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Schouwenaars IT, de Dreu MJ, Rutten GJM, Ramsey NF, Jansma JM. Cognitive brain activity before and after surgery in meningioma patients. Eur J Neurosci 2024. [PMID: 38736372 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/14/2024]
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Neuropsychological studies have demonstrated that meningioma patients frequently exhibit cognitive deficits before surgery and show only limited improvement after surgery. Combining neuropsychological with functional imaging measurements can shed more light on the impact of surgery on cognitive brain function. We aimed to evaluate whether surgery affects cognitive brain activity in such a manner that it may mask possible changes in cognitive functioning measured by neuropsychological tests. Twenty-three meningioma patients participated in a fMRI measurement using a verbal working memory task as well as three neuropsychological tests focused on working memory, just before and 3 months after surgery. A region of interest based fMRI analysis was used to examine cognitive brain activity at these timepoints within the central executive network and default mode network. Neuropsychological assessment showed impaired cognitive functioning before as well as 3 months after surgery. Neuropsychological test scores, in-scanner task performance as well as brain activity within the central executive and default mode network were not significantly different between both timepoints. Our results indicate that surgery does not significantly affect cognitive brain activity in meningioma patients the first few months after surgery. Therefore, the lack of cognitive improvement after surgery is not likely the result of compensatory processes in the brain. Cognitive deficits that are already present before surgery appear to be persistent after surgery and a considerable recovery period. Our study shows potential leads that comprehensive cognitive evaluation can be of added value so that cognitive functioning may become a more prominent factor in clinical decision making.
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- Irena T Schouwenaars
- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Oomen PGA, Hakkers CS, Arends JE, van der Berk GEL, Pas P, Hoepelman AIM, van Welzen BJ, du Plessis S. Underlying Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Improvement in Fronto-striatal Response Inhibition in People Living with HIV Switching Off Efavirenz: A Randomized Controlled BOLD fMRI Trial. Infect Dis Ther 2024; 13:1067-1082. [PMID: 38642238 PMCID: PMC11098980 DOI: 10.1007/s40121-024-00966-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2024] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/22/2024] Open
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INTRODUCTION It is unclear whether neurotoxicity due to the antiretroviral drug efavirenz (EFV) results in neurocognitive impairment in people living with HIV (PLWH). Previously, we found that discontinuing EFV was associated with improved processing speed and attention on neuropsychological assessment. In this imaging study, we investigate potential neural mechanisms underlying this cognitive improvement using a BOLD fMRI task assessing cortical and subcortical functioning. METHODS Asymptomatic adult PLWH stable on emtricitabine/tenofovirdisoproxil/efavirenz were randomly (1:2) assigned to continue their regimen (n = 12) or to switch to emtricitabine/tenofovirdisoproxil/rilpivirine (n = 28). At baseline and after 12 weeks, both groups performed the Stop-Signal Anticipation Task, which tests reactive and proactive inhibition (indicative of subcortical and cortical functioning, respectively), involving executive functioning, working memory, and attention. Behavior and BOLD fMRI activation levels related to processing speed and attention Z-scores were assessed in 17 pre-defined brain regions. RESULTS Both groups had comparable patient and clinical characteristics. Reactive inhibition behavioral responses improved for both groups on week 12, with other responses unchanged. Between-group activation did not differ significantly. For reactive inhibition, positive Pearson coefficients were observed for the change in BOLD fMRI activation levels and change in processing speed and attention Z-scores in all 17 regions in participants switched to emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil/rilpivirine, whereas in the control group, negative correlation coefficients were observed in 10/17 and 13/17 regions, respectively. No differential pattern was observed for proactive inhibition. CONCLUSION Potential neural mechanisms underlying cognitive improvement after discontinuing EFV in PLWH were found in subcortical functioning, with our findings suggesting that EFV's effect on attention and processing speed is, at least partially, mediated by reactive inhibition. TRIAL REGISTRATION Clinicaltrials.gov identifier [NCT02308332].
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- Patrick G A Oomen
- Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, Oosterpark 9, 1091 AC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, Francie van Zijl Drive, Tygerberg, Cape Town, 7505, South Africa
- SAMRC Genomics and Brain Disorders Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Francie van Zijl Drive, Parow, Cape Town, 7505, South Africa
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Macoveanu J, Petersen JZ, Mariegaard J, Jespersen AE, Cramer K, Bruun CF, Madsen HØ, Jørgensen MB, Vinberg M, Fisher PM, Knudsen GM, Hageman I, Ehrenreich H, Kessing LV, Miskowiak KW. Effects of erythropoietin on cognitive impairment and prefrontal cortex activity across affective disorders: A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. J Psychopharmacol 2024; 38:362-374. [PMID: 38519416 DOI: 10.1177/02698811241237869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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BACKGROUND Persistent cognitive impairment is frequent across bipolar disorder (BD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), highlighting an urgent need for pro-cognitive treatments. AIM This study investigated effects of erythropoietin (EPO) on cognitive impairment and dorsal prefrontal cortex (dPFC) activity in affective disorders. METHODS In this randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial, cognitively impaired patients with remitted BD or MDD received 1 weekly recombinant human EPO (40,000 IU/mL) or saline infusion for a 12-week period. Assessments were conducted at baseline, after 2 weeks of treatment (week 3), immediately after treatment (week 13) and at 6-months follow-up. Participants underwent functional MRI during performance on a n-back working memory (WM) task at baseline and week 3, and for a subgroup 6 weeks post-treatment (week 18). The primary outcome was a cognitive composite score at week 13, whereas secondary outcomes comprised sustained attention and functioning. WM-related dPFC activity was a tertiary outcome. RESULTS Data were analysed for 101 of the 103 included patients (EPO, n = 58; saline, n = 43). There were no effects of EPO over saline on any cognitive or functional outcomes or on WM-related dPFC activity. CONCLUSIONS The absence of treatment-related changes in cognition and neural activity was unexpected and contrasts with multiple previous preclinical and clinical studies. It is possible that the lack of effects resulted from a recent change in the manufacturing process for EPO. Nevertheless, the findings support the validity of dPFC target engagement as a biomarker model for pro-cognitive effects, according to which treatments that do not improve cognition should not modulate dPFC activity. TRIAL REGISTRATIONS EudraCT no.: 2016-004023-24; ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03315897.
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- Julian Macoveanu
- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The Early Multimodular Prevention and Intervention Research Institution, Mental Health Centre, Northern Zealand, Mental Health Services CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Neurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Neurobiology Research Unit, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Mental Health Services, Copenhagen University Hospital, Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Clinical Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (City Campus), Göttingen, Germany
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Copenhagen Affective Disorder Research Centre, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Nakuci J, Yeon J, Xue K, Kim JH, Kim SP, Rahnev D. Quantifying the contribution of subject and group factors in brain activation. Cereb Cortex 2023; 33:11092-11101. [PMID: 37771044 PMCID: PMC10646690 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhad348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2023] [Revised: 09/05/2023] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023] Open
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Research in neuroscience often assumes universal neural mechanisms, but increasing evidence points toward sizeable individual differences in brain activations. What remains unclear is the extent of the idiosyncrasy and whether different types of analyses are associated with different levels of idiosyncrasy. Here we develop a new method for addressing these questions. The method consists of computing the within-subject reliability and subject-to-group similarity of brain activations and submitting these values to a computational model that quantifies the relative strength of group- and subject-level factors. We apply this method to a perceptual decision-making task (n = 50) and find that activations related to task, reaction time, and confidence are influenced equally strongly by group- and subject-level factors. Both group- and subject-level factors are dwarfed by a noise factor, though higher levels of smoothing increases their contributions relative to noise. Overall, our method allows for the quantification of group- and subject-level factors of brain activations and thus provides a more detailed understanding of the idiosyncrasy levels in brain activations.
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- Johan Nakuci
- School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
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- School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, South Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, South Korea
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- School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
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Handley G, Kubota JT, Cloutier J. Reading the mind in the eyes of Black and White people: Interracial contact and perceived race affects brain activity when inferring mental states. Neuroimage 2023; 269:119910. [PMID: 36724844 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Inferring others' mental states, or mentalizing, is a critical social cognitive ability that underlies humans' remarkable capacity for complex social interactions. Recent work suggests that interracial contact shapes the recruitment of brain regions involved in mentalizing during impression formation. However, it remains unclear how a target's perceived racial group and a perceiver's previous contact with that racial group shapes mental state inferences. In this study, we examined brain activity in regions of interest associated with mentalizing and race perception among self-identified White perceivers who varied in lifetime contact while they inferred secondary emotions from perceived White eyes and perceived Black eyes (i.e., the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test). The interaction between lifetime contact and perceived target race predicted activity in the superior temporal sulcus (STS), a region consistently implicated in mental state inferences from perceptual cues, tracking eye gaze, and biological motion. Low and average contact White perceivers showed more left STS activity when inferring mental states from perceived White eyes than perceived Black eyes, whereas high contact White perceivers showed similar left STS activity regardless of perceived target race. These results indicate that interracial contact decreases racial biases in the recruitment of regions involved in mentalizing when inferring mental states from perceptual cues.
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- Grace Handley
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America.
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America; Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States of America
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Miskowiak KW, Yalin N, Seeberg I, Burdick KE, Balanzá‐Martínez V, Bonnin CDM, Bowie CR, Carvalho AF, Dols A, Douglas K, Gallagher P, Hasler G, Kessing LV, Lafer B, Lewandowski KE, López‐Jaramillo C, Martinez‐Aran A, McIntyre RS, Porter RJ, Purdon SE, Schaffer A, Sumiyoshi T, Torres IJ, Van Rheenen TE, Yatham LN, Young AH, Vieta E, Stokes PRA. Can magnetic resonance imaging enhance the assessment of potential new treatments for cognitive impairment in mood disorders? A systematic review and position paper by the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Targeting Cognition Task Force. Bipolar Disord 2022; 24:615-636. [PMID: 35950925 PMCID: PMC9826389 DOI: 10.1111/bdi.13247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Developing treatments for cognitive impairment is key to improving the functioning of people with mood disorders. Neuroimaging may assist in identifying brain-based efficacy markers. This systematic review and position paper by the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Targeting Cognition Task Force examines the evidence from neuroimaging studies of pro-cognitive interventions. METHODS We included magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of candidate interventions in people with mood disorders or healthy individuals, following the procedures of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis 2020 statement. Searches were conducted on PubMed/MEDLINE, PsycInfo, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and Clinicaltrials.gov from inception to 30th April 2021. Two independent authors reviewed the studies using the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institutes of Health Quality Assessment Tool for Controlled Intervention Studies and the quality of neuroimaging methodology assessment checklist. RESULTS We identified 26 studies (N = 702). Six investigated cognitive remediation or pharmacological treatments in mood disorders (N = 190). In healthy individuals, 14 studies investigated pharmacological interventions (N = 319), 2 cognitive training (N = 73) and 4 neuromodulatory treatments (N = 120). Methodologies were mostly rated as 'fair'. 77% of studies investigated effects with task-based fMRI. Findings varied but most consistently involved treatment-associated cognitive control network (CCN) activity increases with cognitive improvements, or CCN activity decreases with no cognitive change, and increased functional connectivity. In mood disorders, treatment-related default mode network suppression occurred. CONCLUSIONS Modulation of CCN and DMN activity is a putative efficacy biomarker. Methodological recommendations are to pre-declare intended analyses and use task-based fMRI, paradigms probing the CCN, longitudinal assessments, mock scanning, and out-of-scanner tests.
