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Mihaljevic M, Nagpal A, Etyemez S, Narita Z, Ross A, Schaub R, Cascella NG, Coughlin JM, Nestadt G, Nucifora FC, Sedlak TW, Calhoun VD, Faria AV, Yang K, Sawa A. Neuroimaging alterations and relapse in early-stage psychosis. J Psychiatry Neurosci 2024; 49:E135-E142. [PMID: 38569725 PMCID: PMC10980532 DOI: 10.1503/jpn.230115] [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: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Recent reports have indicated that symptom exacerbation after a period of improvement, referred to as relapse, in early-stage psychosis could result in brain changes and poor disease outcomes. We hypothesized that substantial neuroimaging alterations may exist among patients who experience relapse in early-stage psychosis. METHODS We studied patients with psychosis within 2 years after the first psychotic event and healthy controls. We divided patients into 2 groups, namely those who did not experience relapse between disease onset and the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan (no-relapse group) and those who did experience relapse between these 2 timings (relapse group). We analyzed 3003 functional connectivity estimates between 78 regions of interest (ROIs) derived from resting-state functional MRI data by adjusting for demographic and clinical confounding factors. RESULTS We studied 85 patients, incuding 54 in the relapse group and 31 in the no-relapse group, along with 94 healthy controls. We observed significant differences in 47 functional connectivity estimates between the relapse and control groups after multiple comparison corrections, whereas no differences were found between the no-relapse and control groups. Most of these pathological signatures (64%) involved the thalamus. The Jonckheere-Terpstra test indicated that all 47 functional connectivity changes had a significant cross-group progression from controls to patients in the no-relapse group to patients in the relapse group. LIMITATIONS Longitudinal studies are needed to further validate the involvement and pathological importance of the thalamus in relapse. CONCLUSION We observed pathological differences in neuronal connectivity associated with relapse in early-stage psychosis, which are more specifically associated with the thalamus. Our study implies the importance of considering neurobiological mechanisms associated with relapse in the trajectory of psychotic disorders.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marina Mihaljevic
- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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- Departments of Psychiatry (Mihaljevic, Nagpal, Etyemez, Narita, Ross, Schaub, Cascella, Coughlin, Nestadt, Nucifora, Sedlak, Yang, Sawa), Radiology and Radiological Sciences (Faria), Neuroscience (Sawa), Biomedical Engineering (Sawa), Phamarchology (Sawa), and Genetic Medicine (Sawa), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. (Sawa); Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. (Calhoun)
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Ailioaie LM, Ailioaie C, Litscher G. Photobiomodulation in Alzheimer's Disease-A Complementary Method to State-of-the-Art Pharmaceutical Formulations and Nanomedicine? Pharmaceutics 2023; 15:916. [PMID: 36986776 PMCID: PMC10054386 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15030916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2023] Open
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Alzheimer's disease (AD), as a neurodegenerative disorder, usually develops slowly but gradually worsens. It accounts for approximately 70% of dementia cases worldwide, and is recognized by WHO as a public health priority. Being a multifactorial disease, the origins of AD are not satisfactorily understood. Despite huge medical expenditures and attempts to discover new pharmaceuticals or nanomedicines in recent years, there is no cure for AD and not many successful treatments are available. The current review supports introspection on the latest scientific results from the specialized literature regarding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain photobiomodulation, as a complementary method with implications in AD. State-of-the-art pharmaceutical formulations, development of new nanoscale materials, bionanoformulations in current applications and perspectives in AD are highlighted. Another goal of this review was to discover and to speed transition to completely new paradigms for the multi-target management of AD, to facilitate brain remodeling through new therapeutic models and high-tech medical applications with light or lasers in the integrative nanomedicine of the future. In conclusion, new insights from this interdisciplinary approach, including the latest results from photobiomodulation (PBM) applied in human clinical trials, combined with the latest nanoscale drug delivery systems to easily overcome protective brain barriers, could open new avenues to rejuvenate our central nervous system, the most fascinating and complex organ. Picosecond transcranial laser stimulation could be successfully used to cross the blood-brain barrier together with the latest nanotechnologies, nanomedicines and drug delivery systems in AD therapy. Original, smart and targeted multifunctional solutions and new nanodrugs may soon be developed to treat AD.
