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Tsivaka D, Williams SCR, Medina S, Kowalczyk OS, Brooks JCW, Howard MA, Lythgoe DJ, Tsougos I. A second-order and slice-specific linear shimming technique to improve spinal cord fMRI. Magn Reson Imaging 2023:S0730-725X(23)00108-X. [PMID: 37353180 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2023.06.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Revised: 05/20/2023] [Accepted: 06/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/25/2023]
Abstract
PURPOSE To develop a second-order and slice-specific linear shimming technique and investigate its efficiency in the mitigation of signal loss and distortions, and the increase of temporal signal-to-noise ratio (tSNR) within the spinal cord during functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of the human cervical spinal cord. METHODS All scans were performed on a General Electric Discovery MR750 3 T scanner, using a head, neck and spine coil and a neurovascular array. To improve B0 homogeneity, a field map was acquired, and second-order shims (SOS) were optimized over manually defined regions of interest (ROIs). Signal loss from dephasing by susceptibility-induced gradients was reduced by optimizing slice-specific x-, y- and z-shims to maximize signal within the spinal cord. Spectral-spatial excitation pulses were used in both the slice-specific linear shimming calibration scan and fMRI acquisitions. The shimming technique's efficiency was initially tested on eight healthy volunteers by comparing tSNR between images acquired with the manufacturer's standard linear shimming and with our SOS and xyz-shimming technique. Subsequently, using an increased spatial resolution as needed for fMRI of the spinal cord, tSNR measurements were performed on resting-state fMRI images from 14 healthy participants. RESULTS Spinal fMRI images acquired with only the standard linear shimming suffered from severe signal loss below the C5 vertebral level. The developed shimming technique compensated for this loss especially at levels C6 and C7, while tSNR was significantly higher at all vertebral levels with SOS and xyz-shimming than without it. CONCLUSION A comprehensive shimming approach which includes the use of spectral-spatial excitation pulses along with both second-order and slice-specific linear shim optimization reduces regional signal loss and increases tSNR along the c-spine (C3-C7), improving the ability to record functional signals from the human spinal cord.
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- D Tsivaka
- Medical Physics Department, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece; Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Medical Physics Department, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece; Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
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Martins DA, Mazibuko N, Zelaya F, Vasilakopoulou S, Loveridge J, Oates A, Maltezos S, Mehta M, Wastling S, Howard M, McAlonan G, Murphy D, Williams SCR, Fotopoulou A, Schuschnig U, Paloyelis Y. Author Correction: Effects of route of administration on oxytocin-induced changes in regional cerebral blood flow in humans. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1876. [PMID: 35361784 PMCID: PMC8971402 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29419-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- D A Martins
- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Adult Autism and ADHD Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.,Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.,Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science (SM), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science (SM), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
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Lao-Kaim NP, Giampietro VP, Williams SCR, Simmons A, Tchanturia K. Functional MRI investigation of verbal working memory in adults with anorexia nervosa. Eur Psychiatry 2020; 29:211-8. [PMID: 23849992 DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2013.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2013] [Revised: 05/10/2013] [Accepted: 05/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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AbstractLiterature regarding verbal working memory (vWM) in anorexia nervosa (AN) has been inconsistent due to a misunderstanding of the key components of vWM and introduction of confounding stimuli. Furthermore, there are no studies looking at how brain function in people with AN relates to vWM performance. The present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with a letter n-back paradigm to study the effect of increasing vWM task difficulty on cortical functioning in the largest AN sample to date (n = 31). Although the AN group had low BMI and higher anxious and depressive symptomology compared to age-matched controls (HC), there were no between-group differences in accuracy and speed at any task difficulty. fMRI data revealed no regions exhibiting significant differences in activation when groups were compared at each difficulty separately and no regions showing group x condition interaction. Although there was a trend towards lower accuracy as duration of illness increased, this was not correlated with activity in regions associated with vWM. These findings indicate that vWM in AN is as efficient and performed using the same cognitive strategy as HC, and that there may not be a need for therapies to pursue remediation of this particular neurocognitive faculty.
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- N P Lao-Kaim
- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroimaging, SE5 8AF London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroimaging, SE5 8AF London, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at South London, Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroimaging, SE5 8AF London, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at South London, Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
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Martins DA, Mazibuko N, Zelaya F, Vasilakopoulou S, Loveridge J, Oates A, Maltezos S, Mehta M, Wastling S, Howard M, McAlonan G, Murphy D, Williams SCR, Fotopoulou A, Schuschnig U, Paloyelis Y. Effects of route of administration on oxytocin-induced changes in regional cerebral blood flow in humans. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1160. [PMID: 32127545 PMCID: PMC7054359 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14845-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2019] [Accepted: 02/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Could nose-to-brain pathways mediate the effects of peptides such as oxytocin (OT) on brain physiology when delivered intranasally? We address this question by contrasting two methods of intranasal administration (a standard nasal spray, and a nebulizer expected to improve OT deposition in nasal areas putatively involved in direct nose-to-brain transport) to intravenous administration in terms of effects on regional cerebral blood flow during two hours post-dosing. We demonstrate that OT-induced decreases in amygdala perfusion, a key hub of the OT central circuitry, are explained entirely by OT increases in systemic circulation following both intranasal and intravenous OT administration. Yet we also provide robust evidence confirming the validity of the intranasal route to target specific brain regions. Our work has important translational implications and demonstrates the need to carefully consider the method of administration in our efforts to engage specific central oxytocinergic targets for the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- D A Martins
- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Adult Autism and ADHD Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
- Department of Brain Repair and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK
- Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science (SM), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science (SM), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
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Wise T, Marwood L, Perkins AM, Herane-Vives A, Williams SCR, Young AH, Cleare AJ, Arnone D. A morphometric signature of depressive symptoms in unmedicated patients with mood disorders. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2018; 138:73-82. [PMID: 29682732 DOI: 10.1111/acps.12887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE A growing literature indicates that unipolar depression and bipolar depression are associated with alterations in grey matter volume. However, it is unclear to what degree these patterns of morphometric change reflect symptom dimensions. Here, we aimed to predict depressive symptoms and hypomanic symptoms based on patterns of grey matter volume using machine learning. METHOD We used machine learning methods combined with voxel-based morphometry to predict depressive and self-reported hypomanic symptoms from grey matter volume in a sample of 47 individuals with unmedicated unipolar and bipolar depression. RESULTS We were able to predict depressive severity from grey matter volume in the anteroventral bilateral insula in both unipolar depression and bipolar depression. Self-reported hypomanic symptoms did not predict grey matter loss with a significant degree of accuracy. DISCUSSION The results of this study suggest that patterns of grey matter volume alteration in the insula are associated with depressive symptom severity across unipolar and bipolar depression. Studies using other modalities and exploring other brain regions with a larger sample are warranted to identify other systems that may be associated with depressive and hypomanic symptoms across affective disorders.
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- T Wise
- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK.,Max Planck, UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, South London and Maudsley NSH Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, South London and Maudsley NSH Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,Departamento de Clínicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile.,South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, South London and Maudsley NSH Foundation Trust, London, UK.,Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, South London and Maudsley NSH Foundation Trust, London, UK.,South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre, South London and Maudsley NSH Foundation Trust, London, UK.,South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.,South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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Keszthelyi D, Aziz Q, Ruffle JK, O'Daly O, Sanders D, Krause K, Williams SCR, Howard MA. Delineation between different components of chronic pain using dimension reduction - an ASL fMRI study in hand osteoarthritis. Eur J Pain 2018. [PMID: 29520913 PMCID: PMC6055802 DOI: 10.1002/ejp.1212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Background Traditional psychometric measures aimed at characterizing the pain experience often show considerable overlap, due to interlinked affective and modulatory processes under central nervous system control. Neuroimaging studies have been employed to investigate this complexity of pain processing, in an attempt to provide a quantifiable, adjunctive description of pain perception. In this exploratory study, we examine psychometric and neuroimaging data from 38 patients with painful osteoarthritis of the carpometacarpal joint. We had two aims: first, to utilize principal component analysis (PCA) as a dimension reduction strategy across multiple self‐reported endpoints of pain, cognitive and affective functioning; second, to investigate the relationship between identified dimensions and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) as an indirect measure of brain activity underpinning their ongoing pain experiences. Methods Psychometric data were collected using validated questionnaires. Quantitative estimates of rCBF were acquired using pseudo‐continuous arterial spin‐labelled functional magnetic resonance imaging. Results Two principal components were identified that accounted for 73% of data variance; one related to pain scores and a second to psychological traits. Voxel‐wise multiple regression analysis revealed a significant negative association between the ‘pain score’ component and rCBF to a right temporal lobe cluster, including the amygdala and the parahippocampal cortex. Conclusion We suggest this association may represent a coping mechanism that aims to reduce fear‐related pain‐anxiety. Further investigation of central brain processing mechanisms in osteoarthritis‐related pain may offer insights into more effective therapeutic strategies. Significance This study demonstrates that dimension reduction using PCA allows insight into pain perception and its affective components in relation to brain activation patterns in patients with painful hand osteoarthritis.