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- Kamilla W. Miskowiak
- Copenhagen Affective disorder Research Centre (CADIC), Psychiatric Centre CopenhagenCopenhagen University HospitalCopenhagenDenmark,Department of PsychologyUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagenDenmark
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- Department of Psychological MedicineInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondonUK
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- Copenhagen Affective disorder Research Centre (CADIC), Psychiatric Centre CopenhagenCopenhagen University HospitalCopenhagenDenmark
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- Department of PsychiatryHarvard Medical SchoolBostonMassachusettsUSA,Department of PsychiatryBrigham and Women's HospitalBostonMassachusettsUSA
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- Teaching Unit of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Department of MedicineUniversity of Valencia, CIBERSAMValenciaSpain
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- Clinical Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital ClinicUniversity of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAMBarcelonaSpain
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- IMPACT Strategic Research Centre (Innovation in Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Treatment)Deakin UniversityGeelongVictoriaAustralia
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- Department of Old Age Psychiatry, GGZ in Geest, Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, Amsterdam NeuroscienceAmsterdam Public Health research instituteAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Psychological MedicineUniversity of OtagoChristchurchNew Zealand
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- Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical SciencesNewcastle UniversityNewcastle‐upon‐TyneUK
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- Psychiatry Research UnitUniversity of FribourgFribourgSwitzerland
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- Copenhagen Affective disorder Research Centre (CADIC), Psychiatric Centre CopenhagenCopenhagen University HospitalCopenhagenDenmark,Department of Clinical MedicineUniversity of CopenhagenCopenhagenDenmark
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- Bipolar Disorder Research Program, Institute of Psychiatry, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de MedicinaUniversidade de São PauloSão PauloBrazil
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- Department of PsychiatryHarvard Medical SchoolBostonMassachusettsUSA,McLean HospitalSchizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder ProgramBelmontMassachusettsUSA
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- Research Group in Psychiatry, Department of PsychiatryUniversidad de AntioquiaMedellínColombia
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- Clinical Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital ClinicUniversity of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAMBarcelonaSpain
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- Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit, Brain and Cognition Discovery FoundationUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
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- Department of Psychological MedicineUniversity of OtagoChristchurchNew Zealand
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of AlbertaEdmontonCanada
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of TorontoTorontoCanada
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- Department of Preventive Intervention for Psychiatric Disorders, National Institute of Mental HealthNational Center of Neurology and PsychiatryTokyoJapan
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouverCanada
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- Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of PsychiatryUniversity of MelbourneCarltonAustralia,Centre for Mental Health, Faculty of Health, Arts and DesignSwinburne UniversityHawthornAustralia
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- Department of PsychiatryUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouverCanada
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- Department of Psychological MedicineInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondonUK
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- Clinical Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital ClinicUniversity of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAMBarcelonaSpain
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- Department of Psychological MedicineInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondonUK
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Perceiving social injustice during arrests of Black and White civilians by White police officers: An fMRI investigation. Neuroimage 2022; 255:119153. [PMID: 35354091 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Revised: 10/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/26/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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From social media to courts of law, recordings of interracial police officer-civilian interactions are now widespread and publicly available. People may be motivated to preferentially understand the dynamics of these interactions when they perceive injustice towards those whose communities experience disproportionate policing relative to others (e.g., non-White racial/ethnic groups). To explore these questions, two studies were conducted (study 1 neuroimaging n = 69 and study 2 behavioral n = 58). The fMRI study examined White participants' neural activity when viewing real-world videos with varying degrees of aggression or conflict of White officers arresting a Black or White civilian. Activity in brain regions supporting social cognition was greater when viewing Black (vs. White) civilians involved in more aggressive police encounters. Additionally, although an independent sample of perceivers rated videos featuring Black and White civilians as similar in overall levels of aggression when civilian race was obscured, participants in the fMRI study (where race was not obscured) rated officers as more aggressive and their use of force as less legitimate when the civilian was Black. In study 2, participants who had not viewed the videos also reported that they believe police are generally more unjustly aggressive towards Black compared with White civilians. These findings inform our understanding of how perceptions of conflict with the potential for injustice shape social cognitive engagement when viewing arrests of Black and White individuals by White police officers.
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Korann V, Jacob A, Lu B, Devi P, Thonse U, Nagendra B, Maria Chacko D, Dey A, Padmanabha A, Shivakumar V, Dawn Bharath R, Kumar V, Varambally S, Venkatasubramanian G, Deshpande G, Rao NP. Effect of Intranasal Oxytocin on Resting-state Effective Connectivity in Schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 2022; 48:1115-1124. [PMID: 35759349 PMCID: PMC9434443 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbac066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Evidence from several lines of research suggests the critical role of neuropeptide oxytocin in social cognition and social behavior. Though a few studies have examined the effect of oxytocin on clinical symptoms of schizophrenia, the underlying neurobiological changes are underexamined. Hence, in this study, we examined the effect of oxytocin on the brain's effective connectivity in schizophrenia. METHODS 31 male patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) and 21 healthy male volunteers (HV) underwent resting functional magnetic resonance imaging scans with intra-nasal oxytocin (24 IU) and placebo administered in counterbalanced order. We conducted a whole-brain effective connectivity analysis using a multivariate vector autoregressive granger causality model. We performed a conjunction analysis to control for spurious changes and canonical correlation analysis between changes in connectivity and clinical and demographic variables. RESULTS Three connections, sourced from the left caudate survived the FDR correction threshold with the conjunction analysis; connections to the left supplementary motor area, left precentral gyrus, and left frontal inferior triangular gyrus. At baseline, SCZ patients had significantly weaker connectivity from caudate to these three regions. Oxytocin, but not placebo, significantly increased the strength of connectivity in these connections. Better cognitive insight and lower negative symptoms were associated with a greater increase in connectivity with oxytocin. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide a preliminary mechanistic understanding of the effect of oxytocin on brain connectivity in schizophrenia. The study findings provide the rationale to examine the potential utility of oxytocin for social cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.
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- AU MRI Research Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed; tel: +91-80-26995879, e-mail:
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Weichart ER, Evans DG, Galdo M, Bahg G, Turner BM. Distributed Neural Systems Support Flexible Attention Updating during Category Learning. J Cogn Neurosci 2022; 34:1761-1779. [PMID: 35704551 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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To accurately categorize items, humans learn to selectively attend to stimulus dimensions that are most relevant to the task. Models of category learning describe the interconnected cognitive processes that contribute to attentional tuning as labeled stimuli are progressively observed. The Adaptive Attention Representation Model (AARM), for example, provides an account whereby categorization decisions are based on the perceptual similarity of a new stimulus to stored exemplars, and dimension-wise attention is updated on every trial in the direction of a feedback-based error gradient. As such, attention modulation as described by AARM requires interactions among orienting, visual perception, memory retrieval, prediction error, and goal maintenance to facilitate learning across trials. The current study explored the neural bases of attention mechanisms using quantitative predictions from AARM to analyze behavioral and fMRI data collected while participants learned novel categories. Generalized linear model analyses revealed patterns of BOLD activation in the parietal cortex (orienting), visual cortex (perception), medial temporal lobe (memory retrieval), basal ganglia (prediction error), and pFC (goal maintenance) that covaried with the magnitude of model-predicted attentional tuning. Results are consistent with AARM's specification of attention modulation as a dynamic property of distributed cognitive systems.
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Cai Z, Uji M, Aydin Ü, Pellegrino G, Spilkin A, Delaire É, Abdallah C, Lina J, Grova C. Evaluation of a personalized functional near infra-red optical tomography workflow using maximum entropy on the mean. Hum Brain Mapp 2021; 42:4823-4843. [PMID: 34342073 PMCID: PMC8449120 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Revised: 05/25/2021] [Accepted: 06/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
In the present study, we proposed and evaluated a workflow of personalized near infra-red optical tomography (NIROT) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for spatiotemporal imaging of cortical hemodynamic fluctuations. The proposed workflow from fNIRS data acquisition to local 3D reconstruction consists of: (a) the personalized optimal montage maximizing fNIRS channel sensitivity to a predefined targeted brain region; (b) the optimized fNIRS data acquisition involving installation of optodes and digitalization of their positions using a neuronavigation system; and (c) the 3D local reconstruction using maximum entropy on the mean (MEM) to accurately estimate the location and spatial extent of fNIRS hemodynamic fluctuations along the cortical surface. The workflow was evaluated on finger-tapping fNIRS data acquired from 10 healthy subjects for whom we estimated the reconstructed NIROT spatiotemporal images and compared with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) results from the same individuals. Using the fMRI activation maps as our reference, we quantitatively compared the performance of two NIROT approaches, the MEM framework and the conventional minimum norm estimation (MNE) method. Quantitative comparisons were performed at both single subject and group-level. Overall, our results suggested that MEM provided better spatial accuracy than MNE, while both methods offered similar temporal accuracy when reconstructing oxygenated (HbO) and deoxygenated hemoglobin (HbR) concentration changes evoked by finger-tapping. Our proposed complete workflow was made available in the brainstorm fNIRS processing plugin-NIRSTORM, thus providing the opportunity for other researchers to further apply it to other tasks and on larger populations.
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- Zhengchen Cai
- Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab, Department of Physics and PERFORM CentreConcordia UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
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- Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab, Department of Physics and PERFORM CentreConcordia UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
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- Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab, Department of Physics and PERFORM CentreConcordia UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry CentreInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College LondonLondonUK
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- Neurology and Neurosurgery Department, Montreal Neurological InstituteMcGill UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
- Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab, Biomedical Engineering DepartmentMcGill UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
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- Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab, Department of Physics and PERFORM CentreConcordia UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
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- Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab, Department of Physics and PERFORM CentreConcordia UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
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- Neurology and Neurosurgery Department, Montreal Neurological InstituteMcGill UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
- Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab, Biomedical Engineering DepartmentMcGill UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
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- Département de Génie ElectriqueÉcole de Technologie SupérieureMontréalQuébecCanada
- Centre De Recherches En MathématiquesMontréalQuébecCanada
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- Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab, Department of Physics and PERFORM CentreConcordia UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
- Neurology and Neurosurgery Department, Montreal Neurological InstituteMcGill UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
- Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab, Biomedical Engineering DepartmentMcGill UniversityMontréalQuébecCanada
- Centre De Recherches En MathématiquesMontréalQuébecCanada
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Skipper JI, Aliko S, Brown S, Jo YJ, Lo S, Molimpakis E, Lametti DR. Reorganization of the Neurobiology of Language After Sentence Overlearning. Cereb Cortex 2021; 32:2447-2468. [PMID: 34585723 PMCID: PMC9157312 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 08/27/2021] [Accepted: 08/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
It is assumed that there are a static set of "language regions" in the brain. Yet, language comprehension engages regions well beyond these, and patients regularly produce familiar "formulaic" expressions when language regions are severely damaged. These suggest that the neurobiology of language is not fixed but varies with experiences, like the extent of word sequence learning. We hypothesized that perceiving overlearned sentences is supported by speech production and not putative language regions. Participants underwent 2 sessions of behavioral testing and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). During the intervening 15 days, they repeated 2 sentences 30 times each, twice a day. In both fMRI sessions, they "passively" listened to those sentences, novel sentences, and produced sentences. Behaviorally, evidence for overlearning included a 2.1-s decrease in reaction times to predict the final word in overlearned sentences. This corresponded to the recruitment of sensorimotor regions involved in sentence production, inactivation of temporal and inferior frontal regions involved in novel sentence listening, and a 45% change in global network organization. Thus, there was a profound whole-brain reorganization following sentence overlearning, out of "language" and into sensorimotor regions. The latter are generally preserved in aphasia and Alzheimer's disease, perhaps explaining residual abilities with formulaic expressions in both.
