsessive-compulsive symptoms: A case report. PCN REPORTS : PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES 2024; 3:e166. [PMID: 38868467 PMCID: PMC11114289 DOI: 10.1002/pcn5.166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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Background Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC), also known as Farh's disease, is a rare neurodegenerative disorder characterized by calcification of the basal ganglia and other brain regions. This disease usually occurs in middle-aged patients and presents with various neurological and psychiatric symptoms. The exact prevalence is unknown; however, population genomic data analysis suggests a prevalence of at least 4.5/10,000 to 3.3/1000, indicating that the disease is more common than previously thought and remains underdiagnosed. Case Presentation We report the case of a middle-aged Japanese man who attempted suicide twice because of obsessive-compulsive ideation caused by trivial triggers. The patient's psychiatric symptoms resolved relatively quickly after hospitalization, and imaging and genetic testing led to a diagnosis of IBGC. Conclusion This case report illustrates the importance of including IBGC in the differential diagnosis of psychiatric symptoms that initially develop in middle-aged patients.
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- Daisuke Yoshioka
- Division of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of MedicineTottori UniversityYonagoJapan
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- Division of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of MedicineTottori UniversityYonagoJapan
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- Division of Neurology, Faculty of MedicineTottori UniversityYonagoJapan
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- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of MedicineThe University of TokyoTokyoJapan
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- Department of Neurology, Graduate School of MedicineThe University of TokyoTokyoJapan
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- Division of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of MedicineTottori UniversityYonagoJapan
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Alam N, Choudhary K. Neurochemical Effects of Methylphenidate and Modafinil in Ameliorating Stress-Induced Cognitive Deficits. ACS Pharmacol Transl Sci 2023; 6:1357-1372. [PMID: 37854618 PMCID: PMC10580386 DOI: 10.1021/acsptsci.3c00077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023]
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PURPOSE Chronic stressful situations result in altered monoaminergic activity of neurotransmitters, resulting in various conditions characterized by deficits in learning, memory and attention. Stimulant effects can be visualized in terms of increased cognitive abilities through enhancement of dopamine (DA) release. METHOD This study examined cognitive responses and brain DA and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT) levels after prolonged methylphenidate (MPH) and modafinil administration, to demonstrate their effect on stress-induced cognitive deficits in rats. Effects on cognition were evaluated by passive avoidance and water maze tests. Furthermore brain levels of DA, homovanillic acid (HVA), dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC), 5HT and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA) were analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrochemical detection. RESULTS We found that both MPH and modafinil improved cognition in both restrained and unrestrained rats, as examined through water maze and passive avoidance tests. Furthermore, these substance were associated with increased brain DA and 5-HT levels. Notabily, we observed decrease in DOPAC and HVA levels, while 5-HIAA levels exhibited a slight increase. CONCLUSIONS The prevention of stress-induced cognitive deficits by MPH and modafinil could be elucidated through the interaction between 5HT and DA in regulating cognitive function.
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- Nausheen Alam
- Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science
and Technology, Karachi 75300, Pakistan
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- Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science
and Technology, Karachi 75300, Pakistan
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Zuo Z, Li G, Chen Y, Qiao P, Zhu J, Wang P, Wu F, Yu H, Jiang Y, Yang J, Li G, Jiang R, Du F. Atrophy in subcortical gray matter in adult patients with moyamoya disease. Neurol Sci 2023; 44:1709-1717. [PMID: 36622475 PMCID: PMC10102099 DOI: 10.1007/s10072-022-06583-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND Acute cerebrovascular accidents, long-term hypoperfusion, and/or remote neuronal degeneration may lead to structural alterations in patients with moyamoya disease (MMD). This study sought to comprehensively investigate the distribution characteristics of subcortical gray matter volume and their correlations with angiographic changes in the intracranial artery in patients with MMD. METHOD One hundred forty-two patients with MMD and 142 age- and sex-matched healthy controls underwent 3-dimensional high-resolution structural magnetic resonance imaging. Volumes of subcortical gray matter and subregions of the hippocampus and amygdala were calculated, and the degree of stenosis/occlusion of intracranial arteries in patients with MMD was evaluated on MR angiography. RESULTS Volume reductions in the thalamus, caudate, putamen, hippocampus, amygdala, pallidum, and nucleus accumbens were found in patients with MMD. Hippocampal subfields and amygdala subnuclei in patients with MMD showed distinct vulnerability, and morphological alterations in specific subregions were more obvious than in the whole hippocampus/amygdala. Volume loss in several subcortical areas was related to disease duration and intracranial arterial changes. CONCLUSIONS Our findings revealed structural alteration patterns of subcortical gray matter in MMD. The specific atrophy in subregions of the hippocampus and the amygdala suggested potential cognitive and affective impairments in MMD, which warrants further investigation. Chronic cerebral hemodynamic alterations in MMD may play a pivotal role in morphological changes in subcortical areas.
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- Zhiwei Zuo
- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270# Tianhui Road, Rongdu Avenue, Chengdu, 610000, People's Republic of China.
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Kasahara K, DaSalla CS, Honda M, Hanakawa T. Basal ganglia-cortical connectivity underlies self-regulation of brain oscillations in humans. Commun Biol 2022; 5:712. [PMID: 35842523 PMCID: PMC9288463 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03665-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Brain-computer interfaces provide an artificial link by which the brain can directly interact with the environment. To achieve fine brain-computer interface control, participants must modulate the patterns of the cortical oscillations generated from the motor and somatosensory cortices. However, it remains unclear how humans regulate cortical oscillations, the controllability of which substantially varies across individuals. Here, we performed simultaneous electroencephalography (to assess brain-computer interface control) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (to measure brain activity) in healthy participants. Self-regulation of cortical oscillations induced activity in the basal ganglia-cortical network and the neurofeedback control network. Successful self-regulation correlated with striatal activity in the basal ganglia-cortical network, through which patterns of cortical oscillations were likely modulated. Moreover, basal ganglia-cortical network and neurofeedback control network connectivity correlated with strong and weak self-regulation, respectively. The findings indicate that the basal ganglia-cortical network is important for self-regulation, the understanding of which should help advance brain-computer interface technology. Simultaneous fMRI-EEG in 26 healthy participants indicate that the basal ganglia cortical network and the neurofeedback control network play different roles in self-regulation, providing further insight into the neural correlates for brain-machine interface control and feedback.
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- Kazumi Kasahara
- Department of Advanced Neuroimaging, Integrative Brain Imaging Center, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan.,Department of Functional Brain Research, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan.,Human Informatics and Interaction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, 305-8566, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Neuroimaging, Integrative Brain Imaging Center, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan.,Department of Functional Brain Research, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan
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- Department of Functional Brain Research, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Neuroimaging, Integrative Brain Imaging Center, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan. .,Department of Functional Brain Research, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, 187-8551, Japan. .,Integrated Neuroanatomy and Neuroimaging, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan.
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Language statistical learning responds to reinforcement learning principles rooted in the striatum. PLoS Biol 2021; 19:e3001119. [PMID: 34491980 PMCID: PMC8448350 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 09/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Statistical learning (SL) is the ability to extract regularities from the environment. In the domain of language, this ability is fundamental in the learning of words and structural rules. In lack of reliable online measures, statistical word and rule learning have been primarily investigated using offline (post-familiarization) tests, which gives limited insights into the dynamics of SL and its neural basis. Here, we capitalize on a novel task that tracks the online SL of simple syntactic structures combined with computational modeling to show that online SL responds to reinforcement learning principles rooted in striatal function. Specifically, we demonstrate—on 2 different cohorts—that a temporal difference model, which relies on prediction errors, accounts for participants’ online learning behavior. We then show that the trial-by-trial development of predictions through learning strongly correlates with activity in both ventral and dorsal striatum. Our results thus provide a detailed mechanistic account of language-related SL and an explanation for the oft-cited implication of the striatum in SL tasks. This work, therefore, bridges the long-standing gap between language learning and reinforcement learning phenomena. Statistical learning is the ability to extract regularities from the environment; in the domain of language, this ability is fundamental in the learning of words and structural rules. This study uses a combination of computational modelling and functional MRI to reveal a fundamental link between online language statistical learning and reinforcement learning at the algorithmic and implementational levels.