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- Laura Marinela Ailioaie
- Department of Medical Physics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, 11 Carol I Boulevard, 700506 Iasi, Romania
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- Department of Medical Physics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, 11 Carol I Boulevard, 700506 Iasi, Romania
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- President of ISLA (International Society for Medical Laser Applications), Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Research Center Graz, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 39, 8036 Graz, Austria
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Mori S, Onda K, Fujita S, Suzuki T, Ikeda M, Zay Yar Myint K, Hikage J, Abe O, Tomimoto H, Oishi K, Taguchi J. Brain atrophy in middle age using magnetic resonance imaging scans from Japan’s health screening programme. Brain Commun 2022; 4:fcac211. [PMID: 36043138 PMCID: PMC9416065 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcac211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 06/12/2022] [Accepted: 08/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Although health screening plays a key role in the management of chronic diseases associated with lifestyle choices, brain health is not generally monitored, remaining a black box prior to the manifestation of clinical symptoms. Japan is unique in this regard, as brain MRI scans have been widely performed for more than two decades as part of Brain Dock, a comprehensive health screening programme. A vast number of stored images (well over a million) of longitudinal scans and extensive health data are available, offering a valuable resource for investigating the prevalence of various types of brain-related health conditions occurring throughout adulthood. In this paper, we report on the findings of our preliminary quantitative analysis of T1-weighted MRIs of the brain obtained from 13 980 subjects from three participating sites during the period 2015–19. We applied automated segmentation analysis and observed age-dependent volume loss of various brain structures. We subsequently investigated the effects of scan protocols and the feasibility of calibration for pooling the data. Last, the degree of brain atrophy was correlated with four known risk factors of dementia; blood glucose level, hypertension, obesity, and alcohol consumption. In this initial analysis, we identified brain ventricular volume as an effective marker of age-dependent brain atrophy, being highly sensitive to ageing and evidencing strong robustness against protocol variability. We established the normal range of ventricular volumes at each age, which is an essential first step for establishing criteria used to interpret data obtained for individual participants. We identified a subgroup of individuals at midlife with ventricles that substantially exceeded the average size. The correlation studies revealed that all four risk factors were associated with greater ventricular volumes at midlife, some of which reached highly significant sizes. This study demonstrates the feasibility of conducting a large-scale quantitative analysis of existing Brain Dock data in Japan. It will importantly guide future efforts to investigate the prevalence of large ventricles at midlife and the potential reduction of this prevalence, and hence of dementia risk, through lifestyle changes.