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- Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK.,London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium, University College London, London, UK
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- Natural Sciences, University College London, London, UK
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- Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK
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- Speech and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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- Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK.,Department of Psychology, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Suen JLK, Yeung AWK, Wu EX, Leung WK, Tanabe HC, Goto TK. Effective Connectivity in the Human Brain for Sour Taste, Retronasal Smell, and Combined Flavour. Foods 2021; 10:foods10092034. [PMID: 34574144 PMCID: PMC8466623 DOI: 10.3390/foods10092034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Revised: 08/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
The anterior insula and rolandic operculum are key regions for flavour perception in the human brain; however, it is unclear how taste and congruent retronasal smell are perceived as flavours. The multisensory integration required for sour flavour perception has rarely been studied; therefore, we investigated the brain responses to taste and smell in the sour flavour-processing network in 35 young healthy adults. We aimed to characterise the brain response to three stimulations applied in the oral cavity—sour taste, retronasal smell of mango, and combined flavour of both—using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Effective connectivity of the flavour-processing network and modulatory effect from taste and smell were analysed. Flavour stimulation activated middle insula and olfactory tubercle (primary taste and olfactory cortices, respectively); anterior insula and rolandic operculum, which are associated with multisensory integration; and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, a secondary cortex for flavour perception. Dynamic causal modelling demonstrated that neural taste and smell signals were integrated at anterior insula and rolandic operculum. These findings elucidated how neural signals triggered by sour taste and smell presented in liquid form interact in the brain, which may underpin the neurobiology of food appreciation. Our study thus demonstrated the integration and synergy of taste and smell.
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- Justin Long Kiu Suen
- Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (J.L.K.S.); (A.W.K.Y.); (W.K.L.)
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Tokyo Dental College, 2-9-18, Kanda-Misakicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0061, Japan
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- Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (J.L.K.S.); (A.W.K.Y.); (W.K.L.)
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- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;
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- Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (J.L.K.S.); (A.W.K.Y.); (W.K.L.)
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- Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan;
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- Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; (J.L.K.S.); (A.W.K.Y.); (W.K.L.)
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Tokyo Dental College, 2-9-18, Kanda-Misakicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0061, Japan
- Tokyo Dental College Research Branding Project, Tokyo Dental College, 2-9-18, Kanda-Misakicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0061, Japan
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Handley G, Kubota J, Cloutier J. Interracial Contact Differentially Shapes Brain Networks Involved in Social and Non-Social Judgments From Faces: A Combination of Univariate and Multivariate Approaches. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2021; 17:218-230. [PMID: 34273899 PMCID: PMC8847903 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsab090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
The present work explores the relationship between interracial contact and the neural substrates of explicit social and non-social judgments about both racial ingroup and outgroup targets. Convergent evidence from univariate and multivariate partial least squares (PLS) analyses reveals that contact shapes the recruitment of brain regions involved in social cognition similarly for both ingroup and outgroup targets. Results support the hypothesis that increased contact is associated with generalized changes in social cognition toward both ingroup and outgroup faces. Specifically, regardless of target race, low- and average-contact perceivers showed the typically observed increased recruitment of temporoparietal junction and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex during social compared to perceptual judgments. However, high-contact perceivers did not show selective recruitment of these brain regions for social judgments. Complimenting univariate results, multivariate PLS analyses reveal that greater perceiver contact leads to reduced co-activation in networks of brain regions associated with face processing (e.g. fusiform gyrus) and salience detection (e.g. anterior cingulate cortex and insula). Across univariate and multivariate analyses, we found no evidence that contact differentially impacted cross-race face perception. Instead, when performing either a social or a novel perceptual task, interracial contact appears to broadly shape how perceivers engage with all faces.
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- Grace Handley
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.,Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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Schouwenaars IT, de Dreu MJ, Rutten GJM, Ramsey NF, Jansma JM. A functional MRI study of presurgical cognitive deficits in glioma patients. Neurooncol Pract 2021; 8:81-90. [PMID: 33659067 PMCID: PMC7906265 DOI: 10.1093/nop/npaa059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The main goal of this functional MRI (fMRI) study was to examine whether cognitive deficits in glioma patients prior to treatment are associated with abnormal brain activity in either the central executive network (CEN) or default mode network (DMN). Methods Forty-six glioma patients, and 23 group-matched healthy controls (HCs) participated in this fMRI experiment, performing an N-back task. Additionally, cognitive profiles of patients were evaluated outside the scanner. A region of interest–based analysis was used to compare brain activity in CEN and DMN between groups. Post hoc analyses were performed to evaluate differences between low-grade glioma (LGG) and high-grade glioma (HGG) patients. Results In-scanner performance was lower in glioma patients compared to HCs. Neuropsychological testing indicated cognitive impairment in LGG as well as HGG patients. fMRI results revealed normal CEN activation in glioma patients, whereas patients showed reduced DMN deactivation compared to HCs. Brain activity levels did not differ between LGG and HGG patients. Conclusions Our study suggests that cognitive deficits in glioma patients prior to treatment are associated with reduced responsiveness of the DMN, but not with abnormal CEN activation. These results suggest that cognitive deficits in glioma patients reflect a reduced capacity to achieve a brain state necessary for normal cognitive performance, rather than abnormal functioning of executive brain regions. Solely focusing on increases in brain activity may well be insufficient if we want to understand the underlying brain mechanism of cognitive impairments in patients, as our results indicate the importance of assessing deactivation.
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- Irena T Schouwenaars
- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands.,Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands.,Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands.,Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Korucuoglu O, Harms MP, Astafiev SV, Golosheykin S, Kennedy JT, Barch DM, Anokhin AP. Test-Retest Reliability of Neural Correlates of Response Inhibition and Error Monitoring: An fMRI Study of a Stop-Signal Task. Front Neurosci 2021; 15:624911. [PMID: 33584190 PMCID: PMC7875883 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.624911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Response inhibition (RI) and error monitoring (EM) are important processes of adaptive goal-directed behavior, and neural correlates of these processes are being increasingly used as transdiagnostic biomarkers of risk for a range of neuropsychiatric disorders. Potential utility of these purported biomarkers relies on the assumption that individual differences in brain activation are reproducible over time; however, available data on test-retest reliability (TRR) of task-fMRI are very mixed. This study examined TRR of RI and EM-related activations using a stop signal task in young adults (n = 56, including 27 pairs of monozygotic (MZ) twins) in order to identify brain regions with high TRR and familial influences (as indicated by MZ twin correlations) and to examine factors potentially affecting reliability. We identified brain regions with good TRR of activations related to RI (inferior/middle frontal, superior parietal, and precentral gyri) and EM (insula, medial superior frontal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex). No subcortical regions showed significant TRR. Regions with higher group-level activation showed higher TRR; increasing task duration improved TRR; within-session reliability was weakly related to the long-term TRR; motion negatively affected TRR, but this effect was abolished after the application of ICA-FIX, a data-driven noise removal method.
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- Ozlem Korucuoglu
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
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Onland-Moret NC, Buizer-Voskamp JE, Albers MEWA, Brouwer RM, Buimer EEL, Hessels RS, de Heus R, Huijding J, Junge CMM, Mandl RCW, Pas P, Vink M, van der Wal JJM, Hulshoff Pol HE, Kemner C. The YOUth study: Rationale, design, and study procedures. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2020; 46:100868. [PMID: 33075722 PMCID: PMC7575850 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
This article describes the rationale, design, and procedures of the YOUth cohort. YOUth is set up to investigate what drives the development of social competence and self-regulation in children. YOUth specifically investigates the role of neurocognitive development in child development. YOUth has a flexible longitudinal design with repeated measurements throughout childhood, starting prenatally.
Behavioral development in children shows large inter-individual variation, and is driven by the interplay between biological, psychological, and environmental processes. However, there is still little insight into how these processes interact. The YOUth cohort specifically focuses on two core characteristics of behavioral development: social competence and self-regulation. Social competence refers to the ability to engage in meaningful interactions with others, whereas self-regulation is the ability to control one’s emotions, behavior, and impulses, to balance between reactivity and control of the reaction, and to adjust to the prevailing environment. YOUth is an accelerated population-based longitudinal cohort study with repeated measurements, centering on two groups: YOUth Baby & Child and YOUth Child & Adolescent. YOUth Baby & Child aims to include 3,000 pregnant women, their partners and children, wheras YOUth Child & Adolescent aims to include 2,000 children aged between 8 and 10 years old and their parents. All participants will be followed for at least 6 years, and potentially longer. In this paper we describe in detail the design of this study, the population included, the determinants, intermediate neurocognitive measures and outcomes included in the study. Furthermore, we describe in detail the procedures of inclusion, informed consent, and study participation.
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Affiliation(s)
- N Charlotte Onland-Moret
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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- Division of Woman and Baby, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; Division of Biomedical Genetics, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
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- UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Division of Woman and Baby, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
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- Dept. Clinical Child and Family Studies, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht Univerity, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Grady CL, Rieck JR, Nichol D, Rodrigue KM, Kennedy KM. Influence of sample size and analytic approach on stability and interpretation of brain-behavior correlations in task-related fMRI data. Hum Brain Mapp 2020; 42:204-219. [PMID: 32996635 PMCID: PMC7721240 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.25217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2020] [Revised: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 09/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Limited statistical power due to small sample sizes is a problem in fMRI research. Most of the work to date has examined the impact of sample size on task‐related activation, with less attention paid to the influence of sample size on brain‐behavior correlations, especially in actual experimental fMRI data. We addressed this issue using two large data sets (a working memory task, N = 171, and a relational processing task, N = 865) and both univariate and multivariate approaches to voxel‐wise correlations. We created subsamples of different sizes and calculated correlations between task‐related activity at each voxel and task performance. Across both data sets the magnitude of the brain‐behavior correlations decreased and similarity across spatial maps increased with larger sample sizes. The multivariate technique identified more extensive correlated areas and more similarity across spatial maps, suggesting that a multivariate approach would provide a consistent advantage over univariate approaches in the stability of brain‐behavior correlations. In addition, the multivariate analyses showed that a sample size of roughly 80 or more participants would be needed for stable estimates of correlation magnitude in these data sets. Importantly, a number of additional factors would likely influence the choice of sample size for assessing such correlations in any given experiment, including the cognitive task of interest and the amount of data collected per participant. Our results provide novel experimental evidence in two independent data sets that the sample size commonly used in fMRI studies of 20–30 participants is very unlikely to be sufficient for obtaining reproducible brain‐behavior correlations, regardless of analytic approach.
