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Gage AT, Stone JR, Wilde EA, McCauley SR, Welsh RC, Mugler JP, Tustison N, Avants B, Whitlow CT, Lancashire L, Bhatt SD, Haas M. Normative Neuroimaging Library: Designing a Comprehensive and Demographically Diverse Dataset of Healthy Controls to Support Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnostic and Therapeutic Development. J Neurotrauma 2024. [PMID: 39235436 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2024.0128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/06/2024] Open
Abstract
The past decade has seen impressive advances in neuroimaging, moving from qualitative to quantitative outputs. Available techniques now allow for the inference of microscopic changes occurring in white and gray matter, along with alterations in physiology and function. These existing and emerging techniques hold the potential of providing unprecedented capabilities in achieving a diagnosis and predicting outcomes for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and a variety of other neurological diseases. To see this promise move from the research lab into clinical care, an understanding is needed of what normal data look like for all age ranges, sex, and other demographic and socioeconomic categories. Clinicians can only use the results of imaging scans to support their decision-making if they know how the results for their patient compare with a normative standard. This potential for utilizing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in TBI diagnosis motivated the American College of Radiology and Cohen Veterans Bioscience to create a reference database of healthy individuals with neuroimaging, demographic data, and characterization of psychological functioning and neurocognitive data that will serve as a normative resource for clinicians and researchers for development of diagnostics and therapeutics for TBI and other brain disorders. The goal of this article is to introduce the large, well-curated Normative Neuroimaging Library (NNL) to the research community. NNL consists of data collected from ∼1900 healthy participants. The highlights of NNL are (1) data are collected across a diverse population, including civilians, veterans, and active-duty service members with an age range (18-64 years) not well represented in existing datasets; (2) comprehensive structural and functional neuroimaging acquisition with state-of-the-art sequences (including structural, diffusion, and functional MRI; raw scanner data are preserved, allowing higher quality data to be derived in the future; standardized imaging acquisition protocols across sites reflect sequences and parameters often recommended for use with various neurological and psychiatric conditions, including TBI, post-traumatic stress disorder, stroke, neurodegenerative disorders, and neoplastic disease); and (3) the collection of comprehensive demographic details, medical history, and a broad structured clinical assessment, including cognition and psychological scales, relevant to multiple neurological conditions with functional sequelae. Thus, NNL provides a demographically diverse population of healthy individuals who can serve as a comparison group for brain injury study and clinical samples, providing a strong foundation for precision medicine. Use cases include the creation of imaging-derived phenotypes (IDPs), derivation of reference ranges of imaging measures, and use of IDPs as training samples for artificial intelligence-based biomarker development and for normative modeling to help identify injury-induced changes as outliers for precision diagnosis and targeted therapeutic development. On its release, NNL is poised to support the use of advanced imaging in clinician decision support tools, the validation of imaging biomarkers, and the investigation of brain-behavior anomalies, moving the field toward precision medicine.
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- George E. Wahlen VA, Salt Lake City Healthcare System, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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- Cohen Veterans Bioscience, New York, New York, USA
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Vickery S, Patil KR, Dahnke R, Hopkins WD, Sherwood CC, Caspers S, Eickhoff SB, Hoffstaedter F. The uniqueness of human vulnerability to brain aging in great ape evolution. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eado2733. [PMID: 39196942 PMCID: PMC11352902 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado2733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 07/24/2024] [Indexed: 08/30/2024]
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Aging is associated with progressive gray matter loss in the brain. This spatially specific, morphological change over the life span in humans is also found in chimpanzees, and the comparison between these great ape species provides a unique evolutionary perspective on human brain aging. Here, we present a data-driven, comparative framework to explore the relationship between gray matter atrophy with age and recent cerebral expansion in the phylogeny of chimpanzees and humans. In humans, we show a positive relationship between cerebral aging and cortical expansion, whereas no such relationship was found in chimpanzees. This human-specific association between strong aging effects and large relative cortical expansion is particularly present in higher-order cognitive regions of the ventral prefrontal cortex and supports the "last-in-first-out" hypothesis for brain maturation in recent evolutionary development of human faculties.
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- Sam Vickery
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Division of Physiotherapy, Department of Applied Health Sciences, Hochschule für Gesundheit (University of Applied Sciences), Bochum, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Structural Brain Mapping Group, Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
- Structural Brain Mapping Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, TX, USA
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- Department of Anthropology and Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute for Anatomy I, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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Li X, Hao Z, Li D, Jin Q, Tang Z, Yao X, Wu T. Brain Age Prediction via Cross-stratified Ensemble Learning. Neuroimage 2024; 299:120825. [PMID: 39214438 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2024] [Revised: 08/06/2024] [Accepted: 08/28/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024] Open
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As an important biomarker of neural aging, the brain age reflects the integrity and health of the human brain. Accurate prediction of brain age could help to understand the underlying mechanism of neural aging. In this study, a cross-stratified ensemble learning algorithm with staking strategy was proposed to obtain brain age and the derived predicted age difference (PAD) using T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. The approach was characterized as by implementing two modules: one was three base learners of 3D-DenseNet, 3D-ResNeXt, 3D-Inception-v4; another was 14 secondary learners of liner regressions. To evaluate performance, our method was compared with single base learners, regular ensemble learning algorithms, and state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods. The results demonstrated that our proposed model outperformed others models, with three metrics of mean absolute error (MAE), root mean-squared error (RMSE), and coefficient of determination (R2) of 2.9405 years, 3.9458 years, and 0.9597, respectively. Furthermore, there existed significant differences in PAD among the three groups of normal control (NC), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), with an increased trend across NC, MCI, and AD. It was concluded that the proposed algorithm could be effectively used in computing brain aging and PAD, and offering potential for early diagnosis and assessment of normal brain aging and AD.
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- Xinlin Li
- College of Medical Imaging, Jiading District Central Hospital Affiliated Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai 201318, China; School of Health Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- College of Medical Imaging, Jiading District Central Hospital Affiliated Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai 201318, China; School of Health Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- College of Medical Imaging, Jiading District Central Hospital Affiliated Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai 201318, China; School of Health Science and Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
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- Digital Medical Research Center, School of Basic Medical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- College of Medical Imaging, Jiading District Central Hospital Affiliated Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai 201318, China
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- College of Medical Imaging, Jiading District Central Hospital Affiliated Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai 201318, China.
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- College of Medical Imaging, Jiading District Central Hospital Affiliated Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai 201318, China
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Rubbert C, Wolf L, Vach M, Ivan VL, Hedderich DM, Gaser C, Dahnke R, Caspers J. Normal cohorts in automated brain atrophy estimation: how many healthy subjects to include? Eur Radiol 2024; 34:5276-5286. [PMID: 38189981 PMCID: PMC11255074 DOI: 10.1007/s00330-023-10522-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/25/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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OBJECTIVES This study investigates the influence of normal cohort (NC) size and the impact of different NCs on automated MRI-based brain atrophy estimation. METHODS A pooled NC of 3945 subjects (NCpool) was retrospectively created from five publicly available cohorts. Voxel-wise gray matter volume atrophy maps were calculated for 48 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients (55-82 years) using veganbagel and dynamic normal templates with an increasing number of healthy subjects randomly drawn from NCpool (initially three, and finally 100 subjects). Over 100 repeats of the process, the mean over a voxel-wise standard deviation of gray matter z-scores was established and plotted against the number of subjects in the templates. The knee point of these curves was defined as the minimum number of subjects required for consistent brain atrophy estimation. Atrophy maps were calculated using each NC for AD patients and matched healthy controls (HC). Two readers rated the extent of mesiotemporal atrophy to discriminate AD/HC. RESULTS The maximum knee point was at 15 subjects. For 21 AD/21 HC, a sufficient number of subjects were available in each NC for validation. Readers agreed on the AD diagnosis in all cases (Kappa for the extent of atrophy, 0.98). No differences in diagnoses between NCs were observed (intraclass correlation coefficient, 0.91; Cochran's Q, p = 0.19). CONCLUSION At least 15 subjects should be included in age- and sex-specific normal templates for consistent brain atrophy estimation. In the study's context, qualitative interpretation of regional atrophy allows reliable AD diagnosis with a high inter-reader agreement, irrespective of the NC used. CLINICAL RELEVANCE STATEMENT The influence of normal cohorts (NCs) on automated brain atrophy estimation, typically comparing individual scans to NCs, remains largely unexplored. Our study establishes the minimum number of NC-subjects needed and demonstrates minimal impact of different NCs on regional atrophy estimation. KEY POINTS • Software-based brain atrophy estimation often relies on normal cohorts for comparisons. • At least 15 subjects must be included in an age- and sex-specific normal cohort. • Using different normal cohorts does not influence regional atrophy estimation.
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- Christian Rubbert
- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, D-81675, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, D-07745, Jena, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, D-07745, Jena, Germany
- German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Jena, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, D-07745, Jena, Germany
- Department of Neurology, Jena University Hospital, D-07745, Jena, Germany
- German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Jena, Germany
- Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Park S, Haak KV, Oldham S, Cho H, Byeon K, Park BY, Thomson P, Chen H, Gao W, Xu T, Valk S, Milham MP, Bernhardt B, Di Martino A, Hong SJ. A shifting role of thalamocortical connectivity in the emergence of cortical functional organization. Nat Neurosci 2024; 27:1609-1619. [PMID: 38858608 DOI: 10.1038/s41593-024-01679-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/13/2024] [Indexed: 06/12/2024]
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The cortical patterning principle has been a long-standing question in neuroscience, yet how this translates to macroscale functional specialization in the human brain remains largely unknown. Here we examine age-dependent differences in resting-state thalamocortical connectivity to investigate its role in the emergence of large-scale functional networks during early life, using a primarily cross-sectional but also longitudinal approach. We show that thalamocortical connectivity during infancy reflects an early differentiation of sensorimotor networks and genetically influenced axonal projection. This pattern changes in childhood, when connectivity is established with the salience network, while decoupling externally and internally oriented functional systems. A developmental simulation using generative network models corroborated these findings, demonstrating that thalamic connectivity contributes to developing key features of the mature brain, such as functional segregation and the sensory-association axis, especially across 12-18 years of age. Our study suggests that the thalamus plays an important role in functional specialization during development, with potential implications for studying conditions with compromised internal and external processing.
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- Shinwon Park
- Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, Korea
- Autism Center, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
- Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Radboud, The Netherlands
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- Developmental Imaging, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, Korea
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- Center for Integrative Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, Korea
- Department of Data Science, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Center for Integrative Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Brain and Behavior, Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany
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- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA
- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Suwon, Korea.
- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea.
- Department of Intelligent Precision Healthcare Convergence, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea.
- Department of MetaBioHealth, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea.
