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McNeil E, Walilko T, Hulbert LE, VanMeter JW, LaConte S, VandeVord P, Zai L, Bentley TB. Development of a Minipig Model of BINT From Blast Exposure Using a Repeatable Mobile Shock Expansion Tube. Mil Med 2023; 188:e591-e599. [PMID: 34677612 DOI: 10.1093/milmed/usab409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Revised: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION The Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsored the Blast Load Assessment Sense and Test (BLAST) program to provide an approach to operationally relevant monitoring and analysis of blast exposure for optimization of service member performance and health. Of critical importance in this effort was the development of a standardized methodology for preclinical large animal studies that can reliably produce outcome measures that cannot be measured in human studies to support science-based guidelines. The primary advantage of this approach is that, because animal studies report physiological measures that correlate with human neuropathology, these data can be used to evaluate potential risks to service members by accounting for the anatomical and physiological differences between humans and large animal models. This article describes the methodology used to generate a comprehensive outcome measure dataset correlated with controlled blast exposure. METHODS AND MATERIALS To quantify outcomes associated with a single exposure to blast, 23 age- and weight-matched Yucatan minipigs were exposed to a single blast event generated by a large-bore, compressed gas shock tube. The peak pressure ranged from 280 to 525 kPa. After a post-exposure 72-hour observation period, the physiological response was quantified using a comprehensive set of neurological outcome measures that included neuroimaging, histology, and behavioral measures. Responses of the blast-exposed animals were compared to the sham-treated cohort to identify statistically significant and physiologically relevant differences between the two groups. RESULTS Following a single exposure, the minipigs were assessed for structural, behavioral, and cellular changes for 3 days after exposure. The following neurological changes were observed: Structural-Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging, a statistically significant decrement (P < .001) in Fractional Anisotropy across the entire volume of the brain was observed when comparing the exposed group to the sham group. This finding indicates that alterations in brain tissue following exposure are not focused at a single location but instead a diffuse brain volume that can only be observed through a systematic examination of the neurological tissue. Cellular-The histopathology results from several large white matter tract locations showed varied cellular responses from six different stains. Using standard statistical methods, results from stains such as Fluoro-Jade C and cluster of differentiation 68 in the hippocampus showed significantly higher levels of neurodegeneration and increased microglia/macrophage activation in blast-exposed subjects. However, other stains also indicated increased response, demonstrating the need for multivariate analysis with a larger dataset. Behavioral-The behavior changes observed were typically transient; the animals' behavior returned to near baseline levels after a relatively short recovery period. Despite behavioral recovery, the presence of active neurodegenerative and inflammatory responses remained. CONCLUSIONS The results of this study demonstrate that (1) a shock tube provides an effective tool for generating repeatable exposures in large animals and (2) exposure to blast overpressure can be correlated using a combination of imaging, behavioral, and histological analyses. This research demonstrates the importance of using multiple physiological indicators to track blast-induced changes in minipigs. The methodology and findings from this effort were central to developing machine-learning models to inform the development of blast exposure guidelines.
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- Elizabeth McNeil
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
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- Arlington Division, Applied Research Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA 22203, USA
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- Animal Sciences and Industry Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute 2 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, VA 24016, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
- Salem Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Salem, VA 24153, USA
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- Lucent Research, LLC, Parker, CO 80138, USA
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Picci G, Fishbein DH, VanMeter JW, Rose EJ. Effects of OPRM1 and DRD2 on brain structure in drug-naïve adolescents: Genetic and neural vulnerabilities to substance use. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2022; 239:141-152. [PMID: 34816289 PMCID: PMC8776605 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-021-06030-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Genetic variants in the opioid receptor mu 1 (OPRM1) and dopamine receptor d2 (DRD2) genes are implicated in behavioral phenotypes related to substance use disorders (SUD). Despite associations among OPRM1 (rs179971) and DRD2 (rs6277) genes and structural alterations in neural reward pathways implicated in SUDs, little is known about the contribution of risk-related gene variants to structural neurodevelopment. In a 3-year longitudinal study of initially SU-naïve adolescents (N = 129; 70 females; 11-14 years old), participants underwent an MRI structural scan at baseline and provided genetic assays for OPRM1 and DRD2 with SU behavior assessed during follow-up visits. Baseline differences in key reward-related brain regions (i.e., bilateral caudate and cingulate cortex) were detected in those with genetic liability for SU in OPRM1 who went onto engage in SU at subsequent waves of data collection. In addition, main effects of OPRM1, DRD2, and SU were related to variability in structure of the putamen, anterior cingulate, and nucleus accumbens, respectively. These data provide preliminary evidence that genetic risk factors interact with future SU to confer structural variability prior to SU in regions commonly implicated in risk for SU and the development of SUDs.
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- Giorgia Picci
- Institute for Human Neuroscience, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 378 Bucher Drive, Boys Town, NE, 68010, USA.
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Program for Translational Research On Adversity and Neurodevelopment (P-TRAN), Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Penn State University, 218 Health and Human Development Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20057, USA
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- Program for Translational Research On Adversity and Neurodevelopment (P-TRAN), Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, Penn State University, 310A Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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Dahmani S, Kaliss N, VanMeter JW, Moore DJ, Ellis RJ, Jiang X. Alterations of Brain Metabolites in Adults With HIV: A Systematic Meta-analysis of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Studies. Neurology 2021; 97:e1085-e1096. [PMID: 34253633 PMCID: PMC8456358 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000012394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 12/06/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE A meta-analysis of proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies to investigate alterations in brain metabolites in people with HIV (PWH), the relationship between metabolite alterations and combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), and the relationship between metabolite alterations and cognitive impairment. METHODS The PubMed database was searched for studies published from 1997 to 2020. Twenty-seven studies were identified, which included 1255 PWH and 633 controls. Four metabolites (N-acetyl aspartate [NAA], myo-inositol [mI], choline [Cho], and glutamatergic metabolites [Glx]) from 5 brain regions (basal ganglia [BG], frontal gray and white matter [FGM and FWM], and parietal gray and white matter [PGM and PWM]) were pooled separately using random-effects meta-analysis. RESULTS During early HIV infection, metabolite alterations were largely limited to the BG, including Cho elevation, a marker of inflammation. cART led to global mI and Cho normalization (i.e., less elevations), but improvement in NAA was negligible. In chronic PWH on cART, there were consistent NAA reductions across brain regions, along with Cho and mI elevations in the FWM and BG, and Glx elevations in the FWM. Cognitive impairment was associated with NAA reduction and to a lesser degree mI elevation. CONCLUSIONS The BG are the primary region affected during early infection. cART is successful in partially controlling neuroinflammation (global mI and Cho normalization). However, neuronal dysfunction (NAA reductions) and neuroinflammation (mI and Cho elevations) persist and contribute to cognitive impairment in chronic PWH. Novel compounds targeting NAA signal pathways, along with better neuroinflammation control, may help to reduce cognitive impairment in PWH.
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- Sophia Dahmani
- From the Department of Neuroscience (S.D., N.K., X.J.) and Department of Neurology (J.W.V.), Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; Department of Psychiatry (D.J.M., R.J.E.) and Department of Neurosciences (R.J.E.), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- From the Department of Neuroscience (S.D., N.K., X.J.) and Department of Neurology (J.W.V.), Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; Department of Psychiatry (D.J.M., R.J.E.) and Department of Neurosciences (R.J.E.), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- From the Department of Neuroscience (S.D., N.K., X.J.) and Department of Neurology (J.W.V.), Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; Department of Psychiatry (D.J.M., R.J.E.) and Department of Neurosciences (R.J.E.), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- From the Department of Neuroscience (S.D., N.K., X.J.) and Department of Neurology (J.W.V.), Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; Department of Psychiatry (D.J.M., R.J.E.) and Department of Neurosciences (R.J.E.), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- From the Department of Neuroscience (S.D., N.K., X.J.) and Department of Neurology (J.W.V.), Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; Department of Psychiatry (D.J.M., R.J.E.) and Department of Neurosciences (R.J.E.), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
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- From the Department of Neuroscience (S.D., N.K., X.J.) and Department of Neurology (J.W.V.), Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC; Department of Psychiatry (D.J.M., R.J.E.) and Department of Neurosciences (R.J.E.), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
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Kirkland AE, Baron M, VanMeter JW, Baraniuk JN, Holton KF. The low glutamate diet improves cognitive functioning in veterans with Gulf War Illness and resting-state EEG potentially predicts response. Nutr Neurosci 2021; 25:2247-2258. [PMID: 34282720 DOI: 10.1080/1028415x.2021.1954292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [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] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Objectives: Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a chronic, multi-symptom disorder with underlying central nervous system dysfunction and cognitive impairments. The objective of this study was to test the low glutamate diet as a novel treatment for cognitive dysfunction among those with GWI, and to explore if baseline resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) could predict cognitive outcomes.Methods: Cognitive functioning was assessed at baseline, after one-month on the diet, and across a two-week double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover challenge with monosodium glutamate (MSG) relative to placebo.Results: Significant improvements were seen after one-month on the diet in overall cognitive functioning, and in all other domains tested (FDR p < 0.05), except for memory. Challenge with MSG resulted in significant inter-individual response variability (p < 0.0001). Participants were clustered according to baseline resting-state EEG using k-means clustering to explore the inter-individual response variability. Three distinct EEG clusters were observed, and each corresponded with differential cognitive effects during challenge with MSG: cluster 1 had cognitive benefit (24% of participants), cluster 2 had cognitive detriment (42% of participants), and cluster 3 had mild/mixed effects (33% of participants).Discussion: These findings suggest that the low glutamate diet may be a beneficial treatment for cognitive impairment in GWI. Future research is needed to understand the extent to which resting-state EEG can predict response to the low glutamate diet and to explore the mechanisms behind the varied response to acute glutamate challenge.
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- Anna E Kirkland
- Behavior, Cognition and Neuroscience Program, American University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Mathematics & Statistics Department, American University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Functional & Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Health Studies, American University, Washington, DC, USA.,Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, American University, Washington, DC, USA
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Norris C, Lisinski J, McNeil E, VanMeter JW, VandeVord P, LaConte SM. MRI brain templates of the male Yucatan minipig. Neuroimage 2021; 235:118015. [PMID: 33798725 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 03/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The pig is growing in popularity as an experimental animal because its gyrencephalic brain is similar to humans. Currently, however, there is a lack of appropriate brain templates to support functional and structural neuroimaging pipelines. The primary contribution of this work is an average volume from an iterative, non-linear registration of 70 five- to seven-month-old male Yucatan minipigs. In addition, several aspects of this study are unique, including the comparison of linear and non-linear template generation, the characterization of a large and homogeneous cohort, an analysis of effective resolution after averaging, and the evaluation of potential in-template bias as well as a comparison with a template from another minipig species using a "left-out" validation set. We found that within our highly homogeneous cohort, non-linear registration produced better templates, but only marginally so. Although our T1-weighted data were resolution limited, we preserved effective resolution across the multi-subject average, produced templates that have high gray-white matter contrast and demonstrate superior registration accuracy compared to an alternative minipig template.