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- Cheryl L Grady
- Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Center for Vital Longevity, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
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- Center for Vital Longevity, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA
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Psychedelic drugs: neurobiology and potential for treatment of psychiatric disorders. Nat Rev Neurosci 2020; 21:611-624. [PMID: 32929261 DOI: 10.1038/s41583-020-0367-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Renewed interest in the use of psychedelics in the treatment of psychiatric disorders warrants a better understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the effects of these substances. After a hiatus of about 50 years, state-of-the art studies have recently begun to close important knowledge gaps by elucidating the mechanisms of action of psychedelics with regard to their effects on receptor subsystems, systems-level brain activity and connectivity, and cognitive and emotional processing. In addition, functional studies have shown that changes in self-experience, emotional processing and social cognition may contribute to the potential therapeutic effects of psychedelics. These discoveries provide a scientific road map for the investigation and application of psychedelic substances in psychiatry.
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Szucs D, Ioannidis JP. Sample size evolution in neuroimaging research: An evaluation of highly-cited studies (1990-2012) and of latest practices (2017-2018) in high-impact journals. Neuroimage 2020; 221:117164. [PMID: 32679253 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Revised: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 07/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
We evaluated 1038 of the most cited structural and functional (fMRI) magnetic resonance brain imaging papers (1161 studies) published during 1990-2012 and 270 papers (300 studies) published in top neuroimaging journals in 2017 and 2018. 96% of highly cited experimental fMRI studies had a single group of participants and these studies had median sample size of 12, highly cited clinical fMRI studies (with patient participants) had median sample size of 14.5, and clinical structural MRI studies had median sample size of 50. The sample size of highly cited experimental fMRI studies increased at a rate of 0.74 participant/year and this rate of increase was commensurate with the median sample sizes of neuroimaging studies published in top neuroimaging journals in 2017 (23 participants) and 2018 (24 participants). Only 4 of 131 papers in 2017 and 5 of 142 papers in 2018 had pre-study power calculations, most for single t-tests and correlations. Only 14% of highly cited papers reported the number of excluded participants whereas 49% of papers with their own data in 2017 and 2018 reported excluded participants. Publishers and funders should require pre-study power calculations necessitating the specification of effect sizes. The field should agree on universally required reporting standards. Reporting formats should be standardized so that crucial study parameters could be identified unequivocally.
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- Denes Szucs
- University of Cambridge, Department of Psychology, UK.
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- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) and Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, And Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Schouwenaars IT, de Dreu MJ, Rutten GJM, Ramsey NF, Jansma JM. Processing of Targets and Non-targets in Verbal Working Memory. Neuroscience 2020; 429:273-281. [PMID: 31982465 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2019] [Revised: 01/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
Abstract
In this study we used functional MRI (fMRI) to examine whether defining a stimulus as a target affects brain activation associated with a verbal working memory (WM) task. Seventeen healthy right-handed volunteers performed a Sternberg task with three consonants as memory set. We performed a region of interest based fMRI analysis to examine differences in brain activity patterns between targets and non-targets. Non-target brain activity was subtracted from target activity and hemispheric and fronto-parietal differences were tested by conducting a MANOVA. Participants responded correctly to 97.5% of the stimuli. The fMRI results showed a hemisphere by fronto-parietal location interaction, where targets evoked increased activity in the right frontal regions compared to non-targets, whereas the left frontal task activation did not differ between targets and non-targets. In the parietal regions, targets evoked increased activity compared to non-targets in the lateral anterior, but not the medial posterior part. Our study revealed that defining a stimulus as a target within a verbal WM task evokes an increase in brain activity in right frontal brain regions, compared to non-targets. Our results suggest an important hemispheric differentiation in target processing, in which the right frontal cortex is predominantly involved in processes associated with target stimuli. The left frontal cortex does not differentiate between processing target and non-target stimuli, suggesting involvement in WM processes that are independent of stimulus type. Parietal, the lateral anterior part is predominantly involved in target processing, while the medial posterior part does not differentiate between target and non-target processing.
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- I T Schouwenaars
- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands; Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands; Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, the Netherlands; Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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A required response forces the brain to react overtly on a stimulus. This may be a factor that influences cognitive activity during a task, as it could facilitate for instance alertness, especially in tasks that are relatively easy. In the current article, we therefore tested the hypothesis that response frequency affects cognitive brain activity in an alertness task. In this 3T functional MRI study, healthy volunteers performed a continuous performance task with three conditions with increasing response frequency. Only scans during presentation of non-targets were analyzed, to exclude activity related to the change in frequency in response selection and motor responses between conditions. To evaluate changes in cognitive brain activity, a network analysis was performed based on two main networks including regions with task-induced activation and task-induced deactivation. We tested for differences in brain activity as an effect of target frequency. Performance results indicated no effect of target frequency on accuracy or reaction time. During non-targets, we found significant signal changes in TID for all three conditions, whereas TIA showed no significant signal changes in any condition. Target frequency did not have a significant effect on the level of signal change at network level, as well as at individual region level. Our study showed predominantly deactivation during non-responses in all three task conditions. Furthermore, our results indicate that response frequency does not influence brain activity during an alertness task. Our results provide additional information relevant for the understanding of the neurophysiological implementation of cognitive control or alertness.
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Different role of the supplementary motor area and the insula between musicians and non-musicians in a controlled musical creativity task. Sci Rep 2019; 9:13006. [PMID: 31506553 PMCID: PMC6736976 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-49405-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The ability to compose creative musical ideas depends on the cooperation of brain mechanisms involved in multiple processes, including controlled creative cognition, which is a type of creativity that has so far been poorly researched. Therefore, the objective of this study was to examine the brain evoked activations by using fMRI, in both musicians and non-musicians, during a general task of controlled musical creativity and its relationship with general creativity. Results revealed that during a rhythmic improvisation task, musicians show greater activation of the motor supplementary area, the anterior cingulate cortex, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and the insula, along with greater deactivation of the default mode network in comparison with non-musicians. For the group of musicians, we also found a positive correlation between the time improvising and the activation of the supplementary motor area, whilst in the non-musicians group improvisation time correlated with the activation of the insula. The results found for the musicians support the notion that the supplementary motor area plays a role in the representation and execution of musical behaviour, while the results in non-musicians reveal the role of the insula in the processing of novel musical information.
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Sabel BA, Hamid AIA, Borrmann C, Speck O, Antal A. Transorbital alternating current stimulation modifies BOLD activity in healthy subjects and in a stroke patient with hemianopia: A 7 Tesla fMRI feasibility study. Int J Psychophysiol 2019; 154:80-92. [PMID: 30978369 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2018] [Revised: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 04/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Modifying brain activity using non-invasive, low intensity transcranial electrical brain stimulation (TES) has rapidly increased during the past 20 years. Alternating current stimulation (ACS), for example, has been shown to alter brain rhythm activities and modify neuronal functioning in the visual system. Daily application of transorbital ACS to patients with optic nerve damage induces functional connectivity reorganization, and partially restores vision. While ACS is thought to mainly modify neuronal mechanisms, e.g. changes in brain oscillations that can be detected by EEG, it is still an open question, whether and how it may alter BOLD activity. OBJECTIVE We evaluated whether transorbital ACS modulates BOLD activity in early visual cortex using high-resolution 7 Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). METHODS In this feasibility study transorbital ACS in the alpha range and sham ACS was applied in a random block design in five healthy subjects for 20 min at 1 mA. Brain activation in the visual areas V1, V2 and V3 were measured using 7 Tesla fMRI-based retinotopic mapping at the time points before (baseline) and after stimulation. In addition, we collected data from one hemianopic stroke patient with visual cortex damage after ten daily sessions with 25-50 min stimulation duration. RESULTS In healthy subjects transorbital ACS increased the activated cortical surface area, decreased the fMRI response amplitude and increased coherence in the visual cortex, which was most prominent in the full field task. In the patient, stimulation improved contrast sensitivity in the central visual field. BOLD amplitudes and coherence values were increased in most early visual areas in both hemispheres, with the most pronounced activation detected during eccentricity testing in retinotopic mapping. CONCLUSIONS This feasibility study showed that transorbital ACS modifies BOLD activity to visual stimulation, which outlasts the duration of the AC stimulation. This is in line with earlier neurophysiological findings of increased power in EEG recordings and functional connectivity reorganization in patients with impaired vision. Accordingly, the larger BOLD response area after stimulation can be explained by more coherent activation and lower variability in the activation. Alternatively, increased neuronal activity can also be taken into account. Controlled trials are needed to systematically evaluate the potential of repetitive transorbital ACS to improve visual function after visual pathway stroke and to determine the cause-effect relationship between neural and BOLD activity changes.
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- Bernhard A Sabel
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany.
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- Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Institute for Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Neurosciences, School of Medical Sciences Health Campus, Jalan Hospital USM, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Institute for Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Neurosciences, School of Medical Sciences Health Campus, Jalan Hospital USM, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia; Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease (DZNE), Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Fröhner JH, Teckentrup V, Smolka MN, Kroemer NB. Addressing the reliability fallacy in fMRI: Similar group effects may arise from unreliable individual effects. Neuroimage 2019; 195:174-189. [PMID: 30930312 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.03.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2018] [Revised: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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To cast valid predictions of future behavior or diagnose disorders, the reliable measurement of a "biomarker" such as the brain activation to prospective reward is a prerequisite. Surprisingly, only a small fraction of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies report or cite the reliability of brain activation maps involved in group analyses. Here, using simulations and exemplary longitudinal data of 126 healthy adolescents performing an intertemporal choice task, we demonstrate that reproducing a group activation map over time is not a sufficient indication of reliable measurements at the individual level. Instead, selecting regions based on significant main effects at the group level may yield estimates that fail to reliably capture individual variance in the subjective evaluation of an offer. Collectively, our results call for more attention on the reliability of supposed biomarkers at the level of the individual. Thus, caution is warranted in employing brain activation patterns prematurely for clinical applications such as diagnosis or tailored interventions before their reliability has been conclusively established by large-scale studies. To facilitate assessing and reporting of the reliability of fMRI contrasts in future studies, we provide a toolbox that incorporates common measures of global and local reliability.