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Bolt T, Wang S, Nomi JS, Setton R, Gold BP, Frederick BD, Yeo BTT, Chen JJ, Picchioni D, Spreng RN, Keilholz SD, Uddin LQ, Chang C. Widespread Autonomic Physiological Coupling Across the Brain-Body Axis. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.01.19.524818. [PMID: 39131291 PMCID: PMC11312447 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.19.524818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/13/2024]
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The brain is closely attuned to visceral signals from the body's internal environment, as evidenced by the numerous associations between neural, hemodynamic, and peripheral physiological signals. We show that these brain-body co-fluctuations can be captured by a single spatiotemporal pattern. Across several independent samples, as well as single-echo and multi-echo fMRI data acquisition sequences, we identify widespread co-fluctuations in the low-frequency range (0.01 - 0.1 Hz) between resting-state global fMRI signals, neural activity, and a host of autonomic signals spanning cardiovascular, pulmonary, exocrine and smooth muscle systems. The same brain-body co-fluctuations observed at rest are elicited by arousal induced by cued deep breathing and intermittent sensory stimuli, as well as spontaneous phasic EEG events during sleep. Further, we show that the spatial structure of global fMRI signals is maintained under experimental suppression of end-tidal carbon dioxide (PETCO2) variations, suggesting that respiratory-driven fluctuations in arterial CO2 accompanying arousal cannot explain the origin of these signals in the brain. These findings establish the global fMRI signal as a significant component of the arousal response governed by the autonomic nervous system.
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- Taylor Bolt
- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Brain Imaging Center McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Centre for Translational MR Research, Centre for Sleep & Cognition, N.1 Institute for Health and Institute for Digital Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Advanced MRI Section, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health; Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
- Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Breton E, Khundrakpam B, Jeon S, Evans A, Booij L. Cortical thickness and childhood eating behaviors: differences according to sex and age, and relevance for eating disorders. Eat Weight Disord 2024; 29:47. [PMID: 39028377 PMCID: PMC11271398 DOI: 10.1007/s40519-024-01675-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2022] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024] Open
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PURPOSE This study investigated the association between childhood eating behaviors and cortical morphology, in relation to sex and age, in a community sample. METHODS Neuroimaging data of 71 children (mean age = 9.9 ± 1.4 years; 39 boys/32 girls) were obtained from the Nathan Kline Institute-Rockland Sample. Emotional overeating, food fussiness, and emotional undereating were assessed using the Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire. Cortical thickness was obtained at 81,924 vertices covering the entire cortex. Generalized Linear Mixed Models were used for statistical analysis. RESULTS There was a significant effect of sex in the association between cortical thickness and emotional overeating (localized at the right postcentral and bilateral superior parietal gyri). Boys with more emotional overeating presented cortical thickening, whereas the opposite was observed in girls (p < 0.05). Different patterns of association were identified between food fussiness and cortical thickness (p < 0.05). The left rostral middle frontal gyrus displayed a positive correlation with food fussiness from 6 to 8 years, but a negative correlation from 12 to 14 years. Emotional undereating was associated with cortical thickening at the left precuneus, left middle temporal gyrus, and left insula (p < 0.05) with no effect of sex or age. CONCLUSIONS Leveraging on a community sample, findings support distinct patterns of associations between eating behaviors and cortical thickness, depending on sex and age.
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- Edith Breton
- Department of Fundamental Sciences, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Saguenay, Canada
- Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre, Montreal, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Department of Neurology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre, Montreal, Canada.
- Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, Canada.
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
- Eating Disorders Continuum, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, 6605 Boul. LaSalle, Verdun, H4H1R3, Canada.
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Tanner J, Faskowitz J, Teixeira AS, Seguin C, Coletta L, Gozzi A, Mišić B, Betzel RF. A multi-modal, asymmetric, weighted, and signed description of anatomical connectivity. Nat Commun 2024; 15:5865. [PMID: 38997282 PMCID: PMC11245624 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50248-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/14/2024] Open
Abstract
The macroscale connectome is the network of physical, white-matter tracts between brain areas. The connections are generally weighted and their values interpreted as measures of communication efficacy. In most applications, weights are either assigned based on imaging features-e.g. diffusion parameters-or inferred using statistical models. In reality, the ground-truth weights are unknown, motivating the exploration of alternative edge weighting schemes. Here, we explore a multi-modal, regression-based model that endows reconstructed fiber tracts with directed and signed weights. We find that the model fits observed data well, outperforming a suite of null models. The estimated weights are subject-specific and highly reliable, even when fit using relatively few training samples, and the networks maintain a number of desirable features. In summary, we offer a simple framework for weighting connectome data, demonstrating both its ease of implementation while benchmarking its utility for typical connectome analyses, including graph theoretic modeling and brain-behavior associations.
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- Jacob Tanner
- Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
- School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- LASIGE, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Functional Neuroimaging Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems, Rovereto, Italy
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montréal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
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- Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
- School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
- Program in Neuroscience, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
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Pathak A, Menon SN, Sinha S. A hierarchy index for networks in the brain reveals a complex entangled organizational structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2314291121. [PMID: 38923990 PMCID: PMC11228506 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2314291121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Networks involved in information processing often have their nodes arranged hierarchically, with the majority of connections occurring in adjacent levels. However, despite being an intuitively appealing concept, the hierarchical organization of large networks, such as those in the brain, is difficult to identify, especially in absence of additional information beyond that provided by the connectome. In this paper, we propose a framework to uncover the hierarchical structure of a given network, that identifies the nodes occupying each level as well as the sequential order of the levels. It involves optimizing a metric that we use to quantify the extent of hierarchy present in a network. Applying this measure to various brain networks, ranging from the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to the human connectome, we unexpectedly find that they exhibit a common network architectural motif intertwining hierarchy and modularity. This suggests that brain networks may have evolved to simultaneously exploit the functional advantages of these two types of organizations, viz., relatively independent modules performing distributed processing in parallel and a hierarchical structure that allows sequential pooling of these multiple processing streams. An intriguing possibility is that this property we report may be common to information processing networks in general.
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- Anand Pathak
- The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai 400 094, India
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- The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India
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- The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai 400 094, India
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Yang Z, Li A, Roske C, Alexander N, Gabbay V. Personality traits as predictors of depression across the lifespan. J Affect Disord 2024; 356:274-283. [PMID: 38537757 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.03.073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2024] [Accepted: 03/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/18/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Depression is a major public health concern. A barrier for research has been the heterogeneous nature of depression, complicated by the categorical diagnosis of depression which is based on a cluster of symptoms, each with its own etiology. To address the multifactorial etiology of depression and its high comorbidity with anxiety, we aimed to examine the relations between personality traits, diverse behavioral, cognitive and physical measures, and depression and anxiety over the lifespan. METHOD Our sample was drawn from the NKI-RS, a community-based lifespan sample (N = 1494 participants aged 6 to 85). Analyses included multivariate approach and general linear models for group comparisons and dimensional analyses, respectively. A machine learning model was trained to predict depression using many factors including personality traits. RESULTS Depression and anxiety were both characterized by increased neuroticism and introversion, but did not differ between themselves. Comorbidity had an additive effect on personality vulnerability. Dimensionally, depression was only associated with personality in adolescence, where it was positively correlated with neuroticism, and negatively correlated with extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. The relationship between anxiety and personality changed over time, with neuroticism and conscientiousness being the most salient traits. Our machine learning model predicted depression with 70 % accuracy with neuroticism and extraversion contributing most. LIMITATIONS Due to the cross-sectional design, conclusions cannot be drawn about causal relationships between personality and depression. CONCLUSION These results underscore the impact of personality on depressive disorders and provide novel insights on how personality contributes to depression across the lifespan.
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- Zhen Yang
- The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA
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- Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Systems Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
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- The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY 10962, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
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Lewis JD, Imani V, Tohka J. Intelligence and cortical morphometry: caveats in brain-behavior associations. Brain Struct Funct 2024; 229:1417-1432. [PMID: 38795129 PMCID: PMC11176253 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-024-02792-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/27/2024]
Abstract
It is well-established that brain size is associated with intelligence. But the relationship between cortical morphometric measures and intelligence is unclear. Studies have produced conflicting results or no significant relations between intelligence and cortical morphometric measures such as cortical thickness and peri-cortical contrast. This discrepancy may be due to multicollinearity amongst the independent variables in a multivariate regression analysis, or a failure to fully account for the relationship between brain size and intelligence in some other way. Our study shows that neither cortical thickness nor peri-cortical contrast reliably improves IQ prediction accuracy beyond what is achieved with brain volume alone. We show this in multiple datasets, with child data, developmental data, and with adult data; we show this with data acquired either at multiple sites, or at a single site; we show this with data acquired with different MRI scanner manufacturers, or with all data acquired on a single scanner; and we show this with fluid intelligence, full-scale IQ, performance IQ, and verbal IQ. But our point is not really even about IQ; rather we proffer a methodological caveat and potential explanation of the discrepancies in previous results, and which applies broadly.
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- John D Lewis
- Program in Neuroscience and Mental Health, The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G1X8, Canada
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- A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Neulaniementie 2, 70210, Kuopio, Finland
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- A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Neulaniementie 2, 70210, Kuopio, Finland.
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Janssen J, Gallego AG, Díaz-Caneja CM, Lois NG, Janssen N, González-Peñas J, Gordaliza PM, Buimer EE, van Haren NE, Arango C, Kahn RS, Hulshoff Pol HE, Schnack HG. Heterogeneity of morphometric similarity networks in health and schizophrenia. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.26.586768. [PMID: 38948832 PMCID: PMC11212887 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.26.586768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/02/2024]
Abstract
Introduction Morphometric similarity is a recently developed neuroimaging phenotype of inter-regional connectivity by quantifying the similarity of a region to other regions based on multiple MRI parameters. Altered average morphometric similarity has been reported in psychotic disorders at the group level, with considerable heterogeneity across individuals. We used normative modeling to address cross-sectional and longitudinal inter-individual heterogeneity of morphometric similarity in health and schizophrenia. Methods Morphometric similarity for 62 cortical regions was obtained from baseline and follow-up T1-weighted scans of healthy individuals and patients with chronic schizophrenia. Cortical regions were classified into seven predefined brain functional networks. Using Bayesian Linear Regression and taking into account age, sex, image quality and scanner, we trained and validated normative models in healthy controls from eleven datasets (n = 4310). Individual deviations from the norm (z-scores) in morphometric similarity were computed for each participant for each network and region at both timepoints. A z-score ≧ than 1.96 was considered supra-normal and a z-score ≦ -1.96 infra-normal. As a longitudinal metric, we calculated the change over time of the total number of infra- or supra-normal regions per participant. Results At baseline, patients with schizophrenia had decreased morphometric similarity of the default mode network and increased morphometric similarity of the somatomotor network when compared with healthy controls. The percentage of patients with infra- or supra-normal values for any region at baseline and follow-up was low (<6%) and did not differ from healthy controls. Mean intra-group changes over time in the total number of infra- or supra-normal regions were small in schizophrenia and healthy control groups (<1) and there were no significant between-group differences. Conclusions In a case-control setting, a decrease of morphometric similarity within the default mode network may be a robust finding implicated in schizophrenia. However, normative modeling suggests that significant reductions and changes over time of regional morphometric similarity are evident only in a minority of patients.