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- D Keszthelyi
- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands.,Centre for Neuroscience and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK.,Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London, UK
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- Centre for Neuroscience and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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- Centre for Neuroscience and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, UK.,Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London, UK.,Pain Management Research Institute, The University of Sydney at Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London, UK.,Department of Neurology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London, UK
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Polsek D, Gildeh N, Cash D, Winsky-Sommerer R, Williams SCR, Turkheimer F, Leschziner GD, Morrell MJ, Rosenzweig I. Obstructive sleep apnoea and Alzheimer's disease: In search of shared pathomechanisms. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2018; 86:142-149. [PMID: 29223769 PMCID: PMC6562163 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Revised: 10/29/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a significant public health concern. The incidence continues to rise, and it is set to be over one million in the UK by 2025. The processes involved in the pathogenesis of AD have been shown to overlap with those found in cognitive decline in patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA). Currently, the standard treatment for OSA is Continuous Positive Airway Pressure. Adherence to treatment can, however, be an issue, especially in patients with dementia. Also, not all patients respond adequately, necessitating the use of additional treatments. Based on the body of data, we here suggest that excessive and prolonged neuronal activity might contribute to genesis and acceleration of both AD and OSA in the absence of appropriately structured sleep. Further, we argue that external factors, including systemic inflammation and obesity, are likely to interfere with immunological processes of the brain, and further promote disease progression. If this hypothesis is proven in future studies, it could have far-reaching clinical translational implications, as well as implications for future treatment strategies in OSA.
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- D Polsek
- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King's College London, UK; Croatian Institute for Brain Research, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King's College London, UK; Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
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- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King's College London, UK; Department of Neuroimaging, IoPPN, King's College London, UK
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- Surrey Sleep Research Centre, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, IoPPN, King's College London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, IoPPN, King's College London, UK
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- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King's College London, UK; Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK; Department of Neurology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
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- Academic Unit of Sleep and Breathing, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK and NIHR Respiratory Disease Biomedical Research Unit at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College London, UK
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- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King's College London, UK; Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
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Polsek D, Gildeh N, Cash D, Winsky-Sommerer R, Williams SCR, Turkheimer F, Leschziner GD, Morrell MJ, Rosenzweig I. Obstructive sleep apnoea and Alzheimer's disease: In search of shared pathomechanisms. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2017. [PMID: 29223769 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.12.004.] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/30/2022]
Abstract
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a significant public health concern. The incidence continues to rise, and it is set to be over one million in the UK by 2025. The processes involved in the pathogenesis of AD have been shown to overlap with those found in cognitive decline in patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA). Currently, the standard treatment for OSA is Continuous Positive Airway Pressure. Adherence to treatment can, however, be an issue, especially in patients with dementia. Also, not all patients respond adequately, necessitating the use of additional treatments. Based on the body of data, we here suggest that excessive and prolonged neuronal activity might contribute to genesis and acceleration of both AD and OSA in the absence of appropriately structured sleep. Further, we argue that external factors, including systemic inflammation and obesity, are likely to interfere with immunological processes of the brain, and further promote disease progression. If this hypothesis is proven in future studies, it could have far-reaching clinical translational implications, as well as implications for future treatment strategies in OSA.
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- D Polsek
- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King's College London, UK; Croatian Institute for Brain Research, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King's College London, UK; Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
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- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King's College London, UK; Department of Neuroimaging, IoPPN, King's College London, UK
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- Surrey Sleep Research Centre, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, IoPPN, King's College London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, IoPPN, King's College London, UK
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- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King's College London, UK; Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK; Department of Neurology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
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- Academic Unit of Sleep and Breathing, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK and NIHR Respiratory Disease Biomedical Research Unit at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College London, UK
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- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, CNS, IoPPN, King's College London, UK; Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
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Wise T, Marwood L, Perkins AM, Herane-Vives A, Joules R, Lythgoe DJ, Luh WM, Williams SCR, Young AH, Cleare AJ, Arnone D. Instability of default mode network connectivity in major depression: a two-sample confirmation study. Transl Psychiatry 2017; 7:e1105. [PMID: 28440813 PMCID: PMC5416685 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2017.40] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2016] [Revised: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 01/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Major depression is associated with altered static functional connectivity in various brain networks, particularly the default mode network (DMN). Dynamic functional connectivity is a novel tool with little application in affective disorders to date, and holds the potential to unravel fluctuations in connectivity strength over time in major depression. We assessed stability of connectivity in major depression between the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), key nodes in the DMN that are implicated in ruminative cognitions. Functional connectivity stability between the mPFC and PCC over the course of a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan was compared between medication-free patients with major depression and healthy controls matched for age, sex and handedness. We tested replicability of the results in an independent sample using multi-echo resting-state fMRI. The primary sample included 20 patients and 19 controls, while the validation sample included 19 patients and 19 controls. Greater connectivity variability was detected in major depression between mPFC and PCC. This was demonstrated in both samples indicating that the results were reliable and were not influenced by the fMRI acquisition approach used. Our results demonstrate that alterations within the DMN in major depression go beyond changes in connectivity strength and extend to reduced connectivity stability within key DMN regions. Findings were robustly replicated across two independent samples. Further research is necessary to better understand the nature of these fluctuations in connectivity and their relationship to the aetiology of major depression.
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Affiliation(s)
- T Wise
- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK,Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 103 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK. E-mail:
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,Departamento de Clínicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Cornell MRI Facility, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, NY, USA
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- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK,Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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Crum WR, Danckaers F, Huysmans T, Cotel MC, Natesan S, Modo MM, Sijbers J, Williams SCR, Kapur S, Vernon AC. Chronic exposure to haloperidol and olanzapine leads to common and divergent shape changes in the rat hippocampus in the absence of grey-matter volume loss. Psychol Med 2016; 46:3081-3093. [PMID: 27516217 PMCID: PMC5108303 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291716001768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2015] [Revised: 06/23/2016] [Accepted: 06/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND One of the most consistently reported brain abnormalities in schizophrenia (SCZ) is decreased volume and shape deformation of the hippocampus. However, the potential contribution of chronic antipsychotic medication exposure to these phenomena remains unclear. METHOD We examined the effect of chronic exposure (8 weeks) to clinically relevant doses of either haloperidol (HAL) or olanzapine (OLZ) on adult rat hippocampal volume and shape using ex vivo structural MRI with the brain retained inside the cranium to prevent distortions due to dissection, followed by tensor-based morphometry (TBM) and elastic surface-based shape deformation analysis. The volume of the hippocampus was also measured post-mortem from brain tissue sections in each group. RESULTS Chronic exposure to either HAL or OLZ had no effect on the volume of the hippocampus, even at exploratory thresholds, which was confirmed post-mortem. In contrast, shape deformation analysis revealed that chronic HAL and OLZ exposure lead to both common and divergent shape deformations (q = 0.05, FDR-corrected) in the rat hippocampus. In particular, in the dorsal hippocampus, HAL exposure led to inward shape deformation, whereas OLZ exposure led to outward shape deformation. Interestingly, outward shape deformations that were common to both drugs occurred in the ventral hippocampus. These effects remained significant after controlling for hippocampal volume suggesting true shape changes. CONCLUSIONS Chronic exposure to either HAL or OLZ leads to both common and divergent effects on rat hippocampal shape in the absence of volume change. The implications of these findings for the clinic are discussed.
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- W. R. Crum
- Department of Neuroimaging,
King's College London, Institute of
Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience,
Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, De Crespigny
Park, London, UK
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- Department of Physics,
iMinds-Vision Laboratory, University of
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Physics,
iMinds-Vision Laboratory, University of
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Psychosis Studies,
King's College London, Institute of
Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, De
Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies,
King's College London, Institute of
Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, De
Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- Department of Basic and Clinical
Neuroscience, King's College London,
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and
Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Institute for Clinical
Neuroscience, London, UK
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- Department of Physics,
iMinds-Vision Laboratory, University of
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Department of Neuroimaging,
King's College London, Institute of
Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience,
Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, De Crespigny
Park, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies,
King's College London, Institute of
Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, De
Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies,
King's College London, Institute of
Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, De
Crespigny Park, London, UK
- Department of Basic and Clinical
Neuroscience, King's College London,
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and
Neuroscience, Maurice Wohl Institute for Clinical
Neuroscience, London, UK
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Migo EM, O'Daly O, Mitterschiffthaler M, Antonova E, Dawson GR, Dourish CT, Craig KJ, Simmons A, Wilcock GK, McCulloch E, Jackson SHD, Kopelman MD, Williams SCR, Morris RG. Investigating virtual reality navigation in amnestic mild cognitive impairment using fMRI. Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 2015; 23:196-217. [PMID: 26234803 DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2015.1073218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Spatial navigation requires a well-established network of brain regions, including the hippocampus, caudate nucleus, and retrosplenial cortex. Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) is a condition with predominantly memory impairment, conferring a high predictive risk factor for dementia. aMCI is associated with hippocampal atrophy and subtle deficits in spatial navigation. We present the first use of a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) navigation task in aMCI, using a virtual reality analog of the Radial Arm Maze. Compared with controls, aMCI patients showed reduced activity in the hippocampus bilaterally, retrosplenial cortex, and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Reduced activation in key areas for successful navigation, as well as additional regions, was found alongside relatively normal task performance. Results also revealed increased activity in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in aMCI patients, which may reflect compensation for reduced activations elsewhere. These data support suggestions that fMRI spatial navigation tasks may be useful for staging of progression in MCI.