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- Juliane H Fröhner
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
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The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is particularly responsive to social evaluations requiring the use of person-knowledge. Sci Rep 2019; 9:5054. [PMID: 30911111 PMCID: PMC6434022 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41544-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2018] [Accepted: 03/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Humans can rely on diverse sources of information to evaluate others, including knowledge (e.g., occupation, likes and dislikes, education, etc.) and perceptual cues (e.g., attractiveness, race, etc.). Previous research has identified brain regions supporting person evaluations, but are evaluations based on perceptual cues versus person-knowledge processed differently? Moreover, are neural responses consistent when person-knowledge is available but unnecessary for the evaluation? This fMRI study examined how the use and availability of person-knowledge shapes the neural underpinnings of social evaluations. Participants evaluated well-known actors based on attractiveness or body of work (i.e., person-knowledge) and unknown models based on attractiveness only. Analyses focused on the VMPFC, following research implicating this region in positive evaluations based on person-knowledge. The VMPFC was sensitive to the (1) availability of person-knowledge, showing greater responses as ratings became more positive for actors (but not models) regardless of rating dimension and (2) use of available person-knowledge, showing greater activity as ratings for likability based on body of work became more positive for actors versus models rated on attractiveness. These findings indicate that although brain regions supporting person evaluation are sensitive to the availability to person-knowledge, they are even more responsive when judgments require the use of available person-knowledge.
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Postema MC, De Marco M, Colato E, Venneri A. A study of within-subject reliability of the brain's default-mode network. MAGNETIC RESONANCE MATERIALS IN PHYSICS BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 2019; 32:391-405. [PMID: 30730023 PMCID: PMC6525123 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-018-00732-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2018] [Revised: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Objective Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is promising for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This study aimed to examine short-term reliability of the default-mode network (DMN), one of the main haemodynamic patterns of the brain. Materials and methods Using a 1.5 T Philips Achieva scanner, two consecutive resting-state fMRI runs were acquired on 69 healthy adults, 62 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to AD, and 28 patients with AD dementia. The anterior and posterior DMN and, as control, the visual-processing network (VPN) were computed using two different methodologies: connectivity of predetermined seeds (theory-driven) and dual regression (data-driven). Divergence and convergence in network strength and topography were calculated with paired t tests, global correlation coefficients, voxel-based correlation maps, and indices of reliability. Results No topographical differences were found in any of the networks. High correlations and reliability were found in the posterior DMN of healthy adults and MCI patients. Lower reliability was found in the anterior DMN and in the VPN, and in the posterior DMN of dementia patients. Discussion Strength and topography of the posterior DMN appear relatively stable and reliable over a short-term period of acquisition but with some degree of variability across clinical samples.
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- Merel Charlotte Postema
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Beech Hill Road, N Floor, Room N133, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK.,Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Beech Hill Road, N Floor, Room N133, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK.
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Beech Hill Road, N Floor, Room N133, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Beech Hill Road, N Floor, Room N133, Sheffield, S10 2RX, UK
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Neuropsychiatric illnesses including mood disorders are accompanied by cognitive impairment, which impairs work capacity and quality of life. However, there is a lack of treatment options that would lead to solid and lasting improvement of cognition. This is partially due to the absence of valid and reliable neurocircuitry-based biomarkers for pro-cognitive effects. This systematic review therefore examined the most consistent neural underpinnings of cognitive impairment and cognitive improvement in unipolar and bipolar disorders. We identified 100 studies of the neuronal underpinnings of working memory and executive skills, learning and memory, attention, and implicit learning and 9 studies of the neuronal basis for cognitive improvements. Impairments across several cognitive domains were consistently accompanied by abnormal activity in dorsal prefrontal (PFC) cognitive control regions-with the direction of this activity depending on patients' performance levels-and failure to suppress default mode network (DMN) activity. Candidate cognition treatments seemed to enhance task-related dorsal PFC and temporo-parietal activity when performance increases were observed, and to reduce their activity when performance levels were unchanged. These treatments also attenuated DMN hyper-activity. In contrast, nonspecific cognitive improvement following symptom reduction was typically accompanied by decreased limbic reactivity and reversal of pre-treatment fronto-parietal hyper-activity. Together, the findings highlight some common neural correlates of cognitive impairments and cognitive improvements. Based on this evidence, studies are warranted to examine the reliability and predictive validity of target engagement in the identified neurocircuitries as a biomarker model of pro-cognitive effects.
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Van den Boom MA, Jansma JM, Ramsey NF. Rapid acquisition of dynamic control over DLPFC using real-time fMRI feedback. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2018; 28:1194-1205. [PMID: 30217551 PMCID: PMC6420021 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2018.08.508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2017] [Revised: 08/08/2018] [Accepted: 08/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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It has been postulated that gaining control over activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), a key region of the working memory brain network, may be beneficial for cognitive performance and treatment of certain psychiatric disorders. Several studies have reported that, with neurofeedback training, subjects can learn to increase DLPFC activity. However, improvement of dynamic control in terms of switching between low and high activity in DLPFC brain states may potentially constitute more effective self-regulation. Here, we report on feasibility of obtaining dynamic control over DLPFC, meaning the ability to both in- and decrease activity at will, within a single functional MRI scan session. Two groups of healthy volunteers (N = 24) were asked to increase and decrease activity in the left DLPFC as often as possible during fMRI scans (at 7 Tesla), while receiving real-time visual feedback. The experimental group practiced with real-time feedback, whereas the control group received sham feedback. The experimental group significantly increased the speed of intentionally alternating DLPFC activity, while performance of the control group did not change. Analysis of the characteristics of the BOLD signal during successful trials revealed that training with neurofeedback predominantly reduced the time for the DLPFC to return to baseline after activation. These results provide a preliminary indication that people may be able to learn to dynamically down-regulate the level of physiological activity in the DLPFC, and may have implications for psychiatric disorders where DLPFC plays a role.
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- Max Alexander Van den Boom
- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, P.O. Box 85500, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, P.O. Box 85500, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Agarwal S, Hua J, Sair HI, Gujar S, Bettegowda C, Lu H, Pillai JJ. Repeatability of language fMRI lateralization and localization metrics in brain tumor patients. Hum Brain Mapp 2018; 39:4733-4742. [PMID: 30076768 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2018] [Revised: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 07/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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To assess the within-subject intra-scan session repeatability of language functional MRI (fMRI) activation maps in patients with brain tumors who were undergoing presurgical fMRI as part of their preoperative clinical workup. Sentence completion (SC) and silent word generation (SWG) tasks were used for language localization and hemispheric lateralization for identifying the primary language cortex. Within-subject repeatability for each of these paradigms was assessed in right-handed patients-37 for SC and 78 for SWG. Repeatability of activation maps between consecutive runs of the same task within the same scan session was evaluated by comparing lateralization indexes in holohemispheric and regional language areas. Displacement of center of activation between consecutive runs was also used to assess the repeatability of activation maps. Holohemispheric and regional language lateralization results demonstrated high intra-subject intra-scan repeatability when lateralization indices were calculated using threshold-dependent and threshold-independent approaches. The high repeatability is demonstrated both when centers of mass of activation are considered within key eloquent regions of the brain, such as Broca's area and Wernicke's area, as well as in larger more inclusive expressive and receptive language regions. We examined two well-known and widely accepted language tasks that are known to activate eloquent language cortex. We have demonstrated very high degree of repeatability at a single-subject level within single scan sessions of language mapping in a large cohort of brain tumor patients undergoing presurgical fMRI across several years at our institution.
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- Shruti Agarwal
- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of MR Research, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.,F. M. Kirby Research Center For Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of MR Research, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.,F. M. Kirby Research Center For Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Division of Neuroradiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.,Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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Zoon HFA, de Bruijn SEM, Smeets PAM, de Graaf C, Janssen IMC, Schijns W, Aarts EO, Jager G, Boesveldt S. Altered neural responsivity to food cues in relation to food preferences, but not appetite-related hormone concentrations after RYGB-surgery. Behav Brain Res 2018; 353:194-202. [PMID: 30041007 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.07.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Revised: 07/19/2018] [Accepted: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND After Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery, patients report a shift in food preferences away from high-energy foods. OBJECTIVE We aimed to elucidate the potential mechanisms underlying this shift in food preferences by assessing changes in neural responses to food pictures and odors before and after RYGB. Additionally, we investigated whether altered neural responsivity was associated with changes in plasma endocannabinoid and ghrelin concentrations. DESIGN 19 RYGB patients (4 men; age 41 ± 10 years; BMI 41 ± 1 kg/m2 before; BMI 36 ± 1 kg/m2 after) participated in this study. Before and two months after RYGB surgery, they rated their food preferences using the Macronutrient and Taste Preference Ranking Task and BOLD fMRI responses towards pictures and odors of high-, and low-energy foods and non-food items were measured. Blood samples were taken to determine plasma endocannabinoid and ghrelin concentrations pre- and post-surgery. RESULTS Patients demonstrated a shift in food preferences away from high-fat/sweet and towards low-energy/savory food products, which correlated with decreased superior parietal lobule responsivity to high-energy food odor and a reduced difference in precuneus responsivity to high-energy versus low-energy food pictures. In the anteroventral prefrontal cortex (superior frontal gyrus) the difference in deactivation towards high-energy versus non-food odors reduced. The precuneus was less deactivated in response to all cues. Plasma concentrations of anandamide were higher after surgery, while plasma concentrations of other endocannabinoids and ghrelin did not change. Alterations in appetite-related hormone concentrations did not correlate with changes in neural responsivity. CONCLUSIONS RYGB leads to changed responsivity of the frontoparietal control network that orchestrates top-down control to high-energy food compared to low-energy food and non-food cues, rather than in reward related brain regions, in a satiated state. Together with correlations with the shift in food preference from high- to low-energy foods this indicates a possible role in new food preference formation.
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- Harriët F A Zoon
- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Vitalys Obesity Centre, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, The Netherlands
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- Vitalys Obesity Centre, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Bowtell JL, Aboo-Bakkar Z, Conway ME, Adlam ALR, Fulford J. Enhanced task-related brain activation and resting perfusion in healthy older adults after chronic blueberry supplementation. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 2017; 42:773-779. [PMID: 28249119 DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2016-0550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Blueberries are rich in flavonoids, which possess antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. High flavonoid intakes attenuate age-related cognitive decline, but data from human intervention studies are sparse. We investigated whether 12 weeks of blueberry concentrate supplementation improved brain perfusion, task-related activation, and cognitive function in healthy older adults. Participants were randomised to consume either 30 mL blueberry concentrate providing 387 mg anthocyanidins (5 female, 7 male; age 67.5 ± 3.0 y; body mass index, 25.9 ± 3.3 kg·m-2) or isoenergetic placebo (8 female, 6 male; age 69.0 ± 3.3 y; body mass index, 27.1 ± 4.0 kg·m-2). Pre- and postsupplementation, participants undertook a battery of cognitive function tests and a numerical Stroop test within a 1.5T magnetic resonance imaging scanner while functional magnetic resonance images were continuously acquired. Quantitative resting brain perfusion was determined using an arterial spin labelling technique, and blood biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress were measured. Significant increases in brain activity were observed in response to blueberry supplementation relative to the placebo group within Brodmann areas 4/6/10/21/40/44/45, precuneus, anterior cingulate, and insula/thalamus (p < 0.001) as well as significant improvements in grey matter perfusion in the parietal (5.0 ± 1.8 vs -2.9 ± 2.4%, p = 0.013) and occipital (8.0 ± 2.6 vs -0.7 ± 3.2%, p = 0.031) lobes. There was also evidence suggesting improvement in working memory (2-back test) after blueberry versus placebo supplementation (p = 0.05). Supplementation with an anthocyanin-rich blueberry concentrate improved brain perfusion and activation in brain areas associated with cognitive function in healthy older adults.