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- Carly Norris
- Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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- Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA, United States
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- Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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- Neurology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States
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- Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States; Salem VA Medical Center, Salem VA, United States
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- Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States; Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA, United States.
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Rai N, Hipolito MM, VanMeter JW, Seth R, Adenuga A, Shelby M, Misiak-Christian M, Nwaokobia C, Manaye KF, Obisesan TO, Nwulia E. Comparative Effects of Repetitive Odor Identification and Odor Memory Tasks on Olfactory Engagement in Older Populations - A Pilot fMRI Study. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2021; 17:1279-1288. [PMID: 33958869 PMCID: PMC8096456 DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s298303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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: 12/24/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE This study evaluated human Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent (BOLD) responses in primary and higher-order olfactory regions of older adults, using odor memory and odor identification tasks. The goal was to determine which olfactory and memory regions of interest are more strongly engaged in older populations comparing these two odor training tasks. METHODS Twelve adults 55-75 years old (75% females) without intranasal or major neurological disorders performed repetitive odor memory and identification tasks using a 3-tesla magnetic resonance scanner. Odors were presented intermittently at 10-second bursts separated by 20-second intervals of odorless air. Paired t-tests were used to compare differences in the degree of activation between odor identification and odor memory tasks within individuals. An FDR cluster-level correction of p<0.05 was used for multiplicity of tests (with a cluster-defining threshold set at p<0.01 and 10 voxels). RESULTS Odor identification compared to memory (ie, odor identification > odor memory) contrasts had several areas of significant activation, including many of the classical olfactory brain regions as well as the hippocampus. The opposite contrast (odor memory > odor identification) included the piriform cortex, though this was not significant. Both tasks equally activated the piriform cortex, and thus when the two tasks are compared to each other this area of activation appears to be either absent (OI > OM) or only weakly observed (OM > OI). CONCLUSION These findings from a predominantly African American sample suggest that odor identification tasks may be more potent than memory tasks in targeted olfactory engagement in older populations. Furthermore, repetitive odor identification significantly engaged the hippocampus - a region relevant to Alzheimer's disease - more significantly than did the odor memory task. If validated in larger studies, this result could have important implications in the design of olfactory training paradigms.
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- Narayan Rai
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Howard University, Washington DC, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington DC, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Howard University, Washington DC, USA.,Evon Medics LLC, Elkridge, MD, USA
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Berluti K, O’Connell KM, Rhoads SA, Brethel-Haurwitz KM, Cardinale EM, Vekaria KM, Robertson EL, Walitt B, VanMeter JW, Marsh AA. Reduced Multivoxel Pattern Similarity of Vicarious Neural Pain Responses in Psychopathy. J Pers Disord 2020; 34:628-649. [PMID: 33074056 PMCID: PMC9796697 DOI: 10.1521/pedi.2020.34.5.628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
Psychopathy is a personality construct characterized by interpersonal callousness, boldness, and disinhibition, traits that vary continuously across the population and are linked to impaired empathic responding to others' distress and suffering. Following suggestions that empathy reflects neural self-other mapping-for example, the similarity of neural responses to experienced and observed pain, measurable at the voxel level-we used a multivoxel approach to assess associations between psychopathy and empathic neural responses to pain. During fMRI scanning, 21 community-recruited participants varying in psychopathy experienced painful pressure stimulation and watched a live video of a stranger undergoing the same stimulation. As total psychopathy, coldheartedness, and self-centered impulsivity increased, multivoxel similarity of vicarious and experienced pain in the left anterior insula decreased, effects that were not observed following an empathy prompt. Our data provide preliminary evidence that psychopathy is characterized by disrupted spontaneous empathic representations of others' pain that may be reduced by instructions to empathize.
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- Kathryn Berluti
- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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- National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda. Maryland
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- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
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Washington SD, Rayhan RU, Garner R, Provenzano D, Zajur K, Addiego FM, VanMeter JW, Baraniuk JN. Exercise alters brain activation in Gulf War Illness and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Brain Commun 2020; 2:fcaa070. [PMID: 32954325 PMCID: PMC7425336 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaa070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Revised: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Gulf War Illness affects 25-30% of American veterans deployed to the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War and is characterized by cognitive post-exertional malaise following physical effort. Gulf War Illness remains controversial since cognitive post-exertional malaise is also present in the more common Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. An objective dissociation between neural substrates for cognitive post-exertional malaise in Gulf War Illness and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome would represent a biological basis for diagnostically distinguishing these two illnesses. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure neural activity in healthy controls and patients with Gulf War Illness and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome during an N-back working memory task both before and after exercise. Whole brain activation during working memory (2-Back > 0-Back) was equal between groups prior to exercise. Exercise had no effect on neural activity in healthy controls yet caused deactivation within dorsal midbrain and cerebellar vermis in Gulf War Illness relative to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients. Further, exercise caused increased activation among Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients within the dorsal midbrain, left operculo-insular cortex (Rolandic operculum) and right middle insula. These regions-of-interest underlie threat assessment, pain, interoception, negative emotion and vigilant attention. As they only emerge post-exercise, these regional differences likely represent neural substrates of cognitive post-exertional malaise useful for developing distinct diagnostic criteria for Gulf War Illness and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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- Stuart D Washington
- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Rd., NW Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Howard University College of Medicine, Adams Building Rm 2420, 520 W Street NW, Washington, DC 20059, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Rd., NW Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Rd., NW Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Rd., NW Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Rd., NW Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Rd., NW Washington, DC 20057, USA.,Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Howard University College of Medicine, Adams Building Rm 2420, 520 W Street NW, Washington, DC 20059, USA.,Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Rd., NW Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Rd., NW Washington, DC 20057, USA
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Picci G, Rose EJ, VanMeter JW, Fishbein DH. The moderating role of socioeconomic status on level of responsibility, executive functioning, and cortical thinning during adolescence. Dev Psychobiol 2020; 63:291-304. [PMID: 32621532 DOI: 10.1002/dev.22010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 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: 02/05/2020] [Revised: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Brain development is exquisitely sensitive to psychosocial experiences, with implications for neurodevelopmental trajectories, for better or worse. The premise of this investigation was that the level of responsibility in adolescence may relate to brain structure and higher-order cognitive functions. In a sample of 108 adolescents, we focused on cortical thickness (using FreeSurfer) as an indicator of neurodevelopment in regions previously implicated in executive functioning (EF) and examined performance on an EF task outside of the scanner, in the context of level of responsibility. We further investigated whether socioeconomic status (SES) and family stress moderated the relationship between responsibility and brain structure or EF. Findings revealed that greater responsibility was related to thinner left precuneus and right middle frontal cortex. In lower SES adolescents, greater responsibility predicted thinner left precuneus and right middle frontal cortex, which have been consistently implicated in EF. Higher SES adolescents did not show structural differences related to responsibility, however, they did exhibit better EF performance. It may be that circumstances surrounding the need for greater responsibility in lower SES households are detrimental to neurodevelopment compared to higher SES households. Alternatively, responsibility may act as a protective factor that bolsters cortical thinning in regions related to EF.
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- Giorgia Picci
- Program for Translational Research on Adversity and Neurodevelopment (P-TRAN), The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.,Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Program for Translational Research on Adversity and Neurodevelopment (P-TRAN), The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Program for Translational Research on Adversity and Neurodevelopment (P-TRAN), The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.,Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.,Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Darcey VL, McQuaid GA, Fishbein DH, VanMeter JW. Relationship between whole blood omega-3 fatty acid levels and dorsal cingulate gray matter volume: Sex differences and implications for impulse control. Nutr Neurosci 2020; 23:505-515. [PMID: 30264666 PMCID: PMC10483749 DOI: 10.1080/1028415x.2018.1525477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [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: 10/28/2022]
Abstract
During adolescence, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) undergoes substantial structural development, including cortical thinning, a process associated with improvements in behavioral control. The cingulate cortex is among the regions recruited in response inhibition and mounting evidence suggests cingulate function may be sensitive to availability of an essential dietary nutrient, omega-3 fatty acids (N3; i.e. EPA + DHA). Our primary aim was to investigate the relationship between a biomarker of omega-3 fatty acids -- percent of whole blood fatty acids as EPA + DHA (N3 Index) -- and cingulate morphology, in typically developing adolescent males (n = 29) and females (n = 33). Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was used to quantify gray matter volume (GMV) in the dorsal region of the cingulate (dCC). Impulse control was assessed via caregiver report (BRIEF) and Go/No-Go task performance. We predicted that greater N3 Index in adolescents would be associated with less dCC GMV and better impulse control. Results revealed that N3 Index was inversely related to GMV in males, but not in females. Furthermore, males with less right dCC GMV exhibited better caregiver-rated impulse control. A simple mediation model revealed that, in males, N3 Index may indirectly impact impulse control through its association with right dCC GMV. Findings suggest a sex-specific link between levels of N3 and dCC structural development, with adolescent males more impacted by lower N3 levels than females. Identifying factors such as omega-3 fatty acid levels, which may modulate the neurodevelopment of response inhibition, is critical for understanding typical and atypical developmental trajectories associated with this core executive function.
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- Valerie L. Darcey
- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA
- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Suite LM-14, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Suite LM-14, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 218 HHD Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Suite LM-14, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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Archakov D, DeWitt I, Kuśmierek P, Ortiz-Rios M, Cameron D, Cui D, Morin EL, VanMeter JW, Sams M, Jääskeläinen IP, Rauschecker JP. Auditory representation of learned sound sequences in motor regions of the macaque brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:15242-15252. [PMID: 32541016 PMCID: PMC7334521 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915610117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [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] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Human speech production requires the ability to couple motor actions with their auditory consequences. Nonhuman primates might not have speech because they lack this ability. To address this question, we trained macaques to perform an auditory-motor task producing sound sequences via hand presses on a newly designed device ("monkey piano"). Catch trials were interspersed to ascertain the monkeys were listening to the sounds they produced. Functional MRI was then used to map brain activity while the animals listened attentively to the sound sequences they had learned to produce and to two control sequences, which were either completely unfamiliar or familiar through passive exposure only. All sounds activated auditory midbrain and cortex, but listening to the sequences that were learned by self-production additionally activated the putamen and the hand and arm regions of motor cortex. These results indicate that, in principle, monkeys are capable of forming internal models linking sound perception and production in motor regions of the brain, so this ability is not special to speech in humans. However, the coupling of sounds and actions in nonhuman primates (and the availability of an internal model supporting it) seems not to extend to the upper vocal tract, that is, the supralaryngeal articulators, which are key for the production of speech sounds in humans. The origin of speech may have required the evolution of a "command apparatus" similar to the control of the hand, which was crucial for the evolution of tool use.