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- E M Migo
- a King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry , Psychology and Neuroscience , London , UK
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- a King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry , Psychology and Neuroscience , London , UK
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- a King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry , Psychology and Neuroscience , London , UK.,b Department for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics , Campus Innenstadt, Ludwig-Maximilians-University , Munich , Germany
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- a King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry , Psychology and Neuroscience , London , UK
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- a King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry , Psychology and Neuroscience , London , UK.,d NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London , London , UK.,e NIHR Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London , London , UK
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- f Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences , University of Oxford , John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford , UK
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- f Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences , University of Oxford , John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford , UK
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- g Clinical Age Research Unit, King's College Hospital , London , UK
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- a King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry , Psychology and Neuroscience , London , UK
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- a King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry , Psychology and Neuroscience , London , UK
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- a King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry , Psychology and Neuroscience , London , UK
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Kiddle SJ, Steves CJ, Mehta M, Simmons A, Xu X, Newhouse S, Sattlecker M, Ashton NJ, Bazenet C, Killick R, Adnan J, Westman E, Nelson S, Soininen H, Kloszewska I, Mecocci P, Tsolaki M, Vellas B, Curtis C, Breen G, Williams SCR, Lovestone S, Spector TD, Dobson RJB. Plasma protein biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease endophenotypes in asymptomatic older twins: early cognitive decline and regional brain volumes. Transl Psychiatry 2015; 5:e584. [PMID: 26080319 PMCID: PMC4490288 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2015.78] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2015] [Accepted: 05/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
There is great interest in blood-based markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD), especially in its pre-symptomatic stages. Therefore, we aimed to identify plasma proteins whose levels associate with potential markers of pre-symptomatic AD. We also aimed to characterise confounding by genetics and the effect of genetics on blood proteins in general. Panel-based proteomics was performed using SOMAscan on plasma samples from TwinsUK subjects who are asymptomatic for AD, measuring the level of 1129 proteins. Protein levels were compared with 10-year change in CANTAB-paired associates learning (PAL; n = 195), and regional brain volumes (n = 34). Replication of proteins associated with regional brain volumes was performed in 254 individuals from the AddNeuroMed cohort. Across all the proteins measured, genetic factors were found to explain ~26% of the variability in blood protein levels on average. The plasma level of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) MAPKAPK5 protein was found to positively associate with the 10-year change in CANTAB-PAL in both the individual and twin difference context. The plasma level of protein MAP2K4 was found to suggestively associate negatively (Q < 0.1) with the volume of the left entorhinal cortex. Future studies will be needed to assess the specificity of MAPKAPK5 and MAP2K4 to eventual conversion to AD.
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- S J Kiddle
- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, Box P092, SGDP Building, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK. E-mail: or
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- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation, London, UK
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation, London, UK,Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation, London, UK,Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Instituet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine – Neurology, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland,NeuroCenter, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Psychotic disorders, Medical University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- 3rd Department of Neurology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine, INSERM University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation, London, UK
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- Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Oxford University, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK,NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health and Biomedical Research Unit for Dementia at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation, London, UK,Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, Box P092, SGDP Building, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK. E-mail: or
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BACKGROUND Increasing evidence suggests that autism is associated with abnormal white-matter (WM) anatomy and impaired brain 'connectivity'. While myelin plays a critical role in synchronized brain communication, its aetiological role in autistic symptoms has only been indirectly addressed by WM volumetric, relaxometry and diffusion tensor imaging studies. A potentially more specific measure of myelin content, termed myelin water fraction (MWF), could provide improved sensitivity to myelin alteration in autism. METHOD We performed a cross-sectional imaging study that compared 14 individuals with autism and 14 age- and IQ-matched controls. T 1 relaxation times (T 1), T 2 relaxation times (T 2) and MWF values were compared between autistic subjects, diagnosed using the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI-R), with current symptoms assessed using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and typical healthy controls. Correlations between T 1, T 2 and MWF values with clinical measures [ADI-R, ADOS, and the Autism Quotient (AQ)] were also assessed. RESULTS Individuals with autism showed widespread WM T 1 and MWF differences compared to typical controls. Within autistic individuals, worse current social interaction skill as measured by the ADOS was related to reduced MWF although not T 1. No significant differences or correlations with symptoms were observed with respect to T 2. CONCLUSIONS Autistic individuals have significantly lower global MWF and higher T 1, suggesting widespread alteration in tissue microstructure and biochemistry. Areas of difference, including thalamic projections, cerebellum and cingulum, have previously been implicated in the disorder; however, this is the first study to specifically indicate myelin alteration in these regions.
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- S C L Deoni
- Advanced Baby Imaging Laboratory,School of Engineering, Brown University,Providence, RI,USA
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences,Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London,London,UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences,Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London,London,UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences,Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London,London,UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging,Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London,London,UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences,Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London,London,UK
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Fonville L, Giampietro V, Williams SCR, Simmons A, Tchanturia K. Alterations in brain structure in adults with anorexia nervosa and the impact of illness duration. Psychol Med 2014; 44:1965-1975. [PMID: 24074139 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291713002389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Brain structure alterations have been reported in anorexia nervosa, but findings have been inconsistent. This may be due to inadequate sample size, sample heterogeneity or differences in methodology. METHOD High resolution magnetic resonance images were acquired of 33 adult participants with anorexia nervosa and 33 healthy participants, the largest study sample to date, in order to assess whole-brain volume, ventricular cerebrospinal fluid, white matter and grey matter volume. Voxel-based morphometry was conducted to assess regional grey matter volume. Levels of depression, anxiety, obsessionality and eating disorder-related symptoms were measured and used to explore correlations with brain structure. RESULTS Participants with anorexia nervosa had smaller brain volumes as well as a global decrease in grey matter volume with ventricular enlargement. Voxel-based morphometry revealed a decrease in grey matter volume spanning across the cerebellum, temporal, frontal and occipital lobes. A correlation was found between grey matter volume loss and duration of illness in the cerebellum and mesencephalon. No correlations were found with clinical measures. CONCLUSIONS Findings are in accordance with several previous studies on brain structure and match functional studies that have assessed the symptomatology of anorexia nervosa, such as body image distortion and cognitive bias to food. The correlation with duration of illness supports the implication of cerebellar atrophy in the maintenance of low weight and disrupted eating behaviour and illustrates its role in the chronic phase of anorexia nervosa. The lack of other correlations suggests that these findings are not related to the presence of co-morbid disorders.
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- L Fonville
- King's College London,Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine, London,UK
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- King's College London,Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroimaging, London,UK
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- King's College London,Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroimaging, London,UK
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- King's College London,Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroimaging, London,UK
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- King's College London,Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine, London,UK
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Pettersson-Yeo W, Benetti S, Marquand AF, Dell‘Acqua F, Williams SCR, Allen P, Prata D, McGuire P, Mechelli A. Using genetic, cognitive and multi-modal neuroimaging data to identify ultra-high-risk and first-episode psychosis at the individual level. Psychol Med 2013; 43:2547-2562. [PMID: 23507081 PMCID: PMC3821374 DOI: 10.1017/s003329171300024x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2012] [Revised: 01/15/2013] [Accepted: 01/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Group-level results suggest that relative to healthy controls (HCs), ultra-high-risk (UHR) and first-episode psychosis (FEP) subjects show alterations in neuroanatomy, neurofunction and cognition that may be mediated genetically. It is unclear, however, whether these groups can be differentiated at single-subject level, for instance using the machine learning analysis support vector machine (SVM). Here, we used a multimodal approach to examine the ability of structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI), functional MRI (fMRI), diffusion tensor neuroimaging (DTI), genetic and cognitive data to differentiate between UHR, FEP and HC subjects at the single-subject level using SVM. METHOD Three age- and gender-matched SVM paired comparison groups were created comprising 19, 19 and 15 subject pairs for FEP versus HC, UHR versus HC and FEP versus UHR, respectively. Genetic, sMRI, DTI, fMRI and cognitive data were obtained for each participant and the ability of each to discriminate subjects at the individual level in conjunction with SVM was tested. RESULTS Successful classification accuracies (p < 0.05) comprised FEP versus HC (genotype, 67.86%; DTI, 65.79%; fMRI, 65.79% and 68.42%; cognitive data, 73.69%), UHR versus HC (sMRI, 68.42%; DTI, 65.79%), and FEP versus UHR (sMRI, 76.67%; fMRI, 73.33%; cognitive data, 66.67%). CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that FEP subjects are identifiable at the individual level using a range of biological and cognitive measures. Comparatively, only sMRI and DTI allowed discrimination of UHR from HC subjects. For the first time FEP and UHR subjects have been shown to be directly differentiable at the single-subject level using cognitive, sMRI and fMRI data. Preliminarily, the results support clinical development of SVM to help inform identification of FEP and UHR subjects, though future work is needed to provide enhanced levels of accuracy.
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- W. Pettersson-Yeo
- Department of Psychosis Studies, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
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- Department of Psychosis Studies, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, UK
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Schmechtig A, Lees J, Perkins A, Altavilla A, Craig KJ, Dawson GR, William Deakin JF, Dourish CT, Evans LH, Koychev I, Weaver K, Smallman R, Walters J, Wilkinson LS, Morris R, Williams SCR, Ettinger U. The effects of ketamine and risperidone on eye movement control in healthy volunteers. Transl Psychiatry 2013; 3:e334. [PMID: 24326395 PMCID: PMC4030328 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2013.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2013] [Revised: 10/15/2013] [Accepted: 10/21/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist ketamine leads to transient psychosis-like symptoms and impairments in oculomotor performance in healthy volunteers. This study examined whether the adverse effects of ketamine on oculomotor performance can be reversed by the atypical antipsychotic risperidone. In this randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 72 healthy participants performed smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEM), prosaccades (PS) and antisaccades (AS) while being randomly assigned to one of four drug groups (intravenous 100 ng ml(-1) ketamine, 2 mg oral risperidone, 100 ng ml(-1) ketamine plus 2 mg oral risperidone, placebo). Drug administration did not lead to harmful adverse events. Ketamine increased saccadic frequency and decreased velocity gain of SPEM (all P < 0.01) but had no significant effects on PS or AS (all P > or = 0.07). An effect of risperidone was observed for amplitude gain and peak velocity of PS and AS, indicating hypometric gain and slower velocities compared with placebo (both P < or = 0.04). No ketamine by risperidone interactions were found (all P > or = 0.26). The results confirm that the administration of ketamine produces oculomotor performance deficits similar in part to those seen in schizophrenia. The atypical antipsychotic risperidone did not reverse ketamine-induced deteriorations. These findings do not support the cognitive enhancing potential of risperidone on oculomotor biomarkers in this model system of schizophrenia and point towards the importance of developing alternative performance-enhancing compounds to optimise pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia.