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- Joost Janssen
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain
- Ciber del Área de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain
- Ciber del Área de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- Institute of Neurosciences, Universidad de la Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain
- Ciber del Área de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Radiology Department, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMCU Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMCU Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain
- Ciber del Área de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
- School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMCU Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMCU Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, UMCU Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Küppers V, Bi H, Nicolaisen-Sobesky E, Hoffstaedter F, Yeo BT, Drzezga A, Eickhoff SB, Tahmasian M. Lower motor performance is linked with poor sleep quality, depressive symptoms, and grey matter volume alterations. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.07.597666. [PMID: 38895316 PMCID: PMC11185664 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.07.597666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
Abstract
Motor performance (MP) is essential for functional independence and well-being, particularly in later life. However, the relationship between behavioural aspects such as sleep quality and depressive symptoms, which contribute to MP, and the underlying structural brain substrates of their interplay remains unclear. This study used three population-based cohorts of younger and older adults (n=1,950) from the Human Connectome Project-Young Adult (HCP-YA), HCP-Aging (HCP-A), and enhanced Nathan Kline Institute-Rockland sample (eNKI-RS). Several canonical correlation analyses were computed within a machine learning framework to assess the associations between each of the three domains (sleep quality, depressive symptoms, grey matter volume (GMV)) and MP. The HCP-YA analyses showed progressively stronger associations between MP and each domain: depressive symptoms (unexpectedly positive, r=0.13, SD=0.06), sleep quality (r=0.17, SD=0.05), and GMV (r=0.19, SD=0.06). Combining sleep and depressive symptoms significantly improved the canonical correlations (r=0.25, SD=0.05), while the addition of GMV exhibited no further increase (r=0.23, SD=0.06). In young adults, better sleep quality, mild depressive symptoms, and GMV of several brain regions were associated with better MP. This was conceptually replicated in young adults from the eNKI-RS cohort. In HCP-Aging, better sleep quality, fewer depressive symptoms, and increased GMV were associated with MP. Robust multivariate associations were observed between sleep quality, depressive symptoms and GMV with MP, as well as age-related variations in these factors. Future studies should further explore these associations and consider interventions targeting sleep and mental health to test the potential effects on MP across the lifespan.
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- Vincent Küppers
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Centre for Sleep and Cognition & Centre for Translational MR Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- N.1 Institute for Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme (ISEP), National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, Human Potential Translational Research Programme & Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn-Cologne, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Molecular Organization of the Brain (INM-2), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital and Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Research Center Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Nenning KH, Xu T, Tambini A, Franco AR, Margulies DS, Colcombe SJ, Milham MP. Fast connectivity gradient approximation: maintaining spatially fine-grained connectivity gradients while reducing computational costs. Commun Biol 2024; 7:697. [PMID: 38844612 PMCID: PMC11156950 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06401-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024] Open
Abstract
Brain connectome analysis suffers from the high dimensionality of connectivity data, often forcing a reduced representation of the brain at a lower spatial resolution or parcellation. This is particularly true for graph-based representations, which are increasingly used to characterize connectivity gradients, capturing patterns of systematic spatial variation in the functional connectivity structure. However, maintaining a high spatial resolution is crucial for enabling fine-grained topographical analysis and preserving subtle individual differences that might otherwise be lost. Here we introduce a computationally efficient approach to establish spatially fine-grained connectivity gradients. At its core, it leverages a set of landmarks to approximate the underlying connectivity structure at the full spatial resolution without requiring a full-scale vertex-by-vertex connectivity matrix. We show that this approach reduces computational time and memory usage while preserving informative individual features and demonstrate its application in improving brain-behavior predictions. Overall, its efficiency can remove computational barriers and enable the widespread application of connectivity gradients to capture spatial signatures of the connectome. Importantly, maintaining a spatially fine-grained resolution facilitates to characterize the spatial transitions inherent in the core concept of gradients of brain organization.
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- Karl-Heinz Nenning
- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA.
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- Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
- New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
- Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA
- New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
- Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA
- New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
- Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA
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Hall LM, Moussa-Tooks AB, Sheffield JM. Associations between social engagement, internalizing symptoms, and delusional ideation in the general population. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2024; 59:989-1002. [PMID: 37624462 DOI: 10.1007/s00127-023-02540-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 07/30/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Delusions are a hallmark feature of psychotic disorders and lead to significant clinical and functional impairment. Internalizing symptoms-such as symptoms of depression, anxiety, and trauma exposure-are commonly cited to be related to delusions and delusional ideation and are often associated with deficits in social functioning. While emerging studies are investigating the impact of low social engagement on psychotic-like experiences, little work has examined the relationship between social engagement, internalizing symptoms, and delusional ideation, specifically. METHODS Using general population data from the Nathan Kline Institute-Rockland (NKI-Rockland) database (N = 526), we examined the relationships between self-reported delusional ideation, internalizing symptoms, and social engagement and tested four indirect effect models to understand how these factors interrelate. RESULTS Delusional ideation was significantly associated with both increased internalizing symptoms (r = 0.41, p < 0.001) and lower social engagement (r = - 0.14, p = 0.001). Within aspects of social engagement, perceived emotional support showed the strongest relationship with delusional ideation (r = - 0.17, p < 0.001). Lower social engagement was also significantly associated with increased internalizing symptoms (r = - 0.29, p < 0.001). Cross-sectional models suggest that internalizing symptoms have a significant indirect effect on the association between delusional ideation and social engagement. CONCLUSIONS These findings reveal that elevated delusional ideation in the general population is associated with lower social engagement. Elevated internalizing symptoms appear to play a critical role in reducing engagement, possibly exacerbating delusional thinking. Future work should examine the causal and temporal relationships between these factors.
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- Lauren M Hall
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave S, Suite 3057K, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave S, Suite 3057K, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1601 23rd Ave S, Suite 3057K, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA
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Norman LJ, Sudre G, Price J, Shaw P. Subcortico-Cortical Dysconnectivity in ADHD: A Voxel-Wise Mega-Analysis Across Multiple Cohorts. Am J Psychiatry 2024; 181:553-562. [PMID: 38476041 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20230026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2024]
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OBJECTIVE A large body of functional MRI research has examined a potential role for subcortico-cortical loops in the pathogenesis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but has produced inconsistent findings. The authors performed a mega-analysis of six neuroimaging data sets to examine associations between ADHD diagnosis and traits and subcortico-cortical connectivity. METHODS Group differences were examined in the functional connectivity of four subcortical seeds in 1,696 youths with ADHD diagnoses (66.39% males; mean age, 10.83 years [SD=2.17]) and 6,737 unaffected control subjects (47.05% males; mean age, 10.33 years [SD=1.30]). The authors examined associations between functional connectivity and ADHD traits (total N=9,890; 50.3% males; mean age, 10.77 years [SD=1.96]). Sensitivity analyses were used to examine specificity relative to commonly comorbid internalizing and non-ADHD externalizing problems. The authors further examined results within motion-matched subsamples, and after adjusting for estimated intelligence. RESULTS In the group comparison, youths with ADHD showed greater connectivity between striatal seeds and temporal, fronto-insular, and supplementary motor regions, as well as between the amygdala and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, compared with control subjects. Similar findings emerged when ADHD traits were considered and when alternative seed definitions were adopted. Dominant associations centered on the connectivity of the caudate bilaterally. Findings were not driven by in-scanner motion and were not shared with commonly comorbid internalizing and externalizing problems. Effect sizes were small (largest peak d, 0.15). CONCLUSIONS The findings from this large-scale mega-analysis support established links with subcortico-cortical circuits, which were robust to potential confounders. However, effect sizes were small, and it seems likely that resting-state subcortico-cortical connectivity can capture only a fraction of the complex pathophysiology of ADHD.
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- Luke J Norman
- Office of the Clinical Director, NIMH, Bethesda, Md. (Norman, Shaw); Section on Neurobehavioral and Clinical Research, Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Md. (Sudre, Price, Shaw)
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- Office of the Clinical Director, NIMH, Bethesda, Md. (Norman, Shaw); Section on Neurobehavioral and Clinical Research, Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Md. (Sudre, Price, Shaw)
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- Office of the Clinical Director, NIMH, Bethesda, Md. (Norman, Shaw); Section on Neurobehavioral and Clinical Research, Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Md. (Sudre, Price, Shaw)
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- Office of the Clinical Director, NIMH, Bethesda, Md. (Norman, Shaw); Section on Neurobehavioral and Clinical Research, Social and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Md. (Sudre, Price, Shaw)
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Liu J, Supekar K, El-Said D, de los Angeles C, Zhang Y, Chang H, Menon V. Neuroanatomical, transcriptomic, and molecular correlates of math ability and their prognostic value for predicting learning outcomes. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadk7220. [PMID: 38820151 PMCID: PMC11141625 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk7220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/02/2024]
Abstract
Foundational mathematical abilities, acquired in early childhood, are essential for success in our technology-driven society. Yet, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying individual differences in children's mathematical abilities and learning outcomes remain largely unexplored. Leveraging one of the largest multicohort datasets from children at a pivotal stage of knowledge acquisition, we first establish a replicable mathematical ability-related imaging phenotype (MAIP). We then show that brain gene expression profiles enriched for candidate math ability-related genes, neuronal signaling, synaptic transmission, and voltage-gated potassium channel activity contributed to the MAIP. Furthermore, the similarity between MAIP gene expression signatures and brain structure, acquired before intervention, predicted learning outcomes in two independent math tutoring cohorts. These findings advance our knowledge of the interplay between neuroanatomical, transcriptomic, and molecular mechanisms underlying mathematical ability and reveal predictive biomarkers of learning. Our findings have implications for the development of personalized education and interventions.
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- Jin Liu
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Sorooshyari SK. Brain age monotonicity and functional connectivity differences of healthy subjects. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0300720. [PMID: 38814972 PMCID: PMC11139261 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024] Open
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Alterations in the brain's connectivity or the interactions among brain regions have been studied with the aid of resting state (rs)fMRI data attained from large numbers of healthy subjects of various demographics. This has been instrumental in providing insight into how a phenotype as fundamental as age affects the brain. Although machine learning (ML) techniques have already been deployed in such studies, novel questions are investigated in this work. We study whether young brains develop properties that progressively resemble those of aged brains, and if the aging dynamics of older brains provide information about the aging trajectory in young subjects. The degree of a prospective monotonic relationship will be quantified, and hypotheses of brain aging trajectories will be tested via ML. Furthermore, the degree of functional connectivity across the age spectrum of three datasets will be compared at a population level and across sexes. The findings scrutinize similarities and differences among the male and female subjects at greater detail than previously performed.
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- Siamak K. Sorooshyari
- Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
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Simarro J, Meyer MI, Van Eyndhoven S, Phan TV, Billiet T, Sima DM, Ortibus E. A deep learning model for brain segmentation across pediatric and adult populations. Sci Rep 2024; 14:11735. [PMID: 38778071 PMCID: PMC11111768 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61798-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 05/09/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024] Open
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Automated quantification of brain tissues on MR images has greatly contributed to the diagnosis and follow-up of neurological pathologies across various life stages. However, existing solutions are specifically designed for certain age ranges, limiting their applicability in monitoring brain development from infancy to late adulthood. This retrospective study aims to develop and validate a brain segmentation model across pediatric and adult populations. First, we trained a deep learning model to segment tissues and brain structures using T1-weighted MR images from 390 patients (age range: 2-81 years) across four different datasets. Subsequently, the model was validated on a cohort of 280 patients from six distinct test datasets (age range: 4-90 years). In the initial experiment, the proposed deep learning-based pipeline, icobrain-dl, demonstrated segmentation accuracy comparable to both pediatric and adult-specific models across diverse age groups. Subsequently, we evaluated intra- and inter-scanner variability in measurements of various tissues and structures in both pediatric and adult populations computed by icobrain-dl. Results demonstrated significantly higher reproducibility compared to similar brain quantification tools, including childmetrix, FastSurfer, and the medical device icobrain v5.9 (p-value< 0.01). Finally, we explored the potential clinical applications of icobrain-dl measurements in diagnosing pediatric patients with Cerebral Visual Impairment and adult patients with Alzheimer's Disease.