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- Joanna L Bowtell
- a Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Rd., Exeter, EX1 2LU, United Kingdom
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- a Sport and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, St Luke's Campus, Heavitree Rd., Exeter, EX1 2LU, United Kingdom
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- b Department of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Reagh ZM, Murray EA, Yassa MA. Repetition reveals ups and downs of hippocampal, thalamic, and neocortical engagement during mnemonic decisions. Hippocampus 2017; 27:169-183. [PMID: 27859884 PMCID: PMC5858562 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/07/2016] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The extent to which current information is consistent with past experiences and our capacity to recognize or discriminate accordingly are key factors in flexible memory-guided behavior. Despite a wealth of evidence linking hippocampal and neocortical computations to these phenomena, many important factors remain poorly understood. One such factor is repeated encoding of learned information. In this experiment, participants completed a task in which study stimuli were incidentally encoded either once or three separate times during high-resolution fMRI scanning. We asked how repetition influenced recognition and discrimination memory judgments, and how this affects engagement of hippocampal and neocortical regions. Repetition revealed shifts in engagement in an anterior (ventral) CA1-thalamic-medial prefrontal network related to true and false recognition. Conversely, repetition revealed shifts in a posterior (dorsal) dentate/CA3-parahippocampal-restrosplenial network related to accurate discrimination. These differences in engagement were accompanied by task-related correlations in respective anterior and posterior networks. In particular, the anterior thalamic region observed during recognition judgments is functionally and anatomically consistent with nucleus reuniens in humans, and was found to mediate correlations between the anterior CA1 and medial prefrontal cortex. These findings offer new insights into how repeated experience affects memory and its neural substrates in hippocampal-neocortical networks. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Zachariah M. Reagh
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
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Moessnang C, Schäfer A, Bilek E, Roux P, Otto K, Baumeister S, Hohmann S, Poustka L, Brandeis D, Banaschewski T, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Tost H. Specificity, reliability and sensitivity of social brain responses during spontaneous mentalizing. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2016; 11:1687-1697. [PMID: 27445211 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The debilitating effects of social dysfunction in many psychiatric disorders prompt the need for systems-level biomarkers of social abilities that can be applied in clinical populations and longitudinal studies. A promising neuroimaging approach is the animated shapes paradigm based on so-called Frith-Happé animations (FHAs) which trigger spontaneous mentalizing with minimal cognitive demands. Here, we presented FHAs during functional magnetic resonance imaging to 46 subjects and examined the specificity and sensitivity of the elicited social brain responses. Test-retest reliability was additionally assessed in 28 subjects within a two-week interval. Specific responses to spontaneous mentalizing were observed in key areas of the social brain with high sensitivity and independently from the variant low-level kinematics of the FHAs. Mentalizing-specific responses were well replicable on the group level, suggesting good-to-excellent cross-sectional reliability [intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs): 0.40-0.99; dice overlap at Puncorr<0.001: 0.26-1.0]. Longitudinal reliability on the single-subject level was more heterogeneous (ICCs of 0.40-0.79; dice overlap at Puncorr<0.001: 0.05-0.43). Posterior temporal sulcus activation was most reliable, including a robust differentiation between subjects across sessions (72% of voxels with ICC>0.40). These findings encourage the use of FHAs in neuroimaging research across developmental stages and psychiatric conditions, including the identification of biomarkers and pharmacological interventions.
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- Carolin Moessnang
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, UMR 8554, CNRS-ENS-EHESS, Institut d'Étude de la Cognition, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.,Service Universitaire de Psychiatrie d'adultes, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Le Chesnay, France.,Laboratoire HandiRESP EA4047, Université Versailles Saint Quentin En Yvelines, Versailles, France.,Fondation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Center Zurich, ETH and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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Miskowiak KW, Vinberg M, Glerup L, Paulson OB, Knudsen GM, Ehrenreich H, Harmer CJ, Kessing LV, Siebner HR, Macoveanu J. Neural correlates of improved executive function following erythropoietin treatment in mood disorders. Psychol Med 2016; 46:1679-1691. [PMID: 26996196 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291716000209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Cognitive dysfunction in depression and bipolar disorder (BD) is insufficiently targeted by available treatments. Erythropoietin (EPO) increases neuroplasticity and may improve cognition in mood disorders, but the neuronal mechanisms of these effects are unknown. This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated the effects of EPO on neural circuitry activity during working memory (WM) performance. METHOD Patients with treatment-resistant major depression, who were moderately depressed, or with BD in partial remission, were randomized to eight weekly infusions of EPO (40 000 IU) (N = 30) or saline (N = 26) in a double-blind, parallel-group design. Patients underwent fMRI, mood ratings and blood tests at baseline and week 14. During fMRI patients performed an n-back WM task. RESULTS EPO improved WM accuracy compared with saline (p = 0.045). Whole-brain analyses revealed that EPO increased WM load-related activity in the right superior frontal gyrus (SFG) compared with saline (p = 0.01). There was also enhanced WM load-related deactivation of the left hippocampus in EPO-treated compared to saline-treated patients (p = 0.03). Across the entire sample, baseline to follow-up changes in WM performance correlated positively with changes in WM-related SFG activity and negatively with hippocampal response (r = 0.28-0.30, p < 0.05). The effects of EPO were not associated with changes in mood or red blood cells (p ⩾0.08). CONCLUSIONS The present findings associate changes in WM-load related activity in the right SFG and left hippocampus with improved executive function in EPO-treated patients. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION clinicaltrials.gov: NCT00916552.
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- K W Miskowiak
- Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen,Copenhagen University Hospital,Rigshospitalet,Copenhagen,Denmark
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- Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen,Copenhagen University Hospital,Rigshospitalet,Copenhagen,Denmark
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- Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen,Copenhagen University Hospital,Rigshospitalet,Copenhagen,Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR),Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research,Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen,Copenhagen,Denmark
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- Center for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging,Rigshospitalet,Copenhagen,Denmark
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- Division of Clinical Neuroscience,Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine,Göttingen,Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry,University of Oxford,Oxford,UK
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- Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen,Copenhagen University Hospital,Rigshospitalet,Copenhagen,Denmark
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- Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance (DRCMR),Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research,Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen,Copenhagen,Denmark
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- Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen,Copenhagen University Hospital,Rigshospitalet,Copenhagen,Denmark
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Kleerekooper I, van Rooij SJ, van den Wildenberg WP, de Leeuw M, Kahn RS, Vink M. The effect of aging on fronto-striatal reactive and proactive inhibitory control. Neuroimage 2016; 132:51-58. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2015] [Revised: 02/04/2016] [Accepted: 02/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Predicting Treatment Outcome in PTSD: A Longitudinal Functional MRI Study on Trauma-Unrelated Emotional Processing. Neuropsychopharmacology 2016; 41:1156-65. [PMID: 26289143 PMCID: PMC4748440 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Revised: 08/04/2015] [Accepted: 08/04/2015] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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In about 30-50% of patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), symptoms persist after treatment. Although neurobiological research has advanced our understanding of PTSD, little is known about the neurobiology underlying persistence of PTSD. Two functional MRI scans were collected from 72 war veterans with and without PTSD over a 6- to 8-month interval, during which PTSD patients received trauma-focused therapy. All participants performed a trauma-unrelated emotional processing task in the scanner. Based on post-treatment symptom severity, a distinction was made between remitted and persistent patients. Behavioral and imaging measures of trauma-unrelated emotional processing were compared between the three groups (remitted patients, N=21; persistent patients, N=22; and combat controls, N=25) with repeated-measures (pre- and post-treatment) analyses. Second, logistic regression was used to predict treatment outcome. Before and after treatment, persistent patients showed a higher dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and insula response to negative pictures compared with remitted patients and combat controls. Before treatment, persistent patients showed increased amygdala activation in response to negative pictures compared with remitted patients. The remitted patients and combat controls did not differ on the behavioral or imaging measures. Finally, higher dACC, insula, and amygdala activation before treatment were significant predictors of symptom persistence. Our results highlight a pattern of brain activation that may predict poor response to PTSD treatment. These findings can contribute to the development of alternative or additional therapies. Further research is needed to elucidate the heterogeneity within PTSD and describe how differences in neural function are related to treatment outcome. Such approaches are critical for defining parameters to customize PTSD treatment and improve treatment response rates.
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How Many Is Enough? Effect of Sample Size in Inter-Subject Correlation Analysis of fMRI. COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEUROSCIENCE 2016; 2016:2094601. [PMID: 26884746 PMCID: PMC4738700 DOI: 10.1155/2016/2094601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2015] [Revised: 12/09/2015] [Accepted: 12/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Inter-subject correlation (ISC) is a widely used method for analyzing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data acquired during naturalistic stimuli. A challenge in ISC analysis is to define the required sample size in the way that the results are reliable. We studied the effect of the sample size on the reliability of ISC analysis and additionally addressed the following question: How many subjects are needed for the ISC statistics to converge to the ISC statistics obtained using a large sample? The study was realized using a large block design data set of 130 subjects. We performed a split-half resampling based analysis repeatedly sampling two nonoverlapping subsets of 10–65 subjects and comparing the ISC maps between the independent subject sets. Our findings suggested that with 20 subjects, on average, the ISC statistics had converged close to a large sample ISC statistic with 130 subjects. However, the split-half reliability of unthresholded and thresholded ISC maps improved notably when the number of subjects was increased from 20 to 30 or more.
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Interpreting Intervention Induced Neuroplasticity with fMRI: The Case for Multimodal Imaging Strategies. Neural Plast 2015; 2016:2643491. [PMID: 26839711 PMCID: PMC4709757 DOI: 10.1155/2016/2643491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Accepted: 09/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Direct measurement of recovery from brain injury is an important goal in neurorehabilitation, and requires reliable, objective, and interpretable measures of changes in brain function, referred to generally as “neuroplasticity.” One popular imaging modality for measuring neuroplasticity is task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (t-fMRI). In the field of neurorehabilitation, however, assessing neuroplasticity using t-fMRI presents a significant challenge. This commentary reviews t-fMRI changes commonly reported in patients with cerebral palsy or acquired brain injuries, with a focus on studies of motor rehabilitation, and discusses complexities surrounding their interpretations. Specifically, we discuss the difficulties in interpreting t-fMRI changes in terms of their underlying causes, that is, differentiating whether they reflect genuine reorganisation, neurological restoration, compensation, use of preexisting redundancies, changes in strategy, or maladaptive processes. Furthermore, we discuss the impact of heterogeneous disease states and essential t-fMRI processing steps on the interpretability of activation patterns. To better understand therapy-induced neuroplastic changes, we suggest that researchers utilising t-fMRI consider concurrently acquiring information from an additional modality, to quantify, for example, haemodynamic differences or microstructural changes. We outline a variety of such supplementary measures for investigating brain reorganisation and discuss situations in which they may prove beneficial to the interpretation of t-fMRI data.