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Alanazi FI, Al-Ozzi TM, Kalia SK, Hodaie M, Lozano AM, Cohn M, Hutchison WD. Neurophysiological responses of globus pallidus internus during the auditory oddball task in Parkinson's disease. Neurobiol Dis 2021; 159:105490. [PMID: 34461266 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2021.105490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Revised: 08/21/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Parkinson's disease can be associated with significant cognitive impairment that may lead to dementia. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus is an effective therapy for motor symptoms but is associated with cognitive decline. DBS of globus pallidus internus (GPi) poses less risk of cognitive decline so may be the preferred target. A research priority is to identify biomarkers of cognitive decline in this population, but efforts are hampered by a lack of understanding of the role of the different basal ganglia nuclei, such as the globus pallidus, in cognitive processing. During deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery, we monitored single units, beta oscillatory LFP activity as well as event related potentials (ERPs) from the globus pallidus internus (GPi) of 16 Parkinson's disease patients, while they performed an auditory attention task. We used an auditory oddball task, during which one standard tone is presented at regular intervals and a second deviant tone is presented with a low probability that the subject is requested to count and report at the end of the task. All forms of neuronal activity studied were selective modulated by the attended tones. Of 62 neurons studied, the majority (51 or 82%) responded selectively to the deviant tone. Beta oscillatory activity showed an overall desynchronization during both types of attended tones interspersed by bursts of beta activity giving rise to peaks at a latency of around 200 ms after tone onset. cognitive ERPs recorded in GPi were selective to the attended tone and the right-side cERP was larger than the left side. The averages of trials showing a difference in beta oscillatory activity between deviant and standard also had a significant difference in cERP amplitude. In one block of trials, the random occurrence of 3 deviant tones in short succession silenced the activity of the GPi neuron being recorded. Trial blocks where a clear difference in LFP beta was seen were twice as likely to yield a correct tone count (25 vs 11). The data demonstrate strong modulation of GPi neuronal activity during the auditory oddball task. Overall, this study demonstrates an involvement of GPi in processing of non-motor cognitive tasks such as working memory and attention, and suggests that direct effects of DBS in non-motor GPi may contribute to cognitive changes observed post-operatively.
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- Frhan I Alanazi
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, Canada.
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Control of response interference: caudate nucleus contributes to selective inhibition. Sci Rep 2020; 10:20977. [PMID: 33262369 PMCID: PMC7708449 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77744-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2019] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
While the role of cortical regions in cognitive control processes is well accepted, the contribution of subcortical structures (e.g., the striatum), especially to the control of response interference, remains controversial. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the cortical and particularly subcortical neural mechanisms of response interference control (including selective inhibition). Thirteen healthy young participants underwent event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a unimanual version of the Simon task. In this task, successful performance required the resolution of stimulus–response conflicts in incongruent trials by selectively inhibiting interfering response tendencies. The behavioral results show an asymmetrical Simon effect that was more pronounced in the contralateral hemifield. Contrasting incongruent trials with congruent trials (i.e., the overall Simon effect) significantly activated clusters in the right anterior cingulate cortex, the right posterior insula, and the caudate nucleus bilaterally. Furthermore, a region of interest analysis based on previous patient studies revealed that activation in the bilateral caudate nucleus significantly co-varied with a parameter of selective inhibition derived from distributional analyses of response times. Our results corroborate the notion that the cognitive control of response interference is supported by a fronto-striatal circuitry, with a functional contribution of the caudate nucleus to the selective inhibition of interfering response tendencies.
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- Quenten Highgate
- School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Paul SS, Dibble LE, Olivier GN, Walter C, Duff K, Schaefer SY. Dopamine replacement improves motor learning of an upper extremity task in people with Parkinson disease. Behav Brain Res 2020; 377:112213. [PMID: 31526767 PMCID: PMC7398159 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2019] [Revised: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 09/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Dopamine replacement medication has positive effects on existing motor skills for people with Parkinson disease (PD), but may have detrimental effects on the learning of motor skills necessary for effective rehabilitation according to the dopamine overdose hypothesis. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine whether dopamine replacement medication (i.e. levodopa) affects: learning of a novel upper extremity task, decrements in skill following withdrawal of practice, the rate of learning, and the transfer of movement skill to untrained upper extremity tasks compared to training "off" medication, in people with PD. METHODS Participants with mild-moderate PD (Hoehn and Yahr stage 2) were randomized to train "on" (n = 12) or "off" (n = 11) levodopa medication. Participants practiced 10 blocks of five trials of a functional motor task with their non-dominant upper extremity over three consecutive days (acquisition period), followed by a single block of five trials two and nine days later. Participants were also assessed "on" levodopa with two transfer tasks (the nine-hole peg test and a functional dexterity task) prior to any practice and nine days after the end of the acquisition period. RESULTS Participants who practiced "on" levodopa medication learned the upper extremity task to a greater extent that those who practiced "off" medication, as determined by retained performance two days after practice. Skill decrement and skill transfer were not significantly different between groups. Rate of learning was unable to be modelled in this sample. CONCLUSIONS Levodopa medication improved the learning of an upper extremity task in people with mild-moderate PD.
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- Serene S Paul
- Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, University of Utah, 520 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA; Discipline of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, 75 East St, Lidcombe, NSW, 2141, Australia.
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- Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, University of Utah, 520 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, University of Utah, 520 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, University of Utah, 520 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA; Department of Physical Therapy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 1125 N College Ave, Fayetteville, AR, 72703, USA
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- Center for Alzheimer's Care, Imaging & Research, Department of Neurology, University of Utah, 650 Komas Dr 106A, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, University of Utah, 520 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA; Department of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, 501 E Tyler Mall, MC 9709, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
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Attentional blink and putative noninvasive dopamine markers: Two experiments to consolidate possible associations. COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE 2019; 19:1444-1457. [PMID: 31396846 PMCID: PMC6861702 DOI: 10.3758/s13415-019-00717-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Adaptive behavioral control involves a balance between top-down persistence and flexible updating of goals under changing demands. According to the metacontrol state model (MSM), this balance emerges from the interaction between the frontal and the striatal dopaminergic system. The attentional blink (AB) task has been argued to tap into the interaction between persistence and flexibility, as it reflects overpersistence—the too-exclusive allocation of attentional resources to the processing of the first of two consecutive targets. Notably, previous studies are inconclusive about the association between the AB and noninvasive proxies of dopamine including the spontaneous eye blink rate (sEBR), which allegedly assesses striatal dopamine levels. We aimed to substantiate and extend previous attempts to predict individual sizes of the AB in two separate experiments with larger sample sizes (N = 71 & N = 65) by means of noninvasive behavioral and physiological proxies of dopamine (DA), such as sEBR and mood measures, which are likely to reflect striatal dopamine levels, and color discrimination, which has been argued to tap into the frontal dopamine levels. Our findings did not confirm the prediction that AB size covaries with sEBR, mood, or color discrimination. The implications of this inconsistency with previous observations are discussed.
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Mekern V, Hommel B, Sjoerds Z. Computational models of creativity: a review of single-process and multi-process recent approaches to demystify creative cognition. Curr Opin Behav Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Yang X, Hu X, Tang W, Li B, Yang Y, Gong Q, Huang X. Intrinsic brain abnormalities in drug-naive patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A resting-state functional MRI study. J Affect Disord 2019; 245:861-868. [PMID: 30699871 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.11.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2018] [Revised: 10/14/2018] [Accepted: 11/11/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Using the resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) in a relatively large sample of drug-naive patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the current study aims to explore alterations in regional and network-level neural function and to determine the association between these alterations in intrinsic neural activity and symptom severity in OCD. METHODS A total of 68 drug-naive OCD patients and 68 healthy control subjects (HCS) were examined using rs-fMRI. Regional cerebral function was evaluated by measuring the fraction of amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF). Regions with fALFF alterations were used as seeds in whole-brain functional connectivity (FC) analysis. Statistical analyses of fALFF and FC differences between OCD patients with HCS were performed voxel-by-voxel using a two-sample t-test in Statistical Parametric Mapping version 8 (SPM8). Whole brain correlation analyses were performed to identify the association between functional neural correlates and OCD symptom severity evaluated using Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive scale (Y-BOCS) and subscale scores. RESULTS Relative to HCS, OCD patients showed higher fALFF in the right putamen and right superior frontal gyrus (P < 0.05, corrected for AlphaSim); higher FC in the limbic-striatal circuit and lower FC in the fronto-temporal and fronto-striato-thalamic networks (P < 0.05, corrected for AlphaSim). FC in striato-thalamic junction was negatively correlated with the Y-BOCS total score (r = -0.493, P < 0.001). CONCLUSION These findings of focal spontaneous hyperfunction confirmed the prevailing frontal-striatal model of OCD, and altered brain connectivity in large-scale resting-state networks indicated a connectivity-based pathophysiological process in OCD.