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- Jaime Simarro
- icometrix, Leuven, Belgium.
- Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
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- Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Department of Pediatric Neurology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Child and Youth Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Wunderle V, Kuzu TD, Tscherpel C, Fink GR, Grefkes C, Weiss PH. Age- and sex-related changes in motor functions: a comprehensive assessment and component analysis. Front Aging Neurosci 2024; 16:1368052. [PMID: 38813530 PMCID: PMC11133706 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1368052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024] Open
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Age-related motor impairments often cause caregiver dependency or even hospitalization. However, comprehensive investigations of the different motor abilities and the changes thereof across the adult lifespan remain sparse. We, therefore, extensively assessed essential basic and complex motor functions in 444 healthy adults covering a wide age range (range 21 to 88 years). Basic motor functions, here defined as simple isolated single or repetitive movements in one direction, were assessed by means of maximum grip strength (GS) and maximum finger-tapping frequency (FTF). Complex motor functions, comprising composite sequential movements involving both proximal and distal joints/muscle groups, were evaluated with the Action Research Arm Test (ARAT), the Jebsen-Taylor Hand Function Test (JTT), and the Purdue Pegboard Test. Men achieved higher scores than women concerning GS and FTF, whereas women stacked more pins per time than men during the Purdue Pegboard Test. There was no significant sex effect regarding JTT. We observed a significant but task-specific reduction of basic and complex motor performance scores across the adult lifespan. Linear regression analyses significantly predicted the participants' ages based on motor performance scores (R2 = 0.502). Of note, the ratio between the left- and right-hand performance remained stable across ages for all tests. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) revealed three motor components across all tests that represented dexterity, force, and speed. These components were consistently present in young (21-40 years), middle-aged (41-60 years), and older (61-88 years) adults, as well as in women and men. Based on the three motor components, K-means clustering analysis differentiated high- and low-performing participants across the adult life span. The rich motor data set of 444 healthy participants revealed age- and sex-dependent changes in essential basic and complex motor functions. Notably, the comprehensive assessment allowed for generating robust motor components across the adult lifespan. Our data may serve as a reference for future studies of healthy subjects and patients with motor deficits. Moreover, these findings emphasize the importance of comprehensively assessing different motor functions, including dexterity, force, and speed, to characterize human motor abilities and their age-related decline.
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- Veronika Wunderle
- Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Department of Neurology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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Howard KA, Ahmad SS, Chavez JV, Hoogerwoerd H, McIntosh RC. The central executive network moderates the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptom severity and gastrointestinal related issues. Sci Rep 2024; 14:10695. [PMID: 38724613 PMCID: PMC11082173 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61418-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Although most adults experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime, a smaller proportion will go on to be clinically diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Persons diagnosed with PTSD have a greater likelihood of developing gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. However, the extent to which subclinical levels of post-traumatic stress (PTS) correspond with the incidence of GI issues in a normative sample is unclear. Resting state fMRI, medical history, psychological survey, and anthropometric data were acquired from the Enhanced Nathan Kline Institute-Rockland Sample (n = 378; age range 18-85.6 years). The primary aim of this study was to test the main effect of subclinical PTS symptom severity on the number of endorsed GI issues. The secondary aim was to test the moderating effect of high versus low resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the central executive network (CEN) on the relationship between PTS symptom severity and GI issues. Trauma Symptom Checklist-40 (TSC-40) scores were positively associated with the number of endorsed GI issues (b = -0.038, SE = .009, p < .001). The interaction between TSC-40 scores and rsFC within the CEN was significant on GI issues after controlling for sociodemographic and cardiometabolic variables (b = -0.031, SE = .016, p < .05), such that above average rsFC within the CEN buffered the effect of TSC-40 scores on GI issues. Our findings of higher rsFC within the CEN moderating the magnitude of coincidence in PTS and GI symptom severity may reflect the mitigating role of executive control processes in the putative stress signaling mechanisms that contribute to gut dysbiosis.
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- Kia A Howard
- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA.
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Bainter SA, Goodman ZT, Kupis LB, Timpano KR, Uddin LQ. Neural and psychological correlates of post-traumatic stress symptoms in a community adult sample. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhae214. [PMID: 38813966 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2024] [Revised: 04/30/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024] Open
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A multitude of factors are associated with the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. However, establishing which predictors are most strongly associated with post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms is complicated because few studies are able to consider multiple factors simultaneously across the biopsychosocial domains that are implicated by existing theoretical models. Further, post-traumatic stress disorder is heterogeneous, and studies using case-control designs may obscure which factors relate uniquely to symptom dimensions. Here we used Bayesian variable selection to identify the most important predictors for overall post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and individual symptom dimensions in a community sample of 569 adults (18 to 85 yr of age). Candidate predictors were selected from previously established risk factors relevant for post-traumatic stress disorder and included psychological measures, behavioral measures, and resting state functional connectivity among brain regions. In a follow-up analysis, we compared results controlling for current depression symptoms in order to examine specificity. Poor sleep quality and dimensions of temperament and impulsivity were consistently associated with greater post-traumatic stress disorder symptom severity. In addition to self-report measures, brain functional connectivity among regions commonly ascribed to the default mode network, central executive network, and salience network explained the unique variability of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. This study demonstrates the unique contributions of psychological measures and neural substrates to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
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- Sierra A Bainter
- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, 5665 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, FL 33146, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, 5665 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, FL 33146, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, 5665 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, FL 33146, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
- Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, 1285 Psychology Building, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, United States
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Park Y, Lee MJ, Yoo S, Kim CY, Namgung JY, Park Y, Park H, Lee EC, Yoon YD, Paquola C, Bernhardt BC, Park BY. GAN-MAT: Generative adversarial network-based microstructural profile covariance analysis toolbox. Neuroimage 2024; 291:120595. [PMID: 38554782 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2023] [Revised: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024] Open
Abstract
Multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides complementary information for investigating brain structure and function; for example, an in vivo microstructure-sensitive proxy can be estimated using the ratio between T1- and T2-weighted structural MRI. However, acquiring multiple imaging modalities is challenging in patients with inattentive disorders. In this study, we proposed a comprehensive framework to provide multiple imaging features related to the brain microstructure using only T1-weighted MRI. Our toolbox consists of (i) synthesizing T2-weighted MRI from T1-weighted MRI using a conditional generative adversarial network; (ii) estimating microstructural features, including intracortical covariance and moment features of cortical layer-wise microstructural profiles; and (iii) generating a microstructural gradient, which is a low-dimensional representation of the intracortical microstructure profile. We trained and tested our toolbox using T1- and T2-weighted MRI scans of 1,104 healthy young adults obtained from the Human Connectome Project database. We found that the synthesized T2-weighted MRI was very similar to the actual image and that the synthesized data successfully reproduced the microstructural features. The toolbox was validated using an independent dataset containing healthy controls and patients with episodic migraine as well as the atypical developmental condition of autism spectrum disorder. Our toolbox may provide a new paradigm for analyzing multimodal structural MRI in the neuroscience community and is openly accessible at https://github.com/CAMIN-neuro/GAN-MAT.
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- Yeongjun Park
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea
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- Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Data Science, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea
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- Department of Data Science, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea
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- School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea; Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science, Suwon, South Korea
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Data Science, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea; Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, Institute for Basic Science, Suwon, South Korea; Department of Statistics and Data Science, Inha University, Incheon, South Korea.
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Li J, Wang Q, Li K, Yao L, Guo X. Tracking Age-Related Topological Changes in Individual Brain Morphological Networks Across the Human Lifespan. J Magn Reson Imaging 2024; 59:1841-1851. [PMID: 37702277 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.28984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Revised: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Many studies have shown topological alterations associated with age in population-based brain morphological networks. However, it is not clear how individual brain morphological networks change with age across the lifespan. PURPOSE To characterize age-related topological changes in individual networks and investigate the relationships between individual- and group-based brain networks at the nodal, modular, and connectome levels. STUDY TYPE Retrospective analysis. POPULATION One hundred seventy-nine healthy subjects (108 males and 71 females), aged 6-85 years with a median age of 32 years and an inter-quartile range (IQR) of 26 years. FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE T1-weighted images using the magnetization-prepared rapid gradient echo (MPRAGE) sequences. ASSESSMENT Two nodal-level indicators (nodal similarity and node matching), five modular-level indicators (modularity, intra/inter-module similarity, adjusted mutual information [AMI], and module variation), and five connectome-level indicators (global efficiency, characteristic path length, clustering coefficient, local efficiency, and individual contribution) were calculated in brain morphological networks. Regression models for different indicators were built to examine their lifetime trajectory patterns. STATISTICAL TESTS Single-sample t-test, Mantel's test, Pearson correlation coefficient. A P value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS Among 68 nodes, 34 nodes showed significant age-related patterns (all P < 0.05, FDR-corrected) in nodal similarity, including linear decline and quadratic trends. The lifespan trajectory of the connectome-level topological attributes of the individual networks presented U-shaped or inverse U-shaped trends with age. Between the individual- and group-based brain networks, the average nodal similarity was 0.67 and the average AMI of module partitions was 0.57. DATA CONCLUSION The lifespan trajectories of the nodal similarity mainly followed linear decreasing and nonlinear trends, whereas the modularity and the global topological attributes exhibited nonlinear patterns. There was a high degree of consistency at both nodal similarity and modular division between the individual and group networks. EVIDENCE LEVEL 1 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 1.
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- Jingming Li
- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Strategic Support Force Medical Center, Beijing, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Connectomics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Herms EN, Bolbecker AR, Wisner KM. Impaired Sleep Mediates the Relationship Between Interpersonal Trauma and Subtypes of Delusional Ideation. Schizophr Bull 2024; 50:642-652. [PMID: 37315337 PMCID: PMC11059790 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbad081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS Trauma is a robust risk factor for delusional ideation. However, the specificity and processes underlying this relationship are unclear. Qualitatively, interpersonal traumas (i.e., trauma caused by another person) appear to have a specific relationship with delusional ideation, particularly paranoia, given the commonality of social threat. However, this has not been empirically tested and the processes by which interpersonal trauma contributes to delusional ideation remain poorly understood. Given the role of impaired sleep in both trauma and delusional ideation, it may be a critical mediator between these variables. We hypothesized that interpersonal trauma, but not non-interpersonal trauma, would be positively related to subtypes of delusional ideation, especially paranoia, and that impaired sleep would mediate these relationships. STUDY DESIGN In a large, transdiagnostic community sample (N = 478), an exploratory factor analysis of the Peter's Delusion Inventory identified three subtypes of delusional ideation, namely magical thinking, grandiosity, and paranoia. Three path models, one for each subtype of delusional ideation, tested whether interpersonal trauma and non-interpersonal trauma were related to subtypes of delusional ideation, and impaired sleep as a mediating variable of interpersonal trauma. STUDY RESULTS Paranoia and grandiosity were positively related to interpersonal trauma and unrelated to non-interpersonal trauma. Furthermore, these relationships were significantly mediated by impaired sleep, which appeared strongest for paranoia. In contrast, magical thinking was unrelated to traumatic experiences. CONCLUSIONS These findings support a specific relationship between interpersonal trauma and paranoia as well as grandiosity, with impaired sleep appearing as an important process by which interpersonal trauma contributes to both.