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- Denis Archakov
- Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057
- Brain and Mind Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057
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- Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057
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- Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057
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- Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057
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- Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057
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- Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057
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- Brain and Mind Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland
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- Brain and Mind Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University School of Science, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland
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- Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057;
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Vekaria KM, O'Connell K, Rhoads SA, Brethel-Haurwitz KM, Cardinale EM, Robertson EL, Walitt B, VanMeter JW, Marsh AA. Activation in bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) corresponds to everyday helping. Cortex 2020; 127:67-77. [PMID: 32169677 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 06/01/2019] [Revised: 09/30/2019] [Accepted: 02/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Everyday prosociality includes helping behaviors such as holding doors or giving directions that are spontaneous and low-cost and are performed frequently by the average person. Such behaviors promote a wide array of positive outcomes that include increased well-being, trust, and social capital, but the cognitive and neural mechanisms that support these behaviors are not yet well understood. Whereas costly altruistic responding to others' distress is associated with elevated reactivity in the amygdala, we hypothesized that everyday prosociality would be more closely associated with activation in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), a region of the extended amygdala known for its roles in maintaining vigilance for relevant socio-affective environmental cues and in supporting parental care. One previous study of the neural correlates of everyday prosociality highlighted a functional cluster identified as the septal area but which overlapped with established coordinates of BNST. We used an anatomical mask of BNST (Torrisi et al., 2015) to evaluate the association of BNST activation and daily helping in a sample of 25 adults recruited from the community as well as 23 adults who had engaged in acts of extraordinary altruism. Results found that activation in left BNST during an empathy task predicted everyday helping over a subsequent 14-day period in both samples. BNST activation most strongly predicted helping strangers and proactive helping. We conclude that beyond facilitating care for offspring, activation in BNST may provide a basis for the motivation to engage in a broad array of everyday helping behaviors.
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- Kruti M Vekaria
- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
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- Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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- National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
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Washington SD, Rayhan RU, Garner R, Provenzano D, Zajur K, Addiego FM, VanMeter JW, Baraniuk JN. Exercise alters cerebellar and cortical activity related to working memory in phenotypes of Gulf War Illness. Brain Commun 2020; 2:fcz039. [PMID: 32025659 PMCID: PMC6989731 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcz039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 06/04/2019] [Revised: 10/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Gulf War Illness affects 25–32% of veterans from the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War. Post-exertional malaise with cognitive dysfunction, pain and fatigue following physical and/or mental effort is a defining feature of Gulf War Illness. We modelled post-exertional malaise by assessing changes in functional magnetic resonance imaging at 3T during an N-Back working memory task performed prior to a submaximal bicycle stress test and after an identical stress test 24 h later. Serial trends in postural changes in heart rate between supine and standing defined three subgroups of veterans with Gulf War Illness: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (GWI-POTS, 15%, n = 11), Stress Test Associated Reversible Tachycardia (GWI-START, 31%, n = 23) and Stress Test Originated Phantom Perception (GWI-STOPP, no postural tachycardia, 54%, n = 46). Before exercise, there were no differences in blood oxygenation level-dependent activity during the N-Back task between control (n = 31), GWI-START, GWI-STOPP and GWI-POTS subgroups. Exercise had no effects on blood oxygenation level-dependent activation in controls. GWI-START had post-exertional deactivation of cerebellar dentate nucleus and vermis regions associated with working memory. GWI-STOPP had significant activation of the anterior supplementary motor area that may be a component of the anterior salience network. There was a trend for deactivation of the vermis in GWI-POTS after exercise. These patterns of cognitive dysfunction were apparent in Gulf War Illness only after the exercise stressor. Mechanisms linking the autonomic dysfunction of Stress Test Associated Reversible Tachycardia and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome to cerebellar activation, and Stress Test Originated Phantom Perception to cortical sensorimotor alterations, remain unclear but may open new opportunities for understanding, diagnosing and treating Gulf War Illness.
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- Stuart D Washington
- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC 20059, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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Clarke T, Jamieson JD, Malone P, Rayhan RU, Washington S, VanMeter JW, Baraniuk JN. Connectivity differences between Gulf War Illness (GWI) phenotypes during a test of attention. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0226481. [PMID: 31891592 PMCID: PMC6938369 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2018] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
One quarter of veterans returning from the 1990–1991 Persian Gulf War have developed Gulf War Illness (GWI) with chronic pain, fatigue, cognitive and gastrointestinal dysfunction. Exertion leads to characteristic, delayed onset exacerbations that are not relieved by sleep. We have modeled exertional exhaustion by comparing magnetic resonance images from before and after submaximal exercise. One third of the 27 GWI participants had brain stem atrophy and developed postural tachycardia after exercise (START: Stress Test Activated Reversible Tachycardia). The remainder activated basal ganglia and anterior insulae during a cognitive task (STOPP: Stress Test Originated Phantom Perception). Here, the role of attention in cognitive dysfunction was assessed by seed region correlations during a simple 0-back stimulus matching task (“see a letter, push a button”) performed before exercise. Analysis was analogous to resting state, but different from psychophysiological interactions (PPI). The patterns of correlations between nodes in task and default networks were significantly different for START (n = 9), STOPP (n = 18) and control (n = 8) subjects. Edges shared by the 3 groups may represent co-activation caused by the 0-back task. Controls had a task network of right dorsolateral and left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, posterior insulae and frontal eye fields (dorsal attention network). START had a large task module centered on the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex with direct links to basal ganglia, anterior insulae, and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex nodes, and through dorsal attention network (intraparietal sulci and frontal eye fields) nodes to a default module. STOPP had 2 task submodules of basal ganglia–anterior insulae, and dorsolateral prefrontal executive control regions. Dorsal attention and posterior insulae nodes were embedded in the default module and were distant from the task networks. These three unique connectivity patterns during an attention task support the concept of Gulf War Disease with recognizable, objective patterns of cognitive dysfunction.
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- Tomas Clarke
- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
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McQuaid GA, Darcey VL, Avalos MF, Fishbein DH, VanMeter JW. Altered cortical structure and psychiatric symptom risk in adolescents exposed to maternal stress in utero: A retrospective investigation. Behav Brain Res 2019; 375:112145. [PMID: 31400378 PMCID: PMC10561894 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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] [Received: 02/27/2019] [Revised: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Maternal exposure to stress during pregnancy is associated with increased risk for cognitive and behavioral sequelae in offspring. Animal research demonstrates exposure to stress during gestation has effects on brain structure. In humans, however, little is known about the enduring effects of in utero exposure to maternal stress on brain morphology. We examine whether maternal report of stressful events during pregnancy is associated with brain structure and behavior in adolescents. We compare gray matter morphometry of typically-developing early adolescents (11-14 years of age, mean 12.7) at a single timepoint, based on presence/absence of retrospectively-assessed maternal report of negative major life event stress (MLES) during pregnancy: prenatal stress (PS; n = 28), comparison group (CG; n = 55). The Drug Use Screening Inventory Revised (DUSI-R) assessed adolescent risk for problematic behaviors. Exclusionary criteria included pre-term birth, low birth weight, and maternal substance use during pregnancy. Groups were equivalent for demographic (age, sex, IQ, SES, race/ethnicity), and birth measures (weight, length). Compared to CG peers, adolescents in the PS group exhibited increased gray matter density in bilateral posterior parietal cortex (PPC): bilateral intraparietal sulcus, left superior parietal lobule and inferior parietal lobule. Additionally, the PS group displayed greater risk for psychiatric symptoms and family system dysfunction, as assessed via DUSI-R subscales. These preliminary findings suggest that prenatal exposure to maternal MLES may exact enduring associations on offspring brain morphology and psychiatric risk, highlighting the importance of capturing these data in prospective longitudinal research studies (beginning at birth) to elucidate these associations.
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- Goldie A McQuaid
- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20057, USA.
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20057, USA; Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20057, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20057, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 218 HHD Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20057, USA
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Cardinale EM, O'Connell K, Robertson EL, Meena LB, Breeden AL, Lozier LM, VanMeter JW, Marsh AA. Callous and uncaring traits are associated with reductions in amygdala volume among youths with varying levels of conduct problems. Psychol Med 2019; 49:1449-1458. [PMID: 30139402 PMCID: PMC7074929 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291718001927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The emergence of callous unemotional (CU) traits, and associated externalizing behaviors, is believed to reflect underlying dysfunction in the amygdala. Studies of adults with CU traits or psychopathy have linked characteristic patterns of amygdala dysfunction to reduced amygdala volume, but studies in youths have not thus far found evidence of similar amygdala volume reductions. The current study examined the association between CU traits and amygdala volume by modeling CU traits and externalizing behavior as independent continuous variables, and explored the relative contributions of callous, uncaring, and unemotional traits. METHODS CU traits and externalizing behavior problems were assessed in 148 youths using the Inventory of Callous Unemotional Traits (ICU) and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). For a subset of participants (n = 93), high-resolution T1-weighted images were collected and volume estimates for the amygdala were extracted. RESULTS Analyses revealed that CU traits were associated with increased externalizing behaviors and decreased bilateral amygdala volume. These results were driven by the callous and uncaring sub-factors of CU traits, with unemotional traits unrelated to either externalizing behaviors or amygdala volume. Results persisted after accounting for covariation between CU traits and externalizing behaviors. Bootstrap mediation analyses indicated that CU traits mediated the relationship between reduced amygdala volume and externalizing severity. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide evidence that callous-uncaring traits account for reduced amygdala volume among youths with conduct problems. These findings provide a framework for further investigation of abnormal amygdala development as a key causal pathway for the development of callous-uncaring traits and conduct problems.