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- Xi Yang
- Mental Health Center, Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; Shenzhen Mental Health Center, Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen, China
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Mental Health Center, Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center, Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Mental Health Center, Department of Psychiatry, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
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- Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
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Schmidt CC, Timpert DC, Arend I, Vossel S, Dovern A, Saliger J, Karbe H, Fink GR, Henik A, Weiss PH. Preserved but Less Efficient Control of Response Interference After Unilateral Lesions of the Striatum. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 12:414. [PMID: 30459578 PMCID: PMC6232767 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Previous research on the neural basis of cognitive control processes has mainly focused on cortical areas, while the role of subcortical structures in cognitive control is less clear. Models of basal ganglia function as well as clinical studies in neurodegenerative diseases suggest that the striatum (putamen and caudate nucleus) modulates the inhibition of interfering responses and thereby contributes to an important aspect of cognitive control, namely response interference control. To further investigate the putative role of the striatum in the control of response interference, 23 patients with stroke-induced lesions of the striatum and 32 age-matched neurologically healthy controls performed a unimanual version of the Simon task. In the Simon task, the correspondence between stimulus location and response location is manipulated so that control over response interference can be inferred from the reaction time costs in incongruent trials. Results showed that stroke patients responded overall slower and more erroneous than controls. The difference in response times (RTs) between incongruent and congruent trials (known as the Simon effect) was smaller in the ipsilesional/-lateral hemifield, but did not differ significantly between groups. However, in contrast to controls, stroke patients exhibited an abnormally stable Simon effect across the reaction time distribution indicating a reduced efficiency of the inhibition process. Thus, in stroke patients unilateral lesions of the striatum did not significantly impair the general ability to control response interference, but led to less efficient selective inhibition of interfering responses.
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- Claudia C Schmidt
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Psychology and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.,Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Neurological Rehabilitation Centre Godeshöhe, Bonn, Germany
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- Neurological Rehabilitation Centre Godeshöhe, Bonn, Germany
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Psychology and the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.,Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Silveira MM, Tremblay M, Winstanley CA. Dissociable contributions of dorsal and ventral striatal regions on a rodent cost/benefit decision-making task requiring cognitive effort. Neuropharmacology 2018; 137:322-331. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.04.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2018] [Revised: 03/14/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Degos B, Ameqrane I, Rivaud-Péchoux S, Pouget P, Missal M. Short-term temporal memory in idiopathic and Parkin-associated Parkinson's disease. Sci Rep 2018; 8:7637. [PMID: 29769545 PMCID: PMC5956077 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25751-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Accepted: 04/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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In a rapidly changing environment, we often know when to do something before we have to do it. This preparation in the temporal domain is based on a ‘perception’ of elapsed time and short-term memory of previous stimulation in a similar context. These functions could be perturbed in Parkinson’s disease. Therefore, we investigated their role in eye movement preparation in sporadic Parkinson’s disease and in a very infrequent variant affecting the Parkin gene. We used a simple oculomotor task where subjects had to orient to a visual target and movement latency was measured. We found that in spite of an increased average reaction time, the influence of elapsed time on movement preparation was similar in controls and the two groups of PD patients. However, short-term temporal memory of previous stimulation was severely affected in sporadic PD patients either ON or OFF dopaminergic therapy. We conclude that the two different contributions to temporal preparation could be dissociated. Moreover, a short-term temporal memory deficit might underlie temporal cognition deficits previously observed in PD.
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- Bertrand Degos
- Neurology department, Parkinson's disease expert centre, Salpêtriêre Hospital, AP-HP, Paris, France.,Neurology Unit, Avicenne University Hospital, AP-HP, Bobigny, France.,Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Collège de France, UMR CNRS 7241/INSERM 1050, Labex Memolife, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, UM 75, ICM, F-75013, Paris, France.,Institute of Neuroscience (IONS), Cognition and Systems (COSY), Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Mounier 53 bte B1.53.04 1200, Brussels, Belgium
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, UM 75, ICM, F-75013, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, UM 75, ICM, F-75013, Paris, France
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- Institute of Neuroscience (IONS), Cognition and Systems (COSY), Université catholique de Louvain, Avenue Mounier 53 bte B1.53.04 1200, Brussels, Belgium.
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Yang XQ, Lauzon B, Seergobin KN, MacDonald PA. Dopaminergic Therapy Increases Go Timeouts in the Go/No-Go Task in Patients with Parkinson's Disease. Front Hum Neurosci 2018; 11:642. [PMID: 29354045 PMCID: PMC5758505 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by resting tremor, rigidity and bradykinesia. Dopaminergic medications such as L-dopa treat these motor symptoms, but can have complex effects on cognition. Impulse control is an essential cognitive function. Impulsivity is multifaceted in nature. Motor impulsivity involves the inability to withhold pre-potent, automatic, erroneous responses. In contrast, cognitive impulsivity refers to improper risk-reward assessment guiding behavior. Informed by our previous research, we anticipated that dopaminergic therapy would decrease motor impulsivity though it is well known to enhance cognitive impulsivity. We employed the Go/No-go paradigm to assess motor impulsivity in PD. Patients with PD were tested using a Go/No-go task on and off their normal dopaminergic medication. Participants completed cognitive, mood, and physiological measures. PD patients on medication had a significantly higher proportion of Go trial Timeouts (i.e., trials in which Go responses were not completed prior to a deadline of 750 ms) compared to off medication (p = 0.01). No significant ON-OFF differences were found for Go trial or No-go trial response times (RTs), or for number of No-go errors. We interpret that dopaminergic therapy induces a more conservative response set, reflected in Go trial Timeouts in PD patients. In this way, dopaminergic therapy decreased motor impulsivity in PD patients. This is in contrast to the widely recognized effects of dopaminergic therapy on cognitive impulsivity leading in some patients to impulse control disorders. Understanding the nuanced effects of dopaminergic treatment in PD on cognitive functions such as impulse control will clarify therapeutic decisions.
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- Xue Q. Yang
- MacDonald Lab, Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- MacDonald Lab, Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- MacDonald Lab, Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- MacDonald Lab, Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
- Clinical Neurological Sciences, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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Kehagia AA, Ye R, Joyce DW, Doyle OM, Rowe JB, Robbins TW. Parsing the Roles of the Frontal Lobes and Basal Ganglia in Task Control Using Multivoxel Pattern Analysis. J Cogn Neurosci 2017; 29:1390-1401. [PMID: 28387585 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Cognitive control has traditionally been associated with pFC based on observations of deficits in patients with frontal lesions. However, evidence from patients with Parkinson disease indicates that subcortical regions also contribute to control under certain conditions. We scanned 17 healthy volunteers while they performed a task-switching paradigm that previously dissociated performance deficits arising from frontal lesions in comparison with Parkinson disease, as a function of the abstraction of the rules that are switched. From a multivoxel pattern analysis by Gaussian Process Classification, we then estimated the forward (generative) model to infer regional patterns of activity that predict Switch/Repeat behavior between rule conditions. At 1000 permutations, Switch/Repeat classification accuracy for concrete rules was significant in the BG, but at chance in the frontal lobe. The inverse pattern was obtained for abstract rules, whereby the conditions were successfully discriminated in the frontal lobe but not in the BG. This double dissociation highlights the difference between cortical and subcortical contributions to cognitive control and demonstrates the utility of multivariate approaches in investigations of functions that rely on distributed and overlapping neural substrates.
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- University of Cambridge.,MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
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Thorne JC, Coggins TE. Cohesive Referencing Errors During Narrative Production as Clinical Evidence of Central Nervous System Abnormality in School-Aged Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY 2016; 25:532-546. [PMID: 27893083 DOI: 10.1044/2016_ajslp-15-0124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2015] [Accepted: 03/07/2016] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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PURPOSE Previous evidence suggests that cohesive referencing errors made during narratives may be a behavior that is revealing of underlying central nervous system abnormality in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). The current research extends this evidence. METHOD Retrospective analysis of narrative and clinical data from 152 children (ages 6 to 14), 72 of whom had confirmed FASD, was used. Narrative analysis was conducted blind to diagnostic status, age, or gender. Group performance was compared. The associations between measures of cohesive referencing and clinically gathered indices of the degree of central nervous system abnormality were examined. RESULTS Results show clear associations between elevated rates of cohesive referencing errors and central nervous system abnormality. Elevated error rates were more common in children with FASD than those without, and prevalence increased predictably across groups with more severe central nervous system abnormality. Risk is particularly elevated for those with microcephaly or a diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome. CONCLUSION Cohesive referencing errors during narrative are a viable behavioral marker of the kinds of central nervous system abnormality associated with prenatal alcohol exposure, having significant potential to become a valuable diagnostic and research tool.