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- Emma N Herms
- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
- Program of Neuroscience, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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Yan ZX, He Z, Jiang LH, Zou X. Age-related trajectories of the development of social cognition. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1348781. [PMID: 38711752 PMCID: PMC11071648 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1348781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/08/2024] Open
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Age-related trajectories of intrinsic functional connectivity (iFC), which represent the interconnections between discrete regions of the human brain, for processes related to social cognition (SC) provide evidence for social development through neural imaging and can guide clinical interventions when such development is atypical. However, due to the lack of studies investigating brain development over a wide range of ages, the neural mechanisms of SC remain poorly understood, although considerable behavior-related evidence is available. The present study mapped vortex-wise iFC features between SC networks and the entire cerebral cortex by using common functional networks, creating the corresponding age-related trajectories. Three networks [moral cognition, theory of mind (ToM), and empathy] were selected as representative SC networks. The Enhanced Nathan Kline Institute-Rockland Sample (NKI-RS, N = 316, ages 8-83 years old) was employed delineate iFC characteristics and construct trajectories. The results showed that the SC networks display unique and overlapping iFC profiles. The iFC of the empathy network, an age-sensitive network, with dorsal attention network was found to exhibit a linear increasing pattern, that of the ventral attention network was observed to exhibit a linear decreasing pattern, and that of the somatomotor and dorsal attention networks was noted to exhibit a quadric-concave iFC pattern. Additionally, a sex-specific effect was observed for the empathy network as it exhibits linear and quadric sex-based differences in iFC with the frontoparietal and vision networks, respectively. The iFC of the ToM network with the ventral attention network exhibits a pronounced quadric-convex (inverted U-shape) trajectory. No linear or quadratic trajectories were noted in the iFC of the moral cognition network. These findings indicate that SC networks exhibit iFC with both low-level (somatomotor, vision) and high-level (attention and control) networks along specific developmental trajectories. The age-related trajectories determined in this study advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms of SC, providing valuable references for identification and intervention in cases of development of atypical SC.
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- Zhi-Xiong Yan
- Guangxi Center of Developmental Population Neuroscience, Nanning Normal University, Nanning, China
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- Guangxi Center of Developmental Population Neuroscience, Nanning Normal University, Nanning, China
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- Guangxi Center of Developmental Population Neuroscience, Nanning Normal University, Nanning, China
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- Continuing Education School, Guangxi College for Preschool Education, Nanning, China
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Sorooshyari SK. Beyond network connectivity: A classification approach to brain age prediction with resting-state fMRI. Neuroimage 2024; 290:120570. [PMID: 38467344 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2023] [Revised: 03/06/2024] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/13/2024] Open
Abstract
The brain is a complex, dynamic organ that shows differences in the same subject at various periods. Understanding how brain activity changes across age as a function of the brain networks has been greatly abetted by fMRI. Canonical analysis consists of determining how alterations in connectivity patterns (CPs) of certain regions are affected. An alternative approach is taken here by not considering connectivity but rather features computed from recordings at the regions of interest (ROIs). Using machine learning (ML) we assess how neural signals are altered by and prospectively predictive of age and sex via a methodology that is novel in drawing upon pairwise classification across six decades of subjects' chronological ages. ML is used to answer the equally important questions of what properties of the computed features are most predictive as well as which brain networks are most affected by aging. It was found that there is decreased differentiation among the neural signals of older subjects that are separated in age by the same number of years as younger subjects. Furthermore, the burstiness of the signals change at different rates between males and females. The findings provide insight into brain aging via an ROI-based analysis, the consideration of several feature groups, and a novel classification-based ML pipeline. There is also a contribution to understanding the effects of data aggregated from different recording centers on the conclusions of fMRI studies.
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Wiersch L, Friedrich P, Hamdan S, Komeyer V, Hoffstaedter F, Patil KR, Eickhoff SB, Weis S. Sex classification from functional brain connectivity: Generalization to multiple datasets. Hum Brain Mapp 2024; 45:e26683. [PMID: 38647035 PMCID: PMC11034006 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Machine learning (ML) approaches are increasingly being applied to neuroimaging data. Studies in neuroscience typically have to rely on a limited set of training data which may impair the generalizability of ML models. However, it is still unclear which kind of training sample is best suited to optimize generalization performance. In the present study, we systematically investigated the generalization performance of sex classification models trained on the parcelwise connectivity profile of either single samples or compound samples of two different sizes. Generalization performance was quantified in terms of mean across-sample classification accuracy and spatial consistency of accurately classifying parcels. Our results indicate that the generalization performance of parcelwise classifiers (pwCs) trained on single dataset samples is dependent on the specific test samples. Certain datasets seem to "match" in the sense that classifiers trained on a sample from one dataset achieved a high accuracy when tested on the respected other one and vice versa. The pwCs trained on the compound samples demonstrated overall highest generalization performance for all test samples, including one derived from a dataset not included in building the training samples. Thus, our results indicate that both a large sample size and a heterogeneous data composition of a training sample have a central role in achieving generalizable results.
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- Lisa Wiersch
- Institute of Systems NeuroscienceHeinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM‐7: Brain and Behaviour)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
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- Institute of Systems NeuroscienceHeinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM‐7: Brain and Behaviour)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
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- Institute of Systems NeuroscienceHeinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM‐7: Brain and Behaviour)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
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- Institute of Systems NeuroscienceHeinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM‐7: Brain and Behaviour)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesHeinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
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- Institute of Systems NeuroscienceHeinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM‐7: Brain and Behaviour)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
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- Institute of Systems NeuroscienceHeinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM‐7: Brain and Behaviour)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
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- Institute of Systems NeuroscienceHeinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM‐7: Brain and Behaviour)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
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- Institute of Systems NeuroscienceHeinrich Heine University DüsseldorfDüsseldorfGermany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM‐7: Brain and Behaviour)Research Centre JülichJülichGermany
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Lv Z, Li J, Yao L, Guo X. Predicting resting-state brain functional connectivity from the structural connectome using the heat diffusion model: a multiple-timescale fusion method. J Neural Eng 2024; 21:026041. [PMID: 38565132 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad39a6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
Abstract
Objective.Understanding the intricate relationship between structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC) is pivotal for understanding the complexities of the human brain. To explore this relationship, the heat diffusion model (HDM) was utilized to predict FC from SC. However, previous studies using the HDM have typically predicted FC at a critical time scale in the heat kernel equation, overlooking the dynamic nature of the diffusion process and providing an incomplete representation of the predicted FC.Approach.In this study, we propose an alternative approach based on the HDM. First, we introduced a multiple-timescale fusion method to capture the dynamic features of the diffusion process. Additionally, to enhance the smoothness of the predicted FC values, we employed the Wavelet reconstruction method to maintain local consistency and remove noise. Moreover, to provide a more accurate representation of the relationship between SC and FC, we calculated the linear transformation between the smoothed FC and the empirical FC.Main results.We conducted extensive experiments in two independent datasets. By fusing different time scales in the diffusion process for predicting FC, the proposed method demonstrated higher predictive correlation compared with method considering only critical time points (Singlescale). Furthermore, compared with other existing methods, the proposed method achieved the highest predictive correlations of 0.6939±0.0079 and 0.7302±0.0117 on the two datasets respectively. We observed that the visual network at the network level and the parietal lobe at the lobe level exhibited the highest predictive correlations, indicating that the functional activity in these regions may be closely related to the direct diffusion of information between brain regions.Significance.The multiple-timescale fusion method proposed in this study provides insights into the dynamic aspects of the diffusion process, contributing to a deeper understanding of how brain structure gives rise to brain function.
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- Zhengyuan Lv
- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China
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- School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Connectomics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China
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Aiskovich M, Castro E, Reinen JM, Fadnavis S, Mehta A, Li H, Dhurandhar A, Cecchi GA, Polosecki P. Fusion of biomedical imaging studies for increased sample size and diversity: a case study of brain MRI. FRONTIERS IN RADIOLOGY 2024; 4:1283392. [PMID: 38645773 PMCID: PMC11026619 DOI: 10.3389/fradi.2024.1283392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/23/2024]
Abstract
Data collection, curation, and cleaning constitute a crucial phase in Machine Learning (ML) projects. In biomedical ML, it is often desirable to leverage multiple datasets to increase sample size and diversity, but this poses unique challenges, which arise from heterogeneity in study design, data descriptors, file system organization, and metadata. In this study, we present an approach to the integration of multiple brain MRI datasets with a focus on homogenization of their organization and preprocessing for ML. We use our own fusion example (approximately 84,000 images from 54,000 subjects, 12 studies, and 88 individual scanners) to illustrate and discuss the issues faced by study fusion efforts, and we examine key decisions necessary during dataset homogenization, presenting in detail a database structure flexible enough to accommodate multiple observational MRI datasets. We believe our approach can provide a basis for future similarly-minded biomedical ML projects.
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- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, NY, United States
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- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, NY, United States
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- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, NY, United States
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- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, NY, United States
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- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, NY, United States
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- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, NY, United States
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- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, NY, United States
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- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, NY, United States
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Goodman ZT, Nomi JS, Kornfeld S, Bolt T, Saumure RA, Romero C, Bainter SA, Uddin LQ. Brain signal variability and executive functions across the life span. Netw Neurosci 2024; 8:226-240. [PMID: 38562287 PMCID: PMC10918754 DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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Neural variability is thought to facilitate survival through flexible adaptation to changing environmental demands. In humans, such capacity for flexible adaptation may manifest as fluid reasoning, inhibition of automatic responses, and mental set-switching-skills falling under the broad domain of executive functions that fluctuate over the life span. Neural variability can be quantified via the BOLD signal in resting-state fMRI. Variability of large-scale brain networks is posited to underpin complex cognitive activities requiring interactions between multiple brain regions. Few studies have examined the extent to which network-level brain signal variability across the life span maps onto high-level processes under the umbrella of executive functions. The present study leveraged a large publicly available neuroimaging dataset to investigate the relationship between signal variability and executive functions across the life span. Associations between brain signal variability and executive functions shifted as a function of age. Limbic-specific variability was consistently associated with greater performance across subcomponents of executive functions. Associations between executive function subcomponents and network-level variability of the default mode and central executive networks, as well as whole-brain variability, varied across the life span. Findings suggest that brain signal variability may help to explain to age-related differences in executive functions across the life span.
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- Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
- REHAB Basel, Klinik für Neurorehabilitation und Paraplegiologie, Basel, Switzerland
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- Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
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- Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Wiersch L, Friedrich P, Hamdan S, Komeyer V, Hoffstaedter F, Patil KR, Eickhoff SB, Weis S. Sex classification from functional brain connectivity: Generalization to multiple datasets Generalizability of sex classifiers. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.08.30.555495. [PMID: 37693374 PMCID: PMC10491190 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.30.555495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
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Machine learning (ML) approaches are increasingly being applied to neuroimaging data. Studies in neuroscience typically have to rely on a limited set of training data which may impair the generalizability of ML models. However, it is still unclear which kind of training sample is best suited to optimize generalization performance. In the present study, we systematically investigated the generalization performance of sex classification models trained on the parcelwise connectivity profile of either single samples or a compound sample containing data from four different datasets. Generalization performance was quantified in terms of mean across-sample classification accuracy and spatial consistency of accurately classifying parcels. Our results indicate that generalization performance of pwCs trained on single dataset samples is dependent on the specific test samples. Certain datasets seem to "match" in the sense that classifiers trained on a sample from one dataset achieved a high accuracy when tested on the respected other one and vice versa. The pwC trained on the compound sample demonstrated overall highest generalization performance for all test samples, including one derived from a dataset not included in building the training samples. Thus, our results indicate that a big and heterogenous training sample comprising data of multiple datasets is best suited to achieve generalizable results.