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- Georgetown University Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience,Washington, DC,USA
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- Georgetown University Department of Psychology,Washington, DC,USA
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- Georgetown University Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience,Washington, DC,USA
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- Georgetown University Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience,Washington, DC,USA
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- Georgetown University Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging,Washington, DC,USA
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- Georgetown University Department of Psychology,Washington, DC,USA
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Oyegbile TO, VanMeter JW, Motamedi GK, Bell WL, Gaillard WD, Hermann BP. Default mode network deactivation in pediatric temporal lobe epilepsy: Relationship to a working memory task and executive function tests. Epilepsy Behav 2019; 94:124-130. [PMID: 30909075 PMCID: PMC7333914 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2019.02.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [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] [Received: 01/10/2019] [Revised: 02/24/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Children with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) exhibit executive dysfunction on traditional neuropsychological tests. There is limited evidence of different functional network alterations associated with this clinical executive dysfunction. This study investigates working memory deficits in children with TLE by assessing deactivation of the default mode network (DMN) on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and the relationship of DMN deactivation with fMRI behavioral findings and neuropsychological test performance. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN fMRI was conducted on 15 children with TLE and 15 healthy controls (age: 8-16 years) while performing the N-back task in order to assess deactivation of the DMN. N-back accuracy, N-back reaction time, and neuropsychological tests of executive function (Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System [D-KEFS] Color-Word Interference and Card Sort tests) were also assessed. PRINCIPAL OBSERVATIONS During the N-back task, children with TLE exhibited significantly less deactivation of the DMN, primarily in the precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex compared with controls. These alterations significantly correlated with N-back behavioral findings and D-KEFS results. CONCLUSIONS Children with TLE exhibit executive dysfunction which correlates with DMN alterations. These findings suggest that the level of deactivation of specific functional networks may contribute to cognitive impairment in children with TLE. The findings also indicate that children with TLE have network alterations in extratemporal lobe brain regions.
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- Temitayo O. Oyegbile
- Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America,Corresponding author at: Pediatric Neurology, Sleep Medicine & Epilepsy, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, 4200 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States of America. (T.O. Oyegbile)
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America,Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, United States of America
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Rayhan RU, Washington SD, Garner R, Zajur K, Martinez Addiego F, VanMeter JW, Baraniuk JN. Exercise challenge alters Default Mode Network dynamics in Gulf War Illness. BMC Neurosci 2019; 20:7. [PMID: 30791869 PMCID: PMC6385399 DOI: 10.1186/s12868-019-0488-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [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: 07/31/2018] [Accepted: 02/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Gulf War Illness (GWI) affects 30% of veterans from the 1991 Gulf War and has no known cause. Everyday symptoms include pain, fatigue, migraines, and dyscognition. A striking syndromic feature is post-exertional malaise (PEM). This is recognized as an exacerbation of everyday symptoms following a physically stressful or cognitively demanding activity. The underlying mechanism of PEM is unknown. We previously reported a novel paradigm that possibly captured evidence of PEM by utilizing fMRI scans taken before and after sub-maximal exercises. We hypothesized that A) exercise would be a sufficient physically stressful activity to induce PEM and B) Comparison of brain activity before and after exercise would provide evidence of PEM's effect on cognition. We reported two-exercise induced GWI phenotypes with distinct changes in brain activation patterns during the completion of a 2-back working memory task (also known as two-back > zero-back). RESULTS Here we report unanticipated findings from the reverse contrast (zero-back > two-back), which allowed for the identification of task-related deactivation patterns. Following exercise, patients developed a significant increase in deactivation patterns within the Default Mode Network (DMN) that was not seen in controls. The DMN is comprised of regions that are consistently down regulated during external goal-directed activities and is often altered within many neurological disease states. CONCLUSIONS Exercise-induced alterations within the DMN provides novel evidence of GWI pathophysiology. More broadly, results suggest that task-related deactivation patterns may have biomarker potential in Gulf War Illness.
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- Rakib U Rayhan
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Howard University College of Medicine, Adams Building Rm 2420, 520 W Street NW, Washington, DC, 20059, USA. .,Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Pre-Clinical Science Building, Rm LD3, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20007, USA.
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- Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Pre-Clinical Science Building, Rm LD3, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
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- Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Pre-Clinical Science Building, Rm LD3, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
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- Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Pre-Clinical Science Building, Rm LD3, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
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- Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Pre-Clinical Science Building, Rm LD3, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, 3900 Reservoir Road Suite LM14, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
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- Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Pre-Clinical Science Building, Rm LD3, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
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Darcey VL, McQuaid GA, Fishbein DH, VanMeter JW. Dietary Long-Chain Omega-3 Fatty Acids Are Related to Impulse Control and Anterior Cingulate Function in Adolescents. Front Neurosci 2019; 12:1012. [PMID: 30686978 PMCID: PMC6333752 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2018.01012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [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: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Impulse control, an emergent function modulated by the prefrontal cortex (PFC), helps to dampen risky behaviors during adolescence. Influences on PFC maturation during this period may contribute to variations in impulse control. Availability of omega-3 fatty acids, an essential dietary nutrient integral to neuronal structure and function, may be one such influence. This study examined whether intake of energy-adjusted long-chain omega-3 fatty acids [eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) + docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)] was related to variation in impulse control and PFC activity during performance of an inhibitory task in adolescents (n = 87; 51.7% female, mean age 13.3 ± 1.1 years) enrolled in a longitudinal neuroimaging study. Intake of DHA + EPA was assessed using a food frequency questionnaire and adjusted for total energy intake. Inhibitory control was assessed using caregiver rating scale (BRIEF Inhibit subscale) and task performance (false alarm rate) on a Go/No-Go task performed during functional MRI. Reported intake of long-chain omega-3 was positively associated with caregiver ratings of adolescent ability to control impulses (p = 0.017) and there was a trend for an association between intake and task-based impulse control (p = 0.072). Furthermore, a regression of BOLD response within PFC during successful impulse control (Correct No-Go versus Incorrect No-Go) with energy-adjusted DHA + EPA intake revealed that adolescents reporting lower intakes display greater activation in the dorsal anterior cingulate, potentially suggestive of a possible lag in cortical development. The present results suggest that dietary omega-3 fatty acids are related to development of both impulse control and function of the dorsal anterior cingulate gyrus in normative adolescent development. Insufficiency of dietary omega-3 fatty acids during this developmental period may be a factor which hinders development of behavioral control.
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- Valerie L Darcey
- The Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States.,Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States
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Willhelm AR, Viacava KR, Cabral JCC, VanMeter JW, de Almeida RMM. Earlier Alcohol Use and Lower Neuropsychological Performance in Brazilian Adolescence: Is the School Environment Related to This? Subst Use Misuse 2019; 54:426-436. [PMID: 30638105 DOI: 10.1080/10826084.2018.1501067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate impulsivity, inhibitory control, and alcohol use in preadolescents and adolescents aged 10 to 16 from public and private schools. METHODS Participants were 190 adolescents selected from public and private schools in Brazil. Neuropsychological measures related to impulsivity (i.e., Barratt Impulsiveness Scale), inhibitory control (i.e., Go/No-go Task), and processing speed (i.e., Five Digits Test) were assessed. RESULTS 60% of the sample had started drinking alcohol. Early alcohol consumption is not influenced by type of school, indicating that adolescents consume alcohol early, regardless of the type of education or income. Although there were significant differences in neuropsychological performance between types of schools, better neuropsychological performance was found in students from private schools. CONCLUSIONS When comparing consumption of alcohol among public and private school students, there were no significant differences, perhaps because the use of early alcohol can be a public health problem. Private school students may perform better in inhibitory control task because they have a good school environment, which serves as a protective factor.
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- Alice R Willhelm
- a Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul , Porto Alegre , Brazi
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- a Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul , Porto Alegre , Brazi
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- b Department of Neurology , Georgetown University Medical Center , Washington DC , Washington , USA
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Mandelblatt JS, Small BJ, Luta G, Hurria A, Jim H, McDonald BC, Graham D, Zhou X, Clapp J, Zhai W, Breen E, Carroll JE, Denduluri N, Dilawari A, Extermann M, Isaacs C, Jacobsen PB, Kobayashi LC, Holohan Nudelman K, Root J, Stern RA, Tometich D, Turner R, VanMeter JW, Saykin AJ, Ahles T. Cancer-Related Cognitive Outcomes Among Older Breast Cancer Survivors in the Thinking and Living With Cancer Study. J Clin Oncol 2018; 36:JCO1800140. [PMID: 30281396 PMCID: PMC7237199 DOI: 10.1200/jco.18.00140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
PURPOSE To determine treatment and aging-related effects on longitudinal cognitive function in older breast cancer survivors. METHODS Newly diagnosed nonmetastatic breast cancer survivors (n = 344) and matched controls without cancer (n = 347) 60 years of age and older without dementia or neurologic disease were recruited between August 2010 and December 2015. Data collection occurred during presystemic treatment/control enrollment and at 12 and 24 months through biospecimens; surveys; self-reported Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cognitive Function; and neuropsychological tests that measured attention, processing speed, and executive function (APE) and learning and memory (LM). Linear mixed-effects models tested two-way interactions of treatment group (control, chemotherapy with or without hormonal therapy, and hormonal therapy) and time and explored three-way interactions of ApoE (ε4+ v not) by group by time; covariates included baseline age, frailty, race, and cognitive reserve. RESULTS Survivors and controls were 60 to 98 years of age, were well educated, and had similar baseline cognitive scores. Treatment was related to longitudinal cognition scores, with survivors who received chemotherapy having increasingly worse APE scores ( P = .05) and those initiating hormonal therapy having lower LM scores at 12 months ( P = .03) than other groups. These group-by-time differences varied by ApoE genotype, where only ε4+ survivors receiving hormone therapy had short-term decreases in adjusted LM scores (three-way interaction P = .03). For APE, the three-way interaction was not significant ( P = .14), but scores were significantly lower for ε4+ survivors exposed to chemotherapy (-0.40; 95% CI, -0.79 to -0.01) at 24 months than ε4+ controls (0.01; 95% CI, 0.16 to 0.18; P < .05). Increasing age was associated with lower baseline scores on all cognitive measures ( P < .001); frailty was associated with baseline APE and self-reported decline ( P < .001). CONCLUSION Breast cancer systemic treatment and aging-related phenotypes and genotypes are associated with longitudinal decreases in cognitive function scores in older survivors. These data could inform treatment decision making and survivorship care planning.