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van Maanen L, Fontanesi L, Hawkins GE, Forstmann BU. Striatal activation reflects urgency in perceptual decision making. Neuroimage 2016; 139:294-303. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2016] [Revised: 05/25/2016] [Accepted: 06/24/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Striatal activation as a neural link between cognitive and perceptual flexibility. Neuroimage 2016; 141:393-398. [PMID: 27474521 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.07.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2016] [Revised: 06/16/2016] [Accepted: 07/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Our brain continuously evaluates different perceptual interpretations of the available sensory data in order to enable flexible updates of conscious experience. Individuals' perceptual flexibility can be assessed using ambiguous stimuli that cause our perception to continuously switch between two mutually exclusive interpretations. Neural processes underlying perceptual switching are thought to involve the visual cortex, but also non-sensory brain circuits that have been implicated in cognitive processes, such as frontal and parietal regions. Perceptual flexibility varies strongly between individuals and has been related to dopaminergic neurotransmission. Likewise, there is also considerable individual variability in tasks that require flexibility in cognition, and dopamine-dependent striato-frontal signals have been associated with processes promoting cognitive flexibility. Given the anatomical and neurochemical similarities with regard to perceptual and cognitive flexibility, we here probed whether individual differences in perceptual flexibility during bistable perception are related to individual cognitive flexibility associated neural correlates. 126 healthy individuals performed rule-based task switching during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and reported perceptual switching during the viewing of a modified version of the Necker cube. Mean phase duration as measure of perceptual flexibility correlated with task-switching associated activity in the right putamen as part of the basal ganglia. In addition, we found a tentative correlation between perceptual and cognitive flexibility. These results indicate that individual differences in cognitive flexibility and associated fronto-striatal processing contribute to differences in perceptual flexibility. Our findings thus provide empirical support for the general notion of shared mechanisms between perception and cognition.
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Uncertainty and expectancy deviations require cortico-subcortical cooperation. Neuroimage 2016; 144:23-34. [PMID: 27261161 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2015] [Revised: 03/29/2016] [Accepted: 05/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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In a dynamic and uncertain environment it is beneficial to learn the causal structure of the environment in order to minimize uncertainty. This requires determining estimates of probable outcomes, which will guide expectations about incoming information. One key factor in this learning process is to detect whether an unexpected event constitutes a low probability, but valid outcome, or an outright error. The present 7T-fMRI study investigated the role of subcortical structures in regulating this probabilistic inferential learning process. A new task was designed, in which participants learned to calculate the value, and therefore to anticipate the outcome of different visual sequences. Three types of sequences provided unambiguous, ambiguous, and incongruent contextual evidence and each sequence had two outcomes, which differed in their probability of occurrence. We hypothesized that subcortical regions are necessary when expectations are violated, and that their involvement will depend on the nature of the unexpected event. The results show increased dorsomedial striatal and thalamic activation for less probable sequences; in addition, ambiguous sequences also display larger activation in the red nuclei. Incongruent sequences displayed a pattern of subcortical activation restricted to the dorsolateral and the posterior dorsomedial striatum. These results confirm that different subcortical structures regulate uncertainty and expectancy deviations; this is crucial not only for learning to predict events in the environment, but also for flexible cognitive control in general.
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Parikh V, Naughton SX, Yegla B, Guzman DM. Impact of partial dopamine depletion on cognitive flexibility in BDNF heterozygous mice. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2016; 233:1361-75. [PMID: 26861892 PMCID: PMC4814303 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-016-4229-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2015] [Accepted: 01/30/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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RATIONALE Cognitive flexibility is a key component of executive function and is disrupted in major psychiatric disorders. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) exerts neuromodulatory effects on synaptic transmission and cognitive/affective behaviors. However, the causal mechanisms linking BDNF hypofunction with executive deficits are not well understood. OBJECTIVES Here, we assessed the consequences of BDNF hemizygosity on cognitive flexibility in mice performing an operant conditioning task. As dopaminergic-glutamatergic interaction in the striatum is important for cognitive processing, and BDNF heterozygous (BDNF(+/-)) mice display a higher dopamine tone in the dorsal striatum, we also assessed the effects of partial striatal dopamine depletion on task performance and glutamate release. RESULTS BDNF(+/-) mice acquired discrimination learning as well as new rule learning during set-shifting as efficiently as wild-type mice. However, partial removal of striatal dopaminergic inputs with 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) impaired these cognitive processes by impeding the maintenance of a new learning strategy in both genotypes. BDNF mutants exhibited performance impairments during reversal learning, and these deficits were associated with increased perseveration to the previously acquired strategy. Partial dopamine depletion of the striatum reversed these cognitive impairments. Additionally, reduction in depolarization-evoked glutamate release noted in the dorsal striatum of BDNF(+/-) mice was not observed in 6-OHDA-infused BDNF mutants indicating normalization of glutamatergic transmission in these animals. CONCLUSIONS Our data illustrate that BDNF signaling regulates cognitive control processes presumably by maintaining striatal dopamine-glutamate balance. Moreover, aberrations in BDNF signaling may act as a common neurobiological substrate that accounts for executive dysfunction observed in multiple psychiatric conditions.
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- Vinay Parikh
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA.
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Vatansever D, Manktelow AE, Sahakian BJ, Menon DK, Stamatakis EA. Cognitive Flexibility: A Default Network and Basal Ganglia Connectivity Perspective. Brain Connect 2016; 6:201-7. [PMID: 26652748 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2015.0388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The intra/extradimensional set-shifting task (IED) provides a reliable assessment of cognitive flexibility, the shifting of attention to select behaviorally relevant stimuli in a given context. Impairments in this domain were previously reported in patients with altered neurotransmitter systems such as schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. Consequently, corticostriatal connections were implicated in the mediation of this function. In addition, parts of the default mode network (DMN), namely the medial prefrontal and posterior cingulate/precuneus cortices, are also being progressively described in association with set-shifting paradigms. Nevertheless, a definitive link between cognitive flexibility and DMN connectivity remains to be established. To this end, we related resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-based functional connectivity of DMN with IED task performance in a healthy population, measured outside the scanner. The results demonstrated that greater posterior cingulate cortex/precuneus (DMN) connectivity with the ventromedial striatopallidum at rest correlated with fewer total adjusted errors on the IED task. This finding points to a relationship between DMN and basal ganglia connectivity for cognitive flexibility, further highlighting this network's potential role in adaptive human cognition.
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- Deniz Vatansever
- 1 Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge , Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom .,2 Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge , Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1 Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge , Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom .,2 Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge , Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1 Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge , Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom .,2 Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge , Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1 Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge , Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom .,2 Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge , Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Hanganu A, Provost JS, Monchi O. Neuroimaging studies of striatum in cognition part II: Parkinson's disease. Front Syst Neurosci 2015; 9:138. [PMID: 26500512 PMCID: PMC4596940 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2015] [Accepted: 09/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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In recent years a gradual shift in the definition of Parkinson's disease (PD) has been established, from a classical akinetic-rigid movement disorder to a multi-system neurodegenerative disease. While the pathophysiology of PD is complex and goes much beyond the nigro-striatal degeneration, the striatum has been shown to be responsible for many cognitive functions. Patients with PD develop impairments in multiple cognitive domains and the PD model is probably the most extensively studied regarding striatum dysfunction and its influence on cognition. Up to 40% of PD patients present cognitive impairment even in the early stages of disease development. Thus, understanding the key patterns of striatum and connecting regions' influence on cognition will help develop more specific approaches to alleviate cognitive impairment and slow down its decline. This review focuses on the contribution of neuroimaging studies in understanding how striatum impairment affects cognition in PD.