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- A Schmechtig
- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK,Department of Neuroimaging, CNS Building PO89, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK. E-mail:
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- Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, School of Community Based Medicine, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
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- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- P1vital Ltd, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- P1vital Ltd, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, School of Community Based Medicine, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- P1vital Ltd, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, School of Community Based Medicine, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
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- Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, School of Community Based Medicine, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK,Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Doyle OM, Ashburner J, Zelaya FO, Williams SCR, Mehta MA, Marquand AF. Multivariate decoding of brain images using ordinal regression. Neuroimage 2013; 81:347-357. [PMID: 23684876 PMCID: PMC4068378 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2013] [Revised: 04/26/2013] [Accepted: 05/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Neuroimaging data are increasingly being used to predict potential outcomes or groupings, such as clinical severity, drug dose response, and transitional illness states. In these examples, the variable (target) we want to predict is ordinal in nature. Conventional classification schemes assume that the targets are nominal and hence ignore their ranked nature, whereas parametric and/or non-parametric regression models enforce a metric notion of distance between classes. Here, we propose a novel, alternative multivariate approach that overcomes these limitations — whole brain probabilistic ordinal regression using a Gaussian process framework. We applied this technique to two data sets of pharmacological neuroimaging data from healthy volunteers. The first study was designed to investigate the effect of ketamine on brain activity and its subsequent modulation with two compounds — lamotrigine and risperidone. The second study investigates the effect of scopolamine on cerebral blood flow and its modulation using donepezil. We compared ordinal regression to multi-class classification schemes and metric regression. Considering the modulation of ketamine with lamotrigine, we found that ordinal regression significantly outperformed multi-class classification and metric regression in terms of accuracy and mean absolute error. However, for risperidone ordinal regression significantly outperformed metric regression but performed similarly to multi-class classification both in terms of accuracy and mean absolute error. For the scopolamine data set, ordinal regression was found to outperform both multi-class and metric regression techniques considering the regional cerebral blood flow in the anterior cingulate cortex. Ordinal regression was thus the only method that performed well in all cases. Our results indicate the potential of an ordinal regression approach for neuroimaging data while providing a fully probabilistic framework with elegant approaches for model selection. Often in neuroimaging the independent variables are ranked or ordered. Classification and regression models cannot explicitly model an ordinal target. We present a novel multivariate ordinal regression approach for neuroimaging data. Our results show that ordinal regression is a powerful method for ranking data.
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- O M Doyle
- King's College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry (PO89), De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.
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- King's College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry (PO89), De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
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- King's College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry (PO89), De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
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- King's College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry (PO89), De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
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- King's College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry (PO89), De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.
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Perkins AM, Ettinger U, Weaver K, Schmechtig A, Schrantee A, Morrison PD, Sapara A, Kumari V, Williams SCR, Corr PJ. Advancing the defensive explanation for anxiety disorders: lorazepam effects on human defense are systematically modulated by personality and threat-type. Transl Psychiatry 2013; 3:e246. [PMID: 23591970 PMCID: PMC3641407 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2013.20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2012] [Revised: 02/04/2013] [Accepted: 02/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Clinically effective drugs against human anxiety and fear systematically alter the innate defensive behavior of rodents, suggesting that in humans these emotions reflect defensive adaptations. Compelling experimental human evidence for this theory is yet to be obtained. We report the clearest test to date by investigating the effects of 1 and 2 mg of the anti-anxiety drug lorazepam on the intensity of threat-avoidance behavior in 40 healthy adult volunteers (20 females). We found lorazepam modulated the intensity of participants' threat-avoidance behavior in a dose-dependent manner. However, the pattern of effects depended upon two factors: type of threat-avoidance behavior and theoretically relevant measures of personality. In the case of flight behavior (one-way active avoidance), lorazepam increased intensity in low scorers on the Fear Survey Schedule tissue-damage fear but reduced it in high scorers. Conversely, in the case of risk-assessment behavior (two-way active avoidance), lorazepam reduced intensity in low scorers on the Spielberger trait anxiety but increased it in high scorers. Anti-anxiety drugs do not systematically affect rodent flight behavior; therefore, we interpret this new finding as suggesting that lorazepam has a broader effect on defense in humans than in rodents, perhaps by modulating general perceptions of threat intensity. The different patterning of lorazepam effects on the two behaviors implies that human perceptions of threat intensity are nevertheless distributed across two different neural streams, which influence effects observed on one-way or two-way active avoidance demanded by the situation.
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- A M Perkins
- King's College London, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
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Doyle OM, De Simoni S, Schwarz AJ, Brittain C, O'Daly OG, Williams SCR, Mehta MA. Quantifying the attenuation of the ketamine pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging response in humans: a validation using antipsychotic and glutamatergic agents. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2013; 345:151-60. [PMID: 23370794 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.112.201665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Ketamine acts as an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist and evokes psychotomimetic symptoms resembling schizophrenia in healthy humans. Imaging markers of acute ketamine challenge have the potential to provide a powerful assay of novel therapies for psychiatric illness, although to date this assay has not been fully validated in humans. Pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging (phMRI) was conducted in a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover design in healthy volunteers. The study comprised a control and three ketamine infusion sessions, two of which included pretreatment with lamotrigine or risperidone, compounds hypothesized to reduce ketamine-induced glutamate release. The modulation of the ketamine phMRI response was investigated using univariate analysis of prespecified regions and a novel application of multivariate analysis across the whole-brain response. Lamotrigine and risperidone resulted in widespread attenuation of the ketamine-induced increases in signal, including the frontal and thalamic regions. A contrasting effect across both pretreatments was observed only in the subgenual prefrontal cortex, in which ketamine produced a reduction in signal. Multivariate techniques proved successful in both classifying ketamine from placebo (100%) and identifying the probability of scans belonging to the ketamine class (ketamine pretreated with placebo: 0.89). Following pretreatment, these predictive probabilities were reduced to 0.58 and 0.49 for lamotrigine and risperidone, respectively. We have provided clear demonstration of a ketamine phMRI response and its attenuation with both lamotrigine and risperidone. The analytical methodology used could be readily applied to investigate the mechanistic action of novel compounds relevant for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and depression.
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- O M Doyle
- King’s College London, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom.
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Filippone M, Marquand AF, Blain CRV, Williams SCR, Mourão-Miranda J, Girolami M. PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS WITH A STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT OF NEUROIMAGING DATA MODALITIES. Ann Appl Stat 2012; 6:1883-1905. [PMID: 24523851 DOI: 10.1214/12-aoas562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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For many neurological disorders, prediction of disease state is an important clinical aim. Neuroimaging provides detailed information about brain structure and function from which such predictions may be statistically derived. A multinomial logit model with Gaussian process priors is proposed to: (i) predict disease state based on whole-brain neuroimaging data and (ii) analyze the relative informativeness of different image modalities and brain regions. Advanced Markov chain Monte Carlo methods are employed to perform posterior inference over the model. This paper reports a statistical assessment of multiple neuroimaging modalities applied to the discrimination of three Parkinsonian neurological disorders from one another and healthy controls, showing promising predictive performance of disease states when compared to nonprobabilistic classifiers based on multiple modalities. The statistical analysis also quantifies the relative importance of different neuroimaging measures and brain regions in discriminating between these diseases and suggests that for prediction there is little benefit in acquiring multiple neuroimaging sequences. Finally, the predictive capability of different brain regions is found to be in accordance with the regional pathology of the diseases as reported in the clinical literature.
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- M Filippone
- School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- University College and King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Satistical Science, Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Tsermentseli S, Dell'Acqua F, Landau S, Williams SCR, Jones DK, Leigh PN, Catani M, Goldstein LH. P20 Frontal white matter connections and cognitive change in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a DTI-tractography study. J Neurol Psychiatry 2012. [DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2012-303538.37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Schmechtig A, Lees J, Dawson GR, Dourish CT, Craig KJ, Deakin JFW, Wilkinson L, Williams SCR, Ettinger U. Effects of risperidone, amisulpride and nicotine on eye movement control and their modulation by schizotypy. Pharmacopsychiatry 2011. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1292540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Blain CRV, Brunton S, Williams VC, Leemans A, Turner MR, Andersen PM, Catani M, Stanton BR, Ganesalingham J, Jones DK, Williams SCR, Leigh PN, Simmons A. Differential corticospinal tract degeneration in homozygous 'D90A' SOD-1 ALS and sporadic ALS. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2011; 82:843-9. [PMID: 21515558 PMCID: PMC3134064 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2010.236018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND The homogeneous genotype and stereotyped phenotype of a unique familial form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (patients homozygous for aspartate-to-alanine mutations in codon 90 (homD90A) superoxide dismutase 1) provides an ideal model for studying genotype/phenotype interactions and pathological features compared with heterogeneous apparently sporadic ALS. The authors aimed to use diffusion tensor tractography to quantify and compare changes in the intracerebral corticospinal tracts of patients with both forms of ALS, building on previous work using whole-brain voxelwise group analysis. METHOD 21 sporadic ALS patients, seven homD90A patients and 20 healthy controls underwent 1.5 T diffusion tensor MRI. Patients were assessed using 'upper motor neuron burden,' El Escorial and ALSFR-R scales. The intracranial corticospinal tract was assessed using diffusion tensor tractography measures of fractional anisotropy (FA), mean diffusivity, and radial and axial diffusivity obtained from its entire length. RESULTS Corticospinal tract FA was reduced in sporadic ALS patients compared with both homD90A ALS patients and controls. The diffusion measures in sporadic ALS patients were consistent with anterograde (Wallerian) degeneration of the corticospinal tracts. In sporadic ALS, corticospinal tract FA was related to clinical measures. Despite a similar degree of clinical upper motor neuron dysfunction and disability in homD90A ALS patients compared with sporadic ALS, there were no abnormalities in corticospinal tract diffusion measures compared with controls. CONCLUSIONS Diffusion tensor tractography has shown axonal degeneration within the intracerebral portion of the corticospinal tract in sporadic ALS patients, but not those with a homogeneous form of familial ALS. This suggests significant genotypic influences on the phenotype of ALS and may provide clues to slower progression of disease in homD90A patients.