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- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Brent J. Small
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Gheorghe Luta
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Arti Hurria
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Heather Jim
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Brenna C. McDonald
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Deena Graham
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Xingtao Zhou
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Jonathan Clapp
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Wanting Zhai
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Elizabeth Breen
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
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- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Neelima Denduluri
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Asma Dilawari
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
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- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Claudine Isaacs
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Paul B. Jacobsen
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Lindsay C. Kobayashi
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Kelly Holohan Nudelman
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - James Root
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Robert A. Stern
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Danielle Tometich
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Raymond Turner
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - John W. VanMeter
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
| | - Andrew J. Saykin
- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
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- Jeanne S. Mandelblatt, Gheorghe Luta, Xingtao Zhou, Jonathan Clapp, Wanting Zhai, Asma Dilawari, Claudine Isaacs, Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Raymond Turner, and John W. VanMeter, Georgetown University; Asma Dilawari, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; Brent J. Small, Heather Jim, and Martine Extermann, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; Arti Hurria, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte; Elizabeth Breen and Judith E. Carroll, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Brenna C. McDonald, Kelly Holohan Nudelman, Danielle Tometich, and Andrew J. Saykin, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Deena Graham, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack, NJ; Neelima Denduluri, US Oncology, Arlington, VA; Paul B. Jacobsen, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; James Root and Tim Ahles, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; James Root, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; and Robert A. Stern, Boston University, Boston, MA
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Oyegbile TO, VanMeter JW, Motamedi G, Zecavati N, Santos C, Lee Earn Chun C, Gaillard WD, Hermann B. Executive dysfunction is associated with an altered executive control network in pediatric temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav 2018; 86:145-152. [PMID: 30001910 PMCID: PMC7395827 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2018.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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] [Received: 02/03/2018] [Revised: 04/12/2018] [Accepted: 04/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Children with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) exhibit executive dysfunction on traditional neuropsychological tests. However, there is limited evidence of neural network alterations associated with this clinical executive dysfunction. The objective of this study was to characterize working memory deficits in children with TLE via activation of the executive control network on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and determine the relationships to fMRI behavioral findings and traditional neuropsychological tests. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Functional magnetic resonance imaging was conducted on 17 children with TLE and 18 healthy control participants (age 8-16 years) while they performed the N-back task in order to assess activation of the executive control network. N-back accuracy, N-back reaction time, and traditional neuropsychological tests (Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System [D-KEFS] color-word interference and card-sort test) were also assessed. PRINCIPAL OBSERVATIONS Children with TLE exhibited executive dysfunction on D-KEFS testing, reduced N-back accuracy, and increased N-back reaction time compared with healthy controls; D-KEFS and N-back behavioral findings were significantly correlated. Children with TLE also exhibited significant reduction in activation of the frontal lobe within the executive control network compared to healthy controls. These alterations were significantly correlated with N-back behavioral findings and D-KEFS testing. CONCLUSIONS Children with TLE exhibit executive dysfunction, which correlates with executive control network alterations. This lends validity to the theory that the executive control network contributes to working memory function. The findings also indicate that children with TLE have network alterations in nontemporal brain regions.
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.,Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
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- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
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Brethel-Haurwitz KM, Cardinale EM, Vekaria KM, Robertson EL, Walitt B, VanMeter JW, Marsh AA. Extraordinary Altruists Exhibit Enhanced Self-Other Overlap in Neural Responses to Distress. Psychol Sci 2018; 29:1631-1641. [PMID: 30130165 DOI: 10.1177/0956797618779590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Shared neural representations during experienced and observed distress are hypothesized to reflect empathic neural simulation, which may support altruism. But the correspondence between real-world altruism and shared neural representations has not been directly tested, and empathy's role in promoting altruism toward strangers has been questioned. Here, we show that individuals who have performed costly altruism (donating a kidney to a stranger; n = 25) exhibit greater self-other overlap than matched control participants ( n = 27) in neural representations of pain and threat (fearful anticipation) in anterior insula (AI) during an empathic-pain paradigm. Altruists exhibited greater self-other correspondence in pain-related activation in left AI, highlighting that group-level overlap was supported by individual-level associations between empathic pain and firsthand pain. Altruists exhibited enhanced functional coupling of left AI with left midinsula during empathic pain and threat. Results show that heightened neural instantiations of empathy correspond to real-world altruism and highlight limitations of self-report.
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- 4 National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- 5 Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center
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Brethel-Haurwitz KM, O'Connell K, Cardinale EM, Stoianova M, Stoycos SA, Lozier LM, VanMeter JW, Marsh AA. Amygdala-midbrain connectivity indicates a role for the mammalian parental care system in human altruism. Proc Biol Sci 2017; 284:20171731. [PMID: 29070724 PMCID: PMC5666102 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [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] [Received: 08/01/2017] [Accepted: 09/26/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Costly altruism benefitting a stranger is a rare but evolutionarily conserved phenomenon. This behaviour may be supported by limbic and midbrain circuitry that supports mammalian caregiving. In rodents, reciprocal connections between the amygdala and the midbrain periaqueductal grey (PAG) are critical for generating protective responses toward vulnerable and distressed offspring. We used functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging to explore whether these regions play a role in supporting costly altruism in humans. We recruited a rare population of altruists, all of whom had donated a kidney to a stranger, and measured activity and functional connectivity of the amygdala and PAG as altruists and matched controls responded to care-eliciting scenarios. When these scenarios were coupled with pre-attentive distress cues, altruists' sympathy corresponded to greater activity in the left amygdala and PAG, and functional connectivity analyses revealed increased coupling between these regions in altruists during this epoch. We also found that altruists exhibited greater fractional anisotropy within the left amygdala-PAG white matter tract. These results, coupled with previous evidence of altruists' increased amygdala-linked sensitivity to distress, are consistent with costly altruism resulting from enhanced care-oriented responses to vulnerability and distress that are supported by recruitment of circuitry that supports mammalian parental care.
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- Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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Shattuck KF, VanMeter JW. Task-based changes in proton MR spectroscopy signal during configural working memory in human medial temporal lobe. J Magn Reson Imaging 2017; 47:682-691. [PMID: 28699178 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.25816] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Accepted: 06/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To detect local cholinergic changes in human medial temporal lobe during configural working memory performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1 H-MRS) measurements were acquired at 3T from a 2 × 2 × 3 cm voxel in right medial temporal lobe from 36 subjects during performance of a configural visual working memory task (cWMT). In order to compensate for expected task-based blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) T2 * effects, resonance signal changes of unbound choline-containing metabolites (Cho) were referenced to an internal standard of creatine + phosphocreatine metabolites (Cre) and compared between four task blocks: rest, memorization, active memory maintenance, and recognition. An unannounced memory retention test was conducted in 21 subjects. Quality assurance analyses examined task-based Cho and Cre individually as well as referenced to resonance signal from N-acetylaspartate (NAA). RESULTS Increases from a resting baseline in the Cho/Cre ratio were observed during 60-second blocks of active memory maintenance across the group (P = 0.0042). Behavioral accuracy during task performance correlated with memory retention (r = 0.48, P = 0.027). Quality assurance measures showed task-based changes in Cre resonance signal both individually (P = 0.00099) and when utilized as a noncholinergic internal reference (NAA/Cre, P = 0.00079). CONCLUSION Increases in human medial temporal lobe 1 H-MRS Cho/Cre ratio occur during the maintenance of configural working memory information. However, interpretation of these results as driven by cholinergic activity cannot be assumed, as NAA, a noncholinergic metabolite, shows similar results when utilizing Cre as a reference. Caution is advised when considering Cre as an internal standard for task-based 1 H-MRS measurements. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 2 Technical Efficacy: Stage 1 J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2018;47:682-691.
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- Kyle F Shattuck
- Department of Neuroscience, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA.,Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA.,Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA
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- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA.,Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., USA
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Shattuck K, Magnus M, Hassanzadeh S, Kumar P, Young M, Rebeck GW, VanMeter JW, Moore DJ, Ellis RJ, Turner RS, Jiang X. [IC‐P‐146]: TASK‐FREE MAGNETIC RESONANCE BRAIN IMAGING DISTINGUISHES ALZHEIMER's DISEASE FROM HIV‐DISEASE VIA SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFICATION. Alzheimers Dement 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2017.06.2420] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Kyle Shattuck
- Georgetown University Medical CenterWashingtonD.C.USA
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- Georgetown University Medical CenterWashingtonD.C.USA
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- Georgetown University Medical CenterWashingtonD.C.USA
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- Georgetown University Medical CenterWashingtonD.C.USA
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Costanzo ME, VanMeter JW, Janelle CM, Braun A, Miller MW, Oldham J, Russell BAH, Hatfield BD. Neural Efficiency in Expert Cognitive-Motor Performers During Affective Challenge. J Mot Behav 2016; 48:573-588. [PMID: 27715496 DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2016.1161591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [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: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Skilled individuals demonstrate a spatially localized or relatively lower response in brain activity characterized as neural efficiency when performing within their domain of expertise. Elite athletes are experts in their chosen sport and thus must be not only adept in the motor domain but must be resilient to performing under the stress of high-level competition. Such stability of performance suggests this population processes emotion and mental stress in an adaptive and efficient manner. This study sought to determine if athletes with a history of successful performance under circumstances of mental stress demonstrate neural efficiency during affective challenges compared to age-matched controls. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, the blood-oxygen level-dependent response was recorded during emotional challenge induced by sport-specific and general unpleasant images. The athletes demonstrated neural efficiency in brain regions critical to emotion regulation (prefrontal cortex) and affect (insula) independently of their domain of expertise, suggesting adaptive processing of negative events and less emotional reactivity to unpleasant stimuli.
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- Michelle E Costanzo
- a Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland.,b Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences Program , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland
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- c Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging , Georgetown University Medical Center , Washington , DC
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- d Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology , University of Florida , Gainesville , Florida
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- e Language Section , National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland
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- a Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland.,b Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences Program , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland
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- b Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences Program , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland
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- a Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland.,b Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences Program , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland.,f Center for Advanced Study of Language , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland
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- a Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland.,b Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences Program , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland.,f Center for Advanced Study of Language , University of Maryland at College Park , College Park , Maryland
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Fishbein DH, Rose EJ, Darcey VL, Belcher AM, VanMeter JW. Neurodevelopmental Precursors and Consequences of Substance Use during Adolescence: Promises and Pitfalls of Longitudinal Neuroimaging Strategies. Front Hum Neurosci 2016; 10:296. [PMID: 27445743 PMCID: PMC4919318 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [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: 01/18/2016] [Accepted: 06/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Neurocognitive and emotional regulatory deficits in substance users are often attributed to misuse; however most studies do not include a substance-naïve baseline to justify that conclusion. The etiological literature suggests that pre-existing deficits may contribute to the onset and escalation of use that are then exacerbated by subsequent use. To address this, there is burgeoning interest in conducting prospective, longitudinal neuroimaging studies to isolate neurodevelopmental precursors and consequences of adolescent substance misuse, as reflected in recent initiatives such as the NIH-led Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study and the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment (NCANDA). To distinguish neurodevelopmental precursors from the consequences of adolescent substance use specifically, prospective, longitudinal neuroimaging studies with substance-naïve pre-adolescents are needed. The exemplar described in this article—i.e., the ongoing Adolescent Development Study (ADS)—used a targeted recruitment strategy to bolster the numbers of pre-adolescent individuals who were at increased risk of substance use (i.e., “high-risk”) in a sample that was relatively small for longitudinal studies of similar phenomena, but historically large for neuroimaging (i.e., N = 135; 11–13 years of age). At baseline participants underwent MRI testing and a large complement of cognitive and behavioral assessments along with genetics, stress physiology and interviews. The study methods include repeating these measures at three time points (i.e., baseline/Wave 1, Wave 2 and Wave 3), 18 months apart. In this article, rather than outlining specific study outcomes, we describe the breadth of the numerous complexities and challenges involved in conducting this type of prospective, longitudinal neuroimaging study and “lessons learned” for subsequent efforts are discussed. While these types of large longitudinal neuroimaging studies present a number of logistical and scientific challenges, the wealth of information obtained about the precursors and consequences of adolescent substance use provides unique insights into the neurobiological bases for adolescent substance use that will lay the groundwork for targeted interventions.