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- Alexandru Hanganu
- Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Department of Radiology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canada
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canada
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Université de MontréalMontréal, QC, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Université de MontréalMontréal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of MontrealMontreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Department of Radiology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canada
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of CalgaryCalgary, AB, Canada
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Université de MontréalMontréal, QC, Canada
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Kokubo K, Suzuki K, Hattori N, Miyai I, Mori E. Executive Dysfunction in Patients with Putaminal Hemorrhage. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2015; 24:1978-85. [PMID: 26187790 DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2015.04.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Accepted: 04/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The frontal-subcortical circuits link the specific areas of the frontal cortex to the striatum, basal ganglia, and thalamus. Disruption of the frontal-subcortical circuits may lead to cognitive impairment with frontal lobe features. The putamen is a central component of frontal-subcortical circuits. Although putaminal lesions presumably lead to cognitive and behavioral changes, studies on frontal lobe dysfunctions after putaminal stroke are scarce. There are no previous studies that systematically examined frontal lobe functions with a focal putaminal lesion. The objective of this study is to demonstrate whether putaminal hemorrhage causes frontal lobe dysfunction. METHODS Cognitive functions, including various aspects of frontal lobe functions, were systematically assessed in 15 patients with left- or right-sided putaminal hemorrhage 2 months after the onset and compared with healthy controls. RESULTS Patients did not have signs of aphasia, apraxia, or spatial neglect. They performed significantly worse on tests of frontal lobe function, including Letter-Number Sequencing (U = 22, P < .001), lexical fluency (U = 30, P < .001), and motor series subtest (U = 45, P = .004) of the Frontal Assessment Battery. On the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, patients performed significantly worse for "categories achieved" (U = 29.5, P < .001), "perseverative errors" (U = 25, P < .001), and "set loss" (U = 49, P = .008). None showed behavioral impairment. CONCLUSIONS Isolated putaminal hemorrhage causes modest frontal lobe dysfunction without behavioral symptoms. Our findings indicate that isolated putaminal hemorrhage disrupts the dorsolateral-striato-pallido-thalamic circuits and causes executive dysfunction.
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- Kae Kokubo
- Department of Psychology, Kobegakuin University, Kobe, Japan; Neurorehabilitation Research Institute, Morinomiya Hospital, Osaka, Japan; Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Yamagata University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan
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- Neurorehabilitation Research Institute, Morinomiya Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Neurorehabilitation Research Institute, Morinomiya Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Robertson BD, Hiebert NM, Seergobin KN, Owen AM, MacDonald PA. Dorsal striatum mediates cognitive control, not cognitive effort per se , in decision-making: An event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage 2015; 114:170-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Revised: 03/20/2015] [Accepted: 03/28/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Strait CE, Sleezer BJ, Hayden BY. Signatures of Value Comparison in Ventral Striatum Neurons. PLoS Biol 2015; 13:e1002173. [PMID: 26086735 PMCID: PMC4472856 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2014] [Accepted: 05/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The ventral striatum (VS), like its cortical afferents, is closely associated with processing of rewards, but the relative contributions of striatal and cortical reward systems remains unclear. Most theories posit distinct roles for these structures, despite their similarities. We compared responses of VS neurons to those of ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) Area 14 neurons, recorded in a risky choice task. Five major response patterns observed in vmPFC were also observed in VS: (1) offer value encoding, (2) value difference encoding, (3) preferential encoding of chosen relative to unchosen value, (4) a correlation between residual variance in responses and choices, and (5) prominent encoding of outcomes. We did observe some differences as well; in particular, preferential encoding of the chosen option was stronger and started earlier in VS than in vmPFC. Nonetheless, the close match between vmPFC and VS suggests that cortex and its striatal targets make overlapping contributions to economic choice. A study of single neurons in the ventral striatum reveals signatures of value comparison and selection during a risky choice task, suggesting that the cortex and its striatal targets make overlapping contributions to the choice process. Read the accompanying Primer. The neural calculations underlying reward-based choice are closely associated with a network of brain areas including the ventral striatum (VS) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). Most theories ascribe distinct roles to these two structures during choice, but these differences have yet to be confirmed at the level of single neurons. We compared responses of VS neurons to those of vmPFC neurons recorded in rhesus macaques choosing between potential gambles for water rewards. We found widespread similarities in the way that VS and vmPFC neurons fire during the choice process. Neurons in both areas encoded the value of the offered gamble, the difference in value between offered gambles, and the gamble outcome. Additionally, both areas showed stronger coding for the chosen gamble than for the unchosen one and predicted choice even when we controlled for offer value. Interestingly, preferential encoding of the chosen option was stronger and started earlier in VS than in vmPFC. Nonetheless, similarities between vmPFC and VS suggest that cortex and its striatal targets make overlapping contributions to reward-based choice.
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- Caleb E. Strait
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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New neurons generated in the adult brain have been shown in rodents to mediate specific functions, including neural plasticity. This Essay discusses recent work on human adult neurogenesis, examining how it compares to that in other mammals. New neurons are continuously generated in specific regions in the adult brain. Studies in rodents have demonstrated that adult-born neurons have specific functional features and mediate neural plasticity. Data on the extent and dynamics of adult neurogenesis in adult humans are starting to emerge, and there are clear similarities and differences compared to other mammals. Why do these differences arise? And what do they mean?
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- Aurélie Ernst
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Smulders K, Esselink RA, Bloem BR, Cools R. Freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease is related to impaired motor switching during stepping. Mov Disord 2015; 30:1090-7. [DOI: 10.1002/mds.26133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2014] [Revised: 11/07/2014] [Accepted: 11/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Katrijn Smulders
- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Department of Neurology; 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands
- HAN University of Applied Sciences; Institute for Studies in Sports and Exercise; 6503 GL Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Department of Neurology; 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Department of Neurology; 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands
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- Radboud University Medical Center; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Department of Psychiatry; 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands
- Radboud University; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging; 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands
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Haeger A, Lee H, Fell J, Axmacher N. Selective processing of buildings and faces during working memory: the role of the ventral striatum. Eur J Neurosci 2014; 41:505-13. [PMID: 25529028 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2014] [Accepted: 11/19/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The ventral striatum seems to play an important role during working memory (WM) tasks when irrelevant information needs to be filtered out. However, the concrete neural mechanisms underlying this process are still unknown. In this study, we investigated these mechanisms in detail. Eighteen healthy human participants were presented with multiple items consisting of faces or buildings. They either had to maintain two or four items from one category (low- and high-memory-load condition), or two from one category and suppress (filter out) two items from the other category (distraction condition). Striatal activity was increased in the distraction as compared with the high-load condition. Activity in category-specific regions in the inferior temporal cortex [fusiform face area (FFA) and parahippocampal place area (PPA)] was reduced when items from the other category needed to be selectively maintained. Furthermore, functional connectivity analysis showed significant reduction of striatal-PPA correlations during selective maintenance of faces. However, striatal-FFA connectivity was not reduced during maintenance of buildings vs. faces, possibly because face stimuli are more salient. Taken together, our results suggest that the ventral striatum supports selective WM maintenance by reduced gating of task-irrelevant activity via attenuating functional connectivity without increasing task-relevant activity correspondingly.
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- Alexa Haeger
- Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53127, Bonn, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany
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Tommasi G, Fiorio M, Yelnik J, Krack P, Sala F, Schmitt E, Fraix V, Bertolasi L, Le Bas JF, Ricciardi GK, Fiaschi A, Theeuwes J, Pollak P, Chelazzi L. Disentangling the Role of Cortico-Basal Ganglia Loops in Top-Down and Bottom-Up Visual Attention: An Investigation of Attention Deficits in Parkinson Disease. J Cogn Neurosci 2014; 27:1215-37. [PMID: 25514652 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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It is solidly established that top-down (goal-driven) and bottom-up (stimulus-driven) attention mechanisms depend on distributed cortical networks, including prefrontal and frontoparietal regions. On the other hand, it is less clear whether the BG also contribute to one or the other of these mechanisms, or to both. The current study was principally undertaken to clarify this issue. Parkinson disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder primarily affecting the BG, has proven to be an effective model for investigating the contribution of the BG to different brain functions; therefore, we set out to investigate deficits of top-down and bottom-up attention in a selected cohort of PD patients. With this objective in mind, we compared the performance on three computerized tasks of two groups of 12 parkinsonian patients (assessed without any treatment), one otherwise pharmacologically treated and the other also surgically treated, with that of a group of controls. The main behavioral tool for our study was an attentional capture task, which enabled us to tap the competition between top-down and bottom-up mechanisms of visual attention. This task was suitably combined with a choice RT and a simple RT task to isolate any specific deficit of attention from deficits in motor response selection and initiation. In the two groups of patients, we found an equivalent increase of attentional capture but also comparable delays in target selection in the absence of any salient distractor (reflecting impaired top-down mechanisms) and movement initiation compared with controls. In contrast, motor response selection processes appeared to be prolonged only in the operated patients. Our results confirm that the BG are involved in both motor and cognitive domains. Specifically, damage to the BG, as it occurs in PD, leads to a distinct deficit of top-down control of visual attention, and this can account, albeit indirectly, for the enhancement of attentional capture, reflecting weakened ability of top-down mechanisms to antagonize bottom-up control.