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Bentley LD, Duarte RV, Furlong PL, Ashford RL, Raphael JH. Brain activity modifications following spinal cord stimulation for chronic neuropathic pain: A systematic review. Eur J Pain 2015; 20:499-511. [PMID: 26424514 DOI: 10.1002/ejp.782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is believed to exert supraspinal effects; however, these mechanisms are still far from fully elucidated. This systematic review aims to assess existing neurophysiological and functional neuroimaging literature to reveal current knowledge regarding the effects of SCS for chronic neuropathic pain on brain activity, to identify gaps in knowledge, and to suggest directions for future research. DATABASES AND DATA TREATMENT Electronic databases and hand-search of reference lists were employed to identify publications investigating brain activity associated with SCS in patients with chronic neuropathic pain, using neurophysiological and functional neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, PET, MEG, EEG). Studies investigating patients with SCS for chronic neuropathic pain and studying brain activity related to SCS were included. Demographic data (age, gender), study factors (imaging modality, patient diagnoses, pain area, duration of SCS at recording, stimulus used) and brain areas activated were extracted from the included studies. RESULTS Twenty-four studies were included. Thirteen studies used neuroelectrical imaging techniques, eight studies used haemodynamic imaging techniques, two studies employed both neuroelectrical and haemodynamic techniques separately, and one study investigated cerebral neurobiology. CONCLUSIONS The limited available evidence regarding supraspinal mechanisms of SCS does not allow us to develop any conclusive theories. However, the studies included appear to show an inhibitory effect of SCS on somatosensory evoked potentials, as well as identifying the thalamus and anterior cingulate cortex as potential mediators of the pain experience. The lack of substantial evidence in this area highlights the need for large-scale controlled studies of this kind.
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- L D Bentley
- Faculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, UK
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- Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Birmingham, UK
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- Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
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- Faculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, UK
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- Faculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences, Birmingham City University, UK.,Department of Pain Management, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
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Abd Hamid AI, Speck O, Hoffmann MB. Quantitative assessment of visual cortex function with fMRI at 7 Tesla-test-retest variability. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:477. [PMID: 26388756 PMCID: PMC4555013 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2015] [Accepted: 08/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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fMRI-based retinotopic mapping was used to assess systematic variations in activated cortical surface area, amplitude, and coherence across sessions. Seven healthy subjects were scanned at 7 T in three separate sessions with intervals of 51.4 ± 5.4 days (Sessions 1 and 2) and 167.9 ± 24.4 days (Sessions 2 and 3). We found a reduction between Sessions 1 and 2 for activated cortical surface area, between Sessions 1 and 3 for amplitude, and between Sessions 1 and 2/3 for coherence. The results do not support head motion as a major cause of the observed effect seen in Session 1, suggesting that cognitive effects were the underlying cause of change. The phase correlations for both eccentricity and polar angle mapping were highly correlated between sessions, demonstrating the stability of the maps. Furthermore, the sensitivity in determining inter-session changes of cortical surface area, response amplitude, and coherence were, at a 5% significance level, estimated to be 1.5, 6, and 5%, respectively. Any future longitudinal fMRI study should carefully evaluate activation across sessions to determine the eligibility of inclusion of all time points. This experimental design provides guidance in methodological issues of clinical longitudinal fMRI-studies, specifically regarding effects of subject experience.
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- Aini Ismafairus Abd Hamid
- Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Institute for Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg Magdeburg, Germany ; Department of Neurosciences, School of Medical Sciences Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia Kubang Kerian, Malaysia
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- Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Institute for Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg Magdeburg, Germany ; Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences Magdeburg, Germany ; Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology Magdeburg, Germany ; German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Magdeburg, Germany
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- Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences Magdeburg, Germany ; Visual Processing Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg Magdeburg, Germany
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Asaridou SS, Takashima A, Dediu D, Hagoort P, McQueen JM. Repetition Suppression in the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus Predicts Tone Learning Performance. Cereb Cortex 2015; 26:2728-42. [PMID: 26113631 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhv126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Do individuals differ in how efficiently they process non-native sounds? To what extent do these differences relate to individual variability in sound-learning aptitude? We addressed these questions by assessing the sound-learning abilities of Dutch native speakers as they were trained on non-native tone contrasts. We used fMRI repetition suppression to the non-native tones to measure participants' neuronal processing efficiency before and after training. Although all participants improved in tone identification with training, there was large individual variability in learning performance. A repetition suppression effect to tone was found in the bilateral inferior frontal gyri (IFGs) before training. No whole-brain effect was found after training; a region-of-interest analysis, however, showed that, after training, repetition suppression to tone in the left IFG correlated positively with learning. That is, individuals who were better in learning the non-native tones showed larger repetition suppression in this area. Crucially, this was true even before training. These findings add to existing evidence that the left IFG plays an important role in sound learning and indicate that individual differences in learning aptitude stem from differences in the neuronal efficiency with which non-native sounds are processed.
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- Salomi S Asaridou
- Neurobiology of Language, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Neurobiology of Language, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
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- Neurobiology of Language, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
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- Neurobiology of Language, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Wijnen JP, Haarsma J, Boer VO, Luijten PR, van der Stigchel S, Neggers SFW, Klomp DWJ. Detection of lactate in the striatum without contamination of macromolecules by J-difference editing MRS at 7T. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2015; 28:514-522. [PMID: 25802216 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2014] [Revised: 01/25/2015] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Lactate levels are measurable by MRS and are related to neural activity. Therefore, it is of interest to accurately measure lactate levels in the basal ganglia networks. If sufficiently stable, lactate measurements may be used to investigate alterations in dopaminergic signalling in the striatum, facilitating the detection and diagnosis of metabolic deficits. The aim of this study is to provide a J-difference editing MRS technique for the selective editing of lactate only, thus allowing the detection of lactate without contamination of overlapping macromolecules. As a validation procedure, macromolecule nulling was combined with J-difference editing, and this was compared with J-difference editing with a new highly selective editing pulse. The use of a high-field (7T) MR scanner enables the application of editing pulses with very narrow bandwidth, which are selective for lactate. We show that, despite the sensitivity to B0 offsets, the use of a highly selective editing pulse is more efficient for the detection of lactate than the combination of a broad-band editing pulse with macromolecule nulling. Although the signal-to-noise ratio of uncontaminated lactate detection in healthy subjects is relatively low, this article describes the test-retest performance of lactate detection in the striatum when using highly selective J-difference editing MRS at 7 T. The coefficient of variation, σw and intraclass correlation coefficients for within- and between-subject differences of lactate were determined. Lactate levels in the left and right striatum were determined twice in 10 healthy volunteers. Despite the fact that the test-retest performance of lactate detection is moderate with a coefficient of variation of about 20% for lactate, these values can be used for the design of new studies comparing, for example, patient populations with healthy controls.
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- J P Wijnen
- Department of Radiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Jaspar M, Dideberg V, Bours V, Maquet P, Collette F. Modulating effect of COMT Val(158)Met polymorphism on interference resolution during a working memory task. Brain Cogn 2015; 95:7-18. [PMID: 25682348 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2015.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2014] [Revised: 01/20/2015] [Accepted: 01/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Genetic variability related to the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene has received increasing attention in the last 15years, in particular as a potential modulator of the neural substrates underlying inhibitory processes and updating in working memory (WM). In an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we administered a modified version of the Sternberg probe recency task (Sternberg, 1966) to 43 young healthy volunteers, varying the level of interference across successive items. The task was divided into two parts (high vs. low interference) to induce either proactive or reactive control processes. The participants were separated into three groups according to their COMT Val(158)Met genotype [Val/Val (VV); Val/Met (VM); Met/Met (MM)]. The general aim of the study was to determine whether COMT polymorphism has a modulating effect on the neural substrates of interference resolution during WM processing. Results indicate that interfering trials were associated with greater involvement of frontal cortices (bilateral medial frontal gyrus, left precentral and superior frontal gyri, right inferior frontal gyrus) in VV homozygous subjects (by comparison to Met allele carriers) only in the proactive condition of the task. In addition, analysis of peristimulus haemodynamic responses (PSTH) revealed that the genotype-related difference observed in the left SFG was specifically driven by a larger increase in activity from the storage to the recognition phase of the interfering trials in VV homozygous subjects. These results confirm the impact of COMT genotype on inhibitory processes during a WM task, with an advantage for Met allele carriers. Interestingly, this impact on frontal areas is present only when the level of interference is high, and especially during the transition from storage to recognition in the left superior frontal gyrus.
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- Mathieu Jaspar
- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; Department of Psychology: Cognition and Behaviour, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Genetics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; Department of Psychology: Cognition and Behaviour, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
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van Rooij SJH, Geuze E, Kennis M, Rademaker AR, Vink M. Neural correlates of inhibition and contextual cue processing related to treatment response in PTSD. Neuropsychopharmacology 2015; 40:667-75. [PMID: 25154707 PMCID: PMC4289955 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2014] [Revised: 08/06/2014] [Accepted: 08/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Thirty to fifty percent of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients do not respond to treatment. Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying treatment response could contribute to improve response rates. PTSD is often associated with decreased inhibition of fear responses in a safe environment. Importantly, the mechanism of effective treatment (psychotherapy) relies on inhibition and so-called contextual cue processing. Therefore, we investigate inhibition and contextual cue processing in the context of treatment. Forty-one male war veterans with PTSD and 22 healthy male war veterans (combat controls) were scanned twice with a 6- to 8-month interval, in which PTSD patients received treatment (psychotherapy). We distinguished treatment responders from nonresponders on the base of percentage symptom decrease. Inhibition and contextual cue processing were assessed with the stop-signal anticipation task. Behavioral and functional MRI measures were compared between PTSD patients and combat controls, and between responders and nonresponders using repeated measures analyses. PTSD patients showed behavioral and neural deficits in inhibition and contextual cue processing at both time points compared with combat controls. These deficits were unaffected by treatment; therefore, they likely represent vulnerability factors or scar aspects of PTSD. Second, responders showed increased pretreatment activation of the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) during contextual cue processing compared with nonresponders. Moreover, left IPL activation predicted percentage symptom improvement. The IPL has an important role in contextual cue processing, and may therefore facilitate the effect of psychotherapy. Hence, increased left IPL activation may represent a potential predictive biomarker for PTSD treatment response.