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- Lisa Wiersch
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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Petkova E, Ciarleglio A, Casey P, Poole N, Kaufman K, Lawrie SM, Malhi G, Siddiqi N, Bhui K, Lee W. Positive thinking about negative studies. Br J Psychiatry 2024; 224:79-81. [PMID: 38174364 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2023.155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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The non-reporting of negative studies results in a scientific record that is incomplete, one-sided and misleading. The consequences of this range from inappropriate initiation of further studies that might put participants at unnecessary risk to treatment guidelines that may be in error, thus compromising day-to-day clinical practice.
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- Eva Petkova
- NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, USA
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- George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC, USA
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- Hermitage Medical Clinic, Dublin, Ireland; and Department of Psychiatry, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Neuropsychiatry, South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; and Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Academic Department of Psychiatry, Kolling Institute, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; CADE Clinic and Mood-T, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; and Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Health Sciences, Hull York Medical School, University of York, York, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Wadham College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; East London and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trusts, London, UK; and WPA Collaborating Centre Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Liaison Psychiatry, Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust, Bodmin, UK
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Di Bello M, Chang C, McIntosh R. Dynamic vagal-mediated connectivity of cortical and subcortical central autonomic hubs predicts chronotropic response to submaximal exercise in healthy adults. Brain Cogn 2024; 175:106134. [PMID: 38266398 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2024.106134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2023] [Revised: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/06/2024] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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BACKGROUND Despite accumulation of a substantial body of literature supporting the role of exercise on frontal lobe functioning, relatively less is understood of the interconnectivity of ventromedial prefrontal cortical (vmPFC) regions that underpin cardio-autonomic regulation predict cardiac chronotropic competence (CC) in response to sub-maximal exercise. METHODS Eligibility of 161 adults (mean age = 48.6, SD = 18.3, 68% female) was based upon completion of resting state brain scan and sub-maximal bike test. Sliding window analysis of the resting state signal was conducted over 45-s windows, with 50% overlap, to assess how changes in photoplethysmography-derived HRV relate to vmPFC functional connectivity with the whole brain. CC was assessed based upon heart rate (HR) changes during submaximal exercise (HR change /HRmax (206-0.88 × age) - HRrest). RESULTS During states of elevated HRV the vmPFC showed greater rsFC with an 83-voxel region of the hypothalamus (p < 0.001, uncorrected). Beta estimates of vmPFC connectivity extracted from a 6-mm sphere around this region emerged as the strongest predictor of CC (b = 0.283, p <.001) than age, BMI, and resting HRV F(8,144) = 6.30, p <.001. CONCLUSION Extensive glutamatergic innervation of the hypothalamus by the vmPFC allows for top-down control of the hypothalamus and its various autonomic efferents which facilitate chronotropic response during sub-maximal exercise.
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- Maria Di Bello
- Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA.
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Ryali S, Zhang Y, de los Angeles C, Supekar K, Menon V. Deep learning models reveal replicable, generalizable, and behaviorally relevant sex differences in human functional brain organization. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2310012121. [PMID: 38377194 PMCID: PMC10907309 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2310012121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2024] Open
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Sex plays a crucial role in human brain development, aging, and the manifestation of psychiatric and neurological disorders. However, our understanding of sex differences in human functional brain organization and their behavioral consequences has been hindered by inconsistent findings and a lack of replication. Here, we address these challenges using a spatiotemporal deep neural network (stDNN) model to uncover latent functional brain dynamics that distinguish male and female brains. Our stDNN model accurately differentiated male and female brains, demonstrating consistently high cross-validation accuracy (>90%), replicability, and generalizability across multisession data from the same individuals and three independent cohorts (N ~ 1,500 young adults aged 20 to 35). Explainable AI (XAI) analysis revealed that brain features associated with the default mode network, striatum, and limbic network consistently exhibited significant sex differences (effect sizes > 1.5) across sessions and independent cohorts. Furthermore, XAI-derived brain features accurately predicted sex-specific cognitive profiles, a finding that was also independently replicated. Our results demonstrate that sex differences in functional brain dynamics are not only highly replicable and generalizable but also behaviorally relevant, challenging the notion of a continuum in male-female brain organization. Our findings underscore the crucial role of sex as a biological determinant in human brain organization, have significant implications for developing personalized sex-specific biomarkers in psychiatric and neurological disorders, and provide innovative AI-based computational tools for future research.
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- Srikanth Ryali
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
- Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305
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Tobe RH, Tu L, Roberts M, Kiar G, Breland MM, Tian Y, Kang M, Ross R, Ryan MM, Valenza E, Alexander L, MacKay-Brandt A, Colcombe SJ, Franco AR, Milham MP. Age, Motion, Medical, and Psychiatric Associations With Incidental Findings in Brain MRI. JAMA Netw Open 2024; 7:e2355901. [PMID: 38349653 PMCID: PMC10865144 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.55901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2024] Open
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Importance Few investigations have evaluated rates of brain-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) incidental findings (IFs) in large lifespan samples, their stability over time, or their associations with health outcomes. Objectives To examine rates of brain-based IFs across the lifespan, their persistence, and their associations with phenotypic indicators of behavior, cognition, and health; to compare quantified motion with radiologist-reported motion and evaluate its associations with IF rates; and to explore IF consistency across multiple visits. Design, Setting, and Participants This cross-sectional study included participants from the Nathan Kline Institute-Rockland Sample (NKI-RS), a lifespan community-ascertained sample, and the Healthy Brain Network (HBN), a cross-sectional community self-referred pediatric sample focused on mental health and learning disorders. The NKI-RS enrolled participants (ages 6-85 years) between March 2012 and March 2020 and had longitudinal participants followed up for as long as 4 years. The HBN enrolled participants (ages 5-21 years) between August 2015 and October 2021. Clinical neuroradiology MRI reports were coded for radiologist-reported motion as well as presence, type, and clinical urgency (category 1, no abnormal findings; 2, no referral recommended; 3, consider referral; and 4, immediate referral) of IFs. MRI reports were coded from June to October 2021. Data were analyzed from November 2021 to February 2023. Main Outcomes and Measures Rates and type of IFs by demographic characteristics, health phenotyping, and motion artifacts; longitudinal stability of IFs; and Euler number in projecting radiologist-reported motion. Results A total of 1300 NKI-RS participants (781 [60.1%] female; mean [SD] age, 38.9 [21.8] years) and 2772 HBN participants (976 [35.2%] female; mean [SD] age, 10.0 [3.5] years) had health phenotyping and neuroradiology-reviewed MRI scans. IFs were common, with 284 of 2956 children (9.6%) and 608 of 1107 adults (54.9%) having IFs, but rarely of clinical concern (category 1: NKI-RS, 619 [47.6%]; HBN, 2561 [92.4%]; category 2: NKI-RS, 647 [49.8%]; HBN, 178 [6.4%]; category 3: NKI-RS, 79 [6.1%]; HBN, 30 [1.1%]; category 4: NKI-RS: 12 [0.9%]; HBN, 6 [0.2%]). Overall, 46 children (1.6%) and 79 adults (7.1%) required referral for their IFs. IF frequency increased with age. Elevated blood pressure and BMI were associated with increased T2 hyperintensities and age-related cortical atrophy. Radiologist-reported motion aligned with Euler-quantified motion, but neither were associated with IF rates. Conclusions and Relevance In this cross-sectional study, IFs were common, particularly with increasing age, although rarely clinically significant. While T2 hyperintensity and age-related cortical atrophy were associated with BMI and blood pressure, IFs were not associated with other behavioral, cognitive, and health phenotyping. Motion may not limit clinical IF detection.
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- Russell H. Tobe
- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York
- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, New York
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York
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- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, New York
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- Center for Data Analytics, Innovation, and Rigor, Child Mind Institute, New York, New York
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York
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- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, New York
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- St John’s University, Staten Island, New York
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York
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- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, New York
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York
- Department of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York
- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, New York
- Department of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York
- Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, New York
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Blondiaux E, Diamantaras A, Schumacher R, Blanke O, Müri R, Heydrich L. The neural correlates of topographical disorientation-a lesion analysis study. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2024; 11:520-524. [PMID: 38234234 PMCID: PMC10863913 DOI: 10.1002/acn3.51967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Revised: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2024] Open
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Topographical disorientation refers to the selective inability to orient oneself in familiar surroundings. However, to date its neural correlates remain poorly understood. Here we use quantitative lesion analysis and a lesion network mapping approach in order to investigate seven patients with topographical disorientation. Our findings link not only the posterior parahippocampal gyrus (PHG) and retrosplenial cortex but also the lingual gyrus, the precuneus and the fusiform gyrus to topographical disorientation. We propose that topographical disorientation is due to the inability to integrate familiar landmarks within a framework of allocentric and egocentric orientation, supported by a neural network including the posterior PHG, the retrosplenial and the lingual cortex.
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- Eva Blondiaux
- Laboratory of Cognitive NeuroscienceBrain‐Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
- Center for NeuroprostheticsSchool of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
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- Department of NeurologyInselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
- CORE Lab, Psychosomatic Competence Center, Department of NeurologyInselspital. Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Department of NeurologyInselspital, University Neurorehabilitation, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Laboratory of Cognitive NeuroscienceBrain‐Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
- Center for NeuroprostheticsSchool of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneLausanneSwitzerland
- Department of NeurologyUniversity Hospital GenevaGenevaSwitzerland
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- Department of NeurologyInselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
- Department of NeurologyInselspital, University Neurorehabilitation, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
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- Department of NeurologyInselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
- CORE Lab, Psychosomatic Competence Center, Department of NeurologyInselspital. Bern University Hospital, University of BernBernSwitzerland
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Guan S, Jiang R, Meng C, Biswal B. Brain age prediction across the human lifespan using multimodal MRI data. GeroScience 2024; 46:1-20. [PMID: 37733220 PMCID: PMC10828281 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-023-00924-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023] Open
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Measuring differences between an individual's age and biological age with biological information from the brain have the potential to provide biomarkers of clinically relevant neurological syndromes that arise later in human life. To explore the effect of multimodal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features on the prediction of brain age, we investigated how multimodal brain imaging data improved age prediction from more imaging features of structural or functional MRI data by using partial least squares regression (PLSR) and longevity data sets (age 6-85 years). First, we found that the age-predicted values for each of these ten features ranged from high to low: cortical thickness (R = 0.866, MAE = 7.904), all seven MRI features (R = 0.8594, MAE = 8.24), four features in structural MRI (R = 0.8591, MAE = 8.24), fALFF (R = 0.853, MAE = 8.1918), gray matter volume (R = 0.8324, MAE = 8.931), three rs-fMRI feature (R = 0.7959, MAE = 9.744), mean curvature (R = 0.7784, MAE = 10.232), ReHo (R = 0.7833, MAE = 10.122), ALFF (R = 0.7517, MAE = 10.844), and surface area (R = 0.719, MAE = 11.33). In addition, the significance of the volume and size of brain MRI data in predicting age was also studied. Second, our results suggest that all multimodal imaging features, except cortical thickness, improve brain-based age prediction. Third, we found that the left hemisphere contributed more to the age prediction, that is, the left hemisphere showed a greater weight in the age prediction than the right hemisphere. Finally, we found a nonlinear relationship between the predicted age and the amount of MRI data. Combined with multimodal and lifespan brain data, our approach provides a new perspective for chronological age prediction and contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between brain disorders and aging.
