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Wang Z, Rodriguez-Moreno DV, Cycowicz YM, Amsel LV, Cheslack-Postava K, He X, Ryan M, Geronazzo-Alman L, Musa GJ, Bisaga A, Hoven CW. Shapes of subcortical structures in adolescents with and without familial history of substance use disorder. Hum Brain Mapp 2022; 43:2759-2770. [PMID: 35393707 PMCID: PMC9120549 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
It has been suggested that intergenerational transmission of risk for substance use disorder (SUD) manifests in the brain anatomy of substance naïve adolescents. While volume and shapes of subcortical structures (SSS) have been shown to be heritable, these structures, especially the pallidum, putamen, nucleus accumbens, and hippocampus, have also been associated with substance use disorders. However, it is not clear if those anatomical differences precede substance use or are the result of that use. Therefore, we examined if volume and SSS of adolescents with a family history (FH+) of SUD differed from adolescents without such a history (FH−). Because risk for SUD is associated with anxiety and impulsivity, we also examined correlations between these psychological characteristics and volume/SSS. Using structural MRI and FSL software, we segmented subcortical structures and obtained indices of SSS and volumes of 64 FH+ and 58 FH− adolescents. We examined group differences in volume and SSS, and the correlations between volume/SSS and trait anxiety and impulsivity. FH+ adolescents had a significant inward deformation in the shape of the right anterior hippocampus compared to FH− adolescents, while the volume of this structure did not differ between groups. Neither shape nor volume of the other subcortical structures differed between groups. In the FH+ adolescents, the left hippocampus shape was positively correlated with both trait anxiety and impulsivity, while in FH− adolescents a negative correlation pattern of SSS was seen in the hippocampus. SSS appears to capture local anatomical features that traditional volumetric analysis does not. The inward shape deformation in the right anterior hippocampus in FH+ adolescents may be related to the known increased risk for behavioral dysregulation leading to SUD in FH+ offspring. Hippocampus shape also exhibits opposite patterns of correlation with anxiety and impulsivity scores across the FH+ and FH− adolescents. These novel findings may reveal neural correlates, not captured by traditional volumetric analysis, of familial transmission of increased vulnerability to SUD.
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Affiliation(s)
- Zhishun Wang
- The Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- The Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- The Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- The Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- The Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- The Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- The Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- The Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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- The Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- The Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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Rodriguez-Moreno DV, Cycowicz YM, Figner B, Wang Z, He X, Geronazzo-Alman L, Sun X, Cheslack-Postava K, Bisaga A, Hoven CW, Amsel LV. Delay discounting and neurocognitive correlates among inner city adolescents with and without family history of substance use disorder. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2021; 48:100942. [PMID: 33751954 PMCID: PMC8010627 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2020] [Revised: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Adolescents with a family history (FH+) of substance use disorder (SUD) are at a greater risk for SUD, suggested to be partly due to the transmission of behavioral impulsivity. We used a delay discounting task to compare impulsivity in decision-making and its associated brain functioning among FH+ and FH - minority adolescents. Participants chose between Smaller Sooner (SS) and Larger Later (LL) rewards. The SS was available immediately (Now trials) or in the future (Not-Now trials), allowing for greater differentiation between impulsive decisions. The FH+ group showed greater impatience by responding SS more frequently than the FH - group, only on the Now trials, and even when the relative reward differences (RRD) increased. Surprisingly, there were no differences in brain activity between the groups. Combined, the groups showed greater reward activity during the Now vs. Not-Now trials in medial prefrontal/anterior cingulate, posterior cingulate, precuneus, and inferior frontal gyrus (i.e., an immediacy effect). As the RRD increased activation in the reward network decreased, including the striatum, possibly reflecting easy decision-making. These results indicate that risk for SUD, seen behaviorally among FH+ adolescents, may not yet be associated with discernable brain changes, suggesting that early intervention has the potential to reduce this risk.