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- Diana H Fishbein
- Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center and The Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA
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- Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center and The Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging (CFMI), Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging (CFMI), Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Washington, DC, USA
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Walitt B, Čeko M, Khatiwada M, Gracely JL, Rayhan R, VanMeter JW, Gracely RH. Characterizing "fibrofog": Subjective appraisal, objective performance, and task-related brain activity during a working memory task. Neuroimage Clin 2016; 11:173-180. [PMID: 26955513 PMCID: PMC4761650 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2015] [Revised: 01/27/2016] [Accepted: 01/31/2016] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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The subjective experience of cognitive dysfunction ("fibrofog") is common in fibromyalgia. This study investigated the relation between subjective appraisal of cognitive function, objective cognitive task performance, and brain activity during a cognitive task using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Sixteen fibromyalgia patients and 13 healthy pain-free controls completed a battery of questionnaires, including the Multiple Ability Self-Report Questionnaire (MASQ), a measure of self-perceived cognitive difficulties. Participants were evaluated for working memory performance using a modified N-back working memory task while undergoing Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) fMRI measurements. Fibromyalgia patients and controls did not differ in working memory performance. Subjective appraisal of cognitive function was associated with better performance (accuracy) on the working memory task in healthy controls but not in fibromyalgia patients. In fibromyalgia patients, increased perceived cognitive difficulty was positively correlated with the severity of their symptoms. BOLD response during the working memory task did not differ between the groups. BOLD response correlated with task accuracy in control subjects but not in fibromyalgia patients. Increased subjective cognitive impairment correlated with decreased BOLD response in both groups but in different anatomic regions. In conclusion, "fibrofog" appears to be better characterized by subjective rather than objective impairment. Neurologic correlates of this subjective experience of impairment might be separate from those involved in the performance of cognitive tasks.
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- Brian Walitt
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States; MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Division of Rheumatology, Washington, DC, United States.
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- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Washington, DC, United States
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- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Washington, DC, United States
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Washington, DC, United States
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- Center for Pain Research and Innovation, University of North Carolina, School of Dentistry, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
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Pacheco-Colón I, Washington SD, Sprouse C, Helman G, Gropman AL, VanMeter JW. Reduced Functional Connectivity of Default Mode and Set-Maintenance Networks in Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0129595. [PMID: 26067829 PMCID: PMC4466251 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background and Purpose Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) is an X-chromosome linked urea cycle disorder (UCD) that causes hyperammonemic episodes leading to white matter injury and impairments in executive functioning, working memory, and motor planning. This study aims to investigate differences in functional connectivity of two resting-state networks—default mode and set-maintenance—between OTCD patients and healthy controls. Methods Sixteen patients with partial OTCD and twenty-two control participants underwent a resting-state scan using 3T fMRI. Combining independent component analysis (ICA) and region-of-interest (ROI) analyses, we identified the nodes that comprised each network in each group, and assessed internodal connectivity. Results Group comparisons revealed reduced functional connectivity in the default mode network (DMN) of OTCD patients, particularly between the anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex (ACC/mPFC) node and bilateral inferior parietal lobule (IPL), as well as between the ACC/mPFC node and the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) node. Patients also showed reduced connectivity in the set-maintenance network, especially between right anterior insula/frontal operculum (aI/fO) node and bilateral superior frontal gyrus (SFG), as well as between the right aI/fO and ACC and between the ACC and right SFG. Conclusion Internodal functional connectivity in the DMN and set-maintenance network is reduced in patients with partial OTCD compared to controls, most likely due to hyperammonemia-related white matter damage. Because several of the affected areas are involved in executive functioning, it is postulated that this reduced connectivity is an underlying cause of the deficits OTCD patients display in this cognitive domain.
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- Ileana Pacheco-Colón
- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department of Neurogenetics, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC, United States of America
- George Washington University of the Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Department of Neurogenetics, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC, United States of America
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Department of Neurogenetics, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC, United States of America
- George Washington University of the Health Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Medical Genetics Branch, NHGRI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America
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Washington SD, VanMeter JW. Anterior-Posterior Connectivity within the Default Mode Network Increases During Maturation. Int J Med Biol Front 2015; 21:207-218. [PMID: 26236149 PMCID: PMC4520706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The default mode network (DMN) supports self-referential thought processes important for successful socialization including: theory-of-mind, episodic memory, and prospection. Connectivity between DMN's nodes, which are distributed between the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes, change with age and may continue changing into adulthood. We have previously explored the maturation of functional connections in the DMN as they relate to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children 6 to 18 years of age. In this chapter, we refine our earlier study of DMN functional maturation by focusing on the development of inter-nodal connectivity in a larger pool of typically developing people 6 to 25 years of age (mean = 13.22 years ± 5.36 s.d.; N = 36; 42% female). Correlations in BOLD activity (Fisher's Z) between ROIs revealed varying strengths of functional connectivity between regions, the strongest of which was between the left and right inferior parietal lobules or IPLs (Z = 0.62 ± 0.25 s.d.) and the weakest of which was between the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) and right middle temporal gyrus or MTG (Z = 0.06 ± 0.22 s.d.). Further, connectivity between two pairs of DMN nodes significantly increased as a quadratic function of age (p < 0.05), specifically the anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex (ACC/mPFC) and PCC nodes and the left IPL and right MTG nodes. The correlation between ACC/mPFC ↔ PCC connectivity and age was more significant than the correlation between left IPL ↔ right MTG connectivity and age by more than an order of magnitude. We suggest that these changes in functional connectivity in part underlie the introspective mental changes known to commonly occur between the preadolescent and adult years. A range of neurological and psychological conditions that hamper social interactions, from ASD to psychopathy, may be marked by deviations from this maturational trajectory.
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- Stuart D. Washington
- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC, US
- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC, US
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC, US
- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC, US
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Marsh AA, Stoycos SA, Brethel-Haurwitz KM, Robinson P, VanMeter JW, Cardinale EM. Neural and cognitive characteristics of extraordinary altruists. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:15036-41. [PMID: 25225374 PMCID: PMC4210306 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1408440111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [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: 11/18/2022] Open
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Altruistic behavior improves the welfare of another individual while reducing the altruist's welfare. Humans' tendency to engage in altruistic behaviors is unevenly distributed across the population, and individual variation in altruistic tendencies may be genetically mediated. Although neural endophenotypes of heightened or extreme antisocial behavior tendencies have been identified in, for example, studies of psychopaths, little is known about the neural mechanisms that support heightened or extreme prosocial or altruistic tendencies. In this study, we used structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess a population of extraordinary altruists: altruistic kidney donors who volunteered to donate a kidney to a stranger. Such donations meet the most stringent definitions of altruism in that they represent an intentional behavior that incurs significant costs to the donor to benefit an anonymous, nonkin other. Functional imaging and behavioral tasks included face-emotion processing paradigms that reliably distinguish psychopathic individuals from controls. Here we show that extraordinary altruists can be distinguished from controls by their enhanced volume in right amygdala and enhanced responsiveness of this structure to fearful facial expressions, an effect that predicts superior perceptual sensitivity to these expressions. These results mirror the reduced amygdala volume and reduced responsiveness to fearful facial expressions observed in psychopathic individuals. Our results support the possibility of a neural basis for extraordinary altruism. We anticipate that these findings will expand the scope of research on biological mechanisms that promote altruistic behaviors to include neural mechanisms that support affective and social responsiveness.
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- Abigail A Marsh
- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057;
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057
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- Department of Radiology, Integrated Brain Imaging Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057
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Sprouse C, King J, Helman G, Pacheco-Colón I, Shattuck K, Breeden A, Seltzer R, VanMeter JW, Gropman AL. Investigating neurological deficits in carriers and affected patients with ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency. Mol Genet Metab 2014; 113:136-41. [PMID: 24881970 PMCID: PMC4458385 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2014.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Revised: 05/12/2014] [Accepted: 05/13/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Urea cycle disorders are caused by dysfunction in any of the six enzymes and two transport proteins involved in urea biosynthesis. Our study focuses on ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD), an X-linked disorder that results in a dysfunctional mitochondrial enzyme, which prevents the synthesis of citrulline from carbamoyl phosphate and ornithine. This enzyme deficiency can lead to hyperammonemic episodes and severe cerebral edema. The objective of this study was to use a cognitive battery to expose the cognitive deficits in asymptomatic carriers of OTCD. MATERIALS AND METHODS In total, 81 participants were recruited as part of a larger urea cycle disorder imaging consortium study. There were 25 symptomatic participants (18 female, 7 male, 25.6 year s ± 12.72 years), 20 asymptomatic participants (20 female, 0 male, 37.6 years ± 15.19 years), and 36 healthy control participants (21 female, 15 male, 29.8 years ± 13.39 years). All participants gave informed consent to participate and were then given neurocognitive batteries with standard scores and T scores recorded. RESULTS When stratified by symptomatic participant, asymptomatic carrier, and control, the results showed significant differences in measures of executive function (e.g. CTMT and Stroop) and motor ability (Purdue Assembly) between all groups tested. Simple attention, academic measures, language and non-verbal motor abilities showed no significant differences between asymptomatic carriers and control participants, however, there were significant differences between symptomatic and control participant performance in these measures. CONCLUSIONS In our study, asymptomatic carriers of OTCD showed no significant differences in cognitive function compared to control participants until they were cognitively challenged with fine motor tasks, measures of executive function, and measures of cognitive flexibility. This suggests that cognitive dysfunction is best measurable in asymptomatic carriers after they are cognitively challenged.