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- Sihai Guan
- College of Electronic and Information, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, 610041, China.
- Key Laboratory of Electronic and Information Engineering, State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Chengdu, 610041, China.
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- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China
- Medical Equipment Department, Xiangyang No. 1 People's Hospital, Xiangyang, 441000, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA.
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Lurie DJ, Pappas I, D'Esposito M. Cortical timescales and the modular organization of structural and functional brain networks. Hum Brain Mapp 2024; 45:e26587. [PMID: 38339903 PMCID: PMC10823764 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Revised: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/12/2024] Open
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Recent years have seen growing interest in characterizing the properties of regional brain dynamics and their relationship to other features of brain structure and function. In particular, multiple studies have observed regional differences in the "timescale" over which activity fluctuates during periods of quiet rest. In the cerebral cortex, these timescales have been associated with both local circuit properties as well as patterns of inter-regional connectivity, including the extent to which each region exhibits widespread connectivity to other brain areas. In the current study, we build on prior observations of an association between connectivity and dynamics in the cerebral cortex by investigating the relationship between BOLD fMRI timescales and the modular organization of structural and functional brain networks. We characterize network community structure across multiple scales and find that longer timescales are associated with greater within-community functional connectivity and diverse structural connectivity. We also replicate prior observations of a positive correlation between timescales and structural connectivity degree. Finally, we find evidence for preferential functional connectivity between cortical areas with similar timescales. We replicate these findings in an independent dataset. These results contribute to our understanding of functional brain organization and structure-function relationships in the human brain, and support the notion that regional differences in cortical dynamics may in part reflect the topological role of each region within macroscale brain networks.
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- Daniel J. Lurie
- Department of PsychologyUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine PittsburghPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Department of Neurology, Keck School of MedicineUniversity of Southern CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience InstituteUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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Azizi S, Moradi Birgani P, Ashtiyani M, Irani A, Shahrokhi A, Meydanloo K, Mirbagheri MM. The Relationship between Structure of the Corticoreticular Tract and Walking Capacity in Children with Cerebral Palsy. J Biomed Phys Eng 2024; 14:79-88. [PMID: 38357607 PMCID: PMC10862120 DOI: 10.31661/jbpe.v0i0.2104-1302] [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: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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Background Disruption in the descending pathways may lead to gait impairments in Cerebral Palsy (CP) children. Though, the mechanisms behind walking problems have not been completely understood. Objective We aimed to define the relationship between the structure of the corticoreticular tract (CRT) and walking capacity in children with CP. Material and Methods This is a retrospective, observational, and cross-sectional study. Twenty-six children with CP between 4 to 15 years old participated. Also, we used existed data of healthy children aged 4 to 15 years old. CRT structure was characterized using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). The DTI parameters extracted to quantify CRT structure included: fractional anisotropy (FA), mean (MD), axial (AD), and radial (RD) diffusivity. Balance and walking capacity was evaluated using popular clinical measures, including the Berg balance scale (BBS), Timed-Up-and-Go (TUG; balance and mobility), six-minute walk test (6 MWT; gait endurance), and 10-meter walk Test (10 MWT; gait speed). Results There are significant differences between MD, AD, and RD in CP and healthy groups. Brain injury leads to various patterns of the CRT structure in children with CP. In the CP group with abnormal CRT patterns, DTI parameters of the more affected CRT are significantly correlated with walking balance, speed, and endurance measures. Conclusion Considering the high inter-subject variability, the variability of CRT patterns is vital for determining the nature of changes in CRT structure, their relationship with gait impairment, and understanding the underlying mechanisms of movement disorders. This information is also important for the development or prescription of an effective rehabilitation target for individualizing treatment.
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- Shahla Azizi
- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus, Mersin 10, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Health Services, Tehran, Iran
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- Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
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McIntosh RC, Hoshi RA, Nomi J, Goodman Z, Kornfeld S, Vidot DC. I know why the caged bird sings: Distress tolerant individuals show greater resting state connectivity between ventromedial prefrontal cortex and right amygdala as a function of higher vagal tone. Int J Psychophysiol 2024; 196:112274. [PMID: 38049075 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2023.112274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Revised: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 11/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND Intolerance to psychological distress is associated with various forms of psychopathology, ranging from addiction to mood disturbance. The capacity to withstand aversive affective states is often explained by individual differences in cardiovagal tone as well as resting state connectivity of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), a region involved in the regulation of emotions and cardio-autonomic tone. However, it is unclear which brain regions involved in distress tolerance show greater resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) as a function of resting heart rate variability (HRV). METHODS One-hundred and twenty-six adults, aged 20 to 83.5 years, were selected from a lifespan cohort at the Nathan Kline Institute-Rockland Sample. Participants' distress tolerance levels were assessed based upon performance on the Behavioral Indicator of Resiliency to Distress (BIRD) task. Artifact-free resting-state functional brain scans collected during separate sessions were used. While inside the scanner, a pulse oximeter was used to record beat-to-beat intervals to derive high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV). The relationship between HF-HRV and vmPFC to whole brain functional connectivity was compared between distress tolerant (BIRD completers) and distress intolerant (BIRD non-completers). RESULTS Groups did not differ in their history of psychiatric diagnosis. Higher resting HF-HRV was associated with longer total time spent on the BIRD task for the entire sample (r = 0.255, p = 0.004). After controlling for age, gender, body mass index, head motion, and gray matter volume. Distress tolerant individuals showed greater rsFC (p < 0.005 (uncorrected), k = 20) between the vmPFC and default-mode network (DMN) hubs including posterior cingulate cortex/precuneus, medial temporal lobes, and the parahippocampal cortex. As a function of higher resting HF-HRV greater vmPFC connectivity was observed with sub-threshold regions in the right amygdala and left anterior prefrontal cortex, with the former passing small volume correction, in distress tolerant versus distress intolerant individuals. CONCLUSION In a lifespan sample of community-dwelling adults, distress tolerant individuals showed greater vmPFC connectivity with anterior and posterior hubs of the DMN compared to distress intolerant individuals. As a function of greater HF-HRV, distress tolerant individuals evidenced greater vmPFC with salience and executive control network hubs. These findings are consistent with deficits in neural resource allocation within a triple network resting amongst persons exhibiting behavioral intolerance to psychological distress.
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- R C McIntosh
- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, 1120 NW 14th Street, Miami 33136, FL, United States.
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, United States
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- UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior, 760 Westwood, CA 90095, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, 1120 NW 14th Street, Miami 33136, FL, United States
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- REHAB Basel - Klinik für Neurorehabilitation und Paraplegiologie, Basel, Switzerland
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- School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Miami, 5030 Brunson Ave, Coral Gables 33146, FL, United States
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Chen DY, Di X, Yu X, Biswal BB. The significance and limited influence of cerebrovascular reactivity on age and sex effects in task- and resting-state brain activity. Cereb Cortex 2024; 34:bhad448. [PMID: 38212284 PMCID: PMC10832986 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
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Functional MRI measures the blood-oxygen-level dependent signals, which provide an indirect measure of neural activity mediated by neurovascular responses. Cerebrovascular reactivity affects both task-induced and resting-state blood-oxygen-level dependent activity and may confound inter-individual effects, such as those related to aging and biological sex. We examined a large dataset containing breath-holding, checkerboard, and resting-state tasks. We used the breath-holding task to measure cerebrovascular reactivity, used the checkerboard task to obtain task-based activations, and quantified resting-state activity with amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations and regional homogeneity. We hypothesized that cerebrovascular reactivity would be correlated with blood-oxygen-level dependent measures and that accounting for these correlations would result in better estimates of age and sex effects. We found that cerebrovascular reactivity was correlated with checkerboard task activations in the visual cortex and with amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations and regional homogeneity in widespread fronto-parietal regions, as well as regions with large vessels. We also found significant age and sex effects in cerebrovascular reactivity, some of which overlapped with those observed in amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations and regional homogeneity. However, correcting for the effects of cerebrovascular reactivity had very limited influence on the estimates of age and sex. Our results highlight the limitations of accounting for cerebrovascular reactivity with the current breath-holding task.
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- Donna Y Chen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, United States
- Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers School of Graduate Studies, Newark, NJ 08901, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, United States
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- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02114, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, United States
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Metzen D, Stammen C, Fraenz C, Schlüter C, Johnson W, Güntürkün O, DeYoung CG, Genç E. Investigating robust associations between functional connectivity based on graph theory and general intelligence. Sci Rep 2024; 14:1368. [PMID: 38228689 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-51333-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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Previous research investigating relations between general intelligence and graph-theoretical properties of the brain's intrinsic functional network has yielded contradictory results. A promising approach to tackle such mixed findings is multi-center analysis. For this study, we analyzed data from four independent data sets (total N > 2000) to identify robust associations amongst samples between g factor scores and global as well as node-specific graph metrics. On the global level, g showed no significant associations with global efficiency or small-world propensity in any sample, but significant positive associations with global clustering coefficient in two samples. On the node-specific level, elastic-net regressions for nodal efficiency and local clustering yielded no brain areas that exhibited consistent associations amongst data sets. Using the areas identified via elastic-net regression in one sample to predict g in other samples was not successful for local clustering and only led to one significant, one-way prediction across data sets for nodal efficiency. Thus, using conventional graph theoretical measures based on resting-state imaging did not result in replicable associations between functional connectivity and general intelligence.
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- Dorothea Metzen
- Biopsychology, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany.
- Institute of Psychology, Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, TU Dortmund University, 44227, Dortmund, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), 44139, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), 44139, Dortmund, Germany
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- Biopsychology, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Edinburgh, UK
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- Biopsychology, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44801, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 55455, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), 44139, Dortmund, Germany
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Chen H, Wang H, Yu M, Duan B. Structure-decoupled functional connectome-based brain age prediction provides higher association to cognition. Neuroreport 2024; 35:42-48. [PMID: 37994631 PMCID: PMC10756698 DOI: 10.1097/wnr.0000000000001976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023]
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Brain age prediction as well as the prediction difference has been well examined to be a potential biomarker for brain disease or abnormal aging process. However, less knowledge was reported for the cognitive association within normal population. In this study, we proposed a novel approach to brain age prediction by structure-decoupled functional connectome. The original functional connectome was decomposed and decoupled into a structure-decoupled functional connectome using structural connectome harmonics. Our method was applied to a large dataset of normal aging individuals and achieved a high correlation between predicted and chronological age (r = 0.77). Both the original FC and structure-decoupled FC could be well-trained in a brain age prediction model. Significant remarkable relationships between the brain age prediction difference (predicted age minus chronological age) and cognitive scores were discovered. However, the brain age-predicted difference driven by structure-decoupled FC showed a stronger correction to the two cognitive scores (MMSE: r = -0.27, P -value = 0.002; MoCA: r = -0.32, P -value = 0.0003). Our findings suggest that our structure-decoupled functional connectivity approach could provide a more individual-specific functional network, leading to improved brain age prediction performance and a better understanding of cognitive decline in aging.