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MacDonald AA, Seergobin KN, Tamjeedi R, Owen AM, Provost JS, Monchi O, Ganjavi H, MacDonald PA. Examining dorsal striatum in cognitive effort using Parkinson's disease and fMRI. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2014; 1:390-400. [PMID: 25356409 PMCID: PMC4184667 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2014] [Revised: 03/23/2014] [Accepted: 04/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Understanding cognition mediated by the striatum can clarify cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease (PD). Previously, we claimed that dorsal striatum (DS) mediates cognitive flexibility. To refute the possibility that variation in cognitive effort confounded our observations, we reexamined our data to dissociate cognitive flexibility from effort. PD provides a model for exploring DS-mediated functions. In PD, dopamine-producing cells supplying DS are significantly degenerated. DS-mediated functions are impaired off and improved on dopamine replacement medication. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can confirm striatum-mediated functions. METHODS Twenty-two PD patients, off-on dopaminergic medication, and 22 healthy age-matched controls performed a number selection task. Numerical distance between number pairs varied systematically. Selecting between two numbers that are closer versus distant in magnitude is more effortful: the symbolic distance effect. However, selecting between closer versus distant number pairs is equivalent in the need to alter attention or response strategies (i.e., cognitive flexibility). In Experiment 2, 28 healthy participants performed the same task with simultaneous measurement of brain activity with fMRI. RESULTS The symbolic distance effect was equivalent for PD versus control participants and across medication sessions. Furthermore, symbolic distance did not correlate with DS activation using fMRI. In this dataset, we showed previously that integrating conflicting influences on decision making is (1) impaired in PD and improved by dopaminergic therapy and (2) associated with preferential DS activation using fMRI. INTERPRETATION These findings support the notion that DS mediates cognitive flexibility specifically, not merely cognitive effort, accounting for some cognitive deficits in PD and informing treatment.
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- Alex A MacDonald
- Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada
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- Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada
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- Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada ; Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada
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- Functional Neuroimaging Unit, Centre de Recherche, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada ; Department of Radiology, University of Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Functional Neuroimaging Unit, Centre de Recherche, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada ; Department of Radiology, University of Montréal Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada
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- Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada ; Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada
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Marsh R, Horga G, Parashar N, Wang Z, Peterson BS, Simpson HB. Altered activation in fronto-striatal circuits during sequential processing of conflict in unmedicated adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Biol Psychiatry 2014; 75:615-22. [PMID: 23489416 PMCID: PMC3722261 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2012] [Revised: 01/31/2013] [Accepted: 02/01/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine the functioning of fronto-striatal brain circuits that support self-regulatory capacities including conflict resolution and sequential processing in unmedicated adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). METHODS We compared functional magnetic resonance imaging blood oxygen level-dependent response in 22 adults with OCD with 22 healthy, age-matched control subjects during performance of a Simon Spatial Incompatibility task. We used general linear modeling to compare groups in their patterns of brain activation during correct responses to conflict-laden stimuli and explore the effects of trial sequence on group differences. RESULTS Behavioral performance on the Simon task did not differ between groups. In response to conflict-laden stimuli, OCD participants activated fronto-striatal regions significantly more than control subjects, specifically a right hemisphere cluster encompassing the putamen, insula, and inferior frontal gyrus. Their activation of this cluster was driven not by conflict on a current trial but by their response to the alternation of stimulus congruence (incongruent or congruent) across trial sequences (i.e., current and preceding trials) and was most accentuated in participants with more severe symptoms in the doubt/checking dimension. Functional connectivity from the putamen to other fronto-striatal regions was also greater in the OCD compared with control participants. CONCLUSIONS When engaging the self-regulatory control necessary to resolve conflict and process alternating stimuli, OCD participants displayed excessive activation in a fronto-striatal circuit that differs from the orbitofrontal cortex-anterior cingulate cortex-caudate circuit typically implicated in OCD. Dysfunction in this circuit was associated with processing changes in the stimulus context. We speculate that this dysfunction might be related to the cognitive inflexibility typical of persons with OCD.
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- Rachel Marsh
- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York.
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- The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- The Division of Clinical Therapeutics in the Department of Psychiatry, the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians &Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY
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Maltezos S, Horder J, Coghlan S, Skirrow C, O'Gorman R, Lavender TJ, Mendez MA, Mehta M, Daly E, Xenitidis K, Paliokosta E, Spain D, Pitts M, Asherson P, Lythgoe DJ, Barker GJ, Murphy DG. Glutamate/glutamine and neuronal integrity in adults with ADHD: a proton MRS study. Transl Psychiatry 2014; 4:e373. [PMID: 24643164 PMCID: PMC3966039 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2014.11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2013] [Revised: 01/06/2014] [Accepted: 01/09/2014] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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There is increasing evidence that abnormalities in glutamate signalling may contribute to the pathophysiology of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ([1H]MRS) can be used to measure glutamate, and also its metabolite glutamine, in vivo. However, few studies have investigated glutamate in the brain of adults with ADHD naive to stimulant medication. Therefore, we used [1H]MRS to measure the combined signal of glutamate and glutamine (Glu+Gln; abbreviated as Glx) along with other neurometabolites such as creatine (Cr), N-acetylaspartate (NAA) and choline. Data were acquired from three brain regions, including two implicated in ADHD-the basal ganglia (caudate/striatum) and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)-and one 'control' region-the medial parietal cortex. We compared 40 adults with ADHD, of whom 24 were naive for ADHD medication, whereas 16 were currently on stimulants, against 20 age, sex and IQ-matched healthy controls. We found that compared with controls, adult ADHD participants had a significantly lower concentration of Glx, Cr and NAA in the basal ganglia and Cr in the DLPFC, after correction for multiple comparisons. There were no differences between stimulant-treated and treatment-naive ADHD participants. In people with untreated ADHD, lower basal ganglia Glx was significantly associated with more severe symptoms of inattention. There were no significant differences in the parietal 'control' region. We suggest that subcortical glutamate and glutamine have a modulatory role in ADHD adults; and that differences in glutamate-glutamine levels are not explained by use of stimulant medication.
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- S Maltezos
- Adult ADHD Service, The Maudsley Hospital, London, UK,King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK,King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, PO Box 50, London SE5 8AF, UK. E-mail:
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- King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- King's College London, MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- King's College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK,Autism Assessment and Behavioural Genetics Clinic, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, UK
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- King's College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- Adult ADHD Service, The Maudsley Hospital, London, UK,King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- Adult ADHD Service, The Maudsley Hospital, London, UK
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- King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK,Autism Assessment and Behavioural Genetics Clinic, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, UK
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- Adult ADHD Service, The Maudsley Hospital, London, UK
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- Adult ADHD Service, The Maudsley Hospital, London, UK,King's College London, MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- King's College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- King's College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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- King's College London, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK,Autism Assessment and Behavioural Genetics Clinic, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Beckenham, UK,Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
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van Schouwenburg M, Onnink A, ter Huurne N, Kan C, Zwiers M, Hoogman M, Franke B, Buitelaar J, Cools R. Cognitive flexibility depends on white matter microstructure of the basal ganglia. Neuropsychologia 2014; 53:171-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2013] [Revised: 11/03/2013] [Accepted: 11/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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MacDonald AA, Seergobin KN, Owen AM, Tamjeedi R, Monchi O, Ganjavi H, MacDonald PA. Differential effects of Parkinson's disease and dopamine replacement on memory encoding and retrieval. PLoS One 2013; 8:e74044. [PMID: 24086309 PMCID: PMC3784427 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2013] [Accepted: 07/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Increasingly memory deficits are recognized in Parkinson's disease (PD). In PD, the dopamine-producing cells of the substantia nigra (SN) are significantly degenerated whereas those in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are relatively spared. Dopamine-replacement medication improves cognitive processes that implicate the SN-innervated dorsal striatum but is thought to impair those that depend upon the VTA-supplied ventral striatum, limbic and prefrontal cortices. Our aim was to examine memory encoding and retrieval in PD and how they are affected by dopamine replacement. Twenty-nine PD patients performed the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) and a non-verbal analogue, the Aggie Figures Learning Test (AFLT), both on and off dopaminergic medications. Twenty-seven, age-matched controls also performed these memory tests twice and their data were analyzed to correspond to the ON-OFF order of the PD patients to whom they were matched. We contrasted measures that emphasized with those that accentuated retrieval and investigated the effect of PD and dopamine-replacement on these processes separately. For PD patients relative to controls, encoding performance was normal in the off state and was impaired on dopaminergic medication. Retrieval was impaired off medication and improved by dopamine repletion. This pattern of findings suggests that VTA-innervated brain regions such as ventral striatum, limbic and prefrontal cortices are implicated in encoding, whereas the SN-supplied dorsal striatum mediates retrieval. Understanding this pattern of spared functions and deficits in PD, and the effect of dopamine replacement on these distinct memory processes, should prompt closer scrutiny of patients' cognitive complaints to inform titration of dopamine replacement dosages along with motor symptoms.