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- C R V Blain
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
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Broome MR, Fusar-Poli P, Matthiasson P, Woolley JB, Valmaggia L, Johns LC, Tabraham P, Bramon E, Williams SCR, Brammer MJ, Chitnis X, Zelaya F, McGuire PK. Neural correlates of visuospatial working memory in the 'at-risk mental state'. Psychol Med 2010; 40:1987-1999. [PMID: 20214840 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291710000280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Impaired spatial working memory (SWM) is a robust feature of schizophrenia and has been linked to the risk of developing psychosis in people with an at-risk mental state (ARMS). We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the neural substrate of SWM in the ARMS and in patients who had just developed schizophrenia. METHOD fMRI was used to study 17 patients with an ARMS, 10 patients with a first episode of psychosis and 15 age-matched healthy comparison subjects. The blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response was measured while subjects performed an object-location paired-associate memory task, with experimental manipulation of mnemonic load. RESULTS In all groups, increasing mnemonic load was associated with activation in the medial frontal and medial posterior parietal cortex. Significant between-group differences in activation were evident in a cluster spanning the medial frontal cortex and right precuneus, with the ARMS groups showing less activation than controls but greater activation than first-episode psychosis (FEP) patients. These group differences were more evident at the most demanding levels of the task than at the easy level. In all groups, task performance improved with repetition of the conditions. However, there was a significant group difference in the response of the right precuneus across repeated trials, with an attenuation of activation in controls but increased activation in FEP and little change in the ARMS. CONCLUSIONS Abnormal neural activity in the medial frontal cortex and posterior parietal cortex during an SWM task may be a neural correlate of increased vulnerability to psychosis.
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- M R Broome
- Psychosis Clinical Academic Group, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.
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Broome MR, Matthiasson P, Fusar-Poli P, Woolley JB, Johns LC, Tabraham P, Bramon E, Valmaggia L, Williams SCR, Brammer MJ, Chitnis X, McGuire PK. Neural correlates of movement generation in the 'at-risk mental state'. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2010; 122:295-301. [PMID: 20064129 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2009.01524.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE People with 'prodromal' symptoms have a very high risk of developing psychosis. We examined the neurocognitive basis of this vulnerability by using functional MRI to study subjects with an at-risk mental state (ARMS) while they performed a random movement generation task. METHOD Cross-sectional comparison of individuals with an ARMS (n = 17), patients with first episode schizophreniform psychosis (n = 10) and healthy volunteers (n = 15). Subjects were studied using functional MRI while they performed a random movement generation paradigm. RESULTS During random movement generation, the ARMS group showed less activation in the left inferior parietal cortex than controls, but greater activation than in the first episode group. CONCLUSION The ARMS is associated with abnormalities of regional brain function that are qualitatively similar to those in patients who have recently presented with psychosis but less severe.
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- Matthew R Broome
- Section of Neuroimaging, Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK.
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Schmechtig A, Vassos E, Kumari V, Hutton SB, Collier DA, Morris RG, Williams SCR, Ettinger U. Association of Neuregulin 1 rs3924999 genotype with antisaccades and smooth pursuit eye movements. Genes Brain Behav 2010; 9:621-7. [PMID: 20497232 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183x.2010.00594.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Neuregulin 1 (NRG1) has been identified as one of the leading candidate genes for schizophrenia. However, its functional mechanisms and its effects on neurocognition remain unclear. In this study, we used two well-established oculomotor endophenotypes, the antisaccade (AS) and smooth pursuit eye movement (SPEM) tasks, to investigate the functional mechanisms of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in NRG1 (rs3924999) at the neurocognitive level in a healthy volunteer sample. A total of 114 healthy Caucasian volunteers completed genotyping for NRG1 rs3924999 and infrared oculographic assessment of AS and SPEM (at target velocities of 12 degrees , 24 degrees and 36 degrees per second). Additionally, self-report questionnaires of schizotypy, neuroticism, attention deficit hyperactivity and obsessive-compulsive traits were included. A significant effect of rs3924999 genotype, with gender as a covariate, was found for AS amplitude gain (P < 0.01), with an increasing number of A alleles being associated with increasingly hypermetric performance. No statistically significant associations were found for other AS and SPEM variables or questionnaire scores. These findings indicate that NRG1 rs3924999 affects spatial accuracy on the AS task, suggesting an influence of the gene on the neural mechanisms underlying visuospatial sensorimotor transformations, a mechanism that has been previously found to be impaired in patients with schizophrenia and their relatives.
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- A Schmechtig
- Department of Neuroimaging, King's College Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
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Ettinger U, Williams SCR, Patel D, Michel TM, Nwaigwe A, Caceres A, Mehta MA, Anilkumar A, Kumari V. Effects of acute nicotine on brain function in healthy smokers and non-smokers:estimation of inter-individual response heterogeneity. Pharmacopsychiatry 2009. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1240108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Schmechtig A, Vassos E, Kumari V, Hutton SB, Collier DA, Morris RG, Williams SCR, Ettinger U. Association of Neuregulin 1 rs3924999 with oculomotor endophenotypes for schizophrenia in healthy volunteers. Pharmacopsychiatry 2009. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1240217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND A mood-congruent sensitivity towards negative stimuli has been associated with development and maintenance of major depressive disorder (MDD). The emotional Stroop task assesses interference effects arising from the conflict of emotional expressions consistent with disorder-specific self-schemata and cognitive colour-naming instructions. Functional neuroimaging studies of the emotional Stroop effect advocate a critical involvement of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) during these processes. METHOD Subjects were 17 medication-free individuals with unipolar MDD in an acute depressive episode (mean age 39 years), and 17 age-, gender- and IQ-matched healthy volunteers. In an emotional Stroop task, sad and neutral words were presented in various colours, and subjects were required to name the colour of words whilst undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Overt verbal responses were acquired with a clustered fMRI acquisition sequence. RESULTS Individuals with depression showed greater increases in response time from neutral to sad words relative to controls. fMRI data showed a significant engagement of left rostral ACC (BA 32) and right precuneus during sad words in patients relative to controls. Additionally, rostral ACC activation was positively correlated with latencies of negative words in MDD patients. Healthy controls did not have any regions of increased activation compared to MDD patients. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide evidence for a behavioural and neural emotional Stroop effect in MDD and highlight the importance of the ACC during monitoring of conflicting cognitive processes and mood-congruent processing in depression.
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- M T Mitterschiffthaler
- Neuroimaging Research Group, Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK.
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Rosenthal MJ, Smith D, Yaguez L, Giampietro V, Kerr D, Bullmore E, Brammer M, Williams SCR, Amiel SA. Caffeine restores regional brain activation in acute hypoglycaemia in healthy volunteers. Diabet Med 2007; 24:720-7. [PMID: 17509073 DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2007.02131.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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AIMS Caffeine enhances counterregulatory responses to acute hypoglycaemia. Our aim was to explore its effects on cortical function, which are not known at present. METHODS Regional brain activation during performance of the four-choice reaction time (4CRT) at different levels of complexity was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at euglycaemia (5 mmol/l) and hypoglycaemia (2.6 mmol/l) in the presence and absence of caffeine in six healthy right-handed men. RESULTS During hypoglycaemia, caffeine enhanced adrenaline responses to hypoglycaemia (2.5 +/- 0.7 nmol/l to 4.0 +/- 1.0 nmol/l, P = 0.01) and restored the brain activation response to the non-cued 4CRT, the linear increases in regional brain activation associated with increased task complexity and the ability to respond to a cue that were lost in hypoglycaemia alone. CONCLUSIONS Caffeine can sustain regional brain activation patterns lost in acute hypoglycaemia, with some restoration of cortical function and enhanced adrenaline responsiveness. A methodology has been established that may help in the development of therapies to protect against severe hypoglycaemia in insulin therapy for patients with diabetes and problematic hypoglycaemia.
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- M J Rosenthal
- Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology, and Diabetes Research Group, King's College London School of Medicine, London, UK.
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Fusar-Poli P, Broome MR, Matthiasson P, Williams SCR, Brammer M, McGuire PK. Effects of acute antipsychotic treatment on brain activation in first episode psychosis: an fMRI study. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2007; 17:492-500. [PMID: 17337340 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2007.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2006] [Revised: 01/03/2007] [Accepted: 01/16/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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This study aimed to assess the neurophysiological effects of acute atypical antipsychotic treatment on cognitive functioning in subjects presenting with a first episode of psychosis. We used functional MRI to examine the modulatory effects of acute psychopharmacological intervention on brain activation during four different cognitive tasks: overt verbal fluency, random movement generation, n-back and a spatial object memory task. Treatment with atypical antipsychotics was associated with alterations in regional activation during each task and also when task demands were manipulated within paradigms. The initial treatment of psychosis with atypical antipsychotics thus appears to be associated with modifications of the neurofunctional correlates of executive and mnemonic functions. These effects need to be considered when interpreting group differences in activation between medicated patients and controls.
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- P Fusar-Poli
- Division of Psychological Medicine Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, SE58AF, London, UK.