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- Susumu Mori
- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine , 330 Traylor Bldg, 217 Rutland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21205 , USA
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- Tokyo Medical and Dental University , 1 Chome-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 113-0034 , Japan
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine , 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 113-0033 , Japan
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- Resorttrust.Inc, Engyou Bldg.8F , Roppongi 7-15-14, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 , Japan
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- Resorttrust.Inc, Engyou Bldg.8F , Roppongi 7-15-14, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 , Japan
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- Advanced Medical Care Inc. , Midtown Tower 6F, Akasaka 9-7-1, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-6206 , Japan
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- Resorttrust.Inc, Engyou Bldg.8F , Roppongi 7-15-14, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 , Japan
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- Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Medicine , 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 113-0033 , Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Hidekazu Tomimoto, Mie University 2-174 , Edobashi, Tsu, Mie 514-0001 , Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine , 330 Traylor Bldg, 217 Rutland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21205 , USA
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- Tokyo Midtown Clinic , 9-7-1-6F Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo 107-6206 , Japan
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Narita Z, Yang K, Kuga H, Piancharoen P, Etyemez S, Faria A, Mihaljevic M, Longo L, Namkung H, Coughlin JM, Nestadt G, Nucifora FC, Sedlak TW, Schaub R, Crawford J, Schretlen DJ, Miyata J, Ishizuka K, Sawa A. Face processing of social cognition in patients with first episode psychosis: Its deficits and association with the right subcallosal anterior cingulate cortex. Schizophr Res 2021; 238:99-107. [PMID: 34649085 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2021.09.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Revised: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The clinical importance of social cognition is well acknowledged in patients with psychosis, in particular those with first episode psychosis (FEP). Nevertheless, its brain substrates and circuitries remain elusive, lacking precise analysis between multimodal brain characteristics and behavioral sub-dimensions within social cognition. In the present study, we examined face processing of social cognition in 71 FEP patients and 77 healthy controls (HCs). We looked for a possible correlation between face processing and multimodal MRI characteristics such as resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) and brain volume. We observed worse recognition accuracy, longer recognition response time, and longer memory response time in FEP patients when compared with HCs. Of these, memory response time was selectively correlated with specific rsFCs, which included the right subcallosal sub-region of BA24 in the ACC (scACC), only in FEP patients. The volume of this region was also correlated with memory response time in FEP patients. The scACC is functionally and structurally important in FEP-associated abnormalities of face processing measures in social cognition.
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- Zui Narita
- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America; Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America; Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America; Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America.
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Faria AV, Zhao Y, Ye C, Hsu J, Yang K, Cifuentes E, Wang L, Mori S, Miller M, Caffo B, Sawa A. Multimodal MRI assessment for first episode psychosis: A major change in the thalamus and an efficient stratification of a subgroup. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 42:1034-1053. [PMID: 33377594 PMCID: PMC7856640 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Revised: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 10/18/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Multi‐institutional brain imaging studies have emerged to resolve conflicting results among individual studies. However, adjusting multiple variables at the technical and cohort levels is challenging. Therefore, it is important to explore approaches that provide meaningful results from relatively small samples at institutional levels. We studied 87 first episode psychosis (FEP) patients and 62 healthy subjects by combining supervised integrated factor analysis (SIFA) with a novel pipeline for automated structure‐based analysis, an efficient and comprehensive method for dimensional data reduction that our group recently established. We integrated multiple MRI features (volume, DTI indices, resting state fMRI—rsfMRI) in the whole brain of each participant in an unbiased manner. The automated structure‐based analysis showed widespread DTI abnormalities in FEP and rs‐fMRI differences between FEP and healthy subjects mostly centered in thalamus. The combination of multiple modalities with SIFA was more efficient than the use of single modalities to stratify a subgroup of FEP (individuals with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder) that had more robust deficits from the overall FEP group. The information from multiple MRI modalities and analytical methods highlighted the thalamus as significantly abnormal in FEP. This study serves as a proof‐of‐concept for the potential of this methodology to reveal disease underpins and to stratify populations into more homogeneous sub‐groups.
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- Andreia V Faria
- Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Electronics and Information, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Radiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,Department of Mental Health, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Ferre CL, Carmel JB, Flamand VH, Gordon AM, Friel KM. Anatomical and Functional Characterization in Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: An Atlas-Based Analysis. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2020; 34:148-158. [PMID: 31983314 DOI: 10.1177/1545968319899916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Background. Variability in hand function among children with unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP) might reflect the type of brain injury and resulting anatomical sequelae. Objective. We used atlas-based analysis of structural images to determine whether children with periventricular (PV) versus middle cerebral artery (MCA) injuries might exhibit unique anatomical characteristics that account for differences in hand function. Methods. Forty children with UCP underwent structural brain imaging using 3-T magnetic resonance imaging. Brain lesions were classified as PV or MCA. A group of 40 typically developing (TD) children served as comparison controls. Whole brains were parcellated into 198 structures (regions of interest) to obtain volume estimates. Dexterity and bimanual hand function were assessed. Unbiased, differential expression analysis was performed to determine volumetric differences between PV and MCA groups. Principal component analysis (PCA) was performed and the top 3 components were extracted to perform regression on hand function. Results. Children with PV had significantly better hand function than children with MCA. Multidimensional scaling analysis of volumetric data revealed separate clustering of children with MCA, PV, and TD children. PCA extracted anatomical components that comprised the 2 types of brain injury. In the MCA group, reductions of volume were concentrated in sensorimotor structures of the injured hemisphere. Models using PCA predicted hand function with greater accuracy than models based on qualitative brain injury type. Conclusions. Our results highlight unique quantitative differences in children with UCP that also predict differences in hand function. The systematic discrimination between groups found in our study reveals future questions about the potential prognostic utility of this approach.