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- Alex A MacDonald
- The Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Florio TM, Confalone G, Sciarra A, Sotgiu A, Alecci M. Switching ability of over trained movements in a Parkinson’s disease rat model. Behav Brain Res 2013; 250:326-33. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2012] [Revised: 05/10/2013] [Accepted: 05/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Samanez-Larkin GR, Buckholtz JW, Cowan RL, Woodward ND, Li R, Ansari MS, Arrington CM, Baldwin RM, Smith CE, Treadway MT, Kessler RM, Zald DH. A thalamocorticostriatal dopamine network for psychostimulant-enhanced human cognitive flexibility. Biol Psychiatry 2013; 74:99-105. [PMID: 23273721 PMCID: PMC3615042 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.10.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2012] [Revised: 10/31/2012] [Accepted: 10/31/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Everyday life demands continuous flexibility in thought and behavior. We examined whether individual differences in dopamine function are related to variability in the effects of amphetamine on one aspect of flexibility: task switching. METHODS Forty healthy human participants performed a task-switching paradigm following placebo and oral amphetamine administration. [(18)F]fallypride was used to measure D2/D3 baseline receptor availability and amphetamine-stimulated dopamine release. RESULTS The majority of the participants showed amphetamine-induced benefits through reductions in switch costs. However, such benefits were variable. Individuals with higher baseline thalamic and cortical receptor availability and striatal dopamine release showed greater reductions in switch costs following amphetamine than individuals with lower levels. The relationship between dopamine receptors and stimulant-enhanced flexibility was partially mediated by striatal dopamine release. CONCLUSIONS These data indicate that the impact of the psychostimulant on cognitive flexibility is influenced by the status of dopamine within a thalamocorticostriatal network. Beyond demonstrating a link between this dopaminergic network and the enhancement in task switching, these neural measures accounted for unique variance in predicting the psychostimulant-induced cognitive enhancement. These results suggest that there may be measurable aspects of variability in the dopamine system that predispose certain individuals to benefit from and hence use psychostimulants for cognitive enhancement.
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- Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin
- Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, 111 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN 37240,Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, 1161 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN 37232
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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- Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, 1601 23rd Ave S, Nashville, TN 37212
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- Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, 1601 23rd Ave S, Nashville, TN 37212
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, 1211 Medical Center Drive, Nashville, TN 37232
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, 1211 Medical Center Drive, Nashville, TN 37232
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- Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, 17 Memorial Drive East, Bethlehem, PA 18015
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- Molecular Neuroimaging, 60 Temple Street, Suite 8A, New Haven, CT 06510
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- DXP Imaging, Norton Neuroscience Institute, 5129 Dixie Highway #100, Louisville, KY 40216
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- Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, 1211 Medical Center Drive, Nashville, TN 37232
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- Psychological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, 111 21st Ave S, Nashville, TN 37240,Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, 1601 23rd Ave S, Nashville, TN 37212
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Chen JY, Wang EA, Cepeda C, Levine MS. Dopamine imbalance in Huntington's disease: a mechanism for the lack of behavioral flexibility. Front Neurosci 2013; 7:114. [PMID: 23847463 PMCID: PMC3701870 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2013] [Accepted: 06/13/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Dopamine (DA) plays an essential role in the control of coordinated movements. Alterations in DA balance in the striatum lead to pathological conditions such as Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases (HD). HD is a progressive, invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by a genetic mutation producing an expansion of glutamine repeats and is characterized by abnormal dance-like movements (chorea). The principal pathology is the loss of striatal and cortical projection neurons. Changes in brain DA content and receptor number contribute to abnormal movements and cognitive deficits in HD. In particular, during the early hyperkinetic stage of HD, DA levels are increased whereas expression of DA receptors is reduced. In contrast, in the late akinetic stage, DA levels are significantly decreased and resemble those of a Parkinsonian state. Time-dependent changes in DA transmission parallel biphasic changes in glutamate synaptic transmission and may enhance alterations in glutamate receptor-mediated synaptic activity. In this review, we focus on neuronal electrophysiological mechanisms that may lead to some of the motor and cognitive symptoms of HD and how they relate to dysfunction in DA neurotransmission. Based on clinical and experimental findings, we propose that some of the behavioral alterations in HD, including reduced behavioral flexibility, may be caused by altered DA modulatory function. Thus, restoring DA balance alone or in conjunction with glutamate receptor antagonists could be a viable therapeutic approach.
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- Jane Y Chen
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Brain Research Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Simard F, Monetta L, Nagano-Saito A, Monchi O. A new lexical card-sorting task for studying fronto-striatal contribution to processing language rules. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2013; 125:295-306. [PMID: 21925720 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2010] [Revised: 06/03/2011] [Accepted: 08/01/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The role of fronto-striatal regions in processing different language rules such as semantic and (grapho) phonological ones is still under debate. We have recently developed a lexical analog of the Wisconsin card sorting task which measures set-shifting abilities where the visual rules color, number, shape were replaced by three language ones: semantic, rhyme and syllable onset (attack). In the present study we aimed to compare fronto-striatal activations between the different lexical rules that are required for matching the test words to the response ones. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), fourteen healthy, native French-speaking participants were scanned. The results showed that some regions within the brain language network are differentially involved in semantic and phonological processes. Semantic decisions activated significantly the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the fusiform gyrus, the ventral temporal lobe and the caudate nucleus, while phonological decisions produced significant activation in posterior Broca's area (area 44), the temporoparietal junction and motor cortical regions. These findings provide critical support for the existence of a ventral subcortical semantic pathway and a more dorsal phonological stream as proposed by Duffau, Leroy, and Gatignol (2008). Furthermore, we propose that the strong involvement of area 47/12 of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus observed in semantic processing, is not specific to language, but to the fact that a category or a rule has to be retrieved amongst competing ones in memory, similarly to what is observed when planning a set-shift in the original (non-lexical) version of the Wisconsin card sorting task.
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- F Simard
- Functional Neuroimaging Unit, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Canada
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Stimulation of contacts in ventral but not dorsal subthalamic nucleus normalizes response switching in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia 2013; 51:1302-9. [PMID: 23562963 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2012] [Revised: 02/05/2013] [Accepted: 03/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Switching between responses is a key executive function known to rely on the frontal cortex and the basal ganglia. Here we aimed to establish with greater anatomical specificity whether such switching could be mediated via different possible frontal-basal-ganglia circuits. Accordingly, we stimulated dorsal vs. ventral contacts of electrodes in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) in Parkinson's patients during switching performance, and also studied matched controls. The patients underwent three sessions: once with bilateral dorsal contact stimulation, once with bilateral ventral contact stimulation, and once Off stimulation. Patients Off stimulation showed abnormal patterns of switching, and stimulation of the ventral contacts but not the dorsal contacts normalized the pattern of behavior relative to controls. This provides some of the first evidence in humans that stimulation of dorsal vs. ventral STN DBS contacts has differential effects on executive function. As response switching is an executive function known to rely on prefrontal cortex, these results suggest that ventral contact stimulation affected an executive/associative cortico-basal ganglia circuit.
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Functional imaging of brain responses to different outcomes of hypothesis testing: revealed in a category induction task. Neuroimage 2013; 66:368-75. [PMID: 23103686 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2012] [Revised: 10/15/2012] [Accepted: 10/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to examine differences in brain activation that occur when a person receives the different outcomes of hypothesis testing (HT). Participants were provided with a series of images of batteries and were asked to learn a rule governing what kinds of batteries were charged. Within each trial, the first two charged batteries were sequentially displayed, and participants would generate a preliminary hypothesis based on the perceptual comparison. Next, a third battery that served to strengthen, reject, or was irrelevant to the preliminary hypothesis was displayed. The fMRI results revealed that (1) no significant differences in brain activation were found between the 2 hypothesis-maintain conditions (i.e., strengthen and irrelevant conditions); and (2) compared with the hypothesis-maintain conditions, the hypothesis-reject condition activated the left medial frontal cortex, bilateral putamen, left parietal cortex, and right cerebellum. These findings are discussed in terms of the neural correlates of the subcomponents of HT and working memory manipulation.