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- Courtney Sprouse
- Department of Neurogenetics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington D.C., USA; Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
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- Department of Neurogenetics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington D.C., USA
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- Department of Neurogenetics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington D.C., USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
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- Department of Neurogenetics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington D.C., USA; Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA; George Washington University of Health Sciences, Washington D.C., USA
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Lozier LM, Cardinale EM, VanMeter JW, Marsh AA. Mediation of the relationship between callous-unemotional traits and proactive aggression by amygdala response to fear among children with conduct problems. JAMA Psychiatry 2014; 71:627-36. [PMID: 24671141 PMCID: PMC4479191 DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.4540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [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: 01/13/2023]
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IMPORTANCE Among youths with conduct problems, callous-unemotional (CU) traits are known to be an important determinant of symptom severity, prognosis, and treatment responsiveness. But positive correlations between conduct problems and CU traits result in suppressor effects that may mask important neurobiological distinctions among subgroups of children with conduct problems. OBJECTIVE To assess the unique neurobiological covariates of CU traits and externalizing behaviors in youths with conduct problems and determine whether neural dysfunction linked to CU traits mediates the link between callousness and proactive aggression. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional case-control study involved behavioral testing and neuroimaging that were conducted at a university research institution. Neuroimaging was conducted using a 3-T Siemens magnetic resonance imaging scanner. It included 46 community-recruited male and female juveniles aged 10 to 17 years, including 16 healthy control participants and 30 youths with conduct problems with both low and high levels of CU traits. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Blood oxygenation level-dependent signal as measured via functional magnetic resonance imaging during an implicit face-emotion processing task and analyzed using whole-brain and region of interest-based analysis of variance and multiple-regression analyses. RESULTS Analysis of variance revealed no group differences in the amygdala. By contrast, consistent with the existence of suppressor effects, multiple-regression analysis found amygdala responses to fearful expressions to be negatively associated with CU traits (x = 26, y = 0, z = -12; k = 1) and positively associated with externalizing behavior (x = 24, y = 0, z = -14; k = 8) when both variables were modeled simultaneously. Reduced amygdala responses mediated the relationship between CU traits and proactive aggression. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE The results linked proactive aggression in youths with CU traits to hypoactive amygdala responses to emotional distress cues, consistent with theories that externalizing behaviors, particularly proactive aggression, in youths with these traits stem from deficient empathic responses to distress. Amygdala hypoactivity may represent an intermediate phenotype, offering new insights into effective treatment strategies for conduct problems.
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- Leah M. Lozier
- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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Mandelblatt JS, Hurria A, McDonald BC, Saykin AJ, Stern RA, VanMeter JW, McGuckin M, Traina T, Denduluri N, Turner S, Howard D, Jacobsen PB, Ahles T. Cognitive effects of cancer and its treatments at the intersection of aging: what do we know; what do we need to know? Semin Oncol 2013; 40:709-25. [PMID: 24331192 PMCID: PMC3880205 DOI: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2013.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [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: 12/25/2022]
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There is a fairly consistent, albeit non-universal body of research documenting cognitive declines after cancer and its treatments. While few of these studies have included subjects aged 65 years and older, it is logical to expect that older patients are at risk of cognitive decline. Here, we use breast cancer as an exemplar disease for inquiry into the intersection of aging and cognitive effects of cancer and its therapies. There are a striking number of common underlying potential biological risks and pathways for the development of cancer, cancer-related cognitive declines, and aging processes, including the development of a frail phenotype. Candidate shared pathways include changes in hormonal milieu, inflammation, oxidative stress, DNA damage and compromised DNA repair, genetic susceptibility, decreased brain blood flow or disruption of the blood-brain barrier, direct neurotoxicity, decreased telomere length, and cell senescence. There also are similar structure and functional changes seen in brain imaging studies of cancer patients and those seen with "normal" aging and Alzheimer's disease. Disentangling the role of these overlapping processes is difficult since they require aged animal models and large samples of older human subjects. From what we do know, frailty and its low cognitive reserve seem to be a clinically useful marker of risk for cognitive decline after cancer and its treatments. This and other results from this review suggest the value of geriatric assessments to identify older patients at the highest risk of cognitive decline. Further research is needed to understand the interactions between aging, genetic predisposition, lifestyle factors, and frailty phenotypes to best identify the subgroups of older patients at greatest risk for decline and to develop behavioral and pharmacological interventions targeting this group. We recommend that basic science and population trials be developed specifically for older hosts with intermediate endpoints of relevance to this group, including cognitive function and trajectories of frailty. Clinicians and their older patients can advance the field by active encouragement of and participation in research designed to improve the care and outcomes of the growing population of older cancer patients.
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- Jeanne S Mandelblatt
- Departments of Oncology and Population Sciences, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
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- Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA
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- Center for Neuroimaging, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences and the Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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- Center for Neuroimaging, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences and the Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
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- Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Director, Clinical Core, BU Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Medicine, Georgetown University; Virginia Cancer Specialists, US Oncology, Arlington, VA
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- Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
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- Division of Population Science, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
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Rayhan RU, Stevens BW, Raksit MP, Ripple JA, Timbol CR, Adewuyi O, VanMeter JW, Baraniuk JN. Exercise challenge in Gulf War Illness reveals two subgroups with altered brain structure and function. PLoS One 2013; 8:e63903. [PMID: 23798990 PMCID: PMC3683000 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2012] [Accepted: 04/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Nearly 30% of the approximately 700,000 military personnel who served in Operation Desert Storm (1990-1991) have developed Gulf War Illness, a condition that presents with symptoms such as cognitive impairment, autonomic dysfunction, debilitating fatigue and chronic widespread pain that implicate the central nervous system. A hallmark complaint of subjects with Gulf War Illness is post-exertional malaise; defined as an exacerbation of symptoms following physical and/or mental effort. To study the causal relationship between exercise, the brain, and changes in symptoms, 28 Gulf War veterans and 10 controls completed an fMRI scan before and after two exercise stress tests to investigate serial changes in pain, autonomic function, and working memory. Exercise induced two clinical Gulf War Illness subgroups. One subgroup presented with orthostatic tachycardia (n = 10). This phenotype correlated with brainstem atrophy, baseline working memory compensation in the cerebellar vermis, and subsequent loss of compensation after exercise. The other subgroup developed exercise induced hyperalgesia (n = 18) that was associated with cortical atrophy and baseline working memory compensation in the basal ganglia. Alterations in cognition, brain structure, and symptoms were absent in controls. Our novel findings may provide an understanding of the relationship between the brain and post-exertional malaise in Gulf War Illness.
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- Rakib U Rayhan
- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America.
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Rayhan RU, Raksit MP, Timbol CR, Adewuyi O, VanMeter JW, Baraniuk JN. Prefrontal lactate predicts exercise-induced cognitive dysfunction in Gulf War Illness. Am J Transl Res 2013; 5:212-223. [PMID: 23573365 PMCID: PMC3612516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2013] [Accepted: 03/02/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND 25% to 30% of Veterans deployed to the 1990 to 1991 Persian Gulf War exhibit an idiopathic syndrome of chronic fatigue, exertional exhaustion, pain, hyperalgesia, cognitive and affective dysfunction known as Gulf War Illness (GWI). METHODS Gulf War veterans (n=15) and sedentary veteran and civilian controls (n=11) completed a 2-back working memory test in an fMRI before and after two bicycle exercise stress test. We performed single voxel (1)H MRS to evaluate brain metabolic differences in the left anterior cingulate cortex and the changes associated with exercise. RESULTS Eight GWI subjects increased their 2-back scores after exercise (labelled increasers) and seven GWI subjects decreased their 2-back scores after exercise (labelled decreasers). These phenotypic responses were absent for controls. Decreasers had significantly elevated prefrontal lactate levels compared to Increasers prior to completion of the exercise stress tests. Evaluation of prefrontal lactate levels prior to exercise demonstrated predictability (ROC analysis) of the two diametrically opposed subgroups. CONCLUSION Prefrontal lactate levels may be a potential biomarker for exercise-induced subgroups in GWI. The alterations in brain energetics may be in part responsible for a subgroup of GWI and underlie some of the symptoms present in the patient population.
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- Rakib U Rayhan
- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy; Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center Room 3004F3rd Floor PHC Building, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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- Georgetown University Department of Psychology; Cognitive Neurogenetics Laboratory305 White-Gravenor Hall, 3700 O Street, NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy; Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center Room 3004F3rd Floor PHC Building, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy; Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center Room 3004F3rd Floor PHC Building, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging; Georgetown University Medical Center Suite LM14Preclinical Sciences Building, 3900 Reservoir Road, NW Washington, DC 20057, USA
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- Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy; Department of Medicine, Georgetown University Medical Center Room 3004F3rd Floor PHC Building, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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Washington SD, Gordon EM, Brar J, Warburton S, Sawyer AT, Wolfe A, Mease-Ference ER, Girton L, Hailu A, Mbwana J, Gaillard WD, Kalbfleisch ML, VanMeter JW. Dysmaturation of the default mode network in autism. Hum Brain Mapp 2013; 35:1284-96. [PMID: 23334984 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2012] [Accepted: 12/10/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Two hypotheses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) propose that this condition is characterized by deficits in Theory of Mind and by hypoconnectivity between remote cortical regions with hyperconnectivity locally. The default mode network (DMN) is a set of remote, functionally connected cortical nodes less active during executive tasks than at rest and is implicated in Theory of Mind, episodic memory, and other self-reflective processes. We show that children with ASD have reduced connectivity between DMN nodes and increased local connectivity within DMN nodes and the visual and motor resting-state networks. We show that, like the trajectory of synaptogenesis, internodal DMN functional connectivity increased as a quadratic function of age in typically developing children, peaking between, 11 and 13 years. In children with ASD, these long-distance connections fail to develop during adolescence. These findings support the "developmental disconnection model" of ASD, provide a possible mechanistic explanation for the Theory-of-Mind hypothesis of ASD, and show that the window for effectively treating ASD could be wider than previously thought.
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- Stuart D Washington
- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia; Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia; Children's National Medical Center, Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia
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Shook D, Brady C, Lee PS, Kenealy L, Murphy ER, Gaillard WD, VanMeter JW, Cook EH, Stein M, Vaidya CJ. Effect of dopamine transporter genotype on caudate volume in childhood ADHD and controls. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2011; 156B:28-35. [PMID: 20957668 PMCID: PMC3010298 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.31132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2010] [Accepted: 09/02/2010] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Polymorphism of the dopamine transporter genotype (DAT1) confers a small but significant susceptibility to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We examined whether the volume of the head of caudate, a striatal structure with high DAT expression that is important for inhibitory function, differs by DAT1 in children diagnosed with the disorder relative to age and IQ matched controls. Volume of the head of caudate was delineated in the right and left hemisphere and compared between 7- and 13-year-old children with and without ADHD (combined type) who were carriers of two (10/10) or one (9/10) copy of the 10-repeat DAT1 allele. Caudate volumes were overall smaller in 10/10 than 9/10 children, particularly in the left than right hemisphere. While DAT1 effects did not vary by ADHD diagnosis, overall caudate volumes were smaller in ADHD relative to control children. Altered caudate development associated with 10-repeat homozygosity of DAT1 may contribute susceptibility to ADHD.