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
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- Behavioural Science Institute and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States; Department of Bioengineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, United States; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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Tervo-Clemmens B, Quach A, Calabro FJ, Foran W, Luna B. Meta-analysis and review of functional neuroimaging differences underlying adolescent vulnerability to substance use. Neuroimage 2020; 209:116476. [PMID: 31875520 PMCID: PMC7992390 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2019] [Revised: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Adolescence is increasingly viewed as a sensitive period in the development of substance use disorders (SUDs). Neurodevelopmental 'dual-risk' theories suggest adolescent vulnerability to problematic substance use is driven by an overactive reward drive mediated by the striatum, and poor cognitive control mediated by the prefrontal cortex. To this end, there has been a growing number of neuroimaging studies examining cognitive and affective neural systems during adolescence for markers of vulnerability to problematic substance use. Here, we perform a coordinate-based meta-analysis on this emerging literature. Twenty-two task-based voxelwise fMRI studies with activation differences associated with substance use vulnerability, representative of approximately 1092 subjects, were identified through a systematic literature search (PubMed, Scopus) and coordinates of activation differences (N = 190) were extracted. Adolescents were defined as 'at-risk' for problematic substance use based on a family history of SUD or through prospective prediction of substance use initiation or escalation. Multilevel kernel density analysis was used to identify the most consistent brain regions associated with adolescent substance use vulnerability. Across the included studies, substance use vulnerability was most reliably associated with activation differences in the striatum, where at-risk adolescents had hyper-activation in the dorsal subdivision (putamen). Follow-up analyses suggested striatal differences were driven by tasks sharing a motivational and/or reward component (e.g., monetary incentive) and common across subgroups of substance use risk (family history and prospective prediction studies). Analyses examining the role of psychiatric comorbidity revealed striatal activation differences were significantly more common in samples whose definition of substance use risk included cooccurring externalizing psychopathology. Furthermore, substance use risk meta-analytic results were no longer significant when excluding these studies, although this may reflect limitations in statistical power. No significant activation differences were observed in prefrontal cortex in any analysis. These results suggest striatal dysfunction, rather than prefrontal, may be a more primary neural feature of adolescent vulnerability to problematic substance use, possibly through a dimension of individual variability shared with externalizing psychopathology. However, our systematic literature search confirms this is still an emerging field. More studies, increased data sharing, and further quantitative integration are necessary for a comprehensive understanding of the neuroimaging markers of adolescent substance use risk.
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Affiliation(s)
- Brenden Tervo-Clemmens
- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, United States; Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, United States.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, United States
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- Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, United States; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, United States; Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, United States; Center for Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, United States; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, United States
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Hu S, Zhang S, Chao HH, Krystal JH, Li CSR. Association of Drinking Problems and Duration of Alcohol Use to Inhibitory Control in Nondependent Young Adult Social Drinkers. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2016; 40:319-28. [PMID: 26833431 DOI: 10.1111/acer.12964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Deficits in inhibitory control have been widely implicated in alcohol misuse. However, the literature does not readily distinguish the effects of drinking problems and chronic alcohol use. Here, we examined how years of drinking and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) score each influences the cerebral responses to inhibitory control in nondependent drinkers. METHODS Fifty-seven adult drinkers and 57 age- and gender-matched nondrinkers participated in one 40-minute functional magnetic resonance imaging scan of the stop signal task. Data were preprocessed and modeled using SPM8. In a regression model, we contrasted stop and go success trials for individuals and examined activities of response inhibition each in link with the AUDIT score and years of alcohol use in group analyses. We specified the effects of duration of use by contrasting regional activations of drinkers and age-related changes in nondrinkers. In mediation analyses, we investigated how regional activities mediate the relationship between drinking problems and response inhibition. RESULTS Higher AUDIT score but not years of drinking was positively correlated with prolonged stop signal reaction time (SSRT) and diminished responses in the cerebellum, thalamus, frontal and parietal regions, independent of years of alcohol use. Further, activity of the thalamus, anterior cingulate cortex, and presupplementary motor area significantly mediates the association, bidirectionally, between the AUDIT score and SSRT. The duration of alcohol use was associated with decreased activation in the right inferior frontal gyrus extending to superior temporal gyrus, which was not observed for age-related changes in nondrinkers. CONCLUSIONS The results distinguished the association of drinking problems and years of alcohol use to inhibitory control in young adult nondependent drinkers. These new findings extend the imaging literature of alcohol misuse and may have implications for treatment to prevent the escalation from social to dependent drinking. More research is needed to confirm age-independent neural correlates of years of alcohol use.
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- Sien Hu
- Department of Psychiatry , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychiatry , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Internal Medicine , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.,Medical Service , VA Connecticut Health Care Systems, West Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychiatry , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.,Department of Neurobiology , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.,Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Psychiatry , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.,Department of Neurobiology , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.,Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program , Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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