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Longo CA, Kerr EN, Smith ML. Executive functioning in children with intractable frontal lobe or temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav 2013; 26:102-8. [PMID: 23246148 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2012.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2012] [Revised: 11/04/2012] [Accepted: 11/05/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The aim of the present study was to shed light on the executive functioning deficits that might differentiate children with frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) from children with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Participants included 19 youth with intractable FLE and 47 youth with intractable TLE. Participants completed the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), verbal fluency, Trail Making Test (Trails A and B), Digit Span Forward (DSF), and Digit Span Backward (DSB). When compared to the normative sample, the FLE group performed significantly worse on DSF, DSB, Trails B, and the WCST. Similarly, the TLE group performed significantly worse on DSF and DSB compared to the normative sample. Youth with FLE had significantly greater difficulty on the WCST compared to the TLE group. Overall, the results indicated that youth with FLE had significantly greater difficulty with concept formation compared to children with TLE. No differences between groups emerged on tasks assessing attention, working memory, mental flexibility, or rapid word retrieval. Both groups performed significantly below the normative sample levels on attention and working memory tasks. As a whole, it appears that some, although not all, executive dysfunction is specific to FLE.
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- Carmelinda A Longo
- Department of Psychology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8
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Scimeca JM, Badre D. Striatal contributions to declarative memory retrieval. Neuron 2012; 75:380-92. [PMID: 22884322 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Declarative memory is known to depend on the medial temporal lobe memory system. Recently, there has been renewed focus on the relationship between the basal ganglia and declarative memory, including the involvement of striatum. However, the contribution of striatum to declarative memory retrieval remains unknown. Here, we review neuroimaging and neuropsychological evidence for the involvement of the striatum in declarative memory retrieval. From this review, we propose that, along with the prefrontal cortex (PFC), the striatum primarily supports cognitive control of memory retrieval. We conclude by proposing three hypotheses for the specific role of striatum in retrieval: (1) striatum modulates the re-encoding of retrieved items in accord with their expected utility (adaptive encoding), (2) striatum selectively admits information into working memory that is expected to increase the likelihood of successful retrieval (adaptive gating), and (3) striatum enacts adjustments in cognitive control based on the outcome of retrieval (reinforcement learning).
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- Jason M Scimeca
- Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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Cognitive flexibility is known to depend on the striatum. However, the striatum does not act in isolation to bias cognitive flexibility. In particular, cognitive flexibility also implicates the frontal cortex. Here we tested the hypothesis that the human frontal cortex controls cognitive flexibility by regulating striatal function via topographically specific frontostriatal connections. To this end, we exploited a repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) protocol over frontal cortex that is known to increase dopamine release in the striatum. This intervention was combined with functional magnetic resonance imaging to determine the functional and topographic specificity of its consequences at the whole brain level. Participants were scanned both before and after off-line TMS while performing a cognitive switching task that is known to depend on a specific striatal substructure, the putamen. Frontal stimulation perturbed task-specific functional signals in the putamen, while reducing fronto-striatal functional connectivity. There were no such effects of TMS over the medial parietal cortex. These data strengthen the hypothesis that cognitive flexibility involves topographic frontal control of striatal function.
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Kompus K, Specht K, Ersland L, Juvodden HT, van Wageningen H, Hugdahl K, Westerhausen R. A forced-attention dichotic listening fMRI study on 113 subjects. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2012; 121:240-247. [PMID: 22494771 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2011] [Revised: 03/06/2012] [Accepted: 03/13/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We report fMRI and behavioral data from 113 subjects on attention and cognitive control using a variant of the classic dichotic listening paradigm with pairwise presentations of consonant-vowel syllables. The syllable stimuli were presented in a block-design while subjects were in the MR scanner. The subjects were instructed to pay attention to and report either the left or right ear stimulus. The hypothesis was that paying attention to the left ear stimulus (FL condition) induces a cognitive conflict, requiring cognitive control processes, not seen when paying attention to the right ear stimulus (FR condition), due to the perceptual salience of the right ear stimulus in a dichotic situation. The FL condition resulted in distinct activations in the left inferior prefrontal gyrus and caudate nucleus, while the right inferior frontal gyrus and caudate were activated in both the FL and FR conditions, and in a non-instructed (NF) baseline condition.
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- Kristiina Kompus
- Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
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Dang LC, Donde A, Madison C, O'Neil JP, Jagust WJ. Striatal dopamine influences the default mode network to affect shifting between object features. J Cogn Neurosci 2012; 24:1960-70. [PMID: 22640392 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Cognitive flexibility or the ability to change behavior in response to external cues is conceptualized as two processes: one for shifting between perceptual features of objects and another for shifting between the abstract rules governing the selection of these objects. Object and rule shifts are believed to engage distinct anatomical structures and functional processes. Dopamine activity has been associated with cognitive flexibility, but patients with dopaminergic deficits are not impaired on all tasks assessing cognitive flexibility, suggesting that dopamine may have different roles in the shifting of objects and rules. The goals of this study were to identify brain regions supporting object and rule shifts and to examine the role of dopamine in modulating these two forms of cognitive flexibility. Sixteen young, healthy volunteers underwent fMRI while performing a set-shift task designed to differentiate shifting between object features from shifting between abstract task rules. Participants also underwent PET with 6-[¹⁸F]-fluoro-l-m-tyrosine (FMT), a radiotracer measuring dopamine synthesis capacity. Shifts of abstract rules were not associated with activation in any brain region, and FMT uptake did not correlate with rule shift performance. Shifting between object features deactivated the medial PFC and the posterior cingulate and activated the lateral PFC, posterior parietal areas, and the striatum. FMT signal in the striatum correlated negatively with object shift performance and deactivation in the medial PFC, a component of the default mode network, suggesting that dopamine influences object shifts via modulation of activity in the default mode network.
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- Linh C Dang
- University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Neuroimaging evidence for processes underlying repetition of ignored stimuli. PLoS One 2012; 7:e36089. [PMID: 22563478 PMCID: PMC3341391 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2011] [Accepted: 03/29/2012] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Prolonged response times are observed with targets having been presented as distractors immediately before, called negative priming effect. Among others, inhibitory and retrieval processes have been suggested underlying this behavioral effect. As those processes would involve different neural activation patterns, a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study including 28 subjects was conducted. Two tasks were used to investigate stimulus repetition effects. One task focused on target location, the other on target identity. Both tasks are known to elicit the expected response time effects. However, there is less agreement about the relationship of those tasks with the explanatory accounts under consideration. Based on within-subject comparisons we found clear differences between the experimental repetition conditions and the neutral control condition on neural level for both tasks. Hemodynamic fronto-striatal activation patterns occurred for the location-based task favoring the selective inhibition account. Hippocampal activation found for the identity-based task suggests an assignment to the retrieval account; however, this task lacked a behavioral effect.
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Voss MW, Prakash RS, Erickson KI, Boot WR, Basak C, Neider MB, Simons DJ, Fabiani M, Gratton G, Kramer AF. Effects of training strategies implemented in a complex videogame on functional connectivity of attentional networks. Neuroimage 2012; 59:138-48. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2010] [Revised: 03/17/2011] [Accepted: 03/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Mutha PK, Sainburg RL, Haaland KY. Critical neural substrates for correcting unexpected trajectory errors and learning from them. Brain 2011; 134:3647-61. [PMID: 22075071 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Our proficiency at any skill is critically dependent on the ability to monitor our performance, correct errors and adapt subsequent movements so that errors are avoided in the future. In this study, we aimed to dissociate the neural substrates critical for correcting unexpected trajectory errors and learning to adapt future movements based on those errors. Twenty stroke patients with focal damage to frontal or parietal regions in the left or right brain hemispheres and 20 healthy controls performed a task in which a novel mapping between actual hand motion and its visual feedback was introduced. Only patients with frontal damage in the right hemisphere failed to correct for this discrepancy during the ongoing movement. However, these patients were able to adapt to the distortion such that their movement direction on subsequent trials improved. In contrast, only patients with parietal damage in the left hemisphere showed a clear deficit in movement adaptation, but not in online correction. Left frontal or right parietal damage did not adversely impact upon either process. Our findings thus identify, for the first time, distinct and lateralized neural substrates critical for correcting unexpected errors during ongoing movements and error-based movement adaptation.
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- Pratik K Mutha
- NM VA Healthcare System, Research Service 151, 1501 San Pedro Dr SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108, USA.
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