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- Huan Chen
- Department of Internal Medicine, Huiqiao Medical Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Huiqiao Medical Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Huiqiao Medical Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Huiqiao Medical Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Yu JC, Sokolowski HM, Rao KS, Moraglia LE, Khoubrouy SA, Abdi H, Levine B. Visualization of latent components assessed in O*Net occupations (VOLCANO): A robust method for standardized conversion of occupational labels to ratio scale format. Behav Res Methods 2024; 56:417-432. [PMID: 36698000 DOI: 10.3758/s13428-022-02044-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Occupations are typically characterized in nominal form, a format that limits options for hypothesis testing and data analysis. We drew upon ratings of knowledge, skills, and abilities for 966 occupations listed in the US Department of Labor's Occupational Classification Network (O*NET) database to create an accessible, standardized multidimensional space in which occupations can be quantitatively localized and compared. Principal component analysis revealed that the occupation space comprises three main dimensions that correspond to (1) the required amount of education and training, (2) the degree to which an occupation falls within a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discipline versus social sciences and humanities, and (3) whether occupations are more mathematically or health related. Additional occupational spaces reflecting cognitive versus labor-oriented categories were created for finer-grained characterization of dimensions within occupational sets defined by higher or lower required educational preparation. Data-driven groupings of related occupations were obtained with hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA). Proof-of-principle was demonstrated with a real-world dataset (470 participants from the Nathan Kline Institute - Rockland Sample; NKI-RS), whereby verbal and non-verbal abilities-as assessed by standardized testing-were related to the STEM versus social sciences and humanities dimension. Visualization of Latent Components Assessed in O*Net Occupations (VOLCANO) is provided to the research community as a freely accessible tool, along with a Shiny app for users to extract quantitative scores along the relevant dimensions. VOLCANO brings much-needed standardization to unwieldy occupational data. Moreover, it can be used to create new occupational spaces customized to specific research domains.
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- Ju-Chi Yu
- Campbell Family Mental Health, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.
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- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Canada.
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
- Department of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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Choi H, Byeon K, Lee J, Hong S, Park B, Park H. Identifying subgroups of eating behavior traits unrelated to obesity using functional connectivity and feature representation learning. Hum Brain Mapp 2024; 45:e26581. [PMID: 38224537 PMCID: PMC10789215 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Revised: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024] Open
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Eating behavior is highly heterogeneous across individuals and cannot be fully explained using only the degree of obesity. We utilized unsupervised machine learning and functional connectivity measures to explore the heterogeneity of eating behaviors measured by a self-assessment instrument using 424 healthy adults (mean ± standard deviation [SD] age = 47.07 ± 18.89 years; 67% female). We generated low-dimensional representations of functional connectivity using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and estimated latent features using the feature representation capabilities of an autoencoder by nonlinearly compressing the functional connectivity information. The clustering approaches applied to latent features identified three distinct subgroups. The subgroups exhibited different levels of hunger traits, while their body mass indices were comparable. The results were replicated in an independent dataset consisting of 212 participants (mean ± SD age = 38.97 ± 19.80 years; 35% female). The model interpretation technique of integrated gradients revealed that the between-group differences in the integrated gradient maps were associated with functional reorganization in heteromodal association and limbic cortices and reward-related subcortical structures such as the accumbens, amygdala, and caudate. The cognitive decoding analysis revealed that these systems are associated with reward- and emotion-related systems. Our findings provide insights into the macroscopic brain organization of eating behavior-related subgroups independent of obesity.
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- Hyoungshin Choi
- Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringSungkyunkwan UniversitySuwonRepublic of Korea
- Center for Neuroscience Imaging ResearchInstitute for Basic ScienceSuwonRepublic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringSungkyunkwan UniversitySuwonRepublic of Korea
- Center for Neuroscience Imaging ResearchInstitute for Basic ScienceSuwonRepublic of Korea
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- Center for Neuroscience Imaging ResearchInstitute for Basic ScienceSuwonRepublic of Korea
- Center for the Developing BrainChild Mind InstituteNew YorkUSA
- Department of Biomedical EngineeringSungkyunkwan UniversitySuwonRepublic of Korea
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- Center for Neuroscience Imaging ResearchInstitute for Basic ScienceSuwonRepublic of Korea
- Department of Data ScienceInha UniversityIncheonRepublic of Korea
- Department of Statistics and Data ScienceInha UniversityIncheonRepublic of Korea
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- Center for Neuroscience Imaging ResearchInstitute for Basic ScienceSuwonRepublic of Korea
- School of Electronic and Electrical EngineeringSungkyunkwan UniversitySuwonRepublic of Korea
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Freedberg MV. The balance of hippocampal and caudate network functional connectivity is associated with episodic memory performance and its decline across adulthood. Neuropsychologia 2023; 191:108723. [PMID: 37923122 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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The hippocampal and caudate networks interact to support episodic memory, but the relationship between hippocampal and caudate connectivity strength and episodic memory is unclear. In general, cognition is optimally supported when connectivity within a functional network dominates connectivity from other networks. For example, episodic memory may be optimally supported when the hippocampal and caudate networks express this pattern of connectivity, consistent with research showing that the two networks are organized competitively. Alternatively, episodic memory may be optimally supported when connectivity in both networks is more balanced, consistent with fMRI reports showing cooperation between networks. Using cross-sectional behavioral and resting state fMRI data from a diverse sample (N = 347; Ages 18-85), I tested the hypothesis that reduced hippocampal and caudate network dominance would be associated with reduced episodic memory across individuals and age. Consistent with this hypothesis, lower caudate network dominance in bilateral thalamic regions was associated with worse episodic memory regardless of age. Age-related differences in caudate network dominance in the pallidum and putamen were also associated with worse episodic memory performance, but through their shared variance with age. I found no evidence that network dominance was related to processing speed or executive function, or that hippocampal network dominance was relate to episodic memory performance. These results show that ongoing biological dynamics between the hippocampal and caudate networks throughout adulthood are related to episodic memory performance and support a growing literature specifying the role of the caudate network in episodic memory.
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- Michael V Freedberg
- The University of Texas, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, Austin, TX, 78712, USA; The University of Texas, Institute for Neuroscience, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
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Vandekar SN, Kang K, Woodward ND, Huang A, McHugo M, Garbett S, Stephens J, Shinohara RT, Schwartzman A, Blume J. Evaluation of resampling-based inference for topological features of neuroimages. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.12.12.571377. [PMID: 38168311 PMCID: PMC10760090 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.12.571377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Many recent studies have demonstrated the inflated type 1 error rate of the original Gaussian random field (GRF) methods for inference of neuroimages and identified resampling (permutation and bootstrapping) methods that have better performance. There has been no evaluation of resampling procedures when using robust (sandwich) statistical images with different topological features (TF) used for neuroimaging inference. Here, we consider estimation of distributions TFs of a statistical image and evaluate resampling procedures that can be used when exchangeability is violated. We compare the methods using realistic simulations and study sex differences in life-span age-related changes in gray matter volume in the Nathan Kline Institute Rockland sample. We find that our proposed wild bootstrap and the commonly used permutation procedure perform well in sample sizes above 50 under realistic simulations with heteroskedasticity. The Rademacher wild bootstrap has fewer assumptions than the permutation and performs similarly in samples of 100 or more, so is valid in a broader range of conditions. We also evaluate the GRF-based pTFCE method and show that it has inflated error rates in samples less than 200. Our R package, pbj , is available on Github and allows the user to reproducibly implement various resampling-based group level neuroimage analyses.
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Tobe RH, Tu L, Keefe JR, Breland MM, Ely BA, Sital M, Richard JT, Tural U, Iosifescu DV, Gabbay V. Personality characteristics, not clinical symptoms, are associated with anhedonia in a community sample: A preliminary investigation. J Psychiatr Res 2023; 168:221-229. [PMID: 37922596 PMCID: PMC11334051 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2023.10.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Revised: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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Anhedonia is a salient transdiagnostic psychiatric symptom associated with increased illness severity and chronicity. Anhedonia is also present to varying degrees in non-clinical cohorts. Here, we sought to examine factors influencing expression of anhedonia. Participants (N = 335) were recruited through the Nathan Kline Institute-Rockland Sample, an initiative to deeply phenotype a large community sample across the lifespan. Utilizing a data-driven approach, we evaluated associations between anhedonia severity, indexed by Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale (SHAPS), and 20 physical, developmental, and clinical measures, including Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, NEO Five-Factor Inventory-3 (NEO-FFI-3), BMI, Hemoglobin A1C, and demography. Using a bootstrapped AIC-based backward selection algorithm, seven variables were retained in the final model: NEO-FFI-3 agreeableness, extraversion, and openness to experience; BMI; sex; ethnicity; and race. Though median SHAPS scores were greater in participants with psychiatric diagnoses (18.5) than those without (17.0) (U = 12238.5, z = 2.473, p = 0.013), diagnosis and symptom measures were not retained as significant predictors in the final robust linear model. Participants scoring higher on agreeableness, extraversion, and openness to experience reported significantly lower anhedonia. These results demonstrate personality as a mild-to-moderate but significant driver of differences in experiencing pleasure in a community sample.
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- Russell H Tobe
- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA; Center for the Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, 10022, USA.
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA; Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Coral Gables, FL, 33124, USA
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Won J, Zaborszky L, Purcell JJ, Ranadive SM, Gentili RJ, Smith JC. Basal forebrain functional connectivity as a mediator of associations between cardiorespiratory fitness and cognition in healthy older women. Brain Imaging Behav 2023; 17:571-583. [PMID: 37273101 PMCID: PMC11005819 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-023-00784-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Age-related cholinergic dysfunction within the basal forebrain (BF) is one of the key hallmarks for age-related cognitive decline. Given that higher cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) induces neuroprotective effects that may differ by sex, we investigated the moderating effects of sex on the associations between CRF, BF cholinergic function, and cognitive function in older adults. 176 older adults (68.5 years) were included from the Nathan Kline Institute Rockland Sample. Functional connectivity (rsFC) of the BF subregions including the medial septal nucleus/diagonal band of Broca (MS/DB) and nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) were computed from resting-sate functional MRI. Modified Astrand-Ryhming submaximal cycle ergometer protocol was used to estimate CRF. Trail making task and inhibition performance during the color word interference test from the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System and Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test were used to examine cognitive function. Linear regression models were used to assess the associations between CRF, BF rsFC, and cognitive performance after controlling for age, sex, and years of education. Subsequently, we measured the associations between the variables in men and women separately to investigate the sex differences. There was an association between higher CRF and greater rsFC between the NBM and right middle frontal gyrus in older men and women. There were significant associations between CRF, NBM rsFC, and trail making task number-letter switching performance only in women. In women, greater NBM rsFC mediated the association between higher CRF and better trail making task number-letter switching performance. These findings provide evidence that greater NBM rsFC, particularly in older women, may be an underlying neural mechanism for the relationship between higher CRF and better executive function.
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- Junyeon Won
- Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
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- Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
| | - Sushant M Ranadive
- Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, 2351 SPH Bldg #255, College Park, MD, 20742, USA
| | - Rodolphe J Gentili
- Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
- Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, 2351 SPH Bldg #255, College Park, MD, 20742, USA
| | - J Carson Smith
- Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
- Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, 2351 SPH Bldg #255, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
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