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- Sanne JH van Rooij
- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Research Centre Military Mental Healthcare, Ministry of Defence, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Research Centre Military Mental Healthcare, Ministry of Defence, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Research Centre Military Mental Healthcare, Ministry of Defence, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Research Centre Military Mental Healthcare, Ministry of Defence, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Wolf RC, Sambataro F, Vasic N, Depping MS, Thomann PA, Landwehrmeyer GB, Süssmuth SD, Orth M. Abnormal resting-state connectivity of motor and cognitive networks in early manifest Huntington's disease. Psychol Med 2014; 44:3341-3356. [PMID: 25066491 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291714000579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of multiple neural networks during the brain's 'resting state' could facilitate biomarker development in patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and may provide new insights into the relationship between neural dysfunction and clinical symptoms. To date, however, very few studies have examined the functional integrity of multiple resting state networks (RSNs) in manifest HD, and even less is known about whether concomitant brain atrophy affects neural activity in patients. METHOD Using MRI, we investigated brain structure and RSN function in patients with early HD (n = 20) and healthy controls (n = 20). For resting-state fMRI data a group-independent component analysis identified spatiotemporally distinct patterns of motor and prefrontal RSNs of interest. We used voxel-based morphometry to assess regional brain atrophy, and 'biological parametric mapping' analyses to investigate the impact of atrophy on neural activity. RESULTS Compared with controls, patients showed connectivity changes within distinct neural systems including lateral prefrontal, supplementary motor, thalamic, cingulate, temporal and parietal regions. In patients, supplementary motor area and cingulate cortex connectivity indices were associated with measures of motor function, whereas lateral prefrontal connectivity was associated with cognition. CONCLUSIONS This study provides evidence for aberrant connectivity of RSNs associated with motor function and cognition in early manifest HD when controlling for brain atrophy. This suggests clinically relevant changes of RSN activity in the presence of HD-associated cortical and subcortical structural abnormalities.
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- R C Wolf
- Center for Psychosocial Medicine,Department of General Psychiatry,University of Heidelberg,Heidelberg,Germany
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- Center for Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems@UniTN,Rovereto,Italy
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy III,Ulm University,Ulm,Germany
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- Center for Psychosocial Medicine,Department of General Psychiatry,University of Heidelberg,Heidelberg,Germany
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- Center for Psychosocial Medicine,Department of General Psychiatry,University of Heidelberg,Heidelberg,Germany
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- Department of Neurology,Ulm University,Ulm,Germany
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- Department of Neurology,Ulm University,Ulm,Germany
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Tu L, Wang J, Abutalebi J, Jiang B, Pan X, Li M, Gao W, Yang Y, Liang B, Lu Z, Huang R. Language exposure induced neuroplasticity in the bilingual brain: a follow-up fMRI study. Cortex 2014; 64:8-19. [PMID: 25461703 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2014] [Revised: 06/15/2014] [Accepted: 09/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Although several studies have shown that language exposure crucially influence the cerebral representation of bilinguals, the effects of short-term change of language exposure in daily life upon language control areas in bilinguals are less known. To explore this issue, we employed follow-up fMRI to investigate whether differential exposure induces neuroplastic changes in the language control network in high-proficient Cantonese (L1)-Mandarin (L2) early bilinguals. The same 10 subjects underwent twice BOLD-fMRI scans while performing a silent narration task which corresponded to two different language exposure conditions, CON-1 (L1/L2 usage percentage, 50%:50%) and CON-2 (L1/L2 usage percentage, 90%:10%). We report a strong effect of language exposure in areas related to language control for the less exposed language. Interestingly, these significant effects were present after only a 30-day period of differential language exposure. In detail, we reached the following results: (1) the interaction effect of language and language exposure condition was found significantly in the left pars opercularis (BA 44) and marginally in the left MFG (BA 9); (2) in CON-2, increases of activation values in L2 were found significantly in bilateral BA 46 and BA 9, in the left BA44, and marginally in the left caudate; and (3) in CON-2, we found a significant negative correlation between language exposure to L2 and the BOLD activation value specifically in the left ACC. These findings strongly support the hypothesis that even short periods of differential exposure to a given language may induce significant neuroplastic changes in areas responsible for language control. The language which a bilingual is less exposed to and is also less used will be in need of increased mental control as shown by the increased activity of language control areas.
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- Liu Tu
- College of Foreign Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, PR China
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- Center for the Study of Applied Psychology, Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science of Guangdong Province, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, PR China
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- University San Raffaele, Milan & Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Radiology, Huangpu Clinical Medical Center, Sun Yat Sen University First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou, PR China
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- Department of Radiology, Huangpu Clinical Medical Center, Sun Yat Sen University First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou, PR China
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- Center for the Study of Applied Psychology, Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science of Guangdong Province, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, PR China
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- College of Foreign Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, PR China
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- College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, PR China
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- Center for the Study of Applied Psychology, Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science of Guangdong Province, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, PR China
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- Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ningbo University, Ningbo, PR China.
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- Center for the Study of Applied Psychology, Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science of Guangdong Province, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, PR China.
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Vink M, Zandbelt BB, Gladwin T, Hillegers M, Hoogendam JM, van den Wildenberg WPM, Du Plessis S, Kahn RS. Frontostriatal activity and connectivity increase during proactive inhibition across adolescence and early adulthood. Hum Brain Mapp 2014; 35:4415-27. [PMID: 24532023 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2013] [Revised: 12/19/2013] [Accepted: 01/21/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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During adolescence, functional and structural changes in the brain facilitate the transition from childhood to adulthood. Because the cortex and the striatum mature at different rates, temporary imbalances in the frontostriatal network occur. Here, we investigate the development of the subcortical and cortical components of the frontostriatal network from early adolescence to early adulthood in 60 subjects in a cross-sectional design, using functional MRI and a stop-signal task measuring two forms of inhibitory control: reactive inhibition (outright stopping) and proactive inhibition (anticipation of stopping). During development, reactive inhibition improved: older subjects were faster in reactive inhibition. In the brain, this was paralleled by an increase in motor cortex suppression. The level of proactive inhibition increased, with older subjects slowing down responding more than younger subjects when anticipating a stop-signal. Activation increased in the right striatum, right ventral and dorsal inferior frontal gyrus, and supplementary motor area. Moreover, functional connectivity during proactive inhibition increased between striatum and frontal regions with age. In conclusion, we demonstrate that developmental improvements in proactive inhibition are paralleled by increases in activation and functional connectivity of the frontostriatal network. These data serve as a stepping stone to investigate abnormal development of the frontostriatal network in disorders such as schizophrenia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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- Matthijs Vink
- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Kaiser J, Bledowski C, Dietrich J. Neural correlates of chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment. Cortex 2014; 54:33-50. [PMID: 24632463 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2013] [Revised: 01/07/2014] [Accepted: 01/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cancer survivors frequently experience cognitive deficits following chemotherapy. The most commonly affected functions include memory, attention and executive control. The present paper reviews animal research and clinical studies including event-related potential (ERP) and neuroimaging investigations of chemotherapy-related changes of brain structure and function. In rodents, chemotherapeutic substances have been shown to damage neural precursor cells and white matter tracts and are associated with impairments of learning and memory. Structural and functional changes associated with chemotherapy have also been observed in humans. Structural imaging has revealed gray and white matter volume reductions and altered white matter microstructure. Functional studies using either ERPs or hemodynamic imaging have shown that chemotherapy alters the activation patterns of cortical networks involved in higher cognitive functions. Collectively, these findings support the existence of the "chemobrain" phenomenon beyond the patients' subjective reports. However, the rather small number of studies and methodological limitations of some of the pioneering investigations call for further research of high methodological quality, including larger numbers of subjects with appropriate controls to delineate the temporal and spatial pattern of chemotherapy-associated central nervous system (CNS) toxicity. Brain activation studies in humans might systematically vary task difficulty levels to distinguish between compensatory hyper-activations on the one hand and deficient recruitment of resources on the other hand. Integrative functions could be tested by connectivity analyses using both electrophysiological and hemodynamic measures. The ultimate goal should be the development of cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological interventions to reduce the cognitive side effects of the medically indispensable but neurotoxic chemotherapeutic treatments.
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- Jochen Kaiser
- Institute of Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, MGH Cancer Center and Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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Shen Y, Mayhew SD, Kourtzi Z, Tiňo P. Spatial-temporal modelling of fMRI data through spatially regularized mixture of hidden process models. Neuroimage 2014; 84:657-71. [PMID: 24041873 PMCID: PMC4066951 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2012] [Revised: 07/12/2013] [Accepted: 09/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Previous work investigated a range of spatio-temporal constraints for fMRI data analysis to provide robust detection of neural activation. We present a mixture-based method for the spatio-temporal modelling of fMRI data. This approach assumes that fMRI time series are generated by a probabilistic superposition of a small set of spatio-temporal prototypes (mixture components). Each prototype comprises a temporal model that explains fMRI signals on a single voxel and the model's "region of influence" through a spatial prior over the voxel space. As the key ingredient of our temporal model, the Hidden Process Model (HPM) framework proposed in Hutchinson et al. (2009) is adopted to infer the overlapping cognitive processes triggered by stimuli. Unlike the original HPM framework, we use a parametric model of Haemodynamic Response Function (HRF) so that biological constraints are naturally incorporated in the HRF estimation. The spatial priors are defined in terms of a parameterised distribution. Thus, the total number of parameters in the model does not depend on the number of voxels. The resulting model provides a conceptually principled and computationally efficient approach to identify spatio-temporal patterns of neural activation from fMRI data, in contrast to most conventional approaches in the literature focusing on the detection of spatial patterns. We first verify the proposed model in a controlled experimental setting using synthetic data. The model is further validated on real fMRI data obtained from a rapid event-related visual recognition experiment (Mayhew et al., 2012). Our model enables us to evaluate in a principled manner the variability of neural activations within individual regions of interest (ROIs). The results strongly suggest that, compared with occipitotemporal regions, the frontal ones are less homogeneous, requiring two HPM prototypes per region. Despite the rapid event-related experimental design, the model is capable of disentangling the perceptual judgement and motor response processes that are both activated in the frontal ROIs. Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the frontal regions seems to be associated with diverse dynamic localizations of the two hidden processes in different subregions of frontal ROIs.
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- Yuan Shen
- School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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- School of Psychology, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
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- School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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The endocannabinoid system and emotional processing: a pharmacological fMRI study with ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2013; 23:1687-97. [PMID: 23928295 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2013.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2012] [Revised: 06/05/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Various psychiatric disorders such as major depression are associated with abnormalities in emotional processing. Evidence indicating involvement of the endocannabinoid system in emotional processing, and thus potentially in related abnormalities, is increasing. In the present study, we examined the role of the endocannabinoid system in processing of stimuli with a positive and negative emotional content in healthy volunteers. A pharmacological functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was conducted with a placebo-controlled, cross-over design, investigating effects of the endocannabinoid agonist ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on brain function related to emotional processing in 11 healthy subjects. Performance and brain activity during matching of stimuli with a negative ('fearful faces') or a positive content ('happy faces') were assessed after placebo and THC administration. After THC administration, performance accuracy was decreased for stimuli with a negative but not for stimuli with a positive emotional content. Our task activated a network of brain regions including amygdala, orbital frontal gyrus, hippocampus, parietal gyrus, prefrontal cortex, and regions in the occipital cortex. THC interacted with emotional content, as activity in this network was reduced for negative content, while activity for positive content was increased. These results indicate that THC administration reduces the negative bias in emotional processing. This adds human evidence to support the hypothesis that the endocannabinoid system is involved in modulation of emotional processing. Our findings also suggest a possible role for the endocannabinoid system in abnormal emotional processing, and may thus be relevant for psychiatric disorders such as major depression.
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