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- Devon Shook
- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC
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- Center for Neuroscience, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC
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- Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Center for Neuroscience, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
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James GA, Lu ZL, VanMeter JW, Sathian K, Hu XP, Butler AJ. Changes in resting state effective connectivity in the motor network following rehabilitation of upper extremity poststroke paresis. Top Stroke Rehabil 2009; 16:270-81. [PMID: 19740732 DOI: 10.1310/tsr1604-270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND A promising paradigm in human neuroimaging is the study of slow (<0.1 Hz) spontaneous fluctuations in the hemodynamic response measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Spontaneous activity (i.e., resting state) refers to activity that cannot be attributed to specific inputs or outputs, that is, activity intrinsically generated by the brain. METHOD This article presents pilot data examining neural connectivity in patients with poststroke hemiparesis before and after 3 weeks of upper extremity rehabilitation in the Accelerated Skill Acquisition Program (ASAP). Resting-state fMRI data acquired pre and post therapy were analyzed using an exploratory adaptation of structural equation modeling (SEM) to evaluate therapy-related changes in motor network effective connectivity. RESULTS Each ASAP patient showed behavioral improvement. ASAP patients also showed increased influence of the affected hemisphere premotor cortex (a-PM) upon the unaffected hemisphere premotor cortex (u-PM) following therapy. The influence of a-PM on affected hemisphere primary motor cortex (a-M1) also increased with therapy for 3 of 5 patients, including those with greatest behavioral improvement. CONCLUSIONS Our findings suggest that network analyses of resting-state fMRI constitute promising tools for functional characterization of functional brain disorders, for intergroup comparisons, and potentially for assessing effective connectivity within single subjects; all of which have important implications for stroke rehabilitation.
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- G Andrew James
- Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
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Gerner TM, Brar J, Kalbfleisch ML, VanMeter JW. Classification of Subtypes in a Pediatric Sample with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Neuroimage 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(09)70054-0] [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: 11/27/2022] Open
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Positron emission tomography and single-photon emission computed tomography are nuclear imaging modalities that excel in depicting the biological function of tissue. Unlike structural imaging methods, they provide functional diagnostic information about brain neoplasms, stroke, neurodegenerative disorders, epilepsy, cortical visual loss, and migraine.
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- Pamela Blake
- Department of Neurology, Center for the Study of Learning, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, USA.
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Beason-Held LL, Purpura KP, Krasuski JS, Desmond RE, Mangot DJ, Daly EM, Optican LM, Rapoport SI, VanMeter JW. Striate cortex in humans demonstrates the relationship between activation and variations in visual form. Exp Brain Res 2000; 130:221-6. [PMID: 10672475 DOI: 10.1007/s002210050024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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: 10/28/2022]
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Electrophysiologic and functional imaging studies have shown that the visual cortex produces differential responses to the presence or absence of structure within visual textures. To further define and characterize regions involved in the analysis of form, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to detect changes in activation during the viewing of four levels of isodipole textures. The texture levels systematically differed in the density of visual features such as extended contours and blocks of solid color present within the images. A linear relationship between activation level and density of structure was observed in the striate cortex of human subjects. This finding suggests that a special subpopulation of striate cortical neurons participates in the ability to extract and process structural continuity within visual stimuli.
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- L L Beason-Held
- Laboratory of Neurosciences, NIA, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Beason-Held LL, Purpura KP, Krasuski JS, Maisog JM, Daly EM, Mangot DJ, Desmond RE, Optican LM, Schapiro MB, VanMeter JW. Cortical regions involved in visual texture perception: a fMRI study. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 1998; 7:111-8. [PMID: 9774714 DOI: 10.1016/s0926-6410(98)00015-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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To determine visual areas of the human brain involved in elementary form processing, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure regional responses to two types of achromatic textures. Healthy young adults were presented with 'random' textures which lacked spatial organization of the black and white pixels that make up the image, and 'correlated' textures in which the pixels were ordered to produce extended contours and rectangular blocks at multiple spatial scales. Relative to a fixation condition, random texture stimulation resulted in increased signal intensity primarily in the striate cortex, with slight involvement of the cuneus and middle occipital, lingual and fusiform gyri. Correlated texture stimulation also resulted in activation of these areas, yet the regional extent of this activation was significantly greater than that produced by random textures. Unlike random stimulation, correlated stimulation additionally resulted in middle temporal activation. Direct comparison of the two stimulation conditions revealed significant differences most consistently in the anterior fusiform gyrus, but also in striate, middle occipital, lingual and posterior temporal regions in subjects with robust activation patterns. While both random and correlated stimulation produced activation in similar areas of the occipital lobe, the increase in regional activation during the correlated condition suggests increased recruitment of neuronal populations occurs in response to textures containing visually salient features. This increased recruitment occurs within striate, extrastriate and temporal regions of the brain, also suggesting the presence of receptive field mechanisms in the ventral visual pathway that are sensitive to features produced by higher-order spatial correlations.
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- L L Beason-Held
- Laboratory of Neurosciences, NIA, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 10, Rm. 6C414, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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- Laboratory of Diagnostic Radiology Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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Dyslexia is an impairment in reading that can result from an abnormal developmental process in the case of developmental dyslexia or cerebral insult in the case of acquired dyslexia. It has long been known that the clinical manifestations of developmental dyslexia are varied. In addition to their reading difficulties, individuals with developmental dyslexia exhibit impairments in their ability to process the phonological features of written or spoken language. Recently, it has been demonstrated with a variety of experimental approaches that these individuals are also impaired on a number of visual tasks involving visuomotor, visuospatial, and visual motion processing. The results of these studies, as well as the anatomical and physiological anomalies seen in the brains of individuals with dyslexia, suggest that the pathophysiology of developmental dyslexia is more complex than originally thought, extending beyond the classically defined language areas of the brain. Functional neuroimaging is a useful tool to more precisely delineate the pathophysiology of this reading disorder.
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- G F Eden
- Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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Eden GF, VanMeter JW, Rumsey JM, Maisog JM, Woods RP, Zeffiro TA. Abnormal processing of visual motion in dyslexia revealed by functional brain imaging. Nature 1996; 382:66-9. [PMID: 8657305 DOI: 10.1038/382066a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 486] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [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: 02/01/2023]
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It is widely accepted that dyslexics have deficits in reading and phonological awareness, but there is increasing evidence that they also exhibit visual processing abnormalities that may be confined to particular portions of the visual system. In primate visual pathways, inputs from parvocellular or magnocellular layers of the lateral geniculate nucleus remain partly segregated in projections to extrastriate cortical areas specialized for processing colour and form versus motion. In studies of dyslexia, psychophysical and anatomical evidence indicate an anomaly in the magnocellular visual subsystem. To investigate the pathophysiology of dyslexia, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study visual motion processing in normal and dyslexic men. In all dyslexics, presentation of moving stimuli failed to produce the same task-related functional activation in area V5/MT (part of the magnocellular visual subsystem) observed in controls. In contrast, presentation of stationary patterns resulted in equivalent activations in V1/V2 and extrastriate cortex in both groups. Although previous studies have emphasized language deficits, our data reveal differences in the regional functional organization of the cortical visual system in dyslexia.
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- G F Eden
- Section on Functional Brain Imaging NIMH, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Eden GF, VanMeter JW, Rumsey JM, Maisog JM, Woods RP, Zeffiro TA. Differences in visual processing in dyslexia revealed with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neuroimage 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s1053-8119(96)80594-5] [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: 11/28/2022] Open
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Mentis MJ, Horwitz B, Grady CL, Alexander GE, VanMeter JW, Maisog JM, Pietrini P, Schapiro MB, Rapoport SI. Visual cortical dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease evaluated with a temporally graded "stress test" during PET. Am J Psychiatry 1996; 153:32-40. [PMID: 8540589 DOI: 10.1176/ajp.153.1.32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 01/31/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Visual-processing abnormalities commonly contribute to typical Alzheimer's disease symptoms, but their detailed pathophysiology remains unknown. To investigate why patients with Alzheimer's disease have greater difficulty performing visuoconstructive (magnocellular-dominated) tasks than face- or color-perception (parvocellular-dominated) tasks, the authors measured brain activation in response to a temporally graded visual stimulus (neural stress test) during positron emission tomography. METHOD The stress test measured regional cerebral blood flow (CBF) in response to a patterned flash stimulus in the resting state (0 Hz in the dark) and at frequencies of 1, 2, 4, 7, and 14 Hz. Ten patients with Alzheimer's disease and 12 age- and sex-matched comparison subjects were studied. RESULTS The striate response at 7 Hz and 14 Hz (the degree of regional CBF increase from that at 0 Hz) was significantly less in the patients than in the comparison subjects, whereas the change in regional CBF at the lower frequencies did not differ between groups. In bilateral middle temporal association areas activated by motion and dominated by magnocellular input, regional CBF at 1 Hz (the frequency with maximal apparent motion) was significantly greater than at 0 Hz in the comparison subjects but not in the patients. CONCLUSIONS The magnocellular visual system normally responds to high-frequency input and motion; the failure of response in the striate cortex at high but not low frequencies in the Alzheimer's patients suggests greater magnocellular than parvocellular dysfunction at these levels. Activation failure in the middle temporal areas in the patients supports magnocellular dysfunction. The finding that the Alzheimer's disease group had abnormal visual cortical function emphasizes the importance of clinical visuospatial evaluation of patients with Alzheimer's disease to fully understand symptom production and to plan interventions.
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- M J Mentis
- Laboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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VanMeter JW, Maisog JM, Zeffiro TA, Hallett M, Herscovitch P, Rapoport SI. Parametric analysis of functional neuroimages: application to a variable-rate motor task. Neuroimage 1995; 2:273-83. [PMID: 9343612 DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1995.1035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Positron emission tomography (PET) has proven to be a powerful tool in identifying the functional neuroanatomy underlying cognitive and sensorimotor processing. In this paper, we present a method for mathematically modeling the changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) as a function of experimental parameters using step and linear functions. PET was used to measure rCBF in six subjects who tracked a target moving with constant amplitude across a computer screen at four different frequencies. Each subject tracked the target by flexing and extending the wrist. Two scans were performed at each frequency. The data for each subject were normalized by the mean blood flow in each scan and scaled to the mean blood flow at rest. Scaled rCBF was regressed onto movement frequency to identify voxels which had either a significant linear or step function response to the frequency of movement. A group analysis was also performed to identify significant functional changes common to all subjects. Significant rCBF increases in relation to movement frequency were found in the supplementary motor area, primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, thalamus, and cerebellum and localized using the Talairach atlas. Habituation of responses was not observed.
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- J W VanMeter
- Laboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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