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- Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.,Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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- Burke Neurological Institute, White Plains, NY, USA.,Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Rezende TJR, Campos BM, Hsu J, Li Y, Ceritoglu C, Kutten K, França Junior MC, Mori S, Miller MI, Faria AV. Test-retest reproducibility of a multi-atlas automated segmentation tool on multimodality brain MRI. Brain Behav 2019; 9:e01363. [PMID: 31483562 PMCID: PMC6790328 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.1363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 06/07/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
INTRODUCTION The increasing use of large sample sizes for population and personalized medicine requires high-throughput tools for imaging processing that can handle large amounts of data with diverse image modalities, perform a biologically meaningful information reduction, and result in comprehensive quantification. Exploring the reproducibility of these tools reveals the specific strengths and weaknesses that heavily influence the interpretation of results, contributing to transparence in science. METHODS We tested-retested the reproducibility of MRICloud, a free automated method for whole-brain, multimodal MRI segmentation and quantification, on two public, independent datasets of healthy adults. RESULTS The reproducibility was extremely high for T1-volumetric analysis, high for diffusion tensor images (DTI) (however, regionally variable), and low for resting-state fMRI. CONCLUSION In general, the reproducibility of the different modalities was slightly superior to that of widely used software. This analysis serves as a normative reference for planning samples and for the interpretation of structure-based MRI studies.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Neurology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
| | - Johnny Hsu
- Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- AnatomyWorks LLC, Baltimore, Maryland
| | - Can Ceritoglu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
| | - Michael I Miller
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
| | - Andreia V Faria
- Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Faria AV, Crawford J, Ye C, Hsu J, Kenkare A, Scheretlen D, Sawa A. Relationship between neuropsychological behavior and brain white matter in first-episode psychosis. Schizophr Res 2019; 208:49-54. [PMID: 30987924 PMCID: PMC6544495 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2019.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2018] [Revised: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 04/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
We addressed the relationship between white matter architecture, represented by MRI fractional anisotropy (FA), and cognition in individuals with first-episode psychosis (FEP) by applying for a new methodology that allows whole brain parcellation of core and peripheral white matter in a biologically meaningful fashion. Regionally specific correlations were found in FEP between three specific domains of cognition (processing speed, attention/working memory, and executive functioning) and FA at the deep (cerebral peduncles, sagittal striatum, uncinate, internal/external capsule, cingulum) and peripheral white matter (adjacent to inferior temporal, angular, supramarginal, insula, occipital, rectus gyrus).
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Affiliation(s)
- Andreia V. Faria
- Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;,Correspondence to: Andreia V. Faria, M.D.,PhD.,
Associate Professor, Magnetic Resonance Research Division, Department of
Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine., 217B Traylor Bldg.,
720 Rutland Ave., Baltimore, MD 21205., Phone: (410) 4109554215, Fax: (410)
614-1948,
| | - Jeffrey Crawford
- Department Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Chenfei Ye
- Department of Electronics and Information, Harbin Institute
of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Guangdong, China, 518055
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- Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;,Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;,Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;,Department of Mental Health, The Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD, USA
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