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Blain CRV, Barker GJ, Jarosz JM, Coyle NA, Landau S, Brown RG, Chaudhuri KR, Simmons A, Jones DK, Williams SCR, Leigh PN. Measuring brain stem and cerebellar damage in parkinsonian syndromes using diffusion tensor MRI. Neurology 2007; 67:2199-205. [PMID: 17190944 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000249307.59950.f8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To use diffusion tensor MRI to quantify and compare degeneration of the pons and cerebellar peduncles in multiple system atrophy (MSA), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and Parkinson disease (PD) and to relate changes in diffusion measures to clinical features and localized atrophy. METHODS We used a region-of-interest approach to measure changes in fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity in the middle cerebellar peduncles, decussation of the superior cerebellar peduncles, and pons in 17 patients with MSA, 17 with PSP, 12 with PD, and 12 healthy volunteers. We also evaluated atrophy of the cerebellar peduncles and pons on T2-weighted magnetic resonance images in patients with MSA and PSP. RESULTS In MSA, fractional anisotropy was markedly reduced in the middle cerebellar peduncles, and mean diffusivity increased both here and in the pons compared with other groups, whereas in PSP, mean diffusivity was strikingly increased in the decussation of superior cerebellar peduncles. Cerebellar ataxia was related to mean diffusivity in the middle cerebellar peduncles (r = 0.71, p = 0.001) and pons (r = 0.60, p = 0.01) in MSA. Diffusion measures were related to localized atrophy in both MSA and PSP. CONCLUSIONS Diffusion tensor MRI can be used to quantify neurodegenerative processes in different brain stem and cerebellar structures in multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy during life, and may have diagnostic value. Larger studies of early, undifferentiated parkinsonian syndromes are indicated to provide estimates of the relative diagnostic value of diffusion measures, atrophy measures, and visual assessment of scans.
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- C R V Blain
- King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, London, UK
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Roberts TJ, Price J, Williams SCR, Modo M. Pharmacological MRI of stem cell transplants in the 3-nitroproprionic acid-damaged striatum. Neuroscience 2007; 144:100-9. [PMID: 17055178 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2006] [Revised: 09/08/2006] [Accepted: 09/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging (phMRI) affords the non-invasive visualization of brain activity resulting from the administration of pharmacological compounds. Once the compound-responsive cells are lost, no change in activity is expected to occur. This principle therefore allows the assessment of neuronal loss or lack of signal transmission. These investigations can provide evidence of pathology in the absence of significant tissue loss and can be highly specific to determine which type of cell has been lost. Conversely, transplantation of cells replacing the lost neurons should restore normal signal transmission. We here demonstrate the application of phMRI to differentiate between rats with 3-nitroproprionic acid (3-NPA)-induced striatal lesions and 3-NPA-lesioned animals with neural stem cell transplants or controls. 3-NPA-induced lesions mainly involve striatal projection neurons that are responsive to dopamine agonists. The D2-agonist bromocriptine acts on these projection cells and loss of these through 3-NPA administration resulted in a significant decrease of locomotor activity and a substantial attenuation of the BOLD-response in the striatum. In contrast, lesioned animals that were grafted with neural stem cells exhibited an activity pattern akin to controls. Hence, grafting of neural stem cells exerts a functionally significant effect on striatal signal transmission that could underpin behavioral recovery.
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- T J Roberts
- Neuroimaging Research Group P042-Neurology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
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Samson RS, Thornton JS, McLean MA, Williams SCR, Tofts PS. 1H-MRS internal thermometry in test-objects (phantoms) to within 0.1 K for quality assurance in long-term quantitative MR studies. NMR Biomed 2006; 19:560-5. [PMID: 16612806 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.1033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Many magnetic resonance test-object properties are temperature-dependent, with typical temperature coefficients of approximately 2-3% K(-1). Therefore, to achieve consistent quality assurance measurements to within 1%, test object temperatures should ideally be known to within 0.3 K. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy has previously been used to estimate accurately absolute tissue temperature in vivo, based on the linear temperature dependence of the chemical shift difference between water and temperature-stable reference metabolites such as N-acetylaspartate. In this study, this method of 'internal thermometry' in quality assurance test-objects was investigated, and in particular the value of sodium 3-(trimethylsilyl)propane-1-sulfonate (DSS) as a chemical shift reference was demonstrated. The relationship between the DSS-water chemical shift difference (sigma, expressed in ppm) and temperature tau (in K) was shown to be tau = 764.55 (+/-5.05) - 97.72 (+/-1.05) sigma (286 <or= tau <or= 309 K). Internal thermometry in MRI test-objects is feasible and straightforward, using readily available (1)H-MRS pulse sequences and standard spectroscopy evaluation packages, with a minimum detectable temperature difference of 100 (+/-20) mK.
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- R S Samson
- Department of Neuroinflammation, NMR Research Unit, Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.
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O'Gorman RL, Kumari V, Williams SCR, Zelaya FO, Connor SEJ, Alsop DC, Gray JA. Personality factors correlate with regional cerebral perfusion. Neuroimage 2006; 31:489-95. [PMID: 16529951 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.12.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2005] [Revised: 12/06/2005] [Accepted: 12/16/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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There is an increasing body of evidence pointing to a neurobiological basis of personality. The purpose of this study was to investigate the biological bases of the major dimensions of Eysenck's and Cloninger's models of personality using a noninvasive magnetic resonance perfusion imaging technique in 30 young, healthy subjects. An unbiased voxel-based analysis was used to identify regions where the regional perfusion demonstrated significant correlation with any of the personality dimensions. Highly significant positive correlations emerged between extraversion and perfusion in the basal ganglia, thalamus, inferior frontal gyrus and cerebellum and between novelty seeking and perfusion in the cerebellum, cuneus and thalamus. Strong negative correlations emerged between psychoticism and perfusion in the basal ganglia and thalamus and between harm avoidance and perfusion in the cerebellar vermis, cuneus and inferior frontal gyrus. These observations suggest that personality traits are strongly associated with resting cerebral perfusion in a variety of cortical and subcortical regions and provide further evidence for the hypothesized neurobiological basis of personality. These results may also have important implications for functional neuroimaging studies, which typically rely on the modulation of cerebral hemodynamics for detection of task-induced activation since personality effects may influence the intersubject variability for both task-related activity and resting cerebral perfusion. This technique also offers a novel approach for the exploration of the neurobiological correlates of human personality.
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- R L O'Gorman
- Department of Neuroimaging, Ground floor, Ruskin Wing, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK.
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Roberts TJ, Price J, Williams SCR, Modo M. Preservation of striatal tissue and behavioral function after neural stem cell transplantation in a rat model of Huntington’s disease. Neuroscience 2006; 139:1187-99. [PMID: 16517087 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2005] [Revised: 01/19/2006] [Accepted: 01/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Cell replacement has the potential to become a frontline therapy to remedy behavioral impairments in Huntington's disease. To determine the efficacy of stem cell transplantation, behavioral assessment and in vivo monitoring of the lesion environment are paramount. We here demonstrate that neural stem cells from the MHP36 cell line prevented the development of a deficit on the beam walk test while providing partial recovery of learning in the water maze. However, no beneficial effect on rats' impairment in the staircase test was observed. By quantification of the lesion from serial magnetic resonance images, no effect of neural stem cells on lesion volume was observed. Instead, a preservation of striatal volume over time and its correlation with performance on the beam walk test suggested that sparing of behavioral function was associated with a stagnation of ongoing tissue loss rather than a reduction in lesion size. Serial imaging therefore warrants further implementation in clinical trials of neural grafts to monitor in vivo changes in the damaged brain due to transplantation.
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- T J Roberts
- Neuroimaging Research Group P042, Department of Neurology, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, UK
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Müller U, Suckling J, Zelaya F, Honey G, Faessel H, Williams SCR, Routledge C, Brown J, Robbins TW, Bullmore ET. Plasma level-dependent effects of methylphenidate on task-related functional magnetic resonance imaging signal changes. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2005; 180:624-33. [PMID: 15830222 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-2264-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2004] [Accepted: 03/05/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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RATIONALE Methylphenidate (MPH) is a dopamine and noradrenaline enhancing drug used to treat attentional deficits. Understanding of its cognition-enhancing effects and the neurobiological mechanisms involved, especially in elderly people, is currently incomplete. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between MPH plasma levels and brain activation during visuospatial attention and movement preparation. METHODS Twelve healthy elderly volunteers were scanned twice using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) after oral administration of MPH 20 mg or placebo in a within-subject design. The cognitive paradigm was a four-choice reaction time task presented at two levels of difficulty (with and without spatial cue). Plasma MPH levels were measured at six time points between 30 and 205 min after dosing. FMRI data were analysed using a linear model to estimate physiological response to the task and nonparametric permutation tests for inference. RESULTS Lateral premotor and medial posterior parietal cortical activation was increased by MPH, on average, over both levels of task difficulty. There was considerable intersubject variability in the pharmacokinetics of MPH. Greater area under the plasma concentration-time curve was positively correlated with strength of activation in motor and premotor cortex, temporoparietal cortex and caudate nucleus during the difficult version of the task. CONCLUSION This is the first pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic study to find an association between plasma levels of MPH and its modulatory effects on brain activation measured using fMRI. The results suggest that catecholaminergic mechanisms may be important in brain adaptivity to task difficulty and in task-specific recruitment of spatial attention systems.
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- Ulrich Müller
- MRC Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Mitra S, Bhalerao A, Summers P, Williams SCR. Cortical organization of sensory corrections in visuomotor skill acquisition. Neurosci Lett 2005; 382:76-81. [PMID: 15911125 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2005] [Revised: 03/02/2005] [Accepted: 03/03/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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During sensorimotor skill acquisition, early learning of the required neuromuscular pattern and sensorimotor mappings is followed by an intermediate stage of gradually increasing consistency and efficiency of execution, which gives way, with persistent practice, to the later stages of automatization. It has been suggested that the intermediate stage is distinguished by refinements in the background sensory corrections that support, stabilize and smoothen the fine motor adjustments required by the new coordination. While the later stages of motor refinement are thought to be sub-cortically organized, the neurophysiology of the proposed sensory learning component in the intermediate stage is not well understood. During explicit learning of a visually cued finger-tap sequence, the present research used fMRI to isolate those cortical activations that were significant in the immediate post-learning phase, but were not also observed during the corresponding pre-learning phase. Such exclusively post-learning activation occurred significantly more in visual and somatosensory association areas, than in primary somatosensory or primary and secondary motor areas. These results show that the intermediate stage of skill acquisition has a significant sensory learning component, and that the process has observable cortical correlates.
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- S Mitra
- Department of Psychology and Institute of Applied Cognitive Science, Gibbett Hill Road, University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands CV4 7AL, UK.
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Ireland MD, Lowe AS, Reavill C, James MF, Leslie RA, Williams SCR. Mapping the effects of the selective dopamine D2/D3 receptor agonist quinelorane using pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroscience 2005; 133:315-26. [PMID: 15893653 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2004] [Revised: 01/18/2005] [Accepted: 02/03/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Dopamine agonists with a high affinity for D2 and D3 receptors have a biphasic effect on rodent locomotion, inducing hypolocomotion at low doses and hyperlocomotion at higher doses. Controversy surrounds the role of the D3 receptor in mediating the hypolocomotor response to low agonist doses. This study examines patterns of neuronal activation induced by varying doses of the D2/D3 receptor agonist quinelorane using blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) pharmacological magnetic resonance imaging (phMRI), and compares them with corresponding behavioural responses. Quinelorane (3 microg/kg) induced hypolocomotion in rats naive to the testing environment, and in phMRI experiments increased neuronal activity within the anterior olfactory nuclei, nucleus accumbens and islets of Calleja, regions containing a high density of D3 receptors. A 30 microg/kg dose of quinelorane resulted in biphasic locomotor effects, with initial hypolocomotion followed by sustained hyperlocomotion. phMRI indicated that this higher dose increased cerebral activity within limbic and olfactory regions, as did the lower drug dose, but induced additional activation in the caudate-putamen and globus pallidus, areas dense in D2 receptors but containing few D3 receptors. The more restricted pattern of activation at low agonist doses and close temporal relationship between behavioural and BOLD signal responses to quinelorane suggest that those nuclei most dense in D3 receptors play a key role in mediating the hypolocomotor effects of quinelorane. However, the presence of D3 receptors in activated brain regions may be coincidental, and further studies are required to show definitively which class of receptors mediates agonist-induced hypolocomotion. In contrast, the activation of D2 receptors within the striatum appears necessary for quinelorane-induced hyperlocomotion.
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- M D Ireland
- Neuroimaging Research Group, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK.
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Abrahams S, Goldstein LH, Simmons A, Brammer M, Williams SCR, Giampietro V, Leigh PN. Word retrieval in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 127:1507-17. [PMID: 15163610 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The cognitive impairment revealed in some non- demented amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients is characterized by executive dysfunction with widely repeated deficits on tests of verbal (letter) fluency. However, conflicting evidence exists of an impairment on other word retrieval tasks, such as confrontation naming, which do not place heavy demands on executive processes. Previous research has demonstrated intact confrontation naming in the presence of verbal fluency deficits, although naming deficits have been described in other studies. In this investigation, functional MRI (fMRI) techniques were employed to explore whether word retrieval deficits and underlying cerebral abnormalities were specific to letter fluency, which are more likely to indicate executive dysfunction, or were also present in confrontation naming, indicating language dysfunction. Twenty-eight non-demented ALS patients were compared with 18 healthy controls. The two groups were matched for age, intelligence quotient, years of education, and anxiety and depression scores. Two compressed-sequence overt fMRI activation paradigms were employed, letter fluency and confrontation naming, which were developed for use with an older and potentially impaired population. In ALS patients relative to controls, the letter fluency fMRI task revealed significantly impaired activation in the middle and inferior frontal gyri and anterior cingulate gyrus, in addition to regions of the parietal and temporal lobes. The confrontation naming fMRI task also revealed impaired activation in less extensive prefrontal regions, including the inferior frontal gyrus and regions of the temporal, parietal and occipital lobes. These changes were present despite matched performance between patients and controls during each activation paradigm. The pattern of dysfunction corresponded to the presence of cognitive deficits on both letter fluency and confrontation naming in the ALS group. This study provides evidence of cerebral abnormalities in ALS in the network of regions involved in language and executive functions. Moreover, the findings further illustrate the heterogeneity of cognitive and cerebral change in ALS.
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- S Abrahams
- Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK.
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O'Sullivan M, Morris RG, Huckstep B, Jones DK, Williams SCR, Markus HS. Diffusion tensor MRI correlates with executive dysfunction in patients with ischaemic leukoaraiosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004; 75:441-7. [PMID: 14966162 PMCID: PMC1738975 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.014910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 257] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BACKGROUND Cerebral small vessel disease is a common cause of vascular dementia. Both discrete lacunar infarcts and more diffuse ischaemic changes, seen as confluent high signal (leukoaraiosis) on T2 weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), occur. However, there is a weak correlation between T2 lesion load and cognitive impairment. Diffusion tensor MRI (DTI) is a new technique that may provide a better index of white matter damage. OBJECTIVES To determine whether DTI measures are correlated more strongly with cognitive performance than lesion load on T2 weighted images, and whether these correlations are independent of conventional MRI parameters. METHODS 36 patients with ischaemic leukoaraiosis (leukoaraiosis plus a previous lacunar stroke) and 19 healthy volunteers underwent DTI, conventional MRI, and neuropsychological assessment. RESULTS On DTI, diffusivity was increased both within lesions and in normal appearing white matter. Mean diffusivity of normal appearing white matter correlated with full scale IQ (r = -0.46, p = 0.009) and tests of executive function. These correlations remained significant after controlling for age, sex, brain volume, and T1/T2 lesion volumes. No significant correlation was identified between T2 lesion load and IQ or neuropsychological scores. Of conventional measures, brain volume correlated best with cognitive function. CONCLUSIONS Diffusion tensor measurements correlate better with cognition than conventional MRI measures. They may be useful in monitoring disease progression and as a surrogate marker for treatment trials. The findings support the role of white matter damage and disruption of white matter connections in the pathogenesis of cognitive impairment in cerebral small vessel disease.
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- M O'Sullivan
- Clinical Neuroscience, St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17, UK
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Gregory LJ, Yágüez L, Williams SCR, Altmann C, Coen SJ, Ng V, Brammer MJ, Thompson DG, Aziz Q. Cognitive modulation of the cerebral processing of human oesophageal sensation using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Gut 2003; 52:1671-7. [PMID: 14633941 PMCID: PMC1773884 DOI: 10.1136/gut.52.12.1671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/08/2022]
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BACKGROUND While cortical processing of visceral sensation has been described, the role that cognitive factors play in modulating this processing remains unclear. AIM To investigate how selective and divided attention modulate the cerebral processing of oesophageal sensation. METHODS In seven healthy volunteers (six males, mean age 33 years; ranging from 24 to 41 years old) from the general community, phasic visual and oesophageal (non-painful balloon distension) stimuli were presented simultaneously. During the selective attention task, subjects were instructed to press a button either to a change in frequency of oesophageal or visual stimuli. During a divided attention task, subjects received simultaneous visual and oesophageal stimuli and were instructed to press a button in response to a change in frequency of both stimuli. RESULTS Selectively focussing attention on oesophageal stimuli activated the visceral sensory and cognitive neural networks (primary and secondary sensory cortices and anterior cingulate cortex respectively) while selective attention to visual stimuli primarily activated the visual cortex. When attention was divided between the two sensory modalities, more brain regions in the sensory and cognitive domains were utilised to process oesophageal stimuli in comparison to those employed to process visual stimuli (p=0.003). CONCLUSION Selective and divided attention to visceral stimuli recruits more neural resources in both the sensory and cognitive domains than attention to visual stimuli. We provide neurobiological evidence that demonstrates the biological importance placed on visceral sensations and demonstrate the influence of cognitive factors such as attention on the cerebral processing of visceral sensation.
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- L J Gregory
- Section of GI Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
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Chung YL, Barr J, Bhakoo K, Williams SCR, Bell JD, Fraser JR. N-acetyl aspartate estimation: a potential method for determining neuronal loss in the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 2003; 29:445-50. [PMID: 14507336 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2990.2003.00438.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Neurodegenerative pathology is typical of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), and is thought to underlie clinical disease. Some morphometric studies have shown early focal neurone loss, but the full extent of TSE induced neuronal loss in the central nervous system is not known, and can only be accurately estimated using intensive morphometric techniques. We have used a murine scrapie model in which we determined the levels of N-acetyl aspartate (NAA), a putative neuronal marker, by both high-performance liquid chromatography and high resolution, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in samples taken sequentially from the hippocampus. This scrapie model develops severe neuronal loss in the hippocampus, and the NAA levels showed a significant positive correlation with our previous morphometric estimates of neurone number. NAA measurement may therefore provide a practical alternative to intensive morphometric techniques in the investigation of neurodegeneration in the TSEs.
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- Y-L Chung
- Robert Steiner MR Unit, MRC Clinical Science Centre, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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BACKGROUND There is considerable variability between patients in their expression of the diverse range of symptoms encompassed by the syndrome of schizophrenia, which may modulate functional activation to cognitive processing. METHOD Here we investigate associations between schizophrenic subsyndrome scores, identified by factor analysis, and experimentally controlled brain activation. Five factors were defined by rotated principal components analysis of PANSS rating scale measurements in 100 patients with schizophrenia. A subsample of 30 patients and a group of 27 comparison subjects were studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during the performance of two periodically designed cognitive activation experiments: verbal working memory and psychomotor sequencing. RESULTS Factor analysis replicated the five dimensions consistently reported. Within the patient group. power of activation by working memory was negatively associated with global symptom severity in left lingual and temporo-parietal cortices; negatively associated with positive subsyndrome scores in left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortices and basal ganglia; and positively associated with negative subsyndrome scores in lateral and medial premotor cortex. No relationship was observed between subsyndrome scores and functional activation during the motor task. Between-group comparisons demonstrated reduced power of response to the working memory task by patients in bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal and left pre- and post-central cortices. CONCLUSIONS In this study we observed task-specific modulation of functional response associated with symptom expression in schizophrenia. Our findings are compatible with previous empirical findings and theoretical conceptualization of human brain function, in terms of capacity constraints on activation in the face of competing demands from pathological and task-related cognitive activity.
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- G D Honey
- University of Cambrdige, Department of Psychiatry, Brain Mapping Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
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Honey GD, Suckling J, Zelaya F, Long C, Routledge C, Jackson S, Ng V, Fletcher PC, Williams SCR, Brown J, Bullmore ET. Dopaminergic drug effects on physiological connectivity in a human cortico-striato-thalamic system. Brain 2003; 126:1767-81. [PMID: 12805106 PMCID: PMC3838939 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Cortico-striato-thalamic (CST) systems are anatomical substrates for many motor and executive functions and are implicated in diverse neuropsychiatric disorders. Electrophysiological studies in rats, monkeys and patients with Parkinson's disease have shown that power and coherence of low frequency oscillations in CST systems can be profoundly modulated by dopaminergic drugs. We combined functional MRI with correlational and path analyses to investigate functional and effective connectivity, respectively, of a prefronto-striato-thalamic system activated by object location learning in healthy elderly human subjects (n = 23; mean age = 72 years). Participants were scanned in a repeated measures, randomized, placebo-controlled design to measure modulation of physiological connectivity between CST regions following treatment with drugs which served both to decrease (sulpiride) and increase (methylphenidate) dopaminergic transmission, as well as non-dopaminergic treatments (diazepam and scopolamine) to examine non-specific effects. Functional connectivity of caudate nucleus was modulated specifically by dopaminergic drugs, with opposing effects of sulpiride and methylphenidate. The more salient effect of sulpiride was to increase functional connectivity between caudate and both thalamus and ventral midbrain. A path diagram based on prior knowledge of unidirectional anatomical projections between CST components was fitted satisfactorily to the observed inter-regional covariance matrix. The effect of sulpiride was defined more specifically in the context of this model as increased strength of effective connection from ventral midbrain to caudate nucleus. In short, we have demonstrated enhanced functional and effective connectivity of human caudate nucleus following sulpiride treatment, which is compatible both with the anatomy of ascending dopaminergic projections and with electrophysiological studies indicating abnormal coherent oscillations of CST neurons in parkinsonian states.
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- G D Honey
- University of Cambridge, Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK
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Honey GD, Fu CHY, Kim J, Brammer MJ, Croudace TJ, Suckling J, Pich EM, Williams SCR, Bullmore ET. Effects of verbal working memory load on corticocortical connectivity modeled by path analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data. Neuroimage 2002; 17:573-82. [PMID: 12377135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/26/2023] Open
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We investigated the hypothesis that there are load-related changes in the integrated function of frontoparietal working memory networks. Functional magnetic resonance imaging time-series data from 10 healthy volunteers performing a graded n-back verbal working memory task were modeled using path analysis. Seven generically activated regions were included in the model: left/right middle frontal gyri (L/R MFG), left/right inferior frontal gyri (L/R IFG), left/right posterior parietal cortex (L/R PPC), and supplementary motor area (SMA). The model provided a good fit to the 1-back (chi(2) = 7.04, df = 8, P = 0.53) and 2-back conditions (chi(2) = 9.35, df = 8, P = 0.31) but not for the 3-back condition (chi(2) = 20.60, df = 8, P = 0.008). Model parameter estimates were compared overall among conditions: there was a significant difference overall between 1-back and 2-back conditions (chi(2)(diff) = 74.77, df = 20, P < 0.001) and also between 2-back and 3-back conditions (chi(2)(diff) = 96.28, df = 20, P < 0.001). Path coefficients between LIFG and LPPC were significantly different from zero in both 1-back and 2-back conditions; in the 2-back condition, additional paths from LIFG to LPPC via SMA and to RMFG from LMFG and LPPC were also nonzero. This study demonstrated a significant change in functional integration of a neurocognitive network for working memory as a correlate of increased load. Enhanced inferior frontoparietal and prefrontoprefrontal connectivity was observed as a correlate of increasing memory load, which may reflect greater demand for maintenance and executive processes, respectively.
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- G D Honey
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom
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Santhouse AM, Ffytche DH, Howard RJ, Williams SCR, Rifkin L, Murray RM. Functional imaging of the mechanisms underlying the bilateral field advantage. Neuroimage 2002; 17:680-7. [PMID: 12377143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/26/2023] Open
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Visual stimulus comparisons across the vertical meridian are faster and more accurate than those restricted to a single hemifield (the bilateral field advantage). We set out to investigate the cerebral mechanisms underlying this effect using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Seven normal volunteers were presented pairs of shape stimuli bilaterally across the vertical meridian and unilaterally within a single hemifield. We found a network of additional areas activated in the unilateral condition over the bilateral condition which have been related to working memory in previous studies. The results suggest different processing strategies with different temporal characteristics in the bilateral and unilateral conditions, providing a novel explanation for the bilateral field advantage.
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- A M Santhouse
- Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom.
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O'Sullivan M, Lythgoe DJ, Pereira AC, Summers PE, Jarosz JM, Williams SCR, Markus HS. Patterns of cerebral blood flow reduction in patients with ischemic leukoaraiosis. Neurology 2002; 59:321-6. [PMID: 12177363 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.59.3.321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 252] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Ischemic leukoaraiosis (ILA) refers to diffuse T2-weighted white matter hyperintensity in the context of a previous clinical lacunar stroke. Reduced cerebral blood flow (CBF) in white matter has been demonstrated, but it is not known whether hypoperfusion is confined to lesions or extends into normal-appearing white matter. Demonstrating changes in normal-appearing white matter would provide clues to the importance of hypoperfusion in pathogenesis and would be an obvious target for therapies aimed at restoring white matter blood flow. METHODS Twenty-one patients with ILA, and 16 age-matched control subjects, underwent exogenous contrast-based quantitative perfusion MRI. CBF was determined both within and outside areas of T2-weighted hyperintensity in both periventricular white matter and the centrum semiovale. RESULTS CBF of normal-appearing white matter was reduced in periventricular regions (for patients with ILA, 17.9 +/- 5.6 mL/100 g/min; for controls, 21.6 +/- 5.1 mL/100 g/min; p = 0.046). CBF in gray matter and normal-appearing white matter of the centrum semiovale did not differ significantly between groups. In normal-appearing white matter in patients, CBF was higher in the centrum semiovale than periventricular white matter, with a similar trend in control subjects. CONCLUSIONS Hypoperfusion may be an early feature in the development of periventricular lesions in ILA and may play a direct pathogenic role. Serial studies are now needed to determine whether these changes herald the appearance of new lesions and represent "at risk" white matter, and to determine whether pharmacological agents can restore perfusion of normal-appearing white matter.
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- M O'Sullivan
- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, St. George's Hospital, King's College Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, UK.
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Santhouse AM, Ffytche DH, Howard RJ, Williams SCR, Stewart AL, Rooney M, Wyatt JS, Rifkin L, Murray RM. The functional significance of perinatal corpus callosum damage: an fMRI study in young adults. Brain 2002; 125:1782-92. [PMID: 12135969 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awf174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We used functional MRI (fMRI) to establish the functional significance of corpus callosum damage in young adults who had been born very preterm. Seven subjects from a cohort of individuals who had been born at <33 weeks gestation and who had sustained callosal damage visualized on structural MRI were compared while they carried out auditory and visual tasks requiring callosal transfer with nine very preterm subjects with corpora callosa of normal appearance on structural MRI, and with seven full-term controls. The very preterm subjects with damaged corpora callosa had significantly different activation patterns compared with the two control groups. In the visual task, additional activity was seen in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of the damaged callosum group, possibly because the task was accomplished by storing information in working memory. On the auditory task, a deficit of activity was seen in the right temporal lobe of the callosum group. The findings reveal a plasticity of function compensating for early damage to the corpus callosum.
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- A M Santhouse
- Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, De Crespigny Park, London, UK.
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Nunn JA, Gregory LJ, Brammer M, Williams SCR, Parslow DM, Morgan MJ, Morris RG, Bullmore ET, Baron-Cohen S, Gray JA. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of synesthesia: activation of V4/V8 by spoken words. Nat Neurosci 2002; 5:371-5. [PMID: 11914723 DOI: 10.1038/nn818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In 'colored-hearing' synesthesia, individuals report color experiences when they hear spoken words. If the synesthetic color experience resembles that of normal color perception, one would predict activation of parts of the visual system specialized for such perception, namely the human 'color center', referred to as either V4 or V8. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we here locate the region activated by speech in synesthetes to area V4/V8 in the left hemisphere, and demonstrate overlap with V4/V8 activation in normal controls in response to color. No activity was detected in areas V1 or V2, suggesting that activity in primary visual cortex is not necessary for such experience. Control subjects showed no activity in V4/V8 when imagining colors in response to spoken words, despite overtraining on word-color associations similar to those spontaneously reported by synesthetes.
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- J A Nunn
- Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, London SE14 6NW